Lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament voted for the bill drafted by centre-right government despite church officials’ objections Greece has become the world’s first Christian Orthodox nation to legalise same-sex marriage after the Athens parliament passed the landmark reform amid scenes of both jubilation and fury in the country. In a […]
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Blow for Rishi Sunak as former Lewisham mayor Damien Egan elected in South Gloucestershire seat Labour has overturned an 11,000-plus Tory majority to win the byelection in the South Gloucestershire constituency of Kingswood. Damien Egan, who resigned as the mayor of Lewisham in south-east London to contest the seat even […]
Alexander Smirnov falsely said executives linked to energy firm Burisma paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5m each in 2015 and 2016, prosecutors say An FBI informant has been charged with lying to his handler about ties between Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company. Alexander Smirnov falsely […]
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Cameron to ‘kiss my ass’ in response to his request to pass aid package David Cameron has urged US lawmakers to pass a bill including support for Ukraine and warned them not to show “the weakness displayed against Hitler”. The foreign secretary said Congress should […]
589% increase in number of incidents described as ‘watershed moment for antisemitism in the UK’ The scale of the surge in antisemitism in the UK since Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October has been revealed, in data showing a 589% increase in the number of incidents compared with the […]
Cash injection in Great British Energy should be increased to £30bn, thinktank says after Keir Starmer U-turn Keir Starmer is being urged to more than double Labour’s investment in publicly owned renewable energy to save consumers billions of pounds on their bills, despite the party drastically scaling back its plans […]
Russian president says he was grateful to the former Fox News host for the two-hour interview, which made headlines around the world Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he is grateful to rightwing US television host Tucker Carlson for his interview last week, but was surprised by a lack of […]
Three people have been taken into custody after gunfire erupted near Union Station during Super Bowl victory parade Multiple people shot during Kansas City Chiefs victory parade Kansas City Chiefs denounce ‘senseless violence’ Explainer: what we know so far The Missouri governor, Mike Parson, and his wife were at the […]
British Retail Consortium says criminals ‘being given a free pass’, with thefts more than doubling to 16.7m incidents last year UK shop workers are facing 1,300 incidents of violence and abuse a day and a battle to control “brazen” acts of shoplifting, as pressure mounts on ministers to intervene to […]
An existing drug for the chronic disease could slow or stop its progression, researchers say Scientists have discovered a jab that could prevent rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a development experts say could offer hope to millions at risk of the disease. RA is a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the […]