Work continues on UN security council text of resolution that the US could at least abstain on, as Qatar says hostage talks have been ‘positive’ A vote on a Gaza ceasefire resolution was postponed for a second time at the UN security council on Tuesday, amid reported policy differences inside […]
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MP tells Covid inquiry that then prime minister’s chief of staff ignored repeated attempts to discuss matter Penny Mordaunt has told the Covid inquiry that a series of WhatsApp messages with Boris Johnson mysteriously disappeared from her phone, and that Johnson’s then chief of staff ignored 14 attempts by her […]
Jonathan Coad, who represented former Tory peer, says sorry for unwittingly misleading the media A lawyer who represented Michelle Mone has offered an “unqualified apology” for incorrectly claiming she was not connected to a firm that received PPE contracts worth £200m during the coronavirus pandemic. Two other lawyers who acted […]
Officials launched an emergency response and dispatched rescue personnel to Gansu and Qinghai provinces just after 6.2 magnitude quake At least 111 people have been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in north-west China’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces, according to the state news agency. Xinhua said that 100 people had […]
Fearing a significant event, authorities had evacuated the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of the fishing town of Grindavik A volcano in southwest Iceland has erupted, spewing lava and smoke across a large area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country’s Meteorological Office has said. Fearing a significant outbreak on the […]
US says it cannot support a reference to a ‘cessation of hostilities’, but might accept a call for a ‘suspension of hostilities’ The United Nations security council has postponed a vote calling for a sustainable cessation of hostilities in Gaza to give more time for diplomats to meet US objections […]
ECB security staff advise players not to leave building Livingstone says England have taken ‘big step’ in T20 series England’s players have been sequestered in their Port of Spain hotel after a man was shot dead yards from the front door of the building during their first night in Trinidad. […]
Disgraced Tory peer says government always knew of involvement in Covid contracts as calls mount for her to stay away from Lords A furious row has broken out between the disgraced Conservative peer Michelle Mone and the government over how much they knew about her links to a company that […]
WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel’s attack on Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza; Israeli military says it has found biggest tunnel yet UK and Germany call for ‘sustainable’ ceasefire The emergency department at the al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza is “a bloodbath” and the facility is “in need of resuscitation”, the World […]
Independent Monitoring Board also finds longer detentions and raises concern about treatment of vulnerable people Almost 80% of people held in UK immigration detention centres in 2022 were released into the community rather than deported, according to a report. The purpose of immigration detention is to prepare people for deportation […]