Home secretary’s address in Washington will urge reform of UN convention and has already prompted concern from charities Suella Braverman will appeal on Tuesday to world leaders and political thinkers to consider rewriting key refugee rules so they are “fit for the modern age”. In a move to alter an […]
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The stricken authority now set to receive a revised emergency budget after Michael Gove was forced to call in commissioners Birmingham city council has voted to approve spending control measures, as well as endorsing a “financial recovery plan” that is already under way. The council debated the plan to tackle […]
The Scottish-born actor was most famous for his stint in the 60s spy TV series, and most recently for his work on NCIS Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series The Man from UNCLE in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the […]
More than 6,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have left region following Azerbaijan victory Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh victory highlights limits of Russia’s power The day the shelling began, Genadi Hyusunts had just taken his four-day-old son home from the hospital. Within hours, he had to hustle his wife, the newborn child and his […]
Centre-left entrepreneur wins 56.69% of vote in stunning and unprecedented rise ‘from nowhere’ Stefanos Kasselakis, an outsider with no previous experience of politics in Greece, has emerged the victor of an electric race to lead the leftwing Syriza, the country’s main opposition party. The Greek-American entrepreneur, who announced his candidacy […]
Exclusive: Major donor questioning ‘ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg A prominent Conservative donor has threatened to stop supporting the party if Rishi Sunak scraps the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, as ministers consider pulling the plug on the multibillion-pound project. Fears […]
Return of the largest asteroid sample ever to be recovered marks the culmination of a seven-year journey Sitting isolated in the arid landscape of the Utah desert, its orange and white parachute cast aside, the Osiris-Rex capsule was a picture of stillness. Yet all around, scientists were swinging into action, […]
Officers in Greater London’s police force have put down weapons in protest at colleague’s murder charge The Metropolitan police has called on the SAS to provide counter-terrorism support after firearms officers downed their weapons in protest at the charging of their colleague with murder. Suella Braverman ordered a review of […]
Governing body suppressed personal apology from judge in question following incident 18 months ago Gymnastics Ireland suppressed a personal apology letter to a young gymnast whose treatment at a medal ceremony sparked international outrage, and have refused to acknowledge or tackle systemic racism in the sport, her family say. Video […]
Michael Alford, 59, of Harlan county was moving a bag of potting soil when bees attacked him from inside the package A Kentucky man has died after a swarm of bees attacked him on his porch. On Monday, the 59-year-old man whom local reports identified as Michael Alford was moving […]