Authorities are now mandating that climbers remove their waste from the mountain using biodegradable bags It’s one of the more unedifying challenges involved in scaling to the highest point on Earth – how best to relieve oneself in the freezing, inhospitable environment of Mount Everest. That question is about to […]
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EU leaders call for ‘immediate humanitarian pause’ while US expected to bring UN resolution calling for truce without delay EU leaders have overcome their differences to call for an “immediate humanitarian pause leading to a sustainable ceasefire” in Gaza, hours before the US is expected to bring a resolution to […]
Nearly fifth of population struggled with basic needs, it emerges, as charities accuse government of failing poorest You’ve heard stories of poverty in Britain. Now here’s the irrefutable evidence of a society failing its poorest About 300,000 more children were plunged into absolute poverty in a single year at the […]
Exclusive: Top civil servant Simon Case follows Richard Moore in announcing decision to quit male-only club Members list reveals roll-call of British establishment Garrick Club remains a bastion of male elitism Legal profession’s most powerful among members The head of the civil service, Simon Case, and the MI6 chief, Richard […]
Democratic Alliance leader must now try to form a government but has vowed not to enter any kind of agreement with far-right Chega party Portugal’s president has invited Luís Montenegro, the leader of the Democratic Alliance (AD), to try to form a minority government after a long-awaited count of overseas […]
Potential move could coincide with ex-president’s Monday deadline to find $454m bond needed to cover civil fraud judgment Attorneys in the New York attorney general’s office have written to the state appeals court dealing with Donald Trump’s punishment for business fraud to say that they should disregard the former president’s […]
Waltham Forest council has not yet found suitable location for statue that was completed in 2020 The first photographs of the dormant sculpture of the Bayern Munich and England striker Harry Kane have been published, five years after it was commissioned. The statue has sat in storage because Waltham Forest […]
Peers voted for numerous amendments making it improbable the legislation will return to the Commons this side of Easter Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda deportation bill is expected to be put on hold until at least next month after the House of Lords inflicted seven defeats on Wednesday. The safety of […]
Report also discloses approval was rushed through without developing safety plans or consulting councils Rishi Sunak’s plan to save public money by moving asylum seekers out of hotels is in tatters after Whitehall’s spending watchdog disclosed that the government’s alternative sites will cost millions of pounds more. The National Audit […]
At least one person is believed to have made attempt to see Princess of Wales’s notes while she was at the London Clinic An investigation has reportedly been launched at the London Clinic over claims staff tried to access the Princess of Wales’s private medical records while she was being […]