Director William Burns has initiated a taskforce to investigate the syndrome and tripled the size of the medical team involved About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by “Havana syndrome”, the CIA director, William Burns, said on Thursday, referring to the […]
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Lords report calls on the government to ensure support remains in place to help late applicants secure their status Significant numbers of Europeans in the UK aged over 65 failed to apply to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS) before the deadline, a parliamentary report has found, warning that this could […]
Police officers in England and Wales furious at pay freeze after months on frontline of Covid crisis Rank-and-file police officers have overwhelmingly supported a vote of no confidence in the home secretary, Priti Patel, the first such move in more than a decade. In a scathing announcement, the Police Federation […]
Member of the House of Lords and Briton once detained in UAE among those appearing in database A member of the House of Lords is among more than 400 people whose UK mobile phone numbers appear in a leaked list of numbers identified by NSO Group’s client governments between 2017 […]
Rise is three times higher than initial 1% offer but nurses likely to reject award and may take industrial action in protest Ministers have offered more than 1 million NHS staff in England a 3% pay rise, three times higher than its initial 1% offer which sparked fury among frontline […]
Agency must apply for retrospective planning permission after filling in Victorian arch with concrete The government’s roads agency could be forced to remove hundreds of tonnes of concrete it used to fill in a Victorian railway arch in a project that was condemned as the first act of “cultural vandalism” […]
Blueprint for alternative arrangement published as sources say protocol was flawed at conception The UK has launched an audacious bid to rewrite a key plank of the Brexit deal, saying the Northern Ireland protocol was flawed at conception but served its purpose to get the UK out of the EU […]
Operation to avoid even worse flooding comes as residents in the city of Zhengzhou are trapped in homes, offices, schools and metro China’s military has blasted a dam to release water threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces, as the death toll in widespread flooding rose to at least […]
South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa also among 14 world leaders identified in records The leaked database at the heart of the Pegasus project includes the mobile phone numbers of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and 13 other heads of state and heads of government, the Guardian can reveal. The South African […]
Former environment minister François de Rugy ‘astonished’ by forensics discovery after he appeared on leaked database The mobile phone of a serving French minister showed digital traces of activity associated with NSO Group’s spyware, according to forensic analysis undertaken by the Pegasus project investigation. François de Rugy, who was environment […]