President and vice-president address nation reckoning with ‘heinous act’ that killed eight, including six women of Asian descent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have condemned a “heinous act of violence” during a trip to Atlanta, hoping to console a city and Asian American communities rocked by the attack this week […]
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Qatari owners of Harrods and the Ritz claimed £3m alongside payouts to Saudi royals and British National party from Covid job support scheme The foreign royals and billionaire tax exiles collecting UK’s furlough millions Billionaire tax exiles, the British National party, Saudi royals and oil-rich Gulf states have claimed millions […]
Exclusive: Government suspends use of under-18s to teach English pupils after being approached about revelations Analysis: Tutoring scheme throws money at the private sector again Tutors in Sri Lanka who are as young as 17 and earning as little as £1.57 an hour have been used by the government’s flagship […]
Dan Hanks claims he compiled 90-page report about actor early in her relationship with Prince Harry A private investigator employed by the Sun has said he illegally accessed the Duchess of Sussex’s private information shortly after she met Prince Harry. Dan Hanks, who lives in Los Angeles, told the website […]
Ministers accused of ‘moving goalposts’ and wrongly taking credit for success of immunisation programme Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson has sought to reassure the public over the vaccine programme as NHS leaders privately accuse ministers of piling pressure on staff to meet unrealistic expectations […]
European vice-president Maroš Šefčovič says claim about Brussels trying to erect barrier down Irish Sea undermines UK’s reputation Britain’s foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has been accused by Brussels of displaying a “total misunderstanding” of the Brexit deal after claiming the EU was trying to erect a barrier between Northern Ireland […]
Anthony Blinken criticises China over Hong Kong and Xinjiang while his counterpart says US can no longer ‘speak to China from a position of strength’ The United States and China publicly rebuked each other in the first face-to-face talks between senior officials from the two countries since Joe Biden took […]
Committee ruled by five votes to four that first minister’s account of meetings with Salmond was ‘incorrect’ Nicola Sturgeon misled the Scottish parliament over the Alex Salmond crisis, a Holyrood inquiry has concluded after a narrow majority vote, it is understood. A special Holyrood committee ruled, by five votes to […]
Sir Stephen House says officers were ‘doing their duty as they saw it’ and he will not second-guess them The deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police has said he “can’t apologise for my officers” over their handling of the Sarah Everard vigil in south London last weekend. Speaking to the […]
Thinktank says government’s decision was a ‘huge mistake’ and should be central to any pandemic inquiry Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Delaying the winter lockdown caused up to 27,000 extra deaths in England, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has claimed as it accused the government of a […]