President Zelensky has thanked the European Union for the support it has given to Ukraine, describing heads of state and government gathered in Brussels as “real leaders”. Meanwhile, President Trump has said Ukraine’s resumption of strikes on Russian oil refineries was a ...
Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language. A Reform UK councillor filmed calling Asian homeowners “parasites” has resigned from two councils and apologised for his comments. Alan Feeney, who has since stepped down from the party, was heard making the remarks d...
The benefits of vaccination are well documented. The AstraZeneca Covid jab is credited with saving millions of lives worldwide. But some people have experienced harm. In her fourth report, the chair of the Covid Inquiry, Baroness Hallett, called for better support for those affected. She s...
American journalist Heidi Levine of the Washington Post was injured in the attack. She described how dozens of settlers ambushed her as she was reporting at the scene. “I got jumped,” she said. “I was on the ground and they were kicking me and I was trying to hold onto my...
Pope Leo XIV has been pictured celebrating Mass from hospital, in the first images of him released by the Vatican since he underwent lung surgery. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed with lung cancer after the surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, which the Vatic...
Rama has been touring some of the damaged buildings and blaming Sali Berisha for instigating chaos. “All of this is the work of the very same hand – the hand that has gripped the Albanian opposition by the throat, the hand that has burned and destroyed Albania more than once, a...
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is “only standing up for Ukraine’s interests” after scathing criticism from Donald Trump, who said he was “more difficult to deal with than [Russian President Vladimir] Putin”. The US president, who recently made a cont...
A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, operated from a church in Mpumalanga province, was discovered during an operation ...
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of India’s “cockroach” movement, and a few others were detained in Delhi as pigs tried to stop a protest demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief. Hundreds had gathered in Connaught Place, one of the capital’s busie...
Brearey also gave his thoughts about his hopes for wider cultural change in the NHS in the wake of the inquiry, but indicated he remained sceptical about the speed of change in some areas. He said Lady Thirwall had recommended “the uncontroversial duty of every manager to put patient...