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A blanket of thick fog covers Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. Winter in the southern African country feels colder than ever. Thousands of garment workers have lost their jobs as the threat of US tariffs brings the textile industry to the edge. Hundreds of thousands have been cut off from critical healthcare after the USAID withdrawal. Unemployed…
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In Altrincham near Manchester, two opposing groups have gathered to throw insults at each other across the A56. “Fascists! Racists!” shouts one lot. On the opposing verge, they shout back: “Shame on you!” Then both sides chant: “Whose streets? Our streets!” Cars flash between them, some adding hoots to the noise. It’s 5pm on Sunday…
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👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that the UK would recognise the state of Palestine in September if Israel does not accept certain conditions, including a ceasefire – but what will this actually mean? Yalda thinks that there are better ways…
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Gary Neville has criticised the government’s national insurance (NI) rise this year, saying it could deter companies from employing people and “probably could have been held back”. The former Manchester United and England footballer-turned business owner, who vocally supported Labour at the last election, employs hundreds of people. But he expressed his frustration at the…
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Donald Trump has claimed billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein “stole” prominent accuser Virginia Giuffre and other young women from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Ms Giuffre became a household name after she sued Prince Andrew for sexual abuse in August 2021 – saying he had sex with her when she was 17 and had been trafficked…
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How is Starmer’s government doing? Here’s what ‘end-of-term’ report from voters says | Politics News
One year on, how’s Keir Starmer’s government going? We’ve put together an end-of-term report with the help of pollster YouGov. First, here are the government’s approval ratings – drifting downwards. It didn’t start particularly high. There has never been a honeymoon. But here is the big change. Last year’s Labour voters now disapprove of their…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks judge to release him on $50m bond as he awaits sentencing | Ents & Arts News
Disgraced hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has asked a judge to release him on a $50m bond as he waits to be sentenced for prostitution-related offences. Combs’s lawyer has argued that conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn are dangerous and noted that others convicted of similar offences were typically released before sentencing.…
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A powerful 8.7-magnitude earthquake has struck off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, causing a tsunami. A tsunami of up to four metres (13 feet) was recorded in Kamchatka Peninsula, leading to evacuations and damaging buildings, officials said. Tsunami warnings have been issued for Japan, Hawaii and parts of Alaska in the US. “Today’s earthquake was…
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Two men stabbed to death at a business premises in central London were father and son, say police. Terry McMillan, 58, from Chislehurst, Bromley, was pronounced dead at the scene and Brendan McMillan, 27, died in hospital. Three other men were taken to hospital. The attack happened around 1pm on Monday at a property in…
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Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to recognise Palestine as a state has been attacked as “appeasement towards jihadist terrorists” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister said the UK will recognise a Palestinian state by September unless Israel takes “substantive steps” to end the situation in Gaza, Israel agrees to a ceasefire, commits to…