1 hour ago About sharing Dr Mohit Mandiratta said he supports other people taking on fit notes if they are trained By Andre Rhoden-Paul & Doug Faulkner BBC News Rishi Sunak has announced plans to trial stripping GPs of their power to sign people off work, as he attacked the UK’s “sick note culture” in…
19 minutes ago About sharing In Santa Cruz de Tenerife, protesters held placards that read “Tourist – respect my land!” and “Canaries have a limit” Tens of thousands of people in Spain’s Canary Islands have rallied against a model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. The protesters want limits on tourist…
Former President Donald Trump has been uncharacteristically quiet about the Ukraine aid bill. He hasn’t been posting on social media or issuing any public instructions to his Republican colleagues over how to vote. That’s unusual, especially as Trump is a well-known sceptic of international alliances in general, and of supporting Ukraine in particular. He has…
1 hour ago About sharing By Yolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem While the media’s glare in the Middle East this past week was diverted to Iran’s dramatic missile and drone attack on Israel, there has been no let-up in fighting in Gaza. Dozens of Palestinians were killed daily – including many children, according to figures…
10 minutes ago About sharing By Noor Nanji Culture reporter Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Society, has broken the record for Spotify’s most-streamed in a single day, the platform said. The pop sensation also became the most-streamed artist in a single day. Her hotly anticipated album was released on Friday, sending Swifties around…
17 minutes ago About sharing Ukraine has grown increasingly impatient for more Western support By Anthony Zurcher BBC News, Washington After months of delay, the US House of Representatives appears poised to hold a vote on tens of billions of dollars in American military aid for Ukraine and Israel this weekend. Both measures have vocal…
4 minutes ago About sharing Chris Stark, the head of the Climate Change Committee, said Mr Sunak had “clearly not made [climate change] as much of a priority as his predecessors”. By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg Rishi Sunak has “set us back” on climate change and left the UK at risk of…
35 minutes ago About sharing The PMF’s chief of staff (C-R) visits a man wounded in the explosion at a hospital A military base in Iraq housing a pro-Iranian militia has been damaged in an explosion, killing one and wounding eight, security officials there have said. Iraq’s military reported no drones or fighter jets in…
The car they were travelling in broke through a fence at a retail park and hit a footbridge.
The latest round in the region’s most dangerous rivalry appears to be over, for now. Israel still has not officially acknowledged that the attack in Iran in the early hours of Friday morning was its doing. Meanwhile, Iran’s military and political leaders have downplayed, dismissed and even mocked that anything of consequence happened at all….