6 hours ago About sharing Watch: Why this Super Tuesday isn’t as exciting as past ones By Jude Sheerin BBC News, Washington Super Tuesday, the biggest day so far in the 2024 race for the White House, is upon us. On 5 March, voters in 15 states and one US territory choose candidates for president….
33 minutes ago About sharing The Nova festival was one of the sites of alleged sexual violence on 7 October A UN team has concluded there are “reasonable grounds to believe” sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, was committed during the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October. They also said there was “convincing…
12 minutes ago About sharing Zouahra says her husband was killed when he was hit in the head by fire from an Israeli gunboat By Fergal Keane BBC News, Jerusalem In the moments when she is not in the tent caring for the children, Zouahra looks out at the sea that forms the western border…
32 minutes ago About sharing Claire Dignam says she was approached by a British officer after her husband’s murder By Peter Taylor BBC NI Spotlight The widow of a man murdered by the IRA as an informer, has told the BBC that the British Army tried to recruit her as an informant. Claire Dignam said…
28 minutes ago About sharing By Christy Cooney BBC News Birmingham City Council is set to vote on a wave of cuts to local services and a 21% rise in its rate of council tax. The council, the largest local authority in Europe, declared itself effectively bankrupt last year and is now trying to make…
50 minutes ago About sharing Wetherby Young Offender Institution holds some of the most complex and vulnerable young prisoners, inspectors say. By Callum May BBC News A vulnerable girl in a young offenders institution twice had her clothes removed under restraint, by an all-male team of prison officers, a report says. The inmate had been…
3 hours ago About sharing A woman and child stand among makeshift tents at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza By George Wright BBC News Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency’s visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal…
Officers say a 33-year-old woman has been arrested after the child was found dead by police.
30 minutes ago About sharing People gathered in Paris to watch abortion being constitutionalised By George Wright BBC News France has become the first country in the world to put the right to abortion in its constitution. Parliamentarians voted to revise the country’s 1958 constitution to enshrine women’s “guaranteed freedom” to abort. It becomes the…
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: Trump calls Supreme Court ruling a ‘unifying factor’ By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause. The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also…