Getty Images The infected blood inquiry is holding two more days of hearings amid concerns about the government’s response on compensation, with campaigners warning they are “losing faith”. It comes nearly a year after the final report was published into the scandal – said to be the biggest treatment disaster in the history of the...
Echoing a party-line vote by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee last week, the chamber’s Republicans on Thursday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, former televison host Dr. Mehmet Oz. Since Trump nominated Oz — who previously ran as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania...
BBC Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for AFP, was arrested at his home It was early morning on 23 March when the police came to Yasin Akgul’s door in Istanbul – while his children were still in bed. Just hours before, the Turkish photojournalist had returned home from covering mass anti-government protests. Now he was a...
The chancellor’s Spring Statement dominates the front pages. The i Paper reports that Rachel Reeves refused to rule out future tax rises in the Autumn budget, noting her announcement of sharp cuts to benefits could push 250,000 people into poverty. It also says that the cuts come amid a struggle to find any economic growth...
In a move that has sparked widespread uproar, work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has announced a series of Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare cuts including to PIP and Universal Credit, aimed at reducing government spending that will impact millions of low-income families, and chronically ill and disabled people, who are currently bracing...