Eleanor Lawson BBC Midlands Today BBC Dave Pettifer is one of hundreds of UK veterans joining a legal claim When Dave Pettifer was a Royal Marines commando, he fought in the jungle, endured the Arctic tundra and completed three tours of Afghanistan. He faced many threats – but he never thought hearing loss would be...
Trump thanked Iran for giving advance notice of the strikes, and said, “IT’S TIME FOR PEACE!” Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. Iran fired retaliatory strikes against the U.S. on Monday, targeting an...
Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare BBC “Sir Wicknell”, who started out as a wages clerk for a bus firm, has become such a celebrity that his face is decorating minibus taxis A flashy tycoon in Zimbabwe has a nation entranced – some beguiled, others alarmed – by his habit of giving away cars along with...
A lollipop man said he had been told he could no longer high-five children while they are crossing the road because it slows down traffic. Neil Cotton, 57, has been working as a school crossing patrol officer in Howden, East Yorkshire for about two years. In a social media post, he said he could not...
“I didn’t say I was looking for a cease-fire,” Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One a few hours ago as he cut short his G-7 meetings in Canada. “I said I wanted an end.” After Iranian foreign minister Seyed Araghchi begged Trump yesterday to call off Israel, Trump made a counter-offer. He also...
Shefalee Vasudev Fashion writer Getty Images Diljit Dosanjh made his Met Gala debut dressed like an early 20th Century maharajah Indian singer Diljit Dosanjh’s Met Gala debut last month left a lasting impression on global fashion. The 41-year-old singer, who is the only Punjabi musician to perform at Coachella, walked the red carpet dressed like...
In December, as weepy Winken Antony Blinken was busy sucking up to the newest, cleanest Jihadi in a suit to roll into a Middle Eastern Third World s**thole, I was asking if the Biden administration had bothered to ‘meet the new boss’ in light of their effusive greetings to Abu Mohamed al-Jolani and his victorious,...
Richard Irvine Richard Irvine has been running a smokehouse on Colonsay for nearly three years Richard Irvine has spent the last few years building his own business on the Scottish island he fell in love with – but now he wants to give it away. The 65-year-old founded and runs the Colonsay Smokery in the...
Yesterday, both John and I wrote about how badly the decision to make Kilmar Abrego Garcia a martyr was turning out for Democrats. And it keeps getting worse. Last night, Fox News’ Jesse Waters aired body-cam footage from 2022 in Tennessee, when Abrego Garcia got pulled over by state police. He had eight people in...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Aaron Parsons Photography “If I’m so empowered, then why am I such a coward?” sings Self Esteem in the opening lines of her new album “Please be upstanding for the world’s most confusing House of Games contestant and Bake Off failure, Self Esteem!” This is how Rebecca Lucy Taylor – aka...
Another of Kang’s priorities is increasing attendances at Lyon fixtures. “If you ask many female players what is at the top of your wishlist, they don’t say I want to get paid more, I want bigger cars. They say, ‘I want to play against the best players and best teams in a sellout stadium’. It’s...
The Duchess of Sussex has revealed she suffered a “rare and scary” medical condition after giving birth to one of her children. In the first episode of her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan said she was diagnosed with post-partum pre-eclampsia following childbirth. She described it as a “huge medical scare”, and said...
Authorities in India’s Kuno National Park have started disciplinary action against a forest worker who is seen offering water to a cheetah and her cubs in a video that has gone viral online. The man, a driver at the sanctuary, violated instructions which say only authorised personnel can go near the big cats, park officials...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On January 15, a group of utility companies wrote a letter to Lee Zeldin, then president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. “We provide the electricity for millions of homes, businesses, and institutions across the U.S., create thousands...
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