Non-essential US embassy staff and their dependants in Baghdad are evacuating from Iraq due to heightened security risks, US government sources said on Wednesday. Officials did not say exactly what prompted the removal, however, in recent days talks over Iran’s nuclear programme appear to have stalled. A US state department official told the BBC: “We...
Planning permission is being sought to partially demolish a shopping centre in Torquay. Nine shops at the Union Square shopping centre are to be demolished if permission is granted by Torbay Council, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. The plans were submitted by the council’s development partner, Willmott Dixon, which is planning wider improvements to...
In what North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein called a “dark day” for the state, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday delivered a partial victory to Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who is challenging some 65,000 votes in his bid to overturn the narrow win of his Democratic opponent and incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison...