An outbreak of meningitis is being treated as a national incident after the deaths of a sixth-form pupil and a university student. Thousands of students in Kent are being urged to get vaccines and take antibiotics as health officials deal with the “unprecedented” and “explosive” outbreak. Some 15 cases have been reported to the UK […]
Senegal has been stripped of the Africa Cup of Nations for misconduct in the tournament final, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has ruled. The CAF Appeal Board said that Senegal is “declared to have forfeited” the final in January. The result will be recorded as a 3-0 win for Morocco, the tournament hosts. Senegal
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The UK government is preparing a possible court case against former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich after he missed a deadline to release £2.5bn he raised from the sale of the club. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer announced in mid-December that the Treasury was issuing a licence for the transfer of the frozen funds to
The human cost of Israel and America’s air campaign on Iran is mounting, nowhere more painfully felt than in the children’s wards of its hospitals. In the intensive care unit of one, four-year-old Anita lies in a coma with severe head injuries a few days after being pulled out of the rubble of her home
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Seven men have been sentenced for being part of a group that carried out a series of smash-and-grab raids at luxury stores across London. The defendants stole more than £100,000 worth of goods from several high-value stores over four months in 2025, the Metropolitan Police said. Using bricks, sledgehammers and a Ford Fiesta to ram
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We’re used to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the war leader in his combat fatigues. They were the ones that memorably earned him a dressing down from Donald Trump in the Oval Office last year. But in his third speech to the UK parliament since the Russian invasion four years ago, we saw him suited
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The Princess of Wales wished the officers and guardsmen of the Irish Guards a happy St Patrick’s Day as she presented them with traditional sprigs of shamrock. Kate – who has served as the regiment’s colonel since 2022 – also greeted its mascot, an Irish wolf hound named Turlough Mor, affectionately known as Seamus, as
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Donald Trump has said he’s “disappointed with Keir [Starmer]” over the prime minister’s initial refusal to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East. Repeating his jibe from a few days into the Iran war, the US president said: “Unfortunately Keir is no Winston Churchill.” Mr Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office alongside
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👉 Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app 👈 Sir Keir Starmer is promising help for working people whose energy bills are going up because of the Iran war. The last energy bailout after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine cost £40bn, and on top of the costs of support during the COVID pandemic
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Zack Polanski is set to call on Sir Keir Starmer to step in and protect energy price cap customers from steep bill rises at the start of July. Sky News understands the Green Party leader is about to pile further pressure on the prime minister, who has so far dismissed calls to make any more