Sir Keir Starmer’s director of communications has stepped down the day after the prime minister’s most senior aide quit. Tim Allan, a former adviser to Sir Tony Blair, had only started at No 10 in September in a bid to steady the ship. He is Sir Keir’s fourth head of communications since Labour won the […]
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Prosecutors in France have been unable to tell which of a pair of identical twins on trial for murder pulled the trigger in a fatal shooting, because DNA found on a gun is a match to them both. Identified in reports as 33-year-old brothers Samuel and Jeremy Y, the pair are suspected of being involved
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El Paso International Airport in Texas has been ordered to halt all flights for the next 10 days. The restriction has been imposed for “special security reasons” according to a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) on the website of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The notice designates the skies around the airport as an “NTL
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Yes, the wedding ceremony during Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl half-time show – the first where a headliner performed entirely in Spanish – was genuine. About five minutes into the Puerto Rican artist‘s 13-minute performance at Levi’s Stadium in California, cameras panned to a couple’s wedding ceremony. “I declare you husband and wife, you can
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More than 50 people have died, or are missing, after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya, according to reports. The vessel overturned north of Zuwara on 6 February, with only two rescued from the 53 on board, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a statement. The two survivors, both Nigerian
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A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand in 2019 said on Monday that he was irrational when he pleaded guilty, as he sought to overturn his conviction. Brenton Tarrant, 35, appeared in court in Wellington via a video link, and gave evidence as he sought to overturn his
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Bad Bunny has made history by becoming the first Super Bowl half-time show headliner to perform entirely in Spanish – and to host a wedding during the performance. Already a controversial pick to the main event, drawing criticism from Donald Trump, the rapper breezed through an eight-song set mostly made up of his latest album
Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate. Inside LA’s superior court, a landmark trial is getting under way. Social media companies are being accused of being addictive by design, a bit like tobacco and cigarettes were in the 1980s. They’ll face around 22 “bellwether” lawsuits,
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The face of a “vampire” whose remains were posthumously mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead can be seen for the first time in more than 400 years. Discovered in a grave at Racesa, a fortress in eastern Croatia, the body had been exhumed, beheaded and reburied face down beneath heavy stones. And since
However you cut it, this is a one-woman story. Sanae Takaichi has landed a mandate, a landslide so decisive that just a few months ago it would barely have been believed. And it could well change Japan and this region. When she assumed the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in October, following