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Husband and wife to be forced apart by Home Office deportation flight
A husband and wife face enforced separation because the Home Office wants to put him on a deportation flight to Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving his wife in the UK.
Labour has pledged to increase deportations, and since taking office has removed more than 10,000 people – a mix of voluntary …
Woman who killed Sheffield man had record of fleeing psychiatric ward, inquest hears
A woman who killed a man after fleeing while on escorted leave from a psychiatric hospital had absconded 10 times in the previous eight months and was twice found with a knife, an inquest has heard.
Roger Leadbeater, 74, was stabbed and killed while walking his dog in Westfield, Sheffield, …
Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip
It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed.
Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete.
That’s 10 septillion years, a number that far exceeds the …
Domestic issues pile pressure on Iran’s president amid foreign policy setbacks
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the latest in a string of foreign policy reversals for Iran including the weakening of its allies in Lebanon and Gaza, has coincided with growing domestic frustration over rising executions, planned increases in the price of petrol and a proposed law that imposes …
Monday briefing: How the decade-long war in Syria ended almost overnight
Good morning. It’s been only twelve days since rebel groups in Syria seized 15 villages in Aleppo province under the control of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Yesterday, after an astonishing blitzkrieg campaign that has left the leading group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), commanding seven times as much territory as when …
Government seeks Whitehall ‘startup’ culture with tech worker secondments
Tech employees will be seconded to work in Whitehall for year-long stints to help the UK government function “more like a startup” under plans to rewire the state.
Ministers will spend £100m on public sector reform as part of a shake-up of the workings of government to achieve Keir Starmer’s …
From doctor to brutal dictator: the rise and fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad
On the face of it at least, the Bashar al-Assad of 2002 presented a starkly different figure to the brutal autocrat he would become, presiding over a fragile state founded on torture, imprisonment and industrial murder.
He had been president then for just two years, succeeding his father, Hafez, whose …
Fentanyl may enter the US from Mexico, but the drug of choice there is different
All night, Daniela stares at screens in the warehouse where she works as a security guard. The challenge is to stay awake. So, before every shift, she smokes crystal meth for the euphoric focus it gives her.
‘It was a domino effect’: family seek answers over Sheffield park killing
When the family of Roger Leadbeater, a 74-year-old man stabbed to death while walking his dog yards from his home in Sheffield, went to lay flowers at the scene two days later, they were met with a horrifying sight.
“Nobody had cleaned the scene. It was the most barbaric thing …
Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured Damascus
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have fled the country his family has ruled over for 50 years as rebels
said they had captured the capital
after a lightning advance completed in just under two weeks.Two senior Syrian officers told Reuters that Assad fled Damascus, …