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Economic hardship looms over Ghana as country readies for polls
When the Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidential election on his third attempt in 2016, many saw it as a turning point.
The first person to unseat an incumbent, his historic win captured his compatriots’ frustration. Alleged corruption had ballooned under his predecessor, John Mahama: in one instance, …
Smartphones should carry health warning, Spanish government told
Smartphones sold in Spain should carry a label warning users about their potential health impacts, experts have told the Spanish government, in a report that calls for doctors to ask about screen time during checkups.
As Spain pushes forward with a draft law to limit children’s exposure to technology, the …
British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’
Exports of British food to the EU have dropped by nearly £3bn a year since Brexit, a trade thinktank has said, with new physical and documentary checks at the border complicating trade.
A report by the Centre of Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) has found that the export of UK food …
Dozens of Tamils arrive in UK after three years stranded on Diego Garcia
Dozens of people stranded in hellish conditions for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have touched down in the UK.
Lawyers and campaigners hailed the arrival of 47 Sri Lankan Tamils on Monday night as a “big day for justice”, with a further …
‘It’s about justice’: fighter from guerrilla war sues Spanish government for €1m
One of the last surviving fighters from the guerrilla war waged against the Franco dictatorship in the 1940s is suing the Spanish government for €1m in reparations.
Barcelona-born Joan Busquets, 96, suffered torture, forced labour and 20 years in prison at the hands of the Franco regime. The case comes …
Israeli soldiers conducting campaign of ‘beatings and abuse’ in Hebron
Israeli soldiers based in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron have intensified a campaign of arbitrary detentions, beatings and abuse of Palestinians, according to Guardian interviews with affected residents and new research by the rights group B’Tselem.
Three people described being seized on the street while going about their …
Rachel Reeves appoints Covid corruption commissioner
Rachel Reeves is to appoint a health service and regulatory veteran, Tom Hayhoe, a former Conservative cabinet adviser, as her Covid corruption commissioner with the remit of clawing back billions in fraudulent contracts.
The chancellor is understood to believe the Treasury can recoup £2.6bn from waste, fraud and flawed contracts …
Lucy Letby inquiry: parents expressed ‘intolerable anguish’ at police investigation
Lucy Letby’s parents wrote to hospital bosses expressing their “intolerable anguish” after police began investigating their daughter, and asking for an urgent meeting with senior managers, a public inquiry has heard.
Two months after officers from Cheshire constabulary were brought into the hospital to investigate an increase in the number of …
Dawn Sturgess’s family condemn security ‘failure’ that led to novichok poisonings
Keir Starmer appoints Chris Wormald as new cabinet secretary
Keir Starmer has appointed Chris Wormald, a career civil servant who currently heads the health department, to become the new cabinet secretary.
Wormald, who has spent eight years as permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, will take over from Simon Case on 16 December as the …