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HS2 boss blames failure to control costs on rush to start work
Mark Wild, the chief executive of HS2 Ltd, told MPs a …
Cooper Flagg: the 17-year-old ‘cold-ass white boy’ breaking the basketball discourse
Five months ago USA Basketball convened an inter-squad scrimmage in Las Vegas before the Paris Olympics, and the standout player was a gawky teenager from Maine.
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Search for lost brother reveals dark secret of Mexico’s ‘death flights’
Abdallan was the sixth to be taken.
First they came for his older brother Amafer, nabbed in broad daylight on the streets of the Mexican city of Morelia. Then they came for his other brother, Armando, grabbed on the outskirts of the capital. That same day, soldiers burst into the …
Israel launches deadly air raids against Yemen after missile attack
Israeli jets have launched widespread air raids against Houthi targets in Yemen, killing at least nine people in the port city of Hodeidah.
According to Israeli media, dozens of combat jets along with fuelling and intelligence aircraft took part in the raids, which came after reports that Israel was planning …
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff met Trump team earlier this month
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff travelled to Florida for talks with Donald Trump’s incoming White House team earlier this month.
Morgan McSweeney flew to Florida and Washington for meetings with key members of Trump’s team at the start of December.
Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who was behind …
Thames Water to pay £18m penalty after breaking dividend rules
Thames Water will have to pay an £18.2m penalty after the water industry regulator confirmed the troubled utilities company had breached dividend rules.
on Wednesday that Thames would be penalised over two dividend payments, made in 2023 and 2024, and that it would allow …Thursday briefing: How Labour’s so-called ‘surrender squad’ plans to regrow EU relations
Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply
Israel’s restriction of Gaza’s water supply to levels below minimum needs amounts to an act of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, a human rights report has alleged.
Israeli attacks on the water supply infrastructure in Gaza over the course …Will Japan’s close ties with US survive the caprice and quirks of Donald Trump?
Arguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White House than Japan, since the US has been the linchpin of Japanese foreign and security policy since the second world war.
Back in 2017, well before …
Clouds on horizon as EU members meet to discuss relationship with UK
Nearly five years after the Brexit divorce, the EU is thinking again about its estranged ex-member across the Channel. The union’s 27 leaders will discuss its relationship with the UK on Thursday, for the first time since the election of Keir Starmer, who wants to reset relations and end the …