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‘You don’t see the trauma until suddenly you do’: Lockerbie bombing’s lasting impact on a ‘normal little town’
At the end of a row of tidy red brick bungalows in the Scottish town of Lockerbie is an empty plot, carefully landscaped now as a memorial garden. Two red tartan ribbons, tied on a leafless branch perhaps in private remembrance, flutter in a wintry gust.
Eleven of the street’s …
‘We live in constant fear’: Alawites in Syria’s Homs terrified of reprisals
Outside the deserted Homs political security directorate building, a group of freshly recruited armed guards were engaged in a heated debate about justice. Sado Junaid, whose sister and brother-in-law were detained and tortured in the squat facility’s underground prison, sided with Mahmoud al-Bashar, who as they spoke sometimes held the …
Macron convenes European leaders for Ukraine summit amid tension with US
Emmanuel Macron will press ahead with a Paris summit of European defence powers to try to retake the initiative and demand the US ends its lock-out of Europe from the talks on Ukraine’s future.
With the US and Russia due to send high powered delegations for talks in Riyadh this …
Australia is going backwards on race but ‘social cohesion’ is not the answer, commissioner warns
The ABC is at risk of isolating its workforce and diverse communities, the race discrimination commissioner has warned, saying the broadcaster’s handling of the unlawful termination case brought by Antoinette Lattouf has not been a “positive step”.
Giridharan Sivaraman, who was appointed the race discrimination commissioner in 2024, also warns …
‘We can’t just be supine’: Ed Davey urges Starmer to stand up to ‘bully’ Trump
Keir Starmer’s approach to Donald Trump is like that of a child in a playground hoping “the bully doesn’t notice them” and he should be more brave in standing up to the US president, Ed Davey has said.
In a direct challenge to the prime minister, the Liberal Democrat leader …
Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s plan for Gaza
Jockey Michael O’Sullivan dies aged 24 after fall in race at Thurles
Racing was in mourning for one of its brightest young talents on Sunday following the announcement that 24-year-old Michael O’Sullivan, who was airlifted to Cork University Hospital and placed in an induced coma after a fall at Thurles on 6 February, had died as a result of his injuries.
Dr …
Trump’s comments on Canada prompt surge of patriotism – in a Canadian way
“I’m not a lumberjack, or a fur trader,” he tells the crowd. “I have a prime minister, not a president. I speak English …
Starmer union ally joins opposition to rules barring citizenship for small boat refugees
Keir Starmer’s most generous union backer has joined faith leaders to warn Yvette Cooper that new rules refusing citizenship to refugees who arrive in small boats will “breed division and distrust” and could fuel attacks on migrant hotels.
Christina McAnea, the general secretary of Unison, and nine Church of England …
Alexei Navalny supporters visit grave on first anniversary of his death
European leaders have condemned the Kremlin’s “ultimate responsibility” in the death of Alexei Navalny, as supporters of Russia’s best-known opposition politician held remembrance events a year after he
died in an Arctic penal colony
.A steady queue of people braved freezing temperatures and possible arrest in Moscow …