Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he had met privately with a Russian envoy and was working toward a broad agreement with Moscow that would extend far beyond Ukraine, encompassing, in his own words, “all of Europe.” The disclosure…
A Public Inquiry, Years in the Making Scotland’s public inquiry into group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation will formally begin on Wednesday, the Scottish government confirmed this week, with Education Secretary Mairi McAllan telling parliament the investigation would carry the…
A Damning Assessment from Brussels The European Commission has delivered a pointed rebuke to Kyiv, declaring in its annual enlargement package that Ukraine’s failure to meaningfully address corruption has left its EU membership bid trailing behind smaller and less resourced…
A Surveillance Operation at the Heart of the Chip Industry Sometime before the story became public, American intelligence agencies began surveilling a Chinese citizen named Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data centre firm with a thin public…
The All Blacks arrived in Edinburgh this week carrying grief alongside their preparations for Saturday’s Nations Championship fixture against Scotland at Murrayfield. Logan Cadwallader, the squad’s long-serving head of security, died following a medical event at the team hotel on…
A Historic Verdict in Tarnów A Polish district court convicted Catholic Bishop Andrzej Jeż on Thursday of deliberately failing to report two priests accused of sexually abusing children, in what the court itself described as an “unprecedented” ruling against a…
The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed a £5 million pilot programme targeting unemployed young people with existing informal income streams, offering them structured mentoring to formalise their activities as registered businesses before 2028, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat…
For most of its modern existence, the network of undersea cables threading the seabed around Britain has operated largely beyond the reach of government emergency powers. Owned and run primarily by private telecom companies, those cables carry almost all of…
What is happening, and where? Protests that have been building across Europe erupted into open confrontation on 25 October 2026, as demonstrators in France, Italy and Spain clashed with police in some of the most significant street violence the continent…
At least two members of the ruling coalition at Birmingham City Council — including a sitting cabinet member — hold direct financial interests in the city’s supported exempt accommodation sector, a system that now draws more than £410 million annually…