He did not need his name on a press release to make his position understood. Aleksander Ceferin, the Slovenian lawyer who has led UEFA since 2016, has emerged as the most consequential institutional obstacle to FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s ambition…
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has formally condemned the United Kingdom’s Imprisonment for Public Protection regime as unlawful, characterising the continued confinement of more than 2,500 prisoners without a fixed release date as a…
United States President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday, speaking from the White House, that British Prime Minister Andy Burnham had personally committed during their first telephone conversation to “open up North Sea oil” — a claim that, if accurate, would…
Healthcare workers at an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have walked off the job, demanding two months of unpaid wages. Their strike comes as the outbreak’s recorded death toll climbs past 1,400 — a convergence…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares once again to meet US President Donald Trump, the historical record offers a sobering lens through which to read that encounter. Declassified intelligence assessments, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative journalism, and academic…
The paperwork looked straightforward enough: two payments of £250,000 each, transferred from a fundraising vehicle called Britain Means Business to Reform UK in the weeks before the July 2024 general election. Half a million pounds, moving through a company controlled…
What has Lewisham Council decided? Lewisham Council has formally voted to refuse cooperation with Home Office immigration enforcement operations wherever “legally possible” — making it the first local authority in the United Kingdom to take such a position. The motion,…
A Manchester man who drove a would-be attacker on a covert reconnaissance mission to a major UK military installation has pleaded guilty to preparing a terrorist act — in a case that reveals the operational relationship between two men sharing…
The infant arrived without a doctor, without a midwife, without anyone trained to help. An 11-year-old girl delivered a full-term baby inside a home in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, that neighbors described as lacking running water for years. She had not…
A police station. A uniform. A 17-year-old girl. These are the facts not in dispute. David Robert Blackbourne, 56, a former constable with New South Wales Police, is standing trial at the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney on charges…