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Canada’s foreign affairs ministry has said it “strongly condemns” the execution of several of the country’s citizens in China this year, highlighting sustained tensions between the two countries. Global Affairs Canada confirmed on Wednesday that an unspecified number of citizens were executed earlier this year. The revelations were first reported by the Globe and Mail. … Read more
Gun controls are set to be tightened after a teenager who bought a shotgun by forging a firearms licence was jailed for life for murdering his family and planning a school massacre. The full details of Nicholas Prosper’s failed plot to storm a morning assembly at his old school and kill 30 children in a … Read more
Israeli forces have launched a “limited ground operation” to retake the Netzarim corridor, a newly widened road protected by fortified bunkers that divides Gaza and is seen as essential to controlling the devastated Palestinian territory. The move is a significant escalation of Israel’s new offensive in Gaza and came less than 36 hours after a … Read more
A murder charge has been authorised against the husband of a woman found dead in a car boot in London. Harshita Brella, 24, was found in a silver Vauxhall Corsa on Brisbane Road, Ilford, east London, on 14 November last year. Her husband, Pankaj Lamba, 23, who is believed to have fled the country, was … Read more
Officials at the US Federal Reserve cut their US economic growth forecasts and raised their projections for price growth as they kept interest rates on hold while Donald Trump bids to overhaul the global economy with sweeping tariffs. Policymakers at the central bank expect inflation to increase by an average rate of 2.7% this year, … Read more
Scores of Labour MPs have voiced significant doubts about the government’s welfare changes in a tense meeting with the work and pensions secretary. At a private meeting in parliament attended by about 100 MPs with Liz Kendall and the disability minister, Stephen Timms, MPs said there were grave concerns in the room about the huge … Read more
The men’s Tour de France will return to Britain in July 2027 with a spectacular city-centre Grand Départ in Edinburgh and three stages that trace a route from Scotland through England and into Wales. It will be the third Tour race start in Britain in the last 20 years, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire … Read more
Donald Trump has repeated his declaration that he would not defy a court ruling, even as controversy swirls about whether his administration has already ignored several of them following a spate of negative judgments that threaten to block his governing agenda. Anger among the president’s supporters has been simmering against a federal judge, James Boasberg, … Read more
The US Institute of Peace and many of its board members have sued the Trump administration, seeking to prevent their removal and stop Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency”, AKA Doge, from taking over and accessing the independent non-profit’s building and systems. The lawsuit filed late Tuesday in US district court in Washington describes … Read more
A woman has been jailed after tricking her partner into twice believing she was pregnant, with her lies only discovered when she turned up to a maternity ward wearing a fake pregnancy bump. At Workington magistrates court, Libby Vernon was sentenced to six months in prison, having previously pleaded guilty to 10 charges relating to … Read more