Descrease article font size Increase article font size India had at least 26 extradition requests pending with Canada, the South Asian nation’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, amid a diplomatic row between the two countries. “These are over the last decade or more,” India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters during a weekly media briefing….
Several government departments failed to agree their spending settlement by yesterday’s deadline in a sign of ongoing turbulence over the budget, Sky News can reveal. A number of departments have still been unable to agree with the Treasury on the scale of cuts they will be expected to deliver in the next two years, despite…
Patient and consumer advocates are looking to Kamala Harris to accelerate federal efforts to help people struggling with medical debt if she prevails in next month’s presidential election. And they see the vice president and Democratic nominee as the best hope for preserving Americans’ access to health insurance. Comprehensive coverage that limits patients’ out-of-pocket costs…
Bridget Phillipson failed to squash rumours of rifts between Cabinet colleagues over Rachel Reeves’s looming tax hikes and spending cuts. The Education Secretary admitted “there are lots of conversations happening right now across Government”. Several senior ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood are understood to…
There is a new wave of calls for Congress to return to Washington to respond to the growing costs of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Multiple members of Congress from hurricane-ravaged states have issued new calls for the U.S. House and Senate to respond to the depletion of funds from the U.S. Small Business Administration disaster…
More than 60,000 migrants will be granted asylum and allowed to stay in Britain after Sir Keir Starmer scrapped the Rwanda scheme, experts have revealed. Based on grant rates in the year to June, the Refugee Council predicted that as many as 62,801 people could be recognised as refugees. This is primarily down to the…
‘No questions over Mary Lou McDonald’s leadership’ Michelle O’Neill has said there are “no questions” over her party president’s leadership of Sinn Féin. On Tuesday, Mary Lou McDonald defended Sinn Féin’s decision not to reveal that former Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile had been suspended for sending inappropriate texts to a teenage boy when he stepped…
A federal grand jury unsealed an indictment against two Sudanese brothers Wednesday, charging them with running “Anonymous Sudan,” one of the most prolific cyberattack-for-hire gangs of all time and allegedly behind tens of thousands of attacks. Federal prosecutors accused Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27, of carrying out 35,000 denial-of-service…
A £15m funding pot to allow primary schools to deliver hundreds of nursery places has been launched. It forms the first stage of the government’s plan to open an additional 3,000 nurseries in England through “upgrading space” in primary schools, as Labour stated in its manifesto. Schools can apply for up to £150,000 to help…
Labour has said all along pensioners in need will still receive the winter fuel payment because more can sign up to pension credit. But now we know that can’t be true. The Government aren’t processing one in five claims within 50 working days, and that’s before the expected surge in applications for this winter. That…
