Appearing in a crisp suit and dark tie, Genaro García Luna – the highest-ranking Mexican official ever to be convicted in the United States – remained impassive as his sentence was handed down in a New York courtroom. He was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison, as well as a $2m (£1.5m) fine….
Maria Mulgrew Maria Mulgrew was a keen runner and was training for a marathon when she became ill Maria Mulgrew was aware she had reached menopausal age but still something was not quite right. “I felt anxious in crowds, exhausted and my blood pressure was slightly raised but there was something else,” she told BBC…
Liam Payne, the former member of One Direction, has died aged 31 in Argentina after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, police say. In a statement, police said they were dispatched to the hotel after an emergency call in which they were “informed of an aggressive man who may have…
LONDON: The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued on Wednesday a statement siding with Canada in the diplomatic firestorm that has erupted between Ottawa and New Delhi, saying India’s “cooperation with Canada’s legal process was the right next step”.The FCDO issued a strongly worded statement “on the ongoing Canadian investigation linked to the…
Contributed Library PCs were taken offline by the council following the discovery Primary school pupils in Edinburgh were able to access pornography and videos of executions during class time due to a computer fault. It has emerged that filters designed to block inappropriate websites had not been activated on PCs in the city’s public libraries….
Dramatic video shows the moment Ukraine‘s forces pummelled a training ground used by Russian troops with devastating US-supplied cluster bombs, military bloggers claim. Drone footage posted by various channels on social media was said to to show the aftermath of the blasts in Zaporizhzhia, a southeastern Ukrainian region partly occupied by Vladimir Putin‘s invading army,…
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This is the moment a smug Vladimir Putin is taken down a peg by one of his top energy officials in a dispute during a tense discussion about Russia‘s Arctic infrastructure projects. Director General of Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev yesterday visited the Kremlin where he delivered a presentation about the company’s…
Reuters Ramez Abu Nasr managed to save his brother from the rubble Warning: This piece contains graphic descriptions of death and violence The hand was covered in dust, streaked with blood on the fingers and wrist, all that could be seen of the person who was killed. Like many other victims of the Israeli air…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has presented MPs with a long-awaited “victory plan” that aims to strengthen his country’s position enough to end the war with Russia. Zelensky told parliament in Kyiv the plan could finish the war – which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 – next year. Key elements include…
