Category: Global News

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PA Media Sir Tony Blair would later say he had “huge respect” for Rhodri Morgan A landmark speech by Rhodri Morgan setting out his political vision for Wales was privately dismissed as “dreadful nonsense” by Tony Blair when he was prime minister. In a lecture in 2002, Wales’ then first minister rejected some of Blair’s…

Guantanamo Bay inmate Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi has been repatriated to Tunisia, the US Department of Defense says. He was found eligible for transfer from the detention facility after a “rigorous interagency review process”, a press statement said. The Pentagon did not say if Mr Yazidi had accepted any guilt. Since 2002, the Guantanamo Bay…

BBC Sila’s father carries her tiny body to be buried Sila was less than three weeks old when her mother Nariman realised she wasn’t moving. “I woke up in the morning and told my husband that the baby hadn’t stirred for a while. He uncovered her face and found her blue, biting her tongue, with…

A Chinese state-sponsored hacker has broken into the US Treasury Department’s systems, accessing employee workstations and some unclassified documents, American officials said on Monday. The breach occurred in early December and was made public in a letter penned by the Treasury Department to lawmakers notifying them of the incident. The US agency characterised the breach…

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates. The Russian defence ministry said it had swapped 150 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian troops. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy said 189 Ukrainians had returned home. The BBC’s Will Vernon witnessed freed…

Five people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne in Argentina, the authorities there say. The 31-year-old star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. The hotel’s manager, Gilda Martin, and its receptionist, Esteban Grassi, as well as Payne’s…

Trinidad and Tobago has declared a state of emergency as gang violence in the Caribbean nation continues to escalate. President Christine Carla Kangaloo issued the declaration on the advice of Prime Minister Keith Rowley, who had been under growing pressure to take action over worsening crime figures. The twin-island republic has one of the highest…