Category: Global News

Keir Starmer‘s plan to give the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has suffered another blow as the island’s prime minister has decided to review it. PM Navin Ramgoolam said he “would like to have more time to study all the details of the agreement with a panel of legal advisers,” the Daily Mail reports. The Chagos…

A man has been charged in connection to a vehicle pursuit in Kilrea, County Londonderry, that left three police officers injured and needing hospital treatment. A 31-year-old man has been charged with a number of offences including criminal damage, dangerous driving and obstructing police. He is due to appear before Limavady Magistrates’ Court later on…

St. Martin’s Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021” (published by St. Martin’s Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police state in East Germany, and her years as leader of a nation…

A three-month-old baby boy who was rushed to hospital after being found unresponsive at a home has died. The child was said to be in a critical condition with several injuries when they were discovered at the house in Wirral by Merseyside Police at about midday on Sunday. A man and a woman aged 36…

BBC Some ambulances are being diverted from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary NHS Grampian’s diversion of some ambulances away from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) for a day was a “major warning light” for the health service, a union has said. The diversion of ambulances was lifted on Friday evening. While it was ongoing, patients requiring immediate life…

BBC Scores of people joined protests outside Parliament on both sides of the assisted dying debate MPs have voted to allow terminally ill adults to be provided with assistance to end their own life. The vote does not mean the bill has become law, but allows it to continue for further parliamentary scrutiny with the…

A man in Iowa has decorated his entire street to honour his wife, who loves Christmas. His wife, Joan, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s four years ago and since then, her husband, a marine veteran, has focused on creating meaningful memories for her. “If it wasn’t for my wife, I don’t know if I would’ve done…

Rebel forces have entered parts of Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, a monitoring group says, in the biggest offensive against the government in years. The UK-based group says fighters set off two car bombs before advancing into neighbourhoods, without giving further details. Government forces meanwhile say they have regained control of positions that had been taken…