Weston-super-Mare cardboard pier sculpture falls after wind hits – BBC
- Weston-super-Mare cardboard pier sculpture falls after wind hits BBC
- Photos as giant cardboard pier in Weston-super-Mare created and then destroyed Weston Mercury
- First steps taken on restored section of Birnbeck Pier North Somerset Council
- First steps taken on Weston's Birnbeck Pier as restoration hits key milestone Weston Mercury
South Korea, Ukraine relations sour over North Korean POW transfer
South Korea's presidential office criticises Ukraine for denying POW nondisclosure agreement.
Republican says Trump’s support of Ken Paxton in Texas primary was ‘colossal mistake’
Thom Tillis says Trump’s decision to back Paxton over John Cornyn has put the Senate seat at risk for Republicans
US senator Thom Tillis on Sunday criticized Donald Trump, his fellow Republican, for the president’s support of Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn in the Texas Senate Republican primary.
“He made a colossal mistake,” Tillis, a frequent Trump critic from North Carolina, said during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union in reference to the president’s support of Paxton who defeated Cornyn in the May primary.
Continue reading...‘Don’t squander it’: Can Labour hang on to the Burnham bounce?
Conference delegates grateful ousting Starmer has paid off, but relief tempered by fiscal headwinds ahead
Even Andy Burnham’s closest allies accept that deposing Keir Starmer to install their man as leader was a huge political gamble. But if the mood at the Labour party conference in Liverpool is anything to go by, it is one that – so far – has paid off.
The contrast with last year, when Starmer retained his grip on the party and Burnham slunk away from Liverpool early, could not be more stark. Their relief at their turn of fortune is tempered only by the fiscal headwinds ahead.
Continue reading...UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings
Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, unfreezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status.
The change marks a shift in Mahmood’s approach to asylum seekers after the abrupt closure of the Afghan resettlement scheme last year and changes that will keep refugee status under constant review for two decades.
Continue reading...‘Iran ready for doomsday war’, FM Araghchi says
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Iran is prepared for war to resume, ‘even if it comes to a doomsday war’.
Mike Waltz: US offered to sell Iran uranium for civilian programme
US ambassador says Iran refused to agree to an arrangement where uranium would be supplied by Washington.
War-wounded military veterans peddling cheap patriotic merch are actually AI fakes out of China: report – New York Post
One month after Nepal’s catastrophic floods, thousands remain missing
A month after floods tore through Nepal, 5,285 people remain missing and more than 1,100 are still in holding centres.
UK politics live: Pat McFadden tells Labour activists they should not defend benefits system ‘status quo’ because it ‘writes off’ claimants
Work and pensions secretary says the current system is flawed because it consigns too many people to a life on benefits when they would be better off working
‘I can deliver’: Burnham pledges radical change on eve of Labour conference
Kuenssberg puts it to Burnham that, according to the Health Foundation, a system offering adult social care free at the point of delivery (like healthcare delivered by the NHS) would cost £18bn.
Burnham says the cost is “not that high” (ie, not as high as £18bn).
Not that high.
But can I directly deal with this issue of the costs?
Louise Casey is still doing an official review for us, so I will set out the vision, if you like, on Tuesday [in his speech to the conference].
Louise will then help us with the how. How do we make this happen? When can we make it happen?
Continue reading...Giant pandas arrive in Atlanta as part of 10-year US-China agreement
The two pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, arrived from southwestern China.
Four bodies found after avalanche hits Himalayan climbing group
Rescuers are still looking for 12 Nepalese cook staff who were preparing for climbers to ascend the Himlung Himal peak.
Nepal: Two bodies found after avalanche hits Himalayan base camp – bbc.com
- Nepal: Two bodies found after avalanche hits Himalayan base camp bbc.com
- Rescuers search for 12 missing after Nepal avalanche kills two Al Jazeera
- Avalanche at Himlung Himal in Nepal leaves 2 dead, 14 missing DW.com
- Rescue teams search Nepal mountain for 12 swept by avalanche The Hill
- Six missing in avalanche as severe weather batters Nepal CNN
Two bodies found after avalanche hits Himalayan climbing group
Rescuers are looking for at least 10 Nepalese people who were preparing to take climbers up the Himlung Himal peak.
Dozens killed in two mass shootings in South Africa
At least 27 people have been killed in two mass shootings across South Africa.
Jerusalem Daily: Israeli opposition leaders unite to drive out Netanyahu
Jerusalem Daily: Israeli opposition leaders unite to drive out Netanyahu
Northern Ireland protesters block Orange Order march into Catholic area
Thousands of Protesters blocked a road leading into a Catholic area of Northern Ireland ahead of an Orange Order march.
Swiss reject tighter neutrality rules in referendum backed by right-wing populist party – PBS
- Swiss reject tighter neutrality rules in referendum backed by right-wing populist party PBS
- Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation The Guardian
- Switzerland rejects stricter interpretation of its neutrality bbc.com
- Is Switzerland's neutrality at a crossroads? NPR
- Swiss neutrality and food security initiatives suffer hefty defeat SWI swissinfo.ch
Muslims protest planned demolition of ‘600-year-old’ mosque in India
Hundreds of Muslims have gathered in the Indian city of Ujjain to protest the partial demolition of a historic mosque.