Don’t make Partygate official Martin Reynolds our man in Riyadh, urge Tories

Read More Senior Tories are warning Boris Johnson against appointing an official at the heart of the Partygate scandal to a top diplomatic job after it emerged that the man was being lined up to be Britain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Martin Reynolds quit as Johnson’s principal private secretary in February following outrage about Partygate. […]

Loophole could let North Sea oil and gas giants slash UK windfall tax bill

Read More North Sea oil and gas companies that already benefit from huge tax breaks could use fresh rules to slash how much they pay under a new windfall tax announced by Rishi Sunak as part of his ?15bn cost of living package, according to a thinktank. The chancellor risks raising a fraction of the […]

Liverpool ‘hugely disappointed’ by treatment of fans outside Paris final

Read More Kick-off in Saturday’s Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in Paris had to be delayed by 36 minutes amid safety concerns. There were chaotic scenes as security checks led to bottlenecks and police deployed pepper spray or tear gas, again raising serious questions about Uefa’s organisation of a major event. Video […]

Nepal, scomparso dai radar un aereo con 22 persone a bordo

Read More Si sono persi i contatti radio e le tracce radar di un aereo passeggeri con 22 persone a bordo in Nepal che opera un volo interno da Pokhara a Jomsom nel distretto di Mustang. Lo riferiscono le autorità governative locali. L’aereo, un volo di linea di 15 minuti per la città di montagna […]

China Strikes Deal With Pacific Nation Samoa, Including a Toehold in Local Policing

Read More China inked a deal with the Pacific island nation of Samoa on Saturday to deepen diplomatic ties, as China’s ruling communist party (CCP) and democratic nations in the region continued rival campaigns to woo undecided governments into their competing sphere of influence. The China-Somoa agreement is the first deal signed by Chinese foreign […]

Women who kill: ‘Categories that rely on gender norms not useful’

Read More Mogokolodi Digama’s life was snuffed out one fateful night at a spaza shop on his way home from work. Gunmen attacked and killed Digama, a warrant officer in the police force, and then drove off in his vehicle, which was later found burnt out in Madibong village in the  Sekhukhune district in Limpopo, […]