Turkish coal mine blast leaves 25 dead, many trapped: officials

ANKARA, Turkey — An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey killed at least 25 people, local officials announced, while rescuers working through the night were trying to bring dozens of others trapped to the surface. The explosion occurred 6:45 p.m. at the state-owned TTK Amasra Muessese Mudurlugu mine in the town of Amasra, […]

Abusi su figlia di due anni ripresi col cellulare e inviati online: arrestato

Read More La polizia postale di Milano e Roma ha arrestato, nelle scorse ore, un trentatreenne romano per violenza sessuale aggravata ai danni di sua figlia, detenzione, produzione e cessione di materiale pedopornografico e per adescamento di minorenne. L’arresto è avvenuto al termine di una perquisizione domiciliare e informatica eseguita dagli investigatori milanesi con il […]

China Inflation Hits 29-Month High

Read More BEIJING -China’s consumer inflation rose to a 29-month high in September, driven mainly by pork prices. China’s central bank has been trying to bolster growth while avoiding aggressive loosening that could fan price pressures and risk outflows, as the Federal Reserve and other central banks raise interest rates to fight soaring inflation. Consumer […]

US Remains Open to Dialogue Despite North Korea’s Repeated Missile Launches: Official

Read More The United States remains open to dialogue with North Korea despite the growing tensions caused by the latter’s missile launches and warplanes deployment near the border of South Korea, a U.S. official said Friday. North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea and blasted about 560 artillery shots into the maritime […]

Jeremy Hunt may still have to find ?40bn of cuts as chancellor, say experts

Read More Liz Truss’s new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, may still have to draw up spending cuts worth up to ?40bn to convince markets the government can balance the books, experts warned after Friday’s humiliating U-turn. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Truss dropped a heavy hint of austerity to come, saying: “Our public sector […]

Two brothers jailed after admitting murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia

Read More Two brothers charged with the car-bomb assassination of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have both been sentenced to 40 years in prison, after dramatically pleading guilty to her murder on the first day of their trial. Caruana Galizia, who had investigated political corruption in the European Union’s smallest member state, died in […]

Boris Johnson gives peerages to string of Tory allies, but not Paul Dacre

Read More Boris Johnson’s political honours list has seen peerages awarded to a string of former Tory MPs and other allies and party donors – although not to Paul Dacre, the former editor of the Daily Mail. Dacre had been widely tipped to be made a peer, but there had been calls for this to […]