Yahoo News Daily politics briefing: March 6
All the latest political developments in the UK, with Home Secretary Suella Braverman this week set to publish long-promised legislation on asylum claims.
All the latest political developments in the UK, with Home Secretary Suella Braverman this week set to publish long-promised legislation on asylum claims.
The laws will apply to up to 2,000 Britons living in Denmark
This would be a good time for Putin to realize he can't subjugate Ukraine by force, war experts said, but he's clearly not come to this conclusion.
The war is "not simply seen as good guys in the West versus bad guys in Russia."
Afghanistan's rulers the Taliban claim to have rehabilitated hundreds of vehicles the US said it destroyed in its chaotic withdrawal in 2021.
The actor has a theory to explain what's really going on.
Vladimir Putin's plan to station Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus "humiliated" China's President Xi Jinping, according to Michael McFaul, a former US envoy to Russia.
Humza Yousaf has been accused of “pouring petrol” on the SNP’s civil war after Kate Forbes rejected his “insulting” offer of a demotion to serve in his Cabinet.
Russia’s 10th Tank Regiment has lost many of its tanks in “tactically flawed frontal assaults” on the eastern town of Avdiivka in Ukraine, British defence chiefs said on Tuesday. Vladimir Putin’s army had achieved only “marginal progress,” they added, in the offensive in the Donetsk province, at the “cost of heavy losses in armoured vehicles”. In its latest intelligence update, the Ministry of Defence in London said Russian generals had been prioritising in recent days an operation to try to encircle the Donetsk town of Avdiivka.
MSPs are expected to back Humza Yousaf to be Scotland’s sixth first minister after he was named the new leader of the SNP
Analysts expect a Ukrainian counter-attack to get under way in earnest as the weather improves and more military aid arrives
The late night host had the receipts on the ex-president's Texas rally.
The prime minister announced the scheme when he was chancellor.
CheZaRa, a Ukrainian company providing equipment for spacecraft, was all but destroyed during the Russian bombardment of Chernihiv. Now the company is suing for compensation. But sanctions on Russia mean it has had to think creatively.
HUMZA Yousaf is facing an immediate row with the Scottish Greens over changes to the government’s troubled drinks container recycling scheme.
Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
Supporters of the Union can breathe a sigh of relief. Humza Yousaf’s election as Nicola Sturgeon’s successor means Scottish independence is even less likely than it was a matter of weeks ago.
A looming British ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars was thrown into chaos on Tuesday after Brussels watered down its own restrictions amid opposition from the German auto industry.
Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Wednesday that defeat in the battle for Bakhmut would allow Vladimir Putin to “feel blood” to push for Ukraine to accept a peace deal surrendering land. The Ukrainian president issued the dire prediction amid reports that Putin’s “private army”, the Wagner Group mercenaries, had likely seized an industrial complex in the eastern town and now controlled around two thirds of it.
A Harrow councillor is outraged after Transport for London (TfL) used a “loophole” to install ULEZ cameras in Harrow after the council refused to give consent.
British politics is bent out of shape to accommodate a narrow set of views clustered to one side of a partisan divide, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr