Yahoo News TikTok officially banned from UK government phones, announces Oliver Dowden
TikTok has been banned on government electronic devices, the Cabinet Office has announced.Source: Parliament TV
TikTok has been banned on government electronic devices, the Cabinet Office has announced.Source: Parliament TV
Destroyed stockpile was to be used by Russian Black Sea Fleet, says defence ministry
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after it emerged that he has a unique pension deal from his time as Director of Public Prosecutions which allows him to avoid tax on his savings.
Fewer and fewer steps left before a potential ‘nuclear collision’ between Russia and the West, says Moscow
Nicola Sturgeon’s successor will be announced on Monday, with the new leader expected to face questions at Holyrood on Thursday.
Vladimir Putin has accused Britain of escalating the war in Ukraine after it emerged that the UK will send Kyiv depleted uranium shells.
Italy will continue to back Ukraine against Russia even if this dents the Rome government's approval ratings, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, as polls show that military aid to Kyiv is unpopular with voters. "We will continue to do it because it is right to do so in terms of national values and interest," Meloni said in a speech to the Senate ahead of the European Council summit on March 23-24. The issue of supporting Ukraine's war effort is proving a headache for Meloni, a staunch supporter of Kyiv whose conservative coalition government allies are far more ambiguous on the issue.
THE Scottish Greens are urging the incoming First Minister to ramp up climate policy to tackle “the greatest threat we will ever know".
Biden rejected a bill that would’ve overturned regulations allowing employee retirement plans to consider Environmental, Social and Governance factors when making investments
HUMZA Yousaf has been branded "crass and ignorant" for saying Scotland is subject to “a foreign government” at Westminster in the final SNP leadership hustings.
The decision to appoint a single contractor to run collections across the whole of Scotland's Deposit Return Scheme will create an "unfair market advantage" and lead to job losses throughout the waste management sector, an industry representative has warned.
France's top administrative court on Monday ordered the government to ban fishing in parts of the Atlantic to protect dolphins which have washed up dead in their hundreds. The move by the State Council, the highest court in government matters, comes days after an oceanographic institute reported that at least 910 dolphins had washed up on France's Atlantic coast since the start of the winter.Over a single week, more than 400 of the marine mammals were found stranded along the coast, an "unpreced
STORY: U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill on Monday requiring the declassification of information related to the origins of the coronavirus.Whether the pandemic was the result of a lab leak from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology,or jumped from animals to humans at a Wuhan market remains a hotly contested debatewith divisions even among U.S. intelligence agencies. China has said there is no credibility behind the lab leak theory.In 2021, Biden directed intelligence agencies to investigate COVID-19's origins.In a statement Monday, Biden said: "In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible..."He added that it was essential to find out the origins of the pandemic to prevent another one. The bill sailed through the Senate and House of Representatives without opposition before being sent to the White House.Beijing has been quick to criticise the new legislation,with the foreign ministry saying on Tuesday that the China-related content of the bill misrepresented fact.It called on the U.S. to "immediately stop political manipulation."
Henry Dimbleby resigns and lashes out at Tory inaction on junk food
Tory backbenchers are to mount an attempt to toughen the Government’s new illegal immigration laws by giving UK courts the power to ignore rulings by Strasbourg judges.
Russian cruise missiles destroyed in Crimea blast; Xi Jinping meets Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on day two of state visit
GOP-sponsored House Bill 1069 would restrict what public schools in the state teach children about health and sexuality
Russia expected to use Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow as show of solidarity against West
A suspect was pulled out of a swamp following a police pursuit in Chalmette, Louisiana, on Thursday, March 16, according to local officials.A post on the St John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office Facebook page said officers were notified of a stolen vehicle on March 16 and, upon arrival in the area, attempted to make a traffic stop on the vehicle, but the driver, identified as Demaurien Taylor of Texas, refused to stop.The officers proceeded to follow the suspect’s vehicle to a pasture in Chalmette, Louisiana, where Taylor and a 15-year-old passenger, also of Texas, exited the vehicle and ran into a swamp in the area, the post said.According to the sheriff’s office, SWAT officers were able to locate both individuals using a fire department drone.Footage posted to the sheriff’s office Facebook page shows officers guiding Taylor through a body of water as his cuffed hands are raised in the air.“Due to Taylor’s location and the logistics of getting him out of the swamp, SWAT officers utilized a high buoyancy swift water rescue vest to provide floatation across the canal,” Sheriff Mike Tregre said. “This provided the safest, most expedient method for getting him out of the water, off the street and into custody.”According to the post, the 15-year-old was charged with resisting an officer by flight, and Taylor was charged with multiple counts, including illegal possession of stolen things. Credit: St John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office via Storyful
Watch as Dominic Raab and Dutch justice minister Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius hold a joint address after an international conference on accountability for war crimes in Ukraine. Last Friday, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin’s arrest, accusing him of bearing personal responsibility for the abduction of children from the war-torn nation.
Putin's meetings with Xi this week come as the Biden administration keeps a close watch on Moscow's warming relationship with Beijing.