UK hit by ambulance strikes and secondary school teacher walkouts
Thousands of ambulance staff in England and Wales and a number of secondary school teachers in Scotland have walked out in disputes over pay and conditions.
Thousands of ambulance staff in England and Wales and a number of secondary school teachers in Scotland have walked out in disputes over pay and conditions.
Earlier China said the balloon was a weather research ‘airship’ that had been blown off course
President Joe Biden says he “ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible”
John Bercow tells Nigel Farage 'grotesque blunder' of Brexit is 'nonsense on stilts'GB News
Yes voters fell from 53% to 47% when compared to a similar survey carried out in December.
Sputnik/Evgeniy Paulin/KremlinRussia’s military is preparing for heavy losses ahead in a new offensive, according to a source apparently stationed at a Russian military headquarters in Ukraine, Novaya Gazeta reported.Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to send tens of thousands of men to war in Ukraine knowing very well that he is going to make them into “minced meat,” the source said.The source accused the Russian military of not taking any dangers of the offensive into account and pr
Households could be fined for using their wood-burning stoves without realising they are breaking rules, campaigners have warned.
Sadiq Khan has been warned that Home Counties rebels could shrink the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (Ulez) expansion area by blocking signs alerting drivers that they are entering the zone.
Germany has given the green light for the export of Leopard 1 battle tanks to Ukraine in a €100 million deal to bolster Kyiv’s defences.
Former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said all of Ukraine 'will burn' after the West pledged to supply Kyiv with more sophisticated weapons.
"It's very difficult with what we have, because what we have was not meant to shoot down balloons," a former naval aviator told Insider.
Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Chase Doak/Reuters and ELIZABETH FRANTZ/ReutersThe United States shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean Saturday at approximately 2:40 p.m. ET on Saturday, Feb. 4.The balloon was taken down as it floated over the Atlantic Ocean east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.An operation is now underway to recover debris from the balloon, which had been flying at about 60,000 feet.Less than an hour earlier, two anonymous U.S. officials told the Associ
Donald Trump has previously hailed the U.K.'s departure from the European Union as a "great thing" for Britain and for business.
Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) mocks Democrats for being "triggered" by his assault rifle lapel pins. Twitter wags noted he looked pretty triggered by Jan. 6 violence.
THE political past is catching up with Rishi Sunak and could help determine his future as Prime Minister. As he sits in his Downing St bunker, the PM could be forgiven for thinking will he ever wake up from what he last week dubbed a “nightmare job”.
A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia's war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett emerged as an unlikely intermediary in the war's first weeks, becoming one of the few Western leaders to meet President Vladimir Putin during the war in a snap trip to Moscow last March. While Bennett's mediation efforts appear to have done little to end the bloodshed that continues until today, his remarks, in an interview posted online late Saturday, shed light on the backroom diplomacy and urgent efforts that were underway to try to bring the conflict to a speedy conclusion in its early days.
Ukraine is warning that a major Russian offensive is imminent – and that the next few months will be crucial in deciding the course of the war. Whether this caution is justified or not, it's clear that the invasion has not gone according to plan and Moscow's archaic military tactics have been exposed. Despite initially gaining traction, the Russian forces were pushed back and their efforts to secure full control of the entire Donbas area in eastern Ukraine stalled.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy revoked the citizenship of several former influential politicians on Saturday in the latest of steps to "cleanse" the country from pro-Russian influences. "Today, I signed the relevant documents to take another step to protect and cleanse our state from those on the side of the aggressor," Zelenskiy said during his nightly video address. Zelenskiy would not list the names, but said they had dual Russian citizenship.
Average house price last month was £258,297