Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage told BBC Radio WM’s Ed James he believed his party had forced Birmingham City Council’s ruling Labour group to release a statement saying there was a prospective end to Birmingham’s bin strike saga. The council’s Labour leader John Cotton said on Monday an end to the action was “within sight”,…
NewsFeed Afghan students have described the moment a missile hit their university. Officials blame Pakistan for Monday’s attack on Kunar Province which killed at least seven people. Pakistan denies responsibility, but in prior attacks has accused Taliban leaders of harbouring anti-Pakistan fighters. Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social…
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey told BBC Radio WM’s Ed James he was sceptical about the timing of a prospective end to Birmingham’s bin strike saga. Birmingham City Council’s Labour leader John Cotton said yesterday an end to the action was “within sight”, with a new offer to be put to striking workers. Sir…
A rare joint offensive by Tuareg separatists and militants linked to Al Qaeda in Mali over the weekend represented a major setback for the West African country’s military regime and its Russian paramilitary partners. No death toll has been confirmed by the two groups that claimed responsibility for the attacks: JNIM, the Qaeda-linked group; and…
The U.S. military attacked a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing two people and raising the death toll to at least 182 in the campaign against people the United States accuses of smuggling drugs at sea. Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps, the head of the Southern Command, ordered the…
Aoun said preserving Lebanese sovereignty over all of its territory was his top priority, and that Lebanese negotiators would seek an end to Israeli attacks, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, release of Lebanese prisoners in Israel, deployment of Lebanese troops along the Israeli border, and the beginning of reconstruction process, according to a…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Palestine Action activists who have been on hunger strike for months while awaiting trial for alleged break-ins or criminal damage are dying, according…
Shorouk Express While politicians wrangle over Trump’s peace plan, soldiers are still dying, says Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, the Academy award winning director of 20 Days in Mariupol, gave The Independent an insight into morale on the frontline after the limited release of his latest documentary, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, put him straight on the…
Nvidia is playing fast and loose with its war chest as it looks to build on its momentum as the chief benefactor of the AI boom. The company on Tuesday signed a €1 billion ($1.15 billion) partnership with Deutsche Telekom to set up an “AI factory” in Munich that aims to boost Germany’s AI computing…
Shorouk Express Ukrainian drones set fire to Russian port and oil tanker, Moscow says A Ukrainian drone attack set ablaze the Russian port of Tuapse and an oil tanker, the administration of Russia’s southern region of Krasnodar said today. “In the port of Tuapse, fragments of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) fell on an oil tanker,…
