Search for bodies of Italian divers in Maldives cave suspended due to bad weather AP NewsFive Italians die during cave scuba dive in Maldives BBC5 Italian tourists dead after exploring underwater caves in Maldives Globa…
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
Trump administration move echoes indictment of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro as fuel crisis racks CubaTensions between Cuba and US seem set to rise further amid reports that
Raúl Castro, the country’s 94-year-old former president, may soon face the type…
UK joins European deal to send rejected asylum seekers to third-country hubs
All 46 Council of Europe members sign agreement ‘deplored’ by human rights organisationsThe UK and 45 other European countries have signed an agreement that explicitly endorses plans to send unwanted asylum seekers to third country hubs.A political dec…
Trump went big on tech stocks in first quarter of 2026, new filings show
President Trump bought shares of Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Broadcom, Motorola and Dell worth millions, new ethics disclosure filings show.
Tennessee Democrat ends re-election bid after map redrawing carves up his district
New map reshapes representative Steve Cohen’s majority-Black Memphis district and gives advantage to RepublicansDemocratic representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee on Friday announced that he is ending his bid for re-election, his career upended by the …
From Blair to Burnham, jogging as political metaphor has just run and run
The mayor of Greater Manchester is the latest in a long line of politicians to try to show he’s on the right track … etcPoliticians, as we know, love a metaphor. But do they have to be so literal? No sooner had the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnha…
A test for Ukraine, a dilemma for Zelensky: What’s at stake in the Andriy Yermak corruption probe
The arrest of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former right-hand man Andriy Yermak Thursday in connection to a corruption scandal comes as a major test for both the Ukrainian government and the country’s independent anti-corruption agencies. Yer…
Hantavirus: how scared should we be?
Three deaths linked to a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship have revived memories of COVID-19. What has the world lear
Texas high court rejects removal of Democratic lawmakers who led quorum revolt over redistricting
Gov. Abbott and state Republicans wanted to severely punish the more than 50 Democrats who temporarily bolted from Texas in a bid to stop a vote on the maps during a special legislative session
Meningitis outbreak in Berkshire causes panic in three schools
A student’s death from meningitis at Henley College has prompted health officials to investigate links to Reading Blue Coat and Highdown Secondary schools. While the Berkshire strain differs from the Kent outbreak, authorities are providing precautiona…