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FCDO The UK has named Christian Turner as its new ambassador to the US, Downing Street has confirmed. Turner has spent a nearly 30-year career working across Whitehall and the…
Billionaire Jared Isaacman Confirmed As Nasa Chief After Turbun Nomination
Billionaire investor Jared Isaacman has been confirmed to be Nasa’s next chief, capping an unusual nomination process where President Donald Trump put his name forward, withdrew it, and then renominated…
Employment Rights Bill clears last parliamentary hurdle
Rachel ClunBusiness reporter Getty Images Labour’s flagship workers’ rights bill has passed its last parliamentary hurdle and is set to become law before Christmas. Conservative peer Lord Sharpe, the shadow…
Iran Nobel laureate taken to hospital after ‘violent arrest’
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi was taken to hospital after being beaten when she was arrested last week, her family says. The 53-year-old human rights activist told them…
Belarusian prisoners celebrate release after US lifts sanctions
Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent, Vilnius, Lithuania ‘It’s like coming up from the depth of the ocean’, Ales Bialiatski tells BBC Rumours of a major prisoner release from Belarus…
Two US soldiers and interpreter killed by Islamic State gunman in Syria, US military says
Two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter have been killed in Syria in an ambush by a lone Islamic State gunman, the US military has said. Officials said three…
Sandie Peggie tribunal judgement to be amended in fake quote row
The judgement in the tribunal of a nurse suspended from her job in a row over trans women using single-sex changing rooms has been amended following complaints a quote used…
Nobel Peace Prize winner’s daughter accepts award on her behalf
María Corina Machado’s daughter accepts Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf The daughter of María Corina Machado, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has said her mother is…
Former children’s commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield to lead grooming gangs inquiry
A former children’s commissioner will chair the government’s inquiry into grooming gangs. Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry, which was derailed in October when four women resigned from its…
Joey Barton handed suspended sentence over offensive X posts
Lynette HorsburghNorth West PA Media Joey Barton has been ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work in the community and pay more than £20,000 in costs Former footballer Joey…
