Rescuers in Chile are continuing to search for four miners trapped in a mine that collapsed after an earthquake two days ago, after the body of one was found. The state-owned Codelco company said that human remains have been found at its El Teniente copper mine, about 70km (43 miles) south-east of the capital Santiago. […]
Imogen Foulkes Geneva correspondent BBC In a small village in Switzerland’s beautiful Loetschental valley, Matthias Bellwald walks down the main street and is greeted every few steps by locals who smile or offer a handshake or friendly word. Mr Bellwald is a mayor, but this isn’t his village. Two months ago his home, three miles […]
Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Pavlo experienced drone warfare. “You are being hunted,” he said. In a cramped apartment in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Pavlo, a 30-year-old drone operator who had recently returned from the front, unzipped a black case about the size of a pizza box. Inside, there was a four-rotor drone he […]
Newsportu’s Scott Simon asks Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., about Bacon’s trip to Mexico to foster cooperation in ongoing trade talks. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Trade negotiations with Mexico continue in spite of the updated tariff rates on dozens of trading partners announced by the White House Thursday. That same day, President Trump spoke with Mexican President […]
Mohammad Sartaj Alam Tetgama, Bihar BBC The five members of a family who were lynched by a mob in Bihar Warning: This story contains details that some may find disturbing. Three weeks after five members of a family in India were brutally killed and allegedly burned alive amid accusations of the practice of witchcraft, the […]
Rights group says perpetrators ‘must be held to account’, a year after 24 people killed during cost of living protests. The Nigerian government has failed to ensure accountability after police used deadly force to disperse mass 2024 demonstrations against soaring living costs, Amnesty International has said on the first anniversary of the protests. In a […]
BBC It had been the NHS’s longest-running and bitterest pay dispute – responsible for hundreds of thousands of cancelled operations and appointments. And then, suddenly, word came on Monday that the British Medical Association was recommending that its 50,000 junior doctor members accept a fresh offer from the new government. It sounded almost too good […]
Covid Inquiry Tamsin Mullen was giving evidence to the Covid inquiry about the impact on maternity services A mother of premature twins has told the Covid inquiry she did not feel like she was treated as a parent after giving birth in the early stages of the pandemic. Tamsin Mullen said she was kept in […]
Getty Images Intensive-care units came under severe strain during Covid, the inquiry has heard (stock photo) At least one NHS trust put in place a blanket “do-not-resuscitate” order for sick patients in the pandemic, the Covid inquiry has heard. It would mean individuals were considered ineligible for potentially lifesaving CPR, solely on the basis of […]
An urgent review is needed to make sure people in England can get weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro on the NHS, top experts warn. It comes a day after the prime minister said such injections could boost Britain’s economy by getting obese unemployed people “back into work”. More than 200 doctors and […]