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Oct 21, 2024 - World

An initial toxicology report for ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died last week after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, showed that he had cocaine in his system after his death, an Argentine official said.

Oct 21, 2024 - World

Kamala Harris has vowed that on her watch as president, Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. But it's not clear how the vice president and Democratic White House hopeful would turn that promise into a reality if she's elected on Nov. 5.

Oct 21, 2024 - World

Intelligence builds that members of Pyongyang’s special forces are in Russia preparing for combat as munitions are also shippedUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, got to the point in his presidential address last night: “Another state,” he said, was “joining the war against Ukraine”. He was referring to the growing intelligence that shows elite soldiers from North Korea are in Russia preparing to join what has become a fight that, in effect, extends all the way across Asia.The effect will be greater than the numbers believed to be involved. On Friday, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported that 1,500 members of Pyongyang’s special forces had crossed the border to Vladivostok in Russia’s far east to begin training and some degree of participation in the war in Ukraine. Continue reading...

Oct 21, 2024 - World

Tropical Storm Oscar is moving across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage

Oct 21, 2024 - World

Analysis from business and trade department says bill will significantly strengthen workers’ right. This live blog is closedIn the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, one of the balloons is popped.’There couldn’t be a more important time for us to have this conversation.The NHS is going through what is objectively the worst crisis in its history, whether it’s people struggling to get access to their GP, dialling 999 and an ambulance not arriving in time, turning up to A&E departments and waiting far too long, sometimes on trolleys in corridors, or going through the ordeal of knowing that you’re waiting for a diagnosis that could be the difference between life and death.We feel really strongly that the best ideas aren’t going to come from politicians in Whitehall.They’re going to come from staff working right across the country and, crucially, patients, because our experiences as patients are also really important to understanding what the future of the NHS needs to be and what it could be with the right ideas. Continue reading...