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Dec 6, 2025 - World

Eleven years of overpayments leave 63-year-old facing hardship and return to full-time workA retired civil servant faces being forced back into full-time work after being ordered to return £25,000 in overpaid pension benefits.Derek Ritchie, 63, was informed in March by scheme administrators that his payments had been miscalculated since 2014. Continue reading...

Dec 6, 2025 - World

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's recently concluded two-day visit to India was about reimagining relationships between New Delhi and Moscow.

Dec 6, 2025 - World

Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillorNigel Farage is emboldening attacks on people of colour, according to a journalist allegedly subjected to racial slurs by a Reform UK council leader who the party has been forced to expel.The broadcaster Sangita Myska, whose long career in British journalism has included presenting shows for the BBC and LBC Radio, said she was told by the former Staffordshire council leader Ian Cooper that she was English “only in your dreams”, because of her south Asian heritage. Continue reading...

Dec 6, 2025 - World

Police launch ‘manhunt’ after 25 people are shot in early morning Saulsville township attackGunmen have stormed into a hostel in South Africa’s capital and killed at least 11 people, including a three-year-old child, and injured more than a dozen others.Police said they had launched a “manhunt” for three people and were investigating whether the killings were linked to a bar within the hostel that may have been selling alcohol illegally. The attack is the latest in a series of mass shootings in the country of 63 million people, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Continue reading...

Dec 6, 2025 - World

Four people arrested after apparent protest against UK inequality claimed by civil-resistance group Take Back Power The Tower of London has been closed to visitors on a busy Saturday after food was thrown at a display case containing the crown jewels in an apparent protest against inequality in the UK.Four people were arrested after the action, which was claimed by Take Back Power – a self-described new non-violent civil-resistance group. It said custard and apple crumble was flung at the case, which contained the imperial state crown. Continue reading...