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Driver admits killing teenager in car crash shortly after his release from Dubai prison
Marcus Fakana, 19, spent about a year in a UAE jail serving sentence for having sex with 17-year-old girlA driver has admitted killing a British teenager in a car crash shortly after the 19-year-old had been released from a Dubai prison sentence for having sex with a 17-year-old girl.Marwaan Mohamed Huseen, 20, was attempting to get away from pursuing Metropolitan police officers when he crashed a BMW into a lorry, killing 19-year-old Marcus Fakana who was one of the vehicle’s passengers. Continue reading...
Vietnam’s Leader Consolidates Power, Pledging ‘New Era of Prosperity’
To Lam, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, will also become president of the nation. His new stature comes with new risks.
Trump supporters back bid to annex Greenland: ‘Our president is a negotiator’
Conservative communities accept president’s arguments for why the US needs Greenland as genuineOwen Strickland’s life as mayor of a town of 568 people between Rocky Mount and Raleigh, North Carolina, is usually small-town politics. But this particular moment has been giving his political science degree – with a concentration in national security policy and international relations – a workout.Donald Trump’s call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world. But the president’s supporters in conservative communities – to the degree that this issue has their attention at all – are apt to accept his political argument as genuine. Continue reading...
Venezuela: In the Shadow of the US
How oil-rich Venezuela fell from 1970s stable democracy to a crisis that led to the January 2026 US raid on Caracas.
Trump's claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line sparks outrage in UK
The US president says Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" - despite 457 UK military deaths in the conflict.
ICE protests: Minnesotans urged not to work or shop in economic blackout over surge of immigration agents – live
Labor unions and progressive organizations have called on workers across the state to stay homeFull report: Economic blackout in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shoppingAhead of the snow storms expected on the US east coast this weekend, the president took to Truth Social to posit how global warming could still exist in the face of adverse weather conditions like these.“Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before,” he wrote. “Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain – WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Continue reading...
What’s It Like to Climb a Skyscraper?
Few climbers take on this niche pursuit, where one mistake could mean death. Three of them talk about its unique mental and physical demands.
Trump ‘wrong’ to diminish role of UK troops and Nato in Afghanistan, says No 10 – UK politics live
PM’s spokesperson says ‘president was wrong to diminish the role of Nato troops, including British forces’Keir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor from returning to parliament after the resignation of a Manchester MP triggered a byelection, Pippa Crerar, Jessica Elgot and Josh Halliday report in their overnight story.In a good analysis, Jess explains why, if Burnham does decide that he wants to return to the Commons as MP for Gorton and Denton in Manchester, he faces a colossal challenge. Continue reading...
‘We have a clear agenda’: the teenager who broke news of Tory MP’s defection to Reform
Charlie Simpson, 15, is part of new generation of self-styled rightwing ‘independent journalists’ and ‘has sources in the [Reform] party’UK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell had been tipped as a potential Reform recruit long before his defection from the Tories last weekend took Westminster by surprise.Yet as he and Nigel Farage basked in the spotlight outside parliament on Monday, more than 200 miles away in the town of Whitby, in Yorkshire, a 15-year-old schoolboy was also savouring the moment. Continue reading...