Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank now taken over by Elon Musk’s unofficial “department of government efficiency”, received email notices of their mass firing late Friday, the latest step in the Trump administration’s government downsizing. The emails, sent to personal accounts because most staff members had lost…
The chair of a charity set up by Prince Harry has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” after he and several others quit the organisation earlier this week. The Duke of Sussex was said to have initiated the campaign by the “unleashing of the Sussex machine”. Dr Sophie Chandauka, the chair of the…
The parents of a nine-year-old girl have said they were held at a police station for 11 hours because they complained about their daughter’s primary school. Maxie Allen and his partner, Rosalind Levine, said they were arrested and detained on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications and causing a nuisance on school property. The couple said…
The leaders of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies are leaving their positions after the center faced accusations of anti-Israel bias. The departures come as the Trump administration scrutinizes institutions that have had pro-Palestinian protests over the last year. Earlier this week, Columbia’s president announced she would step down after Trump targeted the university…
Hamas has allegedly agreed to free five living Israeli hostages in exchange for a 50-day ceasefire, as the militant group released a video of a hostage making an appeal for his freedom. Hamas’s chief, Khalil al-Hayya, reportedly said on Saturday that the militant group expressed willingness to release the five hostages over the Muslim holiday…
A US citizen detained in Afghanistan in February by the Taliban administration has been released, the former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said on Saturday. “American citizen Faye Hall, just released by the Taliban, is now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul, and will soon be on her…
Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand. More than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house at 7.15pm, according to a statement by the Quakers. “No one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting…
A rapper signed to fellow lyricists Future and Waka Flocka Flame died on his 39th birthday in his home town of Atlanta after injuring his leg while running from police and jumping fences, according to authorities as well as multiple media reports. The death of 39-year-old Young Scooter, born Kenneth Edward Bailey, was confirmed by…
Three people have died after a fire at a Grade II-listed former railway station in a village in Northamptonshire. Police, fire and ambulance services were called at about 10.30pm on Friday to reports of a large blaze at a property in Beswick Close in Rushton, near Kettering. Three people were later confirmed to have died,…
The wife of the US defense secretary Pete Hegseth attended two meetings with foreign defense officials during which sensitive information was discussed, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s report on Hegseth arrived late on Friday as he faced scrutiny for detailing plans of a military strike in a group…
