The UK is “resolutely committed” to all of its overseas territories, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the Falkland Islands. Stephen Doughty said on Saturday that the sovereignty of the territories is “not up for negotiation”. Keir Starmer defended the UK relinquishing control of the Chagos Islands on…
Muslim and Jewish leaders today unite around an unprecedented joint statement calling the assaults on Israel on 7 October last year “brutal Hamas terrorist attacks” that led to a “devastating war in Gaza and beyond” which together have caused “horrific” human suffering. Joined by the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in the first high-level act…
The Conservative party is more than just 121 MPs. It’s also tens of thousands of ordinary members. The £39 a year they pay to belong might not entitle them to any real say on the party’s policies, but it does give them the right to help select its candidates and, even better, its leader. Quite…
“Here’s how to retire early,” promise TikTok’s financial influencers. But the life hacks offered never cover the most important advice: pick the right parents. Because looking ahead, inheritances will decide who does, and doesn’t, get a decent gap between the carriage clock and grim reaper. Household wealth has surged in Britain in recent decades, to…
David Paterson, the former New York governor, and his stepson were attacked and injured on New York City’s Upper East Side on Friday night, the city police department said. Paterson, 70, and his stepson, Anthony Sliwa, 20, had been walking in the upscale neighborhood at about 8.30pm when they were attacked after a verbal altercation…
A six-year-old girl has been treated in hospital after being bitten by an akita dog in West Sussex. The incident happened in Strand Parade, the Boulevard, Durrington, Worthing, between 4pm and 4.30pm on Thursday. A Sussex police spokesperson said that a 53-year-old woman from Worthing had been arrested on suspicion of being in charge of…
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have begun vaccination against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread to several countries was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization. Some of the 265,000 doses donated to the DRC by the EU and the US were administered in the…
One financial firm is trying to capitalize on preferred stocks – which carry more risks than bonds, but aren’t as risky as common stocks. Infrastructure Capital Advisors Founder and CEO Jay Hatfield manages the Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA). He leads the company’s investing and business development. “High yield bonds and preferred stocks……
One of Labour’s new MPs has defended the decision by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to rule out a wealth tax, claiming it would not have much of an impact. Reeves has previously rejected calls for the tax as a solution to what she says is the £22bn shortfall that is blighting public finances. Torsten Bell,…
Three hospitals in south Lebanon were forced to close on Friday after Israeli bombings struck two and the other ran out of supplies, displacing a number of doctors from the area and creating concerns around the state of the Lebanese health sector. Marjayoun governmental hospital and the Salah Ghandour hospital in Bint Jbeil, large healthcare…
