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Andy Burnham has said he would take his responsibilities to fund the defence investment plan “extremely seriously” if he becomes prime minister.The plan, published on Tuesday, provided a £15bn spending boost to defence but is projected to leave the next prime minister with a £4.7bn funding gap to fill.Burnham told LBC he had not seen all of the details of the plan prior to its publication but insisted there would be “no compromise on the security of the nation”. The Makerfield MP also rejected attacks on his economic stance, insisting he would not be “indisciplined” on public finances.He has faced…
Mickey Blank, a celebrity photographer who has been working in New York for over 10 years, told BBC Newsbeat that Madison Square Garden is currently surrounded by members of the press but there’s not actually much to see.Despite rumours of a red-carpet reception for the expected A-list guests, Blank said she’s not expecting a parade of big-name arrivals.”It’s like Pentagon-level secrecy,” she said.”You cannot go in, you cannot see anything.””They have an underground parking lot. All the high-profile guests are expected to arrive underground.”The same applies to seeing Swift herself. “Your chances of seeing Taylor Swift are, like, lower than…
A former US Olympian has been charged with vandalising the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after authorities say he was seen reaching into the water after renovations to the pool.President Donald Trump blamed vandals for the peeling of newly applied coating on the bottom of the attraction in Washington, DC.David “Davey” Hearn, 67, a three-time Olympic canoeist, previously told the BBC he did not do anything wrong, but was detained by the pool’s edge as he was finishing a long bike ride.US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a press conference on Thursday that he caused $1,000 worth of damage.Pirro said Hearn…
As RSF troops encircle the strategic Sudanese city, half a million trapped civilians face mass atrocities.The UN Human Rights Council is scheduled to hold an urgent debate on Friday about the crisis in el-Obeid, the capital of Sudan’s North Kordofan state. International groups fear it is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) tighten their siege on the city.With attack drones raining down on civilian areas and military reinforcements massing outside the city, there are mounting concerns of more mass killings by RSF forces as seen in el-Fasher.The strategic importance of el-ObeidThe city is…
McMahon said the government wanted to “close the loophole” in the 1971 act, but said legal advice was needed to say whether any change could apply retrospectively and therefore allow Ahmed to be deported.The BBC understands the government is considering whether the 1971 law could be changed through an amendment to the Immigration and Asylum Bill, which is currently making its way through Parliament.Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told the BBC he was planning to lay his own amendment to the bill to remove the provisions preventing Ahmed’s removal.He said McMahon and Waugh had “both agreed with me that…
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced she and her department are leaving Elon Musk’s X platform.Explaining her decision in what seemingly will be her last post on X, external, Nandy said the platform “isn’t healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it”. “A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate,” she wrote.The culture department becomes the second government department to stop using X after the attorney general’s office, while several MPs also left the platform earlier this year over reports its AI tool was being…
A businessman accused of commissioning the murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia spent more than €400,000 (£343,000) on legal fees for the hitmen convicted of her killing, prosecutors claim.Yorgen Fenech, the 44-year-old heir to one of Malta’s largest fortunes, arrived in court for the second day of his trial on Thursday in an unmarked armoured police vehicle. He is on house arrest having pledged a record bail estimated at €50m.Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist who had exposed corruption at the highest levels, was killed in a car bombing in October 2017. Three men have been convicted for planting…
Former Ukrainian soldier accused of ‘war crime’ and leading a team of divers to blow up Nord Stream pipelines.By Al Jazeera Staff and ReutersPublished On 2 Jul 20262 Jul 2026A court in Germany has charged a former Ukrainian army officer with taking part in a war crime over the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline blasts, accusing him of acting on behalf of Ukrainian state authorities.Prosecutors filed charges against a man, identified as Serhii K under German privacy rules, at a regional court in the German city of Hamburg on Thursday.They accused the suspect of being part of a group which…
On Tuesday, Hedges – Welsh Labour’s culture spokesperson – used a question to First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth to ask what actions the government was taking to improve animal welfare.After ap Iorwerth said it would “develop a science-led animal health and welfare plan” for the country, Hedges said it reflected badly on society if “we allow animals to be mistreated, either by ignorance or cruelty”. Hedges suggested several reforms, including microchipping cats, bans on tethering horses, owning primates, cage breeding of game birds and ending the use of Larsen traps – spring-door wire cages used to catch birds like magpies…