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Dec 5, 2025 - World

Starmer hails child poverty strategy as a ‘moral mission’ which will include measures to help with childcare and getting families out of temporary housingReaders may be aware, going into the weekend, that Edinburgh airport had to temporarily suspend flights this morning due to technical issues.The delays lasted about an hour. A report here: Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Four killed in attack on boat in eastern Pacific as questions continue over earlier double strikePentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in PacificPer the White House schedule, the president will be at the Fifa World Cup drawing at the Kennedy Center at 11.40am ET. He’ll also be signing executive orders at 3pm in the Oval Office (currently closed press but if it changes we’ll let you know). And at 8pm, Trump and first lady Melania will attend a concert by Andrea Bocelli in the East Room (also closed press).Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota congresswoman, has said Donald Trump is lashing out at her and her community with bigotry because he “knows he is failing”.While the president wastes his time attacking my community, my state, my governor and me, the promises of economic prosperity he made in his run for president last year have not come to fruition. Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

‘I deny everything,’ Macron said when asked about a leaked transcript of his call with KyivRussia and India will reshape their defence ties to take account of New Delhi’s push for self-reliance, the two countries said in a joint statement after a summit between president Putin and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.“In response to India’s aspirations for self-reliance, the partnership is currently being reoriented toward joint research and development, as well as the production of advanced defence platforms,” the statement said. Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protestsA tenured professor at San José State University in California is fighting for her job after the university fired her last month over her pro-Palestinian activism – the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.Sang Hea Kil, a longtime member of the university’s justice studies department and a faculty adviser for its students for justice in Palestine chapter, is the latest in a growing list of university professors and staff who have been suspended, investigated, and in some cases dismissed or forced out in connection to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that swept US campuses in the first year of Israel’s war in Gaza. Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

A huge section of a highway collapsed and turned into a massive sinkhole in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The road, damaged likely due to recent flash floods and landslides, gave way suddenly, creating a 20-30 metre wide gap separating the two ends.