•Strait of Hormuz Six major international powers, including Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, said yesterday they were ready “to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz”. “We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning,” the grouping — which also includes Italy and...
•Migrants travel in an inflatable boat across the English Channel Britain and Rwanda crossed swords at an international court today, with Kigali seeking more than £100 million it says London still owes from a scrapped deal to deport migrants. Officials from the two countries clashed in the oak-panelled Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in T...
•UK flag The British health minister today described a deadly outbreak of meningitis linked to a nightclub as “unprecedented” after two students died and 13 people were hospitalised. Health Minister Wes Streeting told parliament that the outbreak was “rapidly developing situation” with the number of confirmed cases rising to 15, reports AFP. T...
•Tinubu jets out A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, today took a swipe at President Bola Tinubu, describing the president’s state visit to the United Kingdom on the heels of renewed bombings in Maiduguri, as “callous, indefensible and morally bankrupt.” In a statement today,...
•Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (C) The California-based Prince Harry today called on people not to forget military veterans, as he expressed his enduring pride at being British. Harry made his comments ahead of Britain’s annual commemoration of its war dead on Sunday, reports AFP. The prince, who did two tours of duty in […]...
•Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer Keir Starmer today promised to “rebuild Britain” as he took office as the UK’s new prime minister following his centre-left Labour party’s landslide general election victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Head of state King Charles III asked Starmer to form a government during a meeting at ...

