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THE END of Birmingham’s long-running bin strike may be in sight – leaving the question: why on earth did the Labour Council take so long to settle the dispute? The problems began in September 2023 when Birmingham City Council effectively ...

US President Donald Trump and other key politicians were swiftly evacuated by security staff from the White House Correspondents’ Annual Dinner as a noise rang out which may have been gunshots. Whether the noise was a shooting or another loud ...

FOR SEVERAL days it seemed that US President Donald Trump had retracted his threat to escalate the war on Iran by bombing its civil infrastructure – in favour of negotiating a settlement. Now the talks are off. Hopes were first ...

THE BANK of England has predicted that global stock market are about to fall. With unusual candour, it has warned that share prices are too high and do not reflect the risks that the global economy is facing. The view ...

KEIR STARMER has told the House of Commons why he did not know that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting. MPs listened in an atmosphere which veered between stony indifference and incandescent outrage. At the outrage end, two MPs ...

IT’S A CEASEFIRE in Israel’s attack on Lebanon, starting at 10pm UK time tonight. It’s talks too, as US President Donald Trump invites both parties to the White House. It’s about time we saw a ceasefire. This ceasefire is not ...

IT’S ESCALATION. That is how US President Donald Trump is going to deal with the collapse of peace talks with Iran. We say “peace talks” – but as Trump gave them a single day, they were more a case of ...

THE USA has left Islamabad after 21 hours of talks with Iran – moaning that Iran had not agreed to its “final and best offer”. Iran has stated that the USA came in with “excessive demands”. Iran has also reported ...

PREPARING for the talks that are supposed to lead to peace in the Middle East has sounded like four boxers winding each other up as they prepare to enter the ring for the main and the warm-up fights. The Main ...

NO-ONE SAW that coming. Since the fragile Iran/USA ceasefire began, Israel has been claiming that the agreement didn’t apply to them. They announced their intention to continue bombing Lebanon. Iran responded calmly, saying that if the ceasefire didn’t apply to ...