Heathrow Airport Is Briefly Locked Down After Spray Is Used in Altercation
One man was arrested after a substance that appeared to be pepper spray was used during a fight in one of the airport’s parking garages, the police said.
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Benin coup attempt foiled by loyalist troops, interior minister says
A presidential adviser has told the BBC that President Talon is safe and is at the French embassy.
Your Party’s Sultana suggests ‘electoral alliances’ could help stop Farage – UK politics live
Sultana says Labour party has ‘left the scene’ as she says she ‘gets on really well’ with Greens’ PolanskiRounding up his interview, Trevor Phillips asked Helen Whately about the Guardian’s investigation into Nigel Farage’s alleged racist and antisemitic behaviour as a teenager towards fellow Dulwich college pupils. She suggested that the Reform leader appears not to be giving “straight answers” when asked about his past behaviour, and ruled out any pact with Farage’s party at the next general election.“He needs to give people a straight answer,” Whately said.The number one reason why people, young people, are becoming Neet – not in employment, education or training – is because they’re moving on to sickness benefits. Yet we just saw a few months ago where Labour was attempting to make some reforms to this problem (people going on to sickness benefits). They u-turned, they abandoned their reforms. Continue reading...
Sydney Sweeney says her silence over jeans advert backlash ‘widened the divide’
Actor speaks out over controversy around American Eagle advert in the summer that critics say flirted with eugenicsThe actor Sydney Sweeney has said she should have addressed the controversy surrounding her American Eagle jeans advert, which was accused by critics of flirting with eugenics, saying not doing so “widened the divide” between people.Sweeney, who made her name in HBO’s Euphoria and has since become a leading Hollywood star, told People magazine she regretted staying silent during the row, in which Donald Trump at one point intervened. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer says ‘hugely talented’ Angela Rayner will return to cabinet
PM gives clearest indication yet of comeback, calling former deputy ‘the best social mobility story’ the country has seenUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has predicted that Angela Rayner will return to the cabinet, calling his former deputy, who resigned in September after underpaying stamp duty on a property purchase, “hugely talented”.In an interview with the Observer, the prime minister described Rayner, who left school aged 16 without any qualifications, as “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen”. Continue reading...
Trump vows to slam America’s doors shut as he heaps scorn on immigrants
National guard shooting prompts extraordinary outburst and targeting of people from startling range of countriesWhen the history of Donald Trump’s second presidency is written, 26 November 2025 may well go down as a particular landmark.On the eve of Thanksgiving, a lone gunman shot two West Virginia national guards, Sarah Beckstrom, and Andrew Wolfe, as they were on patrol outside Washington DC’s Farragut West metro station, a short walk from the White House – and thereby opened the floodgates to a wave of racist and anti-immigrant invective that seemed extreme even for Trump. Continue reading...
Alabama: Woman who alleged priest paid her for sex beginning at 17 says there’s ‘no real winner’ after his resignation
Heather Jones, now 33, went public with allegations after Robert Sullivan continued to work with childrenThe woman who publicly alleged that she was 17 when a longtime Roman Catholic priest in Alabama successfully offered her financial support in exchange for sex and other forms of private companionship – recently prompting him to resign from the clergy – says “there is no real winner in this situation”.In her first remarks since Robert “Bob” Sullivan’s self-imposed removal from the priesthood was announced by his church superiors, Heather Jones wrote in a statement that the only thing she gained was “truth finally coming to light after years of gaslighting myself into thinking it wasn’t a big deal”. Continue reading...
Nigel Farage should apologise after racism allegations, says former watchdog head
Kishwer Falkner says Reform leader should apologise to people who say he targeted them at school, even if he rejects being deliberately racistNigel Farage should offer an unreserved apology to people who allege he targeted them with racist or antisemitic behaviour while at school, the outgoing head of the government’s equalities watchdog has said.Kishwer Falkner, a crossbench peer who has just completed five years as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said that even if the Reform UK leader rejected the allegation that he had been deliberately racist, he could nonetheless apologise to people who said they had been deeply hurt by his actions. Continue reading...
Qatar’s PM calls for inclusive engagement to achieve elusive regional peace
Prime minister highlights Qatar as a safe space for mediating peace and fostering regional stability.
Killing of journalists “likely to become more common”
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