The Bank of England is poised to cut interest rates on Thursday despite a growing divide between its policymakers over the dangers to the economy from high inflation and rising unemployment. In a development that will ease pressure on households and businesses, City forecasters expect the central bank to announce...
Ireland presses Haiti over orphanage kidnapping
An Irish missionary and three-year-old child are among eight people taken by gunmen who stormed the place. Ireland’s foreign ministry has called on Haitian authorities to ensure “everything is done” to secure the release of a group of people, including an Irish missionary and a three-year-old child, taken by gunmen...
FBI report disproves Trump’s claim of a Biden-era out-of-control crime wave
When Donald Trump fought for and won the 2024 presidential election, his victory was built partly on the false assertion that Democrats were responsible for an out-of-control crime wave in the US, with murders and rapes at record highs. Figures released by the FBI on Tuesday, however, confirm that the...
Man who lit cigarette from French war memorial flame faces legal action
A French minister has said she is taking legal action against an unidentified man who was filmed lighting a cigarette from a memorial flame at a major Paris war monument. The video of a man stooping to light a cigarette from the fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
Prince Harry among those criticised in report on dispute at Sentebale charity
Watchdog says all parties, including trustees, patrons and chair Sophie Chandauka, should not have had row in public. The Charity Commission has criticised Prince Harry for allowing a row with the chair of his African charity to “play out publicly”, as the watchdog cleared him of racism. The prince was...
Miner Glencore keeps UK Base
Company, which has reported 37% drop in profits, says switch would not present value for shareholders Glencore said its first-half performance was an “overall solid result, against a macroeconomic environment that was heavily influenced by US tariff policy uncertainty and tensions in the Middle East”. Nagle described the company’s performance...
UK to bear transport costs of ‘one in, one out’ asylum seeker deal with France
Treaty can be ended by either side at a month’s notice and France can refuse returns on certain grounds. The UK will pay the costs of transporting asylum seekers to and from France under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal with Emmanuel Macron, it has emerged. The deal will...
Karol Nawrocki set to become Poland’s next president
'No to illegal migration, no to euro,' Nawrocki outlines his presidency in punchy speech. 42-year-old Nawrocki narrowly won the presidential election in June, defying the polls and beating the Oxford-educated liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski who was widely regarded as the clear favourite to replace the conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda...
BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil
Company to carry out more tests on its Santos basin find as it continues shift from renewables back to fossil fuels. BP has made its largest oil and gas discovery of the past 25 years off the coast of Brazil as it continues to shift its focus away from renewables...
30 years after the Bosnian War
The efforts of international organizations, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a deeply divided country, split between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. "This is where I found peace," said Zejnil Halilovic, standing in front of his former neighbors' abandoned house. The building was now just a concrete skeleton, slowly being swallowed by vegetation,...