US president-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), will be in charge of the country’s borders in his new administration. Homan’s areas of control will include “the southern border, the northern border, all maritime, and aviation security”, Trump said in a post on…
A transitional council created to restore democratic order in Haiti has fired its interim prime minister Garry Conille and is set to replace him with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, in a further sign of escalating turmoil in the Caribbean nation. The decision, outlined in a decree by the council that was seen by the Associated…
A New South Wales police officer who allegedly tasered a 95-year-old great-grandmother has formally pleaded not guilty to a charge of manslaughter in a Sydney court. Sen Const Kristian James Samuel White, 34, spoke only to enter his plea in the NSW supreme court on Monday morning. White allegedly tasered Clare Nowland – who suffered…
A man has died after being crushed beneath a turbine blade while working at a regional Victorian windfarm. Victoria police said the man was working at Golden Plains windfarm on Bells Road in Rokewood, about 133km west of Melbourne and 69km north-west of Geelong. He was crushed by the blade shortly after 8am on Monday….
Expectations that UK interest rates may stay higher for longer, as well as revenue-raising measures in the budget, have prompted a leading estate agent to cut its forecast for house price growth over the longer term. The revised forecast from Hamptons came days after Halifax and Nationwide banks said the annual rate of property price…
Judith Jamison, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who for two decades was artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died on Saturday in New York, at the age of 81. Her death came after a brief illness, according to a post on the company’s Instagram page. Jamison grew up in Philadelphia and began…
A New York parks employee died battling one of a number of wildfires in New Jersey and New York amid dry conditions that have prompted air quality warnings in both states, authorities said on Sunday. The Eastern Dutchess county fire and rescue said the New York state forestry service reported that the worker died when…
One person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama on Sunday, the fourth reported shooting at homecoming events across the US within the last three weeks. The Tuskegee shooting occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning. The person who was killed was not affiliated with the…
A British man has been killed while fighting in Ukraine for the country’s foreign volunteer platoon. Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, had travelled to the country to join the fight against Russia despite his family’s pleas for him not to. His father, Steven Draper, paid tribute to his son, a former NHS worker from Gunnislake in Cornwall,…
Nine boats carrying 572 people have been intercepted while attempting to cross the Channel, according to the Home Office. The latest crossings come after Keir Starmer announced plans to tackle what he described as the “national security threat” of people smugglers, pledging an extra £75m and a new team of detectives. The arrivals on Saturday…
