In a campaign-style performance, Donald Trump delivered the more-than-hour-long finale at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, hitting familiar notes about his election victories, ending the war in Ukraine, US border militarization and what he characterized as the liberation of Washington from “deep-state bureaucrats”. Speaking to an auditorium filled to the brim at National…
Police have discovered human remains on a motorway carriageway near Bristol and have shut parts of two motorways in both directions. A number of drivers called the police and reported seeing something on the road between junctions 20 and 21 of the M4 at 6.40pm on Saturday. Avon and Somerset police officers attended and found…
An Israeli hostage only discovered his fiancee had survived the 7 October attacks after his release on Saturday, Israeli media has reported. Eliya Cohen had spent more than 500 days in captivity fearing his bride-to-be, Ziv Abud, was dead. The last time they had seen each other, they were hiding in a shelter with relatives…
A grenade believed to be more than 25 years old killed two toddlers when it blew up near their homes in rural Cambodia, officials said. The accident happened on Saturday in Siem Reap province’s Svay Leu district, where there had been heavy fighting in the 1980s and 90s between Cambodian government soldiers and rebel guerrillas…
The Vatican has said Pope Francis is in a critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen. Francis has been hospitalised for a week with a complex lung infection. The Vatican said on Saturday that Francis has received blood transfusions after tests showed a condition associated with…
One person has died and two police officers have been seriously injured in a knife attack during a demonstration in eastern France, the local prosecutor has said. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said: “It is without any doubt an act of Islamist terrorism.” Three more officers were lightly wounded when a man attacked local police…
Kash Patel, the newly appointed FBI director, has told senior officials that he plans to relocate 1,000 employees from Washington to field offices across the US, the Associated Press reports, citing an individual familiar with the matter. According to the AP, Patel also said he plans to move an additional 500 employees to a bureau…
Hamas has freed six hostages in the latest exchange with Israel, as heightened tensions between the two sides cast doubt over their fragile ceasefire deal. The six included three Israeli men seized from the Nova music festival and another abducted while visiting his family in southern Israel when militants stormed across the border in the…
BMW Group has paused a £600m investment into a Mini car assembly plant on the outskirts of Oxford, amid a declining demand for electric vehicles. In 2023, the German carmaker, which has owned Mini since 2000, announced the investment to upgrade its Cowley plant for electric production of the Mini. It was supported by government-backed…
A British skier has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff near the Avoriaz ski resort in the French Alps, local officials have confirmed. The body of the 23-year-old man, who has not yet been formally identified, was found on Monday at the bottom of a cliff near the town of Morzine, in…
