3 d. ago Israel signed a record $14 billion in defense deals last year despite Gaza war criticism

Israel says it signed defense contracts worth nearly $15 billion last year, surpassing its all-time record

Economics

5 d. ago Couple whose home was demolished by 'Britain's worst builder' while they were on holiday in a row over money finally get to move into property

The £500,000 property on leafy Guilford Road, in Stoneygate, Leicester, was demolished by the workman back in June 2021 in a row over money while the owners were on holiday.

Society

7 d. ago How 'the worst builder in Britain' demolished a family's £500k home after they refused to pay his bill in a bitter war lasting four years

The summer of 2021 should have been a fresh start for the Kurji family - a new beginning in their freshly renovated dream Leicester home. Instead, it was the start of four years of hell.

Economics

2 w. ago UK government announces 100 new sanctions on Russia days after huge aerial bombardment

Russia carried out the biggest drone onslaught of the war so far on Ukraine last weekend

Politics

4 w. ago Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, vows to continue legal action after jail release

PhD student says she is excited to get back to her studies during what has been a ‘very difficult’ timeA Tufts University student from Turkey has returned to Boston, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she was held for more than six weeks after being arrested for her political speech. Rümeysa Öztürk told reporters at Logan Airport on Saturday that she was excited to get back to her studies during what has been a “very difficult” period. “In the last 45 days, I lost both my freedom and also my education during a crucial time for my doctoral studies,” she said. “But I am so grateful for all the support, kindness and care.” A federal judge ordered Öztürk’s release Friday pending a final decision on her claim that she was illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza.She filed a lawsuit challenging her detention now assigned to US district judge William Session...

Events

4 w. ago If India and Pakistan’s ceasefire holds, the coming weeks will see a new battle: of narratives

As both countries step back from the brink, the animosity generated by decades of dispute still enduresKashmir crisis live – latest updatesJust over 26 years ago, thousands of Pakistani soldiers quietly made their way on to high, rocky ridges on the Indian side of the de facto border that divides the former princely state of Kashmir. The war that this rash operation triggered lasted much of the summer of 1999.Reporting on the conflict was a bizarre experience. In high mountain valleys, at altitudes more suited to mountaineers than soldiers, howitzers hurled massive shells across icy, rocky peaks and infantry readied for bayonet assaults. A Pakistani artillery officer read memoirs of English cricket stars and the Qur’an in his bunker. As spent shrapnel and rock splinters thrown up by incoming Indian shells rattled against the walls of the canvas mess tent, his commander spoke of Pakistan’s “historic national and religious duty” to free Kashmir, partitioned 50 years before, and waited...

Events

4 w. ago Seraphites, Wolves, zombies: unpacking the factions at war in The Last of Us S2

Season two takes part in the battleground of post-apocalyptic Seattle

Events