Month: January 2022

Getty Images A 35-year-old man has been found guilty of stalking British number one tennis player Emma Raducanu. Amrit Magar from Edgware was convicted at Bromley Magistrates’ Court on Friday and will be sentenced at a later date. Magar was captured on door camera footage at the 19-year-old player’s south London home, where she lives

Reuters One of the last public memorials in Hong Kong to those killed in the Tiananmen protests has been covered up. The calligraphy – painted on the pavement of a bridge – paid tribute to the pro-democracy protesters killed by Chinese authorities in Beijing in 1989. It was covered with metal on Saturday by the

Reuters Top US General Mark Milley has said that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be “horrific” and would lead to a significant number of casualties. Gen Milley described the build-up of 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine’s border as the largest since the Cold War. But US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said conflict could still

Getty Images Boris Johnson will telephone Russian President Vladimir Putin and visit Eastern Europe in the coming days as the UK steps up its diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukraine border crisis. No 10 said the PM would repeat the need for Russia to “engage diplomatically” when he speaks to Mr Putin this week. He

Getty Images A Scottish hymn, said to be Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite, has been dropped from India’s annual Republic Day celebrations, as part of what the government says is an “ongoing process of decolonising India”. The decision to stop playing the Christian hymn Abide with Me at the Beating Retreat ceremony, which honours the country’s armed

Reuters Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the West not to create panic amid the build-up of Russian troops on his country’s borders. He told reporters that warnings of an imminent invasion were putting Ukraine’s economy at risk. On Thursday, US President Joe Biden said he believed Russia could attack its neighbour next month.

Getty Images Some of the nurses and doctors at the biggest hospital in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region are having to beg for food to feed themselves, one of the medics has told the BBC. They have not been paid for eight months, forcing them to find other ways of supporting their families, he said. The

Getty Images Ever tried doing a jigsaw which has half the pieces missing? It’s frustrating. It’s confusing. You never see the full picture. Welcome to the world of Kremlin politics. Puzzling out what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning is challenging, to say the least. That’s how the Kremlin likes it: keeping everyone guessing. What

Reuters The Metropolitan Police has asked senior civil servant Sue Gray to make “minimal reference” to events they are investigating in her report. Ms Gray’s inquiry into lockdown parties in Downing Street had been due to be released this week. But the Met has asked her to leave out details of parties they are investigating

Reuters US President Joe Biden has warned there is a “distinct possibility” Russia might invade Ukraine next month, the White House says. Russia meanwhile says it sees “little ground for optimism” in resolving the crisis after the US rejected Russia’s main demands. The build-up of tens of thousands of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders in