Reuters By Tessa Wong BBC News For the past three years, the patience of one billion people in China has been stretched, growing thinner and thinner with every lockdown and round of mass Covid testing. Now, that patience has snapped. As thousands took to the streets in cities protesting against Covid restrictions, an exhausted nation
Month: November 2022
POOL By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent In their first international trip since becoming Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine will visit the US this week for an environmental prize. The royal couple will show their support for finding ways to tackle climate change, at the second annual Earthshot Prize awards in Boston. Billie
Reuters By Victoria Lindrea BBC News More than 50 Tory MPs have urged PM Rishi Sunak to alter “quirks” in modern slavery laws to make it easier to send some migrants home. The letter, arranged by former Brexit secretary David Davis, demands those travelling from “safe countries”, such as Albania, be returned more quickly. The
Getty Images Three people have been arrested after the bodies of two babies were found at a home. Officers were called to a house in Wildmill, Bridgend, just before 20:00 GMT on Saturday. Two men, aged 37 and 47, and one woman, 29, have been arrested on suspicion of concealing the birth of a child.
Croatia crushed any hopes Canada had of progressing in Qatar, with the 2018 finalists fighting back after Alphonso Davies got his country off to a flying start by scoring their first ever World Cup goal. Bayern Munich winger Davies put Canada ahead after only 68 seconds, darting into the box and meeting Tajon Buchanan’s cross
Bodycam footage from New York City Police Department shows the moment a man is rescued from subway tracks in Harlem by police officers, moments before a train pulls into the station. When officers arrived, a bystander was already trying to help him. The two officers and the member of the public lifted the man onto
Getty Images By Dearbail Jordan Business reporter, BBC News The government has warned energy firms not to hike direct debit payments for customers who are making “huge efforts” to cut usage. The business secretary has written to suppliers asking them to ensure bills reflect what homes are actually using, and do not over-estimate charges. Grant
Getty Images By James FitzGerald BBC News Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure amount to genocide, a top Ukrainian official says. Strikes on key facilities targeted “the full Ukrainian nation” and were an effort to force Kyiv to surrender, the prosecutor-general told the BBC. The term genocide refers to an effort to wipe out a
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Mark Lowen in Ischia & Sam Hancock in London BBC News Heartbreaking accounts are emerging of the last moments of victims of a powerful landslide that tore across the Italian island of Ischia on Saturday. The
Wellcome Collection By Rachel Russell BBC News A museum in London is closing one of its main exhibitions following concerns over “racist, sexist and ableist theories and language”. The Wellcome Collection says the Medicine Man display is ending after a 15-year run. Founder Henry Wellcome, who died in 1936, collected more than a million objects
By Stephen McDonell China correspondent, Beijing Acts of dissent are not unusual in China. Over the years, sudden, local explosions of defiance have been triggered by a range of issues – from toxic pollution to illegal land grabs, or the mistreatment of a community member at the hands of the police. But this time it’s
The College Football Playoff picture looks pretty clear heading into Championship Saturday. With three undefeated teams at the end of the 2022 regular season, three spots in the four-team playoff look almost guaranteed no matter what happens on the first Saturday of December. The fourth spot, however, could get intriguing. USC would appear to be
Reuters Protests against Covid restrictions in China appear to have intensified following a fire which killed 10 people in an apartment block in Urumqi. In the city of Shanghai, videos posted on social media by foreign journalists show hundreds of people calling for President Xi Jinping to stand down. People were seen lighting candles and
Reuters Venezuela’s government and the opposition have signed a preliminary agreement to find a way out of the country’s political crisis. During talks in Mexico, the two issued a joint statement requesting that billions of dollars frozen abroad be released to help fund social projects. It comes after years of failed attempts to solve a
In 1981 Rita Marley’s brother Leroy Anderson aka Lepke launched the Dread Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Europe’s first dedicated black music station. Frustrated by the lack of airtime for reggae music in the UK, Lepke setup a mast in his back garden and began to broadcast to a small area of West London every Sunday afternoon.
ACLU A 19-year-old US woman will not be able to see her father executed, after a judge upheld a Missouri law that states she is too young. Kevin Johnson faces execution on Tuesday for the killing of a police officer in 2005, when he was 19. He requested that his daughter, Khorry Ramey, attend. The
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