Chichester is the least affordable area outside London for first-time buyers to get on the property ladder, with homes in the cathedral city costing an average of 8.5 times the annual earnings of the typical full-time worker in the area, according to figures from Nationwide. The building society said there had been a “modest improvement”…
PM says there will be no referendum on any issues if he wins second term Our own Josh Butler asked the prime minister about the Indigenous voice referendum – which was unsuccessful, but the question of constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians remains unresolved. He asked: Peter Dutton obviously at some point spoke about symbolic recognition…
Schools and businesses in a Jamaican city have been closed and taxis and buses stopped running after the police shooting of a powerful gang boss prompted a violent backlash. Gunfire echoed throughout Spanish Town on Thursday and at least one business was burned hours after police shot dead Othneil “Thickman” Lobban, whom they described as…
Italy’s interior minister said on Thursday a Libyan man detained under an international war crimes arrest warrant and then unexpectedly released had been swiftly repatriated because of his “social dangerousness“. Osama Najim, also known as Almasri, was detained on Sunday in Turin under an arrest warrant issued by The Hague-based international criminal court (ICC). Najim,…
Senate votes to advance Hegseth as Trump’s defense secretary The Senate has voted 51 to 49 to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination to become secretary of defense, despite grave objections from Democrats over his behavior and qualifications to lead the US military. All but two Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted to advance his nomination,…
The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afghanistan’s chief justice on the grounds that their persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity. It marks the first time the prosecutor has built a case around systemic crimes against women and girls, legal…