Pa Media King Charles has held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Sandringham, after a free trade deal was signed between the UK and India. UK cars and whisky will be cheaper to export to India and Indian textiles and jewellery cheaper to export to the UK under the multi-billion pound export boost. The deal took three years to reach and also commits to a new India-UK plan to tackle illegal migration. Modi was hosted by the King at his private estate in Norfolk after meeting Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at Chequers, where the agreement was formally…
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Ukrainian people attend a protest against Zelensky’s moves to make anti-corruption less independent, on July 23. Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA Protests have erupted in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities against a new law that threatens the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions. The legislation was hastily passed on July 22 by the parliament and signed that same day by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky. It places Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau and its special anti-corruption prosecutor’s office under the direct control of the prosecutor general, one of Zelensky’s appointed officials. Zelensky has argued that the measure was necessary to address Russian…
Between June 13 and 24 Iran launched 574 missiles attacking Israel. Some of them got through, despite Israeli and US efforts to stop them. Until now we have lacked convincing data allowing some cogent analysis of the results of missile defenses. That information is partly supplied by anew studyby theJewish Institute for National SecurityAffairs, a Washington-based think tank that is pro-US defense and pro-Israel. There are some surprises. The biggest one is the role ofTHAADoperated by US personnel in Israel and in the Gulf. THAAD is the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. It is designed to intercept short-, medium-…
Talks with imprisoned former girlfriend of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come as pressure mounts on Trump administration. Officials from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) have interviewed sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell in Florida, as pressure continues to mount on the administration of US President Donald Trump over the handling of the files of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Former British socialite Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking minors on behalf of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial in his own paedophile trafficking case. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche…
New York City-based Columbia University has agreed to pay $221m to settle claims by US President Donald Trump’s administration that it failed to curb anti-Semitism on campus, in exchange for the reinstatement of billions of dollars in federal funding. The deal, agreed on Wednesday, comes after sweeping university campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza during the spring and summer of 2024 and this year were criticised as veering into anti-Semitism. In February, the government cut $400m in federal research funding for Columbia in a bid to force its administrators to respond to alleged harassment of Jewish students and faculty.…
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, whose charisma and shirt-ripping showmanship brought the theatrical sports genre to new heights of mainstream popularity, died Thursday in Florida, officials said. He was 71. Hulk Hogan in 1991. Brian Aris / Camera Press / ReduxClearwater police and firefighters rushed to his home to answer a “cardiac arrest” call at 9:51 a.m., the city said in a statement. First responders took him to Morton Plant Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:17 a.m., Police Maj. Nate Burnside told reporters. While police will investigate, “there are no signs of foul play or suspicious activity related…
WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Epstein is dead, but the White House can’t seem to kill his story. President Donald Trump and his aides have settled on silence as a strategy to stamp out criticism of his refusal to release files detailing the federal government’s investigation of Epstein, according to a senior administration official and Republicans familiar with the White House’s thinking. For weeks, stories about Epstein, the financier and pal to political luminaries who died by suicide awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, have been making headlines. In a break from Trump’s usual crisis communications template — which emphasizes an…
Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient Romans – and posing a daunting challenge for the historians tasked with interpreting them. But a new artificial intelligence tool, partly developed by Google researchers, can now help Latin scholars piece together these puzzles from the past, according to a study published on Wednesday. Inscriptions in Latin were commonplace throughout the Roman world, from the laying out of decrees by emperors to graffiti on city streets. One mosaic outside a home in the ancient city of Pompeii even warns: “Beware of the…
Walking 7,000 steps a day may be enough to protect against a number of diseases, a new study suggests. While many people aim to get 10,000 steps in their daily routine, some find this target challenging to achieve. But new research suggests “sizeable” health benefits – including a reduced risk of dementia, heart disease and premature death – can still be seen from fewer daily steps. Even modest step counts of 4,000 steps a day can reap benefits over very low levels of activity, experts found. But experts noted that “10,000 steps per day will still be better than 7,000…
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