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Thousands of NHS staff in England to lose jobs after deal approved
LONDON — Thousands of NHS staff redundancies in England will now go ahead after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the health service to overspend this year to cover the cost of pay-offs.The government said earlier this year 18,000 admin and managerial jobs would go with NHS England, the body that runs the NHS, being brought into the Department of Health and Social Care alongside cuts to local health boards.NHS bosses and health ministers had been in talks with the Treasury over how to pay for the £1bn one-off bill with the health service wanting extra money.The Treasury blocked that, but the BBC understands a compromise has been reached with the NHS permitted to overspend this year.As the job cuts result in savings in future years, the NHS will be expected to recoup the...
November 12, 2025

Thousands of NHS staff in England to lose jobs after deal approved

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting
UK Health Secretary Streeting denies plotting against PM after leadership claims
LONDON — UK's Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said suggestions from the prime minister's allies that he is seeking to challenge for the leadership are "self-defeating nonsense" and has urged Sir Keir Starmer to sack whoever is briefing the media.On Tuesday evening, friends of Sir Keir had told several news outlets his job might be under immediate threat and that they were particularly suspicious of Streeting's leadership ambitions.Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday, the health secretary said he could "not see any circumstances under which I would do that to our prime minister".He added that briefings to the press against him were "the worst attack on a faithful since Joe Marler was banished in The Traitors final"."Someone has definitely been watching too much Celebrity...
November 12, 2025

UK Health Secretary Streeting denies plotting against PM after leadership claims

After a legal battle spanning more than three years, She Zhijiang is finally being handed to China
Thailand extradites owner of Myanmar scam city to China
BANGKOK — She Zhijiang, a Chinese national accused of building an illicit gambling empire in South East Asia, is being extradited to China — ending his years-long battle against the order.He has been detained in Thailand since 2022, after the Thai police arrested him acting on a Chinese request to Interpol.China accuses She Zhijiang of running illegal online gambling rings, and this week a Thai court upheld the decision to extradite him. He arrived at a Bangkok airport on Wednesday, flanked by two security officials.His extradition comes ahead of a landmark visit by Thailand's king to Beijing — the first state visit to China by a reigning Thai monarch and a sign of deepening ties.She Zhijiang is one of the biggest names linked to the vast cyberscam hubs in South East Asia, which...
November 12, 2025

Thailand extradites owner of Myanmar scam city to China

Smog guns that spray water are among anti-pollution measures used in Delhi
Schools go hybrid as Delhi's air quality worsens
NEW DELHI — Schools in Delhi have been asked to run hybrid classes for primary students and non-essential construction activity has been banned as air quality worsens in the Indian capital.On Tuesday, authorities enforced stricter anti-pollution measures which include limiting movement of goods carriers in the capital and its suburbs.Delhi's air quality has deteriorated to "severe" levels according to authorities, which can affect healthy people and seriously impact those with existing diseases.On Wednesday, the capital's PM2.5 levels in the air reached 438, according to the Central Pollution Control Board — dangerously high concentrations of fine particles that can clog the lungs.This is nearly 30 times higher than the World Health Organisation's safe limit and about...
November 12, 2025

Schools go hybrid as Delhi's air quality worsens

Authorities had closed the 758m-long Hongqi bridge on Monday after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads
Chinese bridge collapses into river just months after opening to traffic
HONG KONG — A newly opened bridge in China's southwestern province of Sichuan partially collapsed on Tuesday, sending concrete and steel plunging into a river just months after it opened, according to Chinese state media.Authorities had closed the 758m-long Hongqi bridge on Monday after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads.On Tuesday afternoon conditions on the mountainside worsened, triggering landslides that led to the collapse of part of the bridge, officials added.There were no reports of casualties.Construction of the bridge finished earlier this year, according to a social media post by contractors Sichuan Road and Bridge Group.Footage of the collapse, shared widely on Chinese social media, showed the Hongqi Bridge in Sichuan Province buckling before falling into the...
November 12, 2025

Chinese bridge collapses into river just months after opening to traffic

Hamas wants its fighters in Rafah to be given safe passage
Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels present new obstacle to Gaza ceasefire progress
JERUSALEM — US President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, returned to Israel on Monday, as mediators face a new obstacle in their efforts to advance negotiations on the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal to the next and more complex phase.Key sticking points remain unresolved, including Hamas's disarmament, the reconstruction and future governance of Gaza, and the deployment of an international security force to the territory.Without a timeline for the discussions, which are likely to require significant concessions from both Israel and Hamas, there are doubts that any progress can be achieved.Another challenge has emerged recently, involving scores of Hamas fighters believed to be in tunnels beneath the southern city of Rafah behind the so-called "Yellow Line",...
November 12, 2025

Hamas fighters trapped in tunnels present new obstacle to Gaza ceasefire progress

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris, 11 November, 2025
Macron and Abbas announce panel to draft new Palestine constitution after Paris talks
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron has said France will form a “joint panel” with the Palestinian Authority to draw up a new constitution for Palestine.Macron made the remarks after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris."We decided together to establish a joint committee for the consolidation of the state of Palestine," Macron said, adding that it would "contribute to drawing up a new constitution, a draft of which president Abbas presented to me".Abbas said he agreed "to the swift establishment of the constitutional committee".Reforming the governing body is essential for a "democratic and sovereign Palestinian state, living in peace and security alongside Israel", the president’s office said prior to the talks.The meeting comes a month into a fragile...
November 12, 2025

Macron and Abbas announce panel to draft new Palestine constitution after Paris talks

Turkish Hercules C130 military transport plane crash site near the Georgia-Azerbaijan border, 11 November 2025
Twenty killed in Turkish military plane crash in Georgia
ANKARA — All 20 military personnel travelling on a Turkish C-130 cargo plane that crashed in Georgia have been killed, the Turkish government said on Tuesday.The C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkey when it crashed, Turkey's defence ministry said on X.Video footage aired on news outlets appeared to show the aircraft spiralling down and leaving a trail of white smoke.Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he was "deeply saddened" and expressed his condolences for those killed in the crash.Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev expressed his condolences to his Turkish counterpart Erdoğan over the incident.In his message, Aliyev wrote: "We were deeply saddened by the tragic news of the loss of servicemen in the crash of a Turkish...
November 12, 2025

Twenty killed in Turkish military plane crash in Georgia

German federal police officers board a train near a border crossing point between Germany and Czech Republic at the station in Furth am Wald. (File photo)
Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tons of cocaine seized in Atlantic
LISBON — Four people have been detained after Portuguese authorities intercepted a narco-sub carrying more than 1.7 tons of cocaine in the mid-Atlantic.The semi-submersible vessel was bound for the Iberian peninsula and was seized in recent days, according to officials.Footage shows the police and navy surrounding the vessel before boarding, seizing the Class A substance and arresting four crew members, who are said to be from South America.The suspects, including two Ecuadorians, a Venezuelan and a Colombian, were remanded in pre-trial custody after their court appearance in the Azores on Tuesday, said police.Vítor Ananias, head of Portugal's police unit to combat drug trafficking, told a press conference that their different nationalities showed the organisation behind them was...
November 12, 2025

Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tons of cocaine seized in Atlantic

Diana Loginova sits during a court session in St. Petersburg, 11 November, 2025
Russian court extends jail time of teenage singer over performance of anti-war songs
MOSCOW — A Russian court extended the jail time of an 18-year-old street singer on Tuesday on charges seen as punishment for performing anti-war songs, an action denounced by human rights activists as part of a crackdown on free speech over the war in Ukraine.Diana Loginova was ordered held for another 13 days by the court in St. Petersburg on charges of violating public order with her October performance.It was the third consecutive sentence for Loginova, who has remained in custody since her initial arrest on 15 October.Loginova, a music student who goes by the stage name Naoko in the band Stoptime, was also ordered to pay fines for "discrediting the Russian armed forces."Alexander Orlov, a fellow Stoptime member, has been handed repeated sentences along with Loginova. They denied any...
November 12, 2025

Russian court extends jail time of teenage singer over performance of anti-war songs

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