Hospital doctors in England begin a new 72-hour strike over pay on Wednesday, prompting warnings from health officials of huge disruption to patients and services.. It is the latest strike in the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), which has also seen nurses and other medical staff picket for more pay.
Celebrated author Cormac McCarthy, an unflinching chronicler of America's bleak frontiers and grim underbelly, died on Tuesday aged 89, his publisher said.. His given name was Charles, but he changed it to Cormac (after an Irish king) as he opted not to finish university and instead embark on a full-time career in writing.
President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Ukraine's casualties in its much-anticipated counteroffensive were ten times higher than Moscow's even as Kyiv said it was making gains and "moving forward".. But Kyiv quickly fired back insisting Ukraine's push, bolstered with Western weapons and training, had "certain gains, implementing our plans, moving forward".
France on Tuesday said it had uncovered a major Russian disinformation campaign which involved posting false news items disguised as articles by prominent media, in a "hybrid" war waged by Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.. In its article on the campaign, Le Monde confirmed it had been one of the media organisations targeted and published one example of the false news articles.
Russian strikes early Tuesday on the hometown of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky killed ten people, as Moscow said it had captured Western armoured vehicles from Kyiv's forces.. Zelensky said after the strikes that Russian forces were waging a war against "residential buildings, ordinary cities and people".
A showman billionaire who entered politics late and took the fight to the "establishment" with his straight-talking charm, Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paved the way for right-wing populists.. He would be a "worker-Prime Minister" and end the "policy of incomprehensible chatter, stupid bickering, and politicians without real jobs".
Police arrested a man Tuesday after three people were found dead and a van tried to mow down three others in the central English city of Nottingham in incidents authorities believe are linked.. "We believe these three incidents are all linked and we have a man in custody," she added.
The toll from nightime Russian missile strikes on infrastructure including a five-storey residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig has risen to six, officials said Tuesday.. "More terrorist missiles, Russian killers continue their war against residential buildings, ordinary cities and people.
The four Indigenous children rescued after wandering the Colombian Amazon for 40 days are recovering and in "high spirits", welfare officials said Monday, even drawing a picture thought to depict a missing army search dog.. The army released a drawing attributed to the children that depicts Wilson, a rescue dog that went missing during the search.
A Russian missile strike killed three people and wounded 32 in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, authorities said, as air attacks were reported in Kyiv and other cities.. Air raid alerts were sounded across Ukraine as the capital Kyiv and the northeast city of Kharkiv also came under missile and drone attacks.
