A young Italian woman returned to her homeland on Sunday after 18 months as a hostage in eastern Africa. Silvia Romano lowered her face mask briefly to display a broad smile after she stepped off an Italian government plane at Rome-Ciampino International Airport. She hugged her mother and other family members, and touched elbows instead […]
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The last recorded message to be intercepted from a German military communications network at the end of the Second World War has been revealed to the public for the first time. It shows that Britain’s Bletchley Park code breakers carried on working in the dying days of the war to ensure there would be no […]
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A Second World War veteran has told of the “wonderful” moment he learned about victory in Europe, while he was still in action in China. Bill Ramage was called to service in August 1942, before being deployed as an RAF wireless operator in the China and India. It took him six weeks from leaving docks […]
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A Georgian-Israeli billionaire has found an innovative solution to the Gaza Strip’s chronic water crisis. Michael Mirilashvili wants to deliver hundreds of generators that produce drinking water out of thin air. His company, Watergen, sent a machine to a Gaza hospital last week in a rare case of Israeli-Palestinian co-operation in the Hamas-ruled enclave. Gaza’s […]
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Tensions between police and members of New York City’s Hasidic Jewish community have flared up again after a crowded funeral procession was interrupted by officers. Video posted on social media showed officers in protective masks chasing a minivan through Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighbourhood as it carried the body of a deceased rabbi. The officers can […]
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Two “committed” supporters of the so-called Islamic State group have been handed substantial jail sentences for sending thousands of pounds to help fighters in Iraq. Ayub Nurhussein, 29, and Said Mohammed, 30, admitted funding terrorism by transferring £2,700 in three instalments via Denmark between April and July last year. Chicken shop delivery worker Nurhussein, of […]
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Two British-born women who allegedly travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group are mounting an appeal against the Government’s decision to revoke their citizenship. The women – who are of British-Bangladeshi heritage, and known as C3 and C4 for legal reasons – are being held with their young children in “appalling conditions” […]
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Silences in memory of key workers who have lost their lives in the coronavirus pandemic have been held across Northern Ireland. The acts of tribute were particularly poignant in hospitals where health workers thought of fallen colleagues. More than 100 healthcare staff have died with Covid-19, including Pat McManus, 60, a nurse from Co Tyrone […]
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Spanish police who arrested a former London rapper allegedly turned fighter for so-called Islamic State in Syria, say they have no evidence he was planning an attack in Europe, but his illegal entry raises suspicions about his motivation. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, whose father was convicted in the US of involvement in al Qaida bombings, was […]
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More than 16% of people who had tested positive for coronavirus when they died were from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, new data shows. On Monday, NHS England released data showing the ethnic breakdown of people who have died with coronavirus for the first time. The figures, using data up to 5pm on […]
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