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PA MediaThe King, seen at Royal Ascot this week, will publish how much tax he paysKing Charles will become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal his personal tax bill.His tax payments will be shared on Thursday as a new element in the annual royal financial accounts, with the decision said by Palace sources to have been a personal one by the King. Buckingham Palace says the move is part of a modernising drive for greater transparency and to “encourage wider understanding of our accountability”.It also follows calls for more openness with regard to royal finances following scandals surrounding…
Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty ImagesVictims are brought to Al-Shifa Hospital for funeral procedures in Gaza CityIsraeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers.Al Jazeera said it “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing” of its correspondent Ahmed Wishah, who was killed in a strike on a central Gaza home on Saturday.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Wishah of being “a terrorist in Hamas’ military wing who served as a sniper operative”.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the…
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The man was seen striking the windows of a green shopfrontFive men have been injured in a series of suspected anti-Muslim attacks as a bare-chested man was seen roaming the streets of Edinburgh with a large weapon.The BBC understands the attacks began near a mosque in the west of the city, where two men were injured, on Friday night.Footage posted on social media appears to show the same man vandalising a petrol station and battering the door of a pizzeria several miles away on Leith Walk before being held on the ground by police.A 36-year-old white man has been arrested…
‘Like a bomb explosion’: Bedford train passenger describes crashTwenty-eight people remain in hospital – nine of them in a critical condition – after a train crash near Bedford, police have said.A train driver was killed and 100 people injured when two East Midlands Railway (EMR) services to London St Pancras collided at 17:15 BST on Friday.Eleven people were very seriously injured, a further 32 were described as injured and 57 had minor injuries, East of England Ambulance Service confirmed.Speaking near the scene on Saturday, Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi of British Transport Police (BTP) said the crash was being investigated and…
EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockThe Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej DudaUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland’s highest honour after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award.The Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej Duda.But Kyiv caused outrage last month after renaming a Ukrainian army unit after a group of controversial World War Two fighters called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).Three senior Ukrainian officials have also said they are returning awards bestowed by Poland, to show solidarity with…
BBC sees destroyed villages in Israeli-occupied southern LebanonTravelling with a humanitarian convoy, BBC’s Hugo Bachega has been given rare access to a part of Lebanon under Israeli occupation.37 mins agoMiddle East
BBC”We promised people we weren’t going to do this.”There is exasperation in the voice of a long time Labour adviser. But as every hour passes, it is more likely the UK will soon have its seventh prime minister in 10 years.Talk of Sir Keir Starmer fighting is fading, his exit seems more likely as the weekend goes on. The prime minister is at his country retreat, Chequers, spending time with his wife.The man coming for his job, Andy Burnham, is spending the weekend with his family, away from home too.”He’s an instinctive guy – that’s his great talent,” said one…
Handout via REUTERSGiorgia Meloni talked to the US president on Wednesday at the G7 summit in Evian in FranceItaly’s Giorgia Meloni has again hit back at US President Donald Trump on social media after he questioned her political popularity and repeated his claim that she asked “over and over” for a photo together.Trump said on Saturday that the prime minister was “doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity”.He also accused her of not supporting US efforts to prevent Iran “from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon”.In a statement on Instagram, Meloni said Trump’s “constant, unprovoked attacks” were “senseless”.”My…
Getty ImagesJames Burrows, legendary director of some of America’s most-loved sitcoms, has died aged 85. Best-known as co-creator of the sitcom Cheers, Burrows directed more than 1,000 episodes of other TV comedy classics including Friends, Big Bang Theory, and Will and Grace. Attorney Tom Hoberman confirmed Burrows’ death “with great sadness” to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Burrows won 11 Emmy Awards and five Directors Guild of America Awards. “For more than five decades, Burrows was one of the most influential and beloved directors in television history. As a legendary director,…