Category: Politics

A woman has revealed how an undercover police officer formed a long-term intimate relationship with her without disclosing his real identity, vanished from her life – and then reappeared seven years later. When the officer came back, she says, he persuaded her to break up with her then boyfriend of five years, saying he wanted […]

Myanmar overtook Syria last year to become the country with the highest number of people killed or injured by landmines and explosive remnants of war, a report has found. Research released by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines warned of extensive use of landmines across Myanmar following conflict that erupted after the 2021 military coup, […]

The governor of the Northern Mariana Islands says an $800m US military upgrade plan which includes a new airfield in the Pacific territory “has to happen” amid concern over China’s recent missile tests in the region. Tinian, home to about 3,500 people, is one of the three main islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern […]

Pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has taken the stand in Hong Kong, testifying for the first time after being charged with foreign collusion under the city’s punitive national security law. Speaking in court on Wednesday, he said he started a media business because “to participate in delivering freedom is a very good idea for me […]

The US called on Russia to stop its “bellicose” and “irresponsible rhetoric” after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons. It followed Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike targets inside Russian territory with US-supplied longer-range weapons. The US had not seen any reason to adjust its […]

Rafael Nadal says he has “closed the circle” on his time in tennis as his storied career came to an end at the Davis Cup in Málaga. “It’s in some ways good, maybe, if that was my last match,” said Nadal, smiling, immediately after his singles match. “I lost my first match in the Davis […]

Being physically fit can lower the risk of dementia and delay someone developing it by almost 18 months by boosting brain health, research has found. Regular exercise is so useful for maintaining cognitive function that it can even help people who are genetically more predisposed to dementia to reduce their risk by up to 35%. […]

Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the first person to have won both this award and the Booker prize for fiction. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan. Photograph: PR Part-memoir, part-novel, part-history, Question 7 charts Flanagan’s attempt to understand his parents and Tasmania, […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Here are some pictures from the newswires of Elon Musk arriving at the site of the launch in Brownsville, Texas with Donald Trump. Donald Trump greets Elon Musk before attending a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of […]

The US state department said it was “incredibly” concerned about Russia’s campaign of hybrid warfare against the west, amid fears it will escalate following Ukraine’s first use of US-made long-range missiles on targets inside Russia, after the Biden administration lifted restrictions on their use. Russia has promised an “appropriate” response to the new policy, and […]