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AlamyUS President Donald Trump has said the UK’s plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is an “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY”, months after he endorsed the move.Under the £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal, the UK will lease back Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands, and home to a UK-US military base. Although the deal was agreed by the UK and Mauritius in May 2025, it has not yet been ratified by the UK Parliament, so the Chagos Islands remain British territory. Where are the Chagos Islands?The Chagos Islands – officially known as the British Indian Ocean…
There is good and bad news for Aston Villa, who have suffered a major injury blow but are reportedly closing in on a ‘marquee’ signing. Aston Villa have had a troubling couple of days as they suffered a rare home loss against Everton at the weekend, while head coach Unai Emery raised alarm bells with his bizarre comments after the game. Now, Villa have been dealt a significant injury blow as midfielder Boubakar Kamara is set to miss the rest of this season with a knee injury. After Kamara was not named in Villa’s squad to face Everton, Emery said: “Kamara…
Police in northern Nigeria say reports that worshippers were abducted on Sunday from churches in Kaduna state were false.In a joint statement with local government officials on Monday, Kaduna state police commissioner Alhaji Muhammad Rabiu described the information as “mere falsehood which is being peddled by conflict entrepreneurs who want to cause chaos”.Earlier, a local official in Kurmin Wali had told the BBC that gunmen had kidnapped dozens of people attending different churches.There has been a series of mass kidnapping in Nigeria, where both Christians and Muslims have been targeted. Gangs frequently carry out such attacks to get ransom payments.But…
The UK has approved China’s plans for a huge new embassy in central London, despite opponents warning it could be used as a base for spying and pose security risks.A government spokesperson said intelligence agencies had been involved throughout the process, and consolidating China’s diplomatic premises into a single site would bring “clear security advantages”.The decision, which has repeatedly been delayed, had posed a challenge for the government, as it seeks to balance its desire for closer ties with Beijing with warnings of the threat posed by China.It comes as Sir Keir Starmer is expected to visit Beijing early this…
Liverpool boss Arne Slot will only get sacked this season if he “loses six or seven matches on the bounce again” as Reds wait until the summer, according to a top journalist. Slot had an incredible first season at Anfield, winning the Premier League at a canter from rivals Arsenal, with Liverpool finding no problem in moving on from Jurgen Klopp. However, after spending over £400m on new signings over the summer transfer window, Liverpool have struggled to replicate last season’s form in 2025/26. Liverpool have drawn four matches in a row in the Premier League, maintaining fourth position, but…
Image: Envato Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has been systematically cashing in on what it publicly claims to prohibit. The precise amount is hard to quantify in 2025 and 2026, but in 2024 Reuters reckoned Meta made about $16 billion from running online ads for scams and banned goods. In the latest development, Meta stands accused by a UK watchdog of raking in money from illegal gambling operations while turning a blind eye to both local laws and its own advertising guidelines. Tim Miller, Executive Director at the UK’s Gambling Commission, states, “Now, companies like Meta will tell you that they…
The boss of Sweden’s national health app claims she is unfazed by the revelation that a quarter of Swedes have avoided booking doctors’ appointments because its digital health services are hard to use, as claimed by a survey of national internet habits. Two months of political reverberations followed the survey’s publication, culminating in a government pledge to make public service apps more user-friendly and an announcement that it had taken steps to do that. The Ministry of Finance said it had charged the Swedish Digital Governance Agency (Digg) with working out how it could make digital public services easier to…
Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine has told the BBC he will not contest the results of Thursday’s election in court, citing a lack of confidence in the judiciary and has instead urged his supporters to take to the streets to peacefully protest.Speaking to the BBC from hiding, he said he would continue to stand up to President Yoweri Museveni despite concerns for his safety.”The judiciary in Uganda is captured and we encourage Ugandans to use any legal means to fight back and protect their democracy,” the 43-year-old former pop star said.Museveni, 81, won the vote by a landslide and has…
A prominent Welsh Tory is being kicked out of his party for telling his party leader he was thinking about defecting to Reform UK.James Evans has been removed from the shadow cabinet and had the whip withdrawn making him an independent, Tory Senedd leader Darren Millar has said.Millar said he did so on Tuesday morning “after being informed by James that he was continuing to engage with Reform representatives about the possibility of defecting to the party in spite of his personal assurances on Friday that he had rejected an approach they initiated last week”.In a statement, Evans confirmed he…
Manchester City risk a repeat of the Cole Palmer situation as Fabrizio Romano has revealed that Oscar Bobb could secure a move to a Premier League rival. Man City‘s expertise in the transfer market is renowned and there has been more evidence of their great work in this window as they have fended off competition from elsewhere to sign Premier League standouts Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guehi on favourable terms. Having spent £425m on signings over the past year, Man City are clearly incredibly confident that their prolonged Financial Fair Play case will come to nothing, and this increasingly looks…