Month: April 2019

Labour is prepared to sign up to a Brexit deal with the government without the promise of a referendum attached if cross-party talks make significant “Labour hints at backing Brexit deal without promise of referendum”

Damon Keith, a grandson of slaves and figure in the US civil rights movement who as a federal judge was sued by Richard Nixon over “Judge Damon Keith, civil rights legend and scourge of Nixon, dies aged 96”

As Donald Trump flailed his arms and railed against the media at a raucous campaign rally on Saturday night, a Pulitzer prize-winning historian delivered an “Trump is just one chapter of bad fiction in America’s history, White House press dinner told”

Earlier this year, US officials briefed reporters on an extraordinary operation: they claimed to have launched an offensive cyber-attack against Russia to protect the integrity “Russia’s great firewall: is it meant to keep information in – or out?”

The Labour MPs behind the parliamentary drive for a confirmatory referendum on Brexit have written to their party’s governing body urging it to use the “Brexit: Labour urged to resolve second referendum question”

PepsiCo is suing four Indian farmers who allegedly grew a patented strain of potatoes used in its Lay’s crisps without the company’s permission. The company “PepsiCo accused of harassment after suing Indian potato farmers”

The Donald Trump baby blimp, which became the focal point of protests against the US president’s visit to the UK in July, will rise again “Trump baby blimp back and could be even bigger for UK state visit”

Sri Lanka’s president has said investigations into civil war-era human rights abuses weakened the country’s security apparatus and left it vulnerable to last Sunday’s suicide “Sri Lanka attacks: president says civil war inquiries left country vulnerable”

A faint smell of sulphur, a shrill hiss of gas and a Rift Valley panorama punctuated by 30 pillars of steam mark the frontline of “The joys of springs: how Kenya could steam beyond fossil fuel”

Police in Northern Ireland have released fresh footage of the New IRA gunman who is suspected of killing the journalist Lyra McKee in Derry last “Police seek public’s help to find killer of journalist Lyra McKee”