All news for 2024-08-30

Judge tells Hinkley Point worker Gavin Pinder his part in violence is ‘difficult to reconcile’ with ‘highly responsible’ job

Other private schools say they will absorb some of the cost of the removal of VAT exemption

Announcement follows questions over exceptional appointments of Labour donor and former thinktank staffer

Two astronauts at International Space Station will board SpaceX rocket in September instead of Boeing Starliner

Leonardo Bertulazzi, 65, wanted in Italy for kidnapping and other crimes allegedly committed as part of far-left group

Tens of thousands of people were going hungry — but the International Red Cross faced growing obstacles as it tried to deliver help. Among them was hostile rhetoric from the Azerbaijan Red Crescent, a local member of the Red Cross movement.

Despite sanctions, Norway continues to buy millions of dollars worth of fish from a Russian senator, circumventing sanctions

Amid growing calls for her removal, South Africa’s Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Thembi Simelane, faces scrutiny over a controversial VBS Mutual Bank “loan” and alleged kickbacks.

Jackson is on the run from HMP Castle Huntly, which is west of Dundee, and was reported missing to police on Wednesday evening.