Greece’s state minister has ruled out speculation that the government is considering an early election. Alekos Flambouraris told Greek TV there was “no point” in calling a poll, saying the country did not need it. He was responding to reports that the government was considering a snap vote if it failed to find a settlement […]
Cuba has welcomed as “fair” a US decision to remove it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying it should never have been on the list in the first place. The move comes amid a normalisation of ties between the US and Cuba. The Caribbean country’s presence on the list alongside Syria, Iran […]
Former managers of a Turkish coal mine where 301 people died last year have appeared in court on murder charges. The eight ex-managers were ordered to testify in person, after plans for them to appear via video link caused outrage among victims’ relatives. A total of 45 people are on trial over the Soma mine […]
Ten Colombian soldiers have been killed in an attack by left-wing Farc rebels in west of the country, officials say. The government says 17 soldiers were also injured, four of them seriously, following an attack in the Farc stronghold of Cauca. President Juan Manuel Santos says he will travel to the area on Wednesday. There […]
The remains of nearly 400 US servicemen killed at Pearl Harbor are to be exhumed so they may be identified and given individual burials, the US says. The sailors and Marines were aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma when it was struck by Japanese torpedoes in 1941. Their remains were buried together in Hawaii. The identification […]
The detective hunting a violent rapist who left a woman for dead fears the suspect could strike again. An 18-year-old was dragged from a bus stop in Leeds and bludgeoned with a stone before being sexually assaulted. It has now emerged three other women were stalked by the suspect prior to the attack on Beeston […]
A father has admitted the manslaughter of his 13-year-old son in Cumbria. The body of Kye Backhouse was found at his home in Ewan Close, Barrow-in-Furness, at about 07:20 GMT on 9 October 2014. His father, Kevin Morton, 49, also of Ewan Close, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday. Sentencing was […]
The funeral of a girl whose rare genetic condition led her to become known as the “100-year-old teenager” has taken place. Hayley Okines, 17, died in East Sussex earlier this month from progeria, which causes sufferers to age eight times faster than normal. Hayley, of Bexhill, was told she would not live beyond the age […]
A woman has been found guilty of setting a honey trap for a professional poker player who was kicked to death for the sake of his winnings. Care assistant Leonie Granger, 25, deliberately targeted 56-year-old Mehmet Hassan in March last year after meeting him in a Mayfair casino. Granger’s boyfriend Kyrron Jackson, 28, and his […]
Six people, including three children, have been taken to hospital after a serious crash involving three vehicles. Emergency services were called to the incident on Bury New Road in the Whitefield area of Greater Manchester on Tuesday at about 21:15 BST. It is thought one of the cars crashed into the bay window of a […]