Some are optimistic about a change of government after the next general election while others are frustrated with both main partiesJoshua Holmes, 29, from Barton Hill, Bristol, went out to vote in the local elections on Thursday afternoon.“The polling station was pretty quiet,” he said, “I was probably the youngest person there, and the only person...

FSB claims that saboteur was planning an attack on a facility in the Leningrad regionOfficers of Russia’s FSB state security service have killed a Ukrainian saboteur planning to attack a fuel terminal in the northwesterly Leningrad region with explosives, the FSB said on Friday, according to the Interfax news agency.The FSB said the man was a Russian...

Irakli Kobakhidze tries to draw a parallel between a crackdown on protests in Georgia and police action on US campusesMichael Roth, chair of the German Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, said this morning “Georgian people are fighting for all of us. Freedom and democracy will win!”In a joint statement yesterday, a group of members of the European...

One tornado in Oklahoma was the first of 2024 to be rated as EF-4, the second most severe categorySevere thunderstorms affected parts of the US last week, spawning at least 129 tornadoes across midwestern and southern states between 25 and 28 April. The majority occurred on 26 April, with most touching down in Nebraska and Iowa.Two that formed were...

Ex-White House press secretary Jen Psaki describes telling president of anger that he spoke so much of his own dead son, BeauJoe Biden was stunned into silence when he was told families of US service members killed in Kabul in August 2021 said that when the bodies were returned and the president met grieving relatives, he spent too much time talking...

With fewer than a third of council elections declared, the Conservative party appeared on course to lose up to 500 seatsLocal and mayoral election results – live updatesAt the start of a long weekend of election results, the first outcomes have been every bit as dire for the Conservatives and Rishi Sunak as analysts had predicted. With fewer than a...