Home Secretary Priti Patel has told Sky News she is considering “all options” for overhauling the UK’s asylum system – including sending people abroad while their claims are processed. Under her new immigration plans, Ms Patel has vowed to make every effort to remove those who enter the UK illegally after travelling through a safe
Month: March 2021
Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to secure a majority in Israel’s elections, leaving his future as prime minister uncertain. Mr Netanyahu fell short of the 61 seats needed to maintain control of the country’s 120-seat parliament, exit polls suggest. Opposition parties managed to secure 60, but small right-wing party Yamina is forecast to win seven and
NASA has announced the earliest date it hopes its Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be able to make its first attempt at a controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Ingenuity has been attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover since it landed on the planet on 18 February. On Sunday the rover removed
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has told Sky News it is expecting countries across Europe, including the UK, to stop “locking people down” from June despite media “hysteria” on whether summer holidays will be allowed. He was speaking as the airline revealed an “expanded” UK summer schedule, including 26 new routes, based on the assumption that
Actor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87. Segal, who was Oscar-nominated for 1966 black comedy-drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. His wife Sonia Segal said: “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal
Boris Johnson is facing a tough end-of-term interrogation on COVID-19 by senior MPs after claiming the UK is making progress a year after his first lockdown. As well as his last Prime Minister’s Questions clash with Sir Keir Starmer for three weeks, he is facing questions from MPs who chair all-party select committees. His double
AstraZeneca has defended its use of coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities suggested some results from a large American-led trial may have been based on “outdated information”. The Anglo-Swedish company said the study showed the jab was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 illness and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalisation. The trial of
The jury has been selected in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former US police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. Opening statements are due to begin in Minneapolis next week in a case described as one of the most important in the nation’s history. Fourteen jury members will hear the trial proceedings – 12
It was 19 March 2020 when the prime minister told the country “we can turn the tide within the next 12 weeks. And I am absolutely confident that we can send coronavirus packing in this country”. Four days later he locked us all down and those 12 weeks stretched – on and off – into
For the past five months the head of the Ethiopian government has adamantly denied the existence of Eritrean troops, together with their military hardware, in the northern region of Tigray. Today, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dropped the pretence, admitting in the country’s House of People’s Representatives there were Eritrean soldiers, “guarding the border against
A Banksy original offering an “image of hope” during the pandemic has sold for a record £16.8m, auction house Christie’s has said – with the proceeds going to health charities. The anonymous artist’s Game Changer work appeared at Southampton Hospital as a thank you to staff during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. While
Unless you are an avid gamer – or have one in your family – you may not have heard of Discord. Yet following its most recent funding round, in December last year, the communications and messaging platform beloved of gamers is already valued at $7bn. That looks to be only the start. Image: Discord founder
Second home owners face a clampdown over a tax loophole that can save them money by claiming the properties are available for holiday lets. Currently 60,000 properties classed as holiday lets are liable for business tax rather than council tax, which in the vast majority of cases currently means paying nothing at all. The Treasury
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the “courage, discipline and patience of the nation” one year after he first announced a lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, he said: “We suffered so many losses.” And he said we have at times been “fighting in the dark” against a
President Joe Biden has called for an assault weapon ban and the closure of background check loopholes, after the seventh mass killing this year in the US left 10 dead. In an address to the nation following the bloodshed at a supermarket in Colorado, the president said simply: “We must act.” And he called on
A cyber security law introduced three years ago was meant to boost the resilience of the UK’s energy sector by obliging gas and electricity firms to report when they were hacked. But since then not a single report has been made, Sky News can reveal, despite numerous successful hacks of British energy firms attributed to
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