‘Democrats aiming for a 21st Century FDR moment’

The United States is not an honest broker in the Israel-Gaza conflict, John Dugard, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur to the UNHCR has said. He told BBC World News: “I think it has become very clear that the US is not an honest broker. First of all there’s the evidence provided by the failure…

Several European countries have paused their use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over reports of blood clots in a small number of individuals who have received the jab. But lives have been put at risk by not giving people the vaccine, the director of the vaccine centre at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine…

Four Iranian intelligence officials have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist critical of Iran, US prosecutors have said. While the indictment did not name the target, Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American author and activist, has said it was her. She told BBC World News about learning she was a target for kidnapping…

Ayse Bugra explains how her husband, philanthropist Osman Kavala, is coping in jail.

William Shatner has become the oldest person to go into space, as he blasted off aboard the Blue Origin capsule. After landing, the Star Trek actor said tearfully that the experience had been “unbelievable”. “Everybody in the world needs to do this,” he said. Three other individuals shared his journey on the rocket system, which…

A recent poll in the UK revealed there was a high level of support among managers for making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for staff returning to work. The survey of more than 1,000 managers, conducted by the Chartered Management Institute, showed that about half think office access should be restricted for those who refused to get…