Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out

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A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

A ‘pivotal moment’ for cancer treatment, resurgent whales, and the city that made public transport free, plus more good news

Welsh festival helps asylum seekers gain confidence and skills while settling in to a new life in the UK

Dr Mazen Al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old physician well known for providing care to low-income Palestinians, was arrested in the occupied West Bank Israeli forces on Sunday arrested a prominent 71-year-old Palestinian physician known as the “doctor of the poor” in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the occupied West Bank, prompting widespread condemnation. Dr Mazen Al-Rantisi, a physician widely known for providing care to low-income Palestinians, was arrested in the al-Tira neighbourhood of Ramallah. Continue reading...

Watchdog finds allegations against City of Sanctuary UK were misleading after complaint from Tory MP

The US-Israeli war will have a lifelong impact on millions of children across the Middle East Millions of children have been plunged into crisis by the war in the Middle East, with reports of child soldiers in Iran, mass forced displacements in Lebanon and the killing of hundreds of minors. According to the UN agency for children, Unicef, more than 340 children have been killed and thousands injured since the US and Israel launched their attacks on Iran, which has retaliated with bombings across the region. Continue reading...

Today was another "last" with my friends and colleagues at BCM HQ (including some of the Puddleducks team included in this pictu...

A blog on the UK Aid Cuts by All We Can CEO, David ThomsonThe world we live in is becoming ever more volatile and unstable as those with power drive their ‘might is right' agenda! We are facing a polycrisis - where climate change, biodiversity loss, pol...

There are rules and world leaders must insist they are honoured in practice and in spirit. After this atrocity in Iran, a more effective tribunal for crimes against children is essential, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Experts describe four broad possibilities after attacks by two powers that seem to have no postwar plan for country * Middle East crisis – live updates Piecing together what the US and Israeli officials have said about the attack on Iran, its objectives appear to be to inflict maximum damage on the pillars of the country’s power, specifically its nuclear and missile programmes and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The ultimate objective however, as repeatedly expressed by Donald Trump at least, is to pave the way for a popular uprising that would sweep away the cleric-led regime that has run the country for 47 years. Trump has presented the devastating assault as a once-in-a-lifetime chance for the people of Iran to “take back your government”. Continue reading...

If She Asked Me Where to Go

On February 13 and 14, President Donald J.