Afghanistan has claimed 400 people were killed in a Pakistan strike that it says hit a hospital treating drug addicts. Pakistan rejected the claim, saying its strikes in Kabul and eastern Afghanistan on Monday did not hit any civilian sites. The Taliban’s deputy spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said 400 were killed and 250 injured. Sharafat Zaman, a health ministry spokesman, earlier reported more than 200 deaths and said all parts of […]

Plans to support households facing a sharp rise in the cost of heating oil are to be announced by the government. Prices have surged since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran, pushing crude oil above one hundred dollars, around seventy five pounds, a barrel compared with seventy one before the conflict began. Support worth about fifty million pounds A mother has been charged with murder after her baby […]