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Mohamed Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, bringing what the club called a remarkable nine year chapter at Anfield to a close. The thirty three year old forward has reached an agreement with the Premier League side over his departure. In a statement, Liverpool said Salah wanted supporters to hear the news as early as possible to provide transparency about his future because of his respect […]

A military transport plane carrying one hundred and ten soldiers has been involved in what has been described as a horrific accident in Colombia. Defence minister Pedro Anulfo Sanchez said the Lockheed Martin Hercules C one thirty aircraft suffered a tragic incident. President Gustavo Petro said he hoped there would be no fatalities and added the crash should never have happened. He also criticised what he called obstacles delaying his […]

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to chair a COBRA meeting on Monday to discuss the cost of living impact of the ongoing Iran war. Ministers and officials will look at the effect on household bills and possible support for families. COBRA meetings are the government's regular system for dealing with national emergencies. The prime minister last chaired one on Thursday after Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure in the Gulf raised […]

Donald Trump says the United States is considering winding down its war with Iran as military objectives are close to being met. He said other countries may need to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz after recent attacks led Iran to target vessels in the shipping lane. The US would help if asked, but he said that should not be necessary, describing it as an easy military operation for […]

Iran’s attacks on Qatar have damaged facilities producing seventeen percent of the country’s liquefied natural gas export capacity, according to QatarEnergy. Chief executive Saad al Kaabi said repairs to the site, which cost twenty six billion dollars to build, could take between three and five years. Iran struck a facility linked to the North Field, the Qatari side of the world’s largest natural gas field, pushing oil and gas prices […]

Qatar says it reserves the right to respond after Iranian missile attacks on Ras Laffan Industrial City. The foreign ministry described the strike as a dangerous escalation and said the country will not hesitate to protect its sovereignty. Qatar has declared a representative of Iran’s defence ministry at the Iranian embassy persona non grata and ordered them to leave within twenty four hours. A statement added the country may act […]

MSPs have voted against legalising assisted dying in Scotland after a closely contested late night debate. The Scottish Parliament rejected plans that would have made it the first part of the United Kingdom to allow assisted suicide, while MPs at Westminster continue to discuss similar proposals. The result at Holyrood was fifty nine votes against and sixty seven in favour, with one abstention. Sources had said before the vote the […]

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 […]