Russia has dismissed claims of involvement after a drone struck a residential block of flats in Romania overnight.
Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, described the accusations as entirely groundless in comments reported by state news agency RIA. Earlier, the TASS news agency confirmed that Vladimir Putin is aware of the incident, while the Moscow-based newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets suggested the strike could be a deliberate provocation orchestrated by Kyiv.
A Canadian man accused of selling lethal chemicals online to vulnerable people has pleaded guilty to aiding suicide.
Kenneth Law, aged sixty, distributed these deadly substances globally, including across the United Kingdom. Law originally faced fourteen counts of aiding suicide specifically relating to Canadian victims. He entered his plea as part of a formal agreement with prosecutors, which will see the separate murder charges against him withdrawn.
Four top UK chefs and restaurant owners have urged the government to cut VAT for the hospitality industry, warning that trading conditions are the hardest they have ever been.
Tom Kerridge, Yotam Ottolenghi, Ravneet Gill, and Simon Rogan told BBC Newsnight that VAT should be slashed to ten percent to ease pressure on businesses and align rates with European levels. The group stated that they are merely keeping their heads above water, and accused the government of getting taxation on businesses very wrong.
Two men accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport will not face a second retrial.
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that no further hearing will be ordered for twenty-six-year-old Muhammad Amaad and twenty-one-year-old Mohammed Fahir Amaaz after two juries failed to reach verdicts. The pair denied assaulting PC Zachary Marsden in July twenty-twenty-four. Amaaz, however, was previously convicted of assaulting two female officers and a member of the public during the same incident, and is due to be sentenced on the twenty-sixth of June.
Three people, including a child, have died after falling from a high-rise block of flats in south London.
Emergency services were called to Churchyard Row in Elephant and Castle on Wednesday morning following reports of the incident. Despite the best efforts of paramedics to resuscitate them, a man, a woman, and a child were all pronounced dead at the scene.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has responded to the Russian drone strike on an apartment building in Romania.
She described the incident as extremely dangerous and reckless, stating that the UK strongly condemns this grave escalation which has put lives at risk.
The ousted chairman of BP stayed at a five-star central London hotel paid for by the oil giant on at least a dozen occasions, it has emerged.
This comes just one day after Albert Manifold claimed he had called out unnecessary or excessive expenditure within the firm. It is understood that Manifold, who was sacked by the board this week less than a year after his appointment, regularly stayed at the Haymarket Hotel when visiting London on company business. Rooms at the establishment cost around four hundred and eighty pounds a night and are among the most luxurious in the capital. The Haymarket is frequently used by BP, having previously hosted board gatherings, including the event held on the eve of former chief executive Murray Auchincloss’s appointment in January last year.
A man and a woman have been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Shanice Brookes outside a Sheffield bar.
The thirty-year-old mother-of-one was found with serious injuries outside One Four One on West Street at approximately quarter to three on Monday morning and later died in hospital. South Yorkshire Police said the local charity worker was an innocent bystander enjoying a bank holiday night out. Thirty-year-old Jemele Rhone has been charged with murder, while thirty-two-year-old Deiryen Dyce faces a charge of assisting an offender.
A Russian drone has struck an apartment building in Romania, causing a fire and injuring two people.
The incident occurred early on Friday in the eastern city of Galati as Russia carried out attacks in Ukraine near the border. Officials confirmed the drone’s explosive payload detonated, sparking a blaze on the tenth floor of the residential block. While drones have strayed across the border into Nato member states before, this marks the first time Romanian citizens have been harmed. Russia has not yet commented on the situation.
A twenty-one-year-old Austrian man has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for planning a jihadist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
The man, identified only as Beran A, was also convicted of several other terrorism-related offences. He was arrested following a CIA tip-off just before the first of three sold-out shows at the Ernst Happel stadium. The concerts were subsequently cancelled, affecting nearly two hundred thousand fans who had planned to attend the Eras tour dates.
An American lawyer representing hundreds of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims has told the BBC that women with information regarding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lack faith in the British police.
Brad Edwards stated he has multiple clients who could speak about the former prince but fear press intrusion and believe they would not receive proper treatment from authorities in the UK. One client has alleged she was sent to the country for a sexual encounter with the royal. Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently denied all wrongdoing.
A Blue Origin rocket has exploded in a fireball during a late-night launchpad test, shaking nearby homes in Florida.
Officials confirmed no one was injured following the anomaly at Cape Canaveral, and there is no threat to the public. Founder Jeff Bezos admitted it was a very rough day but insisted the team is already working to identify the cause, adding they will rebuild and eventually return to flying.
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