Huge drugs bust reveals battles on cocaine ‘superhighway’

Darragh MacIntyreBBC Panorama & BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight Watch how drug smugglers panicked as the Irish military closed in on them The text message came from Dubai with a Santa emoji. “OK lads. No need for luck. Really this couldn’t be any more straightforward. Just relax and this will all be over soon.” It was... Read More

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September 8, 2025

Tanni Grey-Thompson received ‘abusive’ emails over opposition to assisted dying bill | Assisted dying

Tanni Grey-Thompson, the cross-bench peer and former Paralympic athlete, has said she received “abusive” emails accusing her of being “responsible for people dying in pain” because of her opposition to the assisted dying bill. Grey-Thompson, a multiple gold medallist and disability rights campaigner is expected to speak in Friday’s second reading of the terminally ill... Read More

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September 8, 2025

‘Tip of the methane iceberg’: 130,000 coal boreholes must be audited after toxic leaks in Queensland, experts say | Mining

Conservationists have called for an audit of potentially thousands of methane-leaking coal boreholes in Queensland, as one expert says New South Wales also has an unknown number of potentially leaking holes. Research revealed last week that two abandoned exploratory coal boreholeswere leaking methane at a rate comparable to 10,000 vehicles. The federal government has previously... Read More

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September 8, 2025

European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says

European leaders will visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said. The US president added that he would also speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin “soon”, as well as signalling that his administration was ready to move to a second phase of... Read More

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