Women’s rights activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu has defended Shamima Begum saying “her mistake was not marrying an IDF soldier”. Dr Shola took to X, formerly Twitter, to say Begum had “married into the wrong terrorist army”. She claimed that if she had
Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, defended his government’s commitment to the rule of law on Tuesday. Mitsotakis hosted Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, as part of her tour of European Union capitals. Mitsotakis accused domestic opponents of tarnishing Greece’s
Sadiq Khan has been told to apologise by City Hall Conservatives after his ULEZ radio adverts were judged to have been “likely to mislead” Londoners by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). The ASA found that three Transport for London (TfL) adverts for
Widdecombe blasted: “Harry and Meghan [Markle] said they were going abroad for privacy and they’ve done nothing but go public ever since.” The commentator added that Harry’s behaviour towards the royals and the effect his mother, Princess Diana’s death has had on
Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister on Monday defended the widely criticized delay in announcing the results of last week’s parliamentary election, saying authorities took only 36 hours to count over 60 million votes while grappling with militant attacks. Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar pointed out that
Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva staged a stunning comeback to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open on her debut here – and also won praise from Andy Murray. The defending women’s champion looked in ominous form as tensions from the invasion
Carlos Alcaraz has defended his decision to take a holiday instead of building his match fitness at ATP Tour events ahead of the Australian Open. The Spaniard, who defeated Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final last year, is among the favourites to
The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended the decision to allow Russian and Belarussian athletes to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics as neutrals. Speaking at a forum in Geneva, Switzerland, Thomas Bach said “individual atheletes cannot be punished
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has said an immigration policy that “works for our country” is “consistent with remaining in the European Court of Human Rights”. When asked about the UK’s membership, he said: “I can go back as far as 2005 and
Esther McVey poked fun at Labour as she defended her new role as “minister for common sense”. The Conservative MP was made a Cabinet Office minister in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle earlier this month. But the no-nonsense Tatton MP has been unofficially dubbed