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Benjamin Netanyahu’s office blames Hamas’s refusal to release hostages for IDF strikes that are reported to have killed at least 30 peopleIsrael’s military said it was conducting “extensive strikes on terror targets” in Gaza early on Tuesday, with officials there reporting at least 30 deaths in the most intense airstrikes since the 19 January ceasefire began.An unnamed senior Hamas official told Reuters that Israel was “unilaterally” ending the ceasefire. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/israel-gaza-strikes-deaths-latest-update Author : Helen Livingstone and agencies Publish date : 2025-03-18 01:20:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The pilot, whose squadron shot down 90 enemy aircraft in an 11-day period in 1940, called himself the ‘lucky Irishman’The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John “Paddy” Hemingway, has died aged 105.The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Hemingway, a member of “the Few” who took to the skies during the second world war, died peacefully on Monday. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/17/john-paddy-hemingway-the-last-battle-of-britain-pilot-dies-aged-105 Author : Nadeem Badshah Publish date : 2025-03-17 23:52:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Minister Pat McFadden says at least half will be permanently cancelled in effort to reduce wasteful purchasesThousands of Whitehall officials will have their government “credit cards” suspended this week in Labour’s latest crackdown on what it regards as wasteful spending in the civil service.Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister, said on Monday he would freeze almost all of the 20,000 government procurement cards (GPCs) within days with a view to permanently cancelling at least half of them. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/17/thousands-whitehall-credit-cards-suspended-spending-crackdown Author : Kiran Stacey Political correspondent Publish date : 2025-03-17 22:30:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Lawyers say many of at least 27 who drowned in 2021 might have survived if rescue services had searched for longerMany of the people who drowned in the biggest ever loss of life in a migrant dinghy in the Channel could have been saved if rescue services had searched for them for longer, lawyers for their families have said.Their comments came after the independent Cranston inquiry which is scrutinising the circumstances surrounding the mass drowning, heard evidence from an expert into survivability in the water. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/17/many-victims-of-channel-dinghy-tragedy-could-have-been-saved-inquiry-hears Author : Diane Taylor Publish date : 2025-03-17 20:46:00