Day: October 20, 2018

Macedonia’s prime minister, Zoran Zaev, has upped the ante in the battle over his country’s name, telling opposition MPs they either back him or he will call early elections. “The process will not be frozen, we have to move forward,” the social democrat leader said on Monday. “We will know in a few days whether…

EU diplomats have rejected Theresa May’s conference pitch that Brussels must move first to break the deadlock over negotiations as Jean-Claude Juncker said British people were only “finding out now” about the scale of the problems caused by Brexit. The European commission president told an audience in Germany that he regretted that the voters had…

Mental health patients have had a stun gun drawn, aimed or fired at them almost 100 times in just over a year, the Guardian can reveal. Data shows police officers in the UK were called to hospitals and other mental healthcare facilities where a stun gun was used 96 times since 1 April 2017, the…

Chelsea Manning has compared life in the US to her time in prison because of surveillance systems, cameras and the presence of police. In her first public appearance in the UK, the whistleblower said her idea of freedom outside jail had not transpired. “I am constantly bombarded by reminders about how different, about how drastically…

Six people have been charged with money laundering and breaches of consumer law relating to the resale of millions of pounds’ worth of tickets for gigs and events, in a landmark prosecution that could have major implications for ticket touts. National Trading Standards, which brought the prosecution, alleges that the defendants made more than £10m…

A science teacher had sex with a teenage pupil in the toilet of a plane as they returned from a school trip, a court has heard. Eleanor Wilson, 29, is accused of touching the boy as she sat next to him on the flight before beckoning him into the toilet and performing a sex act…