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DOG-FRIENDLY STAYS The Felin Fach Griffin, Felin Fach, Powys The Inkin brothers’ stylish, free and easy pub between the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and the Black Mountains serves excellent, imaginative food with produce from the kitchen garden. Biscuits, bowls and towels are provided at no extra charge. Dogs are allowed at one table in the bar, and if that is taken, they can sit under a table in the Tack Room if other guests don’t raise a stink.Doubles from £183 B&B. Set-price menu £39/£48 (2/3 courses), eatdrinksleep.ltd.uk Biggin Hall, Biggin-by-Hartington, Derbyshire There is a homely feel about James Moffett’s 17th-century Grade…
At least five police and paramilitary personnel have been killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as thousands of supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan forced their way through security barriers and entered the capital Islamabad on Tuesday morning. Authorities have enforced a security lockdown in the capital for the last three days after Khan called for supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to march on parliament for a sit-in demonstration to demand his release. By Tuesday morning, over 100,000 of Khan’s supporters had broken through the barriers and entered Islamabad, where they were marching toward the “red zone”,…
Donald Trump’s transition team is planning for all cabinet picks to receive sweeping security clearances from the president-elect and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed in key positions, according to people familiar with the matter. The move appears to mean that Trump’s team will continue to skirt FBI vetting and may not receive classified briefings until Trump is sworn in on 20 January and unilaterally grant sweeping security clearances across the administration. Trump’s team has regarded the FBI background check process with contempt for months, a product of their…
Three bodies have been recovered from a capsized tourist boat that sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast and 13 people were still said to be missing, the Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi told Reuters on Tuesday. The Sea Story was carrying 30 tourists from several countries and 14 crew when it sent a distress signal at 5.30am local time (3.30am GMT) on Monday, according to Egypt’s Red Sea governorate. It was not immediately clear what caused the four-deck, wooden-hulled motor yacht to sink. There are unconfirmed reports that the boat was hit by a wave in high winds. Twenty-eight people…
A prominent Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya over the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in Kampala, his wife said on Wednesday. Kizza Besigye has run against Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in four elections and lost each time, although he has rejected the results, alleging fraud and voter intimidation. He has been arrested dozens of times before. “I request the (government) of Uganda to release my husband Dr Kizza Besigye from where he is being held immediately,” said his wife Winnie Byanyima. A spokesman for the Ugandan military…
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and a senior Hamas official, accusing them of war crimes during and after the October 7 attacks on Israel last year. In a statement on Thursday, the Netherlands-based court said it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that Netanyahu bears criminal responsibility for war crimes including “starvation as a method of warfare” and “the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” The warrants mark a historic first, making Netanyahu the first Israeli leader summoned by an international court for alleged actions against Palestinians in the 76-year…
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has advised former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to end his 31-year-long bid to be President. Noting that Atiku’s bid to be President dated back to the year 1993, George said it was high time the former Vice President retired from such a contest, especially in the 2027 election. Addressing a press conference at his Ikoyi, Lagos office, on Thursday, George urged Atiku to assume the position of an elder in the nation and leave his bid to posterity. “To Atiku, my advice is this, you will be…
Petrol production at Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote’s $20bn (£15.5bn) state-of-the-art oil refinery ought to be some of the best business news Nigeria has had in years. But many Nigerians will judge its success on two key questions – firstly: “Will I get cheaper petrol?” Sorry, but probably no – unless the international price of crude drops. And secondly: “Will I still have to spend hours watching my hair turn grey in a hypertension-inducing fuel queue?” Hopefully those days are gone but it might partly depend on the behaviour of what Mr Dangote calls “the oil mafia”. For much of…
An Australian goldmining company has agreed to pay $160m ($A247m, £126m) to Mali’s government after the west African country’s junta detained its chief executive and two other employees. Resolute Mining’s chief executive, Terence Holohan, and the other two employees were detained on 8 November in Mali’s capital, Bamako, at the end of a meeting with government officials over tax and other state claims that the miner had previously said were “unsubstantiated”. Resolute, which is headquartered in Perth, said in a stock market announcement on Monday that it had already paid Mali $80m, with the money coming out of its $157m cash reserves, and would…
Two days shy of the second anniversary of a hate-fueled mass shooting at a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, victims and mothers of those killed have filed lawsuits against the club for lax security and against the sheriff’s office for failing to trigger the state’s red flag law to disarm the shooter and ensure they could not purchase any more weapons. “Club Q advertised itself as a ‘safe place’ for LGBTQIA+ individuals. But that was a facade,” read the two complaints, which contain allegations of negligence. The suits were filed on Sunday and allege that the 19 November 2022 murders of five…