MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry said Saturday the country will release dozens of prisoners, as the United States increased pressure on leftist President Daniel Ortega a week after ousting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. On Friday, the US Embassy in Nicaragua said that Venezuela had taken an important step towards peace by releasing … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labor Party has been branded “austerity-lite” and “rudderless” in a scathing attack by the head of one of the UK’s biggest unions. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has warned the government that a failure to prioritize workers in 2026 could lead to “sowing the seeds of its own destruction”. She also criticized … Read more
A federal judge has dismissed an indictment against a Los Angeles TikTok streamer who was shot by an officer during an immigration enforcement operation and accused of assaulting a federal agent, citing a constitutional violation. Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a TikTok creator who broadcasts local news, was accused in October of crashing his car into the … Read more
Teachers could follow the resident doctors and strike next year unless Labor increases pay and close school funding gaps, the bosses of two major teaching unions have warned. Matt Wrack, general secretary of the National Association of School Captains and the Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), said The Independent that strike talks were “inevitable” at … Read more
The Government has condemned an activist’s “disgusting” social media posts, which sparked a backlash after his return to the UK from detention in Egypt. Alaa Abd El-Fattah, of dual British-Egyptian nationality, was detained in Egypt in September 2019. In December 2021, he was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spreading fake news. … Read more