At least 55 Ghanaians have been killed in Russia’s war with Ukraine after being “lured into battle”, Ghana’s foreign minister has said after a visit to Kyiv in which officials raised the issue of Russian recruitment of African people. Reports of African men being attracted to Russia by promises of j
Read more: Ghana: 55 Citizens Killed After Being Lured to FightThe Green Party's Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election, with 14,980 votes. She beat Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin with 10,578 votes, and Labour’s Angeliki Stogia with 9,364 votes. The constituency had long been considered a safe Labour seat, with the vote triggered by the resignation
Read more: Green's Hannah Spencer wins Gorton and Denton by-electionMore than 160 people have been killed in two villages in western Nigeria in the country’s deadliest armed assaults this year, as communities reel from repeated and widespread acts of violence perpetrated by jihadists and other armed groups. The death toll from Tuesday’s attacks in Woro and Nuku in K
Read more: More Than 160 Killed in Kwara Village AttacksChris Mason Political editor PA Media The prime minister is furious, and more furious with Lord Mandelson than he has been with anyone else for years and years and years, I'm told. The mood among many Labour MPs is darkening, even blackening. There is a recurring sense from many of being on the wron
Read more: Starmer Can't Afford More Days Like ThisStudents from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments. The group representing more than 100 doctoral students has petitioned Downing Street and Keir Starmer asking for help to
Read more: Ghanaian PhD Students in UK Threatened with Deportation2025 was a crazy year in politics. But 2026 could be wild Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg BBC Goodbye 2025 - almost. It's not worth saying, "Goodness me, the news is crazy". "Normal" retired many years ago. But which events of this wild year actually changed us, and our poli
Read more: 2025 politics: Reform surges, Labour strains and Trump’s swayPaul Seddon and Rachel Muller-Heyndyk UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London on Monday amid a continuing deadlock in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Zelensky will attend the talks in Downing Street alongside French President Emmanuel Mac
Read more: Starmer Hosts Zelensky, Macron and Merz for UK Peace TalksAfrican leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognised, criminalised and addressed through reparations. At a conference in the Algerian capital, Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and re
Read more: African Leaders Seek Recognition and Reparations for Colonial CrimesSoldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the west African country, three days after elections that both the two main presidential contenders claim to have won. Military officers said they were suspending Guinea-Bissau’s electoral process and closing its borders, in
Read more: Guinea-Bissau Military Seizes Control After Disputed ElectionHenry Zeffman, Chief political correspondent and Paul Seddon, Political reporter Getty Images The government has U-turned on its manifesto commitment to offer all workers the right to claim unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. Ministers now plan to introduce the right after six months ins
Read more: Labour adopts six-month qualifying period for unfair dismissalSoldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the west African country, three days after elections that both the two main presidential contenders claim to have won. Military officers said they were suspending Guinea-Bissau’s electoral process and closing its borders, in
Read more: Guinea-Bissau Military Seizes Control After Disputed ElectionIan Youngs Culture reporter 'Most important job right now is to recruit a DG': BBC chairman The chairman of the BBC has said he is "not someone who walks away" after criticism of his handling of the recent crisis over Panorama's edit of a Donald Trump speech. Speaking to a committee of MPs, Samir Sh
Read more: BBC chair vows to stay and fix problems
