WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL 2026, 12:14
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) – Iran is considering attending peace talks with the United States in Pakistan, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, following moves by Islamabad to end a U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, a significant obstacle to Tehran rejoining peace efforts as the end of a two-week ceasefire approaches.
In the Senedd campaign, are weighing up whether the issue of Welsh independence is a vote winner or loser.
All of today’s papers respond to Starmer’s claims he didn’t know of Lord Mandelson’s failed vetting for the role of British ambassador to the US.
The war in the Middle East has brought renewed attention to Britain’s vulnerability to energy price shocks.
Concerts celebrating Benjamin Britten, Steve Reich and Miles Davis also appear in the programme.
The final design for a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth is to be unveiled, 100 years after her birth.
After every round of Premier League matches this season, Troy Deeney gives us his team of the week. Do you agree with his choices?
With five games remaining, BBC Sport looks at which side is most likely to take the third relegation spot.
The US president’s comments come amid uncertainty over whether Iran will attend peace talks in Pakistan this week.
Emperor penguins have just been declared endangered, pushed towards collapse by the reduction of sea ice. But another pressure is growing fast: a surge in Antarctic tourism that adds emissions, noise and disturbance to a species already under threat.
Twenty-four civil society organisations have joined forces to demand urgent, coordinated action on a disease that is now the country’s leading cause of natural death, and to hold themselves accountable, too.
Police say there is no evidence immigrants or asylum seekers were involved in the alleged rape.
For nearly seven days, taps in Chiawelo, Protea, and parts of Dlamini ran dry – an inconvenience reaching even President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Soweto family home. Joburg Water said it was cleaning the Chiawelo Reservoir, forcing residents to scrounge for water.
Eight years ago, South Africa lost one of its most recognisable and polarising political figures. Now, a new docuseries aims to shed light on the life and struggle of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told through candid conversations she had with her granddaughters.
The ANC says it will widen its mayoral selection pool beyond its own ranks and intensify public participation in Johannesburg. The party says it is campaigning on governance delivery rather than ‘theatrics’.
A secret 2004 report detailing the findings of the Amnesty Task Team appointed by former president Thabo Mbeki to address the unfinished business of Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions contemplated amending the Constitution to allow ‘backdoor’ amnesties.
Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department boss Julius Mkhwanazi has been implicated at the Madlanga Commission, but the charges he faced on Monday, along with city manager Kagiso Lerutla, arise from a 2019 speeding case involving an alleged stand-in and R400,000.
Wolves have been relegated from the Premier League.