News24 | UK to release ex-Prince Andrew’s trade envoy documents amid Epstein scandal fallout
The UK government is reviewing records from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s tenure as trade envoy amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal fallout.
SATURDAY, 11 APRIL 2026, 13:34
The UK government is reviewing records from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s tenure as trade envoy amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal fallout.
Iran has told the United Nations Security Council and the International Maritime Organisation that “non-hostile vessels” may transit the Strait of Hormuz if they coordinate with Iranian authorities, according to a note seen by Reuters.
US Supreme Court justices indicated sympathy on Tuesday toward President Donald Trump’s administration in its defence of the government’s authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem US-Mexico border crossings too overburdened to handle additional claims.
The Pentagon beefed up restrictions on journalists covering the US military, days after a court ruled that its earlier overhaul to press access was unconstitutional.
A United Nations expert says the world has given Israel a licence to torture Palestinians, with life in the occupied Palestinian territory “a continuum of physical and mental suffering”.
Iran launched another round of missiles toward Israel, state television announced, after earlier strikes hit a building in the north while a loud explosion rang out in Jerusalem.
Donna Motsinger, 84, was awarded $19.3 million after a jury found Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted her over 50 years ago.
Less than 48 hours before the US-Israeli strike on Iran began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to US President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war against which the American leader once had campaigned.
An American-operated Patriot air defence battery likely fired the interceptor missile involved in a pre-dawn explosion that injured dozens of civilians and tore through homes in US-ally Bahrain 10 days into the war on Iran, according to an analysis by academic researchers examined by Reuters.
In London’s Golders Green, with its large Jewish community, residents warned of growing antisemitism on Monday after an early morning arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation.
Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish community organisation in north London were set ablaze overnight in a suspected antisemitic hate crime, police said.
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit said in an interview broadcast Friday that she was “manipulated” by convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A plane and an official vehicle collided on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, authorities said, forcing a halt to flights at the transport hub.
Iran warned it would strike energy and water infrastructure across the Gulf if US President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to attack its electricity grid, raising fears of mass disruption in a region heavily dependent on desalination for drinking water.
United States President Donald Trump says he is considering “winding down” the military operations in Iran even as his administration deploys 2 500 additional marines to the region and asks Congress for more money to fund the war.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian negotiators will push for a clear timeframe for the next round of Russia talks, as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict have been paused amid the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Defence lawyers for the son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit called for him to be acquitted of charges of raping four women.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu talked of how his country is “challenged by terrorism” as he met Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday as part of his state visit to the UK.
Six major international powers, including Britain, France, Germany and Japan, said on Thursday they were ready “to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz”.
Iranian missile attacks have killed three Palestinian women in the occupied West Bank and a foreign worker in central Israel, medics said.
King Charles III praised Britain’s “partnership of equals” with Nigeria as he hosted a banquet for President Bola Tinubu during the first state visit by the leader of Africa’s most populous nation in nearly four decades.