Month: December 2025

Isaac Herzog’s spokesperson says he has not spoken to Trump since US president wrote to urge him to stop trialThe office of Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, has denied a claim by Donald Trump that Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial on corruption charges, would soon receive a pardon.Speaking shortly before his meeting in Florida with the Israeli prime minister on Monday night, Trump said he had been told by Herzog […]

Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attractionCecilia Giménez, the woman who achieved unwanted international fame for her botched “Monkey Christ” restoration of a 19th-century mural in Borja, north-east Spain, has died aged 94.In 2012, Giménez, an amateur artist, decided to restore Ecce Homo, a mural by a local artist, Elías García Martínez, that hung in the Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja. […]

US president says strike in Venezuela targeted a dock allegedly used to load boats with narcotics.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Moment of maximum danger will come in May’s local and regional elections and PM is already plotting his comebackKeir Starmer will begin his second full year in Downing Street as one of the least popular ever prime ministers – a spectacularly rapid reversal from his landslide election win of just 18 months ago.Yet Starmer believes this will be the year things start to improve for his beleaguered premiership and fractious […]

Operator says some travel will resume on Tuesday afternoon but car passengers facing six-hour delaysBusiness live – latest updatesA power outage caused the suspension of all passenger and vehicle trains in the Channel tunnel on Tuesday, disrupting thousands of journeys ahead of the New Year celebrations.Eurostar’s website showed nearly all of the day’s passenger services between London and Europe were cancelled, while Le Shuttle trains, which carry private cars and […]