Euan O'Byrne Mulligan

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Euan O'Byrne Mulligan

US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that she had directed federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty for the “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination”, which took place in New York last December. Mangione, 26, has pleaded not guilty to New York state charges of murder as an act of terrorism and weapons offences.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Euan O'Byrne Mulligan

Birmingham City Council has declared a major incident due to the bin strike under way, which has left an estimated 17,000 tonnes of waste on the streets. Rubbish has been piling up across the city since Unite the Union workers walked out on 11 March in a row over pay. Speaking outside Birmingham City Council House, leader John Cotton said the declaration would help the council deploy its contingency plan to tackle the build-up.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Euan O'Byrne Mulligan

The chair of a charity set up by the Duke of Sussex in memory of his mother has accused him of “harassment and bullying at scale” after he resigned from the organisation earlier this week. Sentebale was founded in 2006 by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to support young people and children in southern Africa, particularly those living with HIV and Aids, a cause which Diana, Princess of Wales, campaigned for.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Euan O'Byrne Mulligan

The death toll from a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has passed 1,600, as efforts to find survivors and deliver aid continue in the war-torn country. The latest figure of 1,644, announced by the ruling military junta, was a sharp increase on the 1,002 total it gave just hours earlier. The number of injured rose to 3,408, while the missing figure was 139.

4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Euan O'Byrne Mulligan

Rachel Reeves has pledged to inject £2bn into the Government’s affordable house building programme to deliver up to 18,000 additional homes. The Government described the funding as a “down payment” ahead of longer-term investment in social and affordable housing, expected to be announced later this year. It will be added to the Affordable Homes Programme, the main mechanism used by the Government to fund subsidised housing, which was previously given £11.5bn to deliver projects between 2021-26.