Central 103.1 FM

1 month ago | centralfm.co.uk | Dominic Waghorn |in Kyiv

That is the essence of Donald Trump's foreign policy laid out unashamedly this week. And in the Middle East, it might just pay dividends. Can it work elsewhere, most of all to end Russia's war with Ukraine? Or will it make matters worse? For his critics, Trump's Middle East tour has been purely transactional and amoral. No lectures to the autocrats of the region about human rights. No pressure to make them more like America. But that's the point.

1 month ago | centralfm.co.uk | Michael Drummond

The IDF's military campaign against Hamas has left half a million people there facing starvation, with the situation particularly acute among children. "I've seen a child that's five years old, and you would say it was two-and-a-half," WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Rik Peeperkorn, said on Tuesday. Figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry suggest that 55 children have died from acute malnutrition.

1 month ago | centralfm.co.uk | Adam Parsons

Depardieu, 76, was convicted by a court in Paris of groping the women during the filming of the 2021 movie Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters). Both victims had been working on the film in behind-the-scenes roles. Following his convictions, Depardieu was fined €29,040 (about £24,000) and the court requested that he is registered in the national sex offender database. His lawyer Jeremie Assous said the star, who denied assault and did not attend Tuesday's hearing, will appeal against the verdict.

1 month ago | centralfm.co.uk | Lara Keay

Gerard Depardieu, 76, has starred in more than 200 films over five decades, winning two best lead actor awards at the Cesars, as well as being nominated for an Oscar and 15 other Cesars. On Tuesday, judges at the Tribunal de Paris found him guilty of two counts of sexual assault, both of which he denied and says he will appeal. He was given an 18-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay a €20,000 (£16,800) fine.

1 month ago | centralfm.co.uk | Emma Birchley

Sharon Miller and Wayne Birkett were among three people who survived when Valdo Calocane ploughed into them with a van he'd stolen from 65-year-old Ian Coates, after stabbing him to death. Calocane had already killed Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber as they walked home in June 2023. They were just 19. "I thought I was dying. I just wish he had taken me instead of the students," said Sharon of the teenagers, who had "their whole lives ahead of them".