4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (279+ words) FORMER BBC journalist Ken Skates was confirmed today as the new leader of the Welsh Labour Party after the party’s historic defeat in this year’s Senedd elections. Mr Skates hailed his party’s fights against “injustice, intolerance, nepotism and cruelty” as…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (382+ words) A GROUP of Caribbean leaders have met senior Church of England clergy in London amid a growing push for slavery reparations, with activists also calling for the independence of the region’s remaining colonial territories. The reparations commission from the Caricom…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (435+ words) UNIONS demanded the Welsh government return to the negotiating table to rectify the “chronic underfunding” of additional learning needs in schools after its supplementary budget fell on Tuesday. Any future Plaid Cymru budget must include additional learning needs, the TUC…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago  (179+ words) CUBA has suffered a third nationwide power cut in two weeks amid a continuing US oil embargo. Fuel has been running out across Cuba since January, when US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (426+ words) IRAN’S paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened today to halt all energy exports from the Middle East after the United States reimposed a naval blockade on the country and intensified its campaign of air strikes. “The export of oil and gas from…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago  (210+ words) CLAIMS that fraudster Peter Murrell did not control Yes Scotland funds have been dismissed as “weasel words” by campaigners demanding police investigation. In a statement issued on behalf of former Yes Scotland supremo Blair Jenkins on Tuesday, lawyer Aamer Anwar…...

20+ hour, 28+ min ago  (247+ words) Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (433+ words) TRADE unions called for profit to be removed entirely from social care in Wales today as a new report shows that 75 per cent of identified adult care home places in Wales are run by for-profit providers. The report commissioned by…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (314+ words) LABOUR MPs have been urged to back new North Sea oil and gas in an open letter. The letter, signed by the GMB, Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), the Chemical Industries Association, Fuels Industry UK and others, insists government opposition to…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (268+ words) UKRAINE’S air force said today that it had intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a wave of overnight attacks, although other missiles and drones got through and hit the capital Kiev. It was the first time in almost…...