Nayib Bukele, the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator,” will mark six years as El Salvador’s president on Sunday, a period defined by contentious reforms, which critics say have ...

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Kidnappers have turned Abraka, Delta State’s university town, into a flashpoint, making the locals and students fearful of being kidnapped and killed. In the last few months, the local police ...

The Home Office has stepped in to slap down Sadiq Khan after he backed a "ridiculous" plan to decriminalise a class B drug. Khan's London Drugs Commission has recommended that possessing "personal use ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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Lawrence Hayes has received funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Chief Scientist Office (CSO), the RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, and the Physiological Society.

Eight people were gunned down on Friday night, in a second such massacre in the area in just two years. DURBAN - Fear has gripped residents of U-section in Umlazi, south of Durban, after another ...