The intelligence warning comes a week after tensions between the neighbours rose following an attack that killed 26 people in India-administered Kashmir.
Day: May 1, 2025
Seven children on their way home were injured in the suspected deliberate attack in Osaka, according to local media
A man has been arrested in the Japanese city of Osaka after allegedly driving his car into seven schoolchildren in a suspected deliberate attack, local media said.
The children, who were on their way home from school, were injured and taken to hospital but all seven remained conscious, according to the public broadcaster NHK and other outlets.
Labour face first electoral test since general election with more than 1,600 council seats up for grabs
Good morning. It’s started. People are already voting in the 2025 local elections. They are England-only, and there are around 1,600 council seats up for grabs (in some other years, there are more than 8,000 seats up for election in England alone), and so in some respects it’s a minor set of local elections. But you will never find a political commentator willing to say an election is not important and this year there is plenty to get excited about. That is partly because it is Labour’s first electoral test since the general election (and no governing party in modern times has seen its popularity collapse so quickly, as John Curtice pointed out this week). But mostly it is because two-party politics has collapsed, there are now five political parties that competitive in England and the rise of Reform UK means a realignment of the right is already happening. These elections will show how developed that process is.
Today people are voting for:
Government to press ahead with net zero plans as Keir Starmer rejects Tony Blair’s criticisms of climate policy
Almost all new homes in England will be fitted with solar panels during construction within two years, the government will announce after Keir Starmer rejected Tony Blair’s criticism of net zero policies.
Housebuilders will be legally required to install solar panels on the roofs of new properties by 2027 under the plans.