Private clinics are wooing customers by offering short-notice consultations. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA The Guardian By Sarah Marsh and Denis Campbell Signs that NHS’s inability to offer prompt care is creating surge in people resorting to private care Patients are paying up to £550 an hour to see private GPs amid frustration at the delays many

By Anadolu Agency Russia is seeking new partners to promote agricultural and industrial cooperation, and create transport and logistics chains, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, highlighting the “significant role” of Russian Muslims in expanding his country’s international contacts. Putin’s remarks came in a statement read at the meeting of the Group of Strategic

File – Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong listens beside Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo during a joint press conference at a hotel in Makati City, Philippines on Thursday May 18, 2023. An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive in West Africa for more than seven years has been released, the Australian government said on Friday,

By Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to announce a ban on Russian diamonds and imports of metals from Russia including copper, aluminium and nickel in support for Ukraine, his government said in a statement. Britain is also targeting an additional 86 people and companies from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military industrial complex, in

File – An SGR cargo train travels from the port containers depot on a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion, opened by Kenya’s president as one of the country’s largest infrastructure project since independence, in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2017, as part of a plan to link a large part of East Africa to

An Aston Martin Valkyrie car is driven off the production line at the company’s factory in Gaydon, Britain, March 16, 2022. Photographer Phil Noble/Reuters By Reuters Aston Martin’s shares jumped nearly 25% on Thursday after the luxury carmaker announced a 234 million pound investment by China’s Geely, doubling the automotive firm’s stake to make it

By Business Daily Africa Kenya plans to build three more ships to enhance the export of oil products to Uganda through Lake Victoria. Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir said this would ensure daily trips from the current weekly voyages to the landlocked country. Despite being launched in early January, Kenya has only shipped

File Photo/Somali Times The federal government of Somalia announced yesterday that it expelled two men born in Germany and Poland, named Jocek Jozef Ochman and Ralf Bernhard Gehlig. The government did not officially announce at the time why two foreign men were expelled from the country, but an investigation it found out that these two

File – A Ford sign is shown at a dealership in Springfield, Pa., Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Ford Motor Co. is recalling certain 2004 to 2006 Ranger vehicles, Friday, May 5, 2023, because replacement front passenger air bag inflators may have been installed incorrectly. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a letter that

By Anadolu Agency At least 39 people are missing after a Chinese vessel capsized in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, Chinese state media reported. The missing persons include 17 Chinese crew members, 17 Indonesians, and five Filipinos, Chinese public broadcaster CGTN reported on Wednesday. It said the vessel was a Chinese fishing boat which “capsized