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Anneliese Dodds says the honour for Mohamed Mansour appears clearly tied to his £5m donation to the Tories
Rishi Sunak’s decision to hand a knighthood to a businessman and former Egyptian government minister who donated £5m to the Conservative party is the sign of a prime minister who “simply believes he’s on the way out”, Labour has said.
Mohamed Mansour, a senior treasurer of the Tory party for just over a year, was among surprise recipients of honours unexpectedly announced late on Thursday, who also included a series of Conservative MPs.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:20:44 GMT
Exclusive: Territory’s government calls for visit to listen to those thought to be living with consequences of forced fitting of IUDs
The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said.
In an attempt to reduce the population of the former Danish colony, at least 4,500 women and girls are believed to have undergone the medical procedure, usually without their consent or knowledge, at the hands of Danish doctors between 1966 and 1970 alone.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:00:33 GMT
Civilians and military personnel killed and injured in strike targeting Hezbollah weapons depots, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Today marks one year since WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russia on 29 March 2023.
The 32-year-old American journalist has been held in the infamous Lefortovo prison on the outskirts of Moscow on the grounds of espionage charges that are entirely unsupported by evidence, Julian Borger reports.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:45:01 GMT
Actor speaks for first time about how 10-year-old’s death in 2000 spurred him and others to ‘aim further’
The actor John Boyega has spoken for the first time of the “life-changing” impact of his friendship with Damilola Taylor and the way his sudden death spurred him and others to “aim further”.
Boyega, 32, best known for his work in the Star Wars franchise, was school friends with Damilola growing up in south-east London. Damilola was 10 when he was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle walking home from a computer class in Peckham in November 2000.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:10:56 GMT
Rakeem Thomas remanded in custody after incident near Beckenham that left victim in critical condition
A teenager has been charged with attempted murder after a stabbing on a train in south London.
British Transport Police said they received reports of two men fighting between Beckenham and Shortlands railway stations shortly before 4pm on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:44:15 GMT
Storm Nelson brings 50mph gusts, rail lines hit by flooding and roads expected to be busy
Millions of people in the UK are expected to hit the roads on Good Friday, as strong winds from the Spanish-named Storm Nelson hit the start of the Easter getaway.
The ferry company DFDS reported that its services at Dover were running with delays “due to strong winds in the Channel” as the long weekend got under way, with 2 million British holidaymakers scheduled to travel abroad.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:46:51 GMT
Online footage show jet on fire as Ukrainian security expert claims it was shot down
Ukraine claims to have shot down 84 aerial targets during the Russian drone and missile offensive.
The defence Ministry of Ukraine said it had shot down 58 Shahed UAVs, 17 Kh-101 cruise missiles, five Kh-59 guided air missiles and four Iskander-K cruise missiles.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:42:10 GMT
Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists
The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.
Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.
Continue reading...Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:02:02 GMT
Rights groups say Antonina Favorskaya is accused of links to Alexei Navalny’s ‘extremist organisation’ and is one of six journalists held this month
A journalist who filmed the last video of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny before he died, Antonina Favorskaya, has been detained by authorities.
Favorskaya covered the trials of Navalny for several years and media freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders said on Thursday she was one of six journalists across the country held this month.
Continue reading...Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:22:40 GMT
Dan Dafydd, who accidentally ordered 80 cases of eggs, aims to raise £20,000 for the RNLI by Easter Sunday
For a small shop owner on a small island as far as mistakes go, Dan Dafydd’s was a pretty big one leaving him with quite a dilemma: how do you get rid of 80 cases of Easter eggs when you meant to order only 80 eggs?
For Dafydd, the owner of Sinclair General Stores on Sanday, one of the Orkney islands (population approximately 500), the 720 eggs were enough to feed everyone almost twice over. A few too many even for those with a sweet tooth.
Continue reading...Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:05:55 GMT
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