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Keir Starmer pays back £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality
Keir Starmer has paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality, including Taylor Swift tickets and rented clothing for his wife, after a [more…]
Prosecutors call for 15-year sentence for McCann suspect in unrelated rape trial
German prosecutors have called for a sexual offences conviction and 15-year prison sentence for a man who is also under investigation separately over the disappearance [more…]
Keir Starmer tells Brussels press conference it was ‘right’ for him to repay £6,000 worth of gifts – as it happened
paid back more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality he received since entering Number 10 after a row over ministerial donations. The Labour peer [more…]
Bad jokes, war stories and rehashed rhetoric: key takeaways from the Tory leadership speeches
The four Conservative leadership candidateseach sought to charm members with 20-minute speeches setting out their vision for the party. 1. Tom Tugendhat Tugendhat’s speech was [more…]
Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400,000 over cybersecurity failings
Sellafield will have to pay almost £400,000 after it pleaded guilty to criminal charges over years of cybersecurity failings at Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site. [more…]
Gold Coast high school students hospitalised after eating mushroom gummies – as it happened
Queensland state election Katter’s Australian party will preference the Liberal National Party for the first time in a crucial north Queensland region at the state [more…]
More than 9,000 scam Facebook pages deleted after Australians lose $43.4m to celebrity deepfakes
Australians could see fewer deepfake images of celebrities being hauled off in handcuffs, or promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment on Facebook, after Meta launched a [more…]
Typhoon Krathon: Taiwan shuts down as it braces for storm’s landfall
Taiwan has grounded flights and closed schools, offices and financial markets ahead of a typhoon approaching the main island’s south west, after bringing flash floods [more…]
New Caledonia election postponed for a year by France’s new prime minister
France’s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has announced that a provincial election scheduled for December in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia has been [more…]
Justin Trudeau survives a second parliamentary confidence vote
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, has survived a second parliamentary confidence motion in less than a week after opposition parties vowed to keep his minority [more…]
