The Swiss insurer Zurich alleges it has been the victim of fraud in a counter-claim in London over the demise of the Greensill business empire, drawing the financier Lex Greensill and the metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta into a £320m court battle. Zurich Insurance Company was last year sued in the high court by the administrators…
1:10 Protesting farmers blockaded roads and camped outside the European parliament building in Brussels on Thursday, ahead of a EU leaders’ summit in the Belgian capital. The demonstrators lit two fires outside and placed their tractors in front of the European parliament building. Farmers have been protesting across Europe against rising costs in the agriculture…
New buildings in the EU must have no emissions from fossil fuels by 2030, and boilers that use those sources will be banned by 2040 under a new deal on energy and homes. The rules, agreed between MEPs and member states but not yet formally adopted, set targets to make buildings waste less energy. Subsidies…
Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as UK home secretary after she was blamed for inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests and saying police favoured leftwing protesters. A government source told the Guardian: “Rishi Sunak has asked Suella Braverman to leave government and she has accepted.” Her dismissal is expected to form part of a…
Michigan Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, has released a video accusing Joe Biden of supporting the “genocide of the Palestinian people”. Tlaib has been a withering critic of Biden’s staunch backing of the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza and the White House refusal to listen to demands from…
A 44-year-old Victorian man has been charged with the murder of Bendigo mother Analyn “Logee” Osias, who was found dying at her home where her two primary school-age children were also located. The 46-year-old woman died in hospital after emergency services found her unresponsive inside the home at Kangaroo Flat, in central Victoria, late on…
Snowy is the oldest known minke whale in Europe, while Knobble appears to adore attention – or, at least, the whale has been spotted more than 60 times since 2002, mostly close to the Isle of Mull. Photographic records of minke whales submitted by members of the public are being published in a digital catalogue,…
The former Aston Villa winger Anwar El Ghazi has been suspended by Mainz over a social media post relating to the conflict in Israel and Gaza. The 28-year-old Dutchman, who joined Mainz last month, has since deleted the pro-Palestinian post, the content of which was deemed “unacceptable” by his club. A statement from the Bundesliga…
A telecommunication cable connecting Sweden and Estonia has been damaged, Sweden’s civil defence minister has said. Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the incident appeared to have occurred at the same time as a subsea gas pipeline and a telecom cable connecting Finland and Estonia were damaged on 8 October. Helsinki has said it cannot exclude the possibility…
Italy’s top court has ordered a retrial after Amanda Knox appealed for the dropping of the slander conviction she received for wrongly accusing a bar owner of murdering the British student Meredith Kercher. Knox, an American who, along with her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, spent four years in prison after initially being convicted of the…
