Protest organisers in New South Wales would be much less likely to end up fighting police in court for permission to hold rallies if the state had a charter of human rights instead of its “undemocratic” approvals system, a legal expert says. The organisers of Sydney’s weekly pro-Palestine rallies were in the supreme court on…
A former PhD student has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for arranging to send a young girl to Iraq for female genital mutilation (FGM), in the first conviction of its kind in England and Wales. Emad Kaky, 47, was found guilty of conspiring to commit FGM last month, the first…
The UK has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic deal. Here we detail the history of the archipelago. 1783 The first inhabitants arrive on the Chagos Islands: enslaved Africans, who are put to work on coconut plantations, producing copra, created by the French. Later, after their emancipation, indentured Indians arrive.…
Thomas Wilson prepares to hit a shot from Ross Whittaker and Christopher Haworth during the first round of the Pro Mens Doubles at the 2023 BioFreeze USA Pickleball National Championships held at the Brookhaven Country Club on November 8, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. Bruce Yeung | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images QVC, the owner…
Revolut CEO, Nikolay Storonsky (L) and Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Reuters British financial technology firm Revolut on Thursday criticized Facebook parent company Meta over its approach to tackling fraud, saying the U.S. tech giant should directly compensate people who fall victim to scams via its social media platforms. A day after Meta announced a partnership…
A court in the Netherlands has fined a man for harassing and intimidating a woman on a street in Rotterdam, in the first conviction under a new law tackling sexual harassment in public spaces. The 33-year-old man was fined €100 (£84) by a court in Rotterdam on Wednesday, months after he was accused of grabbing…
Rudy Giuliani texted the wrong number as he tried to persuade Michigan legislators to help overthrow the 2020 election. According to a document unsealed in federal court on Wednesday, on 7 December 2020, Giuliani tried to send a message urging someone unspecified to help in the plan to appoint a slate of fake electors. “So…
Tanzania has suspended the online operations of a top newspaper publisher after one of its publications ran an animated advert depicting the country’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, and referencing a spate of recent abductions and killings of dissidents. The advert, published on X and Instagram on Tuesday by the Citizen, an English-language newspaper, showed the…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Wolfspeed – The semiconductor stock fell nearly 5% following a downgrade to underperform from neutral at Mizuho. The firm sees pricing for silicon carbide – a semiconductor material used in electric vehicles – being down about 10% to 20% year-over-year in 2025. Mizuho also cited lower…
Typhoon Krathon has made landfall in Taiwan, bringing destructive wind and rain to the island’s second biggest city. The storm has killed at least two people, with several more reported missing and more than 120 injured. After hovering off Taiwan’s south-west coast for several days, Krathon hit Kaohsiung at about 12.40pm local time on Thursday,…
