67 h. ago House of Fraser closing another department store as shoppers 'genuinely gutted'

The building has now been listed for sale for £3million with Vickery Holman, a commercial property agent, handling the process

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4 d. ago My rape hell in Gaza: 'Sex slave' hostage feared she was pregnant after being raped while unconscious and describes how one attacker was 'ecstatic' as she wept through 30

In an explosive interview, former hostage Romi Gonen revealed the sexual abuse she suffered in Gaza, including fears she'd die as a sex slave and a pregnancy scare.

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1 week ago Rugby brain injury case suffers huge blow after judge rejects court appeal

Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims face strike-outAppeal over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have both been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The appeal judge, Mr Justice Dexter Dias, ruled that the judge presiding over the management of the case, Senior Master Jeremy Cook, had been right to find that the claimants firm, Rylands Garth, had failed to fulfil its obligations to disclose necessary medical material to the defendants, World Rugby, the Wales Rugby Union, and the Rugby Football Union in one case, and the Rugby Football League in the other. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rugby brain injury case suffers blow after judge rejects court appeal

Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims face strike-outAppeal over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have both been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The appeal judge, Mr Justice Dexter Dias, ruled that the judge presiding over the management of the case, Senior Master Jeremy Cook, had been right to find that the claimants firm, Rylands Garth, had failed to fulfil its obligations to disclose necessary medical material to the defendants, World Rugby, the Wales Rugby Union, and the Rugby Football Union in one case, and the Rugby Football League in the other. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rugby brain injury case suffers blow after judge rejects court appeals

Up to 80% of league and 20% of union claims could be struck outAppeals over medical record disclosure denied on all groundsTwo appeals launched by the legal firm representing former players in rugby league and rugby union have been denied in a significant blow to the ongoing legal action about brain damage caused by the sport. It means that after five years of legal arguments a large number of the claimants in both codes face the risk of having their cases struck out before they come to trial.The appeal judge, Lord Justice Dias, ruled that the judge presiding over the management of the case, Senior Master Jeremy Cook, had been right to find that the claimants’ firm, Rylands Garth, had failed to fulfil its obligations to disclose necessary medical material to the defendants, World Rugby, the Wales Rugby Union, and the Rugby Football Union in one case, and the Rugby Football League in the other. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘I was a British POW tortured by Russia; this is how Ukraine and the West can win this war’

Aiden Aslin, a British volunteer who joined the Ukraine’s marines, was captured and tortured by Putin’s forces in 2022 and is now back fighting the Kremlin. He tells his story to the World of Trouble podcast with world affairs editor Sam Kiley in eastern Ukraine

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2 w. ago London endometriosis sufferer challenges consulting giant in ‘David vs Goliath’ court appeal

London endometriosis sufferer challenges consulting giant in ‘David vs Goliath’ court appeal  South West Londoner

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2 w. ago It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating ruleThe justices of the US supreme court – even its conservatives – have traditionally valued their institution’s own standing. John Roberts, the current US chief justice, has always been praised – even by liberals – as a staunch advocate of the court’s image as a neutral arbiter. For decades, Americans believed the court soared above the fray of partisan contestation.No more.Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn teach law at Harvard and Yale Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Maga loyalist expands investigation into intelligence officials who angered Trump

Experts decry Jason Reding Quiñones’s ‘fishing expedition’ as subpoenas reportedly issued to John Brennan and othersA Maga loyalist US attorney in Miami is expanding an investigation of ex-FBI and intelligence officials who incurred Donald’s Trump’s wrath with an inquiry into how Russia helped him win in 2016, despite the US justice department suffering stinging recent court rejections of indictments of two foes of the US president.Former prosecutors and legal experts call the Miami-based inquiry, which has issued some two dozen subpoenas so far, a “fishing expedition”. The investigation’s apparent focus is to identify ways to criminally charge ex-FBI and intelligence officials who have already been investigated and effectively exonerated by two special counsels and a Republican-led Senate panel, which mounted exhaustive inquiries into Russia’s efforts to boost Trump in 2016. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Peter Greene was found 'facedown' lying on the floor and a strange 'handwritten note' was discovered at his home following his death aged 60

The Pulp Fiction actor was found dead inside his apartment in New York City 's Lower East Side in the late afternoon on Friday, December 12.

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2 w. ago The Trump administration keeps picking fights with pop stars. It’s a no

By using music from SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo in ICE videos, the government is playing a game of rage-baitLast week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland Security employee – I picture the worst sniveling, self-satisfied, hateful loser – got to work on the official X account. The state-employed memelord posted a video depicting Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials arresting people in what appeared to be Chicago, celebrating the humiliation and incarceration of undocumented immigrants as some sort of patriotic achievement. The vile video borrowed, as they often do, from mainstream pop culture; in this case, a viral lyric from Sabrina Carpenter’s song Juno – “Have you ever tried this one?,” referring to sex positions – overlaid clips of agents chasing, tackling and handcuffing people, cheekily nodding to all the methods in ICE’s terr...

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3 w. ago ‘The holy family is in hiding’: nativity scenes at US churches push back on ICE

Displays include handcuffed baby Jesus and Mary wearing a gas mask in wake of Trump’s immigration crackdownSatirical holiday displays mocking Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, portraying the newborn Jesus and his parents, Mary and Joseph, as victims of heavy-handed tactics by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have appeared across the US.One striking retelling of the Christmas story, at Lake Street church in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, features baby Jesus lying in a manger in the snow – but wrapped in the kind of thin, foil blankets given out in emergencies and regularly as bedding to ICE detainees, and with his wrists zip-tied. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Buy her, she hasn't been raped yet': Yazidi sex slave tells German court of the hell she suffered aged 12 at the hands of ISIS 'owner' who would torture her and force her to have sex every night

A Yazidi woman who was sold as a sex slave aged 12 has told a German court how ISIS fighters sneered 'buy her, she hasn't been raped yet' before an extremist 'owner' allegedly tortured her.

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3 w. ago Blake Lively's $161M court battle against Justin Baldoni suffers another setback as judge delays trial and pushes feuding co

Blake Lively's $161million harassment trial against Justin Baldoni has been delayed to May 18 as the judge prioritizes criminal cases and pushes for a possible settlement.

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3 w. ago Kenova report reveals Stakeknife was taken on holiday while wanted by police

It also details how the Army’s agent in the IRA was handed tens of thousands of pounds.

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3 w. ago MI5 turned blind eye to ‘grotesque’ crimes committed by IRA spy ‘Stakeknife’, report finds

MI5 has also apologised after handing over previously undisclosed material on the agent that too late for it to be investigated properly

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3 w. ago Badenoch pledges to ‘draw a line’ on which health issues get welfare support

The Tory leader said the system was not designed to handle ‘the age of diagnosis which we now live in’.

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3 w. ago How the MI5 'allowed Britain's top agent inside IRA to get away with murder'... these are the damning findings of a report into mole 'Stakeknife'

The Daily Mail can reveal that the double agent codenamed 'Stakeknife' was even taken on holiday by his handlers to evade arrest when he was wanted by police.

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3 w. ago Inside chilling mind of dad who 'forced kids on torture hike and left them alone to die'

A father allegedly dragged his three children up a dangerous mountain and abandoned them in death-defying conditions. Experts have delved into what could have been going through his mind on that fateful day

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3 w. ago Man Utd handed Adam Wharton encouragement as agent reveals transfer plan

Manchester United have Crystal Palace and England star Adam Wharton right at the top of their transfer shortlist as they aim to add a new midfielder to Ruben Amorim’s squad

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