13 h. ago Five men accused of gang raping British woman in Cyprus cleared after 'police errors'

The lawyer for a 20-year-old woman who accused five men of raping her in Ayia Napa in September 2023 says it is 'ridiculous' they were acquitted, adding that telling her the outcome of the case was 'one of the hardest phone calls I have ever had to make'

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14 h. ago Brit tourist dies after predicting his own 'ungodly' demise on holiday

Loving father Grant Paterson, from East Kilbride, Scotland posted an eerily accurate post on Facebook when he arrived in the Italian capital before the B&B he was staying at exploded

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15 h. ago Marine Le Pen slams ‘nuclear bomb’ court ruling as her party calls nationwide protest

Le Pen has vowed to fight a ban on her standing at the presidential elections after being convicted of embezzlement

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16 h. ago Brit tourist, 54, dies a week after gas explosion destroyed his B&B in Rome leaving loved

54-year-old Grant Paterson from East Kilbride was fighting for his life at Sant'Eugenio Hospital in the Italian capital after Saturday's horror blast.

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16 h. ago Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men accused of raping British woman

Woman’s lawyer says verdict proof of ‘patriarchal’ justice system and does not rule out taking case to European court of human rightsA Cyprus court’s acquittal of five men accused of abducting and raping a British woman in the resort of Ayia Napa has been met with outrage as calls mount for the verdict to be challenged.Dismissing the charges on Monday, the three-member district court in Paralimni ruled the testimony of the 20-year-old had not been credible because it “lacked coherence and contained numerous substantial contradictions”. The defendants, Israelis aged between 19 and 20, claimed sexual contact with the woman had been consensual. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago French far right calls for nationwide protests against Marine Le Pen ban

National Rally president says French electorate ‘must be outraged’ at judgment that would ‘rob’ them of a voice Europe live – latest updatesFrance’s far-right National Rally (RN) party is calling for nationwide demonstrations against a court decision to ban Marine Le Pen from public office for five years, seemingly wrecking her hopes of becoming president in 2027.Jordan Bardella, the RN president, said French people “must be outraged” after what he called a “disproportionate, political and partisan” judgment that would rob them of a voice in the election. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Brit tourist dies while snorkelling on dream holiday as he's found 'floating lifeless'

The body of an 81-year-old pensioner was found floating lifeless just 15ft away from the coast of Gili Trawangan island in Indonesia, according to police officials

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35 h. ago Revolting grooming gang leader admits 19 rape and sexual offences against underage girls

Ashley Darbyshire, 28, of Bolton Road, Westhoughton, was due to take the stand at Liverpool Crown Court this morning but changed his plea and admitted the acts.

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38 h. ago Five Israeli men are CLEARED of gang raping Brit tourist, 20, in Ayia Napa hotel as Cypriot court calls her testimony 'inconsistent'

The defendants from the Israeli Arab town of Majd al-Krum, all of whom were aged between 19 and 20 at the time of the alleged incident, were reported to police by the British woman in September 2023

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39 h. ago Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian officeFifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 'Heroic' Brit tourist overpowered Amsterdam knifeman after rampage through city's streets

Five people were injured

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3 d. ago ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courtsBehind the reinforced doors of courtroom number two, at a remote detention centre in central Louisiana, Lu Xianying sat alone before an immigration judge unable to communicate.Dressed in a blue jumpsuit that drooped from his slight frame, he waited as court staff called three different translation services, unable to find an interpreter proficient in his native Gan Chinese. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trumps calls on Supreme Court to let him deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act

Administration wants court to resume summary removals after deporting dozens of immigrants to El Salvador prison

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4 d. ago 'Polish Madeleine' 'turned up at the McCann family home with another female stalker after bombarding couple with calls, voicemails and WhatsApp messages', court hears

Karen Spragg (pictured), 60, is accused of turning up at Gerry and Kate McCann's home with co-accused Julia Wandel, 23, a Polish woman who has claimed to be their missing daughter Madeline.

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4 d. ago Grindr rapist kicked out of court after calling judge a 'f***ing rat'

Steven Osbourne, 37, raped his victim three times and threated to slit his throat

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4 d. ago Gang of four boys aged 15 to 17 who 'raped woman in churchyard alleyway' are to appear in court

The boys, two aged 15 and two aged 17, are accused of carrying out the sex attack in an alleyway off St Mary's Memorial Gardens in Newark on December 28, 2023.

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5 d. ago Brit tourist dies on Alicante holiday after drunk stranger 'suddenly fell on her'

Barbara Cahill was on holiday in the Costa Blanca city of Alicante when 'a very drunken man' suddenly fell on her - she was taken to hospital with a broken leg but died following complications

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5 d. ago Miami vibes: why a consistent coaching culture will be key for Emma Raducanu | Tumaini Carayol

She plays her best tennis in a positive environment but her setup at the Miami Open is unlikely to be for the long termNot long before she was due on court for one of the more significant occasions of her career so far, Emma Raducanu was pictured surrounded by her temporary team of the week – Jane O’Donoghue, Mark Petchey and Yutaka Nakamura – on the player warmup lawn inside the hulking Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. While many players try to enjoy a quiet moment alone in their own thoughts before being called on to court, team Raducanu were preoccupied by an epic spikeball battle.At one point during the game, which involves players rebounding a ball against a springy, circular target between them with their hands, Petchey threw himself on the ground in a doomed attempt to save the point. They were all soon doubled over with laughter. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israel orders army to ‘seize more ground’ in Gaza if Hamas does not release hostages

Call from defence minister comes as Supreme Court freezes Benjamin Netanyahu’s sacking of the domestic intelligence chief

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1 week ago Santosh review – terrifically tense cop movie digs into sexism and caste prejudice in India

Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami lead a sinewy crime drama as a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie who has inherited her late husband’s jobWriter-director Sandhya Suri has made a tense, violent and politically savvy crime procedural set in India: a film about sexism, caste bigotry and Islamophobia that doubles as a study in the complex relationship between two female cops, a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie. They are terrifically played by Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami in what is almost a gender-switched Indian version of Training Day.Suri is a film-maker who 20 years ago gave us a tremendous personal essay movie I for India, and this is her fiction-feature debut, which reportedly started as a documentary project inspired by public demonstrations about the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh. It centres on the Indian convention of “compassionate appointment”: the dependent widow of a public official can apply for the same job. Goswami plays Santosh, whose cop husband ...

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