5 h. ago Eight people ‘linked to Albanian mafia’ arrested over plot to kill Brussels’ chief prosecutor

Suspects linked to drug trafficking underworld found after a four-month-long investigation

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55 h. ago Chief prosecutor reassures Scots sex abuse victims after Supreme Court judgment

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has said that sex abuse of women and children was “the single greatest challenge our justice system faces”.

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58 h. ago Chief prosecutor reassures victims of sex abuse after Supreme Court judgment

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC says safeguards ‘remain firmly in place’ after judges’ ruling on questioning of victims’ history

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6 d. ago Terrifying moment China's brand new 2,500ft bridge collapses into river just weeks after opening

Shocking footage captured the moment the 2,487-foot-long Hongqi Bridge in southwest China crumbled apart after a landslide.

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7 d. ago Huge bridge linking China to Tibet collapses just months after opening

Video footage seen on X shows the bridge crumbling into the river below

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7 d. ago Video: Newly built bridge collapses into river after massive landslide in China

No casualties have been reported due to the timely closing

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7 d. ago Staggering moment 2,500ft bridge collapses in cloud of dust just MONTHS after opening in China

THIS is the shocking moment a 2,500ft bridge collapses in a cloud of dust, just months after opening in China. Dramatic footage shows a massive landslide engulfing the Hongqi Bridge in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, leading to its horrifying collapse on Tuesday 11. In the video, the hillside begins to give way in a...

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8 d. ago Istanbul's jailed mayor Imamoglu faces 142 criminal charges in corruption probe

Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed an indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu

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2 w. ago Andrew's bid for police help to smear Virgina Giuffre must be fully investigated, says former prosecutor

Nazir Afzal, the ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, today said there needed to be 'full transparency' into whether Andrew asked one of his bodyguards to investigate his accuser.

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2 w. ago Top lawyer accuses chief prosecutor of bungling China 'spying' case saying trial SHOULD have gone ahead

Lord Carlile of Berriew, a long-serving KC and the government's former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said there was 'ample' evidence for a prosecution.

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3 w. ago Lord Hermer condemns 'disgraceful allegations' that Starmer and Jonathan Powell collapsed China spy case

Lord Richard Hermer said he had been both disappointed and surprised that the trial of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry had collapsed.

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3 w. ago Hermer blames collapse of China spy case on law ‘not fit for purpose’

The Attorney General said prosecutors had been working in ‘good faith’ to secure a conviction.

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3 w. ago In UK’s interest to ‘protect’ collapsed China spying case documents – minister

The case was withdrawn last month after the Crown Prosecution Service said it did not have the evidence to secure a conviction.

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3 w. ago Tories to push for Commons vote demanding release of 'China files' linked to collapsed spying trial

Kemi Badenoch 's party will use a House of Commons debate to call for the release of Government documents related to the trial.

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3 w. ago Tories to demand release of documents in collapsed China spying case

Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry deny wrongdoing.

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3 w. ago China spy case evidence was not strong enough for trial, says chief prosecutor

Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, insisted the failure of the case was not ‘a question of blame’.

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3 w. ago Prosecution chief to be quizzed in Parliament over collapse of China spying case

Director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson and securocrat Matt Collins will be questioned by MPs and peers.

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3 w. ago Government says Attorney General was not involved in collapsed China spy case

Robert Jenrick had asked why Baron Richard Hermer had not provided evidence to stop the case collapsing.

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4 w. ago Hermer and Jones summoned to public hearing on China spy case collapse

The Attorney General and Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister have been asked to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry next Tuesday.

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4 w. ago Top lawyers rounding on chief prosecutor over China spy case collapse rebuked

A CPS source says legal experts are entitled to offer an opinion ‘based on published documents and media reports’.

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