9 h. ago South Africa debates renaming national park dedicated to controversial former president

Kruger National Park attracts nearly one million visitors each year

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9 h. ago CCTV of asylum seeker 'following migrant hotel worker to deserted railway platform where he stabbed her to death with a screwdriver' is shown in court

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, went on trial on Tuesday accused of launching a 'frenzied attack' on Rhiannon Whyte as she commuted home from the Park Inn Hotel.

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10 h. ago Madeleine McCann family got 'begging' voicemail saying 'do a DNA test and we'll go away'

Karen Spragg, 61, from Cardiff, and Julia Wandelt, 24, from Poland, are both on trial at Leicester Crown Court accused of stalking Kate and Gerry McCann along with their children

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12 h. ago Gen Z are driving Madagascar’s protests. Why are they so angry?

Madagascar's turmoil follows youth-led protest movements around the world in the past few weeks

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15 h. ago ‘Nerdy’ science buff claimed he had caused explosion in garden shed, court told

Harry Whittaker is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of making and possessing explosive substances at his home in Caddington, Bedfordshire.

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18 h. ago Wriggling Yvette Cooper refuses to voice 'confidence' in deputy national security chief after China spying trial collapse as ministers are accused of 'scapegoating' official

The Foreign Secretary refused to say if Matthew Collins should remain in his post or if she had confidence in his ability, in the deepening row over how Beijing is handled by Labour .

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25 h. ago Labour accused of making deputy national security adviser 'scapegoat' over collapse of China spying trial

Labour have blamed Jonathan Powell's deputy for the controversial collapse of the Chinese spies case.

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36 h. ago Madeleine McCann's mum Kate sent texts by 'stalker' claiming 'you are mummy'

Julia Wandelt, 24, a Polish national, is on trial along with Karen Spragg, 61, from Cardiff, accused of stalking the family of Madeleine McCann as a jury heard a series of voice messages

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36 h. ago Madagascar: Is there a coup and why has the president fled the country?

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has reportedly fled the country after an elite military group joined violent anti-government protests

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38 h. ago Jury sworn in for trial of Sudanese man accused of train station murder

Deng Majek denies the murder of Rhiannon Whyte and unlawfully possessing a screwdriver at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium station.

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40 h. ago ‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sense of what happened?‘It is so rare, in fact it never happens, that crimes are so well documented.” Manon Garcia is the French feminist philosopher whose thinking featured so prominently in the final stages of the Dominique Pelicot trial. There are, she points out, 20,000 videos and photos of Gisèle Pelicot “being raped, unconscious, by complete strangers”. One might struggle to understand why, in the face of such compelling factual evidence against her husband Dominique and a further 50 men, prosecutors would need to bring in a philosophical argument to explain why this was wrong. But since they did, they couldn’t have found a clearer or more persuasive voice than Garcia’s, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive and The Joy of Consent.Last November, six weeks into the trial, Garcia ar...

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41 h. ago Live court updates as trial of eight accused of taking part in Ely riots continues

The riots in the Cardiff suburb broke out on May 22, 2023, following the deaths of Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, who were killed in a crash while riding an electric bike in Snowden Road

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59 h. ago US will be ‘perplexed’ by UK decision to drop China spy case, says ex

John Sawers questions why prosecutors chose not to proceed with trial of two Britons accused of espionage

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4 d. ago Madeleine McCann 'stalker' sent police '8 reasons' she was missing girl, trial hears

Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg are on trial accused of stalking the McCann family, with Wandelt, 24, sending messages to Amelie via social media, claiming to be Madeleine

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4 d. ago Madeleine McCann stalking trial hears dramatic phone call from detective

A trial of two women accused of stalking the McCann family heard a phone call between a key detective on the missing case and a woman who allegedly claimed she is Madeleine

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4 d. ago Afghan channel migrant is found guilty of making threat to kill Nigel Farage in TikTok post

Afghan national Fayaz Khan went on trial on Tuesday accused of making threats to kill Nigel Farage on TikTok, after the Reform UK leader highlighted the migrant's intended journey to the UK

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4 d. ago Foreign Secretary refuses to say if she saw dossier branding China a ‘threat’

The document could have been key to the collapsed trial of two men accused of spying for China.

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4 d. ago Murder accused claims girlfriend found dead with 18 knife wounds 'stabbed herself'

Michael Ormandy is on trial accused of the murder of his girlfriend, Rebekah Campbell

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5 d. ago Immigrant teen schoolboys ‘gang rape’ teacher, 28, and hold her as sex slave before setting her flat on fire’ in Austria

A GANG of immigrant teenage boys are on trial in Vienna accused of blackmailing, raping, and tormenting a teacher for months - before torching her flat in a bid to destroy the evidence. The horrific case involves seven defendants aged between 14 and 17, all with migrant backgrounds, who are alleged to have turned the...

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5 d. ago Alleged stalker’s interactions ‘creepy’, Madeleine McCann’s siblings tell court

Julia Wandelt is on trial accused of targeting McCann family in a two-and-a-half-year harassment campaignMadeleine McCann’s brother and sister have described being stressed and scared by their “creepy” and “deeply disturbing” interactions with an alleged stalker who claimed to be their missing sister.Giving evidence at the trial of Julia Wandelt, 24, who stands accused of targeting the family in a two-and-a-half-year harassment campaign, the twins Amelie and Sean McCann recalled the defendant contacting them a number of times saying she was Madeleine, who disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007 when she was three and they were two. Continue reading...

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