3 h. ago Brazil’s former human rights minister formally accused of sexual misconduct

Brazil’s federal police have formally accused former human rights minister Silvio Almeida of sexual misconduct

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17 h. ago Voices: ‘She screamed in his face’: Readers share shocking examples of toxic bosses amid sick leave row

Our community say Britain’s workplace sickness crisis is driven not by ‘attitude’ but by toxic bosses, poor management, low pay and relentless pressure

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29 h. ago Moment knifeman who killed Porsche driver in 'Wild West' attack is tackled by police

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years for murder on Thursday

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58 h. ago Man who stabbed Porsche driver to death in 'Wild West' attack on Edgware Road jailed for life

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, killed Mohamed Abdi, 19, during an outbreak of violence near Edgware Road station

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58 h. ago Man jailed for murder over 'Wild West' knife fight in London

Man jailed for murder over 'Wild West' knife fight in London  BBC

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60 h. ago Porsche driver killed in 'Wild West' scenes as ruthless attacker jailed for life

Awad Abdel Samad, 24, insisted he was acting in self-defence when he took the life of Mohamed Abdi, 21, during a violent confrontation on London's Edgware Road last year

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63 h. ago Immigration courts backlog DOUBLES since Labour came to power, topping 121,000 cases

HM Courts and Tribunal Service published new data showing there are 121,010 applications awaiting a hearing in the immigration and asylum tribunal.

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3 d. ago Zelenskyy fires ministers accused of involvement in bribery scheme as public outrage grows

Ukraine president also calls for sanctions against friend and former business partner, saying ‘there must be maximum integrity’Volodymyr Zelenskyy has moved to contain growing public outrage in Ukraine over a corruption scandal in the energy sector by firing two ministers who are accused of involvement in a large-scale bribery scheme.Ukraine’s president said the pair – justice minister Herman Halushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Grynchuk – could no longer remain in their jobs. He also called for personal sanctions against his friend and former business partner Timur Mindich, the scheme’s alleged organiser. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Labour Traitors war: Who has been accused of plotting against the Prime Minister and why?

Sir Keir Starmer was forced to condemn ‘completely unacceptable’ briefings against his Health Secretary, Wes Streeting

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4 d. ago Men bear brunt of jobs bloodbath as number out of work tops one million for first time in a decade

Official figures showed the jobless rate among men climbed to 5.4 per cent in the three months to September, up from 4.2 per cent when Labour came to power last summer.

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4 d. ago Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer

PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be liftedUK politics live – latest updatesDecades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.Speaking to the GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Nigel Farage accuses government of only listening to big corporations who take ministers to Wimbledon

Britain's small business owners lose out because government only listens to big corporations whose lobbyists take ministers to Wimbledon, Nigel Farage has said.

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5 d. ago Jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis under new visa rules, warns prisons boss

THE Chief Inspector of prisons has warned that a jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis if the new visa restrictions are not reversed. Britain’s prisons are facing a staffing shortage as visa rules threaten to force a wave of foreign recruits to return home. There has been a surge...

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7 d. ago Record numbers of shoplifters are being jailed as UK fights back against crime 'epidemic'

EXCLUSIVE: While Britain continues to be hit hard by the cost of living crisis, more and more people are resorting to shoplifting, resulting in more offenders being jailed

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8 d. ago Dark truth behind world’s ‘tantric capital’ where Brit hippies chase sexual nirvana & male gurus ‘lure students to bed’

WITH alluring promises of ‘showers of love’ and classes on how to ‘surrender in bed’, it is the sun-soaked holiday hotspot beloved by hippy Brits seeking sexual nirvana. But beneath the surface, horrified insiders warn how this destination for ‘sacred eroticism’ has become a ‘Wild West’ for corruption and sexual abuse at the hands of...

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9 d. ago Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology

UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devicesIt is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a bit of a wild west”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside David Beckham's raucous knighthood afterparty at Gordon Ramsay's west London restaurant

Sir David’s rarely-seen nieces and nephews as well as his children shared glimpses from the wild night in west London

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1 week ago Pubgoer smashes stranger with bubble gum machine in Wild West

Luke Williams, 30, left his victim with 'horrific' injuries after the attack at The New Glynne Arms in Broughton, North Wales which 'came from nowhere', a court was told

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1 week ago Sicknote Britain is costing more than £200bn a year as the country slides into an 'avoidable crisis'

A new report by former John Lewis boss Sir Charlie Mayfield lays bare the impact of the growing problem on taxpayers, the NHS and the wider economy.

Economics

1 week ago Britain's child obesity crisis laid bare: One in three kids in parts of the UK now overweight or obese BEFORE they start primary school

Some 30 per cent of six-year-olds in County Durham were classed under the category, double the level logged in Wiltshire.

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