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British police are assessing a complaint that ex-prince sent confidential trade reports to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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British police are assessing a complaint that ex-prince sent confidential trade reports to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
As of Monday afternoon, before official viewing and streaming figures were available, Turning Point’s halftime YouTube video had 20 million views while the NFL’s Super Bowl halftime had 26 million
Sebastien Lai told The Independent of his devastation at his father’s ‘almost comically large’ jail term but spoke of his pride that Lai had fought so hard for press freedom
Kyiv has denied accusations by Moscow that the shooting was an attempted assassination by Ukraine
The monarch says he will 'stand ready to support' the police if approached over the claims against his brother, Buckingham Palace said.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with financier could ‘bring down British monarchy,’ says Ro Khanna
The Iranian regime is carrying out secret extrajudicial executions and lethal injections on detainees following its lethal crackdown, human rights groups have warned.
Newly released documents detail convicted sex offender’s early backing of bitcoin and Coinbase Millions of files related to have brought to light his ties to the highest echelons of the cryptocurrency industry.Documents published last week by the US Department of Justice reveal Epstein the “principal home and funding source” for bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, during its nascent stages; he also $3m in Coinbase in 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the US, and that same year to Blockstream, a prominent bitcoin-focused technology firm. Both crypto startups accepted Epstein’s investments in 2014 – six years after his in Florida for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Ian Michael Elliott of neofascist Patriot Front worked ‘crisis relief missions’ funded by Department of AgricultureA federal security contractor that has been awarded millions of dollars by the Department of Agriculture hired a prominent white nationalist leader to work on its patrols last year.Ian Michael Elliott, a longstanding senior figure in the neofascist group Patriot Front, was part of “crisis relief missions” undertaken on the US west coast by Knight Division Tactical, according to an image shared on LinkedIn in September by one of the company’s executives.
The surge of federal immigration agents has forced many families to remain inside for weeks, living in fear of roving ICE patrols snatching people off the streetJosé hasn’t left his house in Saint Paul for 29 days – not to shovel the snow at his driveway, not to fix up the car.When the car needed an oil change, he video-called his wife, Sara, from inside so he could walk her through it. “I’ve only been from the bedroom to the living room,” he said. He’s afraid to even get near the front door.
Video featuring Himanta Biswa Sarma deleted by Hindu nationalist BJP party's Assam unit after backlash.
The latest tranche of files expose how he was viewed as a sexual svengali – and an expert on dodging the #MeToo movementA new tranche of has blasted its way through the worlds of media, politics, tech, academia, finance and Hollywood. High-profile individuals have once again been forced to explain their relationship with the billionaire financier – and why exactly they sent that email, or what they were doing in that photo, in that place, at that time. There have been Norway, Slovakia, France, and . Each individual scandal matters. But take the files as a whole and a new picture forms: of Jeffrey Epstein as a man who was seen to survive a sexual abuse scandal, and who was then feted as a sexual svengali and a valuable ally in navigating allegations of sexual abuse amid the #MeToo movement.The 3.5m documents that have thus far been released to the public – out of a reported 6m documents pertaining to Epstein in the US justice department’s possession – paint Epstein as someone for whom elites, and particularly elite men, often felt a sense of camaraderie and affection, maintaining intimate and friendly relationships long after his 2008 conviction on child sexual abuse charges. And their content implies that, in some cases, this was not simply a case of them turning a blind eye to their friend’s sexual crimes: the powerful actively approached Epstein for sexual and romantic advice, and saw him as a thrower of “wild” parties and a listening ear in whom they could confide their anxieties about the excesses of the #MeToo movement.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist
According to one former Hezbollah operative, Assad would spend hours glued to his phone, retreating into games rather than confronting spiralling military and political crises.
Commercial documents shed light on hundreds of shipments from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Prime minister’s Liberal Democratic party to be pressed on promised tax cuts and fiscal stimulus plansJapan’s stock market has hit a record high after Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic party (LDP) secured .The LDP won 316 of the 465 seats in the country’s lower house – the first time a single party has secured two-thirds of the lower house since the establishment of Japan’s parliament in 1947.
The Israeli president pays tribute to those who rushed to help Jews during the massacre and urges ‘we must all act to fight against’ antisemitism He came to Bondi beach with words, with “goodwill”, and with stones in his pocket.For two months, this place has reckoned with what happened here, struggled to comprehend the enormity of the massacre that unfolded on a Sunday afternoon.
Israeli closures have ceased to be temporary 'security measures' and now a daily reality that has redefined survival.
Dilley Immigration Processing Center in rural Texas withheld medication after ‘gravely ill’ toddler was sent back into its custody, according to federal lawsuit
Ghislaine Maxwell avoids answering questions on alleged co-conspirators in case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Fallout begins after tumultuous scenes in Sydney and Melbourne. Follow the latest news liveGet our , or The NSW premier, Chris Minns, is making the first of multiple appearances across the media this morning following the violent clashes between police and protesters yesterday evening.He has told Channel Nine’s Today program that police were “put in an impossible situation last night”:It’s worth remembering they did everything possible to avoid that confrontation, starting last week when they begged protest organisers to have it in Hyde Park, where it was safe and a march could take place.I know that some of the scenes on media are short clips, but people have to understand the circumstances where protesters breached police lines and ran amuck in Sydney would have been devastating.No. She’s wrong. I’m not going to throw police under the bus this morning. This is a situation that’s incredibly combustible. And the circumstances that weren’t shown on the news this morning or on TV last night because is what would have happened if protesters breached police lines ...It would have dangerous … as difficult as the scenes were to watch, it would have been infinitely worse if NSW police didn’t do their job last night.I think the - the protest organisers, when both the police and the courts said to them, yes, you can protest, but you can either do it in a stationary way here in Town Hall, if you want to march, you can march through a different part of the city, should have heeded that advice.But of course, some of the videos that we’ve seen have been very concerning. And I expect they’ll be investigated.
Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy American financier, died in a U.S. prison in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was officially ruled a suicide, though it remains the subject of public discussion. Epstein had been arrested in July 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. He previously served 13 months in 2008 […]
This is no longer a scandal the Palace can manage by keeping its distance or maintaining its silence.
This is no longer a scandal the Palace can manage by keeping its distance or maintaining its silence.
The role - now closed for applications - was shared earlier this year in a bid to enable 'informed reproductive decision making'.
Detentions of senior Reformists Front figures follow criticism of the authorities’ handling of recent protestsThe head of Iran’s Reformists Front, the organisation that was instrumental in securing the election of the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has been arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will probably deepen the tensions over the handling of the recent street protests.Azar Mansouri, the secretary general of the Islamic Iran People party, had expressed deep sorrow at protesters’ deaths, and said nothing could justify such a catastrophe. She had not in public called for the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to resign.
Six people were hurt in the attack on the region, which has been a frequent target of attacks in the nearly four-year war that started with Russian invasion in 2022
Iran's atomic energy chief makes comment as more mediated negotiations with the US expected.
At least 1,357 medical devices using AI are now authorized by the FDA – double the number it had allowed through 2022
The technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China, say expertsIran’s architecture of internet control is built on technologies from China, according to an analysis published by a British human rights organisation.The says the technologies include facial recognition tools used on Uyghurs in western China and a Chinese alternative to the US-based GPS system, BeiDou.
New data reveals a number of grammars are now being targeted by families from all over the country - and the world - because they have no catchment area.
Exclusive: Multimillion-pound contract raises concerns about controls designed to prevent firms unwittingly aiding destruction of Ukraine, specialists sayThe government has been urged to re-examine a British company’s contract to export hi-tech machinery to Armenia, after the Guardian uncovered links to the supply chain for Russia’s war machine.Sanctions experts and the chair of the House of Commons business committee questioned the government’s decision to award an export licence to Cygnet Texkimp.
The Israeli PM wants US-Iran talks to address Tehran’s ballistic missiles – a red line for Tehran.
We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girlsContempt everywhere. From Jeffrey Epstein’s email exchanges to the scandal of , contempt radiates. Contempt for women and girls, for the law, for the public. A continuum of disdain runs from Epstein on the one end to our political establishment on the other. The other thing that joins them is a restless pursuit of power.Contempt is not a byproduct of that power, it is the point of it. Procuring, trading, objectifying and violating women and girls is the summit of potency for those who already have everything else: money, status, respect. To subordinate another human being to your urges, to reduce her in all ways, is to be initiated into a club of super-predators who are above the law. The Epstein emails are a demonstration of how misogyny – there really should be a stronger word for it in this context – is a currency, lavishly spent to show how much power you have. The gut-twisting way that casual references to body parts would come up in correspondence is part of a whole language of signalling. Referring to women as “pussy” – – is to flash your exclusive club membership card.Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist
Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews granted thousands of 'golden ticket' visas to mega-rich Chinese migrants in exchange for 'significant investment'.
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, who co-authored the congressional bill that compelled Donald Trump to release the files, was asked about Lord Mandelson and Andrew.
Airlines from as far away as Russia, China and Spain have also been affected as island nation warns of fuel shortageAir Canada has cancelled all flights to after the island’s authorities said they were running out of aviation fuel, as a consequence of the US blockade on the Caribbean country.The airline, one of a dozen who serve the island, said it would begin repatriating 3,000 customers. Cuba’s beaches are a major holiday draw for Canadian tourists in winter, and one of the government’s most important sources of hard currency.
Brookfield locals have long been opposing the fossil fuel industry's expansion in their charming suburb, and they are now fighting a $272 million project tabled by the Iroquois Gas Transmission System.
New documents show some thought disgraced US financier had links to Israeli intelligence services and settler groups.BI
The lawsuit is the latest escalation in a price war between companies manufacturing weight loss drugs
Executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are expected to testify at the trial, which will last six to eight weeks
Nine members of police’s CRS division allegedly ‘repeatedly struck non-hostile demonstrators’ in Paris in 2018Nine officers from the French riot police have gone on trial in Paris accused of beating peaceful protesters who were sheltering from teargas during the (yellow vests) anti-government demonstrations in 2018.The case at Paris’s criminal court is one of the biggest trials over alleged police violence during , when hundreds of thousands of protesters in fluorescent jackets took to the streets over rising fuel taxes in what morphed into broader anti-government protests against the president, Emmanuel Macron.
David Stern told convicted sex offender his instinct was to ‘stay far away from’ Jonathan Rowland’s offer
The videos, understood to be seized from the disgraced financier's computer by US authorities, were published as part of the latest tranche of three million Epstein files.
Workers and unions condemn ICE operation as ‘horrific’ as pressure builds on Susan Collins, facing re-election this year Maine, the US’s whitest state, has been shaken by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, a crackdown that could threaten Republican control of the Senate in November’s crucial midterm elections.Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents launched “Operation ” in the state on 21 January, targeting “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens who have terrorized communities”, according to the administration.
Latifa Abouchakra, who works as a reporter for Iranian state channel Press TV, had been due to speak at the launch of the Anti-Zionist Movement (AZM).
She was just 14 when she was groomed by the R&B star, and filmed in an explicit video. She tells the extraordinary story of how she survivedPicture Reshona Landfair in 1996 at 12 years old, when she met the R&B superstar R Kelly (real name Robert Kelly). Her world, she says, seemed like “a buffet” spread out before her. She was a popular girl, a seriously talented basketball player and the youngest member – in her words, “the pint-sized girl rapper” – of , the singing group she had formed with three cousins. They’d been signed to a record label, made the Top 10 in eight countries and toured much of Europe. Her large extended family from the West Side of Chicago was tight-knit. Life was filled with music, sport, church, Sunday lunch at Grandma’s, family road trips and everybody knowing everybody’s business. “That was a beautiful time,” she says. “I had love and good people all around me. I was living in my true light of who I wanted to become. I felt like I was on my way.”Fast forward to Landfair at 26 years old, when she finally left Kelly’s orbit. By then, half her family weren’t speaking to the other half, and the relationships that survived were charged with guilt, unasked questions and terrible past mistakes. She had no friends left, as Kelly hadn’t allowed it. Her hopes of a musical career were also long gone – Kelly had made her leave 4 The Cause when she was just 15. She had no qualifications beyond high school and no idea what she wanted to do because, for more than a decade, she’d relied on Kelly to tell her. She couldn’t imagine a healthy relationship; she’d learned sex, she says, “through the lens of a paedophile”. Every element of her 12-year-old life, everything on that “buffet table”, had been destroyed by Kelly. Yet she is still told regularly by total strangers that she must be a “gold digger”, that she “rode the gravy train” and took Kelly for all she could get.
Becca Good decided not to speak to the crowd but rather gave a statement to Rabbi Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg to read aloud at Powederhorn park in Minneapolis.
One teenager was shown a violent video of a man drugging and kidnapping a woman within just eight minutes of opening a TikTok account.
Liam Gallagher's ex-girlfriend Lisa Moorish has launched a blistering public takedown of socialite Lady Victoria Hervey
Art Not Evidence group wants change in law that currently allows lyrics by defendants to be presented as evidence of gang affiliationCampaigners are urging ministers to change the law so that music lyrics are inadmissible in court, a shift that they say would stop a practice that disproportionately affects young black men and criminalises creativity.At present, police can produce lyrics written by defendants, and even flag an appearance in the background of a music video, as evidence that a suspect is affiliated with a gang or involved in criminality.