The US embassy in Zambia has warned its citizens to be wary of a new “intrusive” cyber-security law introduced in the southern African country. The embassy issued an alert telling Americans “in or planning to visit Zambia of a new law that requires the interception and surveillance of all electronic communications in the country”. This...
PA Media The prime minister met steelworkers in Lincolnshire shortly after the hearing in House of Commons There was a moment where all they could do was wait. Government officials were holed up in a Premier Inn down the road from British Steel’s steelworks in Scunthorpe and parliament’s work to change the law to allow...
The Supreme Court made two key initial procedural rulings on Monday in cases related to the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to grease the wheels of mass detention and mass deportation primarily through outsourcing to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison, which is known worldwide for its flagrant human rights abuses. In its...
Jaz Coleman announces groundbreaking choral work based on Aleister Crowley’s ‘The Book of the Law’ Dr. Jaz Coleman has embarked on the creation of a groundbreaking choral work based on Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), the mystical text received through transmissions to Aleister Crowley in 1904 during his time in Cairo....
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via Reuters More than 200 Venezuelans, who the White House alleges are gang members, have been deported from the US to a notorious mega-jail in El Salvador. Out of the 261 people deported, 137 were removed under the Alien Enemies Act, a senior administration...
The US Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to continue to use a rarely-invoked wartime powers law to carry out rapid mass deportations of alleged gang members – for now. A lower court had temporarily blocked the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador on 15 March, ruling that the administration’s actions...
Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Getty Images On Friday, South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled Yoon Suk Yeol had abused his power by declaring martial law last December, and permanently removed him from office. Before that, South Korea was not somewhere you might expect a military takeover – a peaceful and proud democracy, admired across the globe...
Roger Johnson BBC News, Manchester Hett family Figen Murray’s son Martyn Hett was among those killed in the 2017 Manchester bombing The last time Figen Murray came to Downing Street, the famous black door to Number 10 Downing Street stayed firmly shut. Today they threw it wide open and welcomed her with open arms. It...
Emily Holt BBC News, Manchester PA Media Martyn’s Law is in memory of Martyn Hett who died in May 2017 during the Manchester Arena bombing. Proposed legislation aimed at preventing and reducing the harm of terror attacks at events venues is expected to be given Royal Assent later. The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, known...
“Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.” — Thomas Hodgskin Is government the source of our rights? I fear that today many people would say yes. Not infrequently it is said that the government or the Constitution grants us freedom of speech or press or the...
Apart from last summer’s final, Coppack has a couple of other more notable achievements on her cricketing CV. When she was 13, she became the first girl to play for the first XI at King’s School in Chester and also made six appearances as a guest for Peru at the 2018 South American Women’s Cricket...
Tom Bateman State Department correspondent Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Reuters Mourners gathered at a funeral on Monday after the bodies of 15 people, including paramedics and a UN worker, were found in a mass grave, according to the UN The US has said it expects “all parties on the ground” in Gaza to comply...
An emergency law to override new rules about how to sentence offenders from ethnic minorities will not be passed before Easter, government sources have confirmed. Guidelines due to come into effect in England and Wales on Tuesday advise judges to consider the lives of offenders from ethnic minority and other backgrounds before deciding on punishment,...
Family picture Lilly, whose full name we are not including, is left with scarring on her cheek and around her eye following the dog attack 18 months ago A father wants a change in the law over pet insurance, after his daughter’s face was left scarred by a dog attack outside their home. Currently, it...
Former Australia batter Stuart Law has been appointed as Nepal’s new head coach on a two-year contract. The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) had been searching for a new coach for their men’s side since parting ways with Monty Desai in February. Desai guided Nepal to last year’s T20 World Cup but CAN decided against...