Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence
The former investment manager was convicted of defrauding thousands of investors.
Missing American cruise ship passenger Ann Evans found by police – NewsNation
- Missing American cruise ship passenger Ann Evans found by police NewsNation
- She went missing from a cruise. Police found her a week later. USA Today
- American woman who mysteriously disappeared from cruise excursion on Caribbean island is finally found Yahoo
- Missing Cruise Ship Passenger Found Alive Over Week After Vanishing Newsweek
- Mystery over American woman missing from Caribbean cruise excursion The Independent
Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank
Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence
Italy and Canada have raised concerns about the treatment of their citizens who were beaten and robbed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Three Italians and a Canadian were attacked early on Sunday morning in the village of Ein al-Duyuk, near Jericho, where they had volunteered to help protect the Palestinian population from intensifying settler violence.
Continue reading...OBR says its inadvertent release of budget report is ‘worst failure’ in its 15-year history – UK politics live
Office for Budget Responsibility says Rachel Reeves ‘had every right to expect that the [report] would not be publicly available until she sat down at the end of her budget speech’
Q: Yesterday you said Rachel Reeves was lying. Today you are saying she gave out false information. Are you still accusing her of being a liar?
Badenoch replies: “Yes.”
Continue reading...Top Russian banker says the EU faces 50 years of litigation if it takes Russia’s frozen assets – Reuters
- Top Russian banker says the EU faces 50 years of litigation if it takes Russia's frozen assets Reuters
- Europe needs help funding Ukraine. So why can't it agree on using frozen Russian assets? France 24
- The EU should play its Russian assets card Financial Times
- Reparations loan for Ukraine won't derail peace process, Kallas tells Belgian PM Euronews.com
- Belgium hits back at EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine The Guardian
Elizabeth Tsurkov: Israel’s Syria policy lacking – The Jerusalem Post
- Elizabeth Tsurkov: Israel's Syria policy lacking The Jerusalem Post
- Surgeons save soldier wounded in Syria who has a bullet lodged in his heart The Times of Israel
- Instead of Seeking Deals, Israel Prefers Keeping Syrian and Lebanese Fronts Hot Haaretz
- Thirteen killed in deadliest Israeli raid for months in southern Syria BBC
- Israel’s deadly incursion in Syria a ‘war crime’ after 13 killed, Syrian FM says CNN
MP Tulip Siddiq says Bangladesh jail term is ‘unfair’
The MP, and niece of Bangladesh's ousted former leader, received a two-year sentence in her absence over corruption allegations.
Austria’s rebel nuns refuse to give up Instagram to stay in their convent – NPR
- Austria's rebel nuns refuse to give up Instagram to stay in their convent NPR
- 3 Rebel Nuns Can Stay in Abbey, if They Give Up Social Media The New York Times
- Austrian nuns win reprieve in abandoned convent - if they stay off social media BBC
- Elderly Austrian nuns who broke back into their convent will be allowed to stay. But there are conditions CNN
- Rebel nuns who ran away from care home could be allowed to stay in former convent NBC News
Two Met officers running spycops unit were ‘incredibly racist’, inquiry told
Undercover unit monitored Stephen Lawrence’s family, as well as thousands of mainly leftwing political activists
Two senior officers who supervised an undercover Scotland Yard unit spying on political campaigns were “horribly and incredibly” racist, a whistleblower has told a public inquiry.
Peter Francis, a former member of the unit, testified that one regularly used the “N-word”, while the other used a repertoire of explicit racist slurs.
Continue reading...Bangladesh court sentences UK MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in prison in absentia
MP for Hampstead and Highgate in London denies allegations and condemns ‘flawed and farcical’ trial
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced the British MP Tulip Siddiq to two years in jail after a judge ruled she was complicit in corrupt land deals with her aunt, the country’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
In a ruling on Monday, a judge found Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, guilty of misusing her “special influence” as a British politician to coerce Hasina into giving valuable pieces of land to her mother, brother and sister.
Continue reading...Manchester-London 7am ‘ghost train’ to carry passengers after outcry over regulator’s decision
Avanti service was to have been axed from mid-December but would have still run because of needs out of Euston
The express Manchester-London 7am Avanti service will take passengers after all, after the rail regulator conceded defeat in the face of public outcry over a ruling that would have left it running as an empty “ghost train” each day.
The 7am train, the only service linking the cities in under two hours, was set to be axed from the passenger table from mid-December – but would, as the Guardian reported on Saturday, have kept running empty from Piccadilly each day so it could run morning trains back out of Euston.
Continue reading...‘A big thank you to Indian and Pakistani armed forces’: Former Sri Lanka cricketer Angelo Mathews – Times of India
- 'A big thank you to Indian and Pakistani armed forces': Former Sri Lanka cricketer Angelo Mathews Times of India
- ‘We have to rebuild from scratch’: Sri Lankans relive the devastation of Cyclone Ditwah The Guardian
- Sri Lanka grapples with trauma, loss after deadly cyclone that killed hundreds Reuters
- Sri Lanka Declares ‘Largest’ Disaster as Cyclone Death Toll Rises to 355 The New York Times
- Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after floods leave hundreds dead and many missing BBC
Banquet, Bowie and football in upcoming German state visit – BBC
- Banquet, Bowie and football in upcoming German state visit BBC
- German president to visit Coventry cathedral ruins with wife BBC
- Royal ‘reconciliation’ with Germany amid the ruins of Coventry Cathedral The Telegraph
- German president's UK state visit will celebrate strategic ties and recall historic scars ABC News
- Revealed: The Princess of Wales and Prince William will play key roles in the upcoming German state visit Tatler
California police plead for details on shooting at child’s party with suspect unknown
Search continues after four people, including three children, were killed and 11 were injured in Stockton
Authorities in California urged witnesses of a deadly shooting at a child’s birthday party to come forward as the search for a suspect stretched into another day.
Three children ages eight, nine and 14 and a 21-year-old were killed on Saturday when gunfire broke out at a banquet hall in Stockton, in northern California. At least 100 people were gathered at the celebration, said the San Joaquin county sheriff, Patrick Withrow. Detectives believe the gunfire continued outside and there may have been multiple shooters.
Continue reading...Ukraine rejects Kazakhstan’s criticism over drone strike on Russian oil terminal – The Kyiv Independent
- Ukraine rejects Kazakhstan's criticism over drone strike on Russian oil terminal The Kyiv Independent
- Oil climbs more than 1% on OPEC action, Ukraine attack CNBC
- Oil Holds Gain as Traders Focus on Venezuela, Black Sea Outage Bloomberg.com
- Oil climbs over $1 a barrel on OPEC action, Ukraine attack Reuters
- Geopolitical Turmoil Supports Crude Oil The Wall Street Journal
OBR says inadvertent budget leak is ‘worst failure’ in its 15-year history
Investigation finds organisation’s leadership over many years was to blame for error, and similar breach happened earlier this year
Britain’s budget watchdog has said the early leak of its budget documents before Rachel Reeves made her speech was the “worst failure” in its 15-year history as it emerged a similar breach had occurred earlier this year.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said an investigation had found that the leadership of the organisation, over many years, was to blame for the early release of its Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) document online nearly an hour before Reeves’s address last Wednesday.
Continue reading...Trump says he’ll release MRI results but has ‘no idea’ which body part was scanned
US president, who is 79, spoke about scan amid concerns over his cognitive abilities and mental fitness
Donald Trump said he will release the results of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan conducted during his surprise “semiannual physical” in October – but was unable to tell reporters what part of his body was under investigation.
The oldest-ever US president faced questions over the procedure on Air Force One as he traveled back to Washington DC on Sunday night after a Thanksgiving break in Florida. It is the latest episode of recurring concern about the cognitive abilities and mental fitness of the 79-year-old, who insisted he had “aced” earlier tests relating to his brain functioning.
Continue reading...Jamaica Secures a Package of US$6.7 Billion Over Three Years in International Support for Recovery and Reconstruction After Hurricane Melissa – International Monetary Fund
- Jamaica Secures a Package of US$6.7 Billion Over Three Years in International Support for Recovery and Reconstruction After Hurricane Melissa International Monetary Fund
- Jamaica rebuilds for resistance after Hurricane Melissa NPR
- 'I'm struck by the devastation and stoicism in Jamaica' BBC
- Jamaica secures $6.7bn for hurricane recovery and reconstruction plan Al Jazeera
- Neighbors In Need Midcoast Villager
Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba serving unlawfully as US attorney, says appeals court
Habba disqualified from serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, appeals court says
Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Alina Habba, whom his administration has maneuvered to keep in place as New Jersey top federal prosecutor, is disqualified from serving in the role, an appeals court said Monday.
A panel of judges from the third US circuit court of appeals sitting in Philadelphia sided with a lower court judge’s ruling after hearing oral arguments at which Habba herself was present on 20 October.
Continue reading...Josh Brolin on Donald Trump: ‘There’s no greater genius than him in marketing’
The actor met the future president while making Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and says he is ‘not scared’ of him
Actor Josh Brolin says President Trump was a “different guy” when he first met him in 2009, and that “there is no greater genius than [Trump] in marketing”.
Brolin was speaking to the Independent to promote his new film Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and said that while his clergyman character was not based on the president, there was a similarity in that once he “garners a sense of power, then there are no boundaries”.
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