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Trudeau running out of road even as he announces cabinet reshuffle
The move on Friday came …
Met apologises to black community leader detained by officer who has faced three misconduct proceedings
The Metropolitan police has apologised to a black man who was detained by an officer who has faced three misconduct proceedings for excessive force within the past two years.
Jason Matthews, 54, a well-known community leader, was attending Hackney carnival in 2019 when he was detained, and stopped and searched …
Party City shutters after nearly 40 years, firing workers without severance pay
The party is over at Party City, once the largest supplier of balloons and other fun-time supplies in the US, as the company announced Friday it was closing down all of its stores, ending nearly 40 years in business.
Barry Litwin, the Party City CEO, told employees that the chain …
Met police officer who slapped boy, 16, in face found guilty of assault
A police officer who slapped a 16-year-old boy with mental health difficulties “multiple times in the face” as he was being transported to a hospital in London has been found guilty of assault.
Judge Briony Clarke found Metropolitan police PC Sevda Gonen guilty of assault for striking the boy “multiple …
US lifts $10m bounty on HTS leader after talks in Syrian capital
Record losses and bumper bonuses – the pay row tearing apart English rugby
England must accept the need for ruthlessness alongside entertainment | Mark Ramprakash
Sometimes I feel this England team can’t take two steps forward without doing something that makes me think they’ve gone backwards. So much progress has been made, so many reasons for optimism provided before a year that is likely to define them. But then they end it with a display …
Workers in Saudi Arabia say Amazon failed to compensate them for labor abuses: ‘They played a game against me’
In February, one of the world’s richest employers, Amazon, announced it had refunded nearly $2m to more than 700 overseas workers who had been forced to pay big recruiting fees to get work at the company’s warehouses in Saudi Arabia.
It was a rare win for migrant laborers, a class …
Appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to US divides Labour MPs
Peter Mandelson has been formally unveiled as the UK’s ambassador to Washington, with a series of ministers hailing him as a political heavyweight who will be a reliable conduit into a potentially chaotic second Donald Trump administration.
Some Labour MPs were, however, less enthusiastic, questioning why Keir Starmer would reward …
Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’
Elon Musk has caused outrage in Berlin after appearing to endorse the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland.
Musk, who has been named by Donald Trump to co-lead a commission aimed at reducing the size of the US federal government, wrote on his social media platform X: “Only the AfD can …