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F1 2024 awards: Max Verstappen joins the greats after hardest-won title
Driver of the year
With a fourth consecutive world championship, Max Verstappen deserves to be recognised as one of the greats, a place he has earned not least with this year’s title, his most hard-fought yet. After opening in a dominant Red Bull, he executed clinically to take four of …
Human rights for Syrians but perhaps not for Saudis in Labour’s Middle East
Not that the foreign secretary was trying to take any of the credit for the collapse of the Assad regime, but without the UK standing firm then the dictator would have been around a lot longer. Just saying. Only maybe things weren’t entirely that simple. Because David Lammy had given …
Husband and wife to be forced apart by Home Office deportation flight
A husband and wife face enforced separation because the Home Office wants to put him on a deportation flight to Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving his wife in the UK.
Labour has pledged to increase deportations, and since taking office has removed more than 10,000 people – a mix of voluntary …
Who are the main actors in the fall of the regime in Syria?
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Assault on Aleppo: who are the Syrian rebels HTS and why are they advancing?
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
(HTS; Levant Liberation Union) is led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known asAbu Mohammed al-Jolani
, and is the dominant faction in the rebel alliance which toppled …UK foreign secretary calls Bashar al-Assad ‘the rat of Damascus’
Bashar al-Assad is the “rat of Damascus fleeing to Moscow with his tail between his legs”, the UK foreign secretary has said after Islamist rebels took control of the Syrian capital over the weekend.
Speaking in the Commons, David Lammy said the Labour government had resisted pressure to re-engage with …
Former chair of Criminal Bar Association found to have ‘inappropriately initiated sexual contact’ with aspiring lawyer
A former chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) inappropriately initiated sexual contact with an aspiring lawyer, a disciplinary tribunal has found.
A five-person panel found three charges of professional misconduct to be proven against Navjot “Jo” Sidhu, who was once a contender to be the director of public prosecutions.
…From Trump to Raygun, here’s what Australians searched on Google in 2024
Australians may not get a vote in the US presidential election but it topped the Google searches in the country in 2024, with Raygun, Julian Assange and the CrowdStrike outage being some of the key people and moments Australians wanted to know more about in the year.
The election that …
Will emergence of HTS in Syria raise level of global terrorism threats?
UK and other European states suspend Syrians’ asylum applications
The UK and other European countries have said they will suspend the processing of asylum applications from Syrians after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, with Austria already preparing a “repatriation and deportation” programme to the country.
In London, a Home Office spokesperson said it had “temporarily paused …
Keir Starmer says Saudi Arabia trip fulfils ‘number one mission’ to grow UK economy
Keir Starmer has defended his trip to Saudi Arabia, saying it was needed to fulfil his “number one mission” of growing the UK economy.
Speaking during a visit to Riyadh, where he met the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the prime minister said his “sole intention” there was to …