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Hakyung Lee was found guilty of murdering her children and concealing their remains in a storage locker A mother who murdered her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases stored inside a rented locker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand. Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea, was found guilty earlier this year of killing her children in a crime that has become known as the “suitcase murders”. Continue reading… Source link

Defence executives accused of spying for foreign nations arrested in Turkiye with a fourth suspect reportedly abroad. Source link

Lawmakers who urged military personnel to refuse illegal orders say federal agents want to question them A group of Democrats accused by Donald Trump of “seditious behavior” have said that the US president is using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against them as a “tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress”. The four politicians, along with two others, had made a video encouraging US military service members to resist unlawful orders – a message that angered Trump, who posted on social media that the group were “traitors” and thus could be jailed or even face the death…

A warehouse in West London was engulfed by a large fire as repeated explosions were heard. Source link

Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui Three more school contemporaries who claim to have witnessed Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage racism have rejected the Reform UK leader’s suggestion that it was “banter”, describing it as targeted, persistent and nasty. One former pupil, Stefan Benarroch, claimed that people emerging from a Jewish assembly at Dulwich college had been in the sights of Farage and others for taunts while a second, Cyrus Oshidar, described…

UNAIDS says millions across the world lost access to treatment and preventive care due to financial shortfalls. Source link

Southern California residents shared disastrous effects of Trump’s immigration crackdown at a congressional hearing The Trump administration’s ICE raids across southern California have had disastrous effects on the region’s immigrants and swept up US citizens in the process, community leaders and residents said at a congressional hearing in Los Angeles on Monday. Andrea Velez, an American arrested by US immigration officials over the summer, described how she was accosted by masked agents while on her way to work. She said she was charged with assaulting an officer and held for two days in a federal detention center, where detainees…

Pancevo, the country's only oil refinery, now on 'hot standby' as Vucic faces tricky prospect of seizing Russian asset. Source link

Albanese government hopeful of reaching agreement over EPBC reform; first top level fire warning in the state for two years. Follow latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast NDIS providers who repeatedly breach a code of conduct designed to keep participants safe could face major fines of up to $16.5m in the latest federal government attempt to tighten up the scheme’s rules. The Albanese government will today introduce a new bill to introduce tougher penalties, and even jail time, for NDIS providers who engage in misconduct and unsafe practices. Where we see fraud,…

Displacement and Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged to record levels in occupied West Bank. Source link

Executive Martin Bally put on leave after alleged remarks were purportedly recorded and attributed to him in lawsuit A Campbell’s Soup Company executive has been put on temporary leave after he allegedly referred to the firm’s offerings as “shit for fucking poor people” – a remark purportedly caught on an audio recording and attributed to him in a former employee’s wrongful termination lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed last Thursday in Wayne county circuit court in Michigan by Robert Garza, who had joined Campbell’s New Jersey headquarters remotely in September 2024 as a security analyst. Garza alleges he was fired…

Loot still not found after seven-minute operation by gang of four at world's most visited art museum stunned the world. Source link

Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months Fifty higher education providers in England are at risk of exiting the market within the next two to three years, MPs on the House of Commons education committee have been told as part of their inquiry into university funding and the threat of insolvency. The evidence follows last week’s gloomy forecast from England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), which warned that three in four universities were likely to be in the red next year as financial turmoil…

Al Jazeera spoke to refugees fleeing Sudan’s el-Fasher who recounted torture, rape, and family loss. Source link

Chancellor says people must be ‘properly rewarded for their hard work’ with 16- to 21-year-olds also in line for raise Millions of low-paid workers in the UK are to get a pay rise of 4.1% next year, as Rachel Reeves confirmed that minimum wage rates will go up as part of the government’s ambition to improve living standards. The national living wage will rise from £12.21 to £12.71 an hour from April for over-21s, which the government said would increase the annual earnings of about 2.4 million workers by £900. A year in Westminster: John Crace, Marina Hyde and…

A sluggish job market lowers consumer confidence but may also lead to another rate cut from the US Federal Reserve. Source link

Parliamentary group urges government to clamp down on overseas territories before flagship anti-corruption summit The UK government has been accused of caving-in to pressure from the British Virgin Islands by allowing it to limit access to a register of company share ownership to only those deemed to have a legitimate interest. The restriction, due to be discussed at a meeting starting on Tuesday between Foreign Office ministers and leaders of the British overseas territories (BOTs) in London, is in defiance of legislation passed by the UK government as long ago as 2008 that would make the register available to…

Ukrainians, troops, experts and a former Russian diplomat say a new proposal threatens Ukraine's sovereignty. Source link

Plan to remove relief from scheme that helps provide cars for disabled people likely to concern some Labour MPs Rachel Reeves is expected to press ahead with scrapping about £300m in tax breaks for the Motability scheme that helps provide cars for disabled people, in a move likely to spark concerns among some Labour MPs. The Treasury was reported to have been considering axing tax breaks up to £1bn but savings will not be as high as that figure, with concerns among ministers that some policy options could have led to Motability’s collapse. Continue reading… Source link

Reeves faces daunting challenge – poor public finances and widespread public discontent with government. Source link

Five-year strategy aims to improve casework after analysis finds domestic abuse in more than third of rape cases The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will train its staff to recognise the “wide spectrum of abuse” in cases of violence against women, after new data found that domestic abuse was present in more than a third of rape cases, and in more than eight out of 10 cases of stalking and image-based abuse. Launching its five-year Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, the body said its main aims are to increase casework quality and increase trust in the CPS. Continue…

GHF is halting operations after more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed in and around its distribution sites. Source link

Ukrainian official cites ‘common understanding’, but no sign territorial concessions or security guarantees are agreed Europe live – latest updates Discussions involving US, Russian and Ukrainian officials are taking place in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, the latest step in the Trump administration’s attempts to push through a peace deal to end the conflict in Ukraine. The White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, put an optimistic spin on the talks, claiming the US had made “tremendous progress” on finding a resolution. There were “a few delicate, but not insurmountable, details” that needed to be ironed out which would require further talks,…

At least 13 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in the Israeli strike on Ein El-Hilweh camp. Source link