Month: February 2026

This live blog is now closed. For the latest, you can read our Epstein coverage here. Handling of Epstein files is ‘outrageous’, say attorneys of his survivorsWe can bring you more from the interview with housing secretary Steve Reed on Sky News’ Trevor Phillips programme this morning (see this post for what Reed said about Peter Mandelson in the same interview).When asked if the British government would comply with an […]

The latest victim succumbing to injuries was an 18-year-old Swiss national. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Deputy US attorney general says victims ‘want to be made whole’ but that doesn’t mean ‘we can just create evidence’The deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, the point person on the Trump administration’s Epstein files release, told ABC News on Sunday that prosecutors’ review of the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case “is over”.Separately, in comments to CNN about Epstein, Blanche said that “victims want to be made whole” after surviving […]

Mette-Marit apologises for ‘poor judgment’ as documents reportedly include scores of email exchanges with child sex offenderNorway’s crown princess has become embroiled in another scandal after newly unsealed files appeared to show her years of extensive contact with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The latest tranche of Epstein files, released on Friday by the US justice department, appear to include nearly 1,000 mentions of the crown princess, Mette-Marit. Continue […]

Russian drone strike kills 12 mine workers in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring seven others.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article