Month: February 2026

Epstein files appear to show then business secretary passing market sensitive information to child sex offender• UK politics live – latest updatesThe Metropolitan police are to formally launch a criminal investigation into allegations that Peter Mandelson leaked Downing Street emails and market sensitive information to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Guardian understands.Documents from the Epstein files released in recent days appeared to show the then business secretary sent […]

Judicial review begins in high court over watchdog’s freedom of speech ruling that resulted in £585,000 fineA ruling by an education watchdog that led to the University of Sussex being hit with a record £585,000 fine should be quashed as “unlawful”, “unreasonable” and “procedurally unfair”, a court has heard.In a judicial review hearing before the high court in London on Tuesday, the university claimed it had suffered “severe” consequences as […]

Marius Borg Høiby, 29, pleads not guilty to four counts of rape in trial that has embarrassed the royal familyPolice believe the son of Norway’s crown princess sexually assaulted a woman at an afterparty at a royal residence, a court has heard.Marius Borg Høiby, 29, pleaded not guilty to four counts of rape on Tuesday, the first day of his trial for multiple offences in a legal saga that has […]

Moscow launched ‘terrorising’ attack on energy grid as temperatures reached -20C, Ukrainian president saysVolodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Tuesday of violating an agreement with Donald Trump to hold-off on attacks on Ukraine’s energy systems in the depths of a freezing winter, as its forces carried out large-scale airstrikes on Kyiv on the eve of three-way talks in Abu Dhabi.Ukraine’s president said Moscow carried out a massive and “deliberate” attack overnight […]

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Whatever post-attack scenario unfolds in Iran - regime consolidation or turmoil - the region would suffer. Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article