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Some users are stepping away from the app after it made a deal to create a US entity and updated terms and conditionsMany TikTok users across the US say they’re rethinking their relationship with the platform since its ownership and terms and conditions have recently changed, with some citing censorship and lack of trust as reasons why they’re removing themselves from the app.Keara Sullivan, a 26-year-old comedian, says TikTok jumpstarted […]

Documents released in US appear to show the convicted child sex offender sent former US ambassador $75,000Peter Mandelson should testify before the US Congress about his links to Jeffrey Epstein, a government minister has said, as documents appeared to show the late child sex offender sent the former US ambassador $75,000.Emails and other documents released by the US justice department on Friday shed new light on the closeness of the […]

Airports identified as biggest winners of government’s £4.3bn support package with Heathrow alone taking £900m discountStruggling hotels, restaurants and nightclubs are calling for more financial help with business rates after it emerged that Heathrow is among the biggest beneficiaries of a multibillion-pound package of state support.The UK’s biggest airport is in line for a discount of nearly £900m on its rates bill over the next three years. That is a […]

Exclusive: Dr Susan Gilby, who won £1.4bn bullying payout, says whistleblower protections must be strengthenedPatients are being put at risk by NHS bosses launching “sham investigations” into whistleblowers to shut down concerns, a hospital’s former chief executive who won a £1.4m bullying claim has said.Dr Susan Gilby took over as chief executive at the Countess of Chester hospital in 2018 after it was rocked by the Lucy Letby case. She […]

Jamie Raskin tells CNN Democrats will seek unredacted version of Jeffrey Epstien files after 3m pages released last weekHandling 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 […]

Agency says Gaza residents travelling on foot only will be allowed to use crossing when it reopens on MondayGaza’s main border crossing in Rafah will reopen for Palestinians on Monday, Israel has said, with preparations under way at the war-ravaged territory’s gateway, which has been mostly closed for almost two years.Before the war, the Rafah crossing with Egypt was the only direct exit point for most Palestinians in Gaza to […]

Employees of Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, DTEK, were travelling about 40 miles from frontline, says policeA Russian drone attack on a bus carrying mine workers in Ukraine’s central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region has killed at least 12 people, officials said.The bus was driving about 40 miles (65km) from the frontline, according to police. Images published by Ukraine’s state emergency service showed what appeared to be an empty bus, its side windows […]

After stories revealed high levels of contamination in neighborhood around factory processing US toxic waste, government announces sweeping array of tacticsThe Mexican government has announced it will pursue a sweeping array of tactics to combat industrial pollution, from $4.8m in fines against a plant processing US hazardous waste to the rollout of a new industrial air-monitoring system, following investigations by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, a Mexican investigative unit.Those […]

Files published by the US Justice Department included flirtatious emails between Casey Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article