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‘Famine is setting in’: UN court orders Israel to unblock Gaza food aid

Judges issue unanimous decision and say Palestinians are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance

The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to allow unimpeded access of food aid into Gaza, where sections of the population are facing imminent starvation, in a significant legal rebuke to Israel’s claim it is not blocking aid deliveries.

A panel of judges at the UN’s top court, which is already considering a complaint from South Africa that Israel is committing genocide in the Palestinian territory, issued the ruling after an emergency measure in January obliging Israel to admit emergency aid.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:10:58 GMT
‘He knew it was wrong’: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison over FTX fraud

Judge orders disgraced crypto mogul to forfeit $11bn in assets and says he showed no remorse for his crimes

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul who perpetrated one of the largest financial frauds in history, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11bn in assets. His lawyer reiterated a pledge to appeal the sentence the same day.

The judge, Lewis Kaplan, issued the penalty in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday. Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was convicted of fraud and conspiracy to launder money late last year.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:38:29 GMT
Starmer says he cannot ‘turn the taps on’ to fix council funding crisis

Labour leader was asked how party would plug £4bn gap at launch of its local election campaign in West Midlands

Keir Starmer has told voters he cannot “turn the taps on” to fix the crisis in local authority funding as he was quizzed on how Labour would plug councils’ £4bn gap at the launch of its local election campaign.

“I can’t pretend that we could turn the taps on, pretend the damage hasn’t been done to the economy – it has,” he said. “There’s no magic money tree that we can waggle the day after the election. No, they’ve broken the economy, they’ve done huge damage.”

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:24:59 GMT
Sunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords

Opposition MPs criticise changes to renters’ reform bill, which cast doubt on removal of no-fault evictions

Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove have been accused of caving in to Tory MPs lobbying in favour of landlords’ interests after it emerged that significant aspects of the renters’ reform bill are to be watered down.

Changes will include an amendment to prevent tenants ending contracts in a tenancy’s first six months, and another casting doubt on the removal of no-fault evictions, a minister told MPs in a leaked letter.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:10:11 GMT
Girl, 10, ‘left inoperable’ after planned NHS surgery cancelled seven times

Eva Tennent, whose operations were scheduled in Edinburgh, has Rett syndrome and advanced scoliosis

A 10-year-old girl’s spinal condition has become inoperable after her planned surgery was cancelled seven times in six months, her mother has claimed.

Eva Tennent suffers from Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects brain development, and has advanced scoliosis that causes her spine to twist and curve to the side.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:34:19 GMT
Thames Water on road to state rescue amid investor standoff with Ofwat

After regulator resists 40% increase in bills, shareholders deny request for more cash – raising spectre of nationalisation

Who will win in standoff between Thames’s investors and watchdog?

Thames Water appears to be on the road to nationalisation after its investors signalled they were unwilling to pump more money into the debt-laden utilities company, amid a standoff with the regulator and government over raising customer bills.

Britain’s biggest water supplier said on Thursday its shareholders had refused to provide £500m of emergency funding due this week to secure ithe company’s short-term cashflow.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:36:31 GMT
Man arrested over death of Gogglebox star George Gilbey

Man in his 40s detained on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter, Essex police say

A man in his 40s has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with the death of the Gogglebox star George Gilbey, who died after a fall at work, Essex police said.

The 40-year-old reality star was best known for appearing on the Channel 4 series alongside his mother, Linda McGarry, and stepfather Pete McGarry, who died aged 71 in 2021.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:03:54 GMT
Leicester sack Willie Kirk after investigation into alleged relationship with player
  • Women’s team manager was suspended by club on 8 March
  • Jennifer Foster and Stephen Kirby in temporary charge

Leicester have sacked women’s team manager Willie Kirk after an investigation into an alleged relationship with a player.

The Guardian revealed on 8 March that Kirk had been suspended while the club carried out an investigation into an alleged relationship with one of his squad members. The manager was then absent from the team’s 2-0 defeat of Liverpool, which earned them a place in the FA Cup semi-finals, where they will play Tottenham at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on 14 April, with assistant Jennifer Foster and first-team coach Stephen Kirby sharing caretaker duties. They have since lost the two leagues game they have played, suffering a 1-0 defeat to Tottenham and 3-2 loss against Brighton.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:50:03 GMT
Advance of Islamic State affiliates ‘could lay ground for new wave of terrorism’

IS has stalled in Iraq and Syria but officials believe it has been planning new attacks on west for years

Islamic State (IS) remains defeated in its core strongholds of the Middle East but has made significant progress in Africa and parts of south Asia, winning territory and resources that could serve as a launchpad for a new campaign of extremist violence, analysts and officials believe.

European governments have moved to their highest levels of alert for years after the attack on a concert hall in Moscow last week by militants from IS which killed 140 people.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:27:27 GMT
Queer artists call on Olly Alexander to boycott Eurovision over Israel participation

Maxine Peake and Sarah Schulman among signatories of open letter asking singer to withdraw from contest

More than 450 queer artists, individuals and organisations have called on the UK’s Eurovision contestant, Olly Alexander, to boycott this year’s competition in solidarity with Palestine.

The actor Maxine Peake and the novelist and playwright Sarah Schulman are among the signatories of the open letter calling on the singer to withdraw from the contest in May due to the conflict in Gaza.

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:32:38 GMT




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