Britain’s richest family has been accused of spending more on a dog than a servant in a court statement by prosecutors. Billionaire Hinduja family is facing allegations of trafficking and abuse of staff at their Lake Geneva villa. According to prosecutors, the family made a servant work for up to 18 hours a day, seven...
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UK PM Rishi Sunak, Conservative Party polling far behind Labour ahead of July 4 election
LONDON — With less than three weeks until UK election day, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change an ominous tune for his Conservative Party. Sunak, who in recent days traveled to a Group of Seven summit and a Swiss conference on the Ukraine war, has been dogged by questions about whether voters are about to...
Exclusive: Nato in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons
He then came out in support of Kyiv over its request to use Western weapons on targets inside Russia. And now ahead of the next Nato summit, he has tabled proposals for the alliance to play a greater role in the West’s support for Ukraine. About 99 per cent of the weapons deliveries to Kyiv...
Chinese MeToo activist arrested before flight to study in UK jailed for five years
A Chinese journalist who launched her country’s MeToo movement and was arrested the day before she was due to fly to Britain to study has been jailed for five years. Sophia Huang Xueqin was sentenced by a court in Guangzhou on Friday. According to documents obtained by a group of activists campaigning for her release,...
Watch: Meloni gives Macron a withering look after they clash over abortion
The centrist and pro-EU Mr Macron was humiliated by the Eurosceptic National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s European Parliament elections. He then called the snap parliamentary election in France in a bid to stop the French flirting with the hard-Right but risks losing control of the National Assembly and becoming a lame-duck...
British kayaker killed in France as snow swells river to ‘dangerous’ water levels
A British kayaker has died in a river in the French Alps after heavy snow swelled the water to dangerous levels. The man is the second to die in two days after an Irish pensioner capsized in the same area. It comes amid warnings by local guides that a winter of heavy snow has caused...
Aussie crane company’s international success story
Simon Marr was getting used to having doors shut in his face, so to speak. The boss of Aussie crane company, Marr Contracting, put it down to the way people do business in the UK. “You get people stuck in their ways, that’s how people are,” he said. Know the news with the 7NEWS app:...
British archaeologists make deathly discovery at bottom of 800-year-old shipwreck
British archaeologists recently uncovered eerie medieval gravestones during a search around an ancient shipwreck. Bournemouth University announced the discovery in a press release on Friday. The gravestones were found in Studland Bay, off the coast of Dorset, and are believed to have been lying at the bottom of the English Channel for 800 years. “The slabs, carved...
UK Hindu community issues first ever manifesto ahead of British elections
In a key move ahead of the upcoming British elections, the Hindu community in the United Kingdom has issued its first-ever manifesto. The collective effort by Hindu organisations aims to present a unified voice to parliamentary candidates and the future government, outlining seven key assurances that reflect the community’s needs and aspirations. The Hindu Manifesto...
Macron: West can’t have ‘dual standards’ over Gaza and Ukraine
Mr Biden was welcomed to Paris by a parade from the Arc de Triomphe, along the Champs-Élysées to the Élysée Palace.He met military veterans and watched pipers and mounted cavalry process towards the palace. It is unusual for an American leader to spend so long outside of the country in the months leading up to...
Tech star Mike Lynch acquitted of fraud in £8.6bn deal with Hewlett Packard
Mike Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s king of technology, has been cleared of charges alleging he orchestrated a fraud and conspiracy leading up to an 11-billion-dollar (£8.64 billion) deal that turned into a costly albatross for Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard (HP). The not-guilty verdicts reached on Thursday by a federal court jury in San...
World War 3 has already started
The D-Day commemorations in Normandy took place against a sombre backdrop. Ukraine’s war for national survival has been raging for over two years, and the Middle East is on fire. While the Second World War is in our thoughts this week, we should soon be turning our thoughts on World War Three. The UK’s strategic...