Tag: England
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Taylor Swift returns to stage in London after Vienna concert plot
Taylor Swift will return to the stage in London on Thursday to end the European leg of her “Eras” tour, a week after her Vienna concerts were cancelled due to a suicide attack plot. Around 90,000 fans will again pack London’s Wembley Stadium for the first date in the five-day run, with additional ticket checks…
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UK police arrest 16 protesting against Israeli genocide of Gaza at Oxford University
UK police have arrested 16 people at a protest organised by a pro-Palestinian student group at Oxford University, in the latest flare-up on a prestigious campus over the genocide in Gaza. Thames Valley Police said the individuals were arrested Thursday on suspicion of aggravated trespass, while one was also held on suspicion of common assault.…
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UK girl’s hearing restored after groundbreaking Gene Therapy
An 18-month old British girl who was born completely deaf is believed to be the youngest person to have their hearing restored after undergoing groundbreaking new gene therapy. Several medical teams around the world including in China and the United States have been trialling similar treatments with good results for hereditary deafness that focuses on…
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English court jails first offender for ‘cyber-flashing’
London, United Kingdom – A court in eastern England on Tuesday became the first in the country to jail someone for a new cyber-flashing offence, sentencing a convicted sex offender to 66 weeks in prison. A judge at Southend Crown Court handed Nicholas Hawkes, 39, the jail term after he previously admitted to the newly designated…
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Islamophobia Soared In UK With Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Anti-Muslim hate incidents in the UK more than tripled following the Israeli genocide in Gaza, a monitoring group said Thursday. Tell MAMA recorded 2,010 such cases in the four months since Hamas’s attack against Israel on October 7 which resulted in intensified Israel bombarding Gaza. That was the largest recorded number of cases in a four-month period,…
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Pakistani-British doctor miraculously saves woman’s life on flight through apple watch
A British doctor of Pakistani origin saved the life of an elderly woman on a flight with the help of an Apple Watch. According to the British broadcaster BBC, Dr. Rashid Riaz of the National Health Service (NHS) from Hereford, England, was going to Verona from Birmingham for a vacation. He was on a flight…
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Watch: Ex-British Home Secretary Suella Braverman tricked into ‘D* of the Year’ prank
Suella Braverman, former Home Secretary under Rishi Sunak’s government, notorious for her pro-zionist and anti-immigration stand, was pranked by one of the country’s comedy programmes into accepting its “D* of the Year” award in person. YouTube comedians, Joshua Pieters and Archie Manners, hired by the comedy show “The Last Leg”, tricked the ex-secretary into believing…
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Family Members Deny Murder Of British-Pakistani Girl In England: Court
The father of a British-Pakistani 10-year-old girl whose death sparked an international manhunt pleaded not guilty to her murder in a UK court on Thursday, together with two other family members. Sara Sharif’s body was discovered at her home in Woking, southern England, on August 10. A post-mortem examination found she had sustained “multiple and…
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Judges in England and Wales allowed to use ChatGPT to write judgments
Judges in England and Wales have been allowed to use artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Chat GPT, to write judgments. The permission has been granted despite concerns that artificial intelligence could write references to cases that never happened. The Judicial Office has issued guidelines for the use of AI Chat GPT for thousands of judges in…
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British Home Secretary dismissed over remarks about pro-Palestine March
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been asked to leave the job by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday morning. This is the second time Braverman has been removed from her post. She resigned from Liz Truss’s government after she broke the ministerial code. She got restored by Rishi Sunak a week later, as he…