LONDON—German tennis legend Boris Becker has returned to Germany after serving eight months in prison in Britain, his lawyer said Thursday. The 55-year-old German, who has lived in Britain since 2012, was released on Thursday morning and traveled back to Germany shortly thereafter. Becker “has thus served his sentence and is not subject to any…
4 Critically Injured After Hundreds of Gatecrashers Try to Get in to Afrobeats Gig in London
Four people are critically ill in hospital after being crushed when thousands of ticketless fans tried to force their way into a concert by a Nigerian singer at the O2 Academy in Brixton in south London on Thursday night. Afrobeats singer Asake had been on stage for 10 minutes when he was informed of the…
University Bosses Must Defend Free Speech: Watchdog
The head of the Office for Students has said that universities must balance equality laws while upholding free speech duties. Office for Students (OfS) Chief Executive Susan Lapworth has said that university leaders and academics should be proactive in upholding freedom of speech on their campuses. Lapworth made the comments in a commentary ahead of…
NCA ‘Closed its Mind’ to Implications of French Hacking of EncroChat, UK Appeal Tribunal Told
A lawyer at an appeal against the National Crime Agency’s (NCA’s) use of data from French police’s hack of the EncroChat encrypted phone network has accused the NCA of having a “closed mind” when it applied for a warrant in March 2020. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is hearing a three-day appeal against the granting…
UK Central Bank Raises Interest Rates to 3.5 Percent, a New 14-Year High
The Bank of England, the UK’s central bank, has increased interest rates from 3 to 3.5 percent, a new 14-year high. At its meeting ending on Dec. 14, the bank’s nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by a majority of 6–3 to increase the bank rate by 0.5 percentage points. It is a slowdown from…
Experts Warn UK Not to Trust TikTok’s Pledge to Keep User Data From CCP
December 15, 2022
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A TikTok executive recently told the UK Parliament that while users’ personal data collected by the app can be remotely accessed in China, the company would never provide the data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, it appears the reassurance has done little to ease the concerns around the social media giant and its…
Parents Remove Children From CofE School After They Were Taught ‘Extreme Transgender Ideology’
Parents have pulled their children out of a Church of England (CofE) primary school after the school showed a video teaching that kids can be born in the wrong body, which the parents say is at odds with their Christian beliefs. Parents Calvin and Nicola Watts, who are being supported by the Christian Legal Centre,…
UK Nurses Begin Biggest Strike in History as Government Rejects Pay Demand
Thousands of nurses in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland have walked out in the biggest strike in nursing history after the UK government rejected their pay demand as not affordable. The industrial action, organised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), is affecting around a quarter of hospitals and community teams in England, all trusts…
UK Police Release Chilling CCTV Clips of Zara Aleena’s Killer Stalking Other Women
A fairground worker has been jailed for life and told he will not be released for at least 38 years for the murder in London of a trainee solicitor who was attacked as she walked home alone. Jordan McSweeney, 29, pleaded guilty last month to murdering 35-year-old Zara Aleena, who he sexually assaulted and killed…
CNY Mainly ‘Internationalized’ in Offshore Hong Kong
December 14, 2022
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Commentary Recently, Xi Jinping of mainland China visited Saudi Arabia, arousing speculation of some new deals to be done. Specifically, some nationalists expect a substantial portion of Saudi oil exported to China to be settled in the Chinese Yuan (CNY) rather than the U.S. dollar. Such wishful thinking is obviously self-defeating by looking at the…
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