John Lennon’s killer has apologised to the singer’s widow, Yoko Ono, saying he thinks about the “despicable act” all the time and accepts he may spend the rest of his life behind bars. Mark David Chapman, 65, was denied parole for an 11th time following a hearing last month. He has been locked up since […]
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The head of an investigation into the Conservative Party’s handling of complaints of discrimination and prejudice, including Islamophobia, has issued a call for further evidence. Professor Swaran Singh, a former commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the investigation is nearing the end of its first phase of work. It has examined all […]
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The International Olympic Committee has described reports confirming the execution of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari as “deeply upsetting” amid mounting calls for sporting sanctions. Iranian state media said on Saturday that Afkari, a national champion who was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during 2018 anti-government protests, had been executed. Afkari’s […]
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A crowd cheered as workers in Charlottesville removed a Confederate statue near the site of a violent white nationalist rally three years ago. The removal of a bronze figure of a Confederate soldier known as “At Ready” is seen in Charlottesville as a milestone in eliminating divisive symbols of the Civil War. The Washington Post […]
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The Charlie Hebdo caricaturist who was forced at gunpoint to open the satirical newspaper’s door to two al Qaida extremists has described the moments of sheer terror during the 2015 attack in France. Corinne Rey had tears in her eyes but her voice was clear as she gave evidence at the trial of 13 men […]
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A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a suspected member of so-called Islamic State to life in prison for the New Year’s Eve attack on a nightclub in Istanbul in 2017 that left 39 people dead. Abdulkadir Masharipov, of Uzbekistan, was convicted of 39 counts of murder and one count of attempting to overthrow the constitutional […]
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Tunisian forces have shot dead three suspected Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into security officers and attacked them with knives, killing one and injuring another in the coastal resort town of Sousse. Sousse was the site of Tunisia’s deadliest extremist attack in 2015, when a massacre killed 38 people, most of them British tourists. […]
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A woman who could lose her home as a result of a judge concluding that she conducted an “obsessive campaign” against her clergyman ex-husband has lost a Court of Appeal fight. Mrs Justice Lieven last month decided that Jean Gibbs, who is in her 60s and lives in Attleborough, Norfolk, had breached orders barring her […]
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent that British authorities identified in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy, the German government has said. The findings – which experts say point strongly to Russian state involvement – are likely to increase tensions between Russia and the […]
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Saudi Arabia has announced that it will now allow flights “from all countries” to cross its skies to reach the United Arab Emirates. The historic first comes just days after the kingdom let the first direct Israeli commercial passenger flight use its airspace to reach the UAE. The statement makes no mention of the kingdom’s […]
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