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Lawyers say evidence file outlines atrocities including torture and rape carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in the country’s brutal civil conflict
Scotland Yard has received a dossier of evidence documenting myriad alleged war crimes committed by a paramilitary group during the conflict in Sudan.
Lawyers have submitted a 142-page file of evidence to the war crimes unit of the Metropolitan police containing details of numerous atrocities perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Reported delays come as tax office says it is shutting free-to-use online filing service used by some small businesses
HM Revenue and Customs has come under fire for taking more than four months to process tax refunds owed to some individuals and businesses that accountants say used to take a maximum of a few weeks.
The reported delays coincide with anger over a separate HMRC announcement that it is shutting a free-to-use online filing service used by some small businesses.
Billionaire tells Daily Mail ‘left media’ frightened party away from ‘anything Trump’ and calls on Liberals to adopt ‘commonsense and truth’ principles
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Gina Rinehart has encouraged the Liberal party to stick with Donald Trump-like policies after the opposition’s electoral thumping on Saturday night in a campaign overshadowed by the controversial US president.
The mining billionaire also singled out Italy and Hungary, which are governed by populist rightwing coalitions, as countries Australia could aspire to, where people were “abandoning the myths or untruths of the left” and returning to “common sense and truth”.
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Former gym owner and alleged drug dealer Sayit Akca tells Four Corners he ‘removed’ explosives threat while denying any involvement in antimsetic attacks
The man alleged to have masterminded a spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney and a “fake terrorism” caravan plot has denied responsibility – but admits he was involved in having the caravan moved.
In January, police discovered a caravan packed with explosives in the outer Sydney suburb of Dural, triggering a massive multi-agency investigation.
Local and international news outlets captured the PM’s ‘mega-victory’, while his opponent was ‘Duttonated’ and Liberals already blaming each other
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The federal election outcome was always going to dominate newspaper headlines, but the coverage made it clear that Anthony Albanese’s landslide victory was anything but expected – both for the winner and the loser.
Here is how Australian and international news captured Labor’s win:
With the US now one of the largest overseas markets for Indian films, particularly Bollywood and Telugu blockbusters, the announcement has sent shockwaves through the global film industry.
Who would have ever thought that a decade after the Brexit vote, British politics is becoming ever more fully European in outcome? Most significantly, the long-time effective two-party system is under great threat.
For concrete evidence, look no further than the voting share of Labour and the Tories in the most recent round of local elections. It is diminishing significantly, despite the country’s first-past-the-post voting system, which has traditionally curtailed the voting fortunes of other political parties.
As a result, Britain now has a four- or five-party system, including Reform, the Lib Dems and the Greens, with space for smaller regional parties from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Nigel Farage, closet admirer of continental European politics?
Nigel Farage, who leads the Reform Party, is not only emulating Marine Le Pen or Giorgia Meloni. They, too, began their parties’ political rise by winning municipal elections, then regional mayor posts and then moved on to challenging the mainstream parties of post-1945 European politics more broadly.
As it turns out, Farage is also a great advocate of European proportional voting systems. Lately, he has even started extolling the benefits of European health insurance schemes to replace Britain’s taxpayer-funded National Health Service. The NHS was set up by Labour in 1948 and is now akin to a state religion for most Brits.
Two giant dominant parties no more
Labour’s big majority in the House of Commons is deceptive. The anti-immigrant discourse of Nigel Farage is now winning broader support.
In many ways, this is a replay of the ethnonationalist stance of Le Pen in France, of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, the AfD in Germany or the Meloni-Salvini duo in Italy.
More than ironic: Farage’s silence on Brussels
Curiously, a pivotal part of the reason for the success of the hard right in the UK is a lack of economic growth. This is a highly ironic twist. After all, Farage and Co. had preached the economic benefits that a Brexit would have in terms of unleashing new economic activity in the UK.
The opposite has happened with the UK economy shrinking. Nearly every sector is reporting a loss of exports to the giant European single market.
Little wonder that Farage tends to be quiet on the topic of the EU these days as his Brexit project is falling apart.
The Tories’ immigration policies backfire badly on them
To replace European workers who had traveled back and forth to work in Britain to keep firms there afloat during the period of Britain’s access to the EU labor market, successive Brexit-driven Tory government over the last few years provided access to a million immigrant workers from Pakistan, Nigeria, India and Ghana.
Of course, that practice flies in the face of what voters were told by Brexit Tories, namely that leaving Europe would mean Britain could control – i.e., reduce — immigration. The opposite has happened.
There are more immigrants that ever from far-away continents brought to Britain to do the work that cheerful Poles or Portuguese or Italians did up to the moment Boris Johnson dropped the shutters on allowing EU citizens to work in Britain.
Conclusion
While Britain’s electoral system is markedly different from continental systems based in party lists and an allocation of seats based on the proportional share of votes, the focus on identity and cultural politics is now as deeply rooted in Britain as any EU member state.
As on the continent, UK politics are increasingly shaped by an unspoken but barely hidden politics of hostility to foreign born non-white citizens and above all to Islam.
Writers on British politics used to look down their noses at the messy coalitions and instabilities of continental EU member country politics. No longer. Britain has adopted European-style politics with consequences difficult to foretell.
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