A teenager who plotted to attack a mosque while disguised as an armed police officer has been jailed 10 years for terror offences and rape at Leeds Crown Court.
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UK: Family Sues Train Company After 4-year-old Loses Toe On Station’s Escalator
The family of a boy who lost two of his toes after his foot got jammed between a step and the side of an escalator at London Bridge station is suing Network Rail.
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UK: Housemistress Losses Job @ Rugby School Over Sexual Banter With Student’
A housemistress at a prestigious public school in the UK has been suspended after being accused of engaging in “sexual banter” with a female student and giving alcohol to sixth-form students.
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UK: Kidney Transplant Without Threat Of Body Rejection Or Life-long Drug Dependency
A significant breakthrough in kidney transplant that sees the recipient of a donor organ not requiring cocktail of medications in other that the host body does not reject the new organ by reprogramming the patient’s immune system.
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UK: Live Breaking News Blunder Renders GB News Butt Of Jokes On Cyberspace
A free-to-air British TV station is the butt of jokes on social media after a host’s disastrous attempt to deliver breaking news went horribly wrong.
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UK: Former MP Threatens Lagal Action Over Outing Her Family’s Links To Slavery
A former Conservative party MP has been slammed after trying to get a university to delete her family’s links to slavery.
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UK: Man In Viral BBC Guest Interview Clip To Sue 17 years After
Seventeen years after Guy Goma was mistaken for an IT expert and dragged into a live broadcast interview, he is back to sue the public broadcaster over a non-payment of royalties stemming from the now viral clip.
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UK: Crime Agency Charge Nigeria’s Ex Minister Alison-Madueke Bribery
UK’s leading anti- organized crime agency NCA has charged Nigeria’s former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke on suspicion of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million-dollar oil and gas contracts.
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UK: Madagascar President’s Aide In Court For Bribe Solicitation
The chief-of-staff to President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar is facing charges in the UK for seeking a bribe from a gem mining firm.
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TANZANIA: Australian Mining Firm Wins $109m Compensation Against Nation
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has reportedly ordered the Tanzania government to pay more than $109 million to a group of companies fronted by Australian miner Indiana Resources Ltd in compensation for the controversial 2018 expropriation of a nickel mine project.
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