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David Butler survived being drugged and robbed in 2021 by Danette Colbert, now tied to death of Adan ManzanoA man who survived being drugged and robbed of more than $134,000 by a woman linked to the death of a television sports journalist covering the recent Super Bowl in New Orleans said he wants “to see her go to jail for as long as she can” after she was let off with probation in his case.David Butler, 52, also said he had tried to warn both the public and the courthouse that handled his case against Danette Colbert that she might

Rodent infestation and out-of-date food was found across government canteens and cafes in recent inspectionsWhitehall’s restaurants and bars have often been the scene of a grubby deal or plot in the occasionally dirty business of politics. But, according to a series of health inspections, they have needed to clean up their acts in more ways than one.Instances of mouse-nibbled snacks, repeated discoveries of their droppings, mouldy veg and other serious hygiene issues have been raised in recent years in inspections of canteens, cafes and restaurants across Westminster, the Observer can reveal. In one case, the inspector warned that eating in

Release comes after Hamas and Israel had traded accusations over ceasefire violations•​ Middle East crisis – live updatesGaza militants have released three Israeli hostages in exchange for 369 Palestinians in Israeli custody, the sixth swap in a truce that came close to collapsing this week.Israel and Hamas have traded accusations of violating the 19 January ceasefire, with the Palestinian group saying it would pause releases and Israel threatening the resumption of war in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/israeli-hostages-palestinian-prisoners-to-be-released-after-week-of-uncertainty-over-gaza-ceasefire Author : Guardian staff and agency Publish date : 2025-02-15 07:47:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the

Ukrainian president says Putin only seeking ceasefire to lift sanctions and regroup as he prepares to address Munich security conferenceThe US vice-president and the Ukrainian president were locked in bilateral discussions at the Munich Security Conference on Friday as part of Donald Trump’s push for a negotiated peace agreement to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Zelenskyy referred to it as a “good conversation” and both spoke of more talks to come. You can see our video report on the story here: Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/15/russia-ukraine-war-munich-security-conference-jd-vance-zelenskyy-putin-europe-latest-news-updates Author : Amy Sedghi Publish date : 2025-02-15 09:02:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

Three Israeli hostages and 369 Palestinian prisoners to be freed Live footage from the scene shows Red Cross vehicles arriving at the scene in Khan Younis where the hostages are to be released.Israelis are also preparing to watch the release of the hostages. Here are a few pictures from Tel Aviv: Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/15/middle-east-live-israeli-hostages-palestinian-prisoners-to-be-released-as-trump-calls-for-hard-stance-on-gaza-live Author : Helen Livingstone Publish date : 2025-02-15 07:45:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Prime minister tells Salmon Tasmania of promise to change legislation and allow ‘sustainable’ farming to continueGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has promised to introduce legislation that will allow “sustainable salmon farming” to continue in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, sparking anger from conversationists and researchers who urged for the local industry to be scaled back.The promise, made in a letter to industry group Salmon Tasmania, came after years of lobbying for action in Macquarie Harbour to save the threatened Maugean skate from extinction.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading... Source link :

Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threatsUK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including surveillance, hacking of bank accounts and rape threats.The barristers, from Doughty Street Chambers in London, say there has been a coordinated and concerted campaign against them since they began acting for the jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul, Jimmy Lai, three years ago. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/uk-based-lawyers-for-hong-kong-activist-jimmy-lai-targeted-by-chinese-state Author : Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-15 05:00:00

Residents in Sierra Madre begin cleanup effort after strongest storm of year sweeps through southern CaliforniaResidents of a southern California mountain community near the Eaton fire burn scar dug out of roads submerged in sludge on Friday after the strongest storm of the year swept through the area, unleashing debris flows and muddy messes in several neighborhoods recently torched by wildfires.Water, debris and boulders rushed down the mountain in the city of Sierra Madre on Thursday night, trapping at least one car in the mud and damaging several home garages with mud and debris. Bulldozers on Friday were cleaning up

Trump had said defense bureau was high on list of world’s richest man’s federal budget and personnel slashing teamMembers of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” arrived at the Pentagon Friday, in what appeared to be their first meeting with defense department staff, a US official told Reuters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.Donald Trump has said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk’s government budget and personnel slashing team and that he expects the tech billionaire to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse in the department. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/elon-musk-government-efficiency-team-pentagon

Attorney general declines to refer Axel Rudakubana’s 52-year minimum sentence to unduly lenient sentence schemeThe sentence of the Southport killer will not be referred to the court of appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme, the attorney general has said.Axel Rudakubana, 18, was handed a 52-year minimum sentence for murdering three girls at a dance class, the second-longest sentence imposed by the courts in English history, but the Southport MP Patrick Hurley previously asked the attorney general to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”, saying it is “not severe enough”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/15/southport-killers-sentence-will-not-be-referred-to-court-of-appeal Author : Donna Ferguson

US vice-president’s speech and meeting with Germany’s AfD chief signal administration’s wider plans for continentThe Trump administration is making a big bet on Europe’s hard right.Speaking at a conference of Europe’s leaders in Munich on Friday, the US vice-president JD Vance stunned the room by delivering what amounted to a campaign speech against Germany’s sitting government just one week before an election in which the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim AfD is set to take second place. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-vance-europe-far-right Author : Andrew Roth, Global affairs correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-14 23:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Andrew Lester pleaded guilty to lesser charge in shooting of Black honor student who mistakenly rang his doorbellAn 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who was then 16 and rang the man’s doorbell by mistake.Andrew Lester’s plea on Friday came days before he was supposed to stand trial on charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of the teenaged student. Lester pleaded guilty to second-degree assault as part of a deal with prosecutors that averted the trial. Continue reading... Source

Transport safety board said recording suggests crew missed directive before crashing into passenger plane, killing 67The crew of the helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington DC’s Ronald Reagan National airport might not have heard instructions from the air traffic controller to pass behind the plane, investigators said on Friday.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair, Jennifer Homendy, said the recording from the Black Hawk helicopter cockpit suggested the crew may have missed the key instruction just before the 29 January collision, in which all 67 people onboard the two aircraft were killed. Continue reading...

Workers for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau describe chaos and fear as lawsuits and basic functions grind to a haltThe termination email for a score of employees at the top US consumer watchdog arrived in the late hours of the night.“Unfortunately, the Agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the agency’s current needs,” dozens of probationary staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were informed on 11 February. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau Author : Joseph Gedeon in Washington Publish date : 2025-02-14 19:41:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Claudia Scheinbaum warns of reciprocal action if Washington designates country’s cartels as terrorist groupsMexico’s president has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist groups.The Latin American country, which is under mounting pressure from Donald Trump to curb illegal drug smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking in the other direction. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/14/mexico-gunmakers-lawsuit-terror Author : Agence France-Press in Mexico City Publish date : 2025-02-14 18:06:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, whose documentary is up for an Oscar, have called out the US president’s plan of ethnically cleansing the regionThe Oscar-nominated film-makers behind the documentary No Other Land have expressed shock and dismay over Donald Trump’s Gaza plan.The president has called for the US to take control and bring an effective ethnic cleansing of Gaza giving Palestinians “no alternative” but to leave. He has claimed it would be a “real estate development for the future”, saying Gaza could be “the Riviera of the Middle East”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/14/no-other-land-film-makers-trump-gaza Author : Benjamin Lee Publish

Major union as well as federal worker advocacy group condemn moves to fire probationary employees as thousands told to leaveThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lose about 10% of its employees after the Trump administration ordered the firing of all hires still in their probationary period, the Associated Press reports.That amounts to about 1,300 employees, according to the AP, which reports the order was communicated verbally to staff by the health and human services department, which oversees the agency tasked with fighting diseases such as Covid-19. Here’s more:The Atlanta-based agency’s leadership was notified of the decision Friday morning.

Awkward WhatsApp revelations, binned bitcoin, musical heart, Godfather nostalgia and the happy over-50sCareer-death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a long-standing tradition of public figures being felled by loose talk. Where once it was Jane Austen being busted – albeit posthumously – for making bitchy remarks in a letter about her neighbour’s miscarriage, now we enjoy the spectacle of two Labour MPs and 11 Labour councillors being suspended for comments made in the WhatsApp group, Trigger Me Timbers. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/14/digested-week-labour-politicians-loose-talk-part-of-long-standing-tradition Author : Emma Brockes Publish date : 2025-02-14 12:49:00 Copyright for syndicated content

The science secretary said the government would assess ‘any changes and challenges’ to the global economy caused by the US administrationFriday is the day that political parties tend to get excited about local byelection results, or neglect to mention the election happened at all if it didn’t go their way.Across the evening and into today the Britain Elects social media account has recorded a hold for the Liberal Democrats in Manor (Stevenage), a hold for Labour in Burnt Oak (Barnet), a gain for Reform UK from Labour in Trevethin and Penygarn (Torfaen) and a gain for the Green Party of

Israel warned Thursday that Hamas must release three living hostages this weekend or face a resumption of the war in GazaThe Israeli government has signalled it intends to stick to the hostage release schedule agreed in the ceasefire deal with Hamas, but warned that if the anticipated three surviving hostages were not released on Saturday, it would go back to war in Gaza.The statement from the prime minister’s office ends nearly three days of confusion after Donald Trump’s declaration that Israel should demand Hamas release all the remaining hostages, more than 70 people, by Saturday or failing that, end the

French president warns west not to ‘capitulate’ to Russia after Trump suggests Putin might not make concessionsDefence and security editorEuropean leaders are reeling from several abrupt US moves since Wednesday in relation to the Ukraine war and the continent’s security, which has been underpinned by the US since Nato was formed at the end of the second world war. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/14/russia-ukraine-war-peace-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-munich-security-conference-europe-news Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-02-14 08:49:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey accuses union of ‘gaslighting’ the city on a day when 576 train drivers and guards failed to show up to workFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSydney commuters have been told to avoid rail travel and instead book taxis or rideshares, as the state government warned a “sneak strike” that led to a quarter of all morning trains being cancelled would result in worse evening disruptions.Pay negotiations between the New South Wales government and rail unions broke down again on Thursday night before the treasurer,

Exclusive: former Police drummer and the naturalist Martyn Stewart collaborate on album inspired by migration of Arctic ternChirping Arctic terns and howling wolves are among the birds and animals that will be heard in a pioneering composition that fuses sounds from nature with the playing of traditional instruments.Birdsong and animal calls will interact with orchestral music on an album by Stewart Copeland, the former Police drummer and a seven-time Grammy-winning composer, who has drawn on field recordings made by the British naturalist Martyn Stewart. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/14/the-synergy-is-amazing-stewart-copeland-album-fuses-nature-and-music Author : Dalya Alberge Publish date : 2025-02-14 06:00:00 Copyright

Journalist told court the News Corp-owned newspaper had the story live on its site before she had even made it home. Plus: anti-renewables billboard bust-upFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereA mystery at the heart of this week’s biggest media story is who leaked the story about Antoinette Lattouf’s sacking from the ABC to The Australian?The Oz had the story live on its site before Lattouf made it home on the day she was let go, she told the court, and