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3 Managers Arrested Over Deaths at U.K. Hospital Where Lucy Letby Worked

1 juillet 2025 à 10:49
People who were managers when Ms. Letby was convicted of killing babies were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence.

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The Cheshire police, which investigated baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, said they had arrested three senior managers who worked at the hospital between 2015 and 2016.
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Nonprofits Lose Legal Bid to Halt U.K. Exports of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel

30 juin 2025 à 09:40
A top court ruled Monday that the British government, rather than judges, should decide on the “acutely sensitive and political issue.”

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Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London last month, ahead of a court hearing on the British government’s supplying arms to Israel.

London Man Who Killed a Boy With a Samurai Sword Receives Life Sentence

27 juin 2025 à 13:34
Prosecutors said Marcos Arduini Monzo experienced a drug-induced psychosis before going on a 20-minute rampage through the residential streets of northeast London.

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A police officer cordoning off a crime scene in Hainault, northeast London, in April 2024, after a 14-year-old boy was killed.

Pro-Palestinian Activists Arrested Under Terrorism Law in U.K. Air Base Break-In

27 juin 2025 à 10:04
The powers used against the members of a group called Palestine Action are more usually employed in cases of planned jihadist or far-right violence.

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A demonstration in London on Monday in support of Palestine Action. The group posted footage online on June 20 showing two activists moving around an R.A.F. base on scooters before using red paint to damage two planes.

British Man Is Charged Over Attempted Mock Wedding With Girl, 9, at Disneyland Paris

25 juin 2025 à 14:23
The French authorities said a 39-year-old had attempted to conduct the ceremony with a minor on Saturday. The British police say he is a convicted sex offender.

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Disneyland Paris. The episode has raised questions about how a registered sex offender was able to book a private event involving a minor at one of the world’s most prominent theme parks.

U.K. to Ban Palestine Action Group as Terrorist Organization

23 juin 2025 à 12:56
The British government announced plans to proscribe Palestine Action after members broke into a military air base.

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A protest in support of the activist group Palestine Action in London on Monday. The government said it would formally submit a ban to Parliament next week.

Pro-Palestinian Activists Break Into the UK’s Largest Air Base

20 juin 2025 à 08:12
The Palestine Action group said two of its members had entered R.A.F. Brize Norton on electric scooters and sprayed red paint in aircraft engines and on the runway.

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R.A.F. Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, southern England, houses about 5,800 service personnel.

Student Who Filmed Himself Raping at Least 10 Women Is Given Life Sentence

19 juin 2025 à 12:59
Zou Zhenhao, 28, is considered by the police in London to be “one of the most prolific predators” they have encountered. Investigators say there are probably many more victims.

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A photo made available by the London police of an apartment used by Zou Zhenhao, who attacked women in Britain and China. He would lure victims back to his homes and then drug and rape them.

U.K. to Collect Ethnicity Data on All Suspects in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

17 juin 2025 à 00:01
A review of Britain’s so-called grooming gangs scandal had recommended the move, saying that an information “vacuum” had allowed people to “sow and spread hatred.”

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, shown in a photo released by the British Parliament, said on Monday that the government would carry out the recommendations of a review of a scandal involving the sexual exploitation of young girls by groups of men.
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