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Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, jailed for three years for sexually assaulting student on school trip
The headteacher of Eton College has apologised and said he was “appalled” after a former teacher was jailed for sexually assaulting a pupil.
Jacob Leland, who taught Russian, was jailed on Friday for three years and three months for sexually assaulting one of his students during a school trip.
Continue reading...Alfredo Mancillas was reportedly slumped in vehicle and ‘covered in vomit’ when state troopers found him in St Paul
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employee was recently arrested amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota after state troopers reportedly found him “covered in vomit” and unconscious in a car.
Alfredo Mancillas Jr, 31, faces charges of drunken driving after his arrest early Tuesday morning, jail records show.
Continue reading...Minnesota should not cave to Trump’s demands. The rights of 49 other states and their citizens are hanging in the balance
Donald Trump appears to be practicing his “art of the deal” on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz: he is attempting to extract concessions from the North Star state in exchange for a “drawdown” of federal ICE agents. While the details of the contemplated agreement are not clear, border czar Tom Homan’s remarks on Thursday morning and reports of his negotiations with state and local leaders suggest dialing back Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is contingent on striking an agreement for increased cooperation between federal and local law enforcement: Minnesota must agree to participate in ICE roundups by turning over undocumented immigrants in its custody, ending various “sanctuary city” protections, and giving ICE agents more direct access to state penitentiaries to conduct their own roundups prior to the release of undocumented inmates. A letter from Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, sent earlier this week went even further and suggested the justice department’s civil rights division might be demanding access to state voter rolls in exchange for the ICE drawdown. Trump’s offhand remark Thursday evening denying plans to draw down ICE confused matters by contradicting Homan’s statement from earlier in the day – but perhaps that was just an indication that negotiations on Thursday did not go all that well for Team Trump.
That would not be surprising. If Walz were to agree to such terms – concessions literally extracted at gunpoint under threat of continued use of unlawful force by federal immigration agents – he would be abandoning critical domains of state autonomy for the fruitless attempt to appease a president that will accept no limits except those forced upon it by necessity or recommended to it by self-interest. As law firms, universities, foreign leaders, and even former partners in crime have discovered, it is perilous to negotiate with a rank opportunist who lives by no other rule than that of self-interest. For Trump, the alternative to getting handed what he wants voluntarily is taking it by force. The FBI raid on the Fulton county elections office in Georgia to seize about 700 boxes of ballots from the 2020 election sent a well-timed message to Minnesota as well as to any other swing state from which the Trump administration may demand such data: if you don’t give us what we asked for, we’ll take it anyway.
Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle professor of law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She is also the founder and faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center
Continue reading...The knock-on effect on the rest of the industry is immense. There are many factors at play, but the ones with the power here are the big artists
In October 2024, Heat magazine’s list of the UK’s 30 richest celebrities under 30 ranked Harry Styles at the very top, with an estimated wealth of £200m. (He’d doubtless have fared well in last year’s survey, too, but he’s 31 now.)
Whatever your views on the fabulous wealth accrued by a small elite of megastars, and regardless of your opinion of Styles’ musical merits, that figure doesn’t sit well next to the headlines he is now making.
Simon Price is a music journalist and author
Continue reading...Putin critic says plants in China, India and Turkey are funnelling up to $1bn a day to Kremlin
Bill Browder’s fight against Vladimir Putin has seen him face threats, lawsuits, false accusations of murder and Interpol arrest warrants. A disinformation-laden film was even made about him.
But 16 years after the death of his friend and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky at the hands of Putin’s regime, Browder is unrelenting in his fight for justice. It is an endeavour that, by his estimation, has cost Putin and his cronies billions of dollars already, via asset freezes and sanctions. Hence the considerable risk to his safety.
Continue reading...Jens-Frederik Nielsen, impressed Danes with his handling of the crisis but he says many Greenlanders are ‘afraid and scared’
This time last year, Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, was better known on the global stage for his sporting achievements than international politics. For years he dominated the territory’s badminton scene, winning the singles and doubles championships almost every year. He won several medals at the Island Games, earning himself a reputation for “very competitive” play on the court.
As it turned out, that was useful preparation for his time in office.
Continue reading...Every year in Turkey, hundreds of women are recorded as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. But many grieving families maintain that investigators are missing the full story
Almost nothing seemed to scare Şebnem Köker. With her hair dyed fire-engine red, the 29-year-old nurse lived life by her own rules. Friends say she was so headstrong, she’d be getting ready for a night out in their home town, the Turkish coastal city of İzmir, and suddenly suggest a change of plan to a last-minute trip away. Even a prospective move to Canada didn’t seem to daunt her. But there was one thing that had terrified Şebnem: heights. Her father, Abdullah, says she was afraid to even tiptoe on to the slim balcony that wraps around the third-floor apartment they shared in İzmir.
“She wouldn’t even have a cigarette or eat out there. She wouldn’t hang laundry on the balcony,” he says, sitting on the sofa in the darkened living room they once shared. A pouting portrait of Şebnem is tucked into the frame of a mirror on the opposite wall.
Continue reading...TEHERAN (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Iran heeft nogmaals gewaarschuwd dat het Israël kan aanvallen als de situatie in de regio escaleert. "Als de vijand een fout maakt, zal dat zonder twijfel zijn eigen veiligheid, de veiligheid van de regio en de veiligheid van het zionistische regime in gevaar brengen", verklaarde legerleider Amir Hatami volgens staatsmedia.
De spanning in de regio loopt op nu de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zinspeelt op een aanval. Hij schreef afgelopen week op sociale media dat een "enorme armada" onderweg is naar Iran en dat de "tijd opraakt" waarin nog een deal gesloten kan worden over het Iraanse nucleaire programma. Trump wees erop dat zijn land vorig jaar al nucleaire installaties heeft gebombardeerd in Iran. "De volgende aanval zal veel erger zijn!"
Legerleider Hatami stelde dat zijn land vijandige activiteiten in de regio in de gaten houdt en klaar is om in actie te komen. Hij zei ook dat de strijdkrachten in de hoogste staat van paraatheid zijn.
RAFAH (ANP/AFP) - Bij nieuwe Israëlische luchtaanvallen op de stad Gaza en Khan Younis zijn volgens plaatselijke gezondheidsautoriteiten zaterdag zeker 25 doden gevallen, onder wie zeker zes kinderen, aldus de nieuwszender Al-Jazeera. Mahmoud Basal, een woordvoerder van de Palestijnse burgerbescherming in de stad Gaza, meent dat de meeste slachtoffers van de bombardementen kinderen zijn. Hij zei dat onder meer een politiebureau in Gaza-Stad is gebombardeerd en raketten enorme schade en brand hebben veroorzaakt. Er zouden in Gaza voor zover bekend achttien doden zijn gevallen.
De Israëlische krant Haaretz meldt vooralsnog bijna twintig doden en bijna vijftig gewonden. Sinds 10 oktober is er een wapenstilstand tussen Israël en de Palestijnse beweging Hamas, maar Israël is doorgegaan met aanvallen waarbij sinds 1 oktober meer dan vijfhonderd doden zijn gevallen.
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Zijn jongste zoon is negen jaar oud, een van zijn kleinkinderen is vijf, en opa Mick organiseert de speelafspraakjes: E lizabeth Scarlett Jagger geeft haar vader een behoorlijk groot compliment.
Het Brits-Amerikaanse model Elizabeth Scarlett Jagger prees haar vader, rocklegende Mick Jagger (82), als een toegewijde grootvader. "Hij is een fantastische grootvader, maar hij is ook nog steeds de vader van een jong kind", vertelde Jagger aan het Duitse persbureau dpa in de marge van een modeshow in Berlijn.
De 41-jarige is een van Jaggers vier kinderen met zijn ex-vrouw Jerry Hall . Het Amerikaanse model was ook aanwezig bij de Cain-show tijdens de Berlin Fashion Week. Hall was van 1990 tot 1999 getrouwd met de frontman van de Rolling Stones .
In 2016 kreeg de toen 73-jarige muzikant zijn achtste kind met zijn vriendin Melanie Hamrick, die meer dan 40 jaar jonger is dan hij. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Jagger zei dat ze heel veel geluk had met haar negenjarige broer. Hij en haar vijfjarige zoontje speelden de hele tijd samen. En: "Mijn vader organiseert speelafspraakjes.
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