Month: December 2022

AFP By Robert Greenall & Phelan Chatterjee BBC News Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will request leave from the high-security Belmarsh Prison to attend Dame Vivienne Westwood’s funeral, his wife says. Dame Vivienne was a vocal supporter and friend of Mr Assange for more than a decade, famously protesting against his incarceration suspended in a bird
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Getty Images By Emily McGarvey BBC News Former Pope Benedict XVI has died, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for fewer than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final
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Reuters By George Wright BBC News North Korea has fired three short range ballistic missiles towards the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s military says. This latest volley comes five days after North Korea flew drones into South Korea’s airspace for the first time since 2017. North Korea has launched more
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Getty Images By Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York Former President Donald Trump’s tax returns have been released, ending a bitter six-year long battle to gain greater insights into his finances. The returns stretch from 2015 through 2020, covering Mr Trump’s candidacy and time in the White House. They give details of various entities through
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UK Parliament Two MPs who caused trouble for ex-PM Boris Johnson have received knighthoods in the New Year Honours list. Labour’s Chris Bryant and Conservative Julian Lewis, who chair the standards and intelligence committees respectively, have both been honoured. Sir Tom Scholar, the top Treasury civil servant sacked by former PM Liz Truss, becomes a
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