The father of former One Direction member Liam Payne has visited tributes laid out by fans outside the hotel where his son died on Wednesday. Geoff Payne read letters and messages left by fans and paused next to flowers, photographs and candles placed around a tree near the hotel. He also thanked fans for the…
Reuters People smugglers are making vast profits getting people illegally across the Channel Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage. “There will be no more misbehaviour. No more threats. Is that understood?” asked Arabelle Bouts, the lead judge of…
One in five councillors in England and Wales have received death threats or threats of violence, according to a new survey. The findings from the Local Government Association (LGA) come as the group calls for the UK government to take more action to protect councillors and other local political figures. Almost three-quarters of those who…
What does the killing of Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, mean for Israel and Gaza? Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine who is based in Tel Aviv, explains. Source link
Top of the Ticker: CNN’s Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson has officially passed the one year mark as the network’s leader. As he embarks on Year 2, The Ankler’s Lachlan Cartwright reports that the former New York Times leader is looking to shake things up in a big way. Cartwright’s sources indicate that Thompson is…
It’s been over two weeks since Tony Dokoupil‘s CBS Mornings interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates set off an internal firestorm at CBS News. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports that CBS News president Wendy McMahon is requesting an editorial review of the newsroom’s reporting process, asking journalists to address concerns about fairness and objectivity. McMahon’s…
With only a couple of weeks left before the U.S. election, it’s crunch time for making sure that young American voters like Gen Z and millennials get to the polls. A new nonpartisan campaign from organization Civic Wisdom Foundation and agency David&Goliath called #SpeakYourVote aims to register 50,000 new voters while educating and encouraging young…
If Tressie Lieberman and Brian Niccol ever met over coffee to discuss reuniting, it’s a safe bet that the coffee came from Starbucks. Lieberman will join the java giant in the newly created position of executive vice president, global chief brand officer, reporting to none other than Niccol, who became CEO at Starbucks in August….
BBC Howard Beckett had argued claims against him were “baseless” A senior official at one of the UK’s largest trade unions has lost an unfair dismissal claim amid a police investigation into allegations of bribery, fraud and money-laundering at the organisation. Howard Beckett was assistant general secretary at Unite the Union until his suspension in…
Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 massacre and Israel‘s most wanted man, was killed on Wednesday after being hunted by intelligence services and the Israeli Defence Forces for over a year. Ultimately, his assassination was seemingly by chance, with the group of trainee soldiers responsible for the Hamas chief’s death not knowing his true identity at the…
