Tue 05 August 2025: More than 10,000 European hotels are joining collective legal action against Amsterdam-based Booking.com to seek compensation for losses caused by the online travel agency’s use of so-called “best price” clauses. The clauses ban the hotels from offering rooms on their own websites at a lower rate and are seen by them […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Around 3,200 highly-skilled Boeing personnel decided to go on strike, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union announced on Monday. The union said on X: “3,200 highly-skilled IAM Union members at Boeing went on strike at midnight because enough is enough.” It previously said its members working at Boeing voted on Sunday […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: The Kremlin said on Monday that everyone should be careful about nuclear rhetoric, in its first response to a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he had ordered a repositioning of U.S. nuclear submarines. Kremlin spokesman cplayed down the significance of Trump’s announcement last Friday that he had ordered two subs to be moved to […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Only 16% of Germans would “definitely” be willing to defend their country with weapons in case of a military attack, according to a new poll released Monday. The Forsa Institute survey revealed widespread reluctance among Germans toward military engagement, despite repeated warnings from political and military leaders that the country should […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: A jury in Miami has ordered Tesla to pay $329 million in damages over a fatal 2019 crash involving its Autopilot system, according to reports Friday. The case centered around a deadly clash in Key Largo, Florida, where a Tesla Model S using Enhanced Autopilot struck two pedestrians, killing 22-year-old Naibel […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: Violence in prisons across England and Wales has increased over the past year, according to new figures released by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on Thursday. The latest safety in custody statistics show a 9% rise in overall assaults in the 12 months to March 2025, with 30,846 recorded incidents-the equivalent of 356 assaults per […]
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Sat 02 August 2025: Epstein’s former girlfriend and one-time British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison, moved to minimum-security site in Texas. Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice in the abuse of underage girls by high-society sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved to a minimum-security facility in Texas, […]
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Sat 02 August 2025: The US president has been exchanging barbs with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, who warned of ‘how dangerous’ Russia can be. United States President Donald Trump has ordered two nuclear submarines to shift their locations relative to Russia, as part of his latest tit-for-tat with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev. On Friday, Trump […]
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Fri 01 August 2025: More than 25,000 people have crossed the Engilsh Channel to the UK in 2025, the highest total this early in the year. More than 25,000 people have crossed the English Channel into the United Kingdom so far this year, marking the fastest pace of arrivals since records began in 2018 and […]
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Fri 01 August 2025: Universities and colleges in England could be fined if they fail to uphold free speech, as new legal protections for academic freedom come into force on Friday. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act places a legal duty on higher education providers to promote academic freedom, ensuring staff, students, and guest speakers can express lawful […]
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