Epstein survivors say financier lured them with promise of college education
Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse networkA New York City artist who said Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shopped her around to men is among the survivors claiming that Epstein used the lure of a university education to ensnare her in their sexual abuse network.Rina Oh was a 21-year-old art student when she was introduced to Epstein in 2000 by Lisa Phillips, a model and Epstein survivor who has since emerged as a powerful voice in the survivors’ network pressuring for full accountability in the long-running money, sex and power scandal. Continue reading...
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Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
Mid-level and senior officials uncomfortable with awardFifa says it still ‘strongly’ supports the peace prizeThere is a growing sense of embarrassment among mid-level and senior officials within Fifa over the awarding of its peace prize to Donald Trump. The US president was handed the award at the World Cup draw in Washington DC in December with the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, telling Trump: “We want to see hope, we want to see unity, we want to see a future. This is what we want to see from a leader and you definitely deserve the first Fifa Peace Prize.”Since then, the US has launched airstrikes across Venezuela and captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them to the US, where he was put in jail. Maduro appeared in court on 5 January, pleading not guilty to drugs, weapons and “narco-terrorism” charges. Trump has also threatened to invade Greenland because he said the US needs the territory “very badly”. Continue reading...
Meloni warns Trump over Greenland tariffs as EU ambassadors summoned for emergency talks – Europe live
European leaders hit back at Trump ‘blackmail’ as president escalates plan for the US to acquire GreenlandThe United States will also suffer if president Donald Trump implements threats to impose tariffs on European countries opposing his plans to acquire Greenland, a French minister said on Sunday.“In this escalation of tariffs, he has a lot to lose as well, as do his own farmers and industrialists,” French agriculture minister Annie Genevard told broadcasters Europe 1 and CNews. Continue reading...
Israeli attacks wound civilians across Gaza in latest ceasefire violations
Gaza City, al-Mawasi and Bureij refugee camp all come under Israeliair attacks and gunfire.
Trump tariff threats are bad, but the uncertainty they instill is much worse
The spectre of rising inflation, slowing global trade and jittery markets has re-emerged as US economic policy divorces itself from any logicTrump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells GreenlandDonald Trump’s latest tariff threat, in pursuit of his goal of seizing Greenland, is a political nightmare for European leaders, but it could create a severe economic headache, too.As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has repeatedly pointed out since Trump’s trade war began in earnest last year, whatever the ultimate level of tariffs, uncertainty takes its own toll. Continue reading...
After Trump Reignites a Trade War Over Greenland, Europe Weighs Going All-Out
Europe’s dependence on the United States for NATO security limits its options. Its strongest response could be retaliating with its own trade “bazooka.”
Leaked Jenrick defection plan calls him ‘the new sheriff in town’
Former Tory’s media strategy reportedly calls him ‘biggest defection story Reform has ever had’Robert Jenrick was described as “the new sheriff in town” and the politician needed by Reform to give them experience and political “heft”, according to a leaked media plan for his defection prepared by his aides.The emergence of the document, which also describes Jenrick as “the most dynamic politician in the Conservative party”, came as Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s head of policy, hailed the defection, after days of silence from one of Nigel Farage’s key aides. Continue reading...
Syrian government forces seize strategic town in Raqqa as SDF retreats
The Syrian army captures Tabqa, intensifying their push against Kurdish-led forces east of the Euphrates River.
Fears Iran's internet shutdown could lead to 'extreme digital isolation'
Internet monitor FilterWatch warns that authorities are trying to cut the country off from international connectivity.
Arrest of priest for child molestation reignites scandal in Louisiana diocese
Korey LaVergne, 37, jailed Friday evening on three counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to officialsAuthorities in south-west Louisiana recently arrested a Roman Catholic priest on accusations of behaving indecently with a child, igniting a new scandal in the diocese where the US church’s reckoning with clergy abuse began – an institution that just disclosed it could lose up to $162m over pending litigation.Korey LaVergne was jailed Friday evening on three counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to Acadia parish sheriff KP Gibson, whose agency arrested the priest. LaVergne had presided over mass at St Edward church in Richard – where the Lafayette diocese had assigned him as pastor – hours before he was booked into the Acadia lockup. Continue reading...