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The ICRC said ‘the scale and frequency of these incidents are without precedent’
Two crew members of the Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C were killed in a drone and speedboat attack off Yemen on Monday evening, Liberia’s shipping delegation told a meeting of the International Maritime Organization on Tuesday – Reuters reports.
The deaths on the vessel, the first involving shipping in the Red Sea since June 2024, bring the total number of seafarers killed in attacks on vessels in the vital shipping corridor to six.
Continue reading...Berlin says incident risked lives of military personnel protecting Red Sea shipping
The German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation helping to protect shipping in the Red Sea.
“The endangerment of German personnel and disruption of the operation are completely unacceptable,” the ministry said on X.
Continue reading...Tebbit, MP for constituencies of Epping and Chingford, was one of Margaret Thatcher’s most loyal supporters
Norman Tebbit, the former Conservative cabinet minister and one of Margaret Thatcher’s most loyal supporters, has died at the age of 94.
Tebbit represented the constituencies of Epping and Chingford as an MP for 22 years before receiving a life peerage, making him Lord Tebbit of Chingford. He retired from the House of Lords in 2022.
Continue reading...First report from Horizon IT hearings lays bare human impact of wrongful convictions as 10,000 people seek compensation
More than 13 people may have killed themselves as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, while it drove at least 59 more to contemplate suicide, according to the first findings from the public inquiry into what has been labelled the worst miscarriage of justice in UK history.
The 162-page volume one report from Sir Wyn Williams, the retired judge who chaired the hearings, looks at the “human impact” on the more than 1,000 post office operators wrongly accused of taking money from their branches because faulty software showed a shortfall.
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