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Former Wallabies fullback Israel Folau attended a mediation hearing in Melbourne on Monday over his compensation claim against Rugby Australia (RA) and the New South Wales Waratahs to A$14 million (7.40 million pounds) in an updated court filing. Folau, a Christian, is seeking A$14 million in damages from RA and the Waratahs, who terminated his four-year contract in May after he posted a meme on social media that said hell awaited homosexuals and other groups. Folau, who has cast his legal challenge as a fight for religious freedom, is also seeking an apology from RA and the right to resume…

A vigil was held in Cambridge, England on Monday to honour the two people who were killed when a militant knifeman went on a stabbing spree near London Bridge last week. Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed on Friday when Usman Khan, a man convicted of terror offences in 2012, attacked people at a prisoner rehabilitation conference near London Bridge in the British capital. Merritt and Jones were both involved in the conference which their attacker Khan had also been attending. Scores of mourners observed several minutes of silence as church bells rang out across Cambridge Market…

Labour has been plagued by the anti-semitism debate, which is threatening to affect Labour’s chances in the upcoming UK election on December 12. The Labour leader repeatedly declined an invitation to apologise to the British Jewish community over anti-semitism claims. Corbyn was asked about Labour Party member Lesley Perrin, who reportedly posted a video to social media denying the Holocaust, with Neil questioning why she only got a written warning. Corbyn responded that he had “strengthened processes” since the incident occurred. Neil also tackled the Labour leader’s plan to use government reserves and borrowing to finance compensation for women who…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was a “serious business” when the chief rabbi criticized the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn for failing to root out anti-Semitism from the Labour party. Speaking at the launch of the Conservative Party Scottish Manifesto in North Queensferry, Scotland Johnson said it was “a failure of leadership” that Corbyn had “not been able to stamp out this virus in the Labour Party.” It comes after chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said, in a newspaper article on Monday, that Corbyn was unfit to be prime minister because he had failed to stem anti-Semitism “sanctioned from the…

Paris St Germain manager Thomas Tuchel told Zinedine Zidane on Monday to stop fantasizing about prizing away forward Kylian Mbappe, after the Real Madrid coach declared his admiration for his French compatriot ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash. Mbappe, one of the key players in France’s 2018 World Cup triumph, had a trial at Real Madrid as a youngster and came close to signing for the club in 2017 from AS Monaco before eventually joining PSG. Real have lived to regret failing to land the striker as they have struggled to find a suitable replacement for all-time top scorer Cristiano…

A crowd of angry protesters gathered outside Maltese parliament calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat after a man suspected of being the middleman in the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia had been granted a presidential pardon, according to police sources. Banging saucepans and shouting “out out!” the protesters demanded Muscat and his chief of staff Keith Schembri stepped down. The pardoning of the middleman indicated that investigators believe the man, named as Melvin Theuma, has given them solid evidence they can use in court to try to convict the person who ordered the killing. Galizia,…

Germany’s foreign minister said China must fulfil human rights obligations as United Nations experts and activists say at least 1 million Uighurs and members of other largely Muslim minority groups have been detained in camps in Xinjiang. His comments came after classified Chinese government documents were made public by an international group of journalists. They describe the repressive inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, in a second rare leak in days of secret files concerning the troubled western region. The publication on Sunday of the documents by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) follows a New York Times…

Sixty-two African migrants onboard the Open Arms rescue ship celebrated after Italian authorities finally agreed to grant the vessel access to a port for disembarkation. Migrants were seen dancing and singing after crew members announced that they were going to be disembarked on the day after. Italy initially refused entry for the group of 73 African migrants which the Open Arms crew plucked out of a packed rubber dinghy drifting about 50 miles off Libya on Wednesday, suggesting that the vessel should instead put them ashore in Tripoli. Among the group of mostly Central and West Africans are three women,…

Labour has vowed to “put bad landlords out of business” and bring in rent controls in England, if it wins power. Private rents would not be allowed to go up by more than inflation – and landlords would be fined for letting out substandard property. A Labour government would also bring in “open-ended” tenancies, to protect tenants from unfair evictions. The Tories have also set out plans to help tenants – including scrapping “no fault” evictions. Under Labour’s “private renters’ charter”, landlords would face an annual “property MOT”, with fines of up to £100,000 or forced repayment of rent if…

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn slammed the Conservative Party’s “billionaire” manifesto on Sunday saying it would favour the rich at the expense of everyone else. Corbyn was addressing supporters during a campaign in Essex on the same day as the governing Conservative Party launched its manifesto for the December 12 election. The Conservatives rolled out an election manifesto that promised more public sector spending and no further extensions to the protracted departure from the EU. They also pledged no new taxes, drawing a distinction with the opposition Labour Party that has promised to raise taxes on the rich and businesses…