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• Peers to mount fresh offensive to halt assisted dying bill

  13-11-2025 21:13
  More than half of the 942 amendments have been tabled by seven lords in move which could filibuster legislationPeers will mount a new offensive to halt the assisted dying bill on Friday, tabling almost 1,000 new amendments to the legislation in an effort to run down the clock.More than half of the 942 amendments have been tabled by just seven members of the House of Lords, all of them vocal opponents of assisted dying (AD). A source close to the bill said it was possible it could in effect get f
  
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• Starmer stands by McSweeney and says he has been ‘assured no briefings against ministers done from No 10’ – as it happened

  13-11-2025 19:06
  This blog has now closed, you can read more on this story herePA Media has more on what the monthly performance figures from NHS England show. PA says:The data shows 180,329 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of September, down from 190,549 at the end of August.Some 2.4% of people on the list for hospital treatment had been waiting more than 52 weeks in September, down from 2.6% the previous month.The NHS waiting list is 230,000 low
  
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• Sir Geoffrey Bindman obituary

  13-11-2025 16:50
  Human rights lawyer who helped to expand Britain’s Race Relations Act and investigated apartheid in South AfricaIt is still shocking to recall that until the UK’s first Race Relations Act was passed in 1965, people could perfectly lawfully be refused accommodation or refreshment on the grounds of their race or nationality. Through the work he did to start putting this right, Geoffrey Bindman, who has died aged 92, stood out both in his profession of solicitor and the political world
  
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• COP30: Climate justice means a just transition - Vatican News

  13-11-2025 15:16 via news.google.com
  COP30: Climate justice means a just transition  Vatican News
  
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• Flipping the script in medicine for hermeneutical justice - British Medical Association

  13-11-2025 14:33 via news.google.com
  Flipping the script in medicine for hermeneutical justice  British Medical Association
  
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• Zelenskiy Vows Justice in Ukraine Corruption Probe Tied to Ex-Partner - Bloomberg.com

  13-11-2025 13:41 via news.google.com
  Zelenskiy Vows Justice in Ukraine Corruption Probe Tied to Ex-Partner  Bloomberg.com
  
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• End of hope: Federal Court of Justice leaves Wirecard-shareholders out in the cold - Deloitte

  13-11-2025 09:00 via news.google.com
  End of hope: Federal Court of Justice leaves Wirecard-shareholders out in the cold  Deloitte
  
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• Chinese scientist charged with smuggling pathogen into US to be deported

  13-11-2025 00:32
  Yunqing Jian, temporary researcher at University of Michigan, was studying organism harmful to some cropsA Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty on Wednesday, but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody.Yunqing Jian, who was a temporary researcher at a University of Michigan lab, will be released and quickly deported. A judge called it a “very strange” case involving an “incredib
  
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