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CNN —A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship. Shamima Begum flew to Syria in 2015 with two school friends to join the terror group. She told UK media she had two other children prior to that baby, who also died in Syria during infancy. He pointed to Begum being left stateless as grounds for this, something her lawyers have argued the British government has not fully considered the consequences of. Her lawyers have argued she was a victim of child trafficking, and that the decision was unlawful as it rendered her stateless.

Persons: Shamima Begum, Begum, ”, Sajid Javid, Sam Tarling, Baroness Carr, Begum’s, ” Friday’s, Alexander dos Santos, ” Begum Organizations: CNN, ISIS, PA Media, Sky News, BBC Locations: United Kingdom, Syria, Raqqa, Syrian

☆ 'Ruthless' landlords who crammed 22 men into a 2-bedroom apartment raking in more than $10,000 a month plead guilty after fire death
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The landlords of a London flat that suffered a fire have pleaded guilty to criminal charges. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementThe landlords of an overcrowded London apartment that suffered a fire have pleaded guilty to criminal charges. In the overcrowded apartment, students, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable people were sleeping in bunk beds and on the floor, without heating or use of the washing machine, and sharing a single toilet. AdvertisementAnthony Iles, chair of the Tarling West Tenants and Residents Association, told the Guardian, that the couple were "ruthless landlords."

Persons: Mizanur Rahman, —, Sofina Begum, Aminur Rahman, Begum, Rahman, Anthony Iles, Brent Council, Jaydipkumar Rameshchandra Valand Organizations: Service, Guardian, Residents Association Locations: London, Bangladesh, Wembley

☆ Fact Check: ‘Gaza place of trans pilgrimage’ headline unrelated to The Guardian
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image mimicking the layout of an opinion column in The Guardian, and which is falsely attributed to British lawmaker Apsana Begum, has been shared online. However, a spokesperson for the British newspaper said it had not published such a column. The image shared (archived) on Facebook (archived) shows the fake op-ed, headlined: “Gaza will rise from the ashes to become a place of pilgrimage for the trans community. Free Palestine.” It also includes a byline and photograph for Begum, a Labour member of Parliament for London’s Poplar and Limehouse constituency, as would be seen on an authentic op-ed published in The Guardian. A spokesperson for The Guardian told Reuters in an email that the screenshot “has never been a published Guardian headline or story”.

Persons: Apsana Begum, Begum, Read Organizations: Guardian, Facebook, Labour, Reuters, The Guardian, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Free Palestine, Limehouse, Palestine

☆ Where to stay in India? Here are 8 former palaces that are now hotels
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Poonam Binayak | Lisa Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Source: Heritage DharampuraIt's now a 14-room boutique hotel, which received an honorable mention in 2017's UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. It was transformed into a heritage hotel in the 1960s and is now impeccably managed by the Taj Group. Taj Lake Palace Source: Taj Lake PalaceStraight out of a fairy tale, the Taj Lake Palace boasts domed pavilions, ornamental turrets, crystal chandeliers, and 83 antique-filled rooms and suites, some which overlook a gleaming courtyard that hosts nightly folk dances. Source: Taj Usha Kiran PalaceToday, it's a lavish Taj hotel that balances old-world vibes with contemporary style. It is now a heritage hotel managed by the Taj Group.

Persons: Jehan Numa, Jehan, Palace, General Obaidullah Khan, Vijay Goel, James Bond, Taj Falaknuma, —, Taj Usha Kiran, it's, King Charles , Louis Mountbatten, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bhanj Deo, There's Organizations: UNESCO, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Taj, Taj Group, Royal, Rambagh, Jaipur, Cochin — Locations: India, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bhopal, Dharampura, Delhi, UNESCO Asia, Jama Masjid, Old Delhi, Udaipur, Pichola, Mewar, Taj Lake, Lake, lavishness, Falaknuma, Nizam, Hyderabad, Windsor, Gwalior, Rambagh, Jaipur, Baripada, Chittoor Kottaram, Kochi, Chittoor, —, Cochin

[1/2] Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi are covered with a white sheet as they arrive to appear at the High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mohsin RazaISLAMABAD, May 16 (Reuters) - Bushra Khan, the wife of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, is facing corruption charges in the same case that led to his arrest on May 9. It was not clear when or how Khan met Bushra, but former aide Aun Chaudhry said Khan was very impressed with her spirituality. Khan and Bushra married in 2018, seven months before he was elected prime minister, in a secret ceremony. While prime minister, Khan promoted the trust at official events, and the couple are the sole trustees, according to Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar.

☆ Pakistan court grants bail to former PM Imran Khan's wife in graft case - lawyer
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Mubasher Bukhari | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LAHORE, Pakistan, May 15 (Reuters) - A Pakistani court in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday granted bail until May 23 to former Prime Minister Imran Khan's wife in a graft case, a lawyer in their legal team said. He was later released and received bail from a court in Islamabad for two weeks. Khan's wife, Bushra Bibi, was co-accused along with Khan in the case, which pertained to the alleged receiving of financial help from a land developer in the setting-up of Al Qadir University of which the former premier and his spouse are trustees. "We had requested for a protective bail for Bushra Bibi in Al Qadir Trust Case and a two-judge bench of LHC has granted the bail till May 23," Bibi's lawyer, Intizar Hussain Panjutha, told Reuters. The government denies being behind the case and says the anti-graft agency, the National Accountability Bureau, is working independently.

☆ A Grim Anniversary for Survivors of the Rana Plaza Disaster
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Elizabeth Paton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kabir Mollah said he was inspecting garments when a friend called his cellphone, screaming that the building was on a perilous tilt. On the morning of April 24, 2013, more than 1,100 people were killed when Rana Plaza, an eight-story building that housed five garment factories on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed in about 90 seconds. It is considered the deadliest accident in the history of the modern garment industry, and one of the worst industrial accidents ever. Many major retailers used the factories to produce their clothes, and the disaster led to a reckoning around workplace safety for garment workers and the responsibility of brands selling low-priced clothes to Western consumers. And for current garment industry workers, where has progress been made?

☆ Fact Check-Tweet about UK Home Office repatriating British twins who left home to fight in Ukraine stems from satire account
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A satirical tweet about the UK Home Office trying to repatriate 15-year-old British twins, who left the country to fight in Ukraine, is being taken seriously by people online. The post also includes an image from at least six years ago which has been digitally altered. Comments on the Facebook post suggest other people have taken it seriously, with one user replying: “Disgusting! However, the tweet stems from an account which appears to produce satirical content. ‘News’ articles on the account’s website, which was described as a satire website by Indy100 (here), also appear satirical in nature (www.bazake.co.uk/news).

☆ Fact Check-Photo of Shamima Begum holding ‘Vote Labour to bring me home’ sign is digitally altered
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image of Shamima Begum, a British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, with her baby has been edited to replace her child with a sign saying: “Vote Labour to bring me home”. The manipulated image shows the 23-year-old clutching a cardboard sign which reads: “VOTE LABOUR TO BRING ME HOME”. However, the original photo shows Begum holding a baby wrapped in a blue-and-white-striped blanket (here). It was included in a June 11, 2022, Mail Online article (here), which says the child pictured was her late newborn son. The photo of Shamima Begum holding her baby was manipulated to include the sign urging people to vote for Britain’s Labour Party.

☆ Shamima Begum, British-born woman who joined IS, loses appeal over citizenship removal
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The British government took away Shamima Begum's citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria. Begum would have to take the case directly to the Court of Appeal in London if she wishes to challenge Wednesday's decision, according to legislation which covers the tribunal. Begum, who is currently being held in the al-Roj detention camp in north-eastern Syria, argued that the Home Office failed to investigate whether she was a "child victim of trafficking". Judge Robert Jay found there was a "credible suspicion" that Begum was trafficked to Syria for the purposes of "sexual exploitation". But the judge ruled that a finding that Begum may have been trafficked was not enough for her appeal to succeed.

☆ British-born woman who joined Islamic State loses appeal over citizenship removal
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal against the removal of her UK citizenship, with a judge ruling her possible trafficking was insufficient grounds to reinstate her citizenship. The British government took away Shamima Begum's British citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria. On Wednesday, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission – a specialist tribunal which hears appeals against decisions to remove citizenship on national security grounds – dismissed Begum's appeal. Her lawyers also argued that then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid had "pre-determined" that Begum's British citizenship should be revoked before he received any evidence from officials. But lawyers representing the Home Office said Begum's case was about national security rather than trafficking, arguing that Begum had aligned with IS and stayed in Syria for years.

☆ ŞOCANT! O femeie a murit, după ce a fost operată în spital de un paznic, care s-a dat drept medic
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-10 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

În acest timp, starea femeii a continuat să se înrăutățească, iar rana să sângereze. Când familia alarmată i-a transmis că starea femeii se deteriorează, „doctorul” i-a spus să o interneze. Oficialul a mai spus că încă nu este clar ce tip de intervenție chirurgicală a fost efectuată în sala de operații a spitalului. Poliția din Lahore a anunțat că suspectul a fost arestat și pus sub acuzare. Ca parte a anchetei, corpul femeii a fost dus la autopsie pentru a se stabili dacă a murit din cauza complicațiilor survenite în urma intervenției chirurgicale.

Persons: Pacienta, alarmată, Begum, Oficialul, suspectul Locations: Pakistan, Lahore

☆ O femeie din Pakistan și-a pierdut viața după ce un paznic, care pretindea că este medic, a operat-o
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-09 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: AFPO femeie din Pakistan și-a pierdut viața după ce un paznic, care pretindea că este medic, a operat-oShameema Begum, în vârstă de 80 de ani, a murit la două săptămâni după ce presupusul impostor, Muhammad Waheed Butt, a efectuat intervenția chirurgicală pentru a trata o rană la spate în sala de operații a spitalului Mayo deținută de guvernul din Lahore. Familia spune că i-au plătit domnului Butt operația și două vizite ulterioare la domiciliu pentru pansamentul plăgii. Dar rana a continuat să se înrăutățească și să sângereze. Când s-au întors la spital, acolo au cerut informații și au aflat ulterior că bărbatul care pretindea că este medic a fost paznic. Un oficial administrativ de la spitalul Mayo a declarat agenției de știri AFP: „Nu putem ține pasul cu ceea ce face fiecare medic și cu ce face toată lumea în orice moment.

Persons: Muhammad Waheed Organizations: Mayo Locations: Pakistan, Mayo, Lahore

☆ Cea mai bătrână femeie din lume a fost găsită în India, în timpul campaniei de vaccinare
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-06 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Cea mai bătrână femeie din lume a fost găsită în India, în timpul campaniei de vaccinare împotriva noului coronavirus. Medicii care i-au bătut la ușă au aflat că aceasta are 124 de ani, după ce i-au cerut un act de identitate. Astfel, Rehtee Begum poate fi considerată cea mai bătrână femeie de pe planetă, fiind cu șapte ani mai mare decât Kane Tanaka, femeia din Japonia care deţinea recordul la vârstă. Dacă acest lucru va fi confirmat oficial în urma analizelor, femeia va doborî și recordul lui Jeanne Calment, o franțuzoaică decedată în 1997 la 122 de ani. Ea a fost recunoscută oficial drept cea mai bătrână femeie din istoria omenirii.

Persons: Rehtee, Tanaka, Jeanne Calment, Ea Locations: India, coronavirus, Japonia

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