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Ministers are facing demands to re-examine 85 oversight jobs across Whitehall amid questions over Conservative government appointments to the health department. Concerns were raised after it emerged that Matt Hancock had appointed Gina Coladangelo, whom he was pictured kissing in his office in May, as a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) last year. She was paid £15,000 for 15 days’ work a year in a role that included scrutinising his performance as a minister. Non-executive directors (Neds) exist to “challenge” the government and provide independent scrutiny while bringing private-sector experience to departmental boards. In some cases,…

Didier Deschamps refused to blame Kylian Mbappé for the missed penalty that sent France to a stunning defeat against Switzerland on a dramatic night in Bucharest. Switzerland scored two late goals within the 90 minutes to send the game into extra-time, after which the PSG striker was the only man to miss in the shootout. “Nobody can be annoyed with him,” the France manager said. “When you take the responsibility, it can happen. He is obviously very affected by it.” Mbappé was consoled by teammates after his spot kick, which followed nine perfectly-taken penalties in the shootout, was repelled by Yann Sommer. “Kylian takes…

FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after he failed to appear at a corruption inquiry earlier this year. Zuma failed to appear at the inquiry led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo in February. This prompted the inquiry’s lawyers approached the constitutional court to seek an order for his imprisonment. The inquiry is examining allegations of high-level graft during Zuma’s period in power from 2009 to 2018. Zuma denied wrongdoing and has so far not cooperated. “Mr Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is sentenced to undergo 15 months’ imprisonment,” a constitutional court judge said,…

Rudy Giuliani, who served as the personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, on June 24 harshly criticized the decision by the New York State Bar to revoke his law license. “America is not America any longer. We do not live in a free state,” Giuliani said on Newsmax TV. “We live in a state that’s controlled by the Democrat Party, by [Gov. Andrew] Cuomo, by [New York City Mayor Bill] de Blasio, and the Democrats. “We have a double standard. There’s no doubt if I was representing Hillary Clinton, I’d be their hero.” The Appellate Division of the New York…

British schools shouldn’t teach the term “white privilege” unless they explain that it is a “highly contentious” concept, because it’s divisive and “unnecessarily antagonistic,” a UK government minister has warned. Writing in The Telegraph, Kemi Badenoch, Britain’s equalities minister, said, “The intense focus on race over the last year is leading to an increased racialisation of issues and incidents across society.” “Normalising the term ‘white privilege’ does not eliminate racism, it reinforces the notion that everyone and everything around ethnic minorities is racist and makes the majority white population more conscious about their race and exacerbates feelings of difference, creating a less cohesive society,” she…

THE UK has banned one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges as part of a major crackdown by the financial watchdog. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced its decision on Binance Markets Limited yesterday It warned Binance to stop all regulated activity immediately in the country. The FCA said: “Binance Markets Limited is not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK. “Due to the imposition of requirements by the FCA, Binance Markets Limited is not currently permitted to undertake any regulated activities without the prior written consent of the FCA.” The FCA also added no other part of Binance…

EMMANUEL Macron was dealt a humiliating blow when his political party suffered a wipe-out last night in local elections that saw it fail to win a single seat in France’s key regions. Sunday’s nationwide ballot was a disaster for the French President, with exit polls revealing the conservative Republicans party as the winners. National, Mr Macron’s La République En Marche received less than 10 percent of the vote. The regional elections were also humiliating for eurosceptic Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Rally, who also failed to make any significant breakthroughs. The vote is seen as a…

Down in the stands, Kevin De Bruyne expressed the way they all felt: nerves shred, tension rising, pleading with his Belgium team-mates to hang on. Alongside him, Eden Hazard sat too. Both men had been withdrawn, injured, now all they could do was watch helpless as their teammates desperately hung on to a Thorgan Hazard goal that would see them go through. If, that was, Portugal couldn’t find a way through – and as the final minutes progressed that must have felt ever more imminent to them, the pressure rising all the time. In the Belgian goal Thibaut Courtois watched…

A Georgia judge on Thursday dismissed seven of nine claims in a Fulton County election lawsuit while allowing two to proceed that require the county to produce digital images of some 150,000 mail-in ballots that are at the center of plaintiffs’ allegations of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In an order (pdf), Henry County Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero ruled that the respondents of the lawsuit—Fulton County, Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, and Fulton County Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts—could not be defendants in the suit due to sovereign immunity protections. However, Amero granted a request by the plaintiffs to…

Marcus Rashford has urged England to write their names into history by securing a famous victory over Germany in the last 16 of Euro 2020. England have endured plenty of heartbreak against their old rivals in tournaments, but there is a belief within the camp that they will not be carrying any mental baggage when they face Joachim Löw’s side. Most of the squad are too young to remember their manager, Gareth Southgate, missing the decisive penalty in the Euro 96 semi-final against Germany and Rashford feels it is vital that they do not show any fear at Wembley on…