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UK Cop Arrests Woman On False Charge, Rapes, Murders Her: Court Told

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Sarah Everard was strangled then set on fire, with her remains found in woodland.
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London:
A serving British police officer kidnapped a woman as she walked home, handcuffing her in a false arrest for breaking coronavirus restrictions, before raping and murdering her, a court was told on Wednesday.
The disappearance of <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-cop-wayne-couzens-pleads-guilty-to-murder-of-sarah-everard-who-disappeared-on-walk-home-2482943" target="_self">Sarah Everard</a> during a national lockdown in March was one of Britain's most high-profile missing person investigations and sparked protests and a debate about women's safety on the streets.
Wayne Couzens, 48, who served with the elite diplomatic protection unit of London's Metropolitan Police, admitted her kidnapping, rape and murder in July.
Everard, who had been visiting a friend in Clapham, south London, was strangled then set on fire, with her remains found in woodland.
At a two-day sentencing hearing, prosecutor Tom Little said Couzens targeted the 33-year-old marketing executive on March 3, and accused her of breaking coronavirus rules.
Couzens, who was off-duty, kidnapped Everard in a "false arrest", by "handcuffing her and showing his warrant card", he added.
Security camera footage showed him holding up his warrant card and then handcuffing Everard before putting her into a hire car.
A couple driving past in a car also witnessed this, and assumed an undercover police officer was making an arrest, the lawyer added.
But he said Couzens exploited his knowledge and experience of police patrols enforcing lockdown restrictions and knew what language to use.
A former boyfriend had given evidence that Everard was "savvy and streetwise" and would not have got into a car with a stranger except "by force or manipulation", he added.
Couzens sat in the dock at London's Old Bailey with his head bowed, watched by members of Everard's family, as the judge considered whether to hand him a whole-life jail term.
The sentence was due to be announced on Thursday.
Before the hearing, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement: "We are sickened, angered and devastated by this man's crimes, which betray everything we stand for."
The force has sacked the officer and said his actions "raise many questions and concerns" but it would not comment further until after the sentencing.
Demonstrators outside the court held banners with slogans criticising the police such as "Met Police Blood On Your Hands" and let off smoke flares.
The government has pledged to improve legislation after Everard's murder sparked widespread anger at women's lack of safety in public spaces.
In July, the interior ministry said it would increase the currently low numbers of perpetrators brought to justice for offences including rape, domestic abuse, stalking and sexual harassment and work with police to "more effectively respond to street harassment".
Yet in another high profile case, primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was murdered earlier this month as she walked through a London park to meet a friend.
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YouTube Blocks All Anti-Vaccine Content

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Even as YouTube takes a tougher stance on misinformation, it faces backlash around the world. (File)
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WASHINGTON:
YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond COVID-19 to include content that alleges vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The online video company owned by Alphabet Inc is also banning prominent anti-vaccine activists, taking down several channels, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing YouTube's Vice President Of Global Trust and Safety Matt Halprin. These include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola, who have long been high-profile figures in the anti-vaccine movement.
The move comes as YouTube and other tech giants like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have been criticized for not doing enough to stop the spread of false health information on their sites.
Even as YouTube takes a tougher stance on misinformation, it faces backlash around the world. On Tuesday, Russian state-backed broadcaster RT's German-language channels were deleted from YouTube, as the company said the channels had breached its COVID-19 misinformation policy.
Russia on Wednesday called the move "unprecedented information aggression," and threatened to block YouTube.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel "Congratulated Scholz On Election Win"

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Germany's outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Finance Minister Olaf Scholz
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Berlin:
Germany's outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Finance Minister Olaf Scholz from the rival Social Democrats on his election victory, a government statement said Wednesday, as Merkel's conservatives remain in disarray after the vote.
Scholz's SPD won 25.7 percent of the vote in Sunday's hard-fought general election, while Merkel's centre-right CDU-CSU bloc slumped to a record-low of 24.1 percent.
"The chancellor congratulated Olaf Scholz on Monday on his election success," the statement said.
Merkel's would-be conservative successor Armin Laschet has yet to publicly do so.
Despite leading the conservative alliance to its worst result in its seven-decade history, the unpopular Laschet has insisted on trying to form the next German coalition government with him as chancellor.
But key conservative figures have increasingly distanced themselves from Laschet in recent days, raising doubts about his future.
Bavarian premier Markus Soeder, leader of the CSU sister party to the CDU, publicly congratulated Scholz in a press conference on Tuesday, illustrating a growing rift with Laschet.
"Olaf Scholz clearly has the better chance of becoming chancellor at the moment," Soeder said, insisting the election result "must be accepted, it is a basic rule of democracy".
Merkel herself is standing down after 16 years at the helm of Europe's top economy.
But the veteran leader will stay on in a caretaker capacity until the new government is formed, expected to take weeks or even months.
With neither the SPD nor the CDU-CSU keen on teaming up again in a so-called grand coalition, the only way either can achieve a parliamentary majority is by partnering with the Greens and the pro-business FDP party.
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Russia Threatens To Block YouTube

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YouTube said on Tuesday that RT's channels had breached its Covid misinformation policy
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Moscow:
Russia threatened on Wednesday to block Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube after Russian state-backed broadcaster RT's German-language channels were deleted, and said it was considering retaliating against German media.
YouTube said on Tuesday that RT's channels had breached its COVID-19 misinformation policy, a move Russia's Foreign Ministry described as "unprecedented information aggression".
Russian state communications regulator Roskomnadzor said it had written to Google and demanded that the restrictions be lifted. It said Russia could seek to partially or fully restrict access to YouTube if it failed to comply.
Google declined to comment on Wednesday.
The Kremlin said it may have to force YouTube to comply with Russian law, saying there could be zero tolerance for breaches.
"Of course there are signs that the laws of the Russian Federation have been broken, broken quite blatantly, because of course this involves censorship and obstructing the spread of information by the media," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
The foreign ministry said Russian authorities had been approached with "a proposal to develop and take retaliatory measures against the YouTube hosting service and the German media."
Christian Mihr, executive director at Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany, said the threat of action against German journalists was "completely inappropriate".
Moscow has increased pressure on foreign tech firms in the past year, fining social media companies for failing to delete content Russia deems illegal and punitively slowing down the speed of Twitter.
That pressure led Google and Apple to remove an anti-government tactical voting app from their stores on the first day of a parliamentary election earlier this month, Kremlin critics said.
Berlin denied an allegation by the Russian foreign ministry that YouTube's decision had been made with clear and tacit support from the German authorities and local media.
"It is a decision by YouTube, based on rules created by YouTube. It is not a measure (taken by) the German government or other official organisations," German government spokesperson Steffen Seibert told reporters.
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Airtel Fined Millions In This Nation For Cheating Customers Of Call Time

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Airtel Malawi is part of Bharti Airtel Limited that operates in 18 countries across Asia and Africa
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Lilongwe, Malawi:
Malawian regulators on Wednesday fined the local unit of Bharti Airtel the equivalent of around $2.6 million for skimping on airtime owed to consumers in one of the world's poorest countries.
The Competition and Fair Trade Commission imposed a 2.1-billion-kwacha ($2.6 million) fine on mobile operator Airtel Malawi for engaging in "unconscionable conduct" in withholding airtime owed as part of a loyalty programme.
Airtel Malawi is part of Bharti Airtel Limited that operates in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. The company describes itself as the largest mobile operator in Africa.
The commission's acting executive director Apoche Itimu told a news briefing that the commission launched an investigation into Airtel Malawi on September 16, following several complaints from consumers.
"It was alleged that the Airtel Malawi stopped automatically crediting customer accounts with monthly bonuses" of airtime, she said.
Instead, consumers had to request their free airtime on the 14th of every month. Those who failed to do so lost their bonus.
Itimu said the company made a financial gain of about 2.1 billion kwacha by "engaging in unconscionable conduct in the trade of goods and services".
The commission fined Airtel Malawi the same amount.
Bharti Airtel's annual revenue of $14 billion is almost double the size Malawi's entire economy.
Airtel Malawi did not immediately respond to AFP requests for comment.
 
 
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Cop Who Raped and Strangled Woman Used COVID Lockdown Rules to Abduct Her

The British government has been accused of trying to bypass Parliament in an effort to implement vaccine passports via the backdoor, with the scheme under review AGAIN despite assurances it wasn’t being considered.
As we <a href="https://summit.news/2021/09/13/uk-government-says-vaccine-passports-integral-to-covid-winter-plan-day-after-they-were-supposedly-scrapped/">highlighted</a> earlier this month, just a day after health secretary Sajid Javid asserted that the system had been scrapped, the government announced that vaccine passports would form an ‘integral’ part of its winter response to COVID if cases and hospitalizations rose.
Under the government’s ‘Plan B’, vaccine passports will form a “first-line defence” against a winter wave of COVID, despite their widespread use in Israel having proven to have zero impact on minimizing COVID cases.
Aware that it may struggle to get a vaccine passport system through a Parliamentary vote, the government is now launching a ‘public consultation’ in an attempt to enlist support for the scheme.
“The plans seemed to have been put on the backburner but on Monday night the Government launched a consultation, asking the public for views on the use of vaccine passports this autumn and winter if Covid-19 cases threaten to overwhelm the NHS,” reports <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/27/vaccine-passports-indoor-outdoor-venues-could-mandatory-winter/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr">the Telegraph</a>.
“The Plan B proposals also open the door to the number of venues being widened beyond nightclubs, music venues, outdoor festivals, concerts and sports events.”
With the government refusing to commit to a vote, many respondents saw the move as the start of an effort to sidestep Parliament.
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So, the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOVUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOVUK</a> are trying to sidestep a Parliamentary vote on Vaccine Passports for their Plan B winter scenario.
❌ No evidence passports would curtail COVID spread. 
❌ No impact assessments on their harms 
❌ No answer to discrimination and moral arguments
Disgusting people.
— Adam Brooks (@EssexPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1442587811148795906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2021</a>
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👎 Very disappointing to see this vaccine passport proposal
🛑 No evidence published to justify it
🛑 No commitment to a Parliamentary vote in advance
Vaccine passports are *still*:
❌ Pointless 
❌ Damaging 
❌ Discriminatory <a href="https://t.co/Kq2wQcoSKD">https://t.co/Kq2wQcoSKD</a>
— Mark Harper (@Mark_J_Harper) <a href="https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Harper/status/1442581951307780096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2021</a>
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Vaccine passports are illiberal, discriminatory, and there's no evidence to suggest they work.
The Government has not committed to a vote. What is a parliamentary democracy without parliamentary scrutiny?
Call for evidence 'til 11 October. Have your say:<a href="https://t.co/DXCue5hJuC">https://t.co/DXCue5hJuC</a>
— Calvin (@calvinrobinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1442596472961257473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2021</a>
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Government's vaccine passport proposals for England: 
• Assertion of benefits with no real-world evidence presented. 
• No evaluation of costs. 
• Prior immunity not even considered.
Remarkable. 
Will the media interrogate? Will the Opposition oppose?<a href="https://t.co/dmCh1dkDFD">https://t.co/dmCh1dkDFD</a>
— David Paton (@cricketwyvern) <a href="https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1442570307047288837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2021</a>
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The utter stupidity of the scheme is proven by the fact that it will eliminate the option to provide a negative test to enter any of the venues.
In other words, proving that you don’t have the virus won’t be good enough to gain entry, but proving you’ve complied and taken a vaccine with dodgy efficacy that means you could still be carrying the virus anyway will be good enough to gain entry.
The government has consistently lied to the public about its intentions regarding vaccine passports, initially claiming they weren’t being considered while funding their creation, then announcing they’d be introduced at the end of September, then backtracking, and now they’re back on the agenda again.
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