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A group of current, and former, foreign politicians say they have demanded to be called as witnesses in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, who come from nine countries, include Japan’s former defence minister Gen Nakatani and Iain Duncan Smith – a former UK Conservative party leader who has been sanctioned by China. In a letter seen by the BBC, the group say they have been cited over 50 times during the hearings yet have never been formally contacted to submit evidence. “[W]e now have an opportunity to see how fa...
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Liz Truss' phone was reportedly hacked by Vladimir Putin. The former Prime Minster, 47, stepped down from the top government position last week after just 50 days in office but is said to have had her phone tapped into by agents working for the Russian president - who launched an ongoing military invasion of neighbouring country Ukraine in February - when she served as Foreign Secretary in 2021, according to the Daily Mail on Sunday. A source said: "It is not a great look for the intelligence services if the Foreign Secretary’s phone can be so easily plundered for embarrassing personal message...
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UK Parliament shuts down its TikTok account. The country’s legislature scrapped their page - which was launched last week - and all its content over the tech company’s links to China, as it owned by ByteDance, which has denied allegations of being controlled by the Chinese government. London and Beijing have endured tense relations in the last few years with China sanctioning a number of UK lawmakers last year and the allegations of human rights abuses, such as against the Uyghur people. Of their decision to close their account, a spokesperson said: "Based on member feedback, we are closing th...
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