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After Friday prayers last week, Mahmooda Syedain and her husband went shopping for flags, specifically the national flag of Scotland, the blue and white cross of St Andrew.The community activist lives in Falkirk, a former iron and steel town midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh where unemployment is rising, and where an anonymous two-floor building tucked behind the local Lidl store has become the focus of the largest asylum hotel protests in Scotland.In recent weeks the blue and white Saltire has appeared flying high on lamp-posts around Falkirk and elsewhere across Scotland, from Maryhill and Tollcross in Glasgow to Peterhead and…

A British doctor was sentenced to nearly 2 1/2 years behind bars for insurance fraud after claiming his legs were lost due to sepsis — when he actually forced the amputations for sexual gratification, officials said Thursday.Andrew Neil Hopper, a 49-year-old vascular surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation and three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.He was sentenced to 32 months in prison by a Truro Crown Court judge and remanded into custody.Neil Hopper in London in 2020.Ken McKay / ITV/Shutterstock fileHopper “fraudulently…

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has already extended the ITR filing deadline from July 31 to September 15, 2025, giving taxpayers extra breathing space. Yet, many are still struggling to file on time. Some taxpayers—and even CAs—are hoping for another extension. But what if you miss the deadline even after this extension? That’s where the “Condonation of Delay” request comes in. What Is a Condonation of Delay? Add Zee News as a Preferred Source A condonation request is an application you submit to the Income Tax Department, asking for permission to file your return even after the belated and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for New York City mayor, met with Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday. Cuomo shared a photo of the meeting at a New York City restaurant on his social media, writing, “Great breakfast catching up with my old friend, @real_sharpton.”Sharpton also shared the photo on his social media, saying they had a “breakfast meeting,” and that Democratic candidate and front-runner for mayor, Zohran Mamdani – who identifies as a Democratic socialist — would be on his MSNBC show “PoliticsNation” this weekend. Cuomo was likely reaching out to…

Millions of mobile phones will vibrate and make a siren sound across the UK on Sunday afternoon during a test of a nationwide emergency alert system.Handset users will also receive a message on their screens reminding them the 10-second alert, which will happen at 3pm, is a test. There are about 87m mobile phones in the UK.The government has said not all devices will receive the alert, including older phones and those not connected to 4G or 5G networks. The alert will not work on a phone that is switched off or in airplane mode.The 10-second duration has been designed…

Calls for an Israeli-owned professional cycling team to abandon Spain’s grand tour have overshadowed much of La Vuelta a España this week. Pro-Palestinian protesters targeting Israel-Premier Tech lined up along the route in Bilbao, waving large Palestinian flags and signs that read, “Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel” and “La Vuelta continues deaf and dumb” in Catalan and Spanish, respectively. They are protesting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of civilians, in retaliation for Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023.Israel-Premier Tech’s owner, Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, has denounced the demonstrators as “violent terrorists” and said Israel-Premier Tech…

New Delhi: The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme continues to provide much-needed financial support to farmers across the country. Just last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 20th installment, crediting Rs 2,000 each directly into the bank accounts of beneficiaries. In total, over Rs 20,500 crore reached around 9.7 crore farmers. Now, all eyes are on the upcoming 21st installment, as farmers eagerly await the next payout. How Does PM Kisan Yojana Help Farmers? The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) Yojana is a Central Government scheme launched on December 1, 2018 to provide direct financial support…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Joe Kennedy III on Friday denounced his cousin Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as “a threat to the health and wellbeing of every American” in a blistering social media post. The rare public rebuke comes one day after RFK Jr.’s contentious Senate hearing, deepening a family feud that has fractured one of America’s most famous political dynasties.Kennedy’s statement, viewed more than 1.2 million times, opens the curtain behind the extraordinary rift inside the political dynasty. Once synonymous with Democrat unity, the Kennedys are now split over RFK Jr.’s embrace…

Britain is not just complicit in Israel’s breaches of humanitarian law in Gaza but a participant that has repeatedly ignored its legal obligation to prevent a genocide, witnesses have told the independent Gaza tribunal.The two-day tribunal in London, which is independent of government and parliament, is seeking to amass evidence of Britain’s failure to distance itself from what the tribunal organisers regard as Israeli war crimes amounting to genocide.It is chaired by Jeremy Corbyn, who claimed the 29 witnesses had “paved the way for truth” and promised he would demand a meeting with the foreign secretary to present the report…

The College of Charleston confirmed on Friday that one of its instructors was among the 16 people killed in the crash of the popular funicular railway in Lisbon on Wednesday, which shocked Portugal and led to pointed questions about the cause of the accident.Heather Hall, a member of the faculty of the Department of Teacher Education, was the only American killed in the accident, which also injured 21. Among the dead were five Portuguese citizens, two South Koreans, one Swiss, three British citizens, two Canadians, one French and one Ukrainian, according to the Portuguese police. Hall had been in Lisbon…