Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice Secretary in Gordon Brown’s government, first proposed the radical change while in government. But it was torpedoed by a ...

Labour grandee Jack Straw has called for thousands of defendants each year to be stripped of their right to elect a jury trial. Mr Straw, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair and Justice ...

In a new book — London's Lost Pubs — Sam Cullen goes on a epic crawl of over 200 of the most interesting erstwhile boozers, ...

Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his Islamist group led a lightning offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad.

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Former rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been appointed Syria’s interim president, almost two months after his group helped topple the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Al-Sharaa, whose Hayat Tahrir al ...

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, speaks to the media after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 23, 2024. File ...

M23 leader Bertrand Bisimwa has told Al Jazeera that the rebel group’s fight in eastern DR Congo is one for survival and insists that it is looking for dialogue to end the decades-long conflict.

The government should scrap the right of defendants to choose trial by jury for some mid-range offences, former justice secretary Jack Straw has said. He branded laws allowing someone on trial to ...