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Board of Education races became political battlegrounds this year.

LAWYERS for a doctor accused of terrorism offences are so concerned at his treatment in prison following a heart attack they have called for the United Nations to intervene, a court has heard.

A Palestinian doctor facing charges arising from an MI5-led sting has suffered a heart attack behind bars. Dr Issam Bassalat (66) is one of ten people charged with a series of offences arising out of the surveillance operation connected to Operation...

Ivor Bell wins legal battle to overturn conviction for assisting Gerry Adams attempt to escape jail Veteran republican Ivor Bell. Picture By Hugh Russell 19 May, 2021 14:50 The former Long Kesh/Maze prison A VETERAN republican has won his legal battle to overturn a conviction for assisting in Gerry Adams attempt to escape from jail. Senior judges in Belfast granted 84-year-old Ivor Bells appeal against being found guilty of aiding the former Sinn Féin Presidents...

BBC News Published image captionIvor Bell challenged the legality of the verdict reached against him Former IRA leader Ivor Bell has won his appeal against being found guilty of helping Gerry Adams in his attempt to break out of prison during the 1970s. Mr Adams was interned without trial. This was a practice that was introduced in Northern Ireland amid spiralling violence in the early 1970s. More than 1,900 people suspected of being members of paramilitary organisations were detained, but many...

"These programs are a win-win proposition because they give valuable exposure to brands while students gain marketing experience as they move closer to graduating," said Julie Jatlow, a partner at Fuse, an agency that runs college ambassador programs for TikTok, Amazon and other brands. Depending on the company, campus ambassador duties typically include posting content on social media, handing out merchandise or samples, hosting branded events and reaching out to student organizations. "Findin...

© Bardocz Peter/Shutterstock.com From the Rose Seidler House and Mooloomba House to the Sydney Opera House, these 20 buildings are examples of some of Australia’s most architecturally and historically important structures. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Rose Seidler House With the uncompromisingly modern Rose Seidler House, Harry Seid...

Claire McKeegan admits to being “in and out of police stations a lot”, but this is no career criminal we are talking about. Instead, it’s her reputation as a tireless human rights lawyer that has made her familiar to the forces of law and order. Every day she deals with victims of serious crime; her clients include the family of murdered German backpacker Inga Maria Hauser and victims of institutional abuse in Northern Ireland. “Rarely does someone go to see a solicitor to discuss somet...

Advertisement Robert Lloyd’s Larry King piece was the best I’ve seen — it really got to the nub of what made him good, and popular. Great comparison with Craig Ferguson — I had forgotten how good those conversations between them were. It was also nice that it didn’t dismiss or ignore his post-CNN work, as others have. It touched on his colorful life but didn’t overemphasize it at the expense of understanding what made him tick. I understood him better after reading this remembrance,...

Lawyers for Ivor Bell are basing their appeal on a ruling that Mr Adams detention was unlawful. In May last year, the UKs highest court quashed the former Sinn Fein Presidents convictions for trying to escape from the Maze Prison during the 1970s. He had been interned without trial at the jail - then known as the Long Kesh Internment Camp - under an interim custody order (ICO). But Supreme Court justices quashed Mr Adams convictions because the ICO was not personally authorised by the Northern ...