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‘Unprecedented’ decision taken to protect judicial anonymity despite huge public interest in case • Inexperienced social worker did not identify Sara Sharif’s father as posing any risk The high court judge who banned the media from reporting the names of the fellow judges who oversaw three sets of family court proceedings relating to the murdered…

The murdered girl had been allowed to live with her father, who had repeatedly attracted the attention of police and social workers • Moves to appeal after court upholds ban on naming judges who presided over Sara Sharif hearings An inexperienced social worker tasked by a local authority with assessing Sara Sharif’s parents did not…

Javier Milei is proud of his Italian ancestry and has tried to bolster ties with Italy’s conservative prime minister. But his new passport angered critics of Italy’s rules on citizenship.

Michael Conahan was convicted of accepting $2.8m for jailing more than 2,300 children, some as young as eight Victims of a former Pennsylvania judge convicted in the so-called kids-for-cash scandal are outraged by Joe Biden’s decision to grant him clemency. In 2011, Michael Conahan was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after he…

Government accused of permitting a planning ‘free-for-all’ by allowing developers to convert office blocks into flats without the usual controls Labour has been accused of allowing developers to build a new generation of “slum” homes by converting office blocks into flats without planning permission. The controversial projects will boost Keir Starmer’s drive to build 1.5m…

For many remote communities in the sparsely populated nation, Canada Post is the only parcel delivery option. Even Amazon relies on it.

At least 39 rescued after vessel capsized off island of Gavdos but number of missing has not yet been confirmed At least five people drowned after their wooden boat capsized off Greece’s southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said. So far 39 men – most of them from Pakistan – have been rescued by cargo…

Gen. Walter Braga Netto was Jair Bolsonaro’s running mate. The arrest was for meddling in an investigation into a plot to stage a coup, the police said.

Senate minority leader contracted the disease as a child, before the wildly successful vaccine was licensed US Senate minority leader and polio survivor Mitch McConnell has condemned attempts to undermine the polio vaccine after reports that a lawyer affiliated with Robert F Kennedy Jr – the health secretary pick for Donald Trump’s second presidency –…