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Alberta’s police watchdog says there’s no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties tackled a prominent First Nation chief and punched him in the face during an arrest outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team also said in a report released Thursday that there’s no evidence of racist […]
South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, failed to appear before the country’s corruption watchdog on Wednesday, it said, after he was summoned for questioning over his attempt to impose martial law. Yoon was stripped of his duties by parliament over the weekend following his short-lived 3 December martial law declaration, which plunged the country […]
CPJ says the Israeli military ‘continues to act with total impunity when it comes to the killing of journalists’. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has denounced Israel’s killing of four Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past week as the Israeli military intensifies its bombardment of the besieged territory. The United States-based watchdog said […]
A Justice Department watchdog review released Thursday found no proof the FBI had undercover employees among the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The review from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office looked at the FBI’s intelligence collection efforts and its handling of “confidential human sources” in the lead-up to the […]
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The Justice Department has strengthened internal reviews for when it seeks the electronic records of members of Congress and congressional staffers as part of a leak investigation, including notification to the attorney general and other leadership, a watchdog reported Tuesday. A DOJ Office of the Inspector General review found that two members of Congress and […]
UK CMA gives the go-ahead for Vodafone and Three’s £15 billion merger deal The companies must invest in the UK network and cap their prices Together with VMO2, they expect to support 50 million customers After a year-long investigation, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has given approval to the Vodafone-Three merger, a deal worth […]
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council warned the next coalition to be cautious when it comes to the country’s “extraordinary” corporate tax receipts. Source link
Article content Ontario’s police watchdog agency says it’s investigating the death of an 18-year-old woman who fell to her death from a Lowertown apartment building early on Nov. 28. Article content At about 1 a.m., another individual contacted the Ottawa Police Service, citing concern for the well-being of her friend, a Special Investigations Unit update […]
Plans to end the deepening crisis in access to NHS dental care are failing, leaving patients unable to get treatment, according to a warning from the government’s spending watchdog. The National Audit Office’s (NAO) damning verdict on the “dental recovery plan” prompted patient groups to voice alarm that people’s struggles with decayed teeth represents “a […]