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Norris, a former Labour minister who defeated Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP for North East Somerset and Hanham in last year’s general election, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home on Friday, the Guardian reported. Avon and Somerset Police said a man in his 60s was arrested on Friday on suspicion of sexual offenses against a girl, rape, child abduction and misconduct in public office, the Independent reported. He was released on conditional bail. Norris, who served as a junior environment minister from 2009 to 2010, hasn’t issued a public statement since the incident.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), U.K.-based luxury automaker, said it will “pause” shipments of vehicles to the United States this month, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of hefty tariffs on foreign-made cars.  The company, which exports almost a quarter of its annual production to the U.S., is suspending shipments as a “short-term action” until longer-term solutions are worked out, according to a statement sent to media outlets.  “As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans,”…

In the midst of its coalition negotiations, the CDU/CSU has lost six percentage points. The head of the Institute for New Social Answers (INSA) Hermann Binkert calls this a “loss of support that has never been seen before in the period between the Bundestag elections and the formation of a government”.According to the Sunday poll conducted by the Insa opinion research institute for the Bild newspaper, 24 per cent of voters surveyed would vote for the CDU/CSU and 24 per cent for the AfD. For the AfD, this represents an increase of one percentage point compared to the last poll,…

Economy ministers from Italy and Spain are calling for European governments to avoid confrontation with the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, despite the biggest EU countries calling for a tougher stance.  “We still are calling for a negotiated solution,” Carlos Cuerpo, Spain’s minister of economy, trade and business, said, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Meanwhile, Giancarlo Giorgetti Italian economy and finance minister, urged colleagues not to use “the panic button.” “We must try to keep a cool head, evaluate the impact, and avoid a policy of retaliatory tariffs which would just be damaging for all, and especially for us,” Giorgetti said at a conference in Cernobbio,…

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across 40 cities in Spain to demand solutions to what they have called the country’s worsening housing crisis. Organisers of the demonstrations— a collection of tenants’ rights, neighbourhood movements and other social rights groups — accuse the government of turning housing “into a business model.””Fear has changed sides: we are not going to demand more changes; we are organised and we have a plan against rentierism”, said one of the groups leading the protests.The mass protests mark a milestone as they are the first to be held simultaneously in many locations, a decade…

Thomas Müller will end his “incredible journey” with Bayern Munich this summer after 25 years at his boyhood club but says he wasn’t ready to leave.The 35-year-old midfielder, whose contract is set to expire after the season, made the announcement Saturday in a joint statement with Bayern.On Instagram, Müller, 35, wrote that he respected Bayern’s decision not to offer him a new contract for next season “even if this did not reflect my personal wishes.”Müller has helped Bayern win a record 12 Bundesliga titles and two Champions League crowns — 33 trophies in total, the team said. But his playing…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that these strikes “cannot be accidental,” in a post on X. “The Russians know exactly what they’re hitting,” he said. “It is critically important not to leave this Russian strike on civilians, on the city — every such strike — without a response from the world,” the president said in another post.  Several European leaders condemned the attack. “Russia continues to destroy Ukraine, no interest in peace,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said in a post on X. She called the images from Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s hometown, “tragic and inhumane.” Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said that “this is why we need…

The tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday came into effect at 6am CET on Saturday.The new 10% customs duties now apply to a wide range of goods imported into the United States. However, the country-specific tariffs introduced by the Trump administration will only come into force on 9 April.Trump’s trade war is already sending shockwaves through global markets, further intensified by China’s decision to impose retaliatory tariffs of 34% on American imports. On Friday, major stock exchanges closed in the red. Milan’s FTSE MIB was the worst hit, falling by 6.53% by the close of trading. Losses were also…

The scandal erupted in December, when it emerged that Yang, had enjoyed a close friendship with Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles. Andrew, who is the Duke of York, already was a figure of disgrace in Britain over his close ties to the late American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. That made Yang the prince’s “only light at the end of the tunnel,” according to Hampshire’s testimony, the BBC reported.  Yang eventually became a close adviser on Andrew’s business ventures, authorized to operate on the prince’s behalf as he sought Chinese investors for an initiative called the Eurasia Fund. Moreover, documents show details of Andrew’s “communication…

At the same time, according to Lipavský, buying more American fossil gas — which Trump has said is key to addressing the trade imbalance — is “a good proposal, and I support it.” The European Commission has held a series of talks with U.S. counterparts, and despite a failure to agree a deal so far, “we should continue with that,” he added. EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič and other top officials visited Washington in recent weeks to try to secure an agreement that would spare it inclusion in Trump’s widely criticized tariff list, unveiled Wednesday. Brussels has even proposed actively…