Month: October 2018

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has stated that women will now be permitted to join any combat role in the army. This announcement follows the lifting of a ban on women ‘serving in close combat units in the British Military’, a change that was made in 2016 by the last Prime …

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The United Nations Human Rights Committee have declared that France is violating human rights with its law, ‘Act prohibiting the concealment of the face in a public space’. The controversial act was passed by the French Senate in 2010 and came into effect in April 2011. Although some agreed with …

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Sir Philip Green has been named as the businessman who took out an injunction against The Telegraph, in order to stop the paper reporting allegations of bullying, sexual harassment and racist abuse against him made by members of his staff. The Topshop mogul is reported to have used NDA’s (non-disclosure …

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Lubna Al Olayan, the 86th most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes in 2014, will become the chair to a new bank in Saudi Arabia. This will follow the merging of Saudi British Bank with Alawaal Bank to create the third largest bank in the region. She is …

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