UK LEADER STARMER BATTLES TO KEEP JOB AS MANDELSON-EPSTEIN REVELATIONS TRIGGER CRISIS. (PHOTO).

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 UK leader Starmer battles to keep job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations trigger crisis    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was fighting for political survival on Monday as his authority within the Labour Party sharply eroded less than two years into his term. Under mounting pressure from party lawmakers, Starmer was scrambling to head off a potential revolt that could cost him the leadership after a damaging scandal involving his appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to Washington. The crisis deepened over the weekend when Starmer lost his chief of staff, and it intensified further on Monday with the resignation of his director of communications, Tim Allan, who said he was stepping aside to allow a new team to be formed. Starmer was scheduled to address Labour lawmakers behind closed doors in a bid to stabilize his leadership and regain trust. At the center of the turmoil is Starmer’s 2024 decision to appoint Mandelson to one of Britain’s most senior d...
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HONG KONG ACTIVIST JIMMY LAI TO RECEIVE SENTENCING FOLLOWING NATIONAL SECURITY CONVICTION. (PHOTO).

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Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai to receive sentencing following national security conviction
      
 Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday following his conviction in a high-profile national security case that has drawn global scrutiny and highlighted Beijing’s tightening control over dissent in the territory.
Lai, 78, faces the possibility of a life sentence. He is one of China’s most prominent critics and has been a vocal advocate for press freedom in Hong Kong. International human rights groups and foreign governments have criticized the case as politically motivated, warning it signals a shrinking space for free expression in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Advocates for press freedom say the verdict will have far-reaching consequences beyond Lai himself.
Lai has spent more than 1,800 days in custody, much of it in solitary confinement, raising concerns about his health. Hong Kong authorities maintain that he has received proper medical care and that his isolation was requested. He was first arrested in 2020, shortly after Beijing enacted a sweeping national security law following months of anti-government protests in 2019. Authorities argue the law was needed to restore stability and insist Lai’s prosecution is unrelated to press freedom.
The charges against Lai include conspiring to publish seditious articles and conspiring to lobby foreign governments to impose sanctions or other measures against China and Hong Kong. His conviction followed an 855-page verdict citing his interactions with senior U.S. officials, including meetings with former Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton, and members of Congress during the 2019 protests. Lai has pleaded not guilty.
Also scheduled for sentencing on Monday are six former Apple Daily journalists and two activists who had testified against Lai. Many of them pleaded guilty in hopes of reduced sentences. Lai had previously been convicted on separate charges, including fraud and unlawful assembly, and in December 2022, he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison in the fraud case.
This trial marks one of the most prominent applications of Hong Kong’s national security law, and observers say the outcome will send a critical message about the future of independent journalism and dissent in the territory.

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