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Senior U.K. jurists join calls to stop arms sales to Israel

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Senior U.K. jurists join calls to stop arms sales to Israel

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. | Photo Credit: AP More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of three U.K. aid workers in an Israeli strike. Britain is…

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Rishi Sunak Faces Cabinet Split On Taking UK Out Of Human Rights Pact

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Rishi Sunak Faces Cabinet Split On Taking UK Out Of Human Rights Pact

The issue is potentially seismic, given the UK was heavily involved in drafting and signed in 1951. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure from members of his Cabinet to take the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights, a move that could open a dramatic rift in the government ahead of…

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