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Cherie Blair QC received the tip off from a secretive Israeli tech firm, NSO Group, which she represents. The firm said Baroness Shackleton QC and her client were being hacked. ....
SHARE British boarding schools will aim to return to normal after the Easter break but a summer term with no exams will focus on the well-being and mental health of pupils after months of remote learning, a head teacher said. About 70,000 pupils attend private boarding schools in the UK, 40 per cent of whom are overseas students with parents living abroad, the National Education Union said. Read More Only British and Irish citizens and people with residence rights in the UK are allowed to enter England from those countries. Some pupils have been living in “boarding bubbles” during the pandemic, but other dormitory beds were empty for much of the spring term. ....
Brian Urquhart, Troubleshooter for the U.N., Dies at 101 He was best known for creating and directing the U.N.’s peacekeeping operations in conflict-filled areas around the world. Brian Urquhart, left, former under secretary general of the United Nations, confers with former President Jimmy Carter at a conference on the Middle East in 1987. Mr. Urquhart advised the U.N.’s first five secretaries general.Credit.Linda Schaefer/Associated Press Published Jan. 3, 2021Updated Feb. 2, 2021 Brian Urquhart, a troubleshooting British diplomat who joined the United Nations at its birth in 1945 and over the next four decades was a chief aide to five secretaries general while directing peacekeeping operations around the world, died on Saturday at his home in Tyringham, Mass. He was 101. ....