A French court on Thursday sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, reportedly in an attempt to discredit coworkers. Frederic Pechier, 53, worked as an anesthetist in two clinics in the eastern city of Besancon, when patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between…
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Former industrial communities across Britain are facing “entrenched disadvantages” stretching back decades, the latest social mobility research has said. It raises specific concern about the rising number of young people aged 16-24 not in education, employment or training (Neets), which was one in seven between 2022 and 2024. The Social Mobility Commission’s state of the…
The United States military lost two Iowa National Guard soldiers and a civilian interpreter in Syria, and saw three more of its troops injured, in a shooting last week by an Islamic State supporter there. The violence threw a spotlight on the U.S. military’s mission in a country newly emerging from civil war. Syrian officials…
BBC Murray Dowey was 16 when he took his own life A Scottish couple whose teenage son took his own life after being blackmailed on Instagram are suing the platform’s owner Meta, in what’s thought to be the first UK case of its kind. Murray Dowey, from Dunblane, was 16 when he became a victim…
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A former anaesthetist has been jailed for life for intentionally poisoning 30 patients, including 12 who died. A court in the city of Besançon in eastern France found Frédéric Péchier guilty of contaminating infusion bags with substances that caused cardiac arrest or hemorrhaging. His youngest victim, a four-year-old child, survived two cardiac arrests during a…