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Fashion Value Chain
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Value Chain
Laneige x Mad Over Donuts Launch Glaze Craze Lip Serum
Laneige, the global skincare brand known for its lip care innovation, has launched the Glaze Craze Tinted Lip Serum, blending serum benefits with the brilliance of high-shine gloss. To celebrate this launch, Laneige has teamed up with Mad Over Donuts (MOD) for a limited-edition, dessert-themed collaboration. This playful partnership brings beauty and indulgence together in a sensorial experience inspired by the juicy, glazed finish of the serum. Featuring a special co-created range of artisanal donuts reflecting the product's vibrant shades, the collection is designed for beauty lovers and dessert fans alike. Paul Lee, Managing Director & Country Head, Amorepacific India, stated, 'The collaboration embodies our goal of building culturally relevant connections that are both engaging and unforgettable.' Mini Sood Banerjee, Assistant Director & Head of Marketing and Training at Amorepacific Group, added, 'With Glaze Craze, we wanted to offer more than just lip care—we wanted a sensory experience, and MOD was the perfect match to echo our product's fun and indulgent feel.' Tarak Bhattacharya, Executive Director & CEO, MOD, shared, 'This collaboration brought together colour, flavour, and creativity. The Glaze Craze donut menu is a bold and fun tribute to what both brands represent.' At an exclusive launch event in Delhi, over 150 media professionals and key opinion leaders, including Karan Sareen, Anmol Bhatia, and Aditi Shrestha, experienced the new collection firsthand. A standout feature of the evening was an Instagram-worthy donut cart showcasing the co-branded creations. Availability: Laneige Glaze Craze Tinted Lip Serum is available on Nykaa, Tira, and Sephora MOD x Laneige Donuts will be available later this month in select outlets across Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore The campaign celebrates beauty, flavour, and self-expression in an innovative and irresistible format.
Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Top Tory Grant Shapps claims Afghan data breach kept secret over risk of executions
In his first comments since news of an unprecedented superinjunction was made public, the ex-Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said his focus was on 'sorting out the mess and saving lives' Senior Tory Grant Shaps has defended the decision to keep MPs and the public in the dark over a massive Afghan data leak - claiming it risked people being executed. In his first comments since news of an unprecedented superinjunction was released, the ex-Defence Secretary said his focus was on "sorting out the mess and saving lives". Mr Shapps insisted he would "do the same thing all over again", adding he would "walk over hot coals" in order to stop people being murdered. Details of almost 19,000 people seeking to flee from the Taliban after the fall of Kabul were released in 2022 in error by a Ministry of Defence (MOD) official. It led to a secret £850million relocation scheme being set up to bring people to safety. Yesterday it emerged that as many as 100 UK special forces and MI6 spies were also mentioned in the massive data breach along with almost 20,000 names of Afghans. Labour's Defence Secretary John Healey offered in the Commons on Tuesday a 'sincere apology' to all of those Afghans whose lives were put in jeopardy. Mr Shapps, who was in post while a superinjunction was imposed on the incident, suggested he believed it should remain in place because he thought there was a risk of those named being murdered if it did not. The injunction was sought by Mr Shapps' predecessor, Ben Wallace, and a superinjunction was instead put in place by a judge when Mr Shapps took over the brief. "It is the case that I thought that once the superinjunction was in place, it should remain as a superinjunction," he said. Mr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The problem with this list and all of the uncertainty surrounding it, and one of the reasons why I haven't come out in the initial couple days of this to speak about it was that obviously, with the new information that's now been released about the fact that there were British Special Forces and secret services on that list, it seemed to me that if there was any doubt at all, that erring on the side of extreme caution, a superinjunction meant that that was entirely justified." He added: "And I'll tell you what, anybody sat behind the desk that I was sat in as Defence Secretary and faced with the choice of whether that list would get out and people would be pursued, murdered and executed as a result of it. "Or doing something to try and save those lives, I'd much rather now be in this interview explaining why a superinjunction was required, than being in this interview explaining why I failed to act and people were murdered." Told Parliament was not able to scrutinise the decision - including MPs on the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC)- Mr Shapps said the risks were "incredibly high". He added: "In the end the number one priority is to make sure we protected lives and people weren't murdered. It was a pretty stark decision to make." But the chairman of the ISC said on Friday there are "serious constitutional issues" raised by the Afghan data leak. Lord Beamish said the ISC was not informed of the breach, despite the names of more than 100 Britons being divulged - including spies and SAS operators. He said: "You've got to understand how our committee got its powers in the first place. "The Justice and Security Act 2013 introduced closed hearings into court for intelligence cases - the quid pro quo for that was to give the ISC the power to reassure, to be able to see the information legally, to reassure the public and Parliament that there was public scrutiny of the security services. "Someone in government chose just to ignore that and go down the legal route, so I think there are serious constitutional issues here." Earlier this week Keir Starmer said former Tory ministers had "serious questions to answer about how this was ever allowed to happen".
Daily Mirror
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
Afghan data leak scandal leaves 'serious questions' for Tories, Keir Starmer says
Tens of thousands of lives were put at risk when a database with details about thousands of Afghans trying to escape the Taliban were emailed out in a horrific MOD mistake Keir Starmer has said Tories have "serious questions to answer" about a shocking data leak put tens of thousands of Afghan lives at risk. The Prime Minister hit out over the "major data breach" after details of almost 19,000 people seeking to flee after the Taliban were released by a Ministry of Defence (MOD) official. It led to a secret £850million relocation scheme being set up to bring people to safety. On Tuesday a super-injunction which meant the scandal and its consequences were hidden from the public was lifted. Ex-Tory minister Johnny Mercer said it was the "most hapless display of incompetence" he had seen in Government and said he was "ashamed" of the MOD. An Afghan man who worked for the British military, told Sky News he felt betrayed and has "completely lost (his) mind" after his identity was part of the massive data breach. The man, who has not been named, said: "I have done everything for the British forces ... I regret that - why (did) I put my family in danger because of that? Is this justice?" Speaking at PMQs, Mr Starmer said: "We warned in opposition about Conservative management of this policy and yesterday, the Defence Secretary set out the full extent of the failings that we inherited: a major data breach, a superinjunction, a secret route that has already cost hundreds of millions of pounds. "Ministers who served under the party opposite have serious questions to answer about how this was ever allowed to happen." Former Tory veterans minister Mr Mercer, who lost his seat last year, wrote in The Telegraph that the incident shed light on "the true scale of the ineptitude of the British state". He said: "Even after the loss of 457 British personnel, and the billions of pounds it cost to prosecute, the war in Afghanistan reveals yet another cataclysmic skeleton in the cupboard when it comes to how we have treated our Afghan allies. "It is mind-boggling that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) could email a spreadsheet of all those with ties to the British state to an Afghan national, over the internet, to post on Facebook for the Taliban to see." He said he was "furious, sad and bitter" about the failure. Tory former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace said he makes "no apology" for applying for the initial injunction and insisted it was "not a cover-up" but was motivated by the need to protect people in Afghanistan whose safety was at risk. A dataset of 18,714 who applied for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) was released in February 2022 by a defence official who emailed a file outside authorised government systems. The MOD only became aware of the blunder when excerpts from the dataset were posted anonymously on a Facebook group in August 2023. A superinjunction was granted at the High Court in an attempt to prevent the Taliban from finding out about the leak. Defence Secretary John Healey said he was not going to "lead a witch hunt after a defence official". "This is much bigger than the mistake of an individual," he told the BBC. Asked why it had taken so long to lift the super-injunction, Mr Healey said: "Because we came into government a year ago and we had to sort out a situation which we'd not had access to dealing with before. "So that meant getting on top of the risks, the intelligence assessments, the policy complexities, the court papers and the range of Afghan relocation schemes the previous government had put in place. And it also meant taking decisions that no one takes lightly because lives may be at stake. "And in the end, we were able to do this because I commissioned an independent review, which I published yesterday as well from Paul Rimmer that took a fresh look at the circumstances in Afghanistan now, four years on from the Taliban taking control, and the important thing it said was that it is highly unlikely that being a name on this dataset that was lost three-and-a-half years ago increases the risk of being targeted."
Newsweek
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Russia Claims New Victories After Trump Sets Deadline
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Russian Ministry of Defence (MOD) said it had taken control of the settlement of Novokhatske in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk and also defeated Kyiv's forces in several other areas of Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv. The latest advances come after U.S. President Donald Trump set Moscow a 50-day deadline to make peace, or he would introduce deeper sanctions against the Russian economy, including a punitive secondary tariff on its trading partners. Trump also said he is sending Ukraine more Patriot air defense missiles, as well as other "sophisticated" weapons that would be paid for by NATO allies in Europe. This is a breaking news story. Updates to follow.
The Sun
15-07-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Keeping the £850million Afghani airlift to the UK secret for nearly TWO YEARS is simply indefensible
Breach of trust WE can understand why ministers dealing with a gut-wrenching military data breach would want time to evacuate Afghans at risk from the Taliban's death squads. But keeping details of an £850million airlift to smuggle thousands to Britain secret for nearly TWO YEARS without the public or Parliament's knowledge is simply indefensible. Despite the huge cost to taxpayers, a global superinjunction meant a media blackout on revealing the existence of Operation Rubific — launched after a leak on Facebook of a list of Afghans who had worked with British forces and applied for sanctuary. Families were housed in MOD homes or hotels across the country while local MPs were kept in the dark. The Government admitted that over-the-top secrecy may have made the database seem more valuable to the Taliban than it actually was. Yet panic over the leaked 'kill list' of names was such that even Afghan men previously rejected for sanctuary because of sex assaults were brought to Britain. Following the breach, schemes to relocate 23,900 Afghans were ramped up, costing up to £7billion. None were included in published immigration figures. Tens of thousands of others denied asylum may launch legal appeals. Law firms are now also licking their lips at the prospect of helping many to sue the Government for £50,000 each — potentially adding another £1billion to the bill. From the chaotic withdrawal from Kabul in 2021, to failing to tell former Afghan special forces soldiers they were on this leaked list, Britain's inept handling of those who risked their lives to help fight the Taliban has been shameful. But that such a monumental and costly operation was conducted in complete secrecy by our politicians shows a breath-taking lack of trust in the British people, too. Taliban launches warped Afghan TOURISM campaign with vid of brutes posing beside 'hostage' in ISIS-style mock execution 1 Hell Dorado But for hard-working Brits paying record taxes to fund soaring welfare payments for legal migrants, it's already Hell Dorado. A staggering 1.3million foreigners are now claiming benefits, including 750,000 unemployed. That means the Government is spending billions on low-skilled foreign 'workers' who don't even have jobs. There is now very real anger boiling up among working voters sick of paying even more tax to featherbed foreign-born and homegrown idlers.
