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  The   Daily Mail   has apologised and agreed to pay £125,000 in libel damages to a TV psychic it falsely accused of using a hidden earpiece to scam a theatre audience. Sally Morgan, who has appeared on TV and on stage under the name "Psychic Sally", complained that the article in September 2011 meant she had "deliberately and dishonestly" tricked her audience in Dublin. The article, by the magician Paul Zenon, claimed that Morgan had used a hidden earpiece during her performance in order to receive instructions and relay them on stage as if they were messages from the spiritual world. In a statement at the high court on Thursday, the solicitor for Morgan, Graham Atkins of the law firm Atkins Thomson, said the article had "caused enormous distress" to the psychic. "The allegation contained in the article that Mrs Morgan cheated the audience in Dublin is completely false and defamatory of her," he told Mr Justice Tugendhat. Reference Post: https...

  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is taking the BBC to court for libel after the British public broadcaster reported that he made a $400,000 payment to schedule a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. That story is untrue and has left Poroshenko “seriously injured in his reputation” and “caused substantial distress and embarrassment” according to a British High Court claim, signed by Poroshenko’s lawyer, Graham Atkins , and dated September 3, 2018. In May, the BBC reported that Poroshenko’s intermediaries had made a payment of at least $400,000 to Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, to organize a meeting between the two leaders. The Ukrainian president reportedly decided to make the unofficial payment after failing to secure anything more than a handshake and few minutes of conversation through official channels. The two presidents met at the White House in June 2017. During the talks, Poroshenko termed Trump one of Ukraine’s “most reliable supporters” and “str...