3 hours ago The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes | Editorial

February’s election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential since the second world warIn the German city of Karlsruhe, a police investigation has just been launched into the distribution of 30,000 flyers designed to resemble deportation plane tickets, many of which were placed in the letterboxes of immigrants. Organised by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party (AfD), the stunt recalled a similar malicious exercise by the neo-Nazi National Democratic party (NDP) in 2013. The difference is that while the NDP – now renamed the Homeland – is a fringe movement that has never crossed the 5% threshold of votes necessary to enter the Bundestag, the AfD is now running second in polls, at about 21%.The booming popularity of a xenophobic party officially suspected of anti-constitutional extremism is just the starkest signal of how much is at stake in next month’s snap election in Germany. A national poll in Europe’s largest economy will always be of deep continental signifi...

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2 hours ago Police investigating social media abuse sent to Kai Havertz’s wife after Manchester United defeat

Police have launched an investigation into the social media messages

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3 hours ago Semina Halliwell: Police insist they DID investigate 'sexual assault' of girl, 12 before suicide

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Semina Halliwell, 12, tragically took her life in 2021 after telling her mum she was raped by an older boy. Police officers told her inquest in Bootle, Merseyside, they properly followed up on the allegation

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4 hours ago Kai Havertz police investigation launched after Arsenal star and wife sent vile abuse

Arsenal forward Kai Havertz and wife Sophia were targeted wit sickening online abuse after the FA Cup clash with Manchester United, with police now investigating the incident

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5 hours ago Italian police accused of making female activists remove underwear and do squats

Climate activists say they were subjected to degrading treatment during questioning in Brescia on MondayItaly’s interior minister has been urged to open an investigation into police in the northern city of Brescia amid allegations that seven female climate activists were made to take off their underwear and perform squats during questioning.The activists were among 22 people brought to Brescia’s main police station on Monday morning after officers interrupted a protest held outside the Italian aerospace and defence firm Leonardo’s factory. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Woman allegedly 'spiked' in Parliament bar as police launch investigation

Police have launched a probe after a female parliamentary researcher reported having her drink tampered with in Stranger's bar, which is frequented by MPs, journalists and staffers

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5 hours ago Police investigate alleged spiking at bar in Parliament after 'woman reported her drink being tampered with'

Officers launched a probe after receiving reports of an incident at around 6.30pm on Tuesday 7 January - just a day after MPs returned from their Christmas recess.

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8 hours ago Police issue Salford murder investigation update following death of man, 52

Tributes have been paid to Terence 'Tez' Horan

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11 hours ago Boy, 2, dies after ‘medical episode’ at nursery as police launch investigation

Child died after incident at Early Learners Day Nursery

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13 hours ago Boy, 2, dies at Bootle nursery sparking police investigation after 'medical emergency'

A two-year-old boy has died after a fatal 'medical emergency' unfolded suddenly at a nursery school in Bootle, Merseyside, sparking a police investigation in the area

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24 hours ago Protesters form human chain outside South Korean president Yoon’s office as investigators arrive in new arrest attempt

Protesters formed a human chain in the South Korean capital outside the president's office as investigators and police arrived in an apparent attempt to arrest impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol.

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26 hours ago Lucy Letby 'probe': Deaths of at least two more babies are being investigated by detectives as part of police inquiry into serial child killer

The former neo-natal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital during a 13-month killing spree, between June 2015 and June 2016.

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30 hours ago Spain U21 star faces three years in jail for 'deliberate bookings' in betting scam

Sevilla defender Kike Salas is facing a police probe as they investigate a number of suspicious yellow cards he picked up last season, potentially relating to betting breaches, which could land him in jail.

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33 hours ago German police investigate AfD flyers resembling plane tickets for immigrants

Karlsruhe police say they have opened inquiry into ‘persons unknown on suspicion of incitement of racial hatred’German police have launched an investigation after the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party distributed flyers designed to resemble plane tickets for deportation that were addressed to “illegal immigrants” as part of an increasingly provocative campaign for next month’s general election.People from immigrant communities in the south-western city of Karlsruhe found the flyers in their letterboxes, although it was not immediately clear if they had been directly targeted. Continue reading...

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34 hours ago Intruders seen entering Scots school as police launch investigation to find 'youths'

Parents at Cleveden Secondary School in Glasgow were alerted to people within school grounds on Monday, January 13.

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38 hours ago M1 still shutdown after horror discovery of 'unexplained' body in roadside undergrowth

The M1 motorway was closed in Hertfordshire on Monday afternoon as police investigated the roadside discovery of the body of a man who died under "unexplained" circumstances

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38 hours ago M1 closed after body found on side of road with police launching investigation

A section of the M1, between junctions five and six near Watford, was closed on Monday following the discovery of the body. Police are now investigating the mysterious death

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