12 h. ago Afghan migrant, 28, charged with raping two girls, 14, in a Bolton flat had been granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK with his family

Sultani Bakatash, 28, was arrested in the early hours of Sunday following a report of rape. He will appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court at 9.45am on Tuesday.

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18 h. ago Afghan national charged with rape of two girls, 14, in Bolton flat in early hours

Sultani Bakatash, 28, has been charged with two counts of rape of a girl aged under 16, one count of sexual assault and one count of assault by penetration after alleged incident in early hours of Sunday

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18 h. ago Afghan national accused of raping two girls, 14, in Greater Manchester named

The Afghan national is due to appear in court over the alleged attacks in Bolton

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23 h. ago ICE arrests of Afghans are on the rise in the wake of National Guard attack, immigration lawyers say

Immigration lawyers and authorities say arrests of Afghans are on the rise following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect in the attack is an Afghan national

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40 h. ago Tim Westwood issues plea as he appears in court on sexual assault claims

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has pleaded not guilty at Southwark Crown Court after previously being charged with multiple offences, including rape and sexual assault

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40 h. ago Tim Westwood pleads not guilty in court to rape and sexual assault charges

Ex-BBC DJ denies rapes and sexual abuse across three decades of his showbiz career

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42 h. ago Glum Tim Westwood arrives in court over rape and sexual assault charges

Former radio broadcaster Tim Westwood has appeared at Southwark Crown Court today after he was previously bailed after being charged over sexual assault and rape

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63 h. ago David Lammy faces new Labour backlash over 'undemocratic' plan to cut jury trials

The Justice Secretary was accused of weaking the system's ability to democratically serve the nation with a proposal to only have juries try the most serious of charges like murder and rape.

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3 d. ago Afghan National Guard shooting suspect's ties to accused 'suicide bomb plotter' revealed

New information has connected two Afghan nationals - Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, and Mohammad Alokozay, 30, who were both arrested for shocking high-profile crimes.

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5 d. ago Trump’s sweeping changes to US immigration policy – here’s what to know

President orders pause on asylum claims and extra scrutiny of migrants from 19 countries after Washington shootingDonald Trump is seizing on the shooting of two national guard members, allegedly by an Afghan man, to press his immigration crackdown still farther. In the aftermath of the attack, which left guard member Sarah Beckstrom dead and colleague Andrew Wolfe in critical condition, Trump directed US Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause all pending asylum applications.USCIS followed up that announcement with more seismic shifts to immigration policy. This is how the White House is reshaping the process for requesting asylum, green cards and citizenship. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The Sarah Everard report part two: a catalogue of repeated and preventable failures | Joan Smith

So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the normHow do we get sexual predators out of the country’s police forces? It was one of the most urgent questions asked in 2021 when a serving police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, was charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. In the first report of Elish Angiolini’s inquiry into this dreadful sequence of events, published in February last year, she made the eminently sensible recommendation that any individual with a caution or conviction for a sexual offence should be rejected during police vetting.It seemed the very least that should happen, yet we’ve learned from Lady Angiolini’s second report this week that the recommendation has yet to be implemented. She reveals that it took 18 months after publication for police chiefs to agree a blanket ban on recruits who have convictions, and even then it wasn’t included in draft Home Office regulat...

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6 d. ago Trump is using a tragic shooting to demonize millions | Mohamad Bazzi

The administration is heightening its anti-immigrant crackdown – and punishing people from a country the US helped destroyAfter two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump went on a hate-filled social media rant and vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries.”Trump’s late night Thanksgiving posts devolved into a fury, evidently because the suspected gunman is an Afghan national. He had worked with the US government, including the CIA, and was evacuated to the US in 2021 after the American military withdrew from Afghanistan.Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor, at New York University Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Afghan veteran accused of killing National Guard member in DC may have been blackmailed by Taliban

Intelligence sources indicated that the DC suspect may have been forced to choose between completing the attack or allowing his family in Afghanistan to be beaten, killed or even beheaded.

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7 d. ago Man charged in National Guard shooting pleads not guilty during court appearance from hospital bed

A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and assault charges

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7 d. ago Afghan national charged with suicide attack plot days after deadly National Guard shooting

Another Afghan man was arrested and charged for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack amid Trump's crackdown on immigration in the aftermath of the shooting of two National Guard troops in DC.

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8 d. ago National Guard member shot in DC has shown positive signs, West Virginia governor says

West Virginia's governor says a National Guard member from his state who was shot last week in an attack in Washington, D.C., remains in serious condition but has shown some positive signs

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9 d. ago Afghan National Guard shooting suspect was only radicalized AFTER coming to the US, Kristi Noem says

Noem echoed President Trump's blame of the Biden administration's poor vetting process for allowing the alleged shooter to enter the country in April of 2021.

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9 d. ago West Virginia high school remembers slain National Guard member as caring and willing to help

Mourners gathered at a small West Virginia high school have remembered a National Guard member fatally shot last week as a caring and positive person who wanted to help others

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1 week ago US halts all asylum decisions as suspect in shooting of National Guard members faces murder charge

The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports in the wake of a shooting that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition near the White House

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1 week ago Trump administration halts all asylum decisions in wake of DC National Guard shooting

An Afghan national has been accused of carrying out the deadly shooting near the White House Wednesday

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