33 h. ago Favourite for next French president vows he WILL stop Channel boats as he meets Nigel Farage

Jordan Bardella, who polls show is on track to win the 2027 contest, insisted he is ready to let UK Border Force carry out so-called 'pushbacks'.

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50 h. ago BAFTA Games Awards 2026 longlist: President Macron's favourite French game leads the pack

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 from indie studio Sandfall Interactive is nominated for 17 awards

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3 d. ago UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups

Home Office drive to stop small boats crossing Channel is handing more power to people smugglers, report findsThe UK’s policy to stop asylum seekers from crossing the Channel in small boats has led to an increase in violence, deaths and smuggler control, but has not deterred arrivals, according to a report by human rights organisations.The 176-page report from Humans for Rights Network, includes contributions from 17 refugee and human rights organisations operating in northern France and six in the UK. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago President Donald Trump vows to target any nation bringing drugs into US

The former US president made the remarks during a White House cabinet meeting, where he focused on cocaine from Colombia.

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1 week ago ICC president vows to resist US and Russian pressure despite sanctions and threats

The president of the International Criminal Court says the institution will not bow to pressure from the United States and Russia

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1 week ago Tell us something we don't know: Starmer admits 'we have no effective deterrent in the Channel' as French police agree to intercept boats in the water

France is finally taking limited action against migrant dinghies at sea - after Prime Minister Keir Starmer begged for a move saying there was 'no effective deterrent', having scrapped Rwanda. plan

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1 week ago France to start intercepting small boats carrying migrants in English Channel after pressure from UK

Policy change follows a letter sent by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to French president Emmanuel Macron reportedly saying ‘we have no effective deterrent in the Channel’

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1 week ago France agrees to stop migrant boats at sea after pressure from Starmer

French police agree to intercept migrant ‘taxi boats’ at sea, according to reports

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2 w. ago Asylum seeker who entered illegally on small boat twice is hit with 7 word statement from judge

A asylum seeker has been jailed after crossing the channel on a small boat on two separate occasions

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2 w. ago Donald Trump attacks Biden for letting 'aliens' in as suspected Washington DC shooter identified

The US President vowed to 're-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden' while a halt on immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals was later announced

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2 w. ago Treasury watchdog raises new doubts over Labour's plan to tackle Channel small boats crisis, warning huge asylum hotel bill could leave Home Office with £1.4billion shortfall

According to the leaked report, it suggested that demand for asylum accommodation has grown and 'is now expected to cost £15.3 billion over the next 10 years'.

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2 w. ago Trump threatens Venezuela’s Maduro with ‘the easy way or the hard way’

Venezuela president vows to defend ‘every inch’ of the country amid military buildup in CaribbeanA visual guide to the US military presence in the CaribbeanDonald Trump has warned Nicolás Maduro he can “do things the easy way or the hard way” as Venezuela’s authoritarian leader responded to the growing US pressure campaign by urging followers to prepare to defend “every inch” of the South American country.Clad in woodland camouflage fatigues, Maduro told a rally in the capital, Caracas, it was their historic duty to fight foreign aggressors, just as the Venezuelan liberation hero Simón Bolívar did two centuries ago. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Venezuela’s president waves sword and vows to fight ‘imperialist aggression’ amid tensions with Trump

‘The homeland is sacred, the homeland must be respected,’ said the disputed leader

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2 w. ago Christian pastor's daughter urges US lawmakers to help free her father in China

The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide

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3 w. ago Trump’s 'affordability' efforts are a mess of absurdity and magical thinking | Steven Greenhouse

After Republicans were trounced in this month’s votes, the administration has launched a slapdash, ill-conceived campaignWhen running for president last year, Donald Trump wooed and wowed voters by vowing to reduce prices “starting on day one”. But once he was inaugurated, he seemed to pay precious little attention to prices and affordability.All that changed, however, when inflation-weary voters thrashed Trump and the GOP on election day this month – within days, the Trump administration launched a slapdash effort to focus on affordability. Unfortunately, the campaign is a hot mess: a pile of absurdity, contradictions, magical thinking, scapegoating and good ol’ Trumpian dishonesty, with Trump repeatedly blaring that “prices are down.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago French police plan to use nets to stop small boats ‘risks turning Channel into a graveyard’

France has been under mounting pressure from the UK to intercept migrant vessels at sea amid growing public anger over illegal migration

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3 w. ago Let us try safe, legal routes before putting up nets to stop the boats

Editorial: Tough action is needed to bring order to the asylum system, but that cannot include putting migrants’ lives at even greater risk

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3 w. ago ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMDWhen Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.Thanks to Neurath’s pioneering use of pictorial statistics – or “Isotypes” as Reidemeister called them, an acronym for “International System of Typographic Picture Education” – he left behind an enormous legacy in the arts and social sciences: it is the language through which we decode and an...

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3 w. ago French police to use nets to stop small boat migrants crossing Channel

New tactics to stop boats set to be introduced despite warnings there is ‘no way’ to carry out such manoeuvres safely

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3 w. ago Labour's migrant crackdown descends into farce as Left's mutiny on jewellery seizures forces ministers to deny they want to take 'family heirlooms'

An asylum overhaul described by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood as the biggest for a generation is at risk of unravelling even before she has formally unveiled it.

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