61 m. ago Labour mutiny at plan to take migrants' jewellery plunges crackdown into chaos: Home Secretary backpedals on tough Denmark

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

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71 m. ago Paris Hilton breaks her silence on claims Ghislaine Maxwell tried to recruit her as Trump U

Paris Hilton has addressed reports that Ghislaine Maxwell attempted to recruit her for Jeffrey Epstein after it was claimed she thought the heiress would be 'perfect for him.

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81 m. ago Visa bans and valuables: The new immigration plans designed to stop migrants seeing UK as ‘golden ticket’

The Standard explains the planned changes aimed at stopping the UK being seen as a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers

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84 m. ago Trump is turning the US military into a political prop | Jan

The military has been recast in a partisan, performative mold – all according to the president’s logic of impunityOf all the reasons Americans have been losing sleep recently – hunger, canceled flights, Democrats betraying them – the most ominous has to do with an institution usually absent from discussions about the fate of our democracy: the military. No need to be starry-eyed about US imperialism and what has long been criticized as an ever-expanding “national security state”; one can still appreciate that it is a good thing if generals do not take sides in politics – just ask anyone from the many countries around the world where they do. But a pattern is becoming clear: Donald Trump is purging the higher ranks based on his prejudices and demands for loyalty; the military is being turned into a partisan instrument and a political prop; more dangerous still, the president is instilling the logic of impunity that has come to characterize his entire approach to governance.Figures de...

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85 m. ago UK Foreign Office's ‘danger to life’ travel warning for one of world’s safest countries

Japan has deployed troops to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita

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1 hour ago Trump dismisses pipe bomb threat against Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene: ‘I don’t think anyone cares about her’

Taylor Greene has said that the president has put ‘blood in the water’ and that she fears a ‘feeding frenzy’ from her critics

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1 hour ago Wetherspoons launches Top Trumps game so its best pubs can battle it out for top spot

British budget pub chain Wetherspoons has launched the card game, featuring 30 of its best pubs, to raise money for charity. It includes some of its most iconic boozers

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1 hour ago Trump urges Republicans to vote for release of Epstein files in surprise U

US president says he backs efforts to release documents related to late sex offender because ‘we have nothing to hide’US politics live – latest updatesHow the Epstein row plunged Maga world into turmoil – a timelineEpstein emails: key takeaways from 20,000 pages of newly released filesDonald Trump has told his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in a sudden reversal of his earlier position.The US president’s post on his Truth Social website came after the House speaker, Mike Johnson, said previously that he believed a vote on releasing justice department documents in the Epstein case should help put to rest allegations “that he [Trump] has something to do with it”. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Jewellery and valuables belonging to refugees could be confiscated to pay for accommodation

‘It is right that if people have money in the bank, if people have assets...they should be contributing’, a Home Office minister said on Monday

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1 hour ago Labour MPs hit out at ‘performative cruelty’ of Shabana Mahmood’s asylum crackdown

Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures

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2 h. ago Seizing asylum seekers' jewellery slammed as 'disgusting' as minister denies personal items will be taken

Cars, e-bikes and sums of money will be confiscated from asylum seekers under new crackdown

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2 h. ago FTSE 100 Live 17 November: Asia tensions hit Burberry shares, Budget rumours warning

The FTSE 100 index is steady at the start of a big week of economic and corporate updates.

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2 h. ago DPD vans 'take over' street leaving locals fuming they can't park

Only resident permit holders are allowed to park on the road after 4pm

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2 h. ago ‘Heartbroken’: Charlotte pushes back as Trump targets city in immigration raids

Thriving business districts in North Carolina city now at a ‘standstill’ after at least 81 were arrested over the weekendMany communities in Charlotte, North Carolina, were reeling after federal Customs and Border Protection teams descended on the city at the weekend and arrested at least 81 people – while normally-thriving immigrant enclaves and business districts came to a standstill.Federal agents were deployed in what the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calls Operation Charlotte’s Web, sparking protests. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Trump turns on one of his most fervent supporters in row over Epstein files: Marjorie Taylor Greene says her life is in danger after president called her a 'ranting lunatic traitor'

Trump has publicly broken with Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene over her push to unseal documents that some believe could link him to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

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2 h. ago Humanitarian officials race to reopen Gaza schools, in photos

With a ceasefire reached last month largely holding, humanitarian officials are working frantically to reopen dozens of makeshift schools in the Gaza Strip. UNICEF estimates that over 630,000 Palestinian children missed out on school during the war.

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2 h. ago Trump says MTG’s life isn’t in danger after Republican says she received pipe bomb threat: ‘I don’t think anybody cares about her’

Taylor Greene has said that the president has put ‘blood in the water’ and that she fears a ‘feeding frenzy’ from her critics

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2 h. ago Sheikh Hasina: The woman who ruled Bangladesh with an iron fist for 15 years

A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death on 17 November, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

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3 h. ago I’m a Celeb live: Angryginge and Ruby Wax to take on tonight’s Bushtucker Trial

New series is going into its second night and Ruby Wax is already proving a stand-out contestant, from Trump anecdotes to snake struggles

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3 h. ago Bangladesh’s ousted PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crackdown on students during deadly protests

Hasina has been in exile in India after fleeing the country on 5 August last year

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