27 m. ago Labour's migrant deal fiasco: Now Yvette Cooper FAILS to guarantee asylum seekers will start being returned to France this month under 'one in, one out' agreement

Ministers claimed when the agreement was announced in July that it would take effect within weeks, but the Home Secretary now says she expects the deportations to begin 'later this month'.

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27 m. ago Daughter of Nazi who 'stole' missing painting is put under house arrest in Argentina as police hunt for work continues

Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of Nazi Friedrich Kadgien, has been put under house arrest after police searched her home last week in the hunt for a painting allegedly stolen from a Jewish collector.

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28 m. ago Danielle Mason shares horrendous image of her bruised and bloodied face as she claims ex

Danielle Mason has claimed she was pysically attacked by her ex-fiancé Lee Dopson, who she alleges has breached a court injunction regarding their split. 

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40 m. ago Top Japanese beverage giant Suntory's chief resigns as he faces a drug probe

Takeshi Niinami, a Japanese business leader and CEO of beverage giant Suntory, has resigned as he is facing an investigation into his alleged possession of an illegal drug

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56 m. ago Cooper rejects claims Reeves has been sidelined on economic policy by No 10 mini

‘Quite the reverse’, says home secretary, amid reports Starmer’s reorganisation is aimed at freezing chancellor out ahead of autumn budgetIn an interview with Sky News this morning Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, declined to guarantee that migrants will definitely be sent back across the channel this month as part of a returns agreement with France.Asked for the exact date of the first returns, Cooper replied: “It will be later this month.”We expect the first returns to take place this month. But I’ve always said from the very beginning on this, it’s a pilot scheme and it needs to build up over time.If you submit an asylum claim that lacks merit, it will be swiftly and robustly refused.Any request for asylum support will be assessed against destitution criteria. If you do not meet the criteria, you will not receive support.If nothing has changed in their country, people should not be claiming asylum at the end of a student course. We need to clamp down on that and that’s why we’r...

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65 m. ago Emily Blunt says Devil Wears Prada 2 has been a ‘rude awakening’

Blunt is reprising her role as Emily Charlton for the highly-anticipated film

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68 m. ago World War 3 fears hit Europe as warnings issued ahead of Russian military moves

The ministry of health in France has alerted officials in the country to be prepared for a large number of casualties at its hospital amid fears of another Russian attack

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74 m. ago Yvette Cooper fails to guarantee that boat crossings will fall by next year

The home secretary also failed to confirm that migrants will be sent back to France this month as part of the returns agreement, saying she refused to make ‘grand promises’

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76 m. ago England women's rugby star faces ban as video highlighting male referee slur goes viral

Sinead Peach, one of the top players in women's rugby, faces a disciplinary hearing on Thursday after allegedly making a vulgar comment to a referee in a Women's Super League match

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80 m. ago ITV Good Morning Britain migrant report sparks rage as viewers fume 'it's a total disaster'

Good Morning Britain delivered a fresh update on the government's 'one in one out' migrant agreement with France on Tuesday morning.

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81 m. ago Africa’s elderly face deadly witchcraft accusations – and dementia is making it worse

Allegations of witchcraft lead to beatings, banishment and even death

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2 h. ago Home Secretary fails to guarantee France migrant returns will happen this month

Yvette Cooper was cautious not to guarantee returns under a deal with France will take place in September, after saying they were ‘expected’.

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2 h. ago In Africa, a continent full of children, the fates of young and old are intertwined

Africa is the world’s youngest continent — but the lives of its children are intertwined with the lives of its oldest

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4 h. ago Chelsea striker left sweating on deadline day transfer as huge issue emerges

Chelsea forward David Datro Fofana was hopeful of securing a deadline day loan to Charlton but an issue with the paperwork and a failure to meet the 7pm cut-off time means he's set to remain with the Blues

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4 h. ago Motherwell man told he may never walk again was flying after selection for Seattle

Charlie Russell works as a data specialist at Amazon delivery station and visited the company's global HQ

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4 h. ago Freddie Mercury's 'secret' daughter can't prove her identity for heartbreaking reason

By revealing the existence of Freddie Mercury's alleged daughter, author Lesley-Ann Jones has irked many Queen fans who demand proof. But that evidence may never come.

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5 h. ago Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse

Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

The government is on the brink of collapse over planned austerity. Instead it must face up to the costs of its unnecessarily rigid labour marketAs someone who has always been against austerity, I find France, with a national debt at 114% of GDP and a budget deficit of 5.8% of GDP, a conundrum. Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in “ultraneoliberalism”, there hasn’t been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours.At the same time, it’s impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline. Doctors and nurses denounce a labour shortage in public hospitals; people who live in rural areas denounce the closing of rural train lines; students and academic...

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7 h. ago England star faces court over ‘illegal’ XL Bully after failing to register dog before deadline

Nottingham Forest FC midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White faces having his XL Bully destroyed after allegedly failing to register his dog before a legal deadline following a spate of dealy incidents nationwide

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12 h. ago UK Government’s major vow over 'stop the boats' deal with French

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the parliament, upon its summer break return, when she expects migrants who arrived illegally via the English Channel to be returned to France

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