31 h. ago Gunman's getaway driver jailed after shooter fired 11 times at home of rival 'gang leader' amid 'turf war'

A woman in the house had to 'take cover as the bullets were scattered throughout the downstairs lounge', police said

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4 d. ago Lawrence Dallaglio is forced to sell his home for massive £600,000 less than advertised after split from wife: England legend 'now battling to get life back on track'

In the latest blow Dallaglio, 52, has been forced to sell the family home where he watched his children grow up to pay off his creditors. Ironically, the home has been snapped up by an up-and-coming sports star.

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4 d. ago Gang leaders who force children to conceal drugs to face 10 years in jail

Known as ‘plugging’, the practice sees people made to swallow or hide items inside their bodies

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4 d. ago 'Evil' gangsters who force kids to hide drugs inside their bodies face jail

New laws will see criminals face up to 10 years behind bars if they are found to have forced children and vulnerable adults to swallow or conceal items like drugs and SIM cards in their bodies

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6 d. ago ‘Mischief before money’: inside the M&S hackers’ hunt for new targets

The English-speaking, trash-talking Scattered Spider gang is a leader in the growing criminal ransomware industry

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8 d. ago 'Inhuman' conditions at Spanish airports: British families are forced to 'lift children to stop them suffocating' as hundreds are trapped in passport control in Tenerife

Officials called an emergency meeting after passengers raged at the 'inhumane' conditions that saw them packed together 'like cattle' as they waited in line on Monday.

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8 d. ago Airport chaos forces British families to 'lift children on to shoulders to stop them suffocating' amid 'inhuman' conditions as hundreds are trapped in overcrowded passport control in Tenerife

Officials called an emergency meeting after passengers raged at the 'inhumane' conditions that saw them packed together 'like cattle' as they waited in line on Monday.

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8 d. ago Gang leaders, reality TV fraudsters and white collar criminals: What’s behind Trump’s pardoning spree?

ANALYSIS: Trump handed out a flurry of pardons this week to supporters and donors; some were real head-scratchers, Richard Hall writes.

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2 w. ago ‘I don’t want to be here. But we can’t go home’: what life is like for people forced to flee floods and fighting

Around the globe, conflict and the climate crisis have caused 83.4m people – a record number – to become refugees within their own countries. Three people from Bangladesh, Sudan and Colombia tell their storiesIn 2024, the number of internally displaced people around the world reached 83.4m, the highest figure ever recorded. Men, women, children, whole families and generations have been forced to flee their homes within their country as a result of conflict, violence, or natural disasters.“Internal displacement rarely makes the headlines, but for those living it, the suffering can last for years,” says Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, commenting on the latest figures from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British tourist, 65, is accused of molesting dozens of children from Namibia's San tribe after forcing them to strip at remote 'living museum'

The tourist was arrested by police on Sunday after allegedly telling San children at the living museum of the Ju'/Hoansi to undress (Illustrative image of San woman)

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2 w. ago Haitian gang leader 'Barbecue' makes Trump comparison claiming 'we have something in common'

Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier has oddly claimed that he and US President Donald Trump have a lot in common and are more alike than you would want to think . . . apparently

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2 w. ago Police welcome payback time for drug gang leader as judge hits him for thousands

'It would be wrong for any of them to benefit from their ill-gotten gains'

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2 w. ago ‘Graphic’ biker film with Alexander Skarsgård receives seven

Pillion sees Harry Potter star Harry Melling enter a gay romance with the leader of a biker gang

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3 w. ago Moment armed police chainsaw their way through cocky gang leader's front door after he flooded the streets with £2m of drugs in just three months

Officers arrested Asrar Rafiq, 35, after they cracked the secretive EncroChat messaging service used by organised criminals.

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3 w. ago Children subjected to 'degrading' strip searches by Welsh police forces

Black children are disproportionately targeted

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3 w. ago Man died of ‘blunt force injuries’ at US zoo after suspected kangaroo fight

South Carolina officials investigating death of Eric Slate, 52, and conditions of the petting zoo owned by his brotherOfficials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a man who was believed to have been killed while fighting a kangaroo in an enclosure at a children’s petting zoo.Eric Slate, 52, died of “multiple blunt [force] injuries”, according to Tamara Willard, the chief deputy coroner of Horry county, as reported by WPDE News. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago A timeline of allegations and charges against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Most recent lawsuits include accusations of drugging and raping as recently as 2022, and Jay-Z added as accusedSean “Diddy” Combs is on trial in New York on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. The 17-page indictment against Combs – which reads like a charging document filed against a mafia leader or the head of a drug gang – alleges that Combs engaged in a two-decade pattern of abusive behavior against women and others, with the help of people in his entourage and employees from his network of businesses.Combs and his lawyers say he is innocent and any group sex was consensual. They say there was no effort to coerce people, and nothing that happened amounted to a criminal racket. Continue reading...

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