12 h. ago Government to publish nationalities of foreign criminals for first time

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the announcement showed Labour had ‘buckled’ under pressure from the Conservatives to disclose the data.

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47 h. ago Would you check into a prison hotel? South Korean 'jail' charges guests £100 to become overnight inmates

The hotel, in Hongcheon, around 80km east of Seoul, mimics the daily existence of criminals serving time in prison says it's the ultimate digital detox and guests almost never regret checking in.

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4 d. ago Harvard defies Trump administration’s demand for international student data

Homeland Security threatens to revoke university’s ability to admit foreign nationals

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5 d. ago UK Foreign Office gives new travel advice for Belgium due to nationwide strikes

Another strike is planned for late April, which could mean severe disruption to travel across the country

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6 d. ago Lammy urges warring parties in Sudan to ‘put peace first’ after £120m aid boost

The Foreign Secretary told the London Sudan Conference it is ‘morally wrong’ to give up on the north-east African country.

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8 d. ago The foreign nationalities most likely to be arrested for sex offences

Police made 8,500 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual offences including rape in 2024 and start of 2025.

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9 d. ago I've been to North Korea 30 times and it's a completely normal country

Zoe Stephens, 31, from Liverpool, was one of the first foreign nationals to be allowed back into the dictatorship since it opened its borders at the beginning of this year.

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1 week ago American academic held in Thailand charged with insulting monarchy

Paul Chambers detained under strict lese-majesty law, which can lead to 15 years in jail on a single chargeA prominent American academic has been detained in Thailand after being charged with insulting the monarchy, a rare case in which a foreign national has fallen foul of the country’s strict lese-majesty law.Paul Chambers, who specialises in civil-military relations and democratisation in south-east Asia, was denied bail on Tuesday and is being held at Phitsanulok provincial prison in northern Thailand, his lawyers said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago David Lammy says he regrets Trump has embraced protectionism, something not seen in US ‘for nearly a century’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementAn anti-abortion campaigner at the centre of a free speech controversy involving the US government has been found guilty of breaching a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic, PA Media reports. PA says:Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted at Poole magistrates’ court of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023.The case involved the 64-year-old from Bournemouth holding a sign saying “Here to talk, if you want”.But I think our approach should be to slightly stand back and think, what does Britain want, and can it get from the rest of the world, and what can we contribute?And in that regard, it’s important to realise that the rest of the G7, except the US, collectively are the same size as the United States. And I would have thought a very sensible thing to be doing is having a serious co...

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2 w. ago David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live

David Lammy, foreign secretary, says UK is ‘a nation that believes in open trade’ and says government is negotiating with US over economic agreementThe official plan to increase access to NHS dental services in England has been a “complete failure”, and some of the government’s initiatives have worsened the crisis, a damning report warns, Andrew Gregory reports.David Lammy, the foreign secretary, is at the Nato HQ in Brussels this morning, where Nato foreign ministers are meeting. Speaking to the media, he said President Trump was taking US economic policy back almost a century by embracing protectionism. He said:The United Kingdom, like France, is a great maritime nation.We are a nation that believes in open trade, and I regret the return to protectionism in the United States, something that we’ve not seen for nearly a century. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump administration delays plans to ban foreign nationals traveling to the US from 43 countries

The Trump administration made major decision over plans to ban foreign nationals from 40 countries announced on the president's first day in office.

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3 w. ago Striving for efficiency is all very well, but it leaves no time to live | Eva Wiseman

Efficiency slices and barges its way through delicate structures, leaving the most vulnerable flailingA recent Apple update saw people waking up to their emails summarised for efficiency, thus creating light uproar, amusement and a series of small domestic mysteries to be untangled on the bus. A man in America shared a message from his mum, who’d told him, “That hike almost killed me.” Unfortunately, he’d read the summary first: “Attempted suicide, but recovered and hiked in Redlands.” Another Apple user opened his phone to find himself, in summary, dumped: “Not feeling romantic spark; apologises for ending things.”I find myself today, against efficiency. I find myself against efficiency at a time when inefficiency is framed as, if not yet criminal then certainly immoral. Since Elon Musk attached himself to the Trump campaign, his Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has been gutting the federal government in the same way he did with Twitter, slashing contracts, getting rid of...

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3 w. ago ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courtsBehind the reinforced doors of courtroom number two, at a remote detention centre in central Louisiana, Lu Xianying sat alone before an immigration judge unable to communicate.Dressed in a blue jumpsuit that drooped from his slight frame, he waited as court staff called three different translation services, unable to find an interpreter proficient in his native Gan Chinese. Continue reading...

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