44 h. ago African 'tribe' arrested as police raid camp in Scottish woods

The self-styled Kingdom of Kubala tribe have been arrested by police on Thursday morning.

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44 h. ago 'African tribe' arrested in police raid of camp in Scottish woods

The self-styled Kingdom of Kubala tribe have been arrested by police on Thursday morning.

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65 h. ago Edinburgh police charge four youths after alleged 'attack' on teenage girl on city street

Officers say they would like to reassure the public that violence ‘will not be tolerated’

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65 h. ago Four youths charged after disturbing video shows schoolgirl being attacked in Edinburgh

The footage, taken in the Gracemount area of Edinburgh on Sunday, has gone viral on social media.

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3 d. ago Romanian migrants face deportation after Home Office raid: 16 people arrested for 'working illegally on a solar farm'

Sixteen Romanian nationals have been arrested in a car park in Wiltshire during a Home Office raid for 'working illegally'.

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9 d. ago Moment cocky drug dealer who taunted cops is arrested in police raid

Winstanley used street couriers to deliver cocaine and cannabis across Bury

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1 week ago Human trafficking raid sees man arrested and charged in Edinburgh

Cops stormed the property and charged a 49-year-old man.

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1 week ago Concern as six per cent of human ­trafficking and modern slavery cases end in conviction

Research has found only a tiny ­proportion of criminal charges concerning trafficking and slavery lead to a guilty verdict in court.

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2 w. ago Noem releases highlight reel of raid that arrested American citizens set to Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

Noem, nicknamed ‘ICE Barbie’ by critics, shared the bizarre footage set to a Nirvana song on X

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2 w. ago London tourist tax hotel levy could generate £250m a year for Sadiq Khan, says City Hall review

Call for capital to follow Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Paris and New York and add top-up charge to cost of overnight stays

Economics

2 w. ago South Korea to review possible human rights violations in US raid on workers

Lee Jae Myung says ‘bewildering’ incident may scare off future investment after Ice detained about 475 peopleUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Korea’s government has said it will launch an investigation into whether human rights violations were committed when hundreds of its citizens were detained in a US immigration raid.About 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory in the US state of Georgia on 4 September. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moray crime: Man, 20, arrested as cocaine and ketamine worth £5,600 seized in 'county lines' raid

A four-figure sum of cash was also seized.

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3 w. ago Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand – was little more than empty fields.Set against rugged mountains south of the town of Myawaddy, KK Park, with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what is really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago South Korea responds to raid of Hyundai plant that resulted in hundreds of arrests as new images show workers in chains

Cho Hyun said Seoul was considering an imminent visit to discuss the arrests on behalf of President Lee Jae Myung, who was all smiles with Donald Trump at a White House meeting two weeks ago.

Economics

3 w. ago Seoul promises to help hundreds of Korean workers arrested in US in Ice raid

Total of 475 detained in Georgia at construction site of factory to make batteries for Hyundai and Kia carsSouth Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has ordered “all-out efforts” to respond to the arrest of hundreds of its citizens by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) during a raid at a factory being built in Georgia to manufacture car batteries.Cho Hyun, foreign minister, said the government had set up a taskforce following the arrest of 300 South Korean nationals. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Hyundai plant shut down after hundreds of workers arrested in massive ICE raid

The facility, a $4.3 billion venture, is one of Hyundai’s most substantial investments in the US

Economics

4 w. ago Teenage boy appears in court charged with murder after death of man in Edinburgh

The male youth, who we cannot name for legal reasons, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday, in connection with death of John McNab.

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