5 h. ago Starmer and Macron to hold Downing Street talks amid push for French help on small boats

The prime minister is facing a fight to salvage his much-vaunted ‘one in, one out’ deal with France to return illegal migrants

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4 d. ago Illegal migrants could be at mercy of bears next if top Trump aide has his way

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller's wishes could leave illegal migrants at the hands of vicious bears.

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4 d. ago Haiti gangsters like 'Barbecue' now have 'near total control' as nation 'on brink'

A worrying new UN report has warned Haiti's violent criminal gangs have nearly taken over the capital and are pushing the country 'closer to the brink'

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7 d. ago How Poland stopped 98 per cent of illegal migrant crossings with 'big and beautiful' 116

The border fence was completed in June 2022 and spans a 116-mile-long stretch of the Polish-Belarusian border. It was subsequently upgraded with a variety of surveillance equipment

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7 d. ago ‘The ground shook’: drone attacks help Haitian government wrest control of capital from criminal gangs

Video shared on social media shows drone attacks, which some say have helped pacify gangs inflicting violence on Port-au-PrinceWarning: this story contains footage that readers might find distressing The earth beneath Jimmy Antoine’s apartment shuddered and for a split second he feared another natural disaster had struck, like the 2010 cataclysm that brought Port-au-Prince to its knees.“The ground shook like it does during an earthquake. You tremble like everything might collapse,” said the 23-year-old trainee mechanic, recalling how he and his panicked neighbours raced out on to the street. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Gaza's war within a war as family clans, criminal gangs and other armed militias engage in gun battles on the streets... while Israeli strikes continue to pound the territory

This ongoing war in Gaza has only served to fuel a civil war within the territory as rival clans seek to eliminate competition and loot aid that they can sell on at premium prices

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8 d. ago Princess Diana’s favourite café risks closure over ‘illegal migrant workers and paying staff in food’

Café Diana, which was often frequented by the late Princess of Wales, also accused of allowing unlawful smoking of shisha

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9 d. ago Student still in debt two years after buying dying pup from illegal pet trader

The animal lover was one of many victims of Julie Taylor, 41, who fronted a sales operation for a criminal gang running a puppy farm.

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9 d. ago The gangster guide to Dubai: The criminals from Manchester, Liverpool and beyond who call it home

EXCLUSIVE: These are the top gangsters known to be hiding out in Dubai, and how the criminal underworld functions in the city.

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1 week ago When will Brits discover if they face Rachel Reeves tax rises after DWP and PIP u

After partially reversing the cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance and then agreeing to an inquiry into the grooming gangs having previously said there was no need, Keir Starmer pulls a third U-turn

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1 week ago 'Ruthless' gang that sold assassination kits including handgun, silencer and bullets to criminal hitmen are jailed for more than 60 years

Gary Hardy, 62, dealt the weapon bundles which were constructed in the backyard of co-conspirator 64-year-old Robert Knowles.

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1 week ago Ruthless criminal gang who made and supplied ‘assassination kits’ jailed

Four men were sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court in connection with weapon kits sold to criminals.

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1 week ago Starmer says welfare concessions are ‘common sense’ but dodges funding question – UK politics live

No 10 has offered significant concessions to the rebels amid fears over Tuesday’s voteNo 10 climbs down over welfare billStephen Kinnock, the care minister, was the government voice on the airwaves this morning. Here are the main points he made about the welfare bill U-turn.Kinnock rejected claims that the U-turn was a sign of weakness. When it was put to him on the Today programme that this move, coming after the U-turns on winter fuel payments and a national inquiry into grooming gangs, showed that if Keir Starmer was pushed, he would give in, Kinnock replied:I think if you talk to people out there in the country, they respond very positively to politicians listening, engaging, recognising that you don’t get everything right from day one every time, and making the adjustments and the changes that are needed.And this prime minister will always put the country first. He puts country before party, and he does the right thing for the country.He defended having a “staggered” approach t...

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1 week ago Gangsters' molls at the heart of two of the world's most notorious crime families unmasked: Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch's wife pictured for the first time... and the women of the Kinahan clan

EXCLUSIVETheir crime empires are worth millions and reach into the UK, Spain and Dubai.

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1 week ago Moment 'Deliveroo rider' is held in police crackdown on migrants working illegally after fast food delivery bikes were found outside Home Office

The man was patted down by an officer while another looked on, with a Deliveroo food bag seen on the floor in front of them during the Home Office-led operation in London's West End.

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1 week ago Vice mayor who called ICE ‘the biggest gang there is’ and for ‘cholos’ to defend their territory should resign, cop union says

Attorney for under-fire Cynthia Gonzalez insists she ‘in no way encouraged anyone to engage in violence’ in call for notorious criminal gangs to join resistance to roundup of undocumented migrants

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1 week ago Fito captured in bunker: Ecuador’s most wanted drug lord dragged from hideout

Macías, also known by the alias "Fito", leads Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang blamed for Ecuador's transformation from tourist haven to a country with horrendous murder rate

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1 week ago Four arrested after dawn raids targeting suspected people smugglers

The group are accused of advertising illegal lorry crossings from France on social media and moving migrants from HGV stops in Kent to London.

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2 w. ago ‘Clear evidence’ asylum seekers living in London hotel ‘working illegally as delivery drivers’

Bikes and bags with Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo branding were filmed parked at an asylum hotel in central London

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2 w. ago Migrants living in asylum hotels 'illegally working for Uber and Deliveroo within hours of arriving in UK'

Bikes and bags with Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo branding were filmed parked at an asylum hotel in central London

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