44 h. ago Indian national, 29, is arrested after 'advertising people smuggling on social media'

The 29-year-old Indian national was detained by officers from the National Crime Agency and West Midlands Police at an address in an inner-city area of Birmingham on Monday morning.

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5 d. ago Cruel thugs set fire to elephant and burn it alive sparking outrage in Sri Lanka

Police said the suspects, aged between 42 and 50, were taken into custody in the north-central district of Anuradhapura, about 125 miles north of capital Colombo.

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6 d. ago Four teens charged after 'Raith Rovers' Ultras make sick Nazi salutes and hold SS flag

Four teens, aged 16, have been charged by Police Scotland after a group of 'Raith Rovers' ultras made Nazi salutes.

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6 d. ago JENNI MURRAY: I didn't tell the police about my rape in the 1960s... and I doubt I would today

For so long women's safety has been neglected and ignored, despite promises of improvements. We are never top of the political agenda. And certainly not a priority for the police.

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6 d. ago Minneapolis police chief criticizes ICE tactics after clash with protesters

Minneapolis' police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters on Monday

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7 d. ago Harry Roberts, triple police killer behind 1966 manhunt, dies aged 89

Roberts, who murdered three police officers in Shepherd’s Bush and served 48 years in prison, was released in 2014Harry Roberts, the triple police killer whose 1966 murders shocked Britain and triggered one of the country’s largest manhunts, has reportedly died aged 89.Roberts died in hospital last Saturday after a short illness, the Sun reported. He had been living in sheltered accommodation in Peterborough after his release on licence in 2014, after serving 48 years in prison for the killings. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Former public enemy No1 Harry Roberts is dead: Triple cop killer who led police on a 100

Triple police killer Harry Roberts has died aged 89, it has been reported.

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7 d. ago Triple cop killer Harry Roberts dead: Notorious murderer, 89, dies 11 years after being freed from jail

Triple police killer Harry Roberts has died aged 89, it has been reported.

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9 d. ago Bondi shooting: what we know about antisemitic terror attack in Sydney | The Latest

Australia suffered one of the deadliest massacres in its modern history on Sunday when two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration at Bondi in Sydney. At least 16 people died, including one of the alleged gunmen, with more than 40 left wounded. The victims include a 10-year-old child, a Holocaust survivor and a London-born rabbi. The alleged gunmen behind the attack are a father-son duo, suspected of using legally obtained firearms to commit the massacre. Naveed Akram, 24, was known to New South Wales police and security agencies and had been linked with an Islamic State cell. The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is facing questions about gun law reform and security failings as Australians reel from the attack. Lucy Hough talks to the Guardian Australia senior reporter Ben Doherty Continue reading...

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1 week ago Four children aged 3 to 8 seriously injured in knife attack as police launch manhunt

The mother of the children was also injured in the attack.

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1 week ago Met police agree to pay £7,500 to woman arrested over Gaza protest placard

Exclusive: Force to pay damages to Aisha Jung, who was put into a police van and held until 4amThe Metropolitan police have agreed to pay £7,500 in damages to a woman arrested at a Gaza protest for holding up a placard that said: “Apartheid Israel, what a cuntry.”Aisha Jung, 53, from south London, was with her husband and two of her sons, aged 10 and 11, when police arrested her at the November 2023 demonstration in Trafalgar Square, central London, telling her that the sign could be considered offensive. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Illegal pangolin meat and cane rats seized by police in Deptford

Officers from the Food Standards Agency and the Metropolitan police found the bushmeat at a site in south-east London on December 5

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1 week ago 'Beautiful' boy, 15, stabbed to death in horror Islington attack identified

Adam John Henry, aged 15, has been named by police after he was stabbed to death in broad daylight on Westbourne Road in Islington, London, last Tuesday

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1 week ago Kilmar Ábrego García ordered released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration

Maryland judge freed Ábrego as his case becomes a partisan flashpoint in battle over Trump’s deportation agendaA federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday, and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland, has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse

Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being heldOfficers at the large immigration detention camp located at the Fort Bliss army base in Texas are allegedly mistreating detainees, with accusations including beatings, sexual abuse and clandestine deportations of non-Mexican nationals into Mexico, according to a coalition of local and national US civil rights organizations.In a 19-page letter, addressed to senior government officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and Fort Bliss military command, the coalition accuses officers at the immigration detention facility on the base, called Camp East Montana, of being “in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UN Palestinian aid agency says Israeli police 'forcibly entered' compound in Jerusalem

Israeli police have forcibly entered the compound of a United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem

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2 w. ago KFC horror as teen girl allegedly 'dragged into toilets and gang

The teenager was allegedly dragged into the toilets at the fast food giant in the Les Halles district of Paris, on Monday evening. Four men, aged between 18 and 24, were arrested by police

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2 w. ago Four arrested after sex attack on teenage girl in KFC toilet

Police detained four men aged 18 to 24 at the Forum des Halles shopping centre after the teenager identified them at the scene

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2 w. ago New York mayor issues order targeting Israel divestment weeks before Mamdani takes office

Eric Adams signed orders on boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and protests near houses of worshipNew York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, has issued two executive orders he says are meant to combat antisemitism, less than a month before he hands over the keys to the mayoralty to Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel.The first order prohibits city agency heads and staff from engaging in “any policy that discriminates against the state of Israel, Israeli citizens based on their national origin, or individuals or entities based on their association with Israel”. It also prohibits officials overseeing the city pension system from making decisions in line with the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which Mamdani has said he supports. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Salisbury Novichok poisonings timeline: How Russian spy incident unfolded in 2018

Dawn Sturgess was killed by the Russian nerve agent, while a police officer and a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned

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