3 d. ago Naked cycling campaigners hire security amid growing hostility from public

The World Naked Bike Ride often causes controversy each year, but now organisers have had to hire security in order to stop a slew of attacks being hurled on its participants

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3 d. ago Naked cycling campaigners hire security as public rebel against sight of grown adults pedalling through British cities clothes

It follows an assault this year on one 59-year-old male naked cyclist in Essex, who was punched off his bike during the annual nude event after being mistaken for a 'pervert'.

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4 d. ago Naked cycling campaigners hire security as hostility from public grows

Naked cycling campaigners hire security as hostility from public grows  The Times

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5 d. ago The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants review – swashbuckling, snicker

With a turn by Mark Hamill and a saltily suggestive catchphrase for Patrick, the fourth SpongeBob film shows that anything can still happen in Bikini BottomCould the students who snickered their way through those first SpongeBob adventures have foreseen the franchise persisting 25 years on, even after metabolising the most lysergic pharmaceuticals? Such longevity is partly down to extra-commercial considerations, in that the series has a capacity for tickling adults’ funny bones – possibly even those now fully grown students – as well as the very young. Though it can’t claim anything quite as unexpected as the David Hasselhoff cameo in 2004’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – not so much a high bar as an unforgettably wonky one – feature four thinks nothing of making Clancy Brown talk like a pirate while handing royalty cheques to Barbra Streisand and Yello. Anything can still happen in Bikini Bottom.Preceded by a festive short for Paramount’s other weathered babysitters, the Teenag...

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2 w. ago US Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia

Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events following the weekend's mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Australia

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2 w. ago Daily killings in Mexico drop 37% under Claudia Sheinbaum, but experts say data is problematic

Government claims national security strategy is working, but analysts say figures don’t show rise in forced disappearancesThe average number of daily killings per month in Mexico has dropped by 37% since President Claudia Sheinbaum took office last year, according to new government figures, but security analysts cautioned that homicide data may not indicate improved national security.There was an average of nearly 55 murders a day in November compared with almost 87 when Sheinbaum assumed the presidency in September last year, the head of the country’s national public security system, Marcela Figueroa Franco, said during the president’s daily news conference on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Salisbury poisonings: Reason part of Dawn Sturgess inquiry to remain secret

Lord Hughes said the closed section of the £8million report 'cannot be made available to the public because of the damage which might be done to national security and the risk of harm which might be occasioned to some individuals if it were to be published'

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3 w. ago Donald Trump prepares to 'expand US travel ban to more than 30 countries'

The news comes as the White House pauses all immigration applications from 19 countries as Donald Trump cites national security and public safety concerns

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3 w. ago Trump freezes all immigration applications from 19 countries

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it paused all immigration applications filed by immigrants from 19 non-European countries, citing concerns over national security and public safety.

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