8 h. ago NSPCC demands urgent action from tech giants as online grooming crimes in London reach record high

NSPCC demands urgent action from tech giants as online grooming crimes in London reach record high  London Post

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14 h. ago Netflix adapting ‘excellent’ crime novel led by Gangs of London star

Netflix has announced a brand-new crime thriller series based on a best-selling novel

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15 h. ago Thousands hit streets of Belém to call for action during crucial Cop30 summit

Funeral for fossil fuels held as part of Great People’s March calling on governments to step up climate effortsThousands of people have turned out in the streets of Belém to demand urgent action on the climate crisis.It was the first major protest outside the annual climate talks since Cop26 four years ago in Glasgow, as the last three gatherings were held in locations with little tolerance for demonstrations – Egypt, Dubai and Azerbaijan. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Bizarre moment Donald Trump claims London so dangerous you get ‘stabbed in the ass’ as he tears into ‘disaster’ Sadiq Khan

US President Trump told GB News there are now areas of capital ‘where police don’t even want to go’

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17 h. ago Man, 20, stabbed at London train station as police search for car driver seen minutes before attack

Witnesses report seeing two groups armed a zombie knife and an iron bar in Belvedere on Friday night

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25 h. ago Warren Buffett finally splashes the cash with surprise $4.3billion stake in tech giant

On Friday, Wall Street's most iconic investor revealed he has snapped up more shares to finally get in on the market's AI gains.

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30 h. ago Serial rapist Chao Xu jailed for life for raping women he drugged with a Chinese potion

Chinese national Chao Xu - dubbed one of London’s worst sex offenders - drugged women with special drink to ‘act out his deviant sexual fantasies’

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38 h. ago Serial predator Chao Xu jailed for life for drugging and raping London women

Chinese national Chao Xu - dubbed one of London’s worst sex offenders - drugged women with special drink to ‘act out his deviant sexual fantasies’

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44 h. ago London serial rapist who drugged victims and filmed attacks faces jail for catalogue of crimes

Chao Xu hid cameras around his bathroom in Greenwich to secretly film women as they used the toilet and showered

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50 h. ago Serial rapist who drugged victims to be sentenced for 24 sexual offences

Chao Xu, 33, of Greenwich, pleaded guilty to 24 sexual offences over the course of three years including rape, sexual assault and upskirting.

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59 h. ago Sadiq Khan jeered during angry clashes as he's confronted over London crime figures

Sadiq Khan jeered during angry clashes as he's confronted over London crime figures  Daily Express

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62 h. ago Police officer not guilty of causing death of pensioner hit during royal escort

Pc Christopher Harrison was among the team of convoy motorbike outriders escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh when Helen Holland was hit on May 10 2023.

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67 h. ago Alexa Chung becomes the latest celebrity targeted by phone snatchers in London

Chung, 42, clung on to her device and ‘was like, “F*** you!”’ she said discussing crimewave sweeping capital

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3 d. ago Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are set to reach a record high in 2025

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels are set to reach a record high in 2025, a worrying new report reveals.

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3 d. ago Boy, 4, victim of online grooming as offences reach record high

The NSPCC described the figures, which show an almost doubling of such crimes over the past eight years, as "deeply alarming"

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3 d. ago Over 3,000 online grooming crimes recorded by Police Scotland in past five years

Over 3,000 Communicating Indecently with a Child offences have been recorded by Police Scotland since 2020.

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3 d. ago Police issue £2,500 scam warning to Londoners with ‘dodgy’ Amazon Fire TV sticks

Detective Chief Inspector Emma Warbey vowed a crackdown on illegal streamers in the capital

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4 d. ago The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles

The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference. Deregulation plans are misguidedEurope is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook. This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.Once Europe’s most hyped law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now on the chopping block. Powerful forces within the European Commission, supported by the German government, hope that deregulation will boost Europe’s tech sector, particularly AI. This is a grave mistake.Johnny Ryan is director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Georg Riekeles is the associate director of the European Policy ...

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4 d. ago Attacks on Scots cops reach record levels amid calls for offenders to stay in jail

There have been calls for prisoners convicted of police assault not to be given early release after new figures showed assaults on cops at ten year high

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4 d. ago Borderline ambiguity: How Google Maps removes disputed Western Sahara border for Morocco users

The tech giant has released a statement acknowledging the use of different border displays between Western Sahara and MoroccoThe dotted lines illustrating the border between Western Sahara and Morocco, indicating the former’s disputed territory status, have never been visible to people using Google Maps in the latter.After media reports last week highlighted the discrepancy, tying it to the UN security council endorsing the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara, the tech company released a statement acknowledging it has always displayed the border differently depending on the search region. Continue reading...

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