2 h. ago ‘I felt caught between cultures’: Mongolian musician Enji on her beguiling, border

She started singing in her family’s yurt before a Goethe-Institut residency led her to jazz and life in Munich. The distance from home is ‘bittersweet’ – but both styles, she says, are about trusting your instinctGrowing up in the icy Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, singing was as natural as speech for Enkhjargal Erkhembayar. “Every day after my parents came home from working in the local power factory, they would gather with a group of friends in our yurt to unwind and someone would always begin to sing,” she says. “Soon, we would all join in, singing old folk songs to keep warm and to express ourselves long into the night.”As Enji, 33-year-old Erkhembayar is now taking this music into international concert halls, having forged a beguiling hybrid of Mongolian folk music with acoustic jazz improvisation. She anchors her performances in the circular-breathing vocal style of Mongolian long song – a folk tradition where syllables are elongated through freeform vocalisations – her del...

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15 h. ago Obsession with tough borders creating a ‘booming £2bn industry for private companies’, ministers warned

UK border security industry worth billions and expanding, academics suggest

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19 h. ago Channel crossings by migrants near 10,000 as warm spell begins

Some 9,885 people had been logged as making the journey from France as of Sunday, according to provisional Home Office figures for 2025

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21 h. ago ‘Border czar’ touts Trump’s immigration successes and blasts Biden for ‘unsecuring’ border

The White House is taking credit for unprecedented drops in illegal crossings, which have virtually disappeared due to Trump’s harsh border crackdown

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4 d. ago Pakistan and India exchange fire as UN calls for ‘maximum restraint’

Countries trade blows across line of control in disputed Kashmir as tensions rise after deadly shootingTroops from Pakistan and India exchanged fire overnight across the line of control in disputed Kashmir, officials have said, after the UN urged the nuclear-armed rivals to show “maximum restraint” after a deadly shooting in the region.Relations have plunged to their lowest level in years, with India accusing Pakistan of supporting “cross-border terrorism” after gunmen carried out the worst attack on civilians in contested Muslim-majority Kashmir for a quarter of a century. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Children under 16 could be banned from using social media at certain times

Ofcom have set out new rules to force tech firms to protect children online

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5 d. ago India lashes out at Pakistan over Kashmir attack as fears grow of military escalation

New Delhi expels Pakistani diplomats, shuts border crossing and suspends a critical river water treaty

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5 d. ago Ofcom sets out new rules to force tech firms to protect children online

The regulator has published its final version of the Children’s Codes of practice, which firms have until July to come into line with.

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5 d. ago India summons top Pakistani diplomat after Kashmir attack kills 26 – reports

India has reportedly summoned the top diplomat from Pakistan’s embassy to give notice that all defence advisers in its mission are persona non grataIndia has summoned Pakistan’s top diplomat in New Delhi, local media reported on Thursday, a day after it announced measures to downgrade ties with Islamabad over a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.A day after suspected militants killed 26 men at a tourist destination in Kashmir – in the worst attack on civilians in the country in nearly two decades – Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri said there was cross-border involvement in the attack and that New Delhi would suspend a six-decade old river-sharing treaty, as well as close the only land crossing between the neighbours. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago India shuts Pakistan border crossing following deadly Kashmir attack

The main border crossing checkpost between India and Pakistan will be closed with immediate effect and Pakistani nationals will not be allowed to travel to India under special visas following a deadly civilians attack.

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8 d. ago There is a way to turn Trump’s chaos into an opportunity. Here is what European leaders must do | Paul Taylor

The EU, the world’s biggest single market, can reposition itself and become less reliant on exporting goods to the US and ChinaThis is why America first doesn’t have to mean Europe last.Europeans have had plenty to mope about since Donald Trump entered the White House not quite three months ago. The US president has said that the EU was created to “screw the United States” and slapped punitive tariffs on European goods. He has cast doubt on the US commitment to defend Nato allies. He has cosied up to Vladimir Putin, insulted Volodymyr Zelenskyy and tried to settle Russia’s war in Ukraine on terms that would undermine European security. His vice-president has denigrated European democratic values, and his national security team has spewed venom in a Signal chat at “pathetic” Europe.Finally complete the European capital markets union and banking union to unleash the cross-border investment power of some €3tn in European savingsStrike trade deals with countries and regions around the w...

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8 d. ago USA v Canada: women’s world ice hockey championship final – live

Cross-border rivals face off again for titleEmail Beau at beau.dure.freelance@guardian.co.ukCanada 0-0 USA, 14:25 left, 1st period: It’s all Canada at the moment. They’ve taken the shots lead 6-3. So far, nothing has troubled Frankel too much, but “let them shoot a lot” is never a good game plan.Social media alert: USA Hockey and Hockey Canada are both on BlueSky, but neither organization has posted. That’s no fun. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Kush destroys them’: the Guinean rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic

Experts say a crisis is under way in Guinea, fuelled by a growing market run by cross-border trafficking syndicatesAt Guinea’s only private drug rehabilitation clinic, Dr Marie Koumbassa and her 15-person team are so convinced that drug use is a national emergency that they work for no pay.Every week, SAJED-Guinée (Service for Helping Young People in Difficult Situations due to Drugs) receives dozens of distress calls from relatives of addicts who are then taken to the facility in the working-class Conakry neighbourhood of Dabompa. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Part of Dover Port taped off amid police investigation after small boat migrant dies in Good Friday tragedy on the English Channel

Officials brought a body ashore at the Port of Dover after Border Force responded to an incident aboard a migrant dinghy mid-crossing.

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1 week ago Irregular migrant crossings into Europe fall 30% in first quarter of 2025

Human rights groups say drop is partly due to EU policies that turn blind eye to rights abuses in countries such as Libya and TunisiaIrregular crossings at Europe’s borders have fallen by 30% in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period last year, in a decrease that rights groups partly attributed to EU policies that have emphasised deterrence while seemingly turning a blind eye to the risk of rights abuses.The decline was seen across all the major migratory routes into Europe, the EU’s border agency Frontex said in a statement, amounting to nearly 33,600 fewer arrivals in the first three months of the year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What Trump’s order for the military to take control of border ‘buffer zone’ means for the future of migrant crossings

Move is latest step in Trump’s use of soldiers in border enforcement, typically an area outside of military control

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2 w. ago Trump orders military to take control of border lands as he continues to crack down on migrants crossings: Live

Rep. Greg Casar accused Trump of attempting to ‘shift the news off his tariff disaster’ by suddenly authorizing the military to take control of public lands along the southern border

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2 w. ago One Tech Tip: Protecting your device privacy when crossing borders

Travelers should prepare for extra scrutiny of devices when crossing borders, especially when entering the U.S. Experts say 100% privacy might be impossible but there things you can do to make it harder for someone to see your private data

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2 w. ago Judge rejects new trials for 2 convicted of human smuggling in death of family of 4 from India

A federal judge has rejected requests for new trials for two men convicted on human smuggling charges in the deaths of four members of a family from India who froze to death while trying to cross the Canadian border into Minnesota during a blizzard in 2022

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2 w. ago Once a migratory highway, the Darien Gap has been left empty under Trump crackdown

A little more than a year ago, the small Panamanian river port of Lajas Blancas was filled with a crush of people trying to make their way to the United States

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