4 h. ago Wife robbed two banks while eight months pregnant and duped unwitting husband to be her getaway driver after telling him he was collecting her from a check

Anna A., 37, robbed two banks in the Lublin region of Poland in October and November 2023 after being inspired by gangster films she watched during her pregnancy.

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7 h. ago Visa overstayers will be deported, vows minister after number claiming asylum in UK revealed

The Home Office said about 40,000 people who came to Britain from abroad as students, workers or visitors last year have sought asylum

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2 d. ago Is it worth going to the US? CNN anchor issues warning to tourists over tighter border controls

Exclusive: ‘We’re starting to hear cases where visitors to the US are having an extreme reaction at the border’

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3 d. ago Poland's Justyna Steczkowska will bring her epic banger "Gaja" to the London Eurovision Party 2025

Poland's Justyna Steczkowska will bring her epic banger "Gaja" to the London Eurovision Party 2025  wiwibloggs

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3 d. ago Poland bans migrants from claiming asylum as Donald Tusk says country wants to 'take back control' of borders after influx of people entering from Belarus

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, announced the right to claim asylum will be suspended for 60 days following an influx at the Belarus border.

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6 d. ago Burundi sees its largest number of refugees arriving in decades during Congo's fighting

The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo

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6 d. ago Judge wildly claims Nazis got better treatment during WWII than Venezuelan migrants deported by Trump

A U.S. appeals court judge said that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the United States during World War Two than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration.

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6 d. ago Nazis had more rights than Venezuelan migrants to contest removal, US judge claims

Court rejects use of Alien Enemies Act of 1798, ruling accused migrants must get hearings firstUS politics live – latest updatesAn appeals court judge claimed on Monday that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the United States during the second world war than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration.The comments came during a contentious hearing shortly after a lower court thwarted the Trump administration’s effort to deport the immigrants under a roughly 225-year-old war powers law. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Inside the fragile harmony between one Somerset town’s locals and the ‘down from Londons’

Two years ago, as property prices in Frome soared amid an influx of people moving from London, Frome Town Council declared a housing crisis. Today, Alex Ross speaks to a community determined to overcome the while becoming increasingly aware of a widening gap in wealth

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1 week ago Power struggle leads to coup in Tigray as war looms between Ethiopia and Eritrea

Tigray’s interim leader flees as rival faction seizes control, while Ethiopian tanks and troops move to border of EritreaAregawi was building a tour-guiding business when war struck Ethiopia’s Tigray region in 2020. He spent the next two years fighting on the frontline. Now he is among those who fear Tigray is on the brink of conflict once more.“We don’t want to become a battleground, but it seems like war is near, maybe even inevitable,” he said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tories warn Labour is scrapping immigration laws which would allow ministers to throw out any future asylum claim by gun

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp urged Sir Keir Starmer's Government to use measures passed by the Tories when they were in power.

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2 w. ago Labour is accused of 'losing control' of Britain's borders as Channel migrant crossings hit record pace with 4,000 this year

Home Office figures show there have been 4,393 arrivals across the Channel between the start of the year and March 10.

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2 w. ago Poland households sent urgent 'prepare for war' guidebook as men told they face conscription

Poland premier Donald Tusk previously warned in a statement to the country's Sejm that his government may need to bolster its nuclear deterrent to fend off a Russian advance

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3 w. ago Tories to seek law change to stop illegal migrants making human rights claims to prevent deportation

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the change was 'critical to shift immigration powers from the courts to Parliament', but they will need the support of Labour MPs to get it passed.

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3 w. ago MP says police have dismissed claims that men from a migrant hotel are stalking schoolgirls in affluent Home Counties town

EXCLUSIVE: Parents near Reading raised the alarm after reportedly seeing men behaving suspiciously and chasing schoolgirls in Maiden Place, located a three-minute drive from a so-called 'migrant hotel'.

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3 w. ago Poland plans military training for every adult male amid growing European security fears

PM Donald Tusk says country needs army of 500,000 and backs withdrawal from treaty banning landminesPoland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the changing security situation in Europe.He said there was a need for an army of 500,000 soldiers, which would include reservists. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Border control blimp carried more than 600 miles by winds before crashing in a Dallas suburb

The giant surveillance balloon broke free after ‘a severe wind event’ uplifted it from South Padre Island, Texas, all the way to a small town in Dallas

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3 w. ago They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cultYears before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat.The programmer was known to friends, foes and followers as Ziz. She had come to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016 as part of an influx of young people arriving to study the dangers that artificial intelligence could pose to humanity. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago While our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith Levine

Republicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisonsLast week, the federal human resources department sent out a seven-page memo ordering agencies to submit detailed plans on how they will work with the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to slash their payrolls. To do this, they were to eliminate whole job categories – except one. Untouchable were positions “necessary to meet law enforcement, border security, national security, immigration enforcement, or public safety responsibilities”.While we’ve had our eyes on the wrecking ball–Doge pulverizing social services, environmental protection and scientific research, we’ve hardly taken notice of what is being constructed. In the footprint of the already shabby, now half-demolished US welfare state, the Trump administration is building a police state. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘They worship death’: Trump ‘border czar’ reveals extremist views in interview

The ‘great replacement’ theory, human sacrifice and torture videos: Tom Homan’s talk with Tucker Carlson offered a grab bag of far-right talking pointsDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.Donald Trump’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, and far-right media personality Tucker Carlson talked about a bizarre range of extremist and racist conspiracy theories in an interview just weeks before Homan took office and was trusted with implementing a wide-ranging crackdown on migrants.The conversation included Carlson’s claim that Mexican cartels come “from cultures that have practiced human sacrifice for thousands of years”, connected the racist “great replacement” theory to Biden’s immigration policy, and advocated the arrest of elected US leaders who opposed Donald Trump’s policies on migrants. Continue reading...

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