68 h. ago Police in Italy arrest ‘Breaking Bad’ fan in huge meth lab bust

A 22-year-old from the northern city of Novara was charged with the illegal production of drugs

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9 d. ago Keir Starmer praised Adolescence. Now he needs to show he’s learned from it | Gaby Hinsliff

The government balked at protecting children from the perils of social media. TV has made the issues plain; now politics must do its jobIt’s the story every parent of teenagers I know has been watching horrified through their fingers. The Netflix drama Adolescence starts with armed police breaking down an ordinary front door to arrest a 13-year-old boy for murder, in front of his bewildered parents. Though initially it seems there must have been some terrible mistake, Jamie’s Instagram account soon yields clues that all the adults – police, parents and teachers alike – had initially blundered past, oblivious.Though talk of misogynistic “manosphere” influencers such as Andrew Tate hovers over the storyline, this isn’t really a story of radicalisation. What it skewers is the feeling of growing up very publicly in a world where sending nudes risks them instantly being shared round the class and everyone automatically films playground fights on their phones, and how that intensifies dan...

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2 w. ago The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil

The significance of the Trump administration’s arrest and threat to deport the Palestinian activist cannot be overstatedIt’s 2027 and you’re doom-scrolling in your apartment while eating a single egg for dinner. (Eggs are now $30 a dozen.) You fire off a few angry tweets about abortion rights and go to bed. In the middle of the night armed police break down your door and arrest you for destabilizing the security of the state. You are detained and then – if you hold citizenship elsewhere – deported. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thief who murdered Amazon driver while stealing van jailed for at least 30 years

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when ‘career criminal’ Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away

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3 w. ago Xavier Worthy makes lurid sex claim against fiancee as Chiefs star breaks silence after 'strangling' arrest

Kansas City Chiefs receiver Xavier Worthy is claiming to be the victim of an extortion plot following his arrest for allegedly strangling a family or household member on Friday night.

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3 w. ago Breakthrough in probe into murder of Brit businessman in Kenya as cops arrest 'prime suspect' and hunt two accomplices

The suspect, who was arrested Sunday in Mombasa, is said to have been hiding in the town since the murder of Scott Campbell, 58, last month.

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