63 h. ago How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the islandOne day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.”It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago ICE shooting latest: Minneapolis mayor hits out at ‘Trump’s chaos’ after another person shot by federal agent

Department of Homeland Security claims officer shot man in leg ‘fearing for his life’ after being attacked by two protesters on latest night of unrest

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4 d. ago Protesters 'hit by ICE with tear gas and pepper balls' in latest confrontation

Fury erupted in Minneapolis as President Trump’s ICE agents, backed by over 2,400 Homeland Security officers and 1,000 more on the way, clashed with outraged locals

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4 d. ago New Home Office TikTok account ‘turning migration raids into clickbait entertainment’, charity warns

A new video posted to the official Home Office TikTok accounts shows immigration enforcement officers raiding homes and businesses and arresting people thought to be in the UK illegally

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4 d. ago Home Office criticised for ‘gimmick’ TikTok account promoting migrant deportations

The ‘Secure Borders UK’ TikTok account was launched by the Home Office

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4 d. ago Home Office’s new TikTok account showing videos of migrants being detained branded ‘laughable gimmick’

A new video posted to the official Home Office TikTok accounts shows immigration enforcement officers raiding homes and businesses and arresting people thought to be in the UK illegally

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4 d. ago Death on the inside: as a prison officer, I saw how the system perpetuates violence

A rise of murders is traumatising inmates and staff, and making life harder for staff. But even in prison, violence isn’t inevitableThere are hotspots for violence in prison. The exercise yard, the showers. There are peak times, too. Mealtimes and association periods are particularly volatile.But first thing in the morning is not when you expect to hear an alarm bell. I certainly didn’t, at 6am in my office on the residential wing of a high-security prison in late 2018. All prisoners were locked up at that time. But overcrowding has long been a problem in UK prisons, and keeping three men in cells designed for one can be a recipe for disaster. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Minnesota sues Trump administration claiming ICE operations are a 'federal INVASION' after woman was shot dead

The lawsuit names US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and several US immigration officials, and comes less than a week after the death of mother-of-three Renee Good.

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5 d. ago Former British police officer has citizenship revoked on 'national security' grounds after moving to Russia

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Bullen, originally from Bracknell in Berkshire, spent 11 years working for Hertfordshire Police, where he wrote a training handbook on Russian crime.

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5 d. ago Trump officials urged to halt violence against journalists amid ICE protests

Journalists call on homeland security officials to reduce law-enforcement confrontations as tensions flareAfter a year in which US journalists faced a dramatic increase in violence from law enforcement, news organizations and advocacy groups have recently tried to better protect reporters through outreach to the Department of Homeland Security.Over the last four months, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a collection of New York news outlets have sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security attempting to open dialogue to reduce confrontations between law enforcement officers and journalists at protests, especially over efforts to deport alleged undocumented immigrants. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Kristi Noem encourages people to buy ICE officers lunch on ‘Law Enforcement Appreciation Day’ after Minnesota shooting

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has encouraged people to buy ICE officers lunch on “Law Enforcement Day” following the Minnesota shooting.

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9 d. ago Minneapolis ICE shooting latest: Victim Renee Nicole Good was ‘murdered,’ family says

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claims victim attempted to ram agents, leaving officer responsible with no choice but to fire in self-defense, calling her actions ’domestic terrorism’

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1 week ago Venezuela live updates: At least 24 of country’s security officers and ‘many Cubans’ reportedly killed in Trump’s Maduro operation

President Trump said the White House needs to ‘fix’ Venezuela after U.S. stealth operation to capture autocratic leader Nicolas Maduro

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1 week ago Venezuela latest: At least 24 of country’s security officers and ‘many Cubans’ reportedly killed in Trump’s Maduro operation

President Trump said the White House needs to ‘fix’ Venezuela after U.S. stealth operation to capture autocratic leader Nicolas Maduro

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2 w. ago New Orleans is still seeking permanent security solutions a year after deadly Bourbon Street attack

Nearly a year after a New Year's Day truck attack on Bourbon Street left 14 dead, New Orleans officials are still seeking permanent security solutions

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2 w. ago Homeland Security says a fraud investigation is underway in Minneapolis

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that federal Homeland Security officials are conducting a fraud investigation in Minneapolis

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3 w. ago Princess Diana 'jumped from a balcony' after divorcing Charles leaving her bodyguard fearing she would 'ultimately perish' when she abandoned her security officers

Princess Diana announced that she was stepping back from public life on December 3, 1993, during a speech at the brain injury charity Headway, her loyal bodyguard Ken Wharfe was not at her side.

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3 w. ago Zelenskyy to travel to US for Trump meeting amid push for Ukraine deal

Meeting on Sunday will follow flurry of US, Russian and Ukrainian talks, but Putin has shown little sign of softeningVolodymyr Zelenskyy is to travel to the US for a planned meeting with Donald Trump on Sunday, as Washington continues to push for a possible peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.The Ukrainian president announced the visit on Friday in a social media post, saying he had received a briefing from Rustem Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council, on new contacts with US officials. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting itRussia is scrambling to rein in the country’s sprawling illicit market for leaked personal data, a shadowy ecosystem long exploited by investigative journalists, police and criminal groups.For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called probiv market – a term derived from the verb “to pierce” or “to punch into a search bar” – has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials, traffic police, bank employees and low-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Moment brazen shoplifter arrested on Oxford Street after trying to evade facial recognition cameras

Officers detain woman, in her 50s, minutes after she gave store security staff the slip during Christmas theft spree

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