50 h. ago Russia accused of trying to disrupt aid to Ukraine by hacking border crossings

UK says GRU unit accessed cameras near borders, military installations and rail stations at key European locationsRussia tried to hack into border security cameras to spy on and disrupt the flow of western aid entering Ukraine, the UK’s intelligence services and its allies have claimed.A unit of Russia’s military intelligence services is accused of using a host of methods to target organisations delivering “foreign assistance”, by hacking into cameras at crossings and railway stations and near military installations. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago Russia accused of trying to hack border security cameras to disrupt Ukraine aid

UK says GRU unit accessed cameras near crossings, military installations and rail stations at key European locationsRussia tried to hack into border security cameras to spy on and disrupt the flow of western aid entering Ukraine, the UK’s intelligence services and its allies have claimed.A unit of Russia’s military intelligence services is accused of using a host of methods to target organisations delivering “foreign assistance”, by hacking into cameras at crossings and railway stations and near military installations. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago After crossing the border for better schools, some parents are pulling their kids and leaving the US

Even as immigrants in the U.S. avoid going out in public, terrified of encountering immigration authorities, families across the country are mostly sending their children to school — but that’s not to say they feel safe in this country

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63 h. ago They crossed the border for better schools. Now, some families are leaving the US

Even as immigrants in the U.S. avoid going out in public, terrified of encountering immigration authorities, families across the country are mostly sending their children to school — but that’s not to say they feel safe in this country

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7 d. ago Judges dismiss national security charges against immigrants who enter new militarized zone at border

Federal magistrate judges in New Mexico have started dismissing military-base trespassing charges against immigrants who cross the southern U.S. border through a newly designated national defense zone

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1 week ago El Chapo's relatives 'surrender to FBI' as drug lord's son 'makes bombshell move'

At least 17 relatives of Mexican drug lord El Chapo are alleged to have crossed the border into the United States as part of a plea deal with one of his sons over drug trafficking charges

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1 week ago Hamas frees last living US citizen held in Gaza in what Trump calls a ‘good faith step’

American soldier Edan Alexander meets family at Israel border after masked fighters hand him over to Red Cross Hamas has freed the last living US citizen it held in Gaza, soldier Edan Alexander, in a unilateral move Donald Trump described as a “good faith step” towards ending the war and bringing home all remaining hostages.The release of 20-year-old Alexander, a dual national serving in the Israel Defense Forces who spent 584 days in captivity after he was seized from his base on 7 October 2023, was agreed with little Israeli involvement beyond practical coordination on the ground. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Amid fragile ceasefire, Trump promises to boost trade with India and Pakistan

Truce agreement was reached after diplomacy and pressure from US but within hours there was cross-border shellingA fragile ceasefire was holding between India and Pakistan on Sunday, after hours of overnight fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours, as US president Donald Trump said he would work to provide a solution regarding Kashmir.The arch-rivals were involved in intense firing for four days, the worst in nearly three decades, with missiles and drones being fired at each other’s military installations and dozens of people killed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago India and Pakistan agree Kashmir ceasefire but accuse each other of breaches

Truce agreed after US mediation but both sides accuse each other of violations only hours laterAnalysis: now the battle turns to India and Pakistan’s narratives of KashmirIndia and Pakistan have agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire with immediate effect, though its longevity was thrown into question after reports of cross-border shelling and explosions in Indian-administered Kashmir just hours after it was announced.The ceasefire – which was hoped to end days of escalating clashes between the two nuclear-armed countries – was first declared by the US president, Donald Trump, on Saturday afternoon, after 48 hours of diplomacy between India and Pakistan, apparently brokered by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and vice-president, JD Vance. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago England open to hosting IPL after border hostilities prompt suspension

ECB has reached out to BCCI after IPL halted PSL also suspended with UAE unwilling to step in as hostThe England and Wales Cricket Board is open to hosting the remainder of the Indian Premier League in September after escalating cross-border tension between India and Pakistan prompted the suspension of the world’s most lucrative Twenty20 tournament on Friday.In a chaotic 24 hours matches in both the IPL and the Pakistan Super League were cancelled or abandoned, schedules torn up and foreign players told to start packing and book flights home. The Pakistan Cricket Board announced that the last eight fixtures of its tournament were being relocated to the United Arab Emirates, only for the Emirates Cricket Board apparently to reconsider its decision to host because it was “wary of being perceived as an ally of the PCB”, leading to that tournament also being suspended. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pakistanis say India will ‘pay a huge price’ following cross

Pakistanis vowed to make India “pay a huge price” following cross-border strikes between the two nuclear-armed rivals on Wednesday (May 7).

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Second night of Moscow drone raids, Kursk substation hit

Ukrainian forces reportedly smash back across border into Kursk, where Syrski says offensive has achieved most of its goals. What we know on day 1,168Ukraine has launched drones at Moscow for the second night in a row, forcing closure of the capital’s three major airports, Russian officials said early on Wednesday. The mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said six Ukrainian drones approached Moscow and what he claimed was debris from an intercepted drone fell over one of the key highways leading into the city. Russia’s aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said it halted flights at airports serving Moscow including Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky.Ukrainian forces attacked a power substation at the town of Rylsk in Russia’s western Kursk region, the regional governor said early on Tuesday, after Russian war bloggers reported Ukrainian forces firing missiles had smashed through the border in Kursk, crossing minefields with armoured vehicles. The Kursk governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said two people w...

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2 w. ago Women open up about having to travel to a different country for abortions and fork out £1,000s

Although women have a legal right to an abortion up to 24 weeks, certain hospitals do not offer these services up to the limit, with at least 88 patients having to cross the border to access care last year.

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3 w. ago Ghost booking: The tactic travellers are using to ease US border control fears

As border crossing anxiety increases, this practice is haunting hotels

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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 w. 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 w. 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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