3 h. ago TfL pledges 'better support' for asylum seekers applying for travel discounts

Commitment comes as Sadiq Khan’s transport deputy says the mayor is determined ‘to help vulnerable Londoners travel across our city’

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12 h. ago Hotel worker who raped female guest and sneaked into rooms to secretly lick feet of women may have had other victims, police fear

Ahmed Fahmy carried out a string of sickening sex attacks over the course of 16 years, using his job to gain access to victims as they were at their most vulnerable.

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32 h. ago Walter Mitty call handler who pretended to be paramedic to impress Tinder dates is jailed for 12 years after rapes and sex attacks that left victims suicidal

Jamie Kadolski, 24, wore his NHS uniform on dating app photos but covered his ID badge to conceal his junior role. Some of his offences were committed while he was on bail.

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33 h. ago Walter Mitty call handler who pretended to be paramedic to impress Tinder dates is jailed for 12 years over string of sex attacks

Jamie Kadolski, 24, wore his NHS uniform on dating app photos but covered his ID badge to conceal his junior role. Some of his offences were committed while he was on bail.

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36 h. ago The underdiagnosed brain disorder more common than multiple sclerosis

Functional neurological disorder is one of the most common medical conditions seen in emergency care

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39 h. ago Woman is 'raped twice in one night on popular beach' as man appears in court accused of sex attacks

The alleged attack happened on the seafront in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk on February 16.

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42 h. ago ‘Who wept for these people?’ Francis’s papacy was defined by compassion for refugees

From personally promising to relocate vulnerable asylum seekers to speaking out against ‘cruel’ policies, the late pope was a voice for the marginalisedOn a glorious spring day almost a decade ago, an Airbus A320 took off from Mytilene airport on the Greek island of Lesbos. For what seemed like an age, a small group of bystanders, including officials and the media, watched in disbelief until the plane veered left over the sun-speckled Aegean Sea and its Alitalia livery could no longer be discerned. On board was Pope Francis, who had spent barely five hours on Lesbos, then at the centre of the refugee crisis on Europe’s eastern fringes.The whirlwind tour had been replete with symbolism but it was the pontiff’s fellow travellers who had caused such surprise. Moments after the head of the Roman Catholic Church had entered the aircraft, 12 refugees had also appeared, cheerfully making their way across the runway with expressions of stunned relief, their first taste of freedom after inca...

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51 h. ago Worrying update on Carlos Santana, 77, after star was hospitalized due to medical emergency before concert

Carlos Santana will miss a further show this week after he suffered a frightening health scare which saw him hospitalized.

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57 h. ago Asylum seeker could be allowed to stay in UK after judge's ruling against 'purely fictitious' claim he was trafficked from Albania is overturned

An asylum seeker could be allowed to stay in the UK after a judge's ruling against the 'purely fictitious' claim he was trafficked from Albania was overturned.

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2 d. ago Carlos Santana, 77, is HOSPITALIZED after suffering medical emergency before Texas concert

The legendary guitarist Carlos Santana suffered a frightening health scare on Tuesday that has scuttled a planned show in Texas.

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3 d. ago Pope Francis' final moments show rapid deterioration before his death

The pontiff is understood to have woken at 6am on Monday and was fine for at least an hour. However around 7am Vatican medics rushed to an emergency call from his Casa Santa Marta apartment.

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3 d. ago Jesse Lingard gives evidence in court as grandad accused of multiple sex attacks

Kenneth Lingard, 86, denies 17 counts of indecent assault

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4 d. ago Passengers evacuate Delta plane after engine catches fire at Florida airport

Flight headed for Atlanta, Georgia, had left gate when flames began to rise, forcing people to clear jet via slidesA Delta aircraft caught on fire on the tarmac at the Orlando international airport on Monday morning, forcing frightened passengers to evacuate the jet via slides.The Delta flight, which was headed for Atlanta, Georgia, had left its gate at about 11.15am ET when one of the aircraft’s engines caught fire, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Pope Francis died of stroke and heart failure, Vatican doctor says, as tributes pour in for pontiff – latest updates

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who was revered by millions of Catholics around the world, has died aged 88Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, diesPotential candidates to succeed Pope FrancisPope Francis: share your tributesThe Archbishop of York has paid tribute to Pope Francis as “holy man of God” who was “also very human”, PA News reports.In a statement on X, Stephen Cottrell said:Francis’s whole life and ministry was centred on Jesus who comes among us not to be served, but to serve.We saw that compellingly in Francis’s service of the poor his love of neighbour, especially the displaced, migrant; the asylum seeker, his deep compassion for the well-being of the earth and his desire to lead and build the church in new ways.I remember, in the brief times spent with him, how this holy man of God, was also very human.He was witty, lively, good to be with, and the warmth of his personality and interest in others shone out from him. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Hillwalker dies after falling ill on popular Munro as rescue crews race to scene

Emergency crews were scrambled to Beinn Ime, a Munro near Arrochar in Argyll and Bute at around 12.25pm on April 12 to help a man who had suffered a medical emergency.

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4 d. ago Berlin reports rise in attacks on refugees amid surge in far

Call for greater protection for asylum seekers and policies targeting rightwing violence as report sounds ‘alarm bell’Berlin has reported a marked increase in attacks on asylum seekers and refugee shelters, amid a sharp rise in far-right crime and a hardening of German migration policy.Official figures provided at the request of two local Green party lawmakers showed there were 77 assaults on asylum seekers and refugees in 2024 and eight instances of deliberate damage to residences housing them. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Accidental Spy review – remarkable story of CIA operative abandoned by his handlers

Anthony Wonke’s headlong documentary introduces Blerim Skoro, recruited in post-9/11 New York to become an inside man in the ‘war on terror’, then left in the fieldIn the movies, the classic hazard for the undercover operative is psychological meltdown after getting lost in their new identity. In real life, the dangers seem more prosaic: being treated as an expendable asset and dumped. That was the situation for Muslim Kosovan refugee Blerim Skoro who, despite years spent protecting US national security as a prison informant and al-Qaida mole, was threatened with deportation. His paymasters, the CIA and FBI, don’t emerge creditably from director Anthony Wonke’s headlong, if narrowly focused, account.Skoro seems to have a gift for being in the right or wrong place at the wrong or right time; it’s not obvious which. After deserting from the army during the 1990s Yugoslav war, he wound up as an asylum seeker in New York with a young family. But a new hustle, running drugs for the Alban...

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4 d. ago Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal

Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data, amid harsh government rhetoric on those crossing the Channel.Figures reveal that there were 5,960 referrals of assaults upon asylum seekers while in the care of the Home Office between January 2023 and August 2024. There were also 380 referrals of victims of hate crimes to their internal safeguarding hub during this period.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'Failures' found in probe into deaths of 15 Palestinian medics at hands of Israeli soldiers

Following its own investigation into last month's incident, Israel says a deputy commander will be sacked, after it backtracked on initial claims that medics' vehicles had no emergency signals

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5 d. ago Asylum seekers sleeping rough 'throw rubbish in flowerbeds and urinate in street'

Asylum seekers sleeping rough 'throw rubbish in flowerbeds and urinate in street'  Daily Express

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