28 h. ago Two countries agree to take back deported migrants after UK visa ban threat

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood warned she could stop issuing visas to foreign nationals from certain countries if those governments did not 'play ball' on returns deals

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57 h. ago Tiny 'Survivor' island in the Pacific Ocean with population of 18,000 to start taking Trump's deportees

Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to expel undocumented migrants, has accelerated deportations and cracked down on border crossings since returning to power.

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58 h. ago Tiny 'Survivor' island in the Pacific Ocean with population of 18,000 will start taking Trump's deportees

Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to expel undocumented migrants, has accelerated deportations and cracked down on border crossings since returning to power.

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60 h. ago GPs being offered £11,250 a month to provide 'first class' healthcare for migrants facing deportation

Salaries of up to the equivalent of £11,250 a month are being waved at doctors to look after migrants held in immigration removal centres (IRCs).

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3 d. ago Fury as illegal migrants waiting to be deported are getting free taxpayer

ILLEGAL migrants waiting to be deported are getting free taxpayer-funded mobile phones. Hundreds in the UK’s newest removal centre receive devices for communication and internet use. Official documents reveal that detainees at Campsfield House, in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, are handed phones with direct numbers and guaranteed wi-fi. Those who are given phones have to hand them...

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4 d. ago Trump administration bans two British free speech campaigners from US as censorship row escalates

The visa sanctions have been branded an ‘authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship’

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4 d. ago Trump bans two British free speech campaigners from US as censorship row escalates

The visa sanctions have been branded an ‘authoritarian attack on free specch and an agregious act of government censorship’

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4 d. ago Trump bans two British social media campaigners from US as censorship row escalates

UK, France and Germany condemn US visa ban on social media campaigners

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4 d. ago Emmanuel Macron slams Trump administration over US visa bans for European anti

The move by the US authorities comes despite senior Trump figures, including Vice President JD Vance, lecturing Europe on the importance of free speech

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4 d. ago The campaign to free murderer 'convicted on false evidence' from illegal Somalian migrant who cut a deal with prosecutors so he could avoid deportation

Mark Osborne was handed a life sentence with a minimum of 30 years in 2009 after he and two co-defendants were convicted of murdering Mark Tredinnick.

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4 d. ago Macron and EU condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates

Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five Europeans behind campaign to regulate US tech giants targetedUK politics live – latest updatesThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Union have accused Washington of “coercion and intimidation”, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech giants.The visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, a former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago European leaders condemn US visa bans as row over ‘censorship’ escalates

Washington accused of ‘coercion and intimidation’ after five leading figures behind digital safety law campaign targetedEuropean leaders including Emmanuel Macron have accused Washington of “coercion and intimidation”, after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech companies.The visa bans were imposed on Tuesday on Thierry Breton, the former EU commissioner and one of the architects of the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), and four anti-disinformation campaigners, including two in Germany and two in the UK. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators

State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformationThe state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints, in the latest attack on European regulations that target hate speech and misinformation.Secretary of state Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans – who include former European Commissioner Thierry Breton – have led “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘Gunboat diplomacy on steroids’: US signs security deals across Latin America

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro warns Trump administration may ‘destabilise the entire region’ amid rising tensionsWhile all eyes are on the four-month-long US military campaign against Venezuela, the White House has been quietly striking security agreements with other countries to deploy US troops across Latin America and the Caribbean.As Donald Trump announced a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers and ordered the seizure of vessels amid airstrikes that have killed more than 100 people in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the US secured military deals with Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago in the past week alone. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Epstein survivors call out Trump’s justice department for ‘extreme redactions’ in latest file release – live

The statement says the release was ‘a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation’Schumer to ask Senate to back legal action over partial Epstein files releaseCNN reports that some CBS staffers are “threatening to quit” over the controversial cancellation of a 60 Minutes investigation into the brutal CECOT prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants.Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s decision to pull the story – taken last night three hours before broadcast - has been blasted by members of Congress and the veteran correspondent involved, Sharyn Alfonsi, who had interviewed people deported by the Trump administration to the notorious mega-prison about the “brutal and torturous conditions” they faced. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison

Backlash after broadcaster announces investigation, due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’CBS News is facing a backlash, including from one of its own correspondents, after it cancelled a 60 Minutes investigation into a brutal prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants.The episode of its flagship program about the Cecot mega-prison was due to air on Sunday night. However, in an “editor’s note” posted on X, the broadcaster’s official account announced that “the lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside Cecot’ will air in a future broadcast.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago CBS News delays 60 Minutes segment featuring investigation into El Salvador’s Cecot megaprison

Backlash after broadcaster announces the program, which was due to air on Sunday night, ‘needs additional reporting’CBS News is facing a backlash from one of its own correspondents, and others, after it cancelled an upcoming 60 Minutes investigation into El Salvador’s brutal Cecot megaprison to which the Trump administration deported hundreds of migrants.The episode of its flagship program was due to air on Sunday night. However, in an “editors note” posted on X, the broadcaster’s official account announced that “the lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report ‘Inside Cecot’ will air in a future broadcast.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Unaccompanied children being pressed to return to their countries by US border officials

Exclusive: federal document reveals children arriving as undocumented immigrants being threatened with detentionBorder officials are pressuring unaccompanied children who arrive in the US as undocumented immigrants to quickly agree to return to their countries of origin, even if they express fear for their safety there – or else face “prolonged” detention and other consequences, a federal government document reveals.The document, which emerged as an attachment in a court filing made by immigration attorneys, is understood to be presented or read to children within the first few days of them entering the US while they are still in the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), before they can see any relatives in the US. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it

People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countriesGermán Pineda, 32, just wanted to go home.After his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in June, Pineda, a Honduran immigrant, spent four miserable days in immigration detention at Federal Plaza in Manhattan, sleeping on a concrete floor without sufficient food or a shower. Next, he was transferred to a detention center in Brooklyn, where staff treated him like a criminal, he says, though he’d lived in the country, working as a delivery driver, for 14 years. He couldn’t even call home. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK insists US tech deal not dead as Trump threatens penalties against European firms

Keir Starmer’s office claims UK still in ‘active conversations’ about deal for tech industries in both countries to cooperateDowning Street insists the $40bn Tech Prosperity Deal between the US and UK that is on hold is not permanently stalled. The BBC reported on Tuesday evening that the prime minister’s office claimed that the UK remains in “active conversations with US counterparts at all levels of government” about the wide-ranging deal for the technology industries in both countries to cooperate.The agreement, previously billed as historic, was paused after the US accused the UK of failing to lower trade barriers, including a digital services tax on US tech companies and food safety rules that limit the export of some agricultural products. The New York Times first reported British confirmation that negotiations had stalled. Continue reading...

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