43 m. ago Chilling parcel discovery after Brit 'flew to US to be killed by man she met online'

DISTRESSING CONTENT Dwain Hall, from Florida, was arrested following the death of Brit Sonia Exelby, whose remains were discovered in a shallow grave last month

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1 hour ago Child found abandoned in pram outside in the rain late at night

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of neglect

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1 hour ago Three people in their 80s arrested in child sexual abuse probe

The accusations date back to the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s

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2 h. ago Adam Peaty breaks silence on family feud as he says 'two sides to every story'

Olympian Adam Peaty has spoken out following reports about tensions between him and his family, after his brother James was arrested over claims he sent threatening texts

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3 h. ago EastEnders fans 'work out' Joel Marshall's future after surprise return twist

The character had not been seen on the BBC soap since getting arrested last month

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3 h. ago BREAKING: Three pensioners arrested in huge UK probe into historic child sexual abuse

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3 h. ago Three pensioners arrested in huge UK probe into historic child sexual abuse

Two men and a woman in their 80s have been arrested following reports of historic child sexual abuse made by eight victims who were housed in children's homes in Bradford

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4 h. ago Inside the dawn patrols where San Diego teachers track ICE: ‘We have to resist’

With students terrified and arrests rising, educators turn activists – scanning streets, sharing alerts and defending the right to feel safeThree teachers drove through a quiet neighborhood in southern San Diego, the sun not yet fully up over the horizon. They drank coffee and talked about their jobs. The start of the school day was still an hour or two away.Suddenly, mid-conversation, they spotted something: what appeared to be an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, driving right past them. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago China’s power play: MI5 warns of relentless espionage attempts in Britain

Alert says Beijing trying to recruit British sources in parliament, even if potential gains may be unclearAn unexpected connection on LinkedIn. An offer of work from a headhunter, most likely a young woman, based in China. The chance to earn perhaps £20,000 part-time writing a handful of geopolitical reports for a Chinese company peppered with “non-public” or “insider” insights. Payment in cryptocurrency or cash preferred.It may seem obvious, on this telling, that something about this approach would be amiss. Nevertheless, China’s powerful ministry of state security (MSS) still considers it worthwhile to deploy recruitment consultants to try it – leading MI5 to warn repeatedly about their activity online. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Wes Streeting not ‘comfortable’ deporting children under Labour’s migrant crackdown

The health secretary insisted the number of forced removals ‘should be low’ but admitted he was not comfortable with the plan

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5 h. ago Arrests now top 250 in immigration crackdown across North Carolina

Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during an immigration crackdown in North Carolina centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city

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7 h. ago Hotel migrant ‘sexually assaulted four women and girls as young as 12 in spate of sex attacks on Tube’

A HOTEL migrant sexually assaulted four women and girls as young as 12 on the Tube in a spate of alleged attacks, a court heard. Hamza Alotaibi, 27, is accused of targeting the alleged victims within the space of a month on various London Underground trains. He was living in a taxpayer-funded asylum hotel in...

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7 h. ago Poland closes last Russian consulate after ‘act of state terrorism’ on railway

Foreign minister orders closure of Gdańsk consulate and says four people now arrested after sabotage attackEurope live – latest updatesPoland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has described last weekend’s sabotage attack on Poland’s rail system as “an act of state terrorism” ordered by Russia, as he announced that Poland was closing the last remaining Russian consulate in the country.“The clear intention was to cause human casualties,” he said of the weekend bomb attack. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago For Brandon Lake, crossing over means more opportunities to spread a Christian message

Christian music is gaining in popularity, and Brandon Lake is one reason why

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7 h. ago Myanmar's military says it has raided a second major online scam center

Myanmar’s military government says it has extended its crackdown on online scam activities to a second major location, detaining hundreds of foreigners and seizing thousands of mobile phones used to carry out the fraud

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8 h. ago How generative AI in Arc Raiders started a scrap over the gaming industry’s future

The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for artists, writers and voice actors• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereArc Raiders is, by all accounts, a late game-of-the-year contender. Dropped into a multiplayer world overrun with hostile drones and military robots, every human player is at the mercy of the machines – and each other. Can you trust the other raider you’ve spotted on your way back to humanity’s safe haven underground, or will they shoot you and take everything you’ve just scavenged? Perhaps surprisingly, humanity is (mostly) choosing to band together, according to most people I’ve talked to about this game.In a review for Gamespot, Mark Delaney paints a beguiling picture of Arc Raiders’s potential for generating war stories, and highlights its surprisingly hopeful tone as the thing that elevates it above similar multiplayer extraction shooters: ...

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8 h. ago Christian Eriksen accuses Scotland ref of 'going against us' as bitter Denmark flops spiral into blame game

The fingers are being pointed in Scandinavia with national boss Brian Riemer facing major pressure ahead of the World Cup playoff

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8 h. ago Gunmen attack church in Nigeria sparking fresh Christian persecution fears days after 25 girls were kidnapped

The attack came hours after rapper Nicki Minaj publicly backed President Trump’s ‘persecution’ claims

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8 h. ago Poland detains several people in connection with explosion on railway used to supply aid to Ukraine

Polish security minister says explosion was ‘a terrorist attack’

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9 h. ago ‘I fled Africa to safety in the UK – Starmer’s migrant crackdown means I could be sent back’

Shams Moussa says despite a change of government in his home country, he’s feel like an ‘alien’ as he condemned Labour’s plan to return refugees as part of a planned overhaul of the asylum system

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