6 m. ago Chinese woman 'commits suicide in ICE custody after being arrested for overstaying her visa'

A Chinese woman who was detained at the US-Mexico border has died by suicide while being held by immigration officials. 

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8 h. ago Minister hits back at Trump claim UK is ‘very happy’ with tariffs

Government aiming for better trade deal with US after 10% rate applied to Britain

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38 h. ago Keir Starmer accused by union of trying to take credit for Grangemouth redundancy deal for workers

EXCLUSIVE: Unite blasted Labour ministers over what it claimed were "misleading and disingenuous" attempts to win plaudits for a deal the union negotiated with Petroineos.

Economics

4 d. ago Visa overstayers will be deported, vows minister after number claiming asylum in UK revealed

The Home Office said about 40,000 people who came to Britain from abroad as students, workers or visitors last year have sought asylum

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5 d. ago Minister criticises expenses rules after Labour MP's £900 'pet rent' claim

The MP for Coventry North West Taiwo Owatemi reportedly made the claim after her landlord at her second home in London imposed a pet surcharge

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6 d. ago Danish foreign minister responds after Vance stakes US claim for Greenland: ‘We don’t appreciate your tone’

US vice president JD Vance has been issued a warning by a Danish government minister, as Donald Trump's administration continues to express an interest in owning Greenland, despite it being a territory of Denmark.

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7 d. ago Gay Malaysian asylum seeker wins right to stay in UK after judge says home country's ban on Pride watches shows he would be persecuted if sent there

The man, who had overstayed his visa, won after Judge Bijan Hoshi ruled that the LGBTQ+ community are subjected to 'serious discrimination' by government and society in the Asian country.

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8 d. ago Poland bans migrants from claiming asylum as Donald Tusk says country wants to 'take back control' of borders after influx of people entering from Belarus

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, announced the right to claim asylum will be suspended for 60 days following an influx at the Belarus border.

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9 d. ago UK minister responds to Donald Trump sidekicks' claim Europe is 'pathetic freeloader'

Defence Secretary John Healey said Donald Trump's US administration has 'got a case' after a leaked group chat showed revealed criticism of European nations on defence spending

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1 week ago MPs fear planning laws reform could strip residents of right to object

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner denied Tory claims that residents would have less power to say no to plans near them.

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1 week ago Wes Streeting embroiled in row amid claims health secretary's allies were 'behind sexist briefings against Keir Starmer's top female ministers'

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is at the centre of an extra-ordinary row over alleged 'sexist' briefings against Sir Keir Starmer's top female ministers.

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2 w. ago Psychologists in touch with Antarctic base after assault allegation, South Africa confirms

Ministers also investigating sexual harassment claim at country’s isolated Sanae IV research stationPsychologists are in “constant” contact with a South African science team isolated for months at a base in Antarctica after physical assault and sexual harassment allegations were made, a government minister has said.The environment minister, Dion George, whose department manages the country’s Antarctic programme, confirmed to the Guardian that psychologists and other experts were in “direct and constant” communication with the nine-member research team. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fear grows among US’s 390,000 undocumented Chinese immigrants: ‘So many policies have changed’

Those newly arrived and those who have lived in the US for decades worry as Trump vows to deport Chinese nationalsIn 2014, a few years after the birth of her second child, Jenny left China to flee an abusive relationship and government persecution for violating the one-child policy. She brought her younger daughter to San Francisco and, though undocumented, found work at a childcare facility and eventually married a US citizen.Because of extended delays in visa processing, her green card application remains in limbo after three years, but she’s never been particularly afraid of her immigration status. That is until Donald Trump won re-election last November, fueled in part by a promise to conduct the largest mass deportation program in US history. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ministers 'united' behind plans to cut welfare as 'too many' claim disability benefits permanently

Pat McFadden said the Government wanted people off work with mental health, depression and anxiety to be given support but not always financially

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2 w. ago As Trump menaces us in Canada, we have a question for Britain: when will you stand up to him? | Jennifer Welsh

The UK has long benefited from its Commonwealth. Though we will take steps to ensure our survival, the silence from London is deafeningDavid Lammy thought he was reassuring Canadians. During his visit to Canada – for a meeting of G7 foreign ministers– he was asked about Donald Trump’s claims that the country should become the 51st state of the US. The UK foreign secretary stressed that Canada is a “proud [and] sovereign nation”, and – in his view – would remain so. When pressed further, he invoked Canada’s shared history and monarch with the UK, and our work together during the second world war.Canadians are already well aware of that shared history, and how Britain has long benefited from its Commonwealth. My 96-year-old father just missed the age of enlistment in support of Britain in the 1940s but his two brothers, young boys from the Canadian prairies, lost their lives as RAF bombers. One of them is buried in the beautiful Commonwealth war cemetery in Harrogate.Jennifer Welsh is...

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2 w. ago Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled

PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving more than 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse offKeir Starmer is to defy growing anger by driving through welfare cuts for some of the UK’s most severely disabled people, with an overhaul that could see more than 600,000 benefit claimants lose out on an average of £675 a month.Ministers are set to ditch plans to freeze personal independent payments (Pip) amid a backlash. But they will still tighten eligibility criteria for the benefit under big changes to be set out by the work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Liz Truss has staff member make payments for hundreds of pounds of office cleaning and rent

The former Prime Minister submitted expenses claims for £1,557 worth of rent, bills and cleaning expenses for her constituency office in South West Norfolk between September and November last year.

Society

2 w. ago Britain's asylum seeker hotspots: Interactive map reveals how many YOUR council has taken in

The latest data released by the House of Commons Library shows 109,100 are currently being housed across the UK. Yet 59 of the 361 authorities accommodate none.

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3 w. ago Broken benefits system must be brought under control, insists Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Ministers hope to reduce the number of working-age people claiming benefits, but some Labour MPs are concerned plans will harm vulnerable people

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3 w. ago Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds admits he was wrong to claim he was a solicitor

Labour cabinet minister, who has come under pressure over claims on his CV in recent weeks, says it was 'inadvertent error'

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