6 h. ago Palestinian Channel boat migrant allowed into UK despite calling on God to 'kill all Jews' and posing with guns is arrested

EXCLUSIVE: Abu Wadee, who is believed to be in his 30s, was held by Immigration Enforcement officers on suspicion of entering the UK illegally.

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31 h. ago Political asylum seeker fighting to stay in US or face six years in prison if she returns home to Russia

Feminist and LGBT+ activist Valeriia Razheva co-founded Feminist Anti-War Resistance - labelled an ‘undesirable organisation’ by Moscow

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45 h. ago Welcomed to the UK: Palestinian asylum seeker gunman who called on God to 'kill all Jews', boasted about terrorising Israel and posed proudly with cache of weapons

EXCLUSIVE: As his dinghy is picked up in the Channel, Palestinian Abu Wadee makes a victory sign and declares: 'Thank God, we arrived in Britain.'

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45 h. ago Welcomed to the UK: Asylum seeker gunman who called on God to 'kill all Jews', poses proudly with cache of weapons and revels in terror attacks

EXCLUSIVE: As his dinghy is picked up in the Channel, Palestinian Abu Wadee makes a victory sign and declares: 'Thank God, we arrived in Britain.'

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3 d. ago Failed asylum seeker who was not deported despite repeated crimes against women is jailed after raping a sex worker

Iranian national Salih Mahmoudi, 42, struck in the early hours of the morning on August 21, 2023.

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4 d. ago Asylum seeker raped girl, 15, in town centre after spotting her alone, court hears

A 29-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl after spotting her alone in Falkirk city centre, a court has heard.

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5 d. ago Failed asylum seeker who punched man unconscious turns up for sentencing wearing designer clothes, £180 Nike trainers and carrying two iPhones

Hamza Amri, 29, arrived in Britain two years ago and was sent to live on the Bibby Stockholm in Dorset on an £9.10 a week allowance.

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7 d. ago Oscars 2025: Wallace and Gromit sport bowties as they make stylish red carpet arrival with the iconic duo look set to be Britain's best hope of a win

The film's creators Richard Beek, Nick Park, and Merlin Crossingham posed proudly with mini statues of the smartly dressed claymation characters on the star-studded red carpet.

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1 week ago Huge fall in UK work visas as asylum seeker applications rocket to record level, Home Office data shows

A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in Britain in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began

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1 week ago Sharp fall in work visas as asylum seeker applications rocket to record level, Home Office data shows

A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in Britain in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began

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1 week ago Sharp fall in work visas issued by Home Office as asylum seeker applications rocket

A total of 108,138 people applied for asylum in Britain in 2024, the highest number for any 12-month period since current records began

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1 week ago Hamas releasing bodies of final four Israeli hostages in exchange for 600 Palestinian prisoners

The remains of Shlomo Mansour, 86, Ohad Yahalomi, 50, Tsachi Idan, 50, and Itzik Elgarat, 69, will be handed back to Israel later this evening, the terrorist group has said.

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1 week ago It's not enough for the BBC to take down this Gaza documentary. If there's been payments to Hamas terrorists, then those to blame MUST go, writes Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister SHARREN HASKEL

Far from being an even-handed documentary by a broadcaster that prides itself on an unbiased approach, this production was a shameless piece of propaganda for the thugs of Hamas.

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1 week ago Trial begins in Germany for 4 alleged Hamas members accused of seeking weapons caches across Europe

A trial has begun in Germany for four alleged Hamas members suspected of organizing weapons caches across Europe

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2 w. ago One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human lifeLike many people, I have followed the unrelenting horror that has unfolded in Gaza since the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 mainly through the medium of social media. The Instagram reels of citizen journalists on the ground have become for me and countless others the most powerful testimony to the slaughter, destruction and trauma visited on the already beleaguered Palestinian population. Recorded at great risk, they are often heartbreaking and enraging: so many dead infants; so many maimed and traumatised children; so many obliterated families and communities.Some of these witnesses have achieved heroic status among their millions of followers, the likes of Motaz Azaiza, a photojournalist who was evacuated to Qatar after 108 days covering the carnage at close hand; Wael Al-Dahdouh, the Al Jazeer...

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2 w. ago Fathers who attempted to set fire to asylum seeker hotel in Rotherham are warned they face long spells behind bars

Plumbing engineer Mason Lowe, 28, and trainee barber Morgan Heeley, 26, - both fathers to two children - joined in mob violence during an attack on a Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on August 4.

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2 w. ago Homeless Algerian asylum seeker, 32, starved to death while dangling from a skylight for six days after trying to break into empty home, inquest hears

Khaled Aribi, an Algerian asylum seeker, was eventually discovered by an estate agent when she arrived for a viewing of the empty property in Walthamstow.

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2 w. ago Middle East crisis live: Israeli military says body of Shiri Bibas is not among returned hostages

Israel has demanded the return of Shiri Bibas after it said testing showed that one of the four bodies released by Hamas did not belong to any other hostageThe Israeli military has said the two Bibas boys were “murdered by terrorists” in Gaza.The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said earlier that Ariel and Kfir Bibas had been identified after their bodies were released by Hamas on Thursday under the current ceasefire agreement.According to the assessment of professional officials, based on the intelligence available to us and forensic findings from the identification process, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally murdered by terrorists in captivity in November 2023. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Buses explode in Israel sparking fears of a terrorist attack

Police are probing the huge explosions of the vehicles in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, in an inicdent they are describing as a "suspected terror attack".

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2 w. ago Asylum seeker declared a child by UK judges... despite a previous finding that he was 23 with a receding hairline and thick facial hair

An asylum seeker who is at least 23 years old and has a receding hairline as well as thick facial hair was declared a child by judges.

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