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Deportation capitalism
Trump’s mass-deportation policy is scandalizing a part of the global public sphere – paradoxically, the progressive part. The “Battle of Los Angeles” is focusing the debate around its supposed exceptionality vis-à-vis the (equally supposed)...

Starmer bets jaw-jaw can win migration war
It is the week before Christmas and a cabinet minister is boarding the Eurostar to Paris. Usually such a trip would be briefed to within the last inch of its life. But Yvette Cooper is travelling alone, unaccompanied by advisers and unadvertised...

Britain’s high streets are plagued by foreign gangs selling fake cigarettes and drugs
Britain’s high streets are in the grip of foreign gangs who are selling fake cigarettes and drugs, and employing illegal migrants, according to a new report. Worse, the Government is failing to stop the imported crime wave from blighting our...

Opinion: Would you let AI plan your holiday itinerary?
In his latest column, Jonathan McCrea is striking a lighter tone and telling us how AI has become his ideal travel companion. I’m heading away for a couple of weeks with the family. We’re going through the packing list now. Underwear, Calpol, flip...

WC Qualifiers: Argentina, England, Egypt secure win
Images from the FIFA World Cup qualifiers matches. IMAGE: Angel Di Maria of Argentina celebrates after scoring the first goal of his team during a match between Uruguay and Argentina. Photograph: Ernesto Ryan/Getty Images Argentina closed in on a...

California Focus: Trump on ‘remigration’: Heed the rhetoric
Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard President Trump’s sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do, after Trump sent bunker bombs into...

Angela Gerekou | Greece at the crossroads of sustainability and innovation
Tourism is changing, and with it the demands, professional skills, hospitality models, and destinations. In this context, the President of the Greek National Tourism Organization, Angela Gerekou, comments on the latest data from the World Bank...

Russia mocks Police Scotland policy on transgender ‘centaurs’
President Putin’s regime has mocked Scotland for its “transgender centaurs” after police said suspects could ask for separate searches of their top and bottom halves. Kremlin officials and supporters have long portrayed the SNP government, and...

OMA completes JOMOO Headquarters with multifaceted volume in Xiamen
The JOMOO Headquarters in Xiamen, the first office complex for the biggest sanitaryware firm in China, was completed by OMA. The new headquarters, which is currently operational and represents a significant turning point in JOMOO's development...

Palestine in Pictures: June 2025
The Electronic Intifada 4 July 2025 People carry the body of a man who was killed while trying to get a bag of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza City, 17 June. The slain man was later identified as 20-year-old...

Criminals who flouted deportation orders were working at £1m Bradford cannabis grow
The pair, who had previously been deported from this country after serving custodial sentences, were arrested by police when they carried out a search of the Woolston Warehouse building on Grattan Road in April. Prosecutor Jordan Millican told a...
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UN's Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese slams Trump, calls US sanctions 'sign of guilt'
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, condemned the Trump administration for imposing sanctions against her. She went on to describe the move as a ‘sign of guilt’. read more While reacting to the sanctions...

'Only the Iranian people can rise up, it has to come from within'
Since the wave of Israeli strikes on Iran, Dr. Thamar Eilam Gindin has become a prominent voice in Israeli media, analyzing the fallout and implications. Known to many on TikTok as a “rockstar of war commentary,” she’s been in constant demand,...

The confiscated goods could be used for social purposes and public interest
0 For the first time, goods and monetary sums confiscated following the exposure of criminal activities could be used to finance social and public interest projects. A bill drafted by the Ministry of Justice establishes the legal framework that...

Hearts' transfer deadline plan - and one player fighting for his place
Derek McInnes explains signings and team shape as the Premier Sports Cup approaches It is unlikely that Hearts’ summer recruitment drive is finished as they prepare to finalise their seventh and eighth new signings. Sabah Kerjota and Pierre Landry...

Ukraine Joins EU Demand To Release Belarusian Political Prisoners
6 A total of 12 European countries have already supported the statement. The EU delegation to the Council of Europe (CoE) called for the "immediate and unconditional" release of political prisoners in Belarus, their rehabilitation and an end to...

France is ‘doing its best’ to stop small boats. Is this true?
Small boat arrivals are rising again, despite hundreds of millions given to France to police the Channel France is “doing [its] best” to stop small boat crossings and has been “strengthening cooperation” with the UK, according to Sylvie Bermann,...

Backlash grows over Israel’s proposal for prison-like city in Gaza
Forced displacement of Palestinians is back in the spotlight as Israel's Prime Minister visits Washington and his Defence Minister proposes a prison-like “humanitarian city” built in Gaza, on the ruins of yet another city Israel has destroyed....

Three Months of Elections Sketch Dos and Don’ts for EU Democracy Shield
Democratic forces are struggling to win elections convincingly. FIMI/DIMI operations continue to affect results, and build polarisation and political disillusionment, preying on poor leadership. Recent elections in Central and Eastern Europe, most...

I watched a Lions game with a coach and this is what I learned... Mail Sport sits down with new Saracens attack chief Dai Flanagan in Cardiff
In just a matter of weeks, Dai Flanagan will be working directly with the likes of Maro Itoje and Owen Farrell when he joins up with Saracens. But as he sits in the historic and rugby-mad Old Arcade pub in the heart of Cardiff on Wednesday...