Italian PM Meloni unveils new plans to crack down on people smugglers
The proposed law would punish human traffickers with up to 30 years in prison. It would also target those who finance smuggling operations.
The proposed law would punish human traffickers with up to 30 years in prison. It would also target those who finance smuggling operations.
Russia's Wagner Group is likely keeping its promise to free prisoners fighting in Ukraine, but will now face shortages of troops, the UK MOD said.
Russia claims US jets were intercepted on Monday
The Government is preparing to shelve a planned rise in the state pension age, as a decline in life expectancy leaves ministers struggling to justify the change.
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A SENIOR SNP MP has described Kate Forbes as a sex-obsessed religious fundamentalist.
A Hampshire councillor has resigned from the Conservative Party after calling TV pundit Ian Wright a "typical black hypocrite" on Twitter
Xi Jinping is in Moscow after releasing 12 point proposal for de-escalation in Ukraine
Speaking in London on Monday, Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie said some of the ammunition for the Challenger 2 battle tanks that Britain is sending to Ukraine includes armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium. "If all this happens, Russian will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component," Putin said in remarks after a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Ex-spy’s dossier on Donald Trump alleged Russia may have held compromising material on ex-president
Russian leader reacts to comments by UK defence minister that Britain will supply armour-piercing rounds to Kyiv
Thousands of Russian convicts who have fought for the Wagner mercenary group will be pardoned and released in the coming weeks, according to British intelligence. The Kremlin-controlled paramilitary Wagner Group has become increasingly powerful and spearheaded assaults on key towns such as Soledar, Popasna and Lysychansk during the Ukraine war. The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said the military outfit has massively increased in size in the past year due to the recruitment of convicts from Russia’s jails.
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Police Scotland is under pressure to act after Nicola Sturgeon disclosed she and her husband had not yet been spoken to as part of an investigation into alleged missing SNP funds.
Just when there are more important things to be debated, it appears the Commons will again be distracted by party feuds, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Our chief political commentator reads between the lines of the former prime minister’s submission to the Committee of Privileges
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Veteran political reporter Donald Macintyre reveals how his claim that Saddam was ‘bad but not mad enough’ to start conflict caused alarm in No 10
Labour is responding by saying it is nothing more than a sticking plaster. In his article in the New Statesman in which he announced his missions, Sir Keir Starmer decried the “sticking plaster politics” of the Government. The terms of trade are being set down.
Pamela Brown persistently grilled Trump's evasive lawyer Drew Findling about the ex-president's call to Georgia asking for more votes to overturn the election.
The Good Liars troll a right-wing network known for its fealty to the former president.