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The TelegraphLitterer caught dropping cigarette – but council fines non-smoker 160 miles away at the time
A council fined a non-smoker for dropping a cigarette in a village before bungling officials realised she lived more than 160 miles away.
- The Telegraph
Labour ‘hit job’ against Louise Haigh had been brewing for months
When Louise Haigh offered train drivers a whopping 15 per cent pay rise in August, she boldly said she was fulfilling a promise to “move fast and fix things” such as the long-running strikes.
- The Guardian
More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights
Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UK
- Associated Press
Trump threatens 100% tariff on the BRIC bloc of nations if they act to undermine US dollar
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. dollar is by far the most-used currency in global business and has survived past challenges to its preeminence, members of the alliance and other developing nations say they are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system. Trump, in a Truth Social post, said: “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy."
- The Telegraph
The map that shows Russia’s ‘secret war’ with the West has now begun
Taken in isolation, they could just about be explained away as coincidences – freak accidents, one-off attacks, unfortunate infrastructure failures. The DHL cargo plane that crashed on Monday as it approached Vilnius airport. The recent bomb scares that have hobbled London, from Euston Square and Gatwick Airport to the US Embassy. The drones spotted circling near US Air Force bases in the UK. The explosion at a weapons manufacturing facility in Wales in April.
- The Independent
‘Embarrassed’ Barron looks on as Trump and ‘First Buddy’ Elon Musk dance to YMCA at Mar-a-Lago Thanksgiving
Musk was once again spotted with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago as they celebrated Thanksgiving
- The Independent
Voices: Blairites are in despair over Keir Starmer’s flailing leadership
COMMENT: A person close to the former PM said the current government is like a bunch of unimaginative ‘librarians and academics’ but, writes John Rentoul, for some Starmer is not just a librarian or an academic but a funeral director
- CNN
The illusion of Assad’s grip on Syria shatters, as Russia, Iran and Hezbollah let their guard down
Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But nothing lasts forever.
- Manchester Evening News
'For years I called him dad. My family called me a liar'
Leah has waived her right to anonymity so her story can be heard
- Bromley News Shopper
South Londoners jailed in November including dad who hired sex worker for 13-year-old
The men and were who were jailed in November 2024 including murderers, drug dealers and phone thieves.
- The Guardian
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
- The Telegraph
Children carry out surge of contract killings as Swedish gangs exploit loophole in the law
Fernando, a hitman for a Swedish narcotics gang, checks his phone as it pings with his latest orders: collect the guns, go to the target’s front door and fire until he runs out of bullets.
- The Independent
Top pollster warns Keir Starmer will struggle to convince public with his ‘plan for change’
Sir John Curtice says Keir Starmer has shown ‘absolutely no ability’ to explain how he is going to lead the country out of its problems after five months of government, as the PM prepares for major policy reset this week
- Bromley News Shopper
Urgent search for missing Bexleyheath girl, 12, believed to be with two men
Police are concerned for the welfare of a missing schoolgirl from Bexleyheath who was last seen four days ago.
- The Guardian
‘I have done nothing wrong’: Juanita quit her job at a Melbourne brothel to work from home. Now she’s being evicted
Victoria has decriminalised sex work. So why are those in the industry still facing danger and discrimination?
- Euronews
Poland's prime minister visits beefed up border with Russia
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited the border with the Russian region of Kaliningrad to inspect newly constructed military fortifications.View on euronews
- CNN
Israeli strikes kill at least 200 in Gaza as UN halts aid deliveries after more trucks stolen
At least 200 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on northern Gaza Saturday, according to local health officials, as the United Nations said it would pause aid deliveries through the enclave’s main crossing after more of its trucks were stolen.
- CBC
Russian troops closing in on a Ukrainian power plant, but it's already been 'cannibalized' by crews
As Russian forces advance in the Donetsk region of Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of their wide-scale invasion, they have moved to the city of Kurakhove and are about two kilometres from one of the country's oldest thermal power plants.Not long after the Kurakhove coal-fired power station opened in 1941, workers were forced to hurriedly disassemble part of it, in a bid to move critical infrastructure to the east before the Nazis swept in and occupied the area.This past spring a
- The Telegraph
Crackdown on landlords will drive up costs for tenants, Government admits
Angela Rayner’s Renters’ Rights Bill is likely to drive up rents despite being intended to make life easier for tenants in the private sector, the Government has admitted.
- The Daily Beast
Trump’s FBI Pick Scored Gig After Frontrunner Flunked Job Interview
Kash Patel may have finally been nominated for the position he craved the most—Federal Bureau of Investigation director. But it’s not like Donald Trump wanted him first. President-elect Trump said Saturday he would nominate Patel to head the FBI, heralding him as a “brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter” and signaling he would push current FBI Director Christopher Wray out of his 10-year term. But Patel wasn’t Trump’s first choice for the role, according to Axios—he just di