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Apr 22, 2026 - World

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has defended her immigration policies after being heckled at a West End theatre, telling "white liberals" to "fk right off" and rejecting claims she is copying Reform UK, as she faces growing opposition from within Labour and from charities.

Apr 22, 2026 - World

Serious Fraud Office investigation relates to firms allegedly submitting false invoices for work they failed to carry outThe UK’s Serious Fraud Office has arrested four people on suspicion of a home insulation scam that may have cost energy companies as much as £44m.The SFO and the National Crime Agency said on Wednesday that the unnamed people were arrested in coordinated dawn raids across England on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. Continue reading...

Apr 22, 2026 - World

Under a new law, anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, will never be allowed to legally buy cigarettes.

Apr 22, 2026 - World

These boats, operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are cheap, quick, and difficult to track.

Apr 22, 2026 - World

Iran’s goal is to maintain chokehold on the global economy, even as some say it could run out of oil storage by SundayMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump’s indefinite shelving of the plan to bomb Iran’s bridges and power stations on Tuesday night is being widely described as leaving the conflict in limbo, but that is anything but the truth.Pakistan insists the prospect of talks in Islamabad has not evaporated, and positive messages are still being exchanged, but in the meantime the site of kinetic activity has switched from land to sea. Continue reading...