….In exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners Hamas militants on Saturday morning released four female Israeli soldiers they held captive for 15 months to the Red Cross in a planned exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees in Israel. It’s the second exchange since a fragile ceasefire took effect last weekend, halting the fighting in Gaza for at least six weeks during which dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian…

Mexican authorities denied a US military plane access to its planned runway on Thursday after President Trump’s deportation crackdown began. US officials told NBC News that a jet filled with illegal immigrants bound for Mexico never took off after authorities south of the border blocked the move. The flight was one of three that took off on Thursday, alongside Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s carrying over 150 people, as part…

Civil servants have announced plans to strike in protest against being required to return to the office for two days a week. This action, led by members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union working for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), also includes demands for better pay and improved working conditions. Over 200 PHSO staff, responsible for investigating complaints about government departments, public organisations, and the NHS…

Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has stirred controversy by calling for a “national emergency” to address illegal immigration, proposing hardlines measures including mass deportations. Speaking on GB News, Lowe emphasized the need for drastic action to tackle the issue, drawing inspiration from the United States’ approach under former President Donald Trump. “We have to declare a national emergency, just like Trump is doing, and be prepared to take hard decisions—deport,…

The mother of four young brothers who died trapped alone in a house fire while she was shopping in Sainsbury’s has been jailed. Deveca Rose had left her two sets of twins in the locked terraced house when the fatal blaze broke out on the evening of 16 December 2021. Rose had gone to the supermarket, leaving Leyton and Logan Hoath, aged three; and four-year-olds Kyson and Bryson Hoath alone…

A woman in France was on Friday sentenced to life jail for starving her own daughter to death. The girl, Amandine died of a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 13 after years of abuse. Sandrine Pissarra, 54, was sent to prison by a court in the southern city of Montpellier for inflicting acts of torture and barbarity on Amandine. She must serve a minimum of 20 years…

The Donald Trump administration is issuing a new round of heavy-handed measures that could rapidly deport immigrants who entered the United States through recently established legal pathways, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo obtained by the New York Times. The directive, signed on Friday by the acting homeland security secretary, Benjamine Huffman, grants Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials unprecedented authority to expedite deportations for immigrants…

*Final female Israeli civilian held in Gaza not on list Hamas has published the names of four female Israeli soldiers being held captive in Gaza who it says it plans to release this weekend as part of the continuing ceasefire agreement between the armed group and Israel. In the hours following the release of the names, however, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to indicate it believed Hamas had breached…

…President called her ”Radical-left hard-line Trump hater.” Following the fallout of her address to President Donald Trump during a prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral Tuesday, the Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde joined NPR’s ”All Things Considered” on Friday to discuss her hope that the new administration would show compassion toward vulnerable communities following a sermon she made on Tuesday. Addressing concerns that the President did not take her address…

Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities Elon Musk’s social media platform X has refused to remove a video that Axel Rudakubana watched minutes before murdering three young children, despite numerous requests from authorities in Australia and the UK. Australian internet regulator eSafety said on Friday it noted with “great sadness” that the video — which shows the violent stabbing…

The dollar index fell 0.3 per cent to its lowest level since mid-December, after Trump said he would “rather not” hit China with tariffs. He also said he knew rates “much better” than the Federal Reserve and would like to see them fall “a lot”. The euro, which has fallen sharply in recent months, jumped 0.6 per cent to $1.047, putting it on course for its largest weekly gain since…

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order banning transgender women from being housed in female prisons across the United States. He also ordered that any medical treatments related to gender transition be halted. -The ban was part of a broader executive order by Trump aimed at limiting the federal government’s recognition of gender to an individual’s biological sex at birth. The order also impacts transgender immigration detainees and is…