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Period poverty is real. But the average woman isn’t spending £500 a year on menstruation
Even a few pounds a month on sanitary items can be too expensive for the very poorest.
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Trump condemns ‘extremist open-border Democrats’
President Trump may have done a U-turn on separating children from their families at the Mexican border, but his anger at being forced to row back remains white hot. Railing against what he called “immigration laws supported by extremist open-border Democrats”, he complained of having to employ more judges to deal with the backlog of…
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Trump doubles down on border policy
President Trump has doubled down on his tough new immigration policy – which has seen thousands of children separated from their migrant parents at the border. In a speech in the last hour – Mr Trump accused the media of helping “smugglers and traffickers”, and accused asylum seekers of hiring “professional lawyers” to give them…
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How Channel 4 News has shone a light on the issue of immigration and deportation over the last decade
Immigration, and our attitude to it, has rarely been out of the headlines, as these revelatory Channel 4 News reports by Simon Israel from the last decade show.
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Train bomber guilty
An 18-year-old who came to this country from Iraq as a child asylum seeker has been convicted of attempted murder for placing a bomb which partially exploded on a packed London Underground train. He’d made the bomb at home, using materials he’d ordered on the internet and paid for with a voucher he’d won as…
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FactCheck: High-profile deaths on British soil with alleged links to the Kremlin
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in hospital after exposure to what is believed to be a nerve agent. There’s no conclusive evidence yet to tell us who’s responsible. But this isn’t the first time that someone with links to the Kremlin has been attacked on British soil.
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London Underground attack fireball video
Footage of the horrifying moment when a fireball ripped through a London Underground carriage last September has been shown to jurors at the Old Bailey. Iraqi asylum seeker Ahmed Hassan is accused of leaving an improvised bomb on a train which then partially exploded at a station in the west of the capital. Today his…
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Why the conspiracy theories about George Soros don’t stack up
You might remember him as “the man who broke the Bank of England”, but George Soros is also at the centre of dozens of conspiracy theories. Here’s why they don’t stack up.
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No, 84 per cent of “child migrants” in Sweden are not adults
Leave.EU have made one claim that’s misleading, and another claim that’s simply wrong. FactCheck takes a look.
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‘You have ignored the service I have done for this country’: British army interpreter seeks refuge in the UK
“You have ignored the service I have done for this country, and the risks I have taken”. Those were the words of a former British army Afghan interpreter who’s seeking asylum in the UK. Simon Israel reports.
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Inside a Greek migrant camp
Twenty human rights groups have urged the Greek government to end overcrowding and unsafe conditions for thousands of migrants living in freezing conditions on islands between Greece and Turkey. In the last three months, there’s been an increase in the numbers heading for Europe. But despite this, the Greek government has been shutting down migrant…
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Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont summoned to appear in Madrid’s national court
Now a Spanish judge has summoned the ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, along with his Cabinet to appear in Madrid’s national court on Thursday morning as part of their investigation into sedition and rebellion. Mr Puigdemont himself, who’s in Brussels, told a rather chaotic press conference he hadn’t gone there to apply for asylum promising…
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Catalan pro-independence leaders charged with rebellion by Spain’s Chief Prosecutor
The sacked Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, and five other senior colleagues, have driven undetected across the French border and caught a flight to Brussels. The EU may not have recognised their independent state but a Flemish minister in the Belgian government has offered the ousted leadership political asylum. While they were on the run Spain’s chief prosecutor today…
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More arrests in Parsons Green bomb probe
Police investigating the bombing of a Tube train at Parsons Green in London have made two further arrests. The two men detained overnight in Newport, South Wales, were living in what neighbours said was a “halfway house” for asylum seekers. A third man was arrested in Newport yesterday, in addition to the two men arrested…
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European migrant crisis: more and more making dangerous journey
Europe’s problem – seeking Europe’s solution. As thousands more migrants and asylum seekers attempt the dangerous journey by the day, France now says it plans to set up screening centres inside Libya – President Macron says he hopes it will stop people taking “crazy risks”. Up to a million people are inside Libyan camps trying…