Tag: illegal
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Illegal immigrant who came to UK on small boat helped smuggle thousands of others into Europe from London home | UK News
Read Latest News An illegal immigrant, who came to the UK on a small boat, was helping to smuggle more than 1,000 others into Europe within a month, a court was told. Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, an Egyptian, was said to have played a “vital” role from his west London home in a £12m operation…
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Conor McGregor in White House for talks on Ireland’s ‘illegal immigration racket’ | US News
Read Latest News UFC fighter Conor McGregor is in the White House today for talks on Ireland’s “illegal immigration racket”. The 36-year-old appeared in the White House briefing room during his St. Patrick’s Day visit to Washington DC. He told reporters he is visiting the White House to “raise the issues the people of Ireland…
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Albanian migrant says illegal working in the UK was unbearable
Read Latest News Josie Hannett & Alex Bish BBC South East Investigations Team JOSIE HANNETT / BBC Five months after arriving in the UK Gzim decided to return to Albania. An Albanian national who travelled to the UK illegally has told the BBC how his life became “unbearable” after he ended up working on a…
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Trump threatens to jail or deport students for ‘illegal protests’
Read Latest News US President Donald Trump said he would cut funding for universities that allow what he called “illegal” protests and prosecute and deport foreign students who participate. On his Truth Social social media platform, Trump said that “all federal funding will STOP” for schools that permit students to protest illegally. Trump’s announcement comes…
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Lorries dumped waste on beach – as Sky News told gangs can ‘make millions’ from illegal tipping | UK News
Read Latest News On a bright but chilly February morning, around a dozen volunteers gather by the beachfront at Minster, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. In bobble hats and walking boots, they carry blue plastic bags and litter pickers. They wander slowly past the dog walkers and brightly painted beach huts, combing the…
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Australia spinner Matthew Kuhnemann reported for suspected illegal bowling action
Read Latest News Australia spinner Matthew Kuhnemann has been reported for a suspected illegal bowling action. The 28-year-old was Australia’s leading wicket-taker in their 2-0 Test series win in Sri Lanka but was reported following the second Test in Galle. Kuhnemann will now have his action assessed to determine its legality and, if deemed illegal,…
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Retailer bans car number plates as illegal supply found
Read Latest News Jim Wheble BBC Investigations Getty Images It is illegal for UK companies to supply number plates without checking someone’s legal entitlement to the plate Online retailer Amazon is banning the sale of car number plates on its platform after a BBC London investigation exposed they were being illegally supplied. The BBC found…
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Hundreds arrested in January illegal worker blitz, government says
Read Latest News Hundreds of migrants have been arrested since the start of this year as part of a UK-wide crackdown on illegal working, the government has said. As part of a blitz to kick off 2025, enforcement teams raided 828 premises including nail bars, car washes, and restaurants and made 609 arrests – a…
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Illegal meat on most UK High Streets, official says
Read Latest News Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK are being undermined by post-Brexit border checks, a senior health official has said. The boss of the Dover Port Health Authority said illegal meat, which has not been through proper health checks, was now available on “most High Streets” in the UK.…
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Gun amnesty seeks to round up illegal pistols
Read Latest News Rumeana Jahangir BBC News, Manchester PA Media Converted versions of the pistols were used in at least four killings in the UK in the past two years, police said An amnesty has been granted as police seek to take several types of gun commonly used in shootings off the streets. Possession of…
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AI tools used to generate child abuse images made illegal in ‘world leading’ move | Politics News
Read Latest News AI tools designed to generate child sex abuse material (CSAM) will be made illegal under “world leading” legislation, the government has announced. The crackdown will also target anyone who possess AI “paedophile manuals” which teach people how to use AI to sexually abuse children. It comes after warnings AI-generated child abuse imagery…
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The French winemaker whose wines are illegal in his home country
Read Latest News Will Smale Business reporter Chapoutier French winemaker Maxime Chapoutier wants to help shake up the industry Winemaker Maxime Chapoutier would be arrested if he tried to sell two of his newest wines in his native France. “There would likely be outrage about these wines in France, and that would be a good…
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Trump administration raids on illegal immigrants to start on day one, US media reports
Read Latest News Raids to detain and deport migrants living in the US without permission are set to begin on the first full day of the new Trump administration, US media report. The operations – threatened by Donald Trump’s “border tsar” Tom Homan – could begin in Chicago, a city with a large migrant population,…
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Dozens of bodies pulled from illegal South African mine – as 82 survivors face arrest | World News
Read Latest News Rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in South Africa, police said – adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges. Hundreds more men and dozens more bodies are still trapped, according to a miners’ rights group that issued footage on…
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At least 100 illegal miners have died trapped underground in South Africa, group says | World News
Read Latest News At least 100 people who were trapped in a South African mine have died, a group representing them has said. They were illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine and have been engaged in a lengthy standoff with authorities who had cut off their food, water and supplies in an attempt to…
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Driving instructor fined for illegal parking during lesson
Read Latest News Merseyside Police The instructor had stopped so the student could quickly visit a shop, police said A learner driver and their instructor who parked on double yellow lines because the student wanted to visit a shop have registered a complete fail – after they were spotted by police and fined. Officers were…
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Two lynxes captured in Scottish Highlands after suspected ‘illegal release’ | UK News
Read Latest News Two lynxes were captured in the Scottish Highlands overnight after they were on the loose following a suspected “illegal release”. The Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) announced on Wednesday that the cats were seen at large within its grounds in northeast Scotland. The park authority said lynxes are “shy animals and low…
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BBC apologises after criticism from illegal abortion trial judge
Read Latest News BBC Sophie Harvey admitted to concealing the birth of their child The trial of a woman accused of illegally aborting her baby collapsed due to “appalling and sloppy” reporting by the BBC, a judge has said. Sophie Harvey, 25, and her boyfriend Elliot Benham, 25, accepted they had purchased abortion pills online,…
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Illegal nail bar jobs offered despite clampdown
Read Latest News BBC Enforcement teams have been conducting raids on businesses suspected of employing people illegally A BBC investigation has found how, despite a national crackdown, Vietnamese migrants who have arrived in the UK illegally are finding jobs in nail bars and evading detection by authorities. In a quiet suburb of Port Talbot, immigration…
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Illegal casinos targeting children shut down ‘permanently’ following Sky News investigation | Science, Climate & Tech News
Read Latest News Two illegal casinos that allowed children to gamble using their Roblox logins have shut down after a Sky News investigation. Bloxmoon and RBLXWild “permanently ceased operations” on Tuesday. “We will always take action against illegal gambling sites, and are pleased these sites have ceased operations,” said Andrew Rhodes, chief executive of the…
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Illegal casinos are using Roblox to draw children into online gambling | Science, Climate & Tech News
Read Latest News Illegal online casinos are using Roblox, one of the most popular video games in the world, to draw children as young as 12 into online gambling, a Sky News investigation has found. Warning: This article contains a mention of suicide. The unlicensed casinos allow children of any age to sign up using…
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Social media given ‘last chance’ to tackle illegal posts
Read Latest News Getty Images Online platforms must begin assessing whether their services expose users to illegal material by 16 March 2025 or face financial punishments as the Online Safety Act (OSA) begins taking effect. Ofcom, the regulator enforcing the UK’s internet safety law, published its final codes of practice for how firms should deal…
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Laura Kuenssberg: Labour’s illegal immigration plan is clear
Read Latest News BBC “There isn’t an easy or nice way of doing it.” It’s a blunt reality check from a former Home Office minister describing one of the government’s most pressing dilemmas – how to crack down on illegal immigration. The prime minister, his cabinet colleagues and nearly all their political rivals agree that…
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Selling sex for gold in the Amazon’s illegal mines
Read Latest News BBC Natalia Cavalcante says she built a house on the profits from sex work Dayane Leite never wanted to become a sex worker but at the age of 17 her husband died of a heart attack and she couldn’t pay for the funeral. Her home town, Itaituba in Brazil’s northern Para state,…
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Ireland hardens illegal immigration response
Read Latest News WATCH: Irish police stop a bus that has crossed the border from Northern Ireland The three Gardai – Irish police officers – walk down the rows of passengers on the bus, a few kilometres south of the border with Northern Ireland. Observing this is the head of the Garda National Immigration Bureau,…
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South Africa’s illegal mining industry: Gang-controlled ‘towns’ grow underground
Read Latest News Getty Images Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a small gang-controlled “town” – complete with markets and a red light district – that has grown up deep underground at a disused gold mine in South Africa. Ndumiso told the BBC that after being laid off by a…
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South African minister holds out olive branch to illegal miners in stand-off with police | World News
Read Latest News Illegal miners in a “dangerous” stand-off with police in South Africa are committing a crime by staying underground in a disused shaft, according to a government minister in the country. But Senzo Mchunu also insisted the government wanted to save lives and that authorities would work together to end the situation safely.…
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Body pulled from mine after police cut off supplies to ‘smoke out’ thousands of illegal miners | World News
Read Latest News A body has been recovered from a South African mine after police cut off basic supplies in an effort to force around 4,000 illegal miners to resurface. The body has emerged from the closed gold mine in the northwest town of Stilfontein a day after South Africa’s government said it would not…
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Man who ran illegal football streaming service jailed
Read Latest News A man who sold Firestick devices he reconfigured to allow people to illegally stream Premier League football matches and ignored warnings to stop has been jailed. Jonathan Edge, from Liverpool, uploaded the unauthorised services onto the Amazon products at home and then sold them for them cash after advertising on Facebook. The…
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Man jailed for more than three years for loading illegal streaming services on to Amazon Fire Sticks | UK News
Read Latest News A 29-year-old man has been jailed for more than three years for loading illicit TV streaming services onto Amazon Fire Sticks. Jonathan Edge, from Liverpool, pleaded guilty to three offences under the Fraud Act. He was sentenced to three years and four months in prison, which included a separate concurrent sentence of…