Investigations triggered by the cracking of encrypted phones three years ago have so far led to more than 6,500 arrests worldwide and the seizure of hundreds of tons of drugs, French, Dutch and European Union prosecutors said Tuesday. The announcement underscored the
Hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and the United Nations paused food aid, local officials and researchers say. The U.N. and the U.S. first suspended food aid to Tigray
As many as 53 primary pupils applied to join the 700 Child MPs who have already participated in the Sir David Amess Children’s Parliament. Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s ‘Child Speaker Match’ is Bruno Fortuna, eight, from Sacred Heart school
Enforcement firms employed by local councils are slapping good-natured litter pickers with huge fines after accusing them of fly-tipping. A national crackdown on anti-social behaviour announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this year promised to rid Britain’s streets of nuisance incidents
The shipwreck last week off Greece that is feared to have killed hundreds of people may be the “worst ever tragedy” of its kind in the Mediterranean Sea, the European Union’s migration chief said Wednesday. The tragedy comes as migrant crossings from
Hundreds missing in migrant boat sinking; EU Commissioner says 'worst ever tragedy' in Mediterranean
The sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Greece may have been the deadliest of modern times. An undetermined amount of people numbering in the hundreds remained missing and were likely killed when the migrant vessel sank earlier this week.
Rescue ships fanned out Thursday in search of hundreds of migrants feared missing after their overcrowded boat capsized and sank as they tried to reach Europe. At least 78 people died. So far, 104 people who were aboard the fishing boat traveling
A fishing boat filled with people trying to reach Europe capsized and sank on Wednesday off the coast of Greece, authorities have said. In one of the worst disasters of its kind this year, at least 79 people were reported dead and many
At least 17 migrants have died off the coast of Pylos, Greece, in international waters after the boat they were on – believed to have been carrying around 750 migrants – sank. Reliable sources within the coast guard have confirmed the distressing news
Hundreds of Metropolitan Police officers have arrived at an occupied building in London to carry out evictions. Video footage posted on Twitter shows the moment police attended the building in Shadwell, equipped with riot gear, and gathered outside the premises. Twitter user @EastLDNMarxists