The UK will ban the import of Russian diamonds and copper, aluminum and nickel from Russia, the British government announced Thursday night into Friday, ahead of the start of the G7 summit in Japan.more
More than 180,000 Londoners are employed on zero hour contracts, official figures revealed on Tuesday.
They showed a rise in workers in the capital in jobs employed in this way from 118,000 in January to March 2021, to 158,000 a year later, and 181,000 for this period of 2023.more
The British government is offering at least some Albanian prisoners £1,500 and a reduced sentence in exchange for their deportation to their country of origin, the BBC revealed yesterday. It also reported that more than half of the illegal Albanian migrants sent back home are prisoners.more
Strategically located in the middle of the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands continue to cooperate with Russia in fishing and become independent of Denmark. At the same time, the government, after pressure from Copenhagen, is preparing an analysis of the consequences of a possible termination of the Russian agreement. The islanders are sharply divided on the issue.more
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill yesterday banning the use of the Chinese short video app TikTok in the state. Montana is the first state in America to ban TikTok.more
Landlords would be banned from evicting tenants with no justification as part of a long-promised overhaul of the private rental sector in England. A new law to be tabled in Parliament would abolish no-fault evictions and end bans on tenants claiming benefits.more
The Court of Appeal in Paris on Wednesday sentenced former President Nicolas Sarkozy to three years in prison, including two years of probation, for corruption and influence peddling in the wiretapping scandal. Sarkozy will not be serving his sentence in prison, but at home under the supervision of an electronic bracelet.more
Germany is considered a haven for money laundering in Europe. The lack of a limit on cash transactions is responsible for this, which criminals are eager to exploit, stresses Florian Koebler, chairman of the German tax union DSTG.more
On the eve of a summit of Council of Europe heads of state and government in Iceland's capital Reykjavik, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for concerted action to curb illegal immigration.more
There has been a significant increase in the number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria over the last decade, with more than half of teenagers in England knowing someone of their age who wants to change gender, the Daily Telegraph reported.more
Spain's supreme court has upheld the 135-year prison sentence handed to a British teacher and nanny who created and distributed pornography featuring children in his care after changing his name following previous convictions.more
In the village of Barlasina near Monza, pensioner Claudio Trenta had been asking the authorities for several months to patch a pothole in the road adjacent to his house. He finally repaired the road himself. He was fined €882 and ordered to restore a section of the road to its original state, writes the Corriere della Sera.more
For the second time in a matter of days, investigators took aim at the yacht 'Luna' of a Russian oligarch. According to the Spiegel weekly portal, they confiscated works of art worth several million euros. The yacht allegedly once belonged to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the weekly magazine reveals.more
Londoners may be offered the chance to have their voices heard on the Ultra Low Emission (ULEZ) expansion in a vote.
The Brexit-style vote would see all residents in the currently non-ULEZ areas of Greater London given a say before the zone expands.more
The British government wants to limit the ability of foreign students to bring in their family members, which is one of the causes of record immigration, the Financial Times reported. This is especially true of students from India and Nigeria.more
The government has ditched its plan for thousands of EU-era laws to expire automatically at the end of the year.
The plan - dubbed a post-Brexit bonfire - would see laws that were copied over to the UK after Brexit vanish, unless specifically kept or replaced.more
The government's illegal immigration bill is "morally unacceptable and politically impractical," Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told the House of Lords, adding that it was damaging Britain's reputation.more
The Constitutional Court of Spain has ruled that the abortion law in force in this country since 2010 is constitutional. In the justification, he stated that a woman can have an abortion if she is not "forced" to do so.more
A 23-year-old UK citizen accused of hacking Twitter accounts and other cyber crimes faces 77 years in prison; he hacked into the accounts of US presidents and other celebrities, high-tech website The Record reported yesterday.more
Michael Gove is poised to unveil the biggest shake-up of the private rented sector in a generation — but reports are emerging that the legislation has been delayed due to ‘procedural issues’.more