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Russia is the main suspect in a cyberattack on the British Electoral Commission, which may have resulted in the theft of the data of about 40 million people, the "Times" and "Daily Telegraph" reported today.more

A "significant" number of asylum seekers who had refused to board the Bibby Stockholm have now changed their minds about moving to the barge, the immigration minister has told the BBC.more

The number of bus services in the UK has halved since 2011, according to the Labour Party. The figures, which are based on annual reports by traffic commissioners, show there were 8,781 bus services in the year to March 2023, compared to 17,394 in 2011.more

President Andrzej Duda signed a decision to order elections to the Sejm and Senate for October 15 this year. - results from unofficial reports from the Chancellery of the President.more

Thousands of people gathered along the promenade in Bray on Ireland's east coast yesterday to say goodbye to Sinead O'Connor. The singer, who died in late July at the age of 56, had lived in Bray for almost 15 years.more

The UK Electoral Commission revealed yesterday that it had been the victim of a "complex cyber-attack", which saw "hostile actors" gain access to millions of voters' data, although there is no risk of this affecting the results of any election.more

The UK today imposed sanctions on 22 individuals and companies from third countries for supporting the Russian attack on Ukraine, and added three more Russian companies to the sanctioned list.more

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman today announced the establishment of a taskforce to tackle rogue lawyers who help illegal immigrants prepare evidence to successfully claim asylum.more

Only 15 illegal immigrants managed to accommodate on the Bibby Stockholm barge, moored in the port of Portland in south-west England, the British Home Office confirmed. Another about 20 people refused to transfer to the unit.more

Sitting behind 15ft metal fencing and two sets of guarded gates, the 222 tiny cabins on the Bibby Stockholm - the Home Office’s first asylum seeker barge - await the arrival of their first occupants. more

Mel Stride says economically inactive older people should ‘seek new opportunities’ to boost finances.more

The majority of Irish consumers have revealed that they are now less loyal to brands compared with two years ago. more

A future pandemic and extreme weather caused by climate change are among the key risks facing the UK, according to a new government register. more

Greenpeace activists climbed onto the roof of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house today and covered it with an "oil-black" kirem from the chimneys to the sill in protest of the decision to grant new licenses for North Sea oil and gas extraction, the organization announced on its channel on platform X (Twitter).more

Austria refuses to take a tougher stance toward the Kremlin, citing its neutrality. Today, almost as much Russian natural gas enters Austria as before the war. Since the invasion began, €7 billion has flowed from Austria to Moscow for gas alone. And Raiffeisen Bank already handles nearly half of international payment transactions from Russia, the German portal RND reveals.more

A grand jury in Washington yesterday filed four charges against former President Donald Trump, accusing him of illegally acting to reverse the outcome of his election loss.more

This August will see many changes to people’s lives through a variety of new rules, regulations and other alterations. There is a Bank Holiday which will mean changes to the date people will receive benefits payments and people will also see the continued support from the government’s energy price guarantee.more

The same number of American voters say they want to vote in next year's election for president Joe Biden, as for his likely rival Donald Trump, according to a New York Times and Siena College poll published yesterday. As the daily adds, although Biden's ratings are better than a year ago, the poll draw with Trump is a warning signal for him.more

Portland has its reasons for fame, but all of them are now being overshadowed by the "Bibby Stockholm", a nearly 100-metre-long barge docked in its port where the British government will send illegal immigrants. The first group of 50 people is to be accommodated there today.more

Thousands of people may die needlessly due to inadequate plans for how the NHS will cope over winter, a top doctor has warned. more

At Saturday's congress of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Magdeburg, the party selected a candidate for the upcoming European elections. AfD leader Alice Weidel stressed that "the EU is profoundly undemocratic" because it interferes in private life and business structures, the Welt portal reports. That is why many AfD politicians advocate leaving it, or so-called Dexit.more

Banks are closing more than 1,000 accounts every working day, according to new data that has fuelled the growing row over so-called “debanking” and prompted Nigel Farage to call for a royal commission to investigate what he said was a scandal.more

With the number of illegal entries into Germany on the rise, there are further calls for border controls. "Illegal migration is threatening to get out of control, especially on the border with Poland and the Czech Republic," the vice chairman of the CDU/CSU Union faction Andrea Lindholz urged on Friday.more

Introduce the obligation for men to wear ties in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, ban sports shoes and arrange special changing rooms for those parliamentarians who come by bike - these are the postulates presented by one of the deputies of the ruling Italian Brothers party.more

Tents could be used to house up to 2,000 migrants on disused military sites next month, under plans drawn up by the home secretary, Suella Braverman, in an effort to avoid accommodating asylum seekers in hotels.more