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Doctors have described the condition of a 53-year-old Polish woman injured in Modena, northern Italy, where a speeding car struck a group of people on Saturday as still serious. The woman, who has lived in Italy for a long time, is in intensive care, the local health department announced on Thursday.more

The rising cost of living and new technology are leading to record levels of exploitation in the UK, the independent anti-slavery commissioner (IASC) has warned.more

Portuguese police inspectors have identified the suspects responsible for Friday's break-in at the home of Polish defender Jan Bednarek in Porto. The attackers threatened the "Smoki" player with a knife and then stole valuable items.more

London's Metropolitan Police are investigating an alleged attempt to run over a group of Jewish students with a car in the Hendon district of Barnet, north London, and are seeking witnesses to the incident, British media reported.more

A New York court judge has released Jeffrey Epstein's alleged suicide note. The American sex offender and financier committed suicide in a New York jail in August 2019. He allegedly wrote the note during a previous suicide attempt and it was kept by a cellmate.more

Home Office figures and local data show crime rates across London boroughs; an interactive map allows area comparisons.more

Counter-terrorism officers are investigating the arson attack on a former synagogue in east London, the Metropolitan Police announced today. Meanwhile, a meeting on combating anti-Semitism, convened by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is underway in Downing Street.more

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a memorial wall in Golders Green, north London, was damaged on 27 April. The Metropolitan Police said a 46-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were arrested on Monday morning as part of a counter-terror policing investigation.more

A drive-by shooting in Brixton which left four people in hospital on Saturday has been called “an act of indiscriminate violence” by police. Shots were fired in the early hours on Coldharbour Lane in the south London area, leaving one 25-year-old man in hospital with life-threatening injuries.more

The UK Minister of State for Security, Dan Jarvis, announced today that the government will allocate an additional £25 million to protect the Jewish community after two Jewish men were attacked by a knife-wielding assailant in London yesterday, Reuters reported.more

Officers from the counter-terrorism unit are investigating an attempted arson attack on a memorial wall in north London, in a neighbourhood with a large Jewish community, the Metropolitan Police announced yesterday.more

A social media influencer has died six days after a car hit her and other pedestrians outside a nightclub in central London. Klaudia Zakrzewska, from Essex, was involved in the incident on Argyll Street in Soho at 04:30 BST on 19 April. She was taken to hospital but died on Saturday.more

A 37-year-old man has been arrested by counter-terrorism officers in connection with a series of attacks on Jewish community properties in London, the Metropolitan Police said this morning.more

US President Donald Trump was evacuated by the Secret Service yesterday evening local time from a dinner with White House correspondents, during which shots were fired. The suspect opened fire in the hotel lobby and was apprehended by the security services. He was armed with a shotgun, a pistol and several knives.more

A 17-year-old girl from Poland, who was alleged to have posted instructions online on how to make explosives, has been charged with aiding and abetting the planning of an attack on a school in Canada, according to the National Police Headquarters. The teenager was apprehended thanks to cooperation with the FBI.more

Researchers at Bristol Medical School noted a history of domestic violence and abuse among many victims: a quarter lived with an adult with mental illness and a third lived in a household with substance abuse.more

Officers investigating a series of arson attacks and attempted arson attacks in London have arrested eight more people, the Metropolitan Police announced today. They added that it is believed the targets were further locations linked to the Jewish community.more

The FBI confirmed to *Newsweek* yesterday that it is investigating a series of disappearances and deaths involving 11 scientists. These are experts in the fields of space, defence and nuclear energy. No links between the individual cases have been confirmed so far, but there has been much speculation on the matter.more

Spanish police announced on Monday the arrest of a man wanted by Poland under a European Arrest Warrant in Tenerife. He is accused of over 40 crimes, including illegal possession of weapons and drug trafficking.more

British police announced today that they have charged three people in connection with an attempted arson attack on the offices of Iran International, a television station linked to the opposition in Tehran, in north-west London.more

A drunk plane passenger who became so abusive the pilot was forced to abort a landing has been jailed for 10 months. Stephen Blofield, 61, was so intoxicated on a Ryanair flight from Krakow to Bristol Airport on 11 November he caused both holidaymakers and crew to fear for their safety. more

Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia, killed his wife and then took his own life at their home in Annandale. The bodies of the 47-year-old politician and his 49-year-old wife, the dentist Cerina Fairfax, were found by officers after they received a call from their son.more

A Scottish court has sentenced a man to eight years in prison for the wilful killing of his wife. The woman, who had been abused for at least 18 months, took her own life by jumping from a viaduct. This is the first sentence of its kind in Scotland, according to the BBC.more

The Spanish police announced yesterday that they had dismantled the Lyons clan, described as ‘the most brutal Scottish criminal organisation of recent decades’. Among those arrested in various countries is the gang’s leader, Steven Lyons.more

A thief who stole a designer handbag, unaware that it contained a Fabergé egg, a watch from the same brand and several other valuable items – with a total value of £2.2 million – was sentenced yesterday by a London court to two years and three months in prison.more