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A dozen Palestinian returnees were allowed into Gaza from Egypt late on Monday night after the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing was marred by delays. Their arrival came hours after a small group of medical evacuees was ferried into Egypt. The reopening of the crossing is a key step in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire but mostly a symbolic one, with few people allowed to travel and no goods allowed […]

Attorney general Letitia James says observers will monitor if Trump enforcement ‘remains within bounds of the law’New York is creating a team of legal observers that will don purple vests to monitor and record the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement officers as they seek to detain and deport migrants, the state’s attorney general said on Tuesday.The announcement follows weeks of sometimes violent tumult in Minneapolis, where Donald Trump has deployed thousands […]

Appropriations measure will let Democrats negotiate with White House and GOP leaders over mass deportation effortsDonald Trump on Tuesday signed legislation to end a government shutdown hours after it was approved by the House of Representatives, as top Democrats warned they will block further funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if their demands for restrictions on Trump’s mass deportation campaign are not addressed.The Republican-controlled House approved the $1.2tn […]

Kemi Badenoch plans to force release of files to reveal what was known about links to Jeffrey EpsteinKeir Starmer could be forced to disclose confidential vetting documents from Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador, with the Tories set to trigger a rare Commons vote to compel their release.Labour MPs have indicated they are not prepared to oppose the Conservative motion – known as a humble address – that would disclose […]

Government to invest £2bn in NHS cancer services in England as figures show diagnosis made every 75 seconds in the UKThree in four cancer patients in England will beat cancer under government plans to raise survival rates, as figures reveal someone is now diagnosed every 75 seconds in the UK.Cancer is the country’s biggest killer, causing about one in four deaths, and survival rates lag behind several European countries, including […]