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IS fighters in Syria could break free amid Trump aid cut, terrorism expert warns

28-01-2025 21:01

Prediction by ex M16 counter-terror director comes as security paused around two main detention facilitiesDonald Trump has thrown into doubt the security and administration of the main two detention facilities in north-east Syria that hold thousands of Islamic State fighters, the former counter-terrorism director of M16 Richard Barrett says.The state of limbo has been caused in the short term by the US president unexpectedly suspending all USAid funding for 90 days, and by long-term uncertainty

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Sister of Omagh bombing victim tells inquiry about ‘mind-blowing shock’

28-01-2025 20:14

Paloma Abad Ramos thanks the inquiry chair for the only support her family has felt ‘for many, many years’The sister of a 23-year-old Spanish visitor killed in the devastating Omagh bomb has said the public inquiry into the atrocity is allowing the family “to close a wound that has been open for 26 years”.During the opening day of the resumed inquiry, Paloma Abad Ramos told of the “mind-blowing shock” she and her family felt in 1998 when they learned the young

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Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened

28-01-2025 19:00

This blog is now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage hereQ: Are doctors able to recognise depression? And can they decide if that affects someone’s capacity to make a decision about their health?Whitty says doctors can identify depression. But he says it is harder for them to assess if that is affecting capacity.That’s where help from colleagues from psychiatry, mental health more widely, is going to be useful. But that should be good medical practice, in my view,

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Southport attack: families not told for six months about killer’s Prevent referrals

28-01-2025 15:13

Police knew Axel Rudakubana had been referred three times after his arrest last JulyThe families of those killed or wounded in the Southport attack were not told for six months that the killer had repeatedly been referred to Prevent, the Guardian has learned.Police knew that Axel Rudakubana had been referred three times to the official scheme aiming to stop people becoming terrorists, less than 24 hours after his arrest at the scene of the atrocity on 29 July 2024. Continue reading...

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Yvette Cooper to reject call to broaden extremism definition

28-01-2025 11:23

Home Office to maintain focus on Islamist and far-right threats despite report’s call for behaviour-based approachYvette Cooper will reject internal Home Office advice to potentially widen the definition of extremism to include violent misogyny and conspiracy theorists, the Guardian understands.A report commissioned in the wake of violent riots after the Southport murders last year suggests authorities should adopt a “behaviour-based and ideologically agnostic approach” to comb

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