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Wales lockdown: Fury as trolley police return to snoop on shoppers

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The “firebreak” for the entire country came into effect at 6pm yesterday, with people being ordered to stay at home and most shops told to close. Supermarkets were banned from selling goods […]

France picks right-wing emblem to lead crackdown on Islamists

PARIS (BLOOMBERG) – France’s hardline interior minister has vowed to root out extremists after a grisly murder in Paris. In saying he wants to preserve a distinctly French way of life, he risks the perception he’s targeting not just Islamists, but all Muslims. Almost six years after the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine was attacked for […]

She Used to Clean City Hall. Now, She Runs It.

POVALIKHINO, Russia — With election day looming, Nikolai Loktev was in a panic: The mayor of a tiny village of log houses, wood-burning stoves and rutted dirt roads 300 miles east of Moscow, he was running for re-election unopposed. In a Western democracy, this would not necessarily set off alarms; it might even be welcomed. […]

Man arrested after woman’s body found at National Trust estate

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman’s body was found at a National Trust estate. The woman’s body was found by Thames Valley Police in woodland on the Watlington Hill estate on Friday evening. She is believed to be aged in her 60s and officers are linking her murder to […]