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Councils spending taxpayer money on PlayStations for asylum seekers |
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Asylum seekers and refugees have received taxpayer-funded PlayStations, DJ lessons, and yoga classes, with councils spending millions on hosting new arrivals. A Telegraph audit found that since 2022, local authorities have spent £141 million on extras like driving lessons and football tickets. Critics call the spending a “disgrace,” urging urgent reviews to stop wasteful use of taxpayer money. |
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Trump set to reimpose ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran, official says |
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US President Donald Trump is expected to sign a presidential memorandum on Tuesday to restore his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran to stop the country from getting a nuclear weapon and drive down its oil exports to zero, a US official said. The move brings back the tough US policy on Iran that Trump practiced throughout his first term. Trump has accused his Democratic predecessor, former president Joe Biden, of weakening US resolve toward Iran. The tougher approach came as Trump prepared to hold talks later on Tuesday with visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The official told Reuters that Trump’s directive orders the US Treasury secretary to impose “maximum economic pressure” on Iran, including sanctions and enforcement mechanisms on those violating existing sanctions. As part of the maximum pressure effort, the Trump administration will implement a campaign “aimed at driving Iran’s oil exports to zero,” the official said. Tehran’s oil exports brought in $53 billion in 2023, and $54 billion a year earlier, according to US Energy Information Administration estimates, and output during 2024 was running at its highest since 2018, based on OPEC data. Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The US ambassador to the United Nations will work with key allies to “complete the snapback of international sanctions and restrictions on Iran,” the official said. Tehran’s oil exports brought in $53 billion in 2023, and $54 billion a year earlier, according to US Energy Information Administration estimates, and output during 2024 was running at its highest since 2018, based on OPEC data. Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The US ambassador to the United Nations will work with key allies to “complete the snapback of international sanctions and restrictions on Iran,” the official said. |
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Worst mass shooting in Sweden’s history as around 10 killed at adult education centre |
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Swedish police have said around 10 people have been killed at an adult education centre, in what the country’s prime minister said is the worst mass shooting in Sweden’s history. The attack happened at around 12.30pm local time (11.30am UK time) at Campus Risbergska in the town of Orebro, around 200km (125 miles) west of the capital Stockholm. A spokesperson told a news conference on Tuesday evening that police believe the “primary perpetrator” is dead and acted alone. They do not expect more attacks, the spokesperson added. “At present, the police believe that the perpetrator acted alone, but we cannot rule out more perpetrators connected to the incident,” the update on the Swedish police’s website said. Police also said they do not know the motive but do not believe it is terrorism, adding they “had no warning sign” about the attack. The damage at the crime scene was so extensive that investigators were unable to be more definitive on the number killed, said Roberto Eid Forest, head of the local police. |
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During press conference; Trump backs permanently resettling Gazans — in Jordan, Egypt or ‘other countries’ |
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US President Donald Trump, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, February 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) |
Responding to questions about his idea of moving Gazans out of the Strip to Arab countries, US President Donald Trump says “other countries” besides Jordan and Egypt may accept Palestinians, who will leave Gaza permanently. “It could be Jordan and it could be Egypt and it could be other countries,” he says, adding that it could be four, five or six separate areas. “Gaza is a guarantee they’re going to end up dying. The same thing is going to happen again, over and over again.” “I think that Gaza is a demolition site right now. If you look at Gaza, there’s hardly a building standing and the ones that are are going to collapse. You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location, a location that’s going to make people happy.” “It’s all death in Gaza,” he continues, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes, and then they can be happy enough, not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza. Right now you have in Gaza a very dangerous situation in terms of explosives all over the place.” “I believe we can do it in areas where leaders currently say no,” he says. He adds that if Gazans had an alternative, “they’d much rather not go back.” “It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really beautiful, where they wouldn’t want to return,” says Trump. “Why would they want to return. That place has been hell.” He says that money for the project will come from “other people, really rich nations and they’re willing to supply it.” Asked how many Gazans he is thinking of relocating, he says, “All of them.” |
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2 soldiers killed, 8 hurt in shooting attack at IDF checkpoint in northern West Bank |
A Palestinian gunman infiltrated an army checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Tuesday morning, opening fire and killing two soldiers and wounding eight others before being killed, the military said. The attack took place at the Taysir checkpoint, close to the Palestinian village of the same name. The checkpoint is on a road leading from the Jordan Valley to the village and other Palestinian towns. The slain soldiers were named by the Israel Defense Forces as Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ofer Yung, 39, from Tel Aviv and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Avraham Tzvi Tzvika Friedman, 43, from Ein HaNatziv. Both served in the Ephraim Regional Brigade’s 8211th Reserve Battalion. Yung was a squad commander. According to an initial probe by the IDF, the gunman managed to sneak up to a military post at the checkpoint, where he opened fire on troops just before 6 a.m. The compound next to the checkpoint includes a watchtower and several structures, and it is manned by a squad of 11 soldiers and a commander. The assailant, who has not yet been identified, was armed with an M-16 assault rifle and two magazines, and wearing a tactical vest. The IDF’s probe found that the gunman approached the army post on foot undetected overnight. At dawn, the assailant surprised two soldiers who were getting up to leave the post to open the adjacent Tayasir checkpoint for Palestinian traffic. The soldiers, who were in full military gear, exchanged fire with the gunman at close range at the entrance to the post. One of the two soldiers was killed in the exchange of fire, and the second was wounded. From there, other soldiers stationed at the army post exchanged fire with the gunman for several minutes, during which he managed to enter the post itself and the entrance to the watchtower. The IDF said that the gunman did not go up to the top of the watchtower. |
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