A front-page exposé in the British Daily Mail reveals today (Sunday) the alarming reality facing Britain’s asylum system and the troubling ease with which a member of a terrorist organization can find himself enjoying coffee in a bustling city center mere days after being intercepted attempting to enter the country illegally.

A Gazan asylum seeker known as “Abu Wadei” became a social media sensation after documenting his migration journey from the war-torn Gaza Strip to Britain, posting videos from various points along his route. The man was filmed smoking hookah in Brussels, wandering through a French train station, and meeting with associates at other unidentified European locations.

A pro-Palestine protester who scaled Big Ben waving a flag has finally been retrieved, bringing a 16-hour standoff to an end.

Videos from Westminster showed a cherry picker being deployed to reach the man, who had managed to climb up the tower and bring the tourist-laden area to a standstill.

While his rescuers were lowering him to the ground, the traffic disrupter waved a Palestinian flag while crowds cheered.

The Metropolitan Police has since confirmed that the individual was arrested after being caught.

TGroups of pro-Palestine supporters congregated on the street below, waving Palestinian flags and shouted: “We love you!”

Along with Westminster Bridge, Bridge Street and Westminster tube station had been closed while the incident remained ongoing.

Additionally, tourists were sure to be disappointed as tours of the Parliamentary Estate were paused.

Further across the capital, the Met had been deployed to block pro-Palestine groups from descending on a central London synagogue.

Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the changing security situation in Europe.

He said there was a need for an army of 500,000 soldiers, which would include reservists.

“We will try to have a model ready by the end of this year, so that every adult male in Poland is trained in the event of war, so that this reserve is really comparable and adequate to potential threats,” Tusk said in a major speech on security to the country’s Sejm, the lower house of parliament, on Friday.

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Last year, the Polish government said the military encompassed about 200,000 soldiers and was to grow to 220,000 this year with the objective of increasing it to about 300,000.

But security fears have grown far more dramatic in recent weeks, as Russia continues to pound Ukraine with missiles and drones, and as the Trump administration has withdrawn military and intelligence support for Ukraine while putting its commitments to Nato in question.

“Today we are talking about the need for a half-million army in Poland,” Tusk said.

In one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago, the death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with subsequent revenge killings, has crossed 600, according to a war monitoring group on Saturday.

The escalating clashes have posed a major challenge facing the new government in Damascus, which took power three months ago after insurgents removed Assad.

The government has said that it was responding to attacks by remnants of Assad’s forces and attributed the widespread violence to “individual actions.”

The revenge killings, initiated on Friday by Sunni Muslim gunmen loyal to the government against members of Assad’s minority Alawite sect, have dealt a major blow to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the faction that led the overthrow of the former regime. Alawites had been a core part of Assad’s support base for decades.

The monitor said there had been a “relative return to calm” in the region on Saturday, but that security forces were continuing sweeping operations and deploying reinforcements.

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Hamas accuses Israel of “cheap and unacceptable blackmail” over its decision to halt the electricity supply to war-ravaged Gaza in an effort to pressure the Palestinian group into releasing hostages.

“We strongly condemn the occupation’s decision to cut off electricity to Gaza, after depriving it of food, medicine and water,” Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau says in a statement, calling the move “a desperate attempt to pressure our people and their resistance through cheap and unacceptable blackmail tactics.”

An Israeli official said the move will mainly affect a single desalination plant, the only facility in the Strip still running on a power line supplied from Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office does not deny a Channel 12 report that he sought to push Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to quit last Thursday, saying instead that “the one who appoints the head of the Shin Bet is the government, and not the sitting Shin Bet chief.”

“This is how it’s always been done, as is customary in democratic states,” the PMO says in response to the report, seemingly trying to justify Netanyahu’s move.

Netanyahu has been reportedly preparing to fire Bar, who told senior staff last week that he won’t step down until the hostages are returned and a state commission to investigate the October 7, 2023 attacks is established.

The former mayor of Bat Yam is out of the hospital after sustaining light injuries in a suspected car bombing attack in Tel Aviv hours earlier, the Ynet news site reports.

Shlomo Lahiani tells the outlet that he did not feel threatened ahead of the attack and had not been informed by the police about anyone targeting him.

“I was driving in my car and I heard a loud boom. I saw my car was covered in soot,” he says.

“There’s no doubt that something is rotten in Israeli society,” adds the ex-politician, who was forced out of office over a decade ago by convictions for bribery and tax evasion.

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