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Ansar Ahmed Ullah :   The UK will provide £30million in new funding to help the most vulnerable people, including children and infants, arriving in Europe and fleeing the Syrian conflict, the International Development Secretary for the UK Justine Greening has announced. Meeting the urgent needs of around 27,000 children that have fled to the Balkans, Greece, and Italy, the ...

David Cameron has held a meeting in Downing Street with the jailed former president of the Maldives and his lawyer, Amal Clooney. Mohamed Nasheed thanked the Prime Minister for his support after he was temporarily released from prison to allow him to travel to London for back surgery. The Maldives government has requested that Mr Nasheed return to the islands ...

Google has struck a £130 million deal with the taxman to pay money it has owed for the past 10 years. The internet giant said it had reached an agreement with HM Revenue and Customs covering taxes since 2005. It means Google will start to pay tax “based on revenue from UK-based advertisers, which reflects the size and scope of ...

Millions of Tube users will be left waiting until the last moment to find out whether there will be a full train service next week. The RMT – the largest of the Tube unions – will not decide until Monday whether to go ahead with a 24 hour strike currently set to start on Tuesday evening. The delay forced London ...

David Cameron is facing a new battle with Brussels over asylum rules as he embarks on a push to finalise his EU renegotiation deal. The European commission is expected to propose scrapping arrangements that mean refugees have to claim asylum in the first country European they arrive in. Abandoning the so-called Dublin regulation could leave the UK and other northern ...

The UK’s foremost master planner, architect Sir Terry Farrell, says we should build low-cost rising bridges east of Tower Bridge to ease traffic and create new floating neighbourhoods for London’s exploding population. There are 34 bridges across the Thames in Greater London. Just one lies east of Tower Bridge, 20 miles downriver in Dartford — the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, ...

David Cameron has been accused of “lazy and misguided” policy-making after he said a poor grasp of English left Muslim women in the UK “more susceptible” to the lure of extremism. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi – a former Conservative chairman – said he was guilty of “stereotyping communities”. The PM said he wanted to help women learn English to improve integration. ...

Prime minister, who only started using term Daesh for terrorist group last month, chides Radio 4 presenter David Cameron has criticised the BBC again for using the term “Islamic State”, saying Muslim people would be holding their heads in despair. The prime minister made the comments when he was asked about Islamic State by presenter Sarah Montague during an interview ...

Three men from Manchester caught up in a potential terror investigation inCanada have claimed Vancouver police racially profiled them because they had beards. CCTV pictures of the trio in a Vancouver shopping mall were leaked to Canadian media last week after they were seen taking “suspicious” photographs. Vancouver police on Thursday appealed for information about the “suspicious incident”, which they ...

A corridor of snow has swept across parts of the UK, with many people in south-east England seeing their first fall of the winter. The band of snow moved through western Scotland, north-west England, the Midlands, and south-east England. Parts of rural Scotland dropped to -10C (14F) for a second night. The weather has caused flight delays at Manchester and ...