British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.
The case was the first challenge relating to the treaty, which aims to reduce small-boat crossings of the English Channel by migrants, to reach London’s High Court.
Migrants trying to cross to Britain from northern France on a small boat last month. More than 30,000 people have made such crossings so far this year.
Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 case, rejected an interview request ahead of his release this week from a German prison for a separate crime, the British police said.
Christian Brückner, the main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal, at his trial on unrelated sexual assault charges in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2024.
The fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk has intensified consideration about potential threats, experts said. British authorities had already made extensive security plans.
The British government banned Palestine Action under an antiterrorism law, but an intelligence document said most of its activity “would not be classified as terrorism.”
The demonstrators, hauled off for holding signs, had gathered in London to oppose the government’s declaring Palestine Action a terrorist organization.
The arrest of Graham Linehan on suspicion of inciting violence against transgender people is adding to a debate across the Atlantic over the policing of speech in Britain.
Graham Linehan at a free-speech summit at Trinity College Dublin last year. He has become a vocal anti-transgender activist and was arrested on Monday over social media posts.
The decision was a temporary reprieve for the government but will intensify a political battle over how Britain should house tens of thousands of asylum seekers.
Outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, southeastern England, this month. The hotel became the center of protests after an asylum seeker who was being housed there was charged with sexual assault.