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Colombia reinstated arrest warrants for 31 National Liberation Army (ELN) leaders on Wednesday, responding to attacks that killed 80 and displaced 32,000. The ELN, a 5,800-member leftist militia involved in drug trafficking, has intensified the country’s security crisis through violence in remote border regions with Venezuela. Colombia reissues arrest warrants for guerrilla leaders amid violence surge

South Korea investigators want Yoon formally charged The South Korean agency leading the criminal investigation into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has recommended he be charged with insurrection and abuse of power. The investigators handed to prosecutors on Thursday the results of their 51-day probe into the December 3 attempt to declare martial law. Yoon was arrested last week in a dramatic standoff with security over his martial law bid, becoming South Korea’s first sitting president to be detained.  What do we know about the investigator’s recommendation? The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) said it “decided to request the…

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, on Wednesday unveiled a lengthy report that he says serves as a “roadmap” to “Make America Healthy Again” and points to how the flawed American healthcare system impacts “national defense.” Its findings include that U.S. healthcare spending had reached $4.9 trillion in 2023.  House Republican unveils 47-page roadmap to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ The 47-page report – titled “The Case for Healthcare Freedom” – is a “painstakingly researched” summary of “America’s health crisis and how to address it,” Roy said. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), health spending accounted for 17.6%, and costs…

The state missed chance after chance to stop Axel Rudakubana – then covered its errors, claims The Telegraph When Britain’s security forces fail to protect us from domestic threats, the Government now turns to a well-worn playbook. Don’t look back in anger. Don’t let hate divide us. And whatever you do, don’t ask questions. On July 29 last year, Axel Rudakubana viewed a video of a terrorist attack. He watched as a man yelling “Allahu Akbar” stabb a bishop in the head, neck and torso. Then he got in a taxi, rode to a dance class, walked in, and began…

Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleads guilty to murdering three girls in knife rampage at Taylor Swift dance class in Southport and admits terror offence and producing ricin This is the deranged and demonic mugshot of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana, who today admitted murder, possessing an Al Qaeda terror manual and making the biological weapon Ricin. The shocking picture of the teenager taken shortly after his arrest was released after he pleaded guilty to killing three primary schoolgirls and attempting to murder 10 other people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer. The 18-year-old, who wore a facemask and refused to…

How sickeningly easy it was for Southport killer Axel Rudakubana to buy knife & poison online before brutal murders SOUTHPORT murderer Axel Rudakubana was able to buy knives on Amazon in seconds despite being just 17 with a history of violence. The triple child killer also ­purchased equipment to make deadly ricin poison from the online retail giant, it emerged. Sir Keir Starmer told The Sun he will urgently change the law to stop under-18s bypassing online age checks with ease. He said: “This cannot continue.” Rudakubana, who fatally stabbed three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class last…

One of the first announcements made by Donald Trump in his first week in the US presidency was his country’s exit from the Paris Agreement. It was during his speech at the World Economic Forum taking place this week in Davos that the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, wanted to send a clear message: the institutions and industries that take steps back from the commitments to fight against Climate change is on the “bad side of history” and has made the world’s addition to fossil fuels a “Frankenstein monster.” “Several financial institutions and industries are backtracking on their climate commitments,”…

The prime minister delivered a speech yesterday, following the guilty plea of the Southport killer, saying he will introduce tougher measures for people trying to buy knives online. It was revealed Axel Rudakubana bought the knife he used to murder three young girls on online retail giant Amazon, despite being only 17.

Kyle Clifford has admitted to murdering his ex-girlfriend and her sister with a crossbow and their mother with a knife in an attack at the family home. Carol Hunt, 61, was stabbed to death and Hannah Hunt, 28, and Louise Hunt, 25, suffered fatal crossbow bolt injuries in Bushey, near Watford, on 9 July. Clifford, 26, from north London, changed his plea to the murders during an appearance via video link at Cambridge Crown Court.

The owner of the Sun newspaper has offered a “full and unequivocal apology” to Prince Harry for “serious intrusion” into his private life and agrees to pay him substantial damages. It settles a long-running legal battle between the prince and the newspaper group, moments before it was due to reach the High Court.

Southport stabbing inquiry launched: War on misfits The Metro also quotes PM Sir Keir saying that in the past the predominant threat was highly organised political groups with clear political intent” like al-Qaeda and that, while that threat remains, a new one is posed by people “desperate for notoriety, sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups, but fixated on that extreme violence, seemingly for its own sake”.

Morning fog patches across northern England and Northern Ireland, lifting with a mix of bright spells and scattered coastal showers. Rather cloudy and mostly dry elsewhere but outbreaks of rain and drizzle across the southeast of England. Feeling rather cold. Tonight: Rain in the southeast clearing. Otherwise, coastal showers continuing in places. Patchy fog and frost, most likely in the east. Colder than previous nights with more widespread frost further north.