Outlining a new plan to tackle grooming gangs in the Commons, Yvette Cooper revealed the government would fund five local inquiries into child sexual exploitation as part of a pilot, which could ...

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Speaking in Parliament, Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, said she had commissioned a rapid three-month audit into the “current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country ...

Swift police action led to the arrest of four suspects, aged between 22 and 44, in a pre-dawn highway robbery on Tuesday, January 14, where truck parts worth R50,000 were stolen and crew members ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs, as ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans for a nationwide review of grooming gang evidence and five government-backed local inquiries. She stopped short of launching a statutory national ...

Less than a year after it swept into power with a massive majority, the UK's centre-left Labour government is struggling to keep a grip on the political narrative. And thanks to recent ...

"I came to the U.S., and worked for two years. Then, I went to the streets, and joined the MS-13 gang." Saenz said he acted as the driver to many of the shootings. He faces 40 to 60 years behind ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — MS-13 gang member Jairo Saenz pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing seven people in separate attacks on Long Island. Prosecutors say Saenz, also known as "Funny," and his older ...

A man carrying his belongings observes vehicles burned by armed gangs, many grouped behind an alliance known as Viv Ansanm, as he flees the Poste Marchand suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital ...