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Keir Starmer admitted he must bring down immigration today after shock figures showed the annual record has been smashed again. The PM insisted Britain can no longer be a 'soft touch' after huge revisions to official data showed net inflows were 906,000 in the year to June 2023. Arrivals in the 12 months to June this year were 728,000 higher than those leaving the country. In itself that was almost as much as the previous long-term immigration record. But the bar has been dramatically shifted upwards by the Office for National Statistics, with net migration for the year to June...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, November 1, 2019 U.S. Navy Officer, His Wife, and Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Military Style Inflatable Boats and Evinrude Military Outboard Motors to China Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez for the Middle District of Florida announces the return of an indictment today of four individuals, including two Chinese nationals, an active-duty United States Navy officer, and his wife, on charges relating to a conspiracy to unlawfully smuggle military-style inflatable boats, with Evinrude MFE military outboard motors, to the...

Iraq Orders Fast Rubber Boats for Suicide OperationsIraq has obtained inflatible motorized boats from Yugoslavia for suicide missions against United States and allied forces in the Persian Gulf.Western Intelligence sources identified the vessels as Zodiac-class boats procured from companies in the Balkans.The boats were purchased by Syria and smuggled into Iraq for use by a new suicide unit formed by the regieme of President Saddam Hussein._Full Text, Subscribers