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    Police have released images of three people they want to speak to after a teenage asylum seeker was beaten and left unconscious. The two men and a woman are being sought in connection with the attack on a Kurdish Iranian in Croydon, southeast London. The 17-year-old was waiting at a bus stop in Shrublands Avenue, near The Goat pub, with two friends at about 11.40pm on Friday when they were approached by a group of people. After discovering he was an asylum seeker, they chased him and launched a savage attack including repeated blows to the head, police said. The boy was left with a fractured skull and a blood clot on his brain. He remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition. His two friends managed to escape with minor injuries. Detectives investigating the assau...

    Abu Hamza The son of Britain’s most notorious hate preacher has been stripped of his UK passport after travelling to Syria to fight with jihadists. The Home Office took the highly unusual step of withdrawing the passport of the youngest son of the hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza, leaving him effectively stateless and stranded in the civil war. Sufiyan Mustafa, 22, whose father is in jail in the US after being convicted of a series of terrorism charges, has complained in an interview with an Arabic newspaper of his plight. He has pleaded for the option of coming back to his home in London. Mustafa is fighting alongside rebel units after fleeing Britain in 2013 following the extradition of his father to America to stand trial. He denies fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and t...

    Meghan Markle is an accomplished woman in her own right. She's the star of TV drama Suits,a thoughtful writer, an activist who's worked with the UN, and the creator of an affordable fashion line. She's also dating Prince Harry of the British Royal family a fact that's sent the media into a full-on frenzy. Early tabloid articles about the couple were often invasive and sometimes flat-out racist (one said Markle had "exotic DNA"). Eventually Prince Harry was compelled to release a statement that simultaneously confirmed their relationship and condemned the way the media was covering it. Things have calmed down a bit since then, though paparazzi cameras did capture the couple attending a wedding together in Jamaica. Now royals fans are wondering whether or not Markle and Prin...

    A shop-worker who has lived in Britain for 27 years is facing deportation after being detained by immigration officers. Stojan Jankovic, 52, has worked at Earth Natural Foods in Camden, London for 15 years but is currently being held at a detention centre in Dorset while officials attempt to remove him from the country. Mr Jankovic arrived in the UK in 1991 from the then Republic of Yugoslavia, but his application for asylum is understood to have been refused. It is believed his leave to remain in the country expired in 1999 but he has been working and paying taxes since then without encountering any problems. Mr Jankovic's boss, John Grayson, described him to the Camden New Journal as “kindly, avuncular, cheerful [and] reliable". “I don’t think he’s had a day off sick in ...

    Prime Minister Theresa May speaks in the House of Commons Britain has begun to take back control from Brussels as David Davis announced that the first EU law to be scrapped after Brexit will be a charter that helps criminals avoid deportation. Revealing details of the forthcoming Great Repeal Bill, Mr Davis told MPs that the controversial EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will be dropped on the day Britain leaves Europe. MPs cheered in the House of Commons as the Brexit Secretary told them Britain would be regaining the sovereignty it last enjoyed in 1972. He said: “A strong, independent country needs control of its own laws. That process starts now.” A day after Theresa May began the Brexit process by invoking Article 50, European leaders entrenched their positions on thei...

    Donald Trump is an embarrassment for the world, Sir Richard Branson has said. The billionaire businessman said the president's first two months in office had been disastrous and he predicted the US leader will only last a maximum of one term in office. I've found it rather an embarrassment for the world to have an individual running America who does not speak the truth all the time, who tries to, instead of opening borders to immigrants, has made it really difficult to get in to America, and the list goes on and on and on, Branson told New Zealand radio station, NewsHub, during a visit to the country. There are a lot of great business leaders like [Michael] Bloomberg who would have been great presidents of America. I think Trump is the one businessperson I know who is cert...

    Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to take the next step and move in together next door to his brother William, according to reports. The couple have been seeing each other for almost a year and friends believe marriage is on the cards. And in a further indication things are getting serious, the prince, 32, wants Meghan, 35, to move in with him into a Kensington Palace. His brother Prince William, wife Kate and their two children Prince George and Princess Charlotte are due to move back to London later this year. Europe William is giving up his job as an air ambulance pilot to take on increased royal duties. And according to the Daily Mail, Harry and Meghan will move into an apartment which is being renovated next door. A source told the paper loved-up Harry appears keen f...

    Anti-terror police were today searching a flat in the heart of London’s Olympic Village as part of a major investigation into the Westminster terror attack. The tenant of the first-floor new-build flat in Stratford is believed to have previously lived with killer Khalid Masood, 52, at an address in Forest Gate. The swoop came as details of Masood’s past emerged. Born Adrian Elms to a single-mother in Rye, Sussex, he converted to Islam after a life of violent crime which saw him jailed in 2003 for stabbing a man in the face. According to the Sun, he spent his last night in a £59 hotel in Brighton before driving to the capital in a rented 4x4 to unleash carnage which last night led to the death of a fourth victim, age 75. Last night officers could be seen rifling through roo...