Crime
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Will the new grooming gangs inquiry achieve anything?
Today's Big Question Critics point to a previous inquiry's still-unfulfilled list of recommendations
By Harriet Marsden, The Week UK Published
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Why Syrian antiquities are flooding Facebook Marketplace
Under The Radar Looting of ancient treasures has surged since the fall of Assad, and finds a quick market online
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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Weinstein convicted of sex crime in retrial
Speed Read The New York jury delivered a mixed and partial verdict at the disgraced Hollywood producer's retrial
By Peter Weber, The Week US Published
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Ice: America's controversial immigration enforcement agency
The Explainer Trump's federal agents labelled as 'terrorists' amid criticism of heavy-handed arrests and detention conditions
By The Week UK Published
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The 'race against time' to find Madeleine McCann evidence
The Explainer Search team 'swinging pickaxes' and using diggers after 'disturbing' discoveries linked to key suspect Christian Brückner
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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'King of the Hill' actor shot dead outside home
speed read Jonathan Joss was fatally shot by a neighbor who was 'yelling violent homophobic slurs,' says his husband
By Peter Weber, The Week US Published
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Driver rams van into crowd at Liverpool FC parade
speed read 27 people were hospitalized following the attack
By Peter Weber, The Week US Published
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Andrew Norfolk: the journalist who exposed the grooming scandal
In the Spotlight The Times reporter, who has died aged 60, was the only journalist willing to pursue incendiary reports of organised child abuse
By The Week UK Published
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Lucy Connolly: a 'free speech martyr'?
Talking Point Woman jailed for inciting racial hatred during Southport riots championed as victim of 'two-tier' justice
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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How would chemical castration for sex offenders work?
Today's Big Question Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood isn't 'squeamish' about using the controversial measure
By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published
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The Sycamore Gap: justice but no answers
In The Spotlight 'Damning' evidence convicted Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, but why they felled the historic tree remains a mystery
By The Week UK Published
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Kim Kardashian and the trial of the 'Grandpa Robbers'
The Explainer Reality star testified for close to five hours about night of 'terror' in Paris hotel room
By Richard Windsor, The Week UK Last updated
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Alcatraz: America's most infamous prison
The Explainer Donald Trump wants to re-open notorious 'escape-proof' jail for 'most ruthless and violent prisoners' in the US
By The Week UK Published
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Scattered Spider: who are the hackers linked to M&S and Co-op cyberattacks?
The Explainer 'Decentralised and adaptive', the group's mainly English-speaking members operate like an 'organised criminal network'
By The Week UK Published
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