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Published: 24 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A Paris court has sentenced Roberto Hamidovic, described by investigators as the leader of a long-running family network that exploited children to carry out pickpocketing operations, to eight years in prison for human trafficking and related offences. The case has exposed a complex criminal structure in which children were allegedly sent into some of Paris’s busiest tourist locations...

Published: 24 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A federal judge in the United States has ordered the Trump administration to immediately restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, temporarily blocking the administration from enforcing a ban that had prevented the three outlets from covering presidential activities inside the White House. US District Judge Timothy Kelly said the media organisations had...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A judge should not have heard a legal appeal from his bed while recovering from surgery, the Court of Appeal has ruled, although it concluded that the unusual arrangement did not cause injustice in the case before it. Richard Clayton KC, who was sitting as a deputy High Court judge, conducted a hearing remotely from his bed after...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Britain has put payments to Mauritius on hold and begun reassessing its agreement over the Chagos Islands after US President Donald Trump reiterated his opposition to the proposed transfer of sovereignty, with Defence Secretary Wes Streeting saying the arrangement cannot proceed in its current form without American support. Streeting said annual payments to Mauritius of at least £120...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Iran has rejected suggestions that it has abandoned its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz after holding three hours of talks with US representatives in New York, while President Donald Trump described the discussions as highly productive and indicated that further negotiations could take place soon. The unexpected meeting brought Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi together with...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A policy designed to remove so-called “ghost patients” from GP practice registers in England is facing criticism from doctors who say the accelerated process is inadvertently removing some people who still live locally and depend on their surgeries for essential healthcare. The NHS routinely reviews GP patient lists because people move to different areas, change surgeries or die....

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK government is preparing to establish a new national centre dedicated to countering foreign disinformation, deepfakes and other forms of information warfare, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham saying Britain needs stronger defences against hostile state activity in the digital information environment. Burnham announced the creation of the National Centre for Information Defence during his address to the...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Archaeological discoveries beneath Bath Assembly Rooms have opened a rare window into everyday life in Roman-era Bath, revealing evidence of ordinary residents who lived beyond the city’s celebrated baths and monumental centre. The unexpected finds were uncovered during restoration work at the historic Georgian building and include pottery, coins, glassware, animal bones, roof tiles and a fragment of...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Members of the UK Parliament’s Treasury Committee have rejected calls for fundamental reform of the Office for Budget Responsibility, arguing that criticism of the independent economic watchdog should not become a way of blaming it for difficult decisions created by the country’s tight public finances. In a report published on Wednesday, the committee said policymakers should resist attempts...

Published: 23 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A thinktank with links to Reform UK has proposed abolishing the United Kingdom’s state pension as part of a wide-ranging programme of tax and economic reforms that would reduce taxes by an estimated £75 billion. The proposals are contained in a 183-page report titled “Boosting Britain”, produced by the Centre for a Better Britain, or CFABB. The report...