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Britain could see its internet speeds turned down, blacked out during peak demand, or subjected to premium pricing as telecom companies plan to manage surging electricity prices in one of the most expensive country for energy in the world.

All of Britain’s mobile telecoms companies have warned the government that without support they may be forced to ration access to the internet because surging electricity prices makes the energy intensive business of operating the networks on which mobile phones rely uneconomical.

The demand for change from the businesses comes after the UK’s left-wing Labour government announced the British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme (BICS), a subsidy for critical businesses’ energy prices to keep them competitive while a mixture of world events and government policy makes power more expensive than practically anywhere else on earth. Telecoms isn’t on the approved list of industries earmarked for energy price support under the package.

This leaves the telecoms companies in something of a bind: they are classed as critical national infrastructure and are required to maintain constant service as part of their government license to operate and use radio spectrum, but face doing so as government-engineered circumstances damage their ability to operate.

According to the three telecoms companies issuing their warning to government that energy is becoming so expensive they may struggle to provide universal high-speed data, in a “worst case scenario” they could ration access to mobile data by throttling speeds, restricting access at peak times, or introduce surge pricing to customers, reports The Daily Telegraph. Business Matters Magazine states the services most likely to be cut first are video calls and mobile data, but even backbone-tier infrastructure like terrestrial broadband networks, which in most cases are operated by the same companies, might be rationed too.

After years of mergers and acquisitions, there are only three real mobile phone operators in the United Kingdom, with the remaining dozens of operators simply reselling virtual cell coverage from the main providers. The three, which all joined this appeal to the government, are Anglo-Hong Kong owned Vodafone Three, the Anglo-Spanish-Dutch owned Virgin Media O2 group, and the British-owned BT Group. All businesses have reported as being healthily profitable in recent years.

It is reported a spokesman for Virgin Media O2 pointed specifically to their network being “critical national infrastructure that almost every consumer and business relies on” and called on the government to prioritise the resilience of the country.

While mobile data is a valued creature comfort for consumers, the ubiquity and reliability of modern telecommunications has seen it integrated in many of the systems that underpin modern life, and particularly in urban contexts. A day-long outage of the O2 network in 2018 saw over 30 million users unable to connect to data, send text messages, or place phone calls, causing transport chaos in London as services like buses and taxis lost their real-time tracking. Payment systems also stumbled as many card payment terminals rely on mobile data to function.

In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, cell providers warned then-feared energy shortages over the following winter would risk bringing down mobile networks continent-wide. Such events were tested for real in Spain and Portugal last year, when a massive total power cut across the entire Iberian Peninsula saw practically every service and business without on-site diesel generators go black. “Much of the country’s digital infrastructure” ceased to function during the outage, with Spanish internet usage plunging to 17 per cent of regular traffic.

Any future outage — planned or unplanned — could impact even further in the United Kingdom. The government is presently in the process of replacing the old Airwave radio systems used by the emergency services with a new “critical communication system”, the “Emergency Services Network” (ESN). While the ESN traffic is encrypted and private to the intended users, it will be carried on the regular, public BT-EE mobile phone network.

This is cheaper as the emergency services have been able to dispense with paying for their own radio infrastructure, but increases fragility as police forces, ambulance services, and the fire brigades could lose the ability to communicate during a broader crisis event.

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In an extraordinary double murder case, a 25-year-old Dutch-Turkish suspect, Efe. Y., is accused of shooting and killing two Syrian victims. Prosecutors allege the suspect believed the two men insulted him during a phone call that turned out to be a prank phone call from a Youtube channel. In fact, the two victims had nothing to do with the prank and had no prior contact with the suspect before they were shot and killed in Piet Wiedijk Park on New Year’s Day.

The Public Prosecution Service revealed during the first day of trial that the “joke” was played on Efe Y. at the request of a relative of Efe Y., who requested the prank from the Youtube channel RouandYT.

According to the prosecutors, RouandYT actually published the prank phone call with Efe Y., in which the pranksters threatened him, resulting in both parties swearing at each other.

At one point, Efe Y. told the pranksters to “come to the Blue Bridge if you have balls, you son of a whore.”

After the call was completed, the suspect walked to the park and opened fire on a group of individuals near the Blue Bridge, according to a report from Dutch news outlet De Telegraaf. Two Syrian victims were shot dead at the bridge after the suspect fired ten shots. A third Syrian individual was narrowly missed as he ran from the scene.

“There was no time for a conversation, argument, or attack from them,” said the prosecutor. “They were shot at without any reason, and it appears that they were really in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

The victims, 16-year-old Mohammad and 18-year-old Mohammed, were residents of a nearby reception center for minor asylum seekers.

Efe Y. was arrested nearly three weeks after the murders but did not attend Wednesday’s court proceedings. He has an extensive history of mental health struggles, including schizophrenia and psychosis, and authorities list him as intellectually disabled.

Until now, the suspect has remained silent regarding the charges of murder and attempted murder. He is scheduled for admission to the Pieter Baan Center for psychiatric observation. The next hearing is set for July 8.

The suspect’s name, Efe, means “brave” or “strong” in Turkish.

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The Government Delegation in La Rioja issued an expulsion order against SEG, a 19-year-old Moroccan citizen residing in Spain, after a routine check on a public road in 2024.

The National Police prepared a detailed report in which they considered him a public risk, based on his conviction for sexual assault.

However, the Superior Court of Justice of La Rioja (TSJR) overturned that decision, initially endorsed by a judge, and granted him legal residency in the country.

The judges argued that the convicted man is the father of a minor of Spanish nationality, maintains a stable family life with his partner —also Moroccan and a legal resident— and has accumulated more than 15 years of accredited work history, with no record of crimes after the 2014 conviction.

The events date back to October 2012 in Les Basses d’Alpicat (Lleida). According to the ruling of the Provincial Court of Lleida, SEG approached the victim in a shopping center, committed a particularly violent sexual assault, and, once reported, attempted to obstruct justice by offering her 2,000 euros to withdraw the complaint.

When she refused, he threatened that “his friends” would scar her face and ruin her life, which resulted in an additional conviction for violating the restraining order.

The court sentenced him to seven years in prison for sexual assault, an additional year and a half for obstruction of justice, fines of €1,620 and €2,700, and a restraining order prohibiting him from approaching the victim. He served his sentence until October 2019 after being released on bail until the sentence became final.

The TSJR, in its December 2025 ruling to which ABC had access, applied the principle of proportionality provided for in the Immigration Law and in European Directive 2003/109/EC.

The judges considered that, although the sentence exceeded the threshold of one year in prison that allows the expulsion of long-term residents, there was no evidence of a “real, current and sufficiently serious threat” to public order or citizen security at the present time.

They highlighted the more than 19 years of residence in Spain, the family ties and the labor integration, and concluded that the expulsion would directly affect the Spanish minor, born in Spain and with automatic nationality.

SEG’s long-term residence permit, granted in 2013 and periodically renewed until 2024, was kept in effect by court order.

This resolution illustrates a strict application of the criteria of family and temporary ties that prioritizes family unity over serious criminal history, even when the National Police expressly warned of the risk.

The Government Delegation, under the Ministry of the Interior, had acted on the basis of the police report after detecting the pending expulsion order, but the Administrative Court of the TSJR considered that the requirements to execute it were not met.

This is clear evidence of how current legislation, designed to protect the fundamental rights of long-term residents, can leave people convicted of extremely serious crimes against sexual integrity in the country, as long as the court does not find a sufficient “present” threat.

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Vincent Bolloré, the French conservative and Christian media magnate, is once again expanding his influence, this time with the launch of a Christian-inspired think-tank that could deepen his role in the political and cultural battles ahead of France’s 2027 presidential election.

The initiative adds a new institutional layer to Bolloré’s already formidable media ecosystem, which spans Europe 1, CNews, publishing giant Hachette, Le Journal du Dimanche and a major position in the post-spin-off Canal+ sphere. In recent years, critics and supporters alike have viewed that network as a vehicle for pushing conservative, identitarian and Christian-inflected themes further into the French mainstream.

Registered in 2025, the Institut de l’Espérance, or Institute of Hope, aims to serve as a platform for Christian-inspired reflection. According to publicly reported registry details, its mission is to bring together like-minded individuals to promote “common-sense solutions” to contemporary challenges, grounded in the common good and driven by what it describes as competent, courageous and determined voices.

Speaking before a French parliamentary inquiry in early April 2026, Bolloré had already signalled the move, stating: “With friends, I’ve created an institute called the Institut de l’Espérance.” The French media tycoon framed the move in personal terms, adding that his focus has increasingly shifted toward “philanthropy and spirituality”, something that naturally becomes “more important with age”.

In a 36-page manifesto reported by Bloomberg, the institute outlines proposals to curb immigration, reserve social housing for French citizens, reduce public spending, introduce business incentives for young people, boost fertility and ultimately raise living standards. That agenda places the new body squarely inside the ideological space now contested by the French Right, where questions of immigration, demography, sovereignty and welfare access are likely to dominate the run-up to 2027.

The idea of prioritising French citizens in access to social welfare, often referred to as “national preference”, was put forward by National Rally during the last general election campaign, notably under the leadership of Jordan Bardella. What makes Bolloré’s intervention significant is that he is not entering politics as a candidate but as a power broker: a businessman with the means to align media, publishing and now think-tank activism around a broader conservative agenda.

The move also comes at a moment when Bolloré’s growing weight in French publishing and broadcasting is under especially intense scrutiny. In April 2026, more than 100 authors resigned from Grasset, part of the Hachette group, amid a widening backlash over what opponents see as ideological encroachment into French cultural life.

Taken together, the launch of the Institut de l’Espérance suggests Bolloré is not merely consolidating a media empire. He is building an intellectual and political infrastructure designed to shape the French Right’s arguments well before voters go to the polls.

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There has apparently been a recent spate of sexual assaults and harassment on the University of Leipzig’s city centre campus. The Student Council (StuRa) has publicly urged caution on social media, and the university management has stepped up security measures. On Instagram, the StuRa reports “incidents of sexual harassment in the women’s toilets of the lecture theatre building and the seminar building on the main campus” and is calling on other victims to come forward.

The Equal Opportunities Officer and the university management have also been made aware of incidents said to have taken place on April 14.

According to reports, there have been several verbal and physical assaults in the women’s toilets and in a stairwell in the seminar building on the Augustusplatz campus, university spokesperson Carsten Heckmann explained in response to a TAG24 enquiry.

The police are aware of sexual assaults that took place the previous week. ‘On April 7, an unknown man took photographs of a young woman sitting naked in the toilet at the Paulinum on the University of Leipzig campus,’ reports police spokeswoman Susanne Lübcke.
The man was then able to flee without being identified. The following day, a female student was sexually assaulted in the toilet area of the Humanities Centre. As the 22-year-old immediately dialled the emergency number, the police were able to apprehend the suspect – a 26-year-old Lebanese man – at the scene.

The police are not yet officially aware of the incidents on April 14. “It is therefore important that those affected report the incidents promptly,” said Lübcke.

The university has since stepped up security measures. According to spokesperson Heckmann, the toilet areas are now being patrolled more frequently by security staff.

In addition, from May onwards, stickers displaying the security service’s telephone number will be put up in many locations across the publicly accessible campus.

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A 52-year-old Syrian man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Tuesday at the Vienna Regional Court after allegedly luring his six-year-old neighbour’s daughter into his flat and raping her. The verdict on charges of rape, serious sexual abuse of a minor and possession of child abuse material is now final.
The defendant initially denied the offence but confessed during the trial. In court, he finally said: “I admit to everything”, but added that it had “only happened once”. Both he and the prosecutor accepted the sentence. According to the prosecution, the incident took place on July 3, 2025, in a residential complex in Vienna. The man is alleged to have watched the girl playing in the courtyard and lured her into his flat with a lollipop. There, he is said to have partially undressed the child and performed sexual acts on her.

The prosecution stated that the defendant had pushed the child into the flat. The defence presented a different account of events, claiming that the girl had gone with him of her own free will because the man allegedly wanted to bring extra seating into the courtyard. The defendant himself claimed that he had merely touched the child.
Following his arrest, the man’s flat was searched. During the search, investigators seized around 5,500 to 6,000 files containing child abuse material from various storage devices, including images and videos. The man is also alleged to have shared two videos via WhatsApp. In addition, he took more than 160 screenshots of the material.
The proceedings also included a further allegation: the man is alleged to have shown a pornographic film on his mobile phone to another girl in a park and to have urged her to perform sexual acts. He eventually admitted to this as well, or rather no longer contested the allegation in the same way as he had at the outset.

At the start of the trial, the defendant had not yet confessed. It was only after the child had been questioned, in a hearing held in camera, that he admitted his guilt. The defence lawyer referred to a paedophilic disorder and described the offence as “horrific and shocking”.
The court ultimately imposed a four-and-a-half-year prison sentence. As the verdict is final, there will be no further appeal proceedings.
FPÖ Secretary-General and spokesperson on homeland security Michael Schnedlitz described the case as the “horrific result of a completely irresponsible immigration policy”. “This abhorrent case is yet another bloody example of what the ‘welcome culture’ of the establishment parties has brought upon our homeland: imported crime that stops at nothing and no one, and whose victims are our own children,” he stated in a press release.

For him, it is an intolerable situation that a Syrian man living off Austrian social benefits could commit such a brutal act against a child. The Syrian man has forfeited his right to hospitality in the most brutal way imaginable. Instead of discussing whether he should receive therapy here, the only logical consequence must be immediate deportation to his home country of Syria, Schnedlitz demanded. It is unreasonable to expect the Austrian public to foot the bill for the upkeep and, on top of that, the therapy of such criminals. He complained:

Every euro spent on detention, the justice system and therapy for such offenders is a euro wasted. It is a perversion of the system that we use our hard-earned tax money to finance ‘full care’ for criminal foreigners who deeply despise our society and attack our children.

Schnedlitz pointed out that, as soon as this offender begins his prison sentence, he will be treated like a private patient and receive the best medical care, whilst his victim languishes in the system of waiting lists. The fact that thousands of files containing child abuse material were also found in the offender’s possession shows “that we are dealing here with a ticking time bomb, which was only able to arrive in Austria because of the open-borders policy.”

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“Muslim only” flat rentals have been illegally advertised by landlords across London, an investigation has found.

The listings are a breach of the Equality Act 2010, which prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sexuality, race, gender and religion.

Posts across several listing sites request the potential tenants be specifically Muslim boys, girls or Punjabi speakers.

On the website of real estate agency Roshan Properties, the company advertises rentals for “two Muslim boys” or “two Muslim girls”.

Other listings across Facebook, Gumtree and Telegram demand Punjabi and Gujarati speakers or Kerala and Haryana people, The Telegraph revealed.

The affected listings seeking out religious groups are being advertised across London’s boroughs, including Ilford, Dagenham and Harrow.

Ilford is home to a high Muslim population, with Muslims making up around 41 per cent of the borough’s population, with 45,757 residents.

Meanwhile, Dagenham is home to around 53,389 Muslims and Harrow has around 41,503.

In the listings, some attempted to divide the lines on religious grounds by listing “alcohol and smoke-free” properties in the advertisement.

Landlords, however, are not permitted to seek out specific religious groups or specific ethnicities when seeking tenants.

There is some leeway within the law for a single person renter making the request, who is letting out a room within their home and shared accommodation.

Equally, property owners might highlight specific dietary requirements, including allergies and vegetarianism.

However, seeking out specific racial groups by outlining such requirements is not permitted and could lead to civil action.

Reform UK’s Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick blasted the “disgusting and anti-British” adverts.

“It goes without saying that there would be a national outrage if the tables were turned,” he told The Telegraph.

The Newark MP declared all forms of racism were “unacceptable” and a religious group should not get a “special exemption to discriminate”.

Under the Renters’ Rights Act, local authorities are able to issue fines of up to £7,000 if a landlord is liable for discrimination, including racial and religious prejudice.

If the fined individual is liable for continuous breaches, a further fine can be issued of up to £7,000. However, if a repeat breach occurs, the fine can be doubled.

GB News has approached Roshan Properties for comment.

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Following Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans, Cardinal Reinhard Marx has introduced heterodox guidelines for the “blessing” of homosexual and other “couples” in sinful relationships in his archdiocese.

According to a report by Die Tagespost, Marx has called on priests and full-time staff in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising to implement the controversial guidelines “Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft,” which allows the “blessing” of homosexuals, as well as other “couples” who cannot enter into sacramental marriage, like the divorced and civilly “remarried” and even “couples” “of all gender identities and sexual orientations.”

The guidelines are to become the “foundation of pastoral care,” Marx wrote in an internal letter seen by Die Tagespost. The cardinal ordered the guidelines to be published in parishes and said the “theological meaning” of the controversial text is to be explained to all “who still struggle with this blessing.”

According to Marx, the guidelines make it clear “that the blessing is not a celebration of a sacramental marriage.” However, the cardinal notes, this does not mean “that the blessing of a non-sacramental union—which in many cases is already a civil marriage solemnized by a civil registrar—pushes the couple to the margins of the parish and the Church.” Those in sinful relationships should be welcomed at the heart of the parish, he said. The cardinal expressly pointed out that no “couple” should be turned away.

Marx wants to elevate the role of “queer pastoral care” in his diocese by offering courses for full-time pastoral workers (priests and laity) on how to conduct these “blessing” ceremonies. Those who do not wish to preside over heterodox ceremonies are expected to refer the requesting “couples” to others willing to do so.

The guidelines “Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft” were first published by the German Bishops Conference (DBK) last year and have since been implemented in several dioceses.

The “blessings” are meant to be an offer for “divorced and remarried couples, [so-called] couples of all gender identities and sexual orientations, as well as couples who do not want to or cannot receive the sacrament of marriage for other reasons.”

The guidelines state that the “blessings” can be performed by clerics as well as by laypeople with an episcopal assignment. The ceremony for the “blessings” should be marked by “greater spontaneity and freedom with regard to the life situation of those who ask for the blessing,” according to the guidelines.

“For this reason, no approved liturgical celebrations and prayers are planned for the blessings,” the document states.

Despite contrary suggestions from the then-head of the DBK, Bishop Georg Bätzing, the German guidelines were not approved by the Vatican because they exceed what was prescribed in Pope Francis’ controversial document on homosexual “blessings,” Fiducia Supplicans, which numerous prelates and bishops’ conferences also condemned as heterodox.

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Six in ten adults in France believe that their country is facing a “great replacement” with the mass importation of non-European immigrants.

A survey conducted by the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) research firm has found that 60 per cent of French people believe that their country is experiencing a “profound demographic transformation” and that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.”

Of those who agreed with the statement, 66 per cent said the development was entirely bad, compared with 21 per cent who felt it was neither good nor bad, and 9 per cent who felt it was a positive development.

Opinions on the matter were divided largely along party lines, with supporters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally being the most concerned about demographic displacement at 81 per cent, compared to 76 per cent of Les Républicains voters, 37  per cent of Macron supporters, and just 30 per cent of far-left La France Insoumise voters.

Intriguingly, 64 per cent of Socialist Party voters expressed concerns about the country’s transformation through mass migration. Conversely, just 4 per cent — a Lizardman’s Constant — of National Rally voters felt it was entirely a good thing, compared to 39 per cent of Green Party voters and 32 per cent of LFI supporters.

LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has begun to frequently invoke the phrase “great replacement”, originally coined by French philosopher Renaud Camus to describe the attitude of Western liberal elites who view their populations as mere economic units which can be exchanged with no consequence.

While the far-left former presidential candidate appeared to initially make reference to the phenomenon in ironic jest, he and his cohort of radicals have increasingly cast the political battle between “new” and “old” France, comparing their multicultural support base with “ugly” white France.

Perhaps giving the game away, Mélenchon was quoted earlier this month as saying that the far-left cannot rely on the white Catholic working class of rural France to usher in socialism.

This may explain his party’s focus on courting urban ethnic minority voting blocs, particularly the Muslim vote, with LFI having increasingly focused on issues like Palestine. This has coincided with the leftist party facing accusations of cosying up to Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

According to the French government’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), there were approximately six million foreign nationals living in France in 2024, or around 8.8 per cent of the population. This does not include migrants who obtained citizenship or people who were born to migrant parents.

INSEE noted that there has been a significant change in the backgrounds of foreigners living in France, with three-quarters of migrants in 1968 coming from other European nations, compared to around half of migrants currently hailing from Africa.

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