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21.06.16

Citizenship Revoked

Theresa May deprived 33 individuals of British citizenship in 2015

New figures show the extent to which the Home Secretary has used controversial powers allowed her to strip a person of citizenship without prior approval from a judge or parliament.

25.05.16

Citizenship Revoked

‘We feared a Paris-style massacre’: Londoner stripped of nationality

The man, known only as L2 for legal reasons, was deemed such a national security threat by Home Secretary Theresa May that she personally signed an order removing his British nationality in 2013.

14.05.16

Global Superbugs

Exclusive: Minister floats tax on antibiotics to tackle drug resistance crisis

Lord O’Neill (pic: Getty) The danger to human health from the world’s antibiotic resistance crisis is “a much more troubling train wreck” than even the great financial crash of 2008, former Goldman Sa...

19.04.16

Citizenship Revoked

Home Office ‘extremely disappointed’ over deportation block

The Home Office today hit out at a court ruling that has blocked Britain from deporting six terror suspects to Algeria, saying “continue to seek to remove those who wish to do harm."

18.04.16

Citizenship Revoked

Bid to deport six terror suspects blocked after UK judges cite torture fears in Algeria

Six men accused of having links to al Qaeda cannot be deported to Algeria because there is a “real risk” they would be tortured, UK judges ruled today.

11.04.16

Global Superbugs

Get the data: Rising sales of critically important antibiotics

World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva Not all antibiotics are equal. According to the World Health Organization, some classes of antibiotic are so medically important they’ve labelled them...

11.04.16

Global Superbugs

Resistance to key antibiotic used in dangerous food poisoning cases now at record levels

Ciprofloxacin tablets. Photo via Flickr Resistance to a key antibiotic used in the treatment of serious food poisoning cases has reached its highest level for a decade, new figures obtained by the Bur...

10.04.16

Global Superbugs

Exclusive: City firms issue major warning to high street food and pub chains over use of antibiotics on supplier farms

City investors issue antibiotics warning to high street pub and restaurant chains A group of powerful City investors who together control more than £700 billion have written to leading fast food, pub...

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Antimicrobial resistance: what’s the issue, and why is it so important?

Antibiotic pills. Photo via Flickr The Bureau has launched a new investigation into drug resistance in the UK, with the first story, Banned in America, soaring use in Britain: The poultry farm drugs t...

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Banned in America, soaring use in Britain: The poultry farm drugs that put human lives at risk

Antibiotics banned in US chicken farms a decade ago over links to the spread of potentially deadly bacteria in humans have been used in significantly increased quantities by Britain’s poultry industry

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Campylobacter: Poultry industry’s killer legacy

Antibiotics are used on poultry farms to treat and prevent disease (Photo: Ecostorm) Campylobacter has plagued the poultry industry for years, with some studies revealing that as much as two-thirds o...

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Critically important to human health: What are fluoroquinolones?

Factory chickens. Photo credit: Viva! Fluoroquinolone antibiotics were developed in the 1970s and first used in human medicine in the 1980s. The drugs are used for treating, amongst other conditions,...

30.01.16

Citizenship Revoked

Former Briton Mahdi Hashi now jailed by New York judge for al Shabaab terror charges

Hashi was yesterday sentenced to nine years in prison at a New York court for allegedly supporting the terrorist organisation al Shabaab.

22.01.16

Citizenship Revoked

Tracked by MI5 to PC World: London minicab driver 'highly probably’ an Al Qaeda courier

The 27 year old, known only as M2, had his British citizenship stripped by Theresa May in 2014 after being tracked by MI5.

07.12.15

Citizenship Revoked

‘Inaccurate, misleading, incomplete’: Judges’ verdict on intel given to May

Britain’s security services apparently provided Theresa May with bad intelligence as the basis for banning two al Qaeda suspects from returning to the UK.

18.11.15

Citizenship Revoked

Terror suspect who May wants deported to Algeria asks Muslim clerics for permission to kill himself, court told

The latest appeal of six Algerian terror suspects fighting against Home Office deportation orders.

29.10.15

Citizenship Revoked

‘Wrongly accused’ Manchester bomb plotters take Theresa May to court over ban on re-entering UK

Counter terrorism officers pin Rizwan Sharif to the ground outside Liverpool John Moores University in 2009 Two Pakistani men alleged to have been part of an al Qaeda plot to blow up Manchester’s Arnd...

18.09.15

Migration Crisis

Frontex: EU border agency to get huge budget hike as boss warns of failings with migrant fingerprint checks

Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri (left) and European Commission official Dana Spinant at House of Lords committee Frontex, the EU’s external border agency, is being given a 54% budget rise next year...

15.09.15

Migration Crisis

Europe’s refugee crisis: Is Frontex bordering on chaos?

As member states struggle to respond to the migration crisis, the Bureau investigates the European Union’s external border agency.

15.09.15

Migration Crisis

As refugee crisis escalates, Frontex border guard shortage is ‘scandalous’, says senior MEP

Member states failing to supply the EU’s border agency with border guards.

Theresa May deprived 33 individuals of British citizenship in 2015

‘We feared a Paris-style massacre’: Londoner stripped of nationality

Exclusive: Minister floats tax on antibiotics to tackle drug resistance crisis

Home Office ‘extremely disappointed’ over deportation block

Bid to deport six terror suspects blocked after UK judges cite torture fears in Algeria

Get the data: Rising sales of critically important antibiotics

Resistance to key antibiotic used in dangerous food poisoning cases now at record levels

Exclusive: City firms issue major warning to high street food and pub chains over use of antibiotics on supplier farms

Antimicrobial resistance: what’s the issue, and why is it so important?

Banned in America, soaring use in Britain: The poultry farm drugs that put human lives at risk

Campylobacter: Poultry industry’s killer legacy

Critically important to human health: What are fluoroquinolones?

Former Briton Mahdi Hashi now jailed by New York judge for al Shabaab terror charges

Tracked by MI5 to PC World: London minicab driver 'highly probably’ an Al Qaeda courier

‘Inaccurate, misleading, incomplete’: Judges’ verdict on intel given to May

Terror suspect who May wants deported to Algeria asks Muslim clerics for permission to kill himself, court told

‘Wrongly accused’ Manchester bomb plotters take Theresa May to court over ban on re-entering UK

Frontex: EU border agency to get huge budget hike as boss warns of failings with migrant fingerprint checks

Europe’s refugee crisis: Is Frontex bordering on chaos?

As refugee crisis escalates, Frontex border guard shortage is ‘scandalous’, says senior MEP

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