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Farage slams secret Afghan refugee resettlement to UK, claims sex offenders among arrivals
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Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, slammed the Conservative and Labour parties after it was revealed this week thousands of Afghan refugees were secretly resettled into the country without the public’s knowledge.
Farage claimed some of those Afghans are sex offenders, sparking a row with the ruling Labour Party, which denied the claims.
Around 4,500 Afghans have been relocated to the U.K. so far with around 6,900 expected to be relocated overall.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference in Westminster, United Kingdom, June 10, 2025. (Thomas Krych/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Meanwhile, waves of migrants continue arriving by boat, further inflaming public frustration over unchecked immigration.
«Amongst the number that have come are convicted sex offenders – I am not, I promise you, making any of this up, and the total cost of this operation has been a staggering £7 billion [$9 billion],» Farage said in a post on X.
«The numbers are off the charts, the cost is beyond comprehension and the threat to women walking the streets of this country, frankly, is incalculable.»
Relocating the 6,900 Afghans is expected to cost £850 million [$1.1 billion]. The £7 billion Farage referenced is likely the total cost of all Afghan resettlement programs since 2021 of about 36,000 Afghans through multiple schemes.
The British government earlier this week revealed it secretly resettled thousands of Afghan nationals in the U.K. after a catastrophic data breach exposed nearly 19,000 applicants who had worked with U.K. forces, an operation kept under wraps by a rare «super injunction» that barred even the mention of its existence.
The injunction was lifted Tuesday in conjunction with a decision by Britain’s current Labour Party government to make the program public.
The national flag of the United Kingdom is displayed as British troops and service personnel remaining in Afghanistan are joined by International Security Assistance Force personnel and civilians for a Remembrance Sunday service at Kandahar Airfield Nov. 9, 2014, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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A spreadsheet containing the personal information of the nearly 19,000 people who had applied to relocate to the U.K. after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was accidentally released in 2022 because of a defense official’s email error. The government only became aware of the leak when some of the data was published on Facebook 18 months later.
«I can’t think of a better example of the total incompetence, dishonesty and genuine lack of understanding of what the priorities of a British government are than this Afghan scandal,» Farage added.
But U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey denied any known sex offenders had been allowed into the U.K. under the program and insisted everyone had been checked «carefully» for any criminal records
He said if Farage had any «hard evidence,» he should report it to the police.
Demonstrators hold placards as Afghans living in London and their supporters attend a protest called by Stand Up To Racism at the Home Office to demand that more refugees from Afghanistan be allowed into the U.K. Aug. 23, 2021, in London. (Guy Smallman; Getty)
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«Anyone who has come into this country under any of the government schemes that was under the previous government and now from Afghanistan is checked carefully for security, checked carefully for any of those sort of criminal records that would preclude and prevent them coming to this country,» Healey told Times Radio, according to The Sun.
British soldiers were sent to Afghanistan as part of an international deployment against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in the war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. At the peak of the operation, there were almost 10,000 U.K. troops in the country, mostly in Helmand province in the south.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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White House flips script on Hunter Biden’s profanity-laced rant against Trump’s immigration policies
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The White House called out Hunter Biden after he slammed the Trump administration’s immigration policies in a recent web series interview.
The younger Biden echoed a popular Democratic talking point during a heated rant while appearing on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.
«Am I not supposed to feel for someone? Am I going to be like all these Democrats say, ‘You have to talk about and realize that people are really upset about illegal immigration?’ F— you. How do you think your hotel room gets cleaned?» Biden later added.
«How do you think you got food on your f—ing table?» he continued. «Who do you think washes your dishes? Who do you think does your f—ing garden? Who do you think is here? By the f—ing sheer f—ing just grit and will that they figured out a way to get here because they thought that they could give themselves and their family a better chance.»
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Hunter Biden slammed the Trump administration’s immigration policies on a recent podcast interview. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana; AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
The White House pulled no punches after the interview from Biden, who was a major player behind the scenes during the Biden administration and faced a lot of scrutiny for his past overseas business dealings.
«A CBP agent was just shot in the face by two criminal illegal aliens that Joe Biden let into the country but Hunter is more concerned about who is going to clean up his hotel room after his benders,» Abigail Jackson, White House spokeswoman, told Fox News Digital.
«This sort of callous, self-interested maliciousness from the entire Biden Crime Family is exactly why Joe Biden left office with record-low approval ratings,» Jackson added.
The administration has sent those believed or known to be from designated foreign terrorist organizations, like MS-13, to the prison in El Salvador, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to ramp up immigration operations across the country, including in sanctuary cities. Meanwhile, many people in the country illegally have opted to self-deport, as the Department of Homeland Security is offering $1,000 and free travel out of the country for those without an additional criminal background.
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First lady Jill Biden, with Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden, attends her granddaughter Maisy Biden’s graduation from the University of Pennsylvania on May 15, 2023, in Philadelphia. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
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Democrats have repeatedly gotten into hot water for mentioning the service and agricultural industries to counteract Trump’s stances on immigration.
Famously, Kelly Osbourne was slammed for saying, «If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilets? Donald Trump?» on «The View» in 2015, which she later apologized for.
«We have a shortage of workers in our country, and you see even in Florida, some of the farmers and the growers saying, ‘Why are you shipping these immigrants up North? We need them to pick the crops down here,’» Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in 2022 when she was speaker of the House.
More recently, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, faced scrutiny for remarks at the South by Southwest Festival in March.
«How many of you are sending your kids to college?» Crockett said. «How many of you are sending your kids to college to go and work on the farms?»
«Now, how many of you are looking to send your kids into hospitality after this college education so that they can go and make the beds at the hotels?» the Democrat asked.
«How many of you are planning to send your kids to college – because that’s what we do, we send everybody to college – how many of you are planning to send your kids to college so that they can then go and build these houses?» Crockett continued.
In the interview, the former president’s son also called both President Donald Trump and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a «dictator,» and referred to the Central American nation’s terrorism confinement center as a likely «death camp.»
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President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, speaks to reporters after arriving at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 1, 2025.
«What we’re going to do is we’re going to send masked men to this marginalized group and we are going to take them, put them on planes, put them on buses, put them on trains, and send them to a prison camp in a foreign country,» he said in an interview with the «Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan» YouTube channel. «What am I describing right then? Am I describing Germany? Am I describing the United States right now? Because I will tell you what, if you think that the prison in El Salvador is not a f—ing concentration camp, you’re out of your f—ing mind.»
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Biden was granted a pardon by his father in December for any crimes he «has committed or may have committed» dating back to 2014. Biden said his son was «being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted» after he was convicted in two federal cases in 2024 for tax and firearm offenses.
«I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction – mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport,» Hunter Biden said in a statement at the time.
«Is it really a surprise that Hunter Biden has no respect for Americans who are upset about the criminal illegal aliens let into our country by Joe Biden? Under Biden’s reckless open-border policies, terrorists, gang members, murderers, and child pedophiles were released into American communities,» DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated in response to Biden’s podcast comments.
«These policies had real consequences. Young Americans, like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, lost their lives because of illegal aliens who should have never been in this country. Just two days ago, two illegal aliens who entered our country and were released under President Biden shot and nearly killed one of our brave off-duty CBP officers. President Trump and Secretary Noem will never abandon these victims or their families. DHS will continue to deliver on the mandate of the American people to make America safe again,» she added.
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Iran will not give up nuclear enrichment, top official confirms in exclusive Fox News interview
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Iran on Monday confirmed it will not give up its nuclear enrichment program in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, set to air at 6 pm on Monday’s «Special Report.»
Araghchi confirmed that the U.S.’s top ambition in preventing Tehran from further developing a nuclear weapon by blocking all enrichment capabilities is unlikely to come to fruition, despite threats of intense international sanctions.
«We cannot give up enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists. And now, more than that, it is a question of national pride,» Araghchi said. «Our enrichment is so dear to us,» he told Bret Baier, anchor and executive editor of Special Report, in a clip released before the full interview airs.
Technicians work inside of a uranium conversion facility producing unit just outside the city of Isfahan, about 254 miles (south of capital Tehran, Iran, at the heart of Iran’s nuclear program, March 30, 2005. (Getty Images)
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The foreign minister confirmed that the extent of the damage to its nuclear facilities caused by the U.S. strikes last month was «serious,» but he would not comment on whether any enriched uranium survived the strikes.
«Our facilities have been damaged – seriously damaged,» Araghchi said. «The extent of which is now under evaluation by our atomic energy organization.
«But as far as I know, they are seriously damaged,» he added, noting that the damage has also currently ceased all enrichment capabilities for the time being.
Iran has maintained that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon, but in the lead up to the Israeli and U.S. strikes, security experts were sounding the alarm that Tehran was likely capable of producing at least one nuclear weapon in a matter of days, and several warheads in a matter of weeks.
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While nuclear enrichment is a process needed for nations that also rely on nuclear power, Iran’s nuclear energy usage amounts to less than one percent of the nation’s energy consumption.
The U.S. has suggested that given the low amounts of nuclear energy which Iran relies on, it should join a consortium that could potentially involve nations like the UAE and Saudi Arabia for its enriched uranium needs for civil nuclear power use.
But Iran has repeatedly rejected this proposal, with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also referring to Tehran’s capabilities as a source of national pride just last month.
«The number of countries in the world that have achieved a complete nuclear fuel cycle is perhaps fewer than the number of fingers on a person’s two hands,» Khamenei said in early June. «We’re capable of producing nuclear fuel starting from the mine and all the way to the power plant.»
An illustration showing a list of Iran’s nuclear facilities such as Arak’s heavy water nuclear reactor and the Natanz enrichment plant. (FDD/Fox News)
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But Iran also faces immense international sanctions and even greater arms restrictions should it fail to reach a nuclear agreement by the end of August – though it is unclear if that agreement must include the U.S. or just European nations including France, Germany and the U.K., also referred to as the E3.
Iranian officials will not only be meeting with its top allies and chief adversaries to the West, Russia and China, on Tuesday, but Tehran is also set to hold talks on Friday with officials from the E3.
Washington and Tehran have yet to resume talks following the U.S. strikes last month.
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¿Un tesoro romano perdido en Alemania? Cómo una veta de plata pudo haber cambiado el futuro del Imperio
En las colinas de Bad Ems, estado de Renania-Palatinado, un descubrimiento reciente modificó un capítulo debatido de la historia romana. Un aficionado local, Jürgen Eigenbrod, logró validar un episodio que por siglos se consideró anecdótico: en tiempos del emperador Claudio, el Imperio Romano estuvo a punto de descubrir una de las mayores vetas de plata de Europa.
Según publicó National Geographic, este hallazgo no solo respalda el relato del historiador Tácito, sino que revela cómo una oportunidad desaprovechada pudo alterar el destino económico y político de Roma.
La historia comenzó en abril de 2016, cuando Jürgen Eigenbrod, exparacaidista de 72 años y entusiasta de la arqueología local, recorría los campos de Bad Ems en busca de jabalíes. Mientras caminaba por el paisaje, detectó dos franjas amarillas que atravesaban un campo de grano, demasiado regulares para ser naturales. Al recordar que la naturaleza no crea líneas rectas, sospechó una estructura humana enterrada.
Solicitó ayuda a su amigo Hans-Joachim du Roi, también militar retirado, quien fotografió el terreno con un dron. Las imágenes mostraron líneas que formaban un ángulo recto y una esquina redondeada, patrón propio de campamentos militares romanos.
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Eigenbrod emprendió una campaña persistente para convencer a los arqueólogos de investigar el lugar. “Tuvo que insistir muchísimo para que los arqueólogos de Renania-Palatinado en Coblenza realizaran una excavación, y, afortunadamente, lo hizo con la determinación de un dolor de muelas”, relató du Roi según National Geographic. Finalmente, el departamento de arqueología realizó un estudio geomagnético en la meseta de Ehrlich, donde se ubicaban las marcas.
El análisis confirmó la existencia de dobles fosos característicos de campamentos romanos, delimitando un recinto de unas 7,7 hectáreas con fortificaciones de tierra y madera.
Las excavaciones en el campamento de Ehrlich comenzaron en 2017 bajo la dirección del arqueólogo Thomas Maurer y la supervisión de Peter Henrich, del Museo Estatal de Renania en Tréveris, y Markus Scholz, de la Universidad Goethe de Fráncfort.
Inicialmente, los especialistas pensaron que era un campamento temporal de la época de Augusto, como los que levantaban las legiones en sus marchas. Sin embargo, Eigenbrod defendía que el campamento estaba vinculado a la búsqueda de plata narrada por Tácito.
El escepticismo se sustentaba en la complejidad de enlazar relatos antiguos con hallazgos materiales. “Es bastante difícil conectar la arqueología y la literatura histórica”, explicó Frederic Auth, arqueólogo principal del proyecto, a National Geographic. “Tendemos a ser muy cautos para no sobreinterpretar esa literatura, porque Tácito nunca presenció la Germania romana”.
A pesar de las dudas iniciales, la excavación avanzó, animada también por la hospitalidad de Eigenbrod, quien atendía a los trabajadores con salchichas de jabalí caseras. Entre los objetos recuperados figuraron un anillo de bronce, clavos de hierro y escoria, pero pocos permitían datación.
Todo cambió con el hallazgo de una moneda de bronce muy corroída con el perfil del emperador Calígula, acuñada en los años 37 o 38, y otra moneda del periodo de Claudio encontrada en un antiguo pozo. A estos hallazgos se sumaron fragmentos de cerámica del siglo I, lo que permitió fechar el campamento en la década del 40-50 d.C., periodo descrito por Tácito.
Tácito narró en sus “Anales” cómo durante el reinado de Claudio (41-54 d.C.) el legado Curtius Rufus obligó a legionarios romanos a trabajar en una mina fronteriza en el área de Mattium, cerca de la actual Bad Ems. El objetivo era claro: buscar plata, metal fundamental para Roma, que usaba en monedas y joyas y que hasta ese momento provenía principalmente de Hispania.
De acuerdo con el relato, los legionarios, exhaustos por el peligro y el esfuerzo de excavar de manera subterránea, pidieron al emperador que premiara a Rufus, esperando así finalizar la búsqueda infructuosa. Finalmente, la expedición terminó y el campamento fue destruido.
Durante generaciones, este pasaje fue considerado una “mirabilia” —historias maravillosas empleadas para entretener lectores— según Alfred Hirt, especialista en minería romana de la Universidad de Liverpool. Sin embargo, el hallazgo en Bad Ems cambió la perspectiva.
El descubrimiento del campamento y la mina romana motivó a los investigadores a preguntarse cuánta plata dejaron atrás los romanos. El estudio de Auth sobre el yacimiento de Blöskopf reveló restos de una fortificación y evidencia de fundición cerca de la veta de Ems (“Emser Gangzug”), que se extiende 16 kilómetros desde Bad Ems hasta el Rin.
En la era moderna se extrajeron más de 200 toneladas métricas de plata de esta formación, hasta que la minería cesó tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. “Si los romanos hubieran encontrado el sitio correcto, habrían explotado la plata durante unos 200 años, hasta su retirada al oeste del Rin”, afirmó Auth.
Aunque la tecnología romana dificultaba explotar vetas tan profundas, el hallazgo sugiere que, de haberlo logrado, Roma habría accedido a una fuente de riqueza comparable con las minas hispanas. “No habría sido suficiente para financiar todo el Imperio, pero sí habría marcado una diferencia”, acotó Auth. Markus Scholz sintetizó el enfoque romano: “Si no logramos el éxito rápidamente, abandonamos e intentamos en otro lugar”.
El papel de Eigenbrod resultó esencial tanto en el descubrimiento como en la orientación de las excavaciones, ya que condujo a los arqueólogos a reexaminar el yacimiento de Blöskopf, donde hallaron monedas del periodo de Claudio, confirmando la relación con el campamento de Ehrlich y la mina mencionada por Tácito. En Blöskopf también surgieron estacas de madera afiladas o “pila fossata”, un sistema defensivo citado por Julio César y nunca documentado antes en el lugar.
Eigenbrod, quien dedicó su jubilación a explorar la historia local, logró recibir un merecido reconocimiento. Sin embargo, falleció de un infarto en 2023, menos de una semana después de que la prensa internacional destacara la ironía de la “madre de todas las vetas de plata” ignorada por los romanos.
Según National Geographic, “vivió para disfrutar, durante unos pocos días, de la gloria de sus contribuciones a la arqueología y la historia”, ya que su perseverancia permitió resolver un enigma histórico y situar a Bad Ems en el mapa de la arqueología romana.
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