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Italian judges have blocked prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s scheme to detain migrants in centres in Albania, according to reports. Rome’s court of appeals refused to sign off on the detention ...

About £1 in every £15 spent on benefits last year was fraudulently claimed or paid by mistake, a report has shown. Nearly £10 billion of taxpayer money was paid out for bogus or erroneous ...