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Donald Trump has vowed to end birthright citizenship, under which people born in the US are considered citizens. The move would strip rights from those born in the country to undocumented parents - despite the protection being enshrined in the constitution. In a wide-ranging interview - which also touched on his plans for January 6 pardons and the Ukraine war - on NBC's Meet The Press, Sky News' US partner, he redoubled his campaign pledge to oversee mass deportation of illegal immigrants.The programme, he said, will begin with undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes - although he did not reveal which ones - and then turn to "people outside of criminals".The US president-elect said there was "no choice". "I think you have to do it," he said. "It's a very tough thing to do… they c...

An attempt by Rupert Murdoch to change who controls the future of his media empire has been blocked, according to reports in The New York Times.The newspaper claims a sealed court document accuses the 93-year-old of acting in "bad faith" by attempting to amend his family trust to benefit his eldest son, Lachlan. Currently, the trust passes control of the company equally among Mr Murdoch's four oldest children - Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence - after his death.But Nevada commissioner Edmund Gorman has rejected a bid to change the terms of the trust.Lachlan is head of Fox News parent Fox Corp and News Corp, which owns UK titles including The Sun and The Times. Mr Murdoch's proposed amendment would have blocked any interference by three of Lachlan's siblings, who are more politically ...

Prince William appears to have made quite the impression on Donald Trump following their meeting in Paris over the weekend.In a gushing interview with US media, the president-elect said the pair had a "good talk" and reportedly described the Prince of Wales as "very handsome". "He's a good-looking guy. He looked really, very handsome," Mr Trump told the New York Post."Some people look better in person? He looked great. He looked really nice, and I told him that."The pair met on Saturday at the UK ambassador's residence in Paris. They were both visiting the French capital to earlier attend the official reopening of Notre-Dame and to see the result of a five-year project to restore the iconic cathedral following a devastating fire in 2019.Prince William attended the meeting wearing a smart s...

Germany will make it a specific criminal offence to facilitate migrant smuggling towards the UK as part of a new co-operation deal.Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, signed the deal with her German counterpart, Nancy Faeser, on Monday evening. Under the plan, Germany will clarify its domestic law to make it a criminal offence to facilitate smuggling migrants to the UK - a move the government says will allow German prosecutors to tackle the supply and storage of dangerous small boats equipment.It will also see the two countries commit to exchanging expertise on how to remove migrant smuggling content from social media platforms.More than 20,000 people have crossed the Channel in small boats since Labour came to power and more than 70 people have died attempting to cross the Channel so far t...

The wreckage of a small aircraft recovered from the North Sea with human remains inside was a plane that disappeared more than a year ago, investigators have confirmed.A German-registered Cessna 172 was discovered northeast of Lerwick on Friday afternoon. It was brought to shore in Shetland by a fishing boat on Sunday, and Police Scotland said human remains were found inside.The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has now confirmed it was an aircraft that vanished crossing the North Sea on 30 September 2023.A report published earlier this year by German investigators Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU) said the 62-year-old male pilot took off in the morning from the Uetersen-Heist airfield in Germany with the intention to visit relatives in Bayreuth and return the chartered...