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A manhunt has been launched for an accidentally released asylum seeker who was jailed for 12 months earlier this year after he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping.

The mistaken release of an asylum seeker who was jailed for sexual offences has prompted widespread condemnation - and an extensive police operation.

Israel may have agreed to stop fighting in Gaza, but it is backing armed groups that plan to fight Hamas to the bitter end.

The US has announced it is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America as it ramps up an operation to target alleged drug smuggling boats.

A woman in a "life-threatening" condition is "under police watch" in hospital after a nine-year-old girl was found dead in an Oxfordshire village.

Experts are warning that without "fast changes" the UK could run out of drinking water in the future.

More than 2,000 counterfeit weight loss jabs have been confiscated from a factory in Northampton, in what's believed to be the world's largest seizure.

Cutting the annual allowance for cash ISAs could backfire in multiple ways, an influential group of MPs has warned the government.

Temperatures are set to drop this weekend, with the first snowfall of the season possible in some parts of the UK.

An asylum seeker has been found guilty of murdering a hotel worker at a train station in the West Midlands.