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A terror suspect who caused nine hours tailbacks at British ports after absconding has been jailed for breaking counter terrorism rules.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is a senior member of the banned group al-Muhajiroun. He triggered a manhunt in September after cutting off an electronic monitoring tag and fleeing his home.

Judge Anthony Leonard QC said the actions had caused «significant disruption for legitimate travellers».

Appearing at the Old Bailey by video link from prison, the man was jailed for three years and two months after previously admitting six breaches of his Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIM) order.

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Cocaine weighing 2,300kg and with an estimated value of £184m has been found inside a consignment of bananas that arrived in the UK from Colombia.

The haul of cocaine was intercepted in Portsmouth and the drugs were removed, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

The pallets were then loaded with dummy packages and delivered to Tottenham Industrial Estate in north London. Ten people were arrested over the haul, which represents one of the UK’s biggest ever drugs seizures.

The NCA said three people had been charged.

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Two French military planes that flew very close to the ground have struck electrical lines and cut the power supply to a village in the south of France.

The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon in the small village of Le Castellet, near Manosque.

The two Rafale aircraft had taken off from a nearby air base on a low-altitude training flight, reports say. An investigation has been opened into the «rare incident».

«It went so low that it made a hell of a din, I then looked up and saw the second aircraft,» the village’s mayor told local news outlet France Bleu. «It was so low that I said to myself: it went under the power lines,» Benoît Gouin, who was driving at the time, said.

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Gunmen have killed a school pupil and abducted 27 other children in a night-time raid on their boarding school in north-central Nigeria, state governor Abubakar Sani Bello has said.

Three members of staff and 12 of their relatives were also abducted, he added.

About 600 boys were asleep in their dormitories when the school in Kagara town in Niger state was raided, the principal Danasabe Ubaidu said. The security forces have been deployed to help with rescue operations.

The motive for the attack is unclear, but criminal gangs often carry out kidnappings for ransom in parts of Nigeria, says the BBC’s Ishaq Khalid in the capital Abuja.

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The daughter of Dubai’s ruler who tried to flee the country in 2018 later sent secret video messages to friends accusing her father of holding her «hostage» as she feared for her life.

In footage shared with Panorama, Princess Latifa Al Maktoum says commandos drugged her as she fled by boat and flew her back to detention.

The secret messages have stopped — and friends are urging the UN to step in. Dubai and the UAE have previously said she is safe in the care of family.

Ex-UN rights envoy Mary Robinson, who had described Latifa as a «troubled young woman» after meeting her in 2018, now says she was «horribly tricked» by the princess’s family.

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