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The targeted countries host sprawling American military bases and thousands of personnel at a time when the United States is waging war against Iran.
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Exclusive: PSNI repeatedly warned by monitoring group for eight months after a so-called hitlist of addresses began circulating in far-right networksA monitoring group repeatedly warned the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the past eight months that anti-immigration activists were circulating the addresses of properties that were targeted in this week’s Belfast riots.The Accountability Project Northern Ireland, a volunteer group formed last summer to monitor anti-immigration activi
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Analysts say IPO that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire has a ‘major disconnect’ on price Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch the biggest stock market float in history amid warnings that it may be overvalued.The space exploration, satellite broadband and AI company will join the US stock market on Friday at a valuation of $1.78tn, after offering at least $75bn of shares to investors through an initial public offering . Continue reading...
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Regulator approval means patients who meet criteria such as having obesity will be able to purchase pills with private prescriptionPatients will soon be able to buy the Wegovy weight-loss pill, the medicines regulator announced today.It is the first GLP-1 receptor agonist tablet for weight-loss to be approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), making the UK the third country to authorise the pills, behind the US and the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading...
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Fatima Jabbe-Bio kept tenancy despite living for much of year in the presidential lodge in FreetownA social housing flat rented by Sierra Leone’s first lady has been seized by a London council.Southwark council confirmed it had repossessed the two-bedroom home in Walworth previously occupied by Fatima Jabbe-Bio, whose tenancy was reported by The Times last year. Continue reading...
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Governments across Europe are trying to figure out how to fund a major overhaul of their militaries in the shadow of a bellicose Russia.
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Labor talking points this week concede Australians are frustrated with an economy that ‘isn’t working for them’. The goal will be to convince voters One Nation isn’t eitherGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt was mid-January when Anthony Albanese publicly admitted his “worry” about the rise of One Nation.The prime minister’s concern was not the political risk to himself or to Labor but rather the threat Pauline Hanson posed to the stability of Australia’s two-party syste
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Two stabbings have fueled violent protests in England and Northern Ireland in the last 10 days, fanned online by right-wing voices. In Britain and across Europe, it’s a grim pattern.
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Despite his managerial veneer and quiet approach, outgoing defence secretary is a highly political operatorUK politics live – latest updatesIf there was one thing for which Downing Street could rely on with John Healey, it was avoiding unnecessary drama. Whether in parliament or on the morning broadcast round, his sober suits and general demeanour of a benign but firm headmaster spelled reassurance.But then just before 12.10pm on Wednesday, the drama arrived. In a letter posted to social media,
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In a major push, the government is rushing to place temporary housing at about 60 empty sites in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before national elections this fall.
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The incident happened early Thursday during an investigation into a March shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto, the police chief said.
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Analysts saw little prospect of either President Trump or Tehran backing down after days of exchanging fire.
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Analysts saw little prospect of either President Trump or Tehran backing down after days of exchanging fire.
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US president warns of further military action as both sides accuse each other of breaching temporary ceasefireMiddle East crisis – live updatesUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has said the US will take control of Iran’s oil and gas infrastructure and launch further strikes on Iran on Thursday night, just hours after the two countries exchanged fire for the second consecutive day despite a nominal ceasefire in place.In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the US would hit Iran “VERY HA
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Labour leadership hopeful says he does not support payments after backlash but is open to other benefitsAndy Burnham has ruled out paying compensation to the “Waspi women” who claim they lost out owing to changes to the state pension age – but said he was open to the idea of giving them other benefits.Burnham had previously indicated he backed compensating as many as 3.6 million women born in the 1950s, some of whom claim they lost thousands of pounds because they were ill-informed about the cha
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Oman’s military has rescued dozens more Indian seafarers from the stricken ships, which the U.S. military said violated its blockade.
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Employees at artificial intelligence companies are coming into gargantuan sums of money amid boom in IPOsHome prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money thanks to a boom in initial public offerings.With San Francisco’s OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as SpaceX, which operates a major facility in the Los Angeles area, eyeing debuts on the stock market, the hot housing m
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Democrats say they’ll block move to renew Fisa in protest of Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligenceSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe US House of Representatives will attempt on Thursday to pass a short-term extension of a powerful surveillance law amid controversy surrounding Donald Trump’s decision to install an inexperienced loyalist as the country’s top intelligence official.Democrats have said they will block the move to renew Foreign
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Meteroogists forecast it will rival – or exceed – record El Niño from 1997 and further heat globe El Niño, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.Experts said the El Niño, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will probably turbocharge extreme weather across the planet. Meteorologists forecast it will rival – or exceed – a