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An intensifying cycle of violence has left at least three U.S. service members dead since the resumption of hostilities a week ago.
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EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to publicThe Trump administration has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public.The proposed regulations would largely have ended the use of sludge, also called bio
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Thousands vented their anger over a university entrance exam scandal that has touched a chord with young Indians frustrated.
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Thousands vented their anger over a university entrance-exam scandal that has touched a chord with young Indians.
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Runcorn MP Sarah Pochin says parliament mounting ‘vicious and desperate campaign to stop Reform UK’A Reform UK MP has complained that the standards system investigating Nigel Farage over undeclared gifts is a “kangaroo court”.Sarah Pochin, the Runcorn MP, said Farage had called a byelection in his Clacton seat so that voters could decide whether they back him or not, and argued that “the media, the British state and the old parties have mounted a vicious and desperate campaign to stop Reform UK.
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New Labour leader takes over from Keir Starmer and will head to Downing Street to appoint his cabinetUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham has formally become the UK prime minister after meeting King Charles at Buckingham Palace, the fourth person to hold the role in less than four years and the sixth within a decade.Burnham, who took over from Keir Starmer as leader of the Labour party on Friday, accepted the appointment as prime minister shortly after Starmer had gone to the palace to
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Plus, the Pentagon is dishing money to high-tech defense startups, and JD and Usha Vance welcome a new son.
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Man charged with murder after Kirandeep Kaur was allegedly stabbed while in bed with husband and babyThe family of a woman who was killed as she slept in bed with her husband and three-month-old baby have said they want justice, and for her body to be returned to India.A man has been charged with murder over the attack on Kirandeep Kaur in her home in Hayes, west London, on the morning of 12 July. Kaur, who had reportedly been living in the UK since 2024 on a student visa, allegedly suffered a s
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Global increase in cases of predators coercing children to harm themselves or produce child sexual abuse materialCases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.In cases of sadistic online exploitation, perpetrators target vulnerable teens on social media platforms and online games. These predators th
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OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointeesIt was a late Friday afternoon in Boston when Harvard School of Public Health professor Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist, received an email that would reshape the next year of her life.It was from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – her nearly $1m grant to study how discrimination affects population health was canceled. Continue reading...
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Chinese retail platform handed penalty over listings for counterfeit products and unsafe toysBusiness live – latest updatesAliExpress, the Chinese online retail platform, has been fined a record €550m (£470m) by the EU over its failure to stop illegal goods including harmful clothing, cosmetics and kitchen gadgets being sold through its site.The European Commission fine is the biggest yet exacted by the bloc under the Digital Services Act (DSA), legislation that came into force in 2024, to prote
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Andy Burnham has spoken of Catholicism as part of his cultural identity rather than as a fervent religious faith.
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Demonstrators and many soldiers want President Volodymyr Zelensky to reaffirm the vision of drone warfare laid out by the defense minister he fired last week.
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Youth-led movement calls on education minister to quit in one of India’s largest anti-government rallies in yearsThousands of protesters defied police orders and descended on Delhi to demand the resignation of India’s education minister in one of the largest anti-government demonstrations in years.A huge crowd, largely made up of students and gen Zs, filled the streets in the heart of India’s capital from early Monday morning shouting anti-government slogans, while hundreds had already camped ou
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The Irish airline said oil prices had increased costs meanwhile Brent crude surpassed $90.
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Two other young people were injured after a fountain partially collapsed in Salamanca's Ciudad Rodrigo.
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The former mayor of Greater Manchester will replace Keir Starmer as part of a Labour government reset, becoming Britain’s sixth prime minister in a decade.
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Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollarsA New York sculptor has been left furious after spending $100,000 of his own money to build a lifesize statue of Charlie Kirk, only to find that no one wants to buy it.Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated
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Former state legislator in strong position to become Democratic candidate after several appointments drop out over the weekend In other news, the Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the US.The Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC) was established in 1996 but had never received a petition until Wednesday, when the US justice department filed an applicat
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Andy Burnham has not yet met President Trump, but the two men will be expected to speak shortly after Mr. Burnham becomes prime minister.