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Specially trained canines can pick up the scent of survivors beneath mounds of collapsed debris, indicating where clearance teams should begin digging.
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‘I don’t want to die here,’ says a woman waiting to return home.
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Tehran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait amid efforts to open strait of Hormuz without Iran’s direct oversightMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesA new round of escalating strikes between Iran and the US has continued, further undermining the fragile interim peace agreement between the two countries, and prompting Donald Trump to threaten violence that would ensure Iran “will no longer exist”.On Sunday, Tehran launched drone and missile attacks against Bahrain and Kuwait after new US strikes on sit
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Quarterly Ofgem price cap rises to equivalent of £1,862 a year from 1 July amid growing consumer energy debtMinisters are facing growing pressure to lower energy costs as households in Great Britain face the steepest rise in summer bills in four years this week.The quarterly cap on gas and electricity charges will rise by 13% from Wednesday to the equivalent of £1,862 a year for an average household, just days after figures revealed that consumer energy debt had reached record highs. Continue re
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Rescuers spent six hours carefully digging to reach one of the boys, as many residents continue searching through the rubble by hand, still waiting for heavy machinery to arrive.
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Five pairs of students and instructors dead along with pilot after plane reportedly fell suddenly near aerodromeA skydiving plane has crashed in north-eastern France, killing all 11 people on board, according to the region’s prefect.The parachuting-school plane crashed near Nancy at 11am, said Yves Séguy, the prefect of the Meurthe-et-Moselle region. Continue reading...
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IOPC confirms complaints from three survivors of alleged sexual misconduct by late Harrods owner in addition to ongoing investigationSurvivors of abuse at the hands of the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed have complained to a watchdog about how the Metropolitan police handled allegations.More than 400 claims of sexual misconduct have been made against Al Fayed, including rape and human trafficking, dating between 1977 and 2014. Continue reading...
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The pilot and 10 passengers died in the incident, local officials said.
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Church sues excommunicated member over Mormon Stories podcast but John Dehlin says name free for all to useTrademark changes and copyright infringement disputes take many forms. Dunkin’ Donuts changed its name to Dunkin’ because Donuts did not suggest the vigorous, on-the-go attitude the coffee company wants to project.But what happens when a church changes its name, but former adherents continue to use the original term in ways it may not like? Continue reading...
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Lucy Powell said she thought energy secretary would be good in Treasury but ‘tittle-tattle’ over cabinet posts was ‘unedifying’Ed Miliband would make a “good” chancellor to Andy Burnham, Labour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has said, ahead of the likely next prime minister’s first major speech on the economy since he returned to Westminster.Powell, who served as Miliband’s chief of staff in opposition and is close to the former party leader, appeared to endorse him to run the Treasury – although
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More than three days after twin earthquakes devastated the Venezuelan coast, the rescue effort faced chaos and delays as the chances of finding survivors diminished.
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After days of record temperatures in Western Europe, the extreme heat is easing there. Now, Central Europe is facing days of dangerous swelter.
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More than 191m people in Europe face temperatures over 35C, with extreme heat warnings from Germany to Hungary‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are braced for record temperatures of over 40C as a heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe spreads east.More than 191 million people in Europe faced temperatures of at least 35C on Sunday, with extreme heat warnings in Germany, Czechia, Polan
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Urn with loving message to a person named as Gary Bonsor to be buried in local churchyard after efforts to find family draw a blankIt is a puzzling story with a still unsolved mystery at its heart: just who is the individual whose cremated remains were left on the counter of a burger van at Newbury racecourse?And why – despite the cremation urn being labelled with a name and a message that hints at a loving family – has no one come forward to claim it? Continue reading...
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Any new tax on the rich won’t raise much money unless many of the exceptions and loopholes are dealt withIn this new era of rampaging oligarchs, nothing may seem as satisfying as slapping a tax on Elon Musk’s new trillion-dollar fortune. What most bothers Americans about federal taxes is that billionaires don’t pay their fair share. As the race to develop artificial intelligence mints more billionaires, policymakers’ temptation to directly tax their brobdingnagian wealth is becoming unbearable.T
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The army chief says he does not believe in a free press and has ordered the shutdown of NTV and Daily Monitor.
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UK is latest country to set minimum age for social media access but big tech is fighting back globally against curbsSocial media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdownArturo Béjar, a former employee turned whistleblower at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, has talked to parents around the world. He says they share the same perspective: they dread the day their children are old enough to go online.Governments appear to be listening too. This month the UK became the latest co
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Citizens in Minnesota using lessons learned from migrant crackdown to protect elections from president’s threatsWhen thousands of immigration agents flooded Minnesota earlier this year, a loose network of neighbors sprang into action. They fed each other. They got kids to and from school safely. They tracked the surge that tore through their communities.After organizing, block by block, to monitor Donald Trump’s extraordinary crackdown on their state, the same neighbors are shifting their focus
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President Trump and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards exchanged threats and U.S. allies in the Gulf said they had intercepted Iranian drones, as hostilities entered a fourth day.