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Palestinian teenager dies in Israeli jail after being held six months without charge
Family of Walid Ahmad, 17, say his health had deteriorated and Palestinian officials say he was denied medical care. A 17-year-old boy from the West Bank who was held without charge for six months ...
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Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in libraries
Critics say bans would hinder rights as proponents would impose their beliefs on others who don’t share their views. Rightwing groups around the US are pushing legislation that would place new ...
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People displaced by Uganda oil pipeline ‘received inadequate compensation’
Many of the people displaced by Eacop project were inadequately rehoused or compensated, report says. People displaced from their homes alongside the site of an oil pipeline under construction in ...
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Niger’s junta withdraws from Lake Chad anti-Islamist force
Coalition of former allies Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria fought armed insurgents including Boko Haram. Niger’s ruling junta has quit a regional force fighting armed Islamist groups in west ...
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China launches surprise military drills around Taiwan
Taiwan says it has detected nearly 20 vessels off its coast as Beijing orders large scale sea and air exercises and calls leaders in Taipei ‘parasites’. China has launched large-scale military ...
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Pro-Palestinian British Cornell student says he will leave US citing fear of detention
Momodou Taal, who had been asked to surrender by immigration officials, says he has ‘lost faith’ that favourable court ruling would protect him. A Cornell University student who participated in ...
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Trump officials to review $9bn in Harvard funds over antisemitism claims
Administration accuses university of failing to protect students and plans to look into federal grants and contracts. The Trump administration announced a review on Monday of $9bn in federal ...
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‘Woke’ criticism of Doctor Who proves show on right track, says its newest star
Varada Sethu joining series as Doctor’s latest companion, marking first time Tardis team is wholly people of colour. Criticisms that Doctor Who has become too “woke” prove the series is doing the ...
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Search under way for girl, 11, who fell into Thames in east London
‘Large-scale’ emergency response launched but later scaled down, while girl’s next of kin given support. A search is under way to find an 11-year-old girl after she fell into the River Thames in ...
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‘We weren’t stuck’: Nasa astronauts tell of space odyssey and reject claims of neglect
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’ story markedly at odds with abandonment narrative painted by Trump and Musk. In the end, whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump liked to insist , astronauts Barry ...
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Three of four US soldiers missing in Lithuania found dead
Rescuers recover bodies after six-day effort to dig armoured vehicle out of peat bog, but one soldier is still missing. . Three of the four US soldiers missing in Lithuania since last week have ...
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Trump’s bombing threat over Iran nuclear programme prompts backlash
Iranian officials accuse US president of breaching UN charter and say ‘violence brings violence’. Iran has reacted with outrage after Donald Trump said the country will be bombed if it does not ...
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Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’
Trump administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemic. The federal government has cancelled dozens of grants to study how to prevent ...
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Contempt as Trump claims he can run for third term: ‘This is what dictators do’
US president receives bipartisan criticism after saying there are ‘methods’ he could defy constitution to seek third term. US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump ’s suggestion that ...
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office. Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United ...
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Oliver Stone to testify at John F Kennedy assassination hearing
The director, whose film JFK has been derided by historians for suggesting the CIA had a role in the killing, will speak to task force aiming ‘to get to the bottom of this mystery’. Film director ...
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Trump labels pro-Palestine protesters accused of vandalising Turnberry as ‘terrorists’
US president says he hopes those responsible for spraying ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ on his Ayrshire golf course will be ‘treated harshly’. Donald Trump has described members of a pro-Palestine group ...
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Five people dead and four injured after explosion at Spanish coalmine
Cause of incident in Degaña, Asturias, remains unclear, as emergency services cite ‘problem with a machine’. Five people died and another four were seriously injured after an explosion on Monday at ...
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing. Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken ...
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Work and money worry young people more than culture wars or climate, UK poll finds
Class, education and gender found to influence difference in views but anxiety about finances was a common theme. Young people are more worried about their finances, work pressures and job ...
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People-smuggling gangs should be treated like terrorists, Starmer to tell global summit
Prime minister to urge world leaders to work together to stop criminal gangs as small boat crossings continue to rise. People-smugglers should be treated like terrorists, Keir Starmer will say on ...
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Greenland’s new PM rejects Trump’s latest threat: ‘We do not belong to anyone else’
Newly sworn in Jens-Frederik Nielsen says ‘Trump says that the United States is getting Greenland. Let me be clear: the United States won’t get that’. The US will not get Greenland, its new prime ...
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Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’
Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible. Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed the explanation offered by ...
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First orbital rocket launched from mainland Europe crashes after takeoff
Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless. A test rocket intended to kickstart satellite launches from Europe fell to the ...
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Donors quit Prince Harry’s charity when he left UK, says Sentebale chair
Sophie Chandauka claims there is ‘significant correlation’ with drop in funders and prince’s move to the US. Donors abandoned the charity Prince Harry founded in memory of his late mother when he ...
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US House to vote on ‘reckless’ $1bn budget cut to Washington DC
Trump and congressional Republicans attempting to exert control over mostly Democratic capital city. Washington DC has found itself in the crosshairs of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ...
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Art can help remind US and Europe of special relationship, says director of reopening Frick Collection
After a $220m five-year renovation, the New York museum is set to showcase a trove of European masterpieces . Can masterpieces of European art help smooth over the fissures between the old world ...
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Man tending grandparents’ graves suspected of igniting South Korea’s worst wildfires
Police launch probe into a man suspected of accidentally starting the country’s worst wildfires in history while clearing his relatives’ gravesites. South Korean police have launched a probe into a ...
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Turkey’s young ‘hope of millions’ held in jail as Erdoğan cracks down on protests
Popular student demonstrator Berkay Gezgin, 21, snatched off street by police outside office of detained Istanbul mayor. When 21-year-old Berkay Gezgin left the interior of Istanbul city hall, a ...
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Two leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern studies center to step down
Departures of Cemal Kafadar and Rosie Bsheer are seen by critics as ‘shameful attempt’ by school to appease Trump. The leaders of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies are leaving ...
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US citizen detained in Afghanistan by Taliban released to Qatari embassy
Faye Hall had been detained since February along with a British couple before a court order led to her release. A US citizen detained in Afghanistan in February by the Taliban administration has ...
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‘It’s a battle for football’: Manchester United and FC United fans unite against Glazers
Protest staged at FC home game against Stockton Sit-in demonstration to be held at Manchester derby FC United of Manchester and The 1958, a Manchester United fan group, held a joint action ...
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Turkish opposition rallies in defence of jailed Istanbul mayor in mass protest
Hundreds of thousands gather for Ekrem İmamoğlu outside Istanbul centre in move to keep momentum after clashes with police. Turkey’s main opposition has rallied in defence of the jailed Istanbul ...
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Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says. Israel’s military admitted on Saturday it had fired on ambulances in the Gaza Strip after ...
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Kenyan man who spent decade on death row sues London police for role in wrongful conviction
New emails reveal ‘panic’ inside the Home Office at the case of Ali Kololo, who was wrongly imprisoned for the 2011 murder of British tourist David Tebbutt. A Kenyan man who was wrongly convicted ...
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About time? Hour hand returned to Cambridge University after 1930s prank
Daughter of deceased graduate gives clock part back to Gonville & Caius College – but minute hand still missing. The hour hand of a university chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and ...
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Andrew Tate’s ex-girlfriend accuses him of sexual assault and battery
Brianna Stern details alleged abuse in lawsuit filed in Los Angeles and seeks restraining order against influencer. Andrew Tate is facing a lawsuit from an ex-girlfriend, who has accused him of ...
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‘My target is those who have looted my banks’: Bangladesh’s bank governor chases vanished assets
Despite attempts to discredit him, Ahsan Mansur is determined to trace his targets with the UK’s help. Diminutive and softly spoken, Dr Ahsan Mansur does not project the image of a man able to ...