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Marine archaeologists in Wisconsin find ship after single day of searching, in 50ft-deep waters off AlgomaShipwreck hunters with the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan 131 years ago.A team of marine archaeologists located the Margaret A Muir – a 130ft, three-masted...
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Over 160,000 attendees in a key demographic 'answered the call' on Thursday, with nearly $8.5m raised for HarrisFollowing the success of a virtual call to mobilize Black women voters for Kamala Harris, a similar event with more than 160,000 attendees was held on Thursday aimed at white women, and appeared to break records.White women will be a key...
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Officials insist China-based owner ByteDance must separate from its short video app in the US because it is a threat to national security and citizens' dataThe US justice department has asked an appeals court to reject legal challenges to a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok's US assets by 19 January or face a...
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MPs and candidates who faced abuse discuss polling station buffer zones and action to tackle social media'Constant abuse': three UK candidates on their election experienceMPs and candidates who faced abuse on the campaign trail have pressed ministers to act over intimidation around polling stations and via social media algorithms that push...
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With Bank of England meeting on 1 August, people are advised to take advantage of top-paying accounts nowExperts are split on whether there will be a UK interest rate cut on Thursday but most agree on one thing: savers should "act now” to lock into the best rates while they are still available.All eyes will be on the Bank of England's monetary...
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An academic paper says the show creates ideal conditions for 'cognitive overload' and demonstrates how to avoid itBBC Radio 4's Just a Minute may be wonderfully entertaining for listeners but it is often excruciating for players as they attempt to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, hesitation or deviation.An academic paper jointly produced by...
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Former politicians pay tribute after files show 'Labour's most successful leader' was forced to consider selling legacy to pay for his dementia careMargaret Thatcher described him as "the most skilful of politicians” and Tony Blair thought him "Labour's most successful leader ever”.Such elegies on the death in 1995 of Harold Wilson, 79, the...
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US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholdersJoe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of...
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Nakash, 13, Aayat, 11, and Muhammad Hanan, 7, 'missed beyond measure', say Khurram Malik and Naumana Gul KhanThe parents of three children who died in an east London house fire have paid tribute to them, saying they were "loved beyond words and missed beyond measure”.The children who died after the blaze in East Ham on 13 July were named by...
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Park fire has burned 239,000 acres, with an official telling CBS it was spreading at a rate of 4,000 to 5,000 acres an hourA massive and explosive wildfire whipped through the small rural community of Forest Ranch, California, on Thursday, bringing back dark memories in a region that has withstood several devastating wildfires in recent years.The...
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Stories from 'ripped off' customers lead Which? to call for 'meaningful action' against firms that fall shortThe consumer group Which? this week called on the regulator to clamp down on insurers that have been "ripping off” consumers with "abysmal” claims handling.Having surveyed how customers have fared at the hands of insurers over the past...
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Amid anger at US vice-president's call to end Gaza war, many families of hostages held by Hamas agree with herSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageMembers of Israel's rightwing government have hit back at Kamala Harris over her demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after she met Benjamin Netanyahu during his US visit.After a brief meeting with...
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Labour government announces its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK's approach to the Middle EastMiddle East crisis live – latest updatesLabour has announced its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK's approach to the Middle East, dropping its opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from...
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Prof Linda-Gail Bekker receives ovation at Aids summit after presenting trial results of 'miracle' drug lenacapavirWhen the doctor behind the trial of a new HIV prevention drug heard the results, she could not contain her emotions. "I literally burst into tears,” said Prof Linda-Gail Bekker."I'm 62, I've lived through this epidemic … I had...
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Firefighters found the building on Bridge Road, Richmond engulfed in flames on Saturday morningGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice are treating as suspicious a fire that destroyed a Melbourne tobacco shop on Saturday morning, after a series of arson attacks on tobacco retailers.Firefighters found the...
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Kai McKenzie, 23, expresses gratitude for outpouring of support in first public comments after attack by 'biggest shark I've ever seen'Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian surfer whose leg was bitten off by a shark has promised he'll be "back in that water in no time” as he recovers from...
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Given barely any warning, many people fled with nothing as bombs fell and bullets flew around themThe evacuation order jolted Munadil Abu Younes one morning earlier this week as he scrolled on his phone reading the news. Israeli forces ordered thousands to flee, including from the area where he was sheltering. His eighth displacement was like...
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Public health adviser says higher temperatures caused by climate crisis pose danger for visitors not used to themThe climate emergency poses a "real risk” to Spain's traditional mass tourist model as rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves hit the country's most popular coastal destinations, a senior public health adviser has...
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Opposition leader receives hero's welcome at Victorian Liberal state council, talking up Coalition's prospects for upcoming federal electionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPeter Dutton has blasted the beleaguered CFMEU and identity politics as the opposition leader rallies Liberal Party faithful ahead of the...
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Police allege the man used an encrypted messaging service to deal drugs and coordinate a network of runners outside the Sydney facilityGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn immigration detainee and another man have been charged over an alleged drug ring operating from inside a detention facility.Police say the...
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Arsonists used crude methods but disruption to opening of the Olympic Games in Paris was severe It was about 1.15am when the SNCF maintenance workers, carrying out repairs by moonlight, spotted the group of people a little further down the railway line near a signal box outside the sleepy village of Vergigny, in the northern French department of...
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Police searched houses across country on eve of Olympic opening ceremony in neighbouring FranceThree suspected members of Islamic State's Afghan branch, Islamic State Khorasan, have been charged in Belgium with planning a terrorist attack.Police released four other people who had also been detained during searches of houses across the country on...
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Vyacheslav Zinchenko, 18, remanded in custody for 60 days after Iryna Farion shot in Lviv on 19 JulyA Ukrainian court has remanded an 18-year-old man in custody over the murder of a nationalist former lawmaker, state media reported.Iryna Farion – a divisive hardline campaigner against the use of Russian language – was shot near her flat in the...
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Court urges federal and Ontario governments to make payouts after 'dishonourably' neglecting 174-year-old dealThe Crown promised riches to First Nations in Canada – over 150 years on, they could finally get billionsAn "egregious” refusal by successive Canadian governments to honor a key treaty signed with Indigenous nations made a "mockery”...
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US announces arrest of two leaders of organised crime group as Mexican authorities say they were in the darkThe Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has called for "transparency” after the sudden and secretive arrests by US authorities of two top leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful organised crime...
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Yorkshire club's supporters decry Red Bull's logo bringing colour of Man Utd and Lancaster rose to all-white shirtWith the football season fast approaching, fans young and old will be looking forward to getting their hands on their club's new kit.But Leeds United supporters have to contend with the beloved white of their home shirt being blemished...
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Danielle Carr-Gomm fell fatally ill when she stopped taking insulin during Wiltshire workshop run by Hongchi Xiao• Profile: the healer convicted over two deathsAn alternative healer who promoted a "slapping therapy” taken up by millions of people across the world has been found guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter of a British woman who...
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Irish singer's brother speaks of shock at 'hideous' figure which 'looked nothing like her'Dublin's wax museum is withdrawing a figure of Sinéad O'Connor amid criticism from her family and members of the public that it looked "nothing like her”.Many reacted with shock when the waxwork figure was unveiled on Thursday. Continue reading...
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Danielle Smith and her government's refusal to combat global heating is said to have made blazes more intenseWhen Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta, began her grim update about the wildfire damage to Jasper, the famed mountain resort in the Canadian Rockies, her voice slipped and she held back tears.Hours earlier, a fast-moving wildfire tore...
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Calls follow Guardian undercover investigation as chancellor poised to reveal £20bn hole in UK financesRachel Reeves is facing calls to crack down on the super-rich using offshore pension schemes to avoid multimillion pound inheritance and capital gains tax bills, following a Guardian investigation.On Thursday, undercover filming revealed how...
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Planet's largest blanket bog is first peatland to be designated by Unesco after 40-year campaignThe Flow Country, a vast and unspoiled blanket bog that carpets the far north of Scotland, has been made a world heritage site by Unesco.The planet's largest blanket bog, the Flow Country covers about 1,500 sq miles of Caithness and Sutherland, and is...
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Unnamed official says comments should not be interpreted by Hamas that there is a gap between the US and its allyA spokeswoman for No 10 added – regarding Labour dropping the Tories' plan to challenge the ICC – that the Government believes very strongly in the separation of powers and the rule of law domestically and internationally."I think...
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Märtha Louise is not allowed to use her title commercially after renouncing her royal duties two years agoA letter has claimed that the Norwegian princess Märtha Louise was more deeply involved with a gin launched to mark her forthcoming wedding than previously stated, amid growing questions over the use of her name on the bottle.The royal, who...
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Disruption to continue all weekend and long diversions in place as passengers asked to postpone if possibleEurostar passengers travelling from London to Paris on Friday were asked to postpone trips if possible as the rail operator cancelled one in four trains over the weekend after arson attacks caused widespread disruption to France's high-speed...
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'There will never be mining' at Northern Territory site, Albanese says as area becomes part of Kakadu national parkGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt's the decades-long fight over uranium mining that pitted Indigenous owners against the resources industry.Now it seems the war is over, with the Australian...
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Government move to engage archaeological specialists comes after 'suspicious' locations identified at Kinchela Aboriginal institution Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales government will engage a specialist to explore the site of a notorious boys home where locations "consistent with...
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Strength of PM's crackdown shows her nervousness and that climate of fear is breaking down, say criticsHasan still has the metal pellets Bangladesh police fired at him lodged deep in his bones. Fearful he will join the growing ranks of those thrown behind bars by the state for participating in protests that have swept Bangladesh this month, Hasan...
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Rico Krieger admits role in Ukrainian plot and pleads for German chancellor to save him during broadcastA German man sentenced to death in Belarus has appeared on state television in the country, in tears and begging the German government to intervene in his case."Mr Scholz, please, I am still alive … it is not yet too late,” said Rico Krieger,...
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PC Craig Carter told he faces prison for stealing about £115 from wallet received as evidence in 2022A Metropolitan police officer has pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office after stealing money from a man who had died in the street.PC Craig Carter, 51, stole £115 from Claudio Gaetani between 7 and 14 September 2022 after he collapsed and...
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We factcheck the Israeli prime minister's statements about letting aid trucks into Gaza, safeguarding civilians and negotiations with HamasBenjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress was filled with combative remarks, as well as claims about the war in Gaza, now almost in its tenth month.Israel's assault on the territory was triggered by the 7 October...
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Prosecutors open formal investigation after coordinated attacks cause severe disruption on France's busiest linesParis 2024 Olympics – live updatesProsecutors have opened a criminal investigation after saboteurs attacked France's high-speed railway network in a series of "malicious acts” that brought chaos to the country's busiest rail lines...
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Biden praises law enforcement for fentanyl charges against members of 'one of the deadliest enterprises in the world'The US justice department has arrested two leaders of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel, including the cartel's co-founder, for leading deadly fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking networks.The attorney general, Merrick Garland,...
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Arrest of Dmitry Bulgakov is latest high-profile incident in ongoing purge within Moscow's military top brassA former senior Russian defence official has been arrested and charged with corruption in the latest high-profile incident in an ongoing purge within the country's military top brass.Dmitry Bulgakov, who was a deputy defence minister in...
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Blaze on Thursday night at warehouse in Elin Pelin near Sofia set off series of dramatic fireballsOne person was killed and another seriously injured when a blaze at a firework factory in Bulgaria set off a series of dramatic explosions on Thursday, local officials and medical staff said.The blasts began at about 6.30pm in the town of Elin Pelin...
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Exclusive: Senate to gain two frontbenchers with PM expected to give NT senator the Indigenous affairs job and skills post to NSW senatorAnthony Albanese is set to promote two senators into his ministry, the Northern Territory's Malarndirri McCarthy and Jenny McAllister from New South Wales, as part of a limited frontbench reshuffle to be confirmed...
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The country has long been the world's biggest market – but the government's interest is more geopolitical than environmentalWhen Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn't even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk's biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She...
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Policymakers and funders are being urged to invest in training a workforce to serve the industries of the futureA greener economy could bring millions of jobs to some of the largest countries in Africa, according to a new report.Research by the development agency FSD Africa and the impact advisory firm Shortlist predicts that 3.3 million jobs...
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Organisers hope dogs will mimic behaviour of wolves that in past would have helped disperse wildflower seeds Backpack-wearing dogs are being enlisted to "act like wolves” to help rewild an urban nature reserve in the East Sussex town of Lewes.Before wolves were persecuted to extinction in the UK in about 1760, they were known to roam large areas,...
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Police complaints watchdog to investigate actions of armed officer who kicked Muhammed Fahir, 19, in faceThe family of the man who was kicked in the face by an armed officer have appealed for calm after a second night of protests over the "barbaric” arrest at Manchester airport.Paul Waugh, the Labour MP for Rochdale, said the "traumatised”...
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Prime ministers release joint statement saying they are 'gravely concerned about the prospect of further escalation across the region'Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prime ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand have declared that a ceasefire in Gaza is "needed desperately” and urged Israel to...
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Union tells inquiry consumer watchdog should investigate and accuses Live Nation and competitor TEG of anti-competitive behaviourGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia's union for performing artists has accused the world's largest live entertainment company of anti-competitive behaviour and called for the...
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More than 30 councils relied on reports during development approval process for 135 sites but EPA says no immediate risks to public health identifiedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn environmental consultant has been accused of falsifying laboratory...
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Delegates expect event to pass only what insiders consider the 'bare minimum' on recognition motionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSenior Labor figures are attempting to prevent an outbreak of discontent at this weekend's New South Wales state...
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This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQ: Will Malarndirri McCarthy, the assistant minister for Indigenous Australians, replace you?Linda Burney said that was "way above [her] pay grade” but that McCarthy was a dear friend:The most important thing is for me to support whoever it is in the...
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Non-cancer electives could be delayed as early as next week as TGA issues shortage alert for multiple products used in surgery and critical careFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSurgeries could be cancelled as soon as next week due to an "unprecedented”...
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Half a million people evacuated, 21 deaths confirmed so far and capsized tanker in Manila causes huge oil spillTyphoon Gaemi has been wreaking havoc, with the Philippines government forced to declare a state of calamity last week in its capital Manila, and flooding and at least three deaths in Taiwan. . Manila received more than 300mm of rainfall,...
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Victoria police charge 18-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy after MP's St Kilda office was defaced with slogans including 'Zionism is fascism'Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo teenagers have been charged over the alleged vandalism of a federal Labor...
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Sounkamba Sylla reportedly reaches compromise after France's strict laws on secularism threatened to bar herA French sprinter is expected to swap her headscarf for a cap in order to participate in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, in a compromise reportedly struck after the country's strict laws on secularism threatened to bar her from the...
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NT government opts not to grant 10-year lease after considering wishes of Indigenous people and federal government adviceFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe lease on the Northern Territory's Jabiluka uranium mine will not be renewed, months after its...
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WA police allege girl was victim of online grooming, sextortion and other online offencesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA man in India has been arrested and charged after allegedly sexually abusing and intimidating a girl in Western Australia over...
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Toowoomba religious sect leader, Brendan Luke Stevens, expressed confidence that eight-year-old would be healed by God, trial hearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA religious leader charged with murdering an eight-year-old girl told her parents their...
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Connection found between early exposure and bronchitic symptoms in adults without previous lung problemsAir pollution breathed in during childhood is one of the factors in adult lung health, according to a new study.The origins of the study date back to 1992 when researchers began investigating the effects of air pollution on groups of children in...
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In today's newsletter: As Paris gears up for the Games, the excitement is palpable, but concern about performance-enhancing drugs threatens the reputation of one of its sports• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.The Olympics is here! Get ready for some truly awe-inspiring displays of athleticism. But there is also a...
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Ukraine's foreign minister calls on Hong Kong to prevent Russia from using region to circumvent sanctions; drone debris lands in Romania. What we know on day 884The Pentagon has found $2bn worth of additional errors in its calculations for ammunition, missiles and other equipment sent to Ukraine, increasing the improperly valued material to a total...
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