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• Sister of Manchester suicide bomber posts prayer about 'entering Paradise' days after evil brother slaughters 22 innocents

  25-05-2017 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jomana Abedi, 18, described Salman - who slaughtered 22 innocents and injured 119 more in the Manchester Arena terror attack - as 'kind' and 'loving' before the Facebook post
  
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• Our NHS workers are on high-alert amid terror attack fears - cherish them now more than ever

  25-05-2017 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Surgeons, doctors and nurses were warned to make sure there are enough staff, blood and ­equipment in case there is a repeat of Monday’s horrific bomb attack in Manchester
  
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• Former soldier jailed for smoking on flight from UK to Egypt has sentence doubled to almost TEN YEARS

  25-05-2017 23:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Court of appeal rules John Cox’s original sentence was unduly lenient after he started a blaze in a bin on a Monarch Airlines flight from Birmingham to Sharm el-Sheikh in 2015
  
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• US probe finds over 100 civilians died in Mosul air strike

  25-05-2017 23:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A US strike targeting Islamic State fighters in a Mosul building in Iraq in March killed at least 105 civilians when the blast caused ISIS weapons to explode.
  
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• Tom Cruise's The Mummy cancels London premiere

  25-05-2017 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Universal Picturesannounced today that the premiere of Tom Cruise's summer blockbuster The Mummy, due to take place in Leicester Square on June 1, was cancelled.
  
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• Theresa May to urge world leaders to pile pressure on Facebook and social media firms to get tough on terror

  25-05-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister will tell the annual G7 summit that the war with ISIS “is moving from the battlefield to the internet"
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says the war on terror has failed and we need a 'smarter' way to tackle terrorism

  25-05-2017 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In his first major speech since the Manchester atrocity, Mr Corbyn will spell out Labour's plans to increase security in the UK
  
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• This Ukip candidate wants to slash welfare, fix potholes and build an interstellar asteroid mining industry

  25-05-2017 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Future historians may consider Aidan Powlesland a great visionary. On the other hand...
  
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• Decomposed body of mum-of-four, 33, found in her flat months after she had died

  25-05-2017 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The body of Mattisse Cornelius was found lying on the floor at the block of flats in Cardiff in March but it is unclear when she died
  
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• Sabotage, floods and the Mad Hatter: New TV show digs deep into Britain's bloomin' incredible flower contest

  25-05-2017 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A new BBC documentary follows the Britain in Bloom competition, launched in 1964, from seed to flower, and, somewhat surprisingly, it's had its fair share of controversies
  
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• US politician heard telling Guardian reporter to 'get the hell out' before 'body-slamming' journalist for asking question

  25-05-2017 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Republican candidate Greg Gianforte allegedly attacked Ben Jacobs - who claims the politician broke his glasses
  
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• Doctors can stop life-support treatment to Charlie Gard

  25-05-2017 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chris Gard and Connie Yates, from west London, want nine-month-old Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and has brain damage, to undergo a therapy trial.
  
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• Manchester bomber's mum walked out of son's wedding as 'Western music was being played'

  25-05-2017 22:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Samia Tabal, a nuclear engineering graduate, who was top of her class at Tripoli University, was unhappy living in Britain and complained about ‘the west’
  
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• Fears over 'second bomb' after police uncover huge explosives stash in Salman Abedi raid days after Manchester attack

  25-05-2017 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anti-terror officers have reportedly discovered the nail bomber's 'working bomb factory,' with a stash of chemicals and components that could be used to make another device
  
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• Manchester Arena attack leaves three girls from same school in hospital with shrapnel wounds

  25-05-2017 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A total of 32 students from Haslingden High School in Lancashire had attended the venue separately with either family members or as groups of friends
  
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• 'If it wasn't for them I wouldn't be here': Wheelchair user's search for Manchester Arena attack heroes who saved her life

  25-05-2017 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Klicea-Nicole Richardson, 20, was carried in her chair from the Manchester Arena in the moments after the bomb blast despite the carnage following the explosion
  
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• Former Greek Prime Minister injured in car bombing

  25-05-2017 22:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Greek police say Lucas Papademos was targeted in the attack in central Athens, with injuries reported in the area after an 'explosive device was hidden inside an envelope in his car'.
  
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• Millionaire rogue landlord's £200,000 Ferrari seized and CRUSHED by police

  25-05-2017 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Businessman Zahid Khan, 30, said the supercar was confiscated by West Midlands Police after he was stopped by officers
  
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• Strangers humiliate taxi driver after he refuses to let woman in wheelchair get into his car

  25-05-2017 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  He was probably feeling a little red-faced after the kind-hearted people stood by her
  
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• Visitors turned away from Birmingham hospital as police investigate reports of a man acting suspiciously

  25-05-2017 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One witness claimed someone had left a backpack in the prayer room at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  
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• Manchester's nail bomber is one of thousands of possible terrorist lunatics and one was always going to slip through the net

  25-05-2017 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Terrorist Salman Abedi killed 22 people and left more than 100 others injured when he targeted people leaving Manchester Arena
  
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• Chinese car drives over a boy as he plays on the pavement

  25-05-2017 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pedestrians rushed to rescue the child by lifting a car which had slowly mown him down. The accident was caught on CCTV in Wuxi County, Chongqing Municipality, south-western China.
  
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• Two National Lottery punters will share £25m jackpot - despite only having FIVE winning numbers and bonus ball

  25-05-2017 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The top prize had to be won last night after a long series of eleven rollovers since the last win in mid April
  
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• 'The most upsetting thing I've ever seen' Nurse gives desperately raw account of night of Manchester terror attack

  25-05-2017 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Joe O'Brien is a senior sister in the surgical department of Stepping Hill Hospital, in Stockport, which looked after injured victims of Salman Abedi's's attack on Manchester Arena
  
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• 'Let’s not do the terrorists’ job for them': Stars pen poignant letter urging people to chose hope not hate and stand with Manchester

  25-05-2017 19:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Manchester's musical and artistic community is coming together to encourage people to chose love not hate in the aftermath of the terror atrocity
  
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• "Daddy, daddy, I can't move my legs": Father of girl, 14, injured in Manchester Arena attack reveals horrifying phone call

  25-05-2017 19:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rockey McGovern was told by Ella that there was 'blood everywhere' before the phone cut dead
  
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• Burrito pop-up shop run by white women shuts down amid accusations of cultural appropriation and recipe theft

  25-05-2017 19:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kali Wilgus and Liz "LC" Connely started up Kooks Burritos and began serving their creations in a car park after being inspired during a trip to Mexico
  
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• RAF gunners scrawl 'This is for Manchester' on side of Syria-bound hellfire missile 'heading for ISIS'

  25-05-2017 19:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The defiant message, confirmed by RAF bosses today, was designed to honour the 22 people killed by suicide bomber Salman Abedi at Manchester Arena on Monday
  
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• Donald Trump's handshake with Emmanuel Macron was 'screw you in handshake form'

  25-05-2017 19:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The famous 'power shaker' has finally met his match in the new French President
  
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• 5 times Jesse Lingard proved Jose Mourinho's social media ban might be a good idea

  25-05-2017 19:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Manchester United man loves a social media post or 70, but after he overstepped the mark during his side's Europa League celebrations then maybe his manager's ban was the right move?
  
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• Man stranded after Manchester attack pays tribute to selfless stranger who got him home to Liverpool

  25-05-2017 19:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Many kind-hearted Manchester residents assisted concert-goers in their time of need
  
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• Walkers social media stunt spectacularly backfires

  25-05-2017 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Walkers Crisps asked fans to send in selfies which would be inserted into videos in a social media campaign but it backfired when pranksters instead submitted notorious images.
  
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• "I'm sorry someone set some bombs off": Girl, 10, caught up in Manchester attack writes moving letter to Ariana Grande

  25-05-2017 18:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Poppy was at the concert on Monday where 22 people died and her mum said she was "very brave"
  
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• The 5 most weird and wonderful things hidden in the small print of UKIP's general election manifesto

  25-05-2017 18:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  When UKIP come on your TV you know you won't be bored. So what are the more eyebrow-raising bits of their general election small print?
  
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• Pervert jailed after being caught by paedophile hunters

  25-05-2017 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Paul Southern, 38, from Sunderland, thought he was messaging teenagers on Gay dating app Grindr, but in fact he was talking to vigilante group,  Guardians of the North.
  
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• Woman sent death threats to Theresa May and closed Harrods with white powder

  25-05-2017 18:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Isabella Jackson, 72, made the threats to Theresa May when she was Home Secretary in November 2014 and left her in "considerable distress"
  
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• Tories rake in 4 times more in donations than Labour

  25-05-2017 18:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Theresa May's party received £1,639,108 between May 10 and 16, compared to just £382,925 for Labour.
  
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• Shamed tycoon Sir Philip Green in talks to rescue Australian arm of his high street chain Topshop which has gone into administration

  25-05-2017 18:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nervous wait for 760 staff at chain's offshoot Down Under as man who helped launch it brands current set-up "broken"
  
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• Doctors at 27 major trauma centres to urgently prepare for MORE terror attacks ahead of Bank Holiday weekend

  25-05-2017 18:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The warning comes after the terror threat level was raised to "critical" in the wake of the Manchester Arena attack
  
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• Tragic death of lollipop man who died at Buckingham Palace gates on way to meet the Queen

  25-05-2017 18:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The proudest day of Russell Hymus’ life turned to tragedy as the 67-year-old arrived at the palace in a taxi
  
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• 'Nazi nun' jailed after terrorising town for years after trying to run over kids and stalking neighbours

  25-05-2017 18:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The self-proclaimed 'Sister Helen' - aka 68-year-old Helena K - who started her own religious sect stalked her neighbours and subjected them to years of torment
  
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• UK weather: Brits hoping for scorching Bank Holiday sunshine face disappointment as forecasters now predict rain and thunderstorms

  25-05-2017 18:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It had been hoped the glorious hot spell would continue but now temperatures are set to dip on Saturday
  
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• Manchester attack: police chief pays tribute to officer Elaine McIver - latest

  25-05-2017 16:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Cheshire police chief pays tribute to officer who died in attack, as last victim is named as 15-year-old Megan Hurley• More people linked to attack may be at large - sources
  • Row over US leaks escalates
  • All 22 victims named including seven girls
  • Focus on Libya amid reports Abedi’s father and brother arrested 3.48pm BSTTrump says:Terrorism must be stopped in its tracks or the horror you saw in Manchester and so many places will be repeated forever ...We must be toug
  
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• General election 2017: Ukip says May must bear 'some responsibility' for Manchester attack – politics live

  25-05-2017 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Election campaign restarts following Manchester terror attack as PM heads to Nato summitThe Snap: sign up for our daily election email and read today’s hereManchester attack: latest updatesUkip says May must bear ‘some responsibility’ for Manchester attackUkip manifesto launch - Summary 3.30pm BSTThe Scottish National party has moved its postponed general election manifesto launch to Perth, the Highland town in one of the party’s most keenly-fought seats, after its origin
  
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• Aberdeenshire bully, 12, batters victim while friends film

  25-05-2017 16:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The disturbing film shows a blonde girl grabbing a brunette pupil's hair, pictured, before repeatedly punching her in the head and face at Fraserburgh Academy, Aberdeenshire.
  
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• 'Suspicious package' in Manchester is declared safe

  25-05-2017 16:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Armed police chased the man half a mile from a home in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, until officers detained him in the residential area, while other raids have taken place across Manchester.
  
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• UK weather: Prepare for the hottest day of the year

  25-05-2017 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Today is set to be the hottest day of the year in the UK, with temperatures set to rocket day-by-day until they smash through the 90F barrier during the Bank Holiday weekend.
  
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• World Cup 2018: Fifa admits workers have suffered human rights abuses

  25-05-2017 16:23 via theguardian.com
  
  • Gianni Infantino admits North Koreans worked at St Petersburg stadium
  • Fifa president sent letter to Nordic FAs after they expressed concernThe Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, has admitted there have been human rights abuses of workers involved in the construction of the arena in St Petersburg due to host matches in next year’s World Cup. In a letter to the presidents of four Nordic football associations, which the Guardian has seen, Infantino also acknowledged that some men
  
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• Ukip’s nonsense manifesto tries – and fails – to whip up anti-Muslim outrage | Polly Toynbee

  25-05-2017 16:19 via theguardian.com
  
  The party might have expected to capitalise on the Manchester attack. But Paul Nuttall’s words fell with a thud, and the party’s end is in sightWith Ukip standing at just 2% in some polls, only one group of people will be more frustrated than the party itself: Islamist jihadis. Surely murdering children at a pop concert should set these useless phlegmatic Brits’ blood boiling? Why aren’t these faithless, pusillanimous people retaliating as they should, by surging towards
  
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• Ben Carson, tasked with helping the poor, believes poverty is 'a state of mind'

  25-05-2017 16:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Experts decry comments as latest example he is unfit to lead department of housing and urban development, targeted for $6.2bn in cuts in Trump’s budgetPoverty is largely “a state of mind”, housing secretary Ben Carson has claimed, dismaying observers who had modest hopes for his tenure.Carson, the neurosurgeon who heads the agency charged with helping low-income Americans gain access to affordable housing, told Sirius XM radio: “You take somebody who has the right mindset
  
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