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• Baby in critical condition after dog attack

  11-04-2019 23:49
  Police were called to an address in Hawick in the Scottish Borders on Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Chelsea fans barred from match after singing 'racist song' about Mo Salah

  11-04-2019 23:29
  Three Chelsea fans have been turned away from a Europa League quarter-final after they allegedly sang a racist song about Mohamed Salah.The fans were identified by Chelsea Football Club as appearing in a video which has been widely shared on social media.The video appears to show them singing a racist song about the Liverpool forward, which includes a chant about Salah being a terrorist.
  
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• WikiLeaks' Assange hauled from embassy, faces US charge

  11-04-2019 22:43
  LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the U.S. charged the WikiLeaks founder with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to get their hands on government secrets.
  
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• WikiLeaks' Assange hauled from embassy, faces US charge

  11-04-2019 22:43
  British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the U.S. charged the WikiLeaks founder with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to get their hands on government secrets.Police arrested Assange after the South American nation revoked the political asylum that had protected him in the embassy, and he was brought before a British court — the first step in an extra
  
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• Assange hacking charge limits free speech defence - legal experts

  11-04-2019 22:35
  The charge unsealed in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday said that in 2010 Assange agreed to help Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst then known as Bradley Manning, crack a password to a U.S. government network.At the time, Manning had already given WikiLeaks classified information about U.S. war activities in both Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Guantanamo Bay detainees, prosecutors said.The scheme would have allowed Manning to log in to the network anonymo
  
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• Analysis: WikiLeaks founder unlikely to be extradited soon

  11-04-2019 22:28
  LONDON (AP) — The battle between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the American government was always going to be epic, involving concepts like free speech, journalists' rights, national interests, even treason.
  
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• Acer ConceptD 9 hands on review - TechRadar

  11-04-2019 22:15
  Acer ConceptD 9 hands on review  TechRadarHands on: Acer ConceptD 9 Review – The portable Surface Studio rival?  TrustedReviewsAcer ConceptD 9 Hands-On: A bombastic attempt to stand out  Engadget5 things you need to know about Acer's bold new ConceptD PC line  StuffAcer ConceptD range explained: Prices, release dates, features  TrustedReviewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Light aircraft crashes at Merseyside golf course

  11-04-2019 22:04
  A microlight aircraft has crashed at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course in Merseyside, police say.
  
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• No-deal Brexit planning winds down with 'immediate effect' - Sky sources

  11-04-2019 21:57
  Operational planning for a no-deal Brexit is being wound down by the government "with immediate effect", according to Sky sources.In an email obtained by Sky News, the permanent secretary of a frontline Brexit department thanked staff for their work in preparing for a no-deal divorce from the EU.
  
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• Government 'Halts No-Deal Planning' After EU Grants Halloween Brexit Extension

  11-04-2019 21:57
  The government has stopped all operational planning for a no-deal Brexit with"immediate effect", it has been reported
  
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• Privately-owned Moon lander crashes in historic attempt

  11-04-2019 21:39
  Private spaceflight isn't quite ready to mark another milestone
  
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• U.S. charges Assange after London arrest ends seven years in Ecuador embassy

  11-04-2019 21:37
  British police dragged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of Ecuador's embassy on Thursday after his seven-year asylum was revoked, paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information.Hours after the frail-looking Assange, with white hair and a long beard, was carried head-first by at least seven men out of the London embassy and into a waiting police van, U.S. officials announced he had been charged with conspiracy to commit comp
  
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• Irish police insist taxi driver who admitted sexual assaults has lost licence

  11-04-2019 21:32
  It follows claims that the man was still permitted to transport women in his vehicle.
  
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• Julian Assange: the wedge that created a divide among Trump loyalists

  11-04-2019 21:24
  Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Photograph: RMV/REX/ShutterstockThe charges that led to Julian Assange’s arrest have nothing to do with the 2016 presidential election or the Mueller investigation into Donald Trump’s Russian ties, but the extradition case and Assange’s possible arrival in the US will be electrified by all those unresolved issues. “I know nothing about Wikileaks. It’s not my thing,” Don
  
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• U.S. charges WikiLeaks' Assange with hacking conspiracy with Manning

  11-04-2019 21:23
  U.S. prosecutors announced charges on Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to a government computer as part of one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history.Assange, arrested by British police and carried out of Ecaudor's embassy in London, faces up to five years in prison on the American charge, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.Assange's indictm
  
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• The Birmingham pub bombings victims

  11-04-2019 21:08
  On the night of November 21, 1974, 21 people died and 220 were injured in the IRA bomb attacks.
  
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• Amazon staff listen to Alexa recordings and put them in chat rooms

  11-04-2019 21:06
  Amazon listens in to what users say to their Alexa voice assistants, it has emerged.Teams around the world use recordings from Amazon Echo smart speakers to improve how Alexa responds to requests, Bloomberg reported.The website claimed that Amazon staff have occasionally heard "distressing" recordings - with some workers even sharing funny audio clips in internal chat rooms.
  
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• Ring of Brodgar: 4,000-year-old stone circle vandalised with graffiti in 'mindless act'

  11-04-2019 20:58
  A 4,000-year-old stone circle in Orkney has been vandalised in a "mindless act", Police Scotland have said.Damage to the world-renowned Ring of Brodgar includes graffiti which has been engraved into one of the stones at the Neolithic site near Stenness.Inspector David Hall said: "The stones at the Ring of Brodgar are priceless historical artefacts and the damage caused cannot simply be estimated in monetary terms.
  
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• Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy

  11-04-2019 20:56
  Julian Assange is facing extradition to the United States and up to five years in prison after he was forcibly dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, bringing an extraordinary seven-year diplomatic stalemate to an end. After 2,487 days in the embassy, the 47-year-old was arrested after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and invited Metropolitan police officers inside their Knightsbridge premises, where he has stayed since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assa
  
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• Harry will be ‘fantastic’ father, Lady Jayne Woodward says

  11-04-2019 20:56
  The wife of rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive praised the royal at the launch of a youth centre in London.
  
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• Shops and airport security are huge fears for Parkinson's sufferer David - Armagh i

  11-04-2019 20:55
  Shops and airport security are huge fears for Parkinson's sufferer David  Armagh iParkinson’s disease - the amount of water you should drink every day to avoid symptoms  ExpressMy hangover twitch turned out to be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease – I was only 23  The SunFinger-bending gadget could diagnose Parkinson's in 30 seconds  Daily MailParkinson's: One in five with the condition have been accused of being drunk | 5 News &nb
  
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• Mother requests return of cannabis oil seized at UK border

  11-04-2019 20:55
  Emma Appleby (left), with her daughter Teagan and partner, Lee Moore.Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PAA mother who had £4,600 worth of medical cannabis oil for her daughter seized by UK border guards is asking for it to be returned after she obtained a prescription from a doctor. Emma Appleby was stopped on Saturday as she returned from the Netherlands with the potentially life-saving medication for her nine-year-old daughter, Teagan, who suffers from the rare chromosomal disorder isodicentri
  
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• Laleh Shahravesh: Mum held over 'horse' insult describes 'horrendous' ordeal

  11-04-2019 20:47
  A British woman who was detained in Dubai for calling her ex-husband’s new wife a "horse" on Facebook has said the ordeal has been "the most horrendous period of my life".In her first telephone interview since being told she is allowed to go home, Laleh Shahravesh said she was "overwhelmed and emotional" at being able to return home to see her teenage daughter.The 55-year-old told Sky News: "I am lost for words, I am so happy that I am going to see my gorgeous girl.
  
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• Stormzy Cancels Snowbombing Festival Appearance Due To 'Racial Profiling'

  11-04-2019 20:44
  In an expletive-laden tirade on Instagram, the grime artist apologised to hisfans but said he felt he had no choice but to pull himself from the lineup
  
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• Stormzy Cancels Snowbombing Festival Appearance Due To 'Racial Profiling'

  11-04-2019 20:44
  In an expletive-laden tirade on Instagram, the grime artist apologised to hisfans but said he felt he had no choice but to pull himself from the lineup
  
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• Netflix plans to launch print magazine and buy historic LA cinema

  11-04-2019 20:22
  Netflix is considering buying Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard in LA.Photograph: Danny Moloshok/ReutersNetflix is considering launching its own print magazine and buying a historic Los Angeles cinema to showcase its productions as part of its continuing attempts to be fully accepted by the US film industry – and win more awards in the process. The streaming service is reportedly looking to launch a quarterly publication to promote its own shows and their stars, tenta
  
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• Council removes nets after ‘heartbreaking’ footage of struggling sand martins

  11-04-2019 20:18
  North Norfolk District Council had used the netting in an attempt to encourage nesting further along the coast.
  
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• Sinn Fein anger at sex assault driver allowed back behind wheel of taxi

  11-04-2019 20:14
  The party's Donnchadh O Laoghaire said the court decision ahead of the man's sentencing was 'outrageous'.
  
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• May tells MPs 'swift decisions' on Brexit will be needed after recess

  11-04-2019 20:03
  Theresa May has dispatched shattered MPs for a 10-day Easter recess, and urged them to use the time away from Westminster to “reflect on the decisions that will have to be made swiftly on our return,” after European Union leaders set 31 October as the new Brexit deadline. The prime minister addressed the House of Commons after her return from the late-night summit in Brussels at which EU27 leaders thrashed out an extension to article 50. She stressed her determination to plough ahead
  
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• Donald Trump's Reaction To Julian Assange's Arrest Has Everyone Pointing Out The Same Thing

  11-04-2019 20:01
  Donald Trump today denied having any knowledge of WikiLeaks after the arrestof its co-founder, Julian Assange
  
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• Human health not greatly affected by space missions, Nasa twins study finds

  11-04-2019 20:00
  Scientists investigated the health impacts of US astronaut Scott Kelly's year-long mission to the International Space Station.
  
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• Body of professional footballers condemns FAI after committee appearance

  11-04-2019 19:57
  An Oireachtas committee hearing took place over seven hours on Wednesday.
  
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• With Brexit delayed until October, MPs cheer as they get Easter break

  11-04-2019 19:42
  Theresa May has confirmed she plans to call another vote on her Brexit deal "soon" - but MPs have been granted an Easter recess so they can take time to "reflect on the issues".Returning from Brussels after EU leaders agreed to delay Brexit until 31 October, the prime minister was welcomed by some in parliament but faced wrath from others.Mrs May told MPs they had a "national duty" to pass a divorce deal as soon as possible - holding out hope that Brexit could happen before 22 May so the UK can
  
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• Inside the webchats the US hopes will get Assange behind bars

  11-04-2019 19:37
  Chelsea Manning Austin, Texas, on 13 March 2018. Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/ReutersIt was the most dramatic moment of the weeks-long trial in 2013 in which whistleblower Chelsea Manning was prosecuted for a historic leak of state secrets. She was facing court martial for having electronically transferred a mind-boggling 250,000 US state department cables, almost half a million war-logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and a video of a US helicopter attack on civilians in Baghdad, to Julian Assange of
  
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• U.S. charges Assange after London arrest ends seven years holed up in Ecuador embassy

  11-04-2019 19:32
  British police dragged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of Ecuador's embassy on Thursday after his seven-year asylum was revoked, paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information.Hours after the frail-looking Assange, with white hair and a long beard, was carried head-first by at least seven men out of the London embassy and into a waiting police van, U.S. officials announced he had been charged with conspiracy to commit comp
  
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• Trump says he does not have opinion on Assange's arrest

  11-04-2019 19:30
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not have an opinion about the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces the prospect of extradition to the United States over the publishing of secret official information.British police arrested Assange on Thursday after Ecuador withdrew its asylum that had allowed him to take refuge in the country's embassy in London for seven years."I know nothing about WikiLeaks.
  
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• WikiLeaks' Assange arrested in London, faces US charge

  11-04-2019 19:29
  LONDON (AP) — A bearded and shouting Julian Assange was pulled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and hauled into court Thursday, the start of an extradition battle for the WikiLeaks founder who faces U.S. charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents.
  
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• Britain standing down no-deal operational planning - Sky

  11-04-2019 19:27
  LONDON (Reuters) - British government departments are standing down their planning for a no-deal Brexit with immediate effect, Sky News said on Thursday.
  
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• Assange may risk torture in United States, his lawyer says

  11-04-2019 19:25
  MADRID (Reuters) - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may risk torture if he is extradited to the United States, one of his lawyers said in Madrid on Thursday, following Assange's arrest in London.
  
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• What to make of the latest extension to article 50?

  11-04-2019 19:21
  Theresa May arriving ahead of a European council meeting on Brexit in Brussels on Wednesday, which concluded with the prime minister being offered a longer extension than she had sought. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty ImagesThe EU council determining the length of an extension to article 50 should put to rest the decades-long Europhobe lie that the EU is run by “unelected bureaucrats” (Britain told leave by 31 October, 11 April). Brexit has also exposed Michael Gove’s ca
  
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• When prison is preferable to life on the streets

  11-04-2019 19:20
  Feltham young offenders institution. ‘A vigorous and fundamental review of the way we look after vulnerable, challenging children, even when they offend, must be undertaken,’ writes John Weightman. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PAAs a criminal defence solicitor representing clients in the magistrates court it is clear to me that the majority of offenders given short-term sentences are sent to prison either because they ask to be sent or because they have failed to comply with a community
  
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• The will of the people now and the brazen promises of 2016

  11-04-2019 19:20
  Boris Johnson MP in York during the referendum campaign in 2016 with the Vote Leave bus bearing the slogan ‘We send the EU £350 million a week – let’s fund our NHS instead’.Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesI bow to the seniority of your 82-year-old correspondent Michael Knowles, who believes that parliament has “sabotage[d] the vote in 2016 referendum” (Letters, 10 April). As a mere 70-year-old, I can still assert that 16.1 million is a very l
  
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• Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba and the need for GMC reform

  11-04-2019 19:20
  Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba. ‘… all reports following the tragic death of Jack Adcock showed that she was a good doctor let down by systemic failings in the NHS,’ writes Wendy Savage.Photograph: Nick Ansell/PAI was delighted to read that Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba will be resuming practice, as all reports following the tragic death of Jack Adcock showed that she was a good doctor let down by systemic failings in the NHS, which is chronically underfunded and short-staffed (Doctor free to wo
  
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• 'TIME'S UP!' May warned of shock Cabinet plot which could REMOVE her from No10 - Express

  11-04-2019 19:17
  'TIME'S UP!' May warned of shock Cabinet plot which could REMOVE her from No10  ExpressTHERESA May has been warned her Cabinet could trigger her early resignation amid growing discontent in her leadership after the Prime Minister agreed to a ...
  
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• Judge tells ‘narcissist’ Julian Assange to ‘get over to US’

  11-04-2019 19:12
  The court heard officers had struggled to place handcuffs on the WikiLeaks founder during his arrest at Ecuador's embassy.
  
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• Julian Assange branded 'narcissist' by judge as he is found guilty of breaching bail conditions

  11-04-2019 19:11
  A judge branded Julian Assange a "narcissist" as he was found guilty of breaching his bail conditions - hours after he was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London following seven years of refuge.The WikiLeaks founder is facing extradition to the US on charges of conspiring to break into a classified government computer, where he could face a maximum jail sentence of five years.Assange was detained by police after the Ecuadorian government withdrew his asylum - accusing the self-pr
  
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• Brexit talks with Labour will not continue ‘for the sake of it’, says No 10

  11-04-2019 19:05
  Theresa May faces her critics after EU leaders set a new Halloween deadline for Britain to leave.
  
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• French court finds Bayer's Monsanto liable for farmer's sickness

  11-04-2019 19:00
  PARIS/LYON (Reuters) - A French court has ruled that Monsanto was liable for the sickness of a farmer who inhaled one of its weedkillers, in another legal setback for the Bayer-owned business over health claims.In the latest stage of a decade-long legal tussle, the appeals court in Lyon on Thursday found in favour of farmer Paul Francois' claim that Monsanto's Lasso weedkiller had made him sick and that the product's labelling had been inadequate."Mr Francois justifiably concludes that the produ
  
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• Ireland urged to investigate Troubles deaths that happened in Republic

  11-04-2019 18:48
  Northern Ireland's Victim's Commissioner Judith Thompson made the call in her first presentation on legacy proposals to the Irish Government.
  
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• May Meets Corbyn Again For Brexit Talks As She Laughs Off Tory Calls For Her Quit

  11-04-2019 18:45
  Theresa May has laughed off calls to quit from Tory Brexiteeers accusing herof "abject surrender" over her latest delay to Brexit
  
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