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• Man rushes at Buffalo shooter during sentencing hearing – video

  15-02-2023 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  In an emotionally charged sentencing hearing a man rushed at the convicted Buffalo shooter, Payton Gendron, before guards restrained him and escorted Gendron out. The incident happened as Barbara Massey Mapps, the sister of one of Gendron’s victims, was expressing her anger at him. ‘You are going to come to our city and decide you don’t like Black people. Man, you don’t know a damn thing about Black people,’ said Mapps. She added: ‘We never go to no neighbourh
  
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• Six times Nicola Sturgeon spoke her mind

  15-02-2023 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's first minister shared her view on the Tories, Jeremy Clarkson and controversial haircuts.
  
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• No evidence to suggest crime in Nicola Bulley search - Police

  15-02-2023 13:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lancashire Police say there is no evidence to suggest any third parties were involved in the disappearance.
  
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• Nikki Haley: who is the Republican taking on Trump in 2024? – video profile

  15-02-2023 13:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The child of Indian immigrants, Nikki Haley began her political career in South Carolina. She worked her way up to governor, before being appointed US ambassador to the UN by then president Donald Trump. She was known as a combative diplomat, who sometimes aggressively advocated for the US in the global forum. Here is a look at her career so far, as she announces her bid for the US presidency.Nikki Haley: video shows presidential candidate saying states can secede
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• A look back at Nicola Sturgeon's life in politics

  15-02-2023 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Nicola Sturgeon resigns as Scotland's longest-serving first minister, BBC Scotland looks back on how she rose to the nation's highest office.
  
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• Watch: Sturgeon 'wrestling' with decision to resign for weeks

  15-02-2023 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon announces that she is resigning after more than eight years as head of the Scottish government.
  
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• 'Team Jorge' unmasked: the secret disinformation team who distort reality – video

  15-02-2023 05:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A covert team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media have been exposed in a new investigation. The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym 'Jorge'. In more than six hours of secretly recorded meetings, Hanan and his team explained how they could gather intelligence on rivals, including by
  
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• Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections

  15-02-2023 05:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Team Jorge’ unit exposed by undercover investigationGroup sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profilesEvidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across worldMastermind Tal Hanan claims covert involvement in 33 presidential electionsA team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation.The unit is
  
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• How undercover reporters caught ‘Team Jorge’ disinformation operatives on camera

  15-02-2023 05:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For more than six months, undercover reporters posed as consultants working on behalf of a businessman who wanted to delay an African electionAs the man calling himself “Jorge” shook hands with two prospective clients, he joked: “You saw what it says on the door, right? It says nothing. That’s who we are. We are nothing.”He was smartly dressed with an expensive watch, flashier than the consultants – who were in fact undercover reporters – had expected. I
  
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• ‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles

  15-02-2023 05:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Amazon and AirbnbRevealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in electionsAt first glance, the Twitter user “Canaelan” looks ordinary enough. He has tweeted on everything from basketball to Taylor Swift, Tottenham Hotspur football club to the price of a KitKat. The profile shows a friendly-looking blond man with a stubbly beard and glasses who,
  
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• Missouri man freed as murder conviction overturned after three decades

  15-02-2023 04:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’A Missouri judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a man who has served nearly 28 years of a life sentence for a killing that he has always said he didn’t commit.Lamar Johnson, 50, closed his eyes and shook his head slightly as a member of his legal team patted him on the back when Judge David Mason issued his ruling. In coming to his decision, Mason exp
  
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• Thousands of Ukrainian children put through Russian ‘re-education’ camps, US report finds

  15-02-2023 04:02 via theguardian.com
  
  New report details network of dozens of Russian camps aimed at giving children pro-Moscow views, with some children detained indefinitelySee all our Ukraine coverageAt least 6,000 children from Ukraine have attended Russian “re-education” camps in the past year, with several hundred held there for weeks or months beyond their scheduled return date, according to a new report published in the US.Russia has also unnecessarily expedited the adoption and fostering of children from Ukraine
  
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• Why is the Prevent counter-terrorism programme review so controversial? - podcast

  15-02-2023 04:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The UK scheme has long had its critics, but now even the review looking at how to overhaul it is facing criticism. Why is the debate around Prevent so heated?Since its inception two decades ago, Prevent, part of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, has attracted controversy. Its aim is to ensure that those at risk of radicalisation can be stopped and turned away from extremist ideologies, reducing terrorist attacks.For many years there have been criticisms that Prevent has impin
  
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• World’s largest skating rink on thin ice as Canada’s warm winter prevents opening

  15-02-2023 03:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Mild temperatures in Ottawa make it too dangerous to open Rideau Canal Skateway, the capital’s 7.8km long ‘blockbuster’ attractionCanada’s Rideau Canal Skateway – the largest outdoor rink in the world and a Unesco heritage site – may not open this winter for the first time in five decades, due to a lack of ice.Ottawa is in the grips of its third-warmest winter ever recorded, according to Environment Canada, with temperatures hovering just below freezing throug
  
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• ‘She exemplified kindness’: Michigan mourns three killed in campus shooting

  15-02-2023 03:51 via theguardian.com
  
  University students Alexandria Verner, Brian Fraser and Arielle Anderson were all from suburban Detroit areaOne was a fraternity chapter president. Another was a science student with fond memories of her days as a high-school athlete, and the third was a frequent volunteer who wanted to become a surgeon.Family and friends mourned the deaths of three Michigan State University students killed in a Monday night shooting that critically wounded five others. Continue reading...
  
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• Thom Browne shoots wearability to the moon at Little Prince-inspired New York show

  15-02-2023 03:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Fashion designer ignores trend towards ordinary in his first outing since winning four stripes case against AdidasChatter at New York fashion week is about something far from remarkable – the return to “ordinary” wearable clothes on the catwalk rather than those that chase the viral moment. But American designer Thom Browne didn’t get the memo. His collection shown on Tuesday evening was fantastical.The set featured a “crashed” old-fashioned aeroplane and the
  
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• ‘What next’ can be the hardest conversation for a terminally ill patient and doctor | Ranjana Srivastava

  15-02-2023 02:10 via theguardian.com
  
  We will have only ourselves to blame for the evaporation of humanity in medicine if we keep narrowing the role of doctorsFor the short time I have known the patient, I have only seen him in bed. On a good day, he has sat up but my defining memory of him will be his sheer inability to go from bed to chair without gasping for breath, as intolerable to witness as it must be to bear. His usual doctor has run out of options. So it falls to my inpatient team to broach the subject of what next, a diffi
  
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• Fukushima: Japan insists release of 1.3m tonnes of ‘treated’ water is safe

  15-02-2023 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Neighbouring countries and local fishers express concern as 12th anniversary of nuclear disaster loomsAlmost 12 years have passed since the strongest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history resulted in a tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people along its north-east coast.As the country prepares to mark the 11 March anniversary, one of the disaster’s most troubling legacies is about to come into full view with the release of more than 1m tonnes of “treated” water from th
  
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• Biden drops candidate’s nomination to human rights post over Israel remarks

  15-02-2023 01:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Professor says his selection was dropped for describing Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ and accusing Jeffries of being ‘bought’ by AipacThe Biden administration has withdrawn the nomination of a leading law professor to an international human rights post, for describing Israel as an “apartheid state” and accusing the top Democrat in Congress of being “bought” by pro-Israel groups.James Cavallaro, of Wesleyan and Yale universities, said he was told b
  
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• Labour out of EHRC special measures after progress on tackling antisemitism

  15-02-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Keir Starmer says party heading in right direction but there is still work to do, 18 months after watchdog’s reportLabour has been taken out of special measures by the equalities watchdog, with Keir Starmer hailing progress in tackling antisemitism as a watershed moment for the party.In a speech on Wednesday, Starmer will herald the party’s progress while saying there is still significant work to be done. Continue reading...
  
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• Girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS

  15-02-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Teddi Shaw, from Northumberland, first recipient on health service of Libmeldy, world’s most expensive drugA girl born with a rare and deadly genetic condition is expected to live a long and normal life after becoming the first person to be cured on the NHS with the help of a revolutionary gene therapy.Teddi Shaw was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), an inherited condition that causes catastrophic damage to the nervous system and organs. Those affected usually die young. C
  
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• Chinese cameras leave British police vulnerable to spying, says watchdog

  15-02-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Warning in surveillance commissioner’s report comes after Chinese CCTV cameras banned from government propertyBritish police are leaving themselves open to spying by Beijing because of their reliance on Chinese-made cameras, according to a report from the government’s independent watchdog on surveillance.Most forces across England and Wales use camera equipment that is either made in China or contains important Chinese components, the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner h
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 357 of the invasion

  15-02-2023 00:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Russia has lost ‘strategically, operationally and tactically’, says chairman of America’s joint chiefs of staff; UK national dies in Ukraine Continue reading...
  
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• Strike action threatens Wales v England Six Nations game in Cardiff

  15-02-2023 00:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Wales players considering striking over contract renewalsSquad want clarity before Rugby World Cup in autumnEngland’s trip to Cardiff in the Six Nations has been plunged into doubt after it emerged Wales players were considering strike action over their contract renewals.Steve Borthwick’s side are scheduled to play Wales next Saturday but, with many players unhappy at the financial situation within the game, a possible strike is due to be discussed. It is understood that a meeting wi
  
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