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• A U.S. military plane with eight on board crashes into the sea near Japan

  29-11-2023 08:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. military Osprey aircraft with eight people on board crashed into the sea near an island off southern Japan on Wednesday morning, officials said.
  
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• Child dies in fall from apartment building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri

  28-11-2023 22:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Police in Kansas City, Missouri, are investigating the circumstances that led to a child's death in a fall from a downtown apartment building. Police have not confirmed the child's name but say it was a boy under age 12. Capt. Corey Carlisle said Tuesday that police are still working to determine how far he fell. SOUTH CAROLINA 6-YEAR-OLD DEAD AFTER FALLING FROM GOLF CART Officers responded just after 11 a.m. Monday to the 1000 block of Grand Boulevard and found the child with "bodily trauma" in
  
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• TikTok owner ByteDance cuts gaming jobs

  28-11-2023 02:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The Chinese firm entered the gaming market in 2019 to compete with Tencent but has failed to grab market share.
  
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• Israel-Gaza live updates: Hamas delays hostage release over cease-fire 'violations'

  25-11-2023 20:07 via abcnews.go.com
  Live updates on the Israel-Hamas war.
  
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• Chinese officials say surge in respiratory illness likely not caused by novel pathogen

  25-11-2023 19:49 via foxnews.com
  
  The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has provided data suggesting the spike in respiratory illnesses in the country is not from a novel pathogen, World Health Organization (WHO) officials claim. Earlier this month, Chinese authorities from the National Health Commission reported an increase in respiratory diseases in China, prompting the WHO to press the CCP for data on the outbreak. The WHO claims Chinese health officials have successfully linked the spike in illnesses among children to known path
  
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• Israel-Hamas war live: ‘Real’ chance of ceasefire extension, says Biden; biggest aid convoy since start of war enters Gaza

  24-11-2023 23:33 via theguardian.com
  Pause in hostilities is initially for four or five days; hundreds of thousands assisted with food, water and medical supplies, UN saysOne woman has been killed and three others wounded after Israeli forces raided the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera is reporting, citing Dr Munir al-Bursh, the director general of the Hamas-run ministry of health in Gaza.Another three people were arrested at the hospital, which has been forced to cease operations. As of Thursday, there were an esti
  
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• New York student killed by roommate while studying abroad in England, police say

  20-11-2023 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  A 19-year-old New York man training to be a special education teacher was stabbed to death by his housemate while studying in England at the University of Hull, police said.
  
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• Soros-backed 'anti-police' DA sparks outrage after showing up to fallen officer funeral: 'Slap in the face'

  20-11-2023 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX: A George Soros-backed district attorney in Austin, Texas, who has drawn intense criticism over his prosecution of police officers and his progressive sentencing reform agenda, sparked outrage from law enforcement after showing up at the funeral of a fallen Austin police officer and eventually leaving early, sources told Fox News Digital. Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza arrived at the funeral for Austin Police Officer and SWAT Team member Jorge Pastore, who was shot and k
  
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• Taylor Swift appears out of breath at Rio concert

  19-11-2023 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Video showed the singer gasping for air in between songs during her performance in the stifling heat.
  
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• Russian parliament passes record budget, boosting defense spending

  17-11-2023 14:41 via abcnews.go.com
  The lower house of Russia’s parliament has approved a federal budget Friday that increases spending by around 25% in 2024 and devotes a record amount to defense
  
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• News photographer shot dead in cartel-dominated Mexican border hub

  17-11-2023 02:06 via foxnews.com
  
  A photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, which has been dominated by drug cartels, was found shot to death, prosecutors said Thursday. The body of news photographer Ismael Villagómez was found in the driver’s seat of a car just after midnight Thursday in Ciudad Juárez, a violence-plagued city across the border from El Paso, Texas. Villagómez’s newspaper, the Heraldo de Juarez, said he was found dead in a car that he had r
  
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• Israel-Hamas war live: communications across Gaza down ‘due to lack of fuel’; UN looking at how to evacuate al-Shifa hospital

  16-11-2023 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Palestinian telecommunication company says all services down; Palestinian Red Crescent lacks fuel for ambulances to evacuate patients, WHO saysIsrael drops leaflets warning people to flee southern Gaza townsThai Muslim politicians said they had received assurances from Hamas that all of the Thai hostages being held would be among those released if mediators succeed in brokering a truce in Gaza, Reuters reports.The Islamist militants took an estimated 240 people hostage on 7 October, and Thailand
  
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• Megan Rapinoe's professional career ends with injury in NWSL championship match

  12-11-2023 04:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  All eyes were on U.S. soccer legend Megan Rapinoe as she entered San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium on Saturday night for her final professional match after a lengthy career that featured numerous big wins on and off the field.
  
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• California city removes homeless in beautification before Biden's summit with Chinese President Xi

  11-11-2023 19:48 via foxnews.com
  
  San Francisco has undertaken a significant effort to glam up streets ahead of a vital U.S.-China summit next week, including the removal of homeless camps around the city.  "I know folks are saying, 'Oh they're just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town.' That's true, because it's true — but it's also true for months and months and months before APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit], we've been having conversations," California Gov. Gavin
  
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• UK police brace for largest pro-Palestinian protest yet

  11-11-2023 12:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Hundreds of thousands are due to take part in the march later, while elsewhere commemorations take place for Armistice Day.
  
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• Korean War veteran still attempting to get Purple Heart medal after 7 decades

  10-11-2023 09:30 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A 96-year-old Korean War veteran from Minnesota has been waiting for 70 years for a Purple Heart medal
  
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• Not enough evidence for arrest so far in Jewish protester death: Police

  10-11-2023 07:10 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Police say conflicting statements and a lack of evidence are why there have so far been no arrests in the death of a Jewish protester.
  
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• The 2024 Grammy Award nominations are about to arrive. Here's what to know

  10-11-2023 07:06 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards will arrive Friday
  
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• French leader mad over march against antisemitism

  10-11-2023 06:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend a weekend march to protest rising antisemitism in France
  
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• Former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby found guilty of perjury

  10-11-2023 04:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby was found guilty of perjury.
  
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• Authorities investigating 'suspicious' envelopes sent to state election offices

  10-11-2023 01:29 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Authorities in at least two states are investigating a spate of suspicious envelopes sent to election offices.
  
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• Vehicle breakdowns due to potholes hit record level in 2023, says RAC

  10-11-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Calls over pothole incidents hit 6,000 in usually benign summer months amid ‘substandard’ roadsVehicle breakdowns caused by Britain’s pothole-ridden roads reached record levels this year, according to the RAC.The motoring organisation said it received almost 6,000 calls for pothole-related incidents from July to September – its highest total for the relatively benign summer period since it started collecting data in 2006. Continue reading...
  
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• Prioritise quality of life over prolonging it for elderly, Chris Whitty tells medics

  10-11-2023 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  England’s chief medical officer says more realistic conversations neededabout some treatments’ side-effectsEngland’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has called for a cultural shift in medicine away from maximising lifespan and towards improving quality of life in old age, arguing that sometimes this means “less medicine, not more”.Speaking before the publication of his 2023 annual report, which this year focuses on health in an ageing society, Whitty said
  
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• Israel-Hamas war live: pauses in fighting ‘must be coordinated with UN’; Israeli army says ‘tactical pauses’ no ceasefire

  10-11-2023 00:59 via theguardian.com
  
  UN spokesperson calls for coordination so aid can be delivered effectively; Israeli army casts doubt on four-hour pauses announced by USTwo Israelis were shot overnight into Thursday and moderately wounded while driving in the northern West Bank, the Associated Press reports, citing Israeli media. A baby in the back seat of the car was unharmed, the reports said.It was the second shooting attack on Israeli drivers in the West Bank in a week. On 2 November, an Israeli man was killed after his car
  
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• Robert De Niro’s production company ordered to pay $1.2m to ex-assistant

  10-11-2023 00:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Canal Productions liable in gender discrimination suit filed by Graham Chase Robinson, while De Niro found not personally liableRobert De Niro’s production company was found liable on Thursday by a jury for gender discrimination and retaliation, and ordered to pay $1.2m to the Hollywood star’s former assistant.The 80-year-old actor and director was not found personally liable by the jury in New York after a two week trial. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia news live: Coalition calls on Murray Watt to correct Senate answer about indefinite detention ruling

  10-11-2023 00:56 via theguardian.com
  
  On Friday morning Guardian Australia revealed the Albanese government will immediately begin releasing people from indefinite detention. Follow liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThis morning Guardian Australia revealed that the Albanese government will immediately begin releasing people from indefinite detention after receiving a flurry of demands from long-term detainees to be set free due to Wednesday’s landmark high court ruling.In question tim
  
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• Man uses Apple AirTag to track, recover BMW stolen from his driveway: 'Pretty insane'

  10-11-2023 00:52 via foxnews.com
  
  A man in Canada is thanking his past self after he placed a $29 Apple AirTag in his vehicle and was able to track and recover it after it had been stolen. Saamer Mansoor, who lives in Windsor, Ontario, said that he woke up at 6 a.m. Sunday and, to his surprise, quickly found out that his BMW had been stolen from his driveway. "It was pretty insane," Mansoor told CTVNews. Mansoor said that his brother had driven by his home on the way to the mosque and asked him where his car went, since it was n
  
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• Embattled Mexican women's prison reports 8 suicides in under 5 months

  10-11-2023 00:49 via foxnews.com
  
  A women’s prison in Mexico plagued by food poisoning and poor medical care has now been hit by a wave of eight suicides in the last 4 1/2 months, authorities confirmed Thursday. The federal prisons bureau confirmed the suicides in a statement, and said it was taking steps to improve the situation at the women's prison in the state of Morelos, south of Mexico City. 2 DEAD, 1 INJURED IN MEXICO CITY-AREA GRAVEYARD SHOOTING ON DAY OF THE DEAD The office said it had changed prison managers and
  
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• Sen. Joe Manchin won't seek reelection, weakening Democrats' chances of holding power

  10-11-2023 00:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin announced Thursday he will not run for reelection next year, fueling speculation over whether he plans on mounting a third-party White House bid
  
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• Greece to investigate handling of mass-casualty migrant boat wreck

  10-11-2023 00:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Greece's state ombudsman said Thursday that it's launching an independent investigation into the coast guard's handling of a maritime tragedy in June in which hundreds of migrants trying to reach Europe in an overloaded boat are feared to have drowned. The independent authority said it took the decision following "the expressed denial" of the Greek coast guard to initiate a disciplinary investigation in response to the ombudsman's written requests. The Council of Europe, the continent’s mo
  
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• DoorDash and Uber investigate whether motorcyclist killed in Sydney crash was a gig worker

  10-11-2023 00:33 via theguardian.com
  
  A man in his 30s died in St Peters after his motorcycle and a car collided just after midnightFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFood delivery companies say they are urgently investigating whether a motorcyclist killed on Sydney’s roads overnight was a gig worker.Police said on Friday that a man in his 30s died in St Peters, in inner-west Sydney, after his motorcycle and a car crashed just after mid
  
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• 4 LA sheriff employees die by suicide within 24-hour period, department says

  10-11-2023 00:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Four members of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department have died by suicide since Monday, according to a statement from the department.
  
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• WATCH: Massive Burmese python captured in Florida

  10-11-2023 00:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A 198-pound Burmese python captured in Florida earlier this month is reportedly the second heaviest ever caught in the state. Pythons have been identified as one of the most concerning invasive specie
  
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• Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum

  10-11-2023 00:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Documents lodged with corporate regulator also show the rightwing advocacy group spent $3.4m campaigning against Indigenous voice proposalFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe conservative advocacy group “powering” the no campaign almost doubled its donations to raise nearly $5m in the lead up to the historic referendum.Advance Australia, a once relatively obscure answer to the progressive ac
  
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• Australian property market may soon cool as rate hikes shrink borrowing capacity

  10-11-2023 00:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Surge in population and faltering supply of new housing means Australia’s property market is likely to lose momentumGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s surging property market may be set to cool as affordability pressures mount, borrowing costs rise and more stock enters the market, analysts say.National home prices were at or near record levels at the end of October, while CBA analysis shows mortgage repayments as a share of income we
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Marjorie Taylor Greene unite in push to free Julian Assange

  10-11-2023 00:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Maga Republican and leftwing Democrat among 16 US Congress members lobbying Joe Biden to drop extradition attempts against WikiLeaks founderFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMaga Republican and fierce Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene and leftwing Democratic firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have found common ground in freeing Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.The pair are among 16 member
  
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• US Democratic senator Joe Manchin will not seek re-election in 2024

  09-11-2023 23:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Controversial West Virginia Democrat, 76, has for years held outsized degree of power within partySnap analyis: Manchin just made holding on to Senate harder for DemocratsWest Virginia’s controversial Democratic US senator Joe Manchin has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2024 and will instead “fight to unite the middle”.The 76-year-old senator, who for years has held an outsized degree of power within the Democratic party and often defied its leadership, appeared
  
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• Two charged with murder of missing man after body found in boot of car

  09-11-2023 23:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Justin Henry, 34, disappeared three weeks ago. The Met has asked for anyone with information to come forwardPolice investigating the disappearance of a man in south London say they have found a body in the boot of a car.Justin Henry, 34, was wearing distinctive jewellery – including a Rolex watch, three Cartier bracelets and a diamond ring – when he went missing on 15 October, shortly after leaving a McDonald’s drive-thru in Croydon, south London, in his Mercedes. Continue read
  
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• Taylor Swift ticket release: more tickets for Sydney and Melbourne shows to go on sale today for 2024 Australia Eras tour

  09-11-2023 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Frontier Touring announces new tickets to Swift’s five Australian shows will be released at 10am on Friday, with a ticket resale market launching in two weeksMore tickets to Taylor Swift’s Melbourne and Sydney shows are going on sale on Friday, with Ticketek also announcing a date for the highly anticipated resale of tickets.Swift’s Eras tour broke Australian records earlier this year in June, when more than four million people tried to snap up about 450,000 tickets for the fiv
  
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• Lawsuit claims Mark Zuckerberg ignored warnings about Instagram, mental health

  09-11-2023 23:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Meta could be forced to pay retribution to users if the lawsuit moves forward.
  
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• Former top Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby convicted of perjury

  09-11-2023 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Mosby, best known for failed prosecution of police in Freddy Gray’s death, was accused of improperly accessing retirement fundsA former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted on Thursday of charges that she lied about the finances of a side business to improperly access retirement funds during the Covid pandemic, using the money to buy two Florida homes.A federal jury convicted former Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby of two counts of perjury after a trial that
  
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• Trump ally Steve Bannon appeals conviction in Jan. 6 committee contempt case

  09-11-2023 23:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon has appealed his criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
  
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• West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin will not seek re-election in 2024 – as it happened

  09-11-2023 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can read the full report on Manchin’s announcement here:Manchin will not seek re-election in 2024Joe Biden has hailed the tentative deal reached between SAG-AFTRA and television studios on Wednesday.In a statement released by the White House on Thursday, Biden said:Collective bargaining works. I applaud SAG-AFTRA and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for working together in good faith towards an agreement that allows our entertainment ind
  
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• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak hospitalized for stroke in Mexico City

  09-11-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The 73-year-old had been slated to speak at a business conference when he suffered a ‘minor but real stroke’Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was hospitalized for a “minor but real stroke” on Thursday in Mexico City while he was in the city to speak at a business conference. After a brief stay in the hospital, he said he was “flying home,” according to ABC News.Wozniak, 73, told ABC he was at his computer in the morning when he felt vertigo and dizziness. He had
  
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• Man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi absorbed conspiracy theories, trial hears

  09-11-2023 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  David DePape, 43, charged with breaking into San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi and husband and carrying out hammer attack The trial of a man accused of breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeoning her husband with a hammer has begun, with a defense attorney arguing that her client, David DePape, was caught up in conspiracy theories.Paul Pelosi, who was 82 at the time, was attacked by DePape in the early hours of 28 October last year and hospitalized with a skull fractur
  
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• Canada: murder charge for ex-boyfriend of woman abducted by fake police

  09-11-2023 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Case of Elnaz Hajtamiri, taken from Ontario home by three men with police equipment in January 2022, had stumped investigatorsThe ex-boyfriend of a Canadian woman who was abducted by fake police officers has been charged with first-degree murder, marking the latest twist in a high-profile kidnapping case that had appeared to stump investigators for nearly two years.Elnaz Hajtamiri was dragged from a property in an Ontario beach community on 12 January 2022 by three men with police equipment who
  
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• Mexico authorities find 123 people trapped in locked trailer

  09-11-2023 21:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Majority of migrants rescued in Matehuala were from Central and South America and included 34 childrenAuthorities have found 123 people from Central and South America trapped in a trailer in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, the country’s immigration agency said on Thursday.Officials from the state attorney general’s office found the people in Matehuala, a city on the border of Nuevo Leon, on Wednesday after a local reported hearing cries for help from a locked tra
  
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• UN suspends withdrawal of African Union troops from terror-ravaged Somalia

  09-11-2023 21:41 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council on Thursday suspended for a period of three months the pullout of African Union troops from Somalia, where fighting rages with al-Qaida’s affiliate in East Africa. The decision follows a request by the Horn of Africa nation for the forces to remain in the country to help in the fight against the al-Shabab extremists. Somalia’s request was supported by the African Union, all countries that contribute soldiers to the force and the council, which agre
  
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• Portugal to hold snap election – the second in two years – after PM quits

  09-11-2023 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  President announces 10 March date for parliamentary election after António Costa stepped down on TuesdayPortugal will hold a snap parliamentary election – its second in as many years – on 10 March, the president has announced after Tuesday’s abrupt resignation of the Socialist prime minister amid a corruption investigation.In an address late on Thursday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he would disband parliament, where the Socialist party has a majority of seats, only afte
  
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• Regulator vows crackdown on ‘squeamish’ charities rejecting donations

  09-11-2023 21:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Chair of Charity Commission says funds should not be rejected due to the views or preferences of donorsThe head of England’s charity regulator has promised to crack down on “squeamish” charity boards who reject large cash donations from corporations or wealthy philanthropists on moral grounds.Orlando Fraser, the chair of the Charity Commission, said the regulator may intervene where trustees have rejected or returned donations simply because their “personal worldviews or
  
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