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• Late Ramos penalty edges France past England

  16-03-2024 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thomas Ramos kicks the winning penalty from the halfway line as France edge England in a seven-try thriller to finish second in the 2024 Six Nations.
  
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• Ed Davey calls for 'once in generation' election

  16-03-2024 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Lib Dem leader will say his party is the only one to offer "transformational change".
  
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• Derek Thompson exits Casualty after 38 years

  16-03-2024 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The star, who played Charlie Fairhead in the BBC One medical drama, is its longest-serving cast member.
  
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• Points and fines for breaching 20mph limits begin

  16-03-2024 22:57 via bbc.com
  
  Enforcement is due to begin six months after the default 20mph limit was introduced.
  
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• Chris Mason: How will Welsh Labour change under Gething?

  16-03-2024 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As soon as Vaughan Gething was announced as Welsh Labour's new leader, thoughts turned to the general election.
  
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• WATCH: UK zoo welcomes newborn southern white rhinoceros

  16-03-2024 21:56
  
  A U.K. zoo welcomed the birth of a southern white rhinoceros as part of an endangered species breeding program, describing the calf as a "giant bundle of joy."
  
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• Man City dispatch Newcastle to reach FA Cup semis

  16-03-2024 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City cruise into the FA Cup semi-finals with a comfortable victory over a jaded and disappointing Newcastle United at Etihad Stadium.
  
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• Ireland win back-to-back titles after beating Scotland

  16-03-2024 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch highlights as Ireland beat Scotland 17-13 to retain the Six Nations title.
  
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• Schumer’s anti-Netanyahu speech strengthens Bibi in Israel's war to defeat Hamas

  16-03-2024 20:27 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM — Having seen his lowest levels of support in months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity has gotten a bounce in the polls, which some say is partly due to the Biden administration and Democrats' growing criticism against the Jewish state.  Criticism grew this week from across the political spectrum after New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer’s speech calling for new elections.  "As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear
  
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• Ireland beat Scotland to retain Six Nations title

  16-03-2024 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland retain the Six Nations by beating Scotland in Dublin, a result that ends England's hopes of snatching the title.
  
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• Sainsbury's deliveries cancelled over tech issues

  16-03-2024 20:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sainsbury's cancels deliveries due on Saturday as Tesco also apologises over cancellations.
  
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• Tuvalu prime minister calls on Australia for sovereignty ‘guarantees’ over treaty

  16-03-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Feleti Teo tells the Guardian Tuvaluans fear last year’s treaty may give Australia too much say over the Pacific nation’s securityTuvalu’s new prime minister, Feleti Teo, wants “guarantees” from Canberra that a landmark treaty with Australia will not undermine his country’s sovereignty.Teo, who was appointed leader last month, told the Guardian a controversial security clause in the Falepili Union treaty has led to fears among Tuvaluans that Australia “m
  
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• Residents 'terrified' after crossbow attacks

  16-03-2024 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two people are shot in east London in separate but "linked" attacks, police say.
  
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• Gatland resignation offer turned down by WRU chief

  16-03-2024 18:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Head coach Warren Gatland says he offered his resignation to Welsh Rugby Union chief executive Abi Tierney after leading Wales to their first Wooden Spoon in 21 years.
  
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• Diana's press attention more dangerous than Kate scrutiny - Spencer

  16-03-2024 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Earl Spencer also tells Laura Kuenssberg about the violent punishments he and his sister suffered at the hands of a nanny.
  
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• Middle East crisis: ceasefire talks ‘expected to resume on Sunday’ – as it happened

  16-03-2024 17:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Source tells Reuters that discussions would cover issues including prisoner-hostage exchanges and humanitarian aidSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverage hereRecord numbers of Palestinian detainees are filling Israeli prisons where they face “systemic abuse” and torture, rights advocates warned, calling for international action, reports AFP.Members of several Israeli NGOs travelled to Geneva this week to raise concerns before the UN about a major “crisis” inside the country&
  
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• Ed Davey: ‘We need a cross-party agreement on social care’

  16-03-2024 17:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Speaking ahead of the party’s spring conference, the Liberal Democrat leader challenges the Tories and Labour to find consensus on financial package for the NHSRishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have been challenged to sign up to cross-party talks finally resolving the impasse over social care, as part of a Liberal Democrat plea to “grasp the nettle” after years of failure.Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, said that his party would include in its forthcoming manifesto a promise to attend
  
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• Gaza ceasefire hopes rise after Hamas abandons key demands

  16-03-2024 17:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli negotiators are heading to Qatar after the group dropped calls for a permanent end to hostilities and agreed a 40-day pauseIsraeli negotiators are expected to arrive in Qatar on Sunday amid intense new efforts to bring the war in Gaza to at least a temporary halt, after Hamas abandoned key ceasefire demands last week following a series of setbacks.In recent days, the militant organisation has been disappointed by the failure of its calls for a wave of protest during the Muslim holy month
  
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• Dozens of dead wild animals dumped outside Hampshire shop

  16-03-2024 17:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Police investigate discovery of about 50 hares, an owl and a kestrel at door of Broughton community shopA police investigation has been launched after dozens of dead animals were left outside a shop in Broughton.The Broughton community shop in Hampshire said it was “shocked” to discover the bodies of about 50 dead hares, as well as a barn owl and a kestrel outside on Friday. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: death toll in Odesa attack rises to 21 as two killed in Ukrainian shelling in border town – as it happened

  16-03-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Attack in Belgorod comes day after devastating strike on Ukrainian port city and amid voting in Russia’s electionUkrainian war briefingNexta is reporting that there have been 11 attempts to set fire to polling stations in Russia, along with 19 cases of ballot boxes being spoiled with greenery and paint.Russia is proposing eight-year prison sentences for those involved.The death toll in the Russian attack on civilian infrastructure in Odesa has risen to 21 people after an emergency worker s
  
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• Over a third of first time buyers relying on ‘bank of mum and dad’

  16-03-2024 16:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Tories accused of deserting those without financial support, as proportion relying on help with deposits rises from 27% to 37% in a yearRishi Sunak has been accused of “locking the door on home ownership” and entrenching inequality, amid evidence that tens of thousands more young house buyers have been forced to turn to the “bank of mum and dad” to secure a new home.A crisis in housing affordability is again set to be a major election flashpoint, with the prime minister a
  
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• Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure

  16-03-2024 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Blockades at facilities in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, with protests in Scotland and action expected in Denmark Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North Sea oil infrastructure as part of a coordinated pan-European civil disobedience protest.Blockades have been taking place at oil and gas terminals, refineries and ports in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, in protest at the continued exploitation of North Sea fossil fuel deposits. Continue readi
  
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• She beat a rare liver cancer – and now works with her father to find more cures

  16-03-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cancer scientist decides to study the tumour that once afflicted his small daughter – and now her work is adding to his project’s successElana Simon was 10 years old when she started to experience severe pains in her abdomen. For two years, puzzled doctors put forward diagnoses including lactose intolerance, Crohn’s disease and stress. It was not until 2008 that they pinpointed the real cause. Elana was suffering from fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC), a rare, usually lethal, form
  
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• Queensland’s Labor government may lose safe seat in byelection

  16-03-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Shock loss of once safe seat of Ipswich West would be Queensland’s biggest byelection swing in decadesQueensland’s Labor government appears to have suffered a shock loss of the once-safe seat of Ipswich West, in one of the state’s biggest byelection swings in decades.Queensland’s governing party has also bled votes to the left, with the Green party registering its best-ever result at Saturday’s local government elections. Continue reading...
  
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• Vaughan Gething to become Wales' first black leader

  16-03-2024 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Vaughan Gething narrowly beats Jeremy Miles to win the Welsh Labour leadership election.
  
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• Apple to pay $490m to settle claims it misled investors over sales in China

  16-03-2024 15:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Company denied that Tim Cook deceived investors when he said iPhone sales were strong weeks before revenue warningApple has agreed to pay $490m to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the UK’s Norfolk county council.The class action alleged chief executive Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in iPhone’s sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company’s revenue forecast. Continue reading...
  
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• Top senator calls on Biden to ‘use all levers’ to pressure Israel over Gaza

  16-03-2024 15:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Democrat Chris Van Hollen says Biden must cease giving arms to Israel until it lifts restrictions on aid and does more to protect livesJoe Biden should use his leverage and the law to pressure Israel to change how it is prosecuting the war in Gaza, the Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen said.Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, is among a group of senators urging Biden to stop providing Israel with offensive weapons until it lifts restrictions on the delivery of food and medicine into Gaza, where c
  
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• Olivia Rodrigo stops distribution of morning-after pill at her concerts

  16-03-2024 15:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer was praised for earlier allowing distribution of Plan B at her shows, but is now stepping back citing the presence of childrenOlivia Rodrigo has reportedly stepped in to halt the distribution of free contraceptives and the morning-after pill at her concerts, days after the American singer was praised for encouraging young people to take responsibility for their sexual health.According to abortion organizations cited by Variety, Rodrigo’s “team” became concerned about the
  
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• Former Trump adviser appeals to supreme court to keep him out of prison

  16-03-2024 15:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Peter Navarro is appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate with the January 6 House inquiryDonald Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the US supreme court on Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction.Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional
  
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• Boxing great Roberto Durán receiving medical care for heart problem

  16-03-2024 15:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Four-weight champion suffering from ‘health complication’Durán, 72, being treated in a hospital in native PanamaBoxing great Roberto Durán was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday.Durán, who was a champion in four different weight classes, “has suffered a health complication due to an atrioventricular blockade”, his family said in a statement on Durán’s Instagram account. Conti
  
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• Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade

  16-03-2024 15:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers found that the Victorians brought so many seeds and saplings to Britain that the trees now outnumber those in their US homelandThree redwoods tower over Wakehurst’s Elizabethan mansion like skyscrapers. Yet at 40 metres (131ft) high, these are almost saplings – not even 150 years old and already almost twice as high as Cleopatra’s Needle.“At the moment they’re some of the tallest trees in the UK and they are starting to poke above the forest canopy. But
  
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• Police had cause to detain gunman before deadly Maine shooting last year – report

  16-03-2024 14:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Before Robert Card killed 18 last year, police had opportunity to seize his guns and place him in custody after several incidentsLaw enforcement should have seized a man’s guns and put him in protective custody weeks before he committed Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, a report found Friday.An independent commission has been reviewing the events that led up to army reservist Robert Card killing 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston on 25 October, as well as the subsequen
  
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• Woman and man injured in suspected crossbow attacks in east London

  16-03-2024 14:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Two incidents happened 10 days apart in Shoreditch but are linked, Met saidA search is under way after a woman and a man were injured in suspected crossbow attacks in east London.The incidents occurred 10 days apart in Shoreditch but were linked, the Metropolitan police said. Continue reading...
  
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• Fifty dead animals dumped in front of shop

  16-03-2024 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dozens of hare and bird corpses were scattered in front of Broughton Community Shop.
  
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• Global eradication of polio ‘tantalisingly close’ with UK urged to keep up funding

  16-03-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is “tantalisingly close” to eradicating polio – with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. But experts warn that vaccination efforts – and funding – must not falter if the world is to rid itself of a human infectious disease for the second time in history, after smallpox.There have been no reported cases of
  
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• Drug gang members arrested after clever scheme to smuggle cocaine into top party city foiled by cops

  16-03-2024 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Officials in Thailand discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine, allegedly smuggled in from the U.S. in clothing racks, according to local media reports. The secretary general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board in Bangkok, Police Lt. Gen. Phanurat Lakboon, said in a press conference earlier this month that officials arrested three Nigerian men after seizing 5,360 grams of cocaine from a flight that originated in the U.S. and landed in Bangkok, Thai newspaper Kha
  
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• Judge orders special master for California prison known for rampant sexual abuse

  16-03-2024 13:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Several employees at the federal correctional institution in Dublin have pleaded guilty to abusing female inmatesA judge called a California federal women’s prison known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates “a dysfunctional mess” on Friday as she ordered a special master to oversee the facility, marking the first time the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been subject to such an action.“The situation can no longer be tolerated. The facility is in dire need of immediate ch
  
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• India to hold world’s biggest election in seven stages from April

  16-03-2024 13:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Modi favourite to win third term in largest democratic exercise in history held across six weeks India is to hold a national election in April it has been announced, in what will be the world’s largest election with nearly a billion people eligible to vote.Many consider Modi’s re-election a foregone conclusion, owing to both the premier’s robust popularity a decade after taking office and a glaringly uneven playing field. Continue reading...
  
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• WATCH: Anti-Putin activists vandalize, set fire at voting stations in protest against election

  16-03-2024 12:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Some Russian voters have done more than vote to express their displeasure with sitting President Vladimir Putin, going so far as to commit acts of vandalism caught on camera that include setting fire to ballot boxes. Russian authorities arrested at least nine people on the first day of voting in an election that analysts and observers around the world have no doubt will hand Putin another term as leader, making him the longest-serving leader since Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Several
  
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• ‘My soul is so tired’: Stormy Daniels stands up to Maga hate in new film

  16-03-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The adult film star – at center of hush-money payments in run-up to 2016 election – is featured in the new documentary StormyStormy Daniels, the adult movie star who received hush-money payments at the center of one of Donald Trump’s pending criminal cases, says she is “so tired” as she confronts the prospect of testifying against the former president, whose supporters have flooded her social media accounts with threats.“I’m desensitized to some of it &h
  
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• Five killed in attack on Pakistan military post near Afghan border

  16-03-2024 11:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Unnamed militant group drove vehicle laden with explosives into post and detonated suicide bombsMilitants have attacked a military post in Pakistan near Afghanistan using a vehicle laden with explosives, killing five security force members, Pakistan’s military said.The incident in north-west Pakistan was carried out by six attackers, the military’s media wing said in a statement, without naming the militant group responsible for the attack. Continue reading...
  
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• US national security faces major risks as gangs battle for control over Haiti

  16-03-2024 11:00 via foxnews.com
  
  As Haiti continues to struggle with rampant gang violence and with the sudden resignation of its interim Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, this week, experts are warning about the serious consequences a failed Haitian state could have on U.S. national security.Haiti has been in a near constant state of chaos since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, which not only brought with it unchecked corruption and poverty but also an increase in violence.Some 70,000 Haitians flocked to the
  
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• United Airlines Boeing plane loses external panel in flight

  16-03-2024 10:17 via theguardian.com
  
  FAA investigating loss of panel before Boeing 737-800 landed safely in OregonThe US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 lost an external panel before landing safely in Oregon.United flight 433 landed at Medford airport at about 1.45pm on Friday carrying 139 passengers and six crew after departing from San Francisco, the FAA and airline said. Continue reading...
  
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• Tropical Cyclone Megan: residents warned to prepare for strong winds and rain as system forms off NT

  16-03-2024 09:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Bureau of Meteorology expects the cyclone to strengthen to a category-two system overnight and into category three by Sunday eveningGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA tropical cyclone has formed over the Top End, with Territorians warned to prepare for destructive wind gusts, heavy rainfall and potential flooding over coming days.Tropical Cyclone Megan formed over the Gulf of Carpentaria, east of Groote Eylandt, on Saturday afternoon and was expected to mo
  
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• Sister's stem cells help woman fight leukaemia

  16-03-2024 07:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With fewer than 6% of NI people registered as stem cell donors, families stress importance of lifeline.
  
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• Two injured at Westfield Liverpool after teenager accidentally reverses display car into department store

  16-03-2024 07:26 via theguardian.com
  
  A man in his 50s and another in his 30s have been taken to hospital after being hit by an SUV at a Sydney shopping centreGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo people are in hospital after being struck by a display car at a busy shopping centre in Sydney.A teenager was sitting in the SUV when it accelerated forward and hit a glass panel before it reversed into a department store, New South Wales police said.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning
  
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• ‘Everyone has friends in jail’: how Palestinian prisoners became central to Gaza ceasefire talks

  16-03-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hamas seeks scaled-back release it can portray as victory as Israeli government weighs conflicting pressures over hostagesIn a cafe on a dusty roundabout in the small West Bank town of Silwad, men sit and play cards, one eye on the large TV screen showing the latest news from Gaza. When there is any mention of a possible ceasefire deal – and so the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails – there is silence.“Nobody tell us anything officially. We see on t
  
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• Aya Nakamura, the pop superstar at the centre of a Paris Olympic racism storm

  16-03-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Outrage from the far right over rumours of a performance at the opening ceremony has exposed deep divisions in FranceShe is the most listened-to French singer in the world, whose relentlessly catchy hits about love and betrayal have been streamed 7bn times and who made history last year when she sold out three Paris gigs in 15 minutes.But Aya Nakamura, France’s biggest pop superstar who is known for her unique French style influenced by Afrobeats and Caribbean zouk, called out racism and i
  
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• ‘More than the usual gastro’: at least 260 people report symptoms after outbreak at Victorian music festival

  16-03-2024 05:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Those who attended the Esoteric festival in Donald on 8-12 March warned about Shigella bacteriaGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s health department says at least 260 festival goers have reported gastroenteritis symptoms after attending a dance music festival, with authorities urging anyone showing signs of shigellosis to be tested.Those who attended the Esoteric festival in Donald on 8-12 March have been warned that the Shigella bacteria had
  
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• Hong Kong court jails 12 for storming parliament in pro-democracy protests

  16-03-2024 05:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Sentences of nearly seven years handed down over 2019 action that was pivotal moment in uprising against Chinese ruleA Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to jail terms of up to seven years over the storming of the city’s legislature in 2019 at the height of pro-democracy protests that challenged the Beijing-backed government.It was the most violent episode in the initial stage of the huge protests that upended the city that year, with Beijing later imposing a sweeping national securit
  
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