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• Sexually transmitted infection rates have risen sharply among adults 55 and older, CDC data shows

  27-03-2024 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  CDC data shows that rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in people ages 55 and upmore than doubled over a 10-year period.
  
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• Global warming has slightly slowed Earth's rotation — and it could affect how we measure time

  27-03-2024 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ice loss due to climate change has slightly slowed the Earth’s spin, a new study shows — and it could affect how we measure time.
  
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• Ireland backs bid to include blocking of aid in definition of genocide

  27-03-2024 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Dublin joins South Africa’s case in the international court of justice, arguing that stopping delivery of essentials may constitute ‘genocidal intent’Ireland is to seek to widen the definition of genocide to include blocking humanitarian aid in a landmark international court of justice (ICJ) case against Israel.The Irish government will intervene in the case taken by South Africa and argue that restricting food and other essentials in Gaza may constitute genocidal intent, the f
  
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• Fans are flocking to bars that show only women's sports on their TVs

  27-03-2024 23:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Long lines are expected this week outside A Bar of Their Own in Minneapolis, where its 12 TVs will be screening women's March Madness only.
  
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• New image reveals spiraling magnetic field around Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

  27-03-2024 22:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new image of the black hole that lies at the center of our Milky Way galaxy shows that it is surrounded by a strong, twisting magnetic field.
  
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• French PM backs school head who faced death threats after Muslim veil row

  27-03-2024 22:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Gabriel Attal says state will file a complaint against student over accusation against principal who had to resign for his safetyThe French prime minister, Gabriel Attal, has defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school principal who received death threats after asking a student to remove her Muslim veil on the premises.Attal, a former education minister, said the state would be filing a complaint against the student over falsely accusing the headteacher of mistreatment
  
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• Nearly 170-year-old private college in Alabama says it will close at the end of May

  27-03-2024 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal arts college in Alabama, will close at the end of May after running into financial difficulties and being unable to secure a financial lifeline from the state, officials announced Tuesday.
  
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• Democrats hope Biden can ride the party’s special election wave: From the Politics Desk

  27-03-2024 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Democrats keep winning special elections, but Joe Biden isn't getting a polling boost. RNC co-chair Lara Trump sits down for an interview.
  
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• Twitch to further limit sexual content, again

  27-03-2024 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Twitch is further limiting sexually suggestive content in yet another change to its rules around the subject.
  
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• Election denier who Trump wanted to take over DOJ invokes the 5th in disbarment hearing

  27-03-2024 22:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jeffrey Clark, who Donald Trump considered naming acting attorney general before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, testified in a disbarment hearing.
  
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• WATCH: Police chase runaway ostrich in South Korea

  27-03-2024 22:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  An ostrich escaped from a zoo in South Korea on Tuesday and ran wild in the streets for about an hour until being safely captured, officials say.
  
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• Baltimore bridge collapse victims’ family members reflect on their loved ones’ lives

  27-03-2024 22:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two of the six men presumed dead after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore were remembered by loved ones as devoted husbands, fathers and workers.
  
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• Ahmaud Arbery’s killers ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions

  27-03-2024 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. appeals court heard arguments Wednesday from attorneys seeking to overturn the hate crime conviction of three white men in the death ofAhmaud Arbery.
  
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• WATCH: Northern Lights shine over slopes of Finland

  27-03-2024 21:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A spectacular sight on the slopes as the Northern Lights provide the ultimate backdrop for skiers in Finland.
  
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• Drake Bell accusers face online attacks after ‘Quiet on Set’ docuseries

  27-03-2024 21:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Drake Bell experienced a wave of support after he shared his sexual abuse story for "Quiet on Set," but some fans have lashed out at Bell's own accusers.
  
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• Biden admin has no plans to change how it treats Haitian migrants despite outrage from advocates

  27-03-2024 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Biden administration is under pressure from rights groups to rethink its treatment of Haitian migrants, but so far there are no plans to change course.
  
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• Singer Duffy returns to social media three years after revealing her alleged kidnapping and rape

  27-03-2024 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Singer Duffy, best known for her song "Mercy," has returned to social media after a more than three-year break.The singer, full name Aimee Duffy, shared a post featuring an inspirational animated video with a voiceover speaking about the nature of happiness."One day you're going to see it, that happiness was always about the discovery," a voiceover says in the video. "The hope, the listening to your heart and following it wherever it chose to go. Happiness was always about being kinder to y
  
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• 6 gag gifts perfect for celebrating April Fool's Day

  27-03-2024 20:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Spring has officially kicked off and that means blooms galore, allergy season, and, for some, the anticipation of one of the silliest days of the year – April Fool's Day. If you are into practical jokes and hoaxes, April 1st is your day to celebrate!We've got you covered if you are short on creative hoaxes to pull off. We've picked six silly gag gifts for lighthearted fun this April Fool's Day. With only a week left to shop, you can make sure your prank gifts are delivered on time by order
  
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• Recovery efforts underway for 6 workers presumed dead after Baltimore bridge collapse

  27-03-2024 20:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:39:09 -0400[image]The Singapore-flagged cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse, was transporting containers with hazardous materials, the U.S. Coast Guard said.Vice Admiral Peter Gautier said during the White House press briefing that of the 4700 containers on board the Dali, 56 contain hazardous materials and two are missing overboard. The ones that are in the water do not contain hazardous materials, he told reporters. "There is no th
  
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• Donald Sutherland writes of a long life in film in his upcoming memoir, 'Made Up, But Still True'

  27-03-2024 20:04 via foxnews.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Sutherland has a memoir coming out in November reflecting on his life of nearly 90 years and his 60-year career as one of Hollywood's top actors in films like "M.A.S.H.," "Klute," "Ordinary People" and "The Hunger Games" saga.Crown announced Wednesday that Sutherland's "Made Up, But Still True" will be published Nov. 12, when the actor will be 89 years old.MICK JAGGER, DONALD SUTHERLAND BLAST DONALD TRUMP AT FILM FESTIVAL"Donald Sutherland has made an indelible mark
  
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• NCAA president urges state lawmakers to ban prop betting: 'Protect the integrity of the game'

  27-03-2024 20:02 via foxnews.com
  
  NCAA President Charlie Baker is doing his part to crack down on "sports betting issues," urging state lawmakers Wednesday to ban prop betting on college athletics. Amid a wave of gambling issues at both the collegiate and pro levels, Baker released a statement on social media urging states to ban prop betting, wagers placed on individual players' statistical performances during games. "Sports betting issues are on the rise across the country with prop bets continuing to threaten the in
  
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• Alabama convict who robbed, killed elderly couple gets execution date

  27-03-2024 20:02 via foxnews.com
  
  Alabama has set a May 30 execution date for a man convicted in the 2004 slaying of a couple during a robbery.Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set the date for the execution by lethal injection of Jamie Mills, 50. The Alabama Supreme Court last week authorized the governor to set an execution date.MISSOURI SETS EXECUTION DATE FOR SECOND DEATH ROW INMATE THIS YEARMills was convicted of capital murder for the 2004 slaying of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin, a city of about 2,000 people in Marion County. Prosecuto
  
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• What NBC’s Ronna McDaniel debacle reveals about the state of journalism today

  27-03-2024 20:01 via foxnews.com
  
  The word broke on March 26 that NBC News was reversing its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as a political commentator. MSNBC hosts across the schedule broke out into frenzied denunciations of whichever executive who thought that McDaniel should be paid to speak anywhere on this hypnotically/robotically anti-Trump network. In one of her typical half-hour jeremiads, Rachel Maddow compared McDaniel to a mobster and a pickpocket. "You wouldn't – you woul
  
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• Argentina: trans women among victims of ex-officers guilty of dictatorship-era crimes

  27-03-2024 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Eleven found guilty of crimes against humanity after trial that heard testimony on torture, rape and forced disappearances A court in Argentina has convicted 11 former military, police and government officials of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s last dictatorship in a sprawling trial that heard, for the first time, about atrocities suffered by trans women.The three-year case focused on the forced disappearances, torture, rapes and homicides that occurred at or were co
  
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• 'The View' praises Ronna McDaniel firing, says media doesn't need to give both sides 'equal weight'

  27-03-2024 20:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Sunny Hostin argued the media didn't need to cover both sides on Wednesday while praising former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel being cut from NBC News.Hostin cited NBC News' Lester Holt, who said in 2021, that "the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in." Holt received praise at the time from liberal journalists fed up with so-called "bothsidesism."Hostin doubled down on Holt's statement and said that'
  
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• Grandfather horrified as school locks bathrooms behind metal cages

  27-03-2024 20:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A grandparent was outraged after a school in the United Kingdom installed metal cage-like doors to bathroom entrances to prevent students from using the restroom during class. "School is supposed to be a safe place for kids, and it is supposed to be a relaxed environment, but how it is a relaxed environment when they are locked up?" grandparent Ian Ward told Coventry Live.WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HEREWard, whose six grandchildren attend the Foxford Community School in Long
  
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• Elon Musk given nod for calling out Dems' 'insane' vote for taxpayer-funded migrant charter flights

  27-03-2024 20:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., praised Elon Musk Wednesday for spotlighting Democrats' united opposition to his proposed amendment aimed at stopping the Biden administration from using federal funds to charter flights for illegal immigrants."This is insane!" Musk wrote in an X post showing Hagerty's Senate floor speech that amassed nearly 40 million views.Hagerty, weighing in Wednesday on "America's Newsroom," said he was "shocked" that Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the measure, arguing th
  
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• Hail cripples massive solar farm, sparking resident concern about vulnerable 'green' tech

  27-03-2024 19:53 via foxnews.com
  
  An onslaught of hail in southeastern Texas that destroyed large portions of a massive solar farm is highlighting the perils of trading traditional power sources for vulnerable "green" alternatives and sparking concern about the potential for chemical leaks from the broken panels.Aerial footage captured the significant damage suffered by the Fighting Jays Solar farm in Fort Bend County, Texas. The March 15 storm shattered hundreds of panels and prompted a nearby resident to question if the solar
  
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• DeSantis eliminates 'squatters' rights' in Florida, gives power to cops to remove offenders

  27-03-2024 19:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation into law Wednesday that eliminates squatters’ rights in the Sunshine State and increases penalties against offenders. "You are not going to be able to commandeer somebody's private property and expect to get away with it. We are in the state of Florida ending the squatter scam once and for all," DeSantis said from Orlando on Wednesday during a press conference on the signing. The law will take effect on July 1. DeSantis note
  
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• The latest front in the abortion wars: South Dakota makes a big change

  27-03-2024 19:42 via foxnews.com
  
  South Dakota became the first state in the nation to end the confusion about the ability of doctors to provide emergency care to pregnant women, which is allowed under every pro-life bill in the country.  Gov. Kristi Noem signed the nation’s first so-called "Med Ed" bill that proponents say will protect the health and safety of pregnant women and push back against abortion misinformation confusing some doctors about when they can perform an emergency abortion to save a life. The
  
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• Baltimore bridge collapse draws comparisons to Obama-produced film about cargo ship cyberattack

  27-03-2024 19:41 via foxnews.com
  
  Images from the shocking bridge collapse in Baltimore have drawn comparisons online to a recent film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama about a cargo ship under cyberattack. The White House has said the incident involving the cargo ship that plowed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was not believed to have had nefarious intent and showed no signs of terrorism or cyberattacks. But online users pointed out similarities between images of the collapse and a scene from "Lea
  
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• How events in Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region raised fears of Russian interference

  27-03-2024 19:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, fears have risen in neighboring Moldova that it could also be in Moscow’s crosshairs.Like Ukraine, Moldova is a former Soviet republic that has aligned itself with the West and aspires to join the European Union. And both countries hope to eventually reintegrate Russian-speaking breakaway territories that view Moscow as their protector.MOLDOVA REPORTS 'UNPRECEDENTED' RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN LEADUP TO 2 MAJOR VOTESAfter a short war in the early 19
  
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• Vermont Rep. Becca Balint seeking second term

  27-03-2024 19:34 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, Vermont's first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress, announced Wednesday that she's running for a second term.Balint, a Democrat, said in Congress she has focused on making affordable housing more accessible, mental health care for all and protecting the country's democracy."When I was first elected to Congress, we made history together," she said in a video message announcing her reelection campaign. "I ran because I believed politics can
  
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• RFK Jr.’s sister concerned he will 'siphon' votes from Biden, allow Trump to win

  27-03-2024 19:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sister, Rory Kennedy, expressed concerns Monday over his campaign possibly spoiling President Biden's chances at re-election. "A CNN poll from just last weekend in the key state of Michigan found more than half of voters have an unfavorable opinion of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden," CNN's Erin Burnett told Rory Kennedy on Monday. "We know there's voter fatigue with these two candidates.""When you say you see your brother's campaign as a danger, is it more about sip
  
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• Queen Camilla says Kate Middleton will be 'thrilled' as she accepts touching sign from two young fans

  27-03-2024 19:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Queen Camilla is showing her support for Kate Middleton.On Wednesday, the Queen, 76, paid a visit to the Shrewsbury Farmers’ Market where she chatted with bystanders during her first royal walkabout since the Princess of Wales announced her cancer diagnosis. Two young sisters, Harriet and Lois Waterston, were holding signs that read "Send our love to Kate," according to the Daily Mail. "I shall send this off to Catherine. She'll be thrilled," the queen said. "I’ll take them
  
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• Small pockets of life remain along shrinking Aral Sea

  27-03-2024 19:24 via foxnews.com
  
  Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life.The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once sustained are simply no more.NASA IMAGES REVEAL SHOCKING SCALE OF ARAL SEA DISASTERBut a scattering of small towns and villages remain. Some have as few as 10 people. And there, they say, there's still a bit of life beyond the sea.New cafes, clothing stores and bodegas boasting imported snacks have popped up. Hand-painted
  
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• Board approves first-of-its-kind NYC traffic pricing program as GOP lawmaker vows to sue

  27-03-2024 18:59 via foxnews.com
  
  New York's Metro Transportation Authority (MTA) voted to impose a first-in-the-nation traffic congestion pricing program on Wednesday.The MTA will now charge $15 for vehicles driving in certain areas of the city. The move, which passed on an 11-1 vote, outraged Rep. Josh Gottheimer, R-N.J., who argues the new policy is nothing more than a "cash grab.""Today’s vote was just a rubber stamp on the MTA’s unprecedented cash grab. It just proves what we knew all along — the MTA doesn
  
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• MLB opening day: Crab pizza, pickle-topped hot dogs and more new food items coming to stadiums in 2024

  27-03-2024 18:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Baseball season is here, and fans are getting ready to "root, root, root for the home team" while they enjoy classic (and not so classic) stadium snacks. All MLB stadiums offer staple items like Cracker Jacks, hot dogs, burgers and cold beer, but every location puts its own twist on classic food and drink items.Take a look at some food offerings being served at MLB stadiums across the country.MLB STADIUMS ACROSS THE US: HOW MANY BALLPARKS HAVE YOU VISITED?The home of the Seattle Mariners ha
  
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• Sean 'Diddy' Combs wouldn't 'disclose' antics with Justin Bieber in resurfaced video with teen star

  27-03-2024 18:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A video showing 48 hours with Sean "Diddy" Combs and a teenage Justin Bieber resurfaced Wednesday after the rapper's homes were raided in connection to a federal human trafficking investigation."He's having 48 hours with Diddy, him and his boy," the rapper said in the video shared to Bieber's YouTube account 14 years ago. "They're having the times of their lives, like where we hanging out and what we're doing we can't really disclose. But it's definitely a 15-year-old's dream.""I have been given
  
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• Health warning issued to boat race crews over levels of E.coli in Thames

  27-03-2024 18:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Jumping into London’s River Thames has been the customary celebration for members of the winning crew in the Boat Race, the nearly 200-year-old rowing contest between storied English universities Oxford and Cambridge.Now it comes with a health warning.Testing by the River Action campaign group found high levels of E.coli along a stretch of the Thames in southwest London that will be used for the historic race taking place on Saturday.19 PLUNGE INTO FRIGID LONG ISLAND SOUND AFTER CONNECTICU
  
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• Baltimore Bridge Collapse

  27-03-2024 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  An investigation into the container ship crash that brought down a Baltimore bridge.
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried awaits sentencing for his role in FTX cryptocurrency exchange fraud

  27-03-2024 18:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sam Bankman-Fried will learn his sentence Thursday, four months after he was found guilty of orchestrating the multibillion-dollar fraud that prompted the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
  
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• South Carolina found a state bank account with $1.8B, but they have no idea what it's for

  27-03-2024 18:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Lawmakers in South Carolina are trying to untangle a state bank account that inexplicably holds $1.8 billion, with officials saying they do not know where it came from or what it was intended to fund.Republican Gov. Henry McMaster assured the public on Tuesday that "no money was lost." The bank account seems to be the result of ongoing accounting troubles for the state arising from a computer system transition in the late 2010s.The South Carolina Senate has established a panel to investigate the
  
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• Key battleground state Dem announcement stuns political world: 'Big surprise'

  27-03-2024 18:19 via foxnews.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. – In a surprise announcement, longtime Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire says she won’t seek re-election to the House of Representatives this year."I always said I was not going to stay in Congress forever – I will not be seeking re-election in 2024," the six-term representative in the key general election battleground state said in a statement released on Wednesday.Kuster, an attorney and lobbyist with clients in the health care and pharmaceutical ind
  
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• The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words

  27-03-2024 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also includedKatsu, donburi and onigiri are among 23 Japanese words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update.More than half of the borrowed words relate to food or cooking. Santoku, a knife with a short, flat blade that curves down at the tip, and okonomiyaki, a type of savoury pancake, were both added. Okonomiyaki is derived fro
  
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• Middle East crisis: Israel intensifies strikes on southern Gaza as eight killed in fighting on Lebanese border – as it happened

  27-03-2024 16:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Attacks around Rafah come despite growing pressure for ceasefire. This live blog is closedSee all our Middle East coverageThe UK is facing legal action over its pause in funding for Unrwa, after Israel’s allegations that 12 staff at the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees were involved in the 7 October attacks against Israel.London-based law firm Bindmans has sent a pre-action letter, the first stage in a legal claim, on behalf of a British-Palestinian man whose family are in Ga
  
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• UK Libor trader Tom Hayes loses appeal against rate-rigging conviction – as it happened

  27-03-2024 16:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The former star UBS and Citigroup trader was convicted of conspiracy to defraud by manipulating financial benchmark and served 5 1/2 years in prisonBritain’s financial regulator has identified shortcomings in how some motor insurance firms are valuing written-off or stolen vehicles.A review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found evidence that suggests some firms are offering their customers less than their written-off or stolen vehicle is worth and, in some cases, are only incr
  
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• ‘We are finally free’: Senegal hails new anti-establishment president

  27-03-2024 15:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Bassirou Diomaye Faye promises to overhaul democracy in west African country blighted by corruptionJust 10 days before being elected president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye was in prison.Years of political turmoil have left the west African state’s democracy teetering on the brink of collapse, with deadly uprisings and the jailing of opposition figures commonplace. Continue reading...
  
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• U.S. business leaders meet with China’s president as Beijing seeks closer ties

  27-03-2024 13:48 via nbcnews.com
  NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Beijing, where a number of U.S. business leaders, including the CEOs of Blackstone, Qualcomm, Bloomberg, Chubb and FedEx, met with the Chinese president
  
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• Thailand poised to legalise same-sex marriage after parliament passes bill

  27-03-2024 12:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to make country the first in south-east Asia to recognise same-sex unionsLawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill that would make the country the first in south-east Asia to legalise equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.Four hundred of 415 lawmakers present voted for the bill on Wednesday and footage from inside parliament showed people standing and applauding afterwards. Continue readi
  
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