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• Two men in Haiti suspected of buying weapons for gangs lynched by mob

  30-03-2024 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Killings underscore how outnumbered police are in Haiti after months of attacks and kidnappings by gangsTwo men in Haiti were hacked to death by a mob who thought they were buying weapons for gangs, police said Saturday.Police confirmed the crowd snatched the men from police custody after they were found with about $20,000 (£16,000) and the equivalent of about $43,000 in Haitian cash in their car, along with two pistols and a box of ammunition. Continue reading...
  
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• Women's Six Nations: Muzzo try seals bonus point for Italy

  30-03-2024 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch live coverage and follow text commentary as Ireland host Italy at the RDS Arena, Dublin in the Women's Six Nations.
  
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• Women's Six Nations: Italy beat Ireland in Dublin

  30-03-2024 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch live coverage and follow text commentary as Ireland host Italy at the RDS Arena, Dublin in the Women's Six Nations.
  
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• Women's League Cup final: Arsenal & Chelsea into extra time

  30-03-2024 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch live BBC Two coverage and follow commentary and text updates as Arsenal take on Chelsea in the Women's League Cup final at Molineux.
  
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• Watch Women's League Cup final: Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea

  30-03-2024 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch live BBC Two coverage and follow commentary and text updates as Arsenal take on Chelsea in the Women's League Cup final at Molineux.
  
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• Premier League: Title rivals Man City and Arsenal goalless

  30-03-2024 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Listen to 5 Live commentary and follow live text updates as Liverpool host Brighton and Man City face Arsenal in the Premier League.
  
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• Premier League: Man City host Arsenal after Liverpool go top

  30-03-2024 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Listen to 5 Live commentary and follow live text updates as Liverpool host Brighton and Man City face Arsenal in the Premier League.
  
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• Home of Peru’s president raided in search of luxury watches

  30-03-2024 17:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The government criticised the move, with the country’s prime minister calling it ‘disproportionate and unconstitutional’Peru’s government on Saturday criticised the raid on the home of its president, Dina Boluarte, as part of inquiries into possible illicit enrichment and failure to declare ownership of luxury watches as “disproportionate and unconstitutional”.Police broke down the door of Boluarte’s residence early on Saturday morning, television images
  
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• WSL: West Ham host Brighton after Man Utd beat Everton

  30-03-2024 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text updates from Manchester United v Everton and West Ham v Brighton in the Premier League.
  
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• World Health Organization silent over Hamas’ use of Gaza hospital as terror HQ

  30-03-2024 16:30 via foxnews.com
  
  JERUSALEM — As the Israeli military continues its week-long operation battling hundreds of terrorists holed up inside Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical center in Gaza, the United Nations agency charged with promoting — and protecting — access to health care worldwide has stayed silent, refraining from condemning the cynical use of a hospital by Palestinian terror groups. Repeated requests for a comment from the World Health Organization by Fox News Digital were ignore
  
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• Middle East crisis live: second shipment of Gaza aid sets sail from Cyprus

  30-03-2024 15:02 via theguardian.com
  Cargo ship, salvage vessel and a platform carry 400 tonnes of food for regionSee all our Israel-Gaza war coverageFour UN observers were injured on Saturday when a shell exploded near them as they were carrying out a foot patrol in southern Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission said, adding it was still investigating the origin of the blast.According to Reuters, the Unifil statement said the targeting of peacekeepers is “unacceptable.” Two security sources had told Reuters the observer
  
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• Labour membership falls by 23,000 over Gaza and green policies

  30-03-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Party claims financial position still strong as it continues to hold a commanding lead in opinion pollsLabour has suffered a sharp fall in membership over the past two months following controversies over its policy on Gaza and its U-turn on green investment, according to figures released to its National Executive Committee (NEC). The drop of more than 23,000 members comes despite the party holding a commanding lead in the opinion polls, which suggests it is now seen by the wider electorate as re
  
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• England’s parishes and towns raise council tax surcharge to fund scrapped local services

  30-03-2024 14:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Cuts to central funding leaves lower tier of local government left to look after libraries, street cleaning and other facilitiesParish and town councils will spend almost £800m in the next financial year after increasing their average council tax surcharge by 8.5%, according to official figures that illustrate how a new tier of local government in England has emerged to carry out basic duties abandoned by cash-strapped local authorities.From street cleaning to managing public toilets, the
  
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• Niagara region declares emergency to prepare for eclipse viewers

  30-03-2024 14:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Total solar eclipse on 8 April will be first to touch province since 1979, and Niagara Falls declared one of the best places to viewThe region of Canada surrounding the city which contains a side of – and shares a name with – Niagara Falls has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April.The total solar eclipse on 8 April will be the first to touch the province since 1979, and Niagara Falls was declared by Natio
  
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• Robert Jenrick calls for nationality data scheme to prevent UK ‘importing crime’

  30-03-2024 14:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-immigration minister proposes bill amendment to collate visa and asylum status of people convicted in England and WalesThe nationality, visa and asylum status of people convicted of a criminal offence should be recorded to ensure the UK is not “importing crime”, the former immigration minister Robert Jenrick has said.In an amendment to the government’s criminal justice bill, Jenrick proposed that recording this data could help strengthen immigration and visa policies. Contin
  
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• Wall-to-wall bouzouki? Greece plans quota of local music to be played in hotel lobbies and other public spaces

  30-03-2024 14:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Tourist and creative industries react angrily to ‘curb on freedom of expression’ Greek music in hotel lobbies, Greek tunes in lifts, Greek melodies in casinos, shopping malls, airport lounges and ports.If the Athens culture ministry has its way, tourists from around the world should brace themselves for what it says is only a matter of time: a holiday soundtrack that is decidedly Hellenic in tone. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘If you want to abuse your workers, that’s fine’: UK modern slavery watchdog’s funding cut

  30-03-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Government accused of undermining the fight against labour abuses after £2m real-terms cut to oversight budgetBritain’s labour abuse watchdog has had its funding cut by the Home Office despite a dramatic surge in exploitation in the care sector.The budget of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has been set at £6.25m for 2024-25 compared with £7.7m last year, official figures show. Continue reading...
  
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• Police arrest man as hostage situation ends in Dutch town of Ede

  30-03-2024 13:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Suspect detained after nightclub incident during which 150 homes were evacuated and special units deployedA hostage incident at a nightclub in the Netherlands has ended after police arrested a man wearing a balaclava when he left the premises.“The last hostage has just been released. One person has been arrested,” a police statement said. “We cannot share more information at this time.” Continue reading...
  
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• UK weather: rain disrupts Easter weekend events amid flood warnings

  30-03-2024 13:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Environment Agency issues 17 warnings in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, and 132 alerts across southern EnglandFlooding caused by heavy rain has disrupted many Easter weekend events in the UK.The Met Office said more rain was forecast over the bank holiday weekend, with travel disruption likely as a band of heavy rain moves across England and Wales on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Death at any moment’: fights break out as Gazans compete over airdropped aid

  30-03-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Armed gangs take food and water from desperate locals, as critics say airdrops are dangerous and merely designed to divert public angerAirdrops of humanitarian aid are leading to fatal fights in Gaza as the desperate and hungry battle to reach parachuted food and essentials, amid fears that little of the much-needed assistance is reaching those most threatened by a looming famine.Eyewitness accounts, images and interviews with aid workers in Gaza suggest the high-profile airdrop operations are o
  
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• As Baltimore bridge cleanup begins, fear of environmental contamination looms

  30-03-2024 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Responders have currently found ‘no immediate threat’, but 14 of at least 56 containers carrying contaminants were destroyedAs authorities clean up the wreckage left behind by Tuesday’s deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, they are also looking for signs of potential environmental contamination.Responders have currently found “no immediate threat to the environment”. But for environmental experts, concerns still loom. Continue reading...
  
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• Jeffrey Donaldson: From the White House to Antrim police station

  30-03-2024 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How the Jeffrey Donaldson story unfolded, a world away from St Patrick's Day festivities.
  
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• Aircraft in Baltic region hit by GPS jamming as some blame Russia

  30-03-2024 12:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Aircraft flying over the Baltic region have reported a mysterious increase in the number of missing or fake Global Positioning System (GPS) signals with concerns being raised that Russia is to blame. More than 1,600 aircraft, including civilian aircraft, experienced the interference — known as GPS jamming — in less than two days earlier this week, according to an open-source intelligence account that regularly tracks GPS interference.The jamming seems to be concentrated around R
  
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• Iran International targeted by Tehran, says channel after London stabbing

  30-03-2024 12:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Spokesperson tells Today programme that UK-based broadcaster has been under ‘heavy threat for last 18 months’Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards have been targeting the broadcaster Iran International, a spokesperson for the channel said after a leading journalist was stabbed in London.The Persian-language news television channel that employed Pouria Zeraati, who was attacked outside his London home, had received an increased level of threats beforehand, Adam Baillie told the BBC Radi
  
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• US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS

  30-03-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA’s ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compoundA federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated with highly toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” found to leach at alarming levels into food, cosmetics, household cleaners, pesticides and other products across the economy.Houston-based Inhance manufactures an estimated 200m containers annually with a process that creates, amo
  
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• ‘The privatisation of our local park’: calls to save Glasgow’s ‘second Hampden’ for the public

  30-03-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners launch legal challenge as children and mixed-gender football team kept out by fence built by local sports academyIn Mount Florida, a south Glasgow neighbourhood, Scotland’s national football stadium, Hampden Park, looms large. But just half a mile north are the relics of another, with terraces and crush barriers surrounding a pitch that was once the heart of a 50,000-seat stadium known as “the second Hampden”.At one time home to local teams Queen’s Park and Th
  
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• Disneyland Paris conjures up bumper profits despite strikes

  30-03-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Theme park generates $343.4m in profit for Hollywood giant as it shores up wider business amid weaker box office returnsDisney’s Parisian theme park complex has delivered a welcome boost to the embattled Hollywood giant, generating $343.4m (€317m) in profits and royalties despite a wave of strikes last summer.Sales at Disneyland Paris – Europe’s most-visited tourist destination – were driven to record levels by higher room rates and the opening of a site built around
  
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• Crucial European Green Deal package staggers to legislative conclusion

  30-03-2024 11:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Key policies to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050 are being weakened by looming elections and farmer protestsThe European Green Deal is limping to the legislative finish line as elections loom and farmers continue to stage fierce protests across the continent.The policy package, launched with fanfare by the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, five years ago, is supposed to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. But with elections in June, and polls suggesting some countries may
  
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• Sadiq Khan pledges new Erasmus-style overseas study scheme for London youngsters

  30-03-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  City’s mayor outlines ‘internationalist’ vision in manifesto as he bids for third term in MayLondon’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan is to offer young people studying in the capital a new version of the EU’s Erasmus scheme of student exchanges as part of his bid for a third term.He will unveil plans under which students would receive grants and other help to study and undertake work experience, not just in the EU but other major world cities, with reciprocal arrangements f
  
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• Hot Boys rapper BG faces return to prison over alleged probation offense

  30-03-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Christopher Dorsey, 43 accused of performing alongside other rappers without obtaining permission from authoritiesAbout two months into his supervised release from federal prison on gun charges, the rapper who scored a hit song with Bling Bling has been charged with violating the terms of his supervision after performing alongside other prominent entertainers without authorities’ permission.A federal judge ordered Christopher Dorsey – or BG, who once belonged to Cash Money Records&rs
  
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• The Ultimate Guide to the local elections

  30-03-2024 09:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newscast assembles to preview the upcoming local elections
  
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• Situation in Ukraine is 'dire' as ammunition supplies drop on US, Europe 'starvation diet'

  30-03-2024 09:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukraine has been fighting the war against Russia for over two years with defensive aid supplied by the U.S. and its European allies.But as the war of attrition rages on, Russia has recently seen some small advances and Ukraine has begun to face down the possibility that more aid from Washington may not be coming. "It's quite dire, it's quite serious," George Barros, a Russia analyst and leader of the Geospatial Intelligence Team for the Institute for the Study of War, told Fox News Dig
  
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• ‘A family used to live here’: The Spanish sticker rebellion battling tourist lets

  30-03-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tired of overtourism pushing up rental prices, Málaga locals have found a novel way to vent their angerIncensed after finding out his rental home of 10 years was about to become a tourist apartment, Dani Romero took to social media. What followed swiftly snowballed into a movement, as residents in Málaga began plastering stickers – reading “A family used to live here” or “Go home” – outside tourist lets across the southern Spanish city.“I d
  
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• Gazans watch the skies to spot planes dropping aid

  30-03-2024 08:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC boards a US aid flight as air drops increasingly become the last resort for foreign governments.
  
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• Can you afford to take your children on days out?

  30-03-2024 08:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Parents and a play centre owner say they are feeling the squeeze when it comes to costs.
  
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• Children among cancer patients fearing being sent back to Gaza by Israel

  30-03-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Moves to deport those receiving care in East Jerusalem have been called ‘a deliberate risk to innocent lives’Cancer patients from Gaza, including children, are living in a state of limbo in a hospital in East Jerusalem after Israeli authorities threatened to send them back.The Guardian was given access to the Augusta Victoria hospital, where at least 22 patients from Gaza in urgent need of advanced cancer treatment are living in fear of deportation. As with numerous others, they rece
  
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• Woman dead and two others in hospital after suspected drug overdoses on the Gold Coast

  30-03-2024 05:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Woman, 43, died after paramedics were called to a Surfers Paradise hotel on Friday nightGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA woman has died and two others have been hospitalised after suspected drug overdoses on the Gold Coast.Queensland paramedics were called to a hotel in Surfers Paradise at 10.58pm on Friday night. Emergency responders found seven patients, three of whom were in critical condition, including a 43-year-old woman who was experiencing cardia
  
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• US-funded Radio Free Asia shuts down in Hong Kong over safety concerns

  30-03-2024 04:48 via theguardian.com
  
  News service says it closed bureau after passing of new national security law known as Article 23US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns for its staff in the wake of a new national security law known as Article 23.“Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a ‘foreign force’, raise serious questions about our ability to operate in safety with the enactment of Article 23,” its president, Bay Fang, said in a
  
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• ‘One of Melbourne’s big characters’: youth worker Les Twentyman dies aged 76

  30-03-2024 04:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Twentyman spent more than four decades campaigning on youth homelessness and social welfareGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prominent Melbourne youth worker and social justice campaigner, Les Twentyman, has died aged 76.The Les Twentyman Foundation announced his death in a statement on Saturday.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
  
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• Military camp to be used to house Afghan escapees

  30-03-2024 03:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It will house 50 people, who helped the UK in the war in Afghanistan, by the end of March.
  
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• Boy dies in hospital after being found in Thames

  30-03-2024 03:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police had been searching for Daniel Alaby after he went missing from his home in south-east London.
  
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• Powerful gang leader demands role in Haiti peace talks

  30-03-2024 03:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jimmy Chérizier - known as Barbecue - sets his price for ordering his armed group to lay down weapons.
  
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• WATCH: Grandma has her Disney dreams come true meeting the women of Wakanda

  30-03-2024 03:19 via abcnews.go.com
  
  This granddaughter fulfilled her grandma’s wish to meet the women of Wakanda.
  
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• Lizzo says she’s tired of ‘being dragged’ by online critics: ‘I quit’

  30-03-2024 02:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer posts on Instagram she resents ‘lies being told about me for clout and views’ and implies she is quitting music industryThe Emmy and Grammy award-winning performer Lizzo seems to have announced her departure from entertainment via a post on her Instagram that ended with: “I QUIT.”“I’m getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet,” the singer and flautist wrote. “All I want is to make music and mak
  
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• WATCH: Polar bear cubs make first steps at Siberian zoo

  30-03-2024 02:35 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Two polar cubs born in December made their first steps out of their zoo den in Russia's Eastern Siberia this week.
  
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• Chris Mason: Another moment of instability for Northern Ireland

  30-03-2024 02:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's arrest, charging and resignation is a pivotal moment for the Democratic Unionist Party.
  
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• 'I drove 14 hours to see a Banksy for 10 minutes'

  30-03-2024 02:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Loraine Holmes, from Leeds, will go anywhere to see the latest works by the elusive street artist.
  
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• The football pitch that doubles as an execution ground

  30-03-2024 02:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Goalposts used by children on a beach in Somalia's capital are posts set up for firing squad executions.
  
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• Mixed feelings over Canada's drug decriminalisation test

  30-03-2024 02:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The test policy to help address a deadly drug crisis in British Columbia faces scrutiny.
  
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• Gladiators reaches final after successful reboot

  30-03-2024 01:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four contenders are fighting to be crowned champion following the BBC's revival of the show.
  
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