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• Trump campaign rips Politico for 'harebrained assertion' that China prefers him over Biden

  04-04-2024 23:45 via foxnews.com
  
  The Trump campaign issued a blistering response to Politico's "false reporting" that China would prefer former President Trump back in the White House come November and is even aiding those efforts. "In Politico’s Nightly newsletter, Catherine Kim makes a harebrained assertion that China would prefer President Trump to return to the White House," Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement released Wednesday evening. "The same President Trump who made
  
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• Boston hospital to scale back on child abuse and neglect reports that can perpetuate 'structural racism'

  04-04-2024 23:27 via foxnews.com
  
  A Boston, Massachusetts, hospital announced Tuesday that after finding Black mothers were more likely to be reported for child abuse and neglect if a toxicology report came back positive, it would be taking steps to reevaluate the process in order to avoid perpetuating "structural racism." "Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people," said Mass General Brigham, a nonprofit health care system. "As a part
  
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• 3 human rights activists arrested in Belarus as a crackdown on the opposition persists

  04-04-2024 23:24 via foxnews.com
  
  TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Three activists of Viasna, the main human rights group in harshly repressive Belarus, have been arrested and charged with participating in an extremist organization, state television reported Thursday.The arrests were the latest in a long campaign by authorities to stifle opposition and independent media in the country, which has been under the authoritarian rule of President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994.BELARUS ARRESTS WELL-KNOWN ACTIVIST ON CHARGES PUNISHABLE B
  
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• Salzburg Festival artistic director secures third 5-year term

  04-04-2024 23:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Markus Hinterhäuser has been given a third five-year term as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, extending his tenure in one of Europe's most influential cultural roles to the longest since Herbert von Karajan's reign from 1956-89.JAY-Z'S 'MADE IN AMERICA' FESTIVAL CANCELLED FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROWThe festival said Thursday that its board of directors agreed to a contract through 2031 with a provision that either side could terminate the deal on Sept. 30, 2029.A 66-year-old pianist
  
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• San Diego man reunited with dog missing since summer — in Michigan

  04-04-2024 23:21 via foxnews.com
  
  A dog missing in California since the summer turned up more than 2,000 miles away in suburban Detroit.Police in Harper Woods responded to a call about a stray dog last week, picked up the terrier mix and contacted an animal welfare group.The Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society said it quickly discovered that the dog, named Mishka, had an identity chip implanted in her with information about her owners.DEPUTIES RESCUE INJURED DOG STRANDED ON TRAIN TRACKS FOR DAYSMehrad Houman and his family liv
  
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• Billionaire Joe Lewis fined $5m but avoids prison

  04-04-2024 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 87-year-old - whose family trust owns Tottenham Hotspur - gave secret stock tips to his girlfriend and employees.
  
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• Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner, wife mourn stillborn son a month before due date

  04-04-2024 23:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Columbus Blue Jackets captain Boone Jenner and his wife, Maggie, are mourning the loss of their first child after revealing on social media their son was stillborn a month before his due date.  The NHL veteran shared the devastating news in a joint statement with his wife on social media. "We are at a loss for words. A pain like no other. Our son, Dawson Jenner was stillborn on March 31st, 2024. While this pain is like nothing we’ve experienced before, it’s also shown
  
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• Venice day-trippers will face steep fines if they fail to pay an access fee under a pilot program

  04-04-2024 23:03 via foxnews.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — Day-trippers to the fabled canal city of Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a time-limited pilot program launching later this month will face fines starting at 10 times the entrance fee, officials said Thursday.Venice announced last year it would launch the long-discussed day-tripper fee after the city escaped being placed on the U.N. agency’s list of endangered heritage sites, due largely to the impact of overt
  
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• Chicago mayor urges Biden to grant work permits to half million illegal immigrants

  04-04-2024 23:03 via foxnews.com
  
  Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson urged President Biden on Thursday to grant work permits to nearly 500,000 illegal migrants living in the state. Johnson also said the city, which has roughly 2.7 million people, can "conservatively" welcome another 400,000 to 700,000 illegal migrants."We need the president to extend the same economic opportunities long term for our undocumented brothers and sisters, so they can build a better life here in the city of Chicago or wherever else they decide to live," Jo
  
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• Guyana condemns Venezuela for signing into law a referendum approving annexation of disputed region

  04-04-2024 23:01 via foxnews.com
  
  GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's move to sign into law the results of a recent referendum laying claim to two-thirds of Guyana triggered fierce condemnation Thursday from the neighboring South American country's government.The text of the law was not immediately made public. Even so, Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs vowed not to yield any land to Venezuela and called the move targeting Guyana’s western Essequibo region an "egregious vio
  
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• Biden admin's revolving door on terrorism label draws scathing criticism: 'New low'

  04-04-2024 22:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A senator has slammed the Biden administration’s offer to reverse the Houthis’ designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) group in exchange for guaranteeing an end to attacks against Red Sea shipping vessels. "The Houthi terrorists and their Iranian benefactors have tried to shut down global trade in the Red Sea with deadly consequences," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote in a post on social media platform X. "Appeasing and rewarding such behavior would be a new
  
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• Who were the seven aid workers killed in Gaza?

  04-04-2024 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Seven aid workers, including foreign nationals, have been killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza.
  
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• Macron to say France and allies could have stopped Rwanda genocide in 1994

  04-04-2024 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  French president marks 30th anniversary with video, airing Sunday, saying international community lacked will to stop the slaughterThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said France and its western and African allies “could have stopped” Rwanda’s 1994 genocide but did not have the will to halt the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis.In a video message to be published on Sunday to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide, Macron will emphasise tha
  
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• Brazil's federal police arrest 2 maximum-security fugitives after 50-day manhunt

  04-04-2024 22:26 via foxnews.com
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Thursday that they arrested two fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison in northeastern Brazil, bringing a 50-day manhunt to an end.BRAZILIAN POLICE INVESTIGATE FORMER PRESIDENT BOLSONARO'S ALLIES OVER ALLEGED ELECTION INTERFERENCEIn February, Rogério Mendonça and Deibson Nascimento became the first inmates to ever escape from Brazil’s federal penitentiary system, a source of embarrassment for both the justice
  
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• Biden warns Netanyahu that US will change policy on Gaza unless Israel protects civilians

  04-04-2024 22:12 via foxnews.com
  
  President Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that U.S. policy in Gaza could change if the Israeli military doesn’t do more to improve the humanitarian situation.During a phone call with his Israeli counterpart on Thursday, Biden stressed that Israel’s strikes on "humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable," according to a White House readout of the call.The same sentiment was echoed later Thursday by both Secretary of State Antony
  
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• Texas Gov Abbott on terrorists crossing the border: 'We are extraordinarily concerned' about another 9/11

  04-04-2024 22:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott joined "America's Newsroom" on Thursday to explain how President Biden's approach at the border increases national security risks for his state and the country as a whole.MONTANA GOVERNOR BEGS BIDEN TO 'DO HIS JOB' AND SECURE SOUTHERN BORDER AS MEXICAN CARTELS INFILTRATE STATEGOV. GREG ABBOTT: Well, let's be clear. The administration is doing nothing to stop terrorists from coming across the border. They are knowingly allowing them in. And there's two categories
  
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• Georgia group and others release 34 rehabilitated sea turtles into ocean after reptiles regained their health

  04-04-2024 21:49 via foxnews.com
  
  It was a glorious day for many on April 3, 2024, as nearly three dozen sea turtles were released back into the ocean after months of rehabilitation efforts. Thirty-four rehabilitated sea turtles were transported to Jekyll Island in Georgia to be let back into the ocean thanks to multiple marine conservation societies and aquariums. Each winter, sea turtles are known to wash up on various shores — specifically Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and certain New York areas — as ocean te
  
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• Biden holds narrow lead over Trump in new poll despite concerns he's 'too old' for a second term

  04-04-2024 21:28 via foxnews.com
  
  President Biden led former President Donald Trump by just two points in a new poll of Pennsylvania registered voters, despite the enduring belief of many that he is too old to serve as chief executive for another term. Biden pulled ahead of Trump in a new Franklin & Marshall Poll released on Thursday, winning with Pennsylvania voters 42% to 40%. Pennsylvania is one of the critical battleground states that is expected to help determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
  
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• 'Radical rethink' needed in NHS on autism and ADHD

  04-04-2024 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  And US sets aid demands on Israel
  
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• County Championship: First day of the season - radio & text

  04-04-2024 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Follow live text updates and BBC radio commentary from the first day of the 2024 County Championship season.
  
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• Biden tells Netanyahu Gaza aid strikes ‘unacceptable’ and Israel must end civilian suffering to keep US support – live

  04-04-2024 20:18 via theguardian.com
  
  US president says ‘immediate ceasefire is essential’ amid pressure on the US to do more to end suffering in GazaJill Biden pleaded with her husband, Joe Biden, to “stop it, stop it now”, referring to the war in Gaza, the president told guests at the White House, according to a report.At a meeting with Muslim community members on Tuesday, a guest told Biden that his wife had disapproved of him attending the event because of the president’s support for Israel in its w
  
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• Could the Israel-Gaza war cost Biden the election?

  04-04-2024 19:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The President’s said he’s 'outraged' by aid worker killings
  
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• Creative arts courses at English universities face funding cut

  04-04-2024 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Education secretary Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher educationMinisters will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries.The cuts, outlined by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, in guidance to the universities regulator, will also reduce funding for Uni-Connect, which runs programmes aimed at widening access to hig
  
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• ‘Our profits could disappear’: small UK businesses hit out at new import fees

  04-04-2024 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Post-Brexit charges of up to £145 may lead to a reduced range of goods available for consumersBritish small businesses have hit out at newly announced post-Brexit import fees coming in later this month, warning they could wipe out profits and make importing some products unfeasible.Trade bodies, retailers and small firms said that the new charges of up to £145 for each consignment could force them to limit the range of items they can offer, while others may have to push up their pric
  
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• Macron supports Aya Nakamura singing at Olympics after racist backlash

  04-04-2024 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  French president in favour of singer opening the Games amid racist backlash from far-right politiciansEmmanuel Macron has said the French pop superstar Aya Nakamura would be in her rightful place performing at an opening ceremony for the Olympic Games this summer, after suggestions that she could sing an Édith Piaf song sparked a racist backlash against the singer.Asked about Nakamura, who is the most listened to French-speaking artist in the world, Macron said it would be a “good t
  
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• Girl, 14, left in coma after attack by teenagers outside school in France

  04-04-2024 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Three minors have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after incident in MontpellierThe French government has launched an urgent investigation after a 14-year-old girl was severely wounded and left in a coma after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers in the south of France.The three alleged attackers, including a girl who was at the same school as the victim in the suburbs of the southern city of Montpellier, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a
  
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• Co-op profits rise despite record shoplifting levels in food stores

  04-04-2024 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Chain signs up 1m new members and invests more than £90m in cutting pricesDespite record levels of shoplifting in its food stores, the Co-op increased profits in its grocery business last year as it signed up 1 million new members and invested more than £90m in cutting prices, including introducing special discounts for members.Profits rose 11% year on year to £154m despite a 6.4% fall in sales to £7.3bn, driven by the sale of the Co-op’s petrol forecourt chain to A
  
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• London restaurant chain adds ‘brand charge’ as it bans tipping by card

  04-04-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ping Pong criticised for introducing optional 15% months before new law will ensure workers get 100% of tipsA London restaurant chain has banned customers from paying a tip by card and introduced a “brand” fee instead, just three months before new legislation makes it compulsory to give all tips to staff.Ping Pong, which operates five dim sum outlets in the capital, said the new optional 15% charge would go towards “franchise fees and other brand-related expenditure”, and
  
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• Top UN expert warns of deteriorating situation in Haiti: ‘It’s apocalyptic’

  04-04-2024 18:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Human rights expert voices alarm, saying country is fast moving towards becoming ‘like Somalia in the worst of its times’Haiti: what caused the gang violence?The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti has warned the Caribbean country is rapidly moving towards becoming “like Somalia in the worst of its times” after a criminal uprising which has displaced tens of thousands of people and largely cut its capital city off from the world.Just over a month after the gang
  
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• Tories investigating Alan Duncan’s comments on party’s pro-Israel ‘extremists’

  04-04-2024 18:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Former MP has said Conservative minister Tom Tugendhat and peer Eric Pickles should be sackedUK politics – latest updatesThe Conservative former minister Alan Duncan is being investigated by the party after he said pro-Israel “extremists” within the party, including some ministers and peers, should be expelled because they refuse to support international law.Duncan, who served as a foreign minister and an aid minister before stepping down as an MP in 2019, named Tom Tugendhat,
  
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• Police say human ashes found at Hull funeral home cannot be identified

  04-04-2024 18:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers still working to formally identify 35 bodies but are unable to recover useful DNA from ashesHuman ashes found in a Hull funeral home cannot be identified, in what police said would be “devastating news for families and loved ones”.Humberside police said they were still working with the coroner to formally identify the 35 bodies found at Legacy Independent Funeral Directors on Hessle Road, four weeks after the launch of a criminal investigation. Continue reading...
  
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• Manchester theatre restores cancelled Palestinian event after artists protest

  04-04-2024 18:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Home theatre apologises for upset caused by cancelling of Voices of ResilienceThe organisers of a Palestinian literature event cancelled by a Manchester theatre last week, say they are “hugely grateful” the venue has agreed it can go ahead after a surge of support.Home theatre apologised for the upset caused by cancelling Voices of Resilience, due to be held on 22 April, citing “recent publicity” and safety concerns for the organisers and those attending. Continue reading
  
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• Los Angeles thieves steal $30m in cash from safe without setting off any alarms

  04-04-2024 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the largest cash heists in the city’s history went unnoticed until police opened vault that few people knew aboutThieves in Los Angeles pulled off one of the largest cash heists in city history over the weekend, stealing as much as $30m from a money storage facility on Easter Sunday, authorities said on Wednesday.The break-in unfolded at an unnamed facility in the Sylmar area of the San Fernando Valley that handles and stores cash from businesses across the region. Burglars were abl
  
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• Food charity demands independent inquiry into Israeli killing of aid staff

  04-04-2024 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  World Central Kitchen asks countries of workers who died to join its call, as Biden and Netanyahu hold first phone call since attackMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe international food charity World Central Kitchen has called for an independent investigation into the Israeli strikes that killed seven of its aid workers in Gaza on Monday, as Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu held their first phone call since the attack.WCK asked Australia, Canada, Poland, the US and the UK, whose citizens
  
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• South Carolina mulls mystery $1.8bn in account: ‘We don’t know why it’s there’

  04-04-2024 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Governor says officials don’t know how or when money materialised in state coffers, what it’s for, or if it’s even realTo put it mildly, the South Carolina state government faces an unusual problem: what to do about $1.8bn found in a state bank account when no one knows how it got there, how it should be spent or even whether it really exists.Discussing the problem, the Republican governor, Henry McMaster, made a play for political understatement of the year. Continue reading..
  
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• Sadiq Khan says UK arms sales to Israel have ‘got to stop’

  04-04-2024 18:27 via theguardian.com
  
  London mayor’s comments come as number of Labour MPs calling for a halt reaches 50 Sadiq Khan has become the most senior Labour figure yet to call for an immediate end of UK arms sales to Israel after a drone attack killed seven aid workers in Gaza, with the London mayor saying: “It’s got to stop.”Khan’s comments came as a tally of public statements by the leftwing Labour group Momentum showed that more than 50 Labour MPs had also demanded an end to arms sales, a qu
  
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• Weekly quiz: Which of Marilyn’s belongings went under the hammer?

  04-04-2024 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Test how closely you have been paying attention to what has been going on over the past seven days.
  
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• Legal assessment of Israel’s actions in Gaza risks being subsumed in Tory row

  04-04-2024 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Conservative supporters of Israel want David Cameron to dial back criticism and accept defeat of Hamas is in UK’s interestA legal assessment by the UK Foreign Office of whether Israel is in breach of international humanitarian law in Gaza risks being subsumed in a Conservative row over the party’s loyalty to the country, and by rival judgments on the damage to British interests in the wider Middle East if the UK is not seen to distance itself from Israel’s methods.Judging by th
  
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• Dismay as X’s most-followed accounts given blue ticks for free

  04-04-2024 17:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Elon Musk’s firm reverses policy of insisting on payment for ‘verified status’ – embarrassing some beneficiariesElon Musk has reversed one of his most notorious decisions since taking over X, the social network better known as Twitter, and started bestowing blue ticks on the site’s most-followed users – whether they want them or not.The entrepreneur and one-time “Chief Twit” had tweeted last week that the service would grant free “premium&rdq
  
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• ‘A new beginning’: US man who received pig kidney transplant returns home

  04-04-2024 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Richard Slayman was discharged from Massachusetts hospital on Wednesday after pioneering surgeryThe Massachusetts man who received the world’s first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney has returned home less than three weeks after the pioneering surgery, and says he feels just fine.Richard Slayman, who had been diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, was discharged from Boston’s Massachusetts general hospital on Wednesday, and thanked doctors who performed the four-hour o
  
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• Ford to delay rollout of new electric pickup and SUV as EV sales slow

  04-04-2024 17:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Ford EV unit’s pretax losses expected to jump to more than $5bn as US electric vehicle sales growth slows to 2.7%With US electric vehicle sales starting to slow, Ford Motor Co says it will delay rolling out new electric pickup trucks and a new large electric SUV as it adds gas-electric hybrids to its model lineup.The Dearborn, Michigan, company said on Thursday that a much ballyhooed new electric pickup to be built at a new factory in Tennessee will be delayed by a year until 2026. Continu
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr’s family to visit Memphis on anniversary of his murder

  04-04-2024 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  The relatives of slain civil rights leader will visit Tennessee city to bring attention to erosion of civil rights in USRelatives of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr are making a rare trip to Memphis on Thursday on the anniversary of his assassination, to speak on the rising threat of political violence, especially in an election year.Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the late King, will pay tribute to his father’s legacy, 56 years after the assassination in the T
  
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• Ukrainian man jailed for life over role in Russian strike on pizzeria

  04-04-2024 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Man provided information on restaurant in Kramatorsk that was hit last June, killing 13 people including novelist Victoria AmelinaUkraine war – live updatesA Ukrainian man who helped Russia target a missile strike on a pizzeria in the eastern city of Kramatorsk last June has been jailed for life.Thirteen people including the novelist and poet Victoria Amelina were killed when a Russian ballistic missile tore through the popular Ria Pizza restaurant on the evening of 27 June 2023. Continue
  
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• 'The walls were crumbling' - escaping Taiwan's earthquake

  04-04-2024 17:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four people caught in the 7.4 magnitude quake recall the moment it struck and how they survived.
  
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• US tourist killed after bull elephant toppled safari vehicle in Zambia

  04-04-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Four others were wounded in the attack at Kafue national park, in which the animal barreled into the side of a truckAn elderly US tourist was killed and four others hurt when an aggressive bull elephant charged and toppled their safari vehicle during a game drive in Zambia.The attack at Kafue national park, in which the large pachyderm ran from a wooded area and barreled into the side of the truck, was captured on video and posted to social media by ABC News. It identified the tourist as 79-year
  
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• Middle East crisis: Israel says investigation into its air strike that killed aid workers in Gaza to take weeks – as it happened

  04-04-2024 16:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Israel government says its report will be ‘transparent’ after seven people working for food charity killed in an Israeli air strike. This live blog is closedSee all of our Israel-Gaza war coverageReuters has spoken with Israelis who have been displaced from their communities in the far north of the country, close to the UN-drawn blue line that has separated Israel from Lebanon since 2000.Israel evacuated a number of communities, totalling about 60,000 people, almost immediately after
  
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• What we know about Israeli strike on aid convoy

  04-04-2024 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Verify on what we know about the attack on an aid vehicle convoy in Gaza.
  
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• Myanmar opposition carries out drone attack on capital

  04-04-2024 16:23 via theguardian.com
  
  National Unity Government said it attacked two military targets in junta-controlled NaypidawOpponents of Myanmar’s military said they had carried out drone attacks against junta sites in the capital, Naypyidaw, in what appears to be a rare incursion against the embattled junta’s centre of power.The National Unity Government (NUG), which was formed to oppose the 2021 coup, said it had launched drone attacks on two military targets in the capital. Continue reading...
  
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• Elite cyclist to lead London race while living in asylum hotel

  04-04-2024 16:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Trhas Tesfay, who fled war in Ethiopia, says she suffers hunger headaches as she cannot eat Home Office hotel mealsOne of Ethiopia’s elite female cyclists will be pedalling at the front of one of London’s biggest bike races next month while living in an asylum seeker hotel on less than £10 a week.Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay, 22, rode a bicycle for the first time when she was 13 years old. She has achieved success in a range of competitions such as the African Continental Champio
  
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• Venice mayor says he is brave like Marco Polo in charging day-trippers €5

  04-04-2024 16:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Luigi Brugnaro claims he is taking a risk no other politician would take with his measure to preserve the cityThe mayor of Venice has likened the “bravery” of his decision to charge day-trippers an entrance fee to the city to that of the legendary Venetian explorer Marco Polo.Venice will become the first mayor city in the world to adopt such a measure when the long-mooted €5 (£4.30) fee comes into force later this month. Continue reading...
  
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