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• Storm Kathleen brings trees down and power outages

  06-04-2024 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Part of the roof of Titanic Belfast has also been damaged during the yellow warning strong winds.
  
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• GB newcomer Newman-Baronius equals world record

  06-04-2024 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Olivia Newman-Baronius, 17, equals the S14 100m butterfly world record in her first major event to all but confirm her place at this summer's Paralympics.
  
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• PM marks six months of Israel-Gaza war as UK sends Navy ship for aid

  06-04-2024 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak says Israel has the right to defend itself but he is "shocked by the bloodshed" in Gaza.
  
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• Nail technicians join forces to raise prices

  06-04-2024 22:57 via bbc.com
  
  Nail technicians unite to raise their charges in what they call "National Nail Price Increase Day”.
  
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• Are you happy to pay more to have your nails done?

  06-04-2024 22:57 via bbc.com
  
  Nail technicians unite to raise their charges in what they call "National Nail Price Increase Day”.
  
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• Arsenal beat Brighton to move top of Premier League

  06-04-2024 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal maintained their pursuit of a first Premier League title for 20 years as they moved top of the table with an impressive away victory over Brighton.
  
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• Man Utd will be 'angry' against Liverpool - Ten Hag

  06-04-2024 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag says his players will be "angry" when they face Liverpool and has called on them to "bring big games over the line".
  
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• More of the best of ABBA at the BBC

  06-04-2024 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Another voyage into the archives for more of the Swedish supergroup’s best BBC moments.
  
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• Dozens of UK flights cancelled as Storm Kathleen sweeps in

  06-04-2024 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Flights and ferry services are cancelled as the UK experiences strong winds but also the warmest day of the year.
  
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• Planes in minor collision at Heathrow Airport

  06-04-2024 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A British Airways plane waiting to take off was struck by a Virgin Atlantic aircraft.
  
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• WATCH: Woman builds custom 'dog train' to take disabled pups on daily rides

  06-04-2024 21:59 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A woman built custom “trains” out of decorated plastic barrels to give rides to disabled dogs at an animal shelter in Turkey.
  
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• Mexico cuts ties with Ecuador after embassy stormed

  06-04-2024 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.
  
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• Villa lack 'big-team mentality' - Watkins

  06-04-2024 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins says his side lack "a big-team mentality" to kill off crucial games in the Premier League.
  
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• Old Firm poised for title showdown at Ibrox

  06-04-2024 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic and Rangers meet at Ibrox on Sunday amid the closest title race in Scotland for well over a decade.
  
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• Three-year-old girl rescued after falling into lake

  06-04-2024 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officers saved the child after she wandered out of a house and fell in a nearby lake, police say.
  
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• Actor Cole Brings Plenty found dead in Kansas

  06-04-2024 18:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US star of popular TV series 1923 was named a suspect in a domestic violence inquiry last week.
  
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• Greta Thunberg arrested at Dutch climate protest

  06-04-2024 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The activist was placed on a bus with fellow detainees and driven away from a protest at The Hague.
  
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• Watch: Mount Etna puffs 'smoke rings' in rare display

  06-04-2024 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new crater on the volcano's summit has created a spectacular sight for tourists and locals.
  
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• Storm Kathleen brings 90mph winds and travel disruption

  06-04-2024 17:57 via bbc.com
  
  A Met Office warning for high winds was put in place across the west of Scotland on Saturday.
  
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• Johnson, Cameron, and the row over arming Israel

  06-04-2024 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Johnson says the UK should continue selling arms to Israel.
  
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• Indigenous deaths in custody haunt Australia

  06-04-2024 17:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Last year saw the most Indigenous people on record die in police custody - and families want answers.
  
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• Myanmar army loses border town in another big defeat

  06-04-2024 17:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A coalition of opposition forces in Myanmar has taken control of the busiest border crossing into Thailand.
  
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• Warnings of more flooding in Sydney as dam spills

  06-04-2024 16:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities warn that flood water levels are likely to rise further in the city's low-lying areas.
  
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• Russian drone strikes on Kharkiv kill seven - officials

  06-04-2024 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Attacks on the closest big city to the Russian border have been intensifying in recent weeks.
  
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• West faces 'authoritarian' alliance, says Nato head

  06-04-2024 15:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nato head Jens Stoltenberg tells Laura Kuenssberg authoritarian powers are becoming more aligned.
  
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• Royal Navy seizes £16.7m of drugs in the Caribbean

  06-04-2024 12:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  HMS Trent intercepted a smuggling speedboat following a port visit to the island of Martinique.
  
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• Why Rodgers' 16th derby holds more peril than any other

  06-04-2024 12:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brendan Rodgers' Old Firm record is better than any other manager. But Sunday's meeting with Rangers could be his toughest yet, writes Tom English.
  
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• Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed

  06-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trump’s smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous peopleDonald Trump’s speeches on the 2024 campaign trail so far have been focused on a laundry list of complaints, largely personal, and an increasingly menacing tone.He’s on the campaign trail less these days than he was in previous cycles – and less than you’d expect from a guy with dedicated superfans who brags about the size of his crowds eve
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian drone attack on Kharkiv kills six

  06-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Overnight strike hits high-rise buildings and petrol station, wounding another 10 people, says mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest citySee all our Ukraine war coverageUkrainian forces are still in control of the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine despite attempts by Russian troops to break through their defences, commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.Russia’s RIA news agency on Friday cited an official as saying Russian forces had entered the suburbs of the town, which Moscow se
  
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• Police hope new play about the ‘Putney Pusher’ can help restart investigation

  06-04-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Case was closed in 2018 without finding assailant but it is hoped ‘Once Upon a Bridge’ will prompt fresh clues to culprit’s identityWhen a jogger on London’s Putney Bridge was caught by CCTV as he callously pushed a stranger into the path of a double decker bus seven years ago, the act of random violence stunned the world. Shocking still images from the footage appeared on the front pages of international newspapers and, in the following months, leagues of amateur online
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Iran says ‘enemy’ will ‘regret’ strike on Damascus; US on high alert for attacks from Tehran

  06-04-2024 11:17 via theguardian.com
  
  US officials says that a response could come in the next week, after Israel’s strike on the Iranian embassy in SyriaIsraeli inquiry findings on aid worker killings lack credibility, charity saysIran on Saturday again threatened retaliation for the deaths of seven Revolutionary Guards in a strike on Damascus, with the army chief saying his country’s enemies will “regret” the killings, reports AFP.Tehran has vowed to avenge Monday’s airstrike on the Syrian capital it
  
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• Banning arms sales to Israel would be ‘insane’, says Boris Johnson

  06-04-2024 10:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Former prime minister says a western arms embargo on Israel would ‘hand victory’ to HamasMiddle East crisis – live updatesBoris Johnson has said banning arms sales to Israel would be “insane”.The former prime minister also criticised the foreign secretary, David Cameron, for remaining silent on the debate over curtailing UK arms sales to Israel.Guardian Newsroom: Crisis in the Middle East
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• Enhanced right to ask for flexible working comes into force

  06-04-2024 10:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Employees in England, Scotland and Wales can now request flexible working from first day in new jobEmployees will have the legal right from Saturday to request flexible working from their first day in a new job.Previously, it applied only when someone had worked for their employer for 26 weeks or more. Continue reading...
  
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• Storm Kathleen to bring 70mph winds and UK’s hottest day of the year

  06-04-2024 09:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Met Office says temperatures could reach 22C in East Anglia but warns of strong winds and rain on Saturday nightStorm Kathleen is expected to bring strong winds and the hottest day of the year so far for the UK, as it brings warm air from the continent this weekend.The Met Office said temperatures could reach 22C in East Anglia, with gusts of 70mph forecast for western areas on Saturday. Continue reading...
  
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• UK car insurance cost up by third but just 2% in France

  06-04-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Disparity, along with lower increases for car cover in rest of Europe raises questions about motor insurance in BritainUK insurers have revealed the amount they paid out for motor claims went up by about 18% last year, even as British drivers faced premium increases of more than a third – far above the rises in the rest of Europe.The Association of British Insurers (ABI) put the average increase for car cover in the UK at 34%, but many drivers have seen rises far exceed that, even doubling
  
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• Taylor Swift superfans caught in £250 ticket scam

  06-04-2024 08:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A scammer posing online as a mutual friend conned a mum and daughter out of hundreds of pounds.
  
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• Taiwan earthquake: over 600 people remain stranded days after disaster

  06-04-2024 08:23 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘I kept praying and praying’, says rescued woman as search for four people missing from hiking trail set to resume following Wednesday’s quakeRescuers in Taiwan planned to bring in heavy equipment on Saturday to try to recover two bodies buried on a hiking trail, while more than 600 people remained stranded in various locations, three days after the island’s strongest earthquake in 25 years.Four people remain missing on the same Shakadang Trail in Taroko national park, fa
  
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• Make-up of Tasmanian parliament finally settled as ‘anti-politician’ independent takes last seat

  06-04-2024 08:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Premier Jeremy Rockliff says he will advise governor Barbara Baker that he be recommissioned to form a new governmentGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIndependent candidate and salmon farming opponent Craig Garland has secured the final spot in Tasmania’s parliament, leaving the Liberals with 14 seats, Labor 10, the Greens five, Jacqui Lambie Network three and three independents.Tasmanian premier, Jeremy Rockliff, said with the 35 members of the state
  
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• Mohamed came to Australia as a teenager. Now, he faces being deported to a country he doesn’t know

  06-04-2024 08:01 via theguardian.com
  
  After almost a decade in immigration detention Mohamed Coker was told he would be put on a plane to Sierra Leone within hoursGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast“My dad was murdered there. The people that murdered my dad are still around … I fear the same thing will happen to me.”Mohamed Coker, 33, spoke to Guardian Australia on his way to the airport.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for yo
  
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• Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy

  06-04-2024 07:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Ecuadorian police forcibly enter the embassy in Quito to detain former vice-president Jorge GlasMexico has suspended diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police forcibly broke into the country’s embassy in Quito to detain former Ecuadorian vice-president Jorge Glas, deepening a diplomatic rift between the two countries.Glas, convicted twice for corruption, had been holed up in the embassy in Quito since seeking political asylum in December, arguing he was being persecuted by the attorney gen
  
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• UK families to benefit by up to £3,000 from changes to child benefit tax

  06-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  New tax year means threshold for benefit charge linked to higher earnings rises to £60,000Several hundred thousand families are to be better off, some by as much as £3,000, during the 2024-25 tax year after the government finally admitted that a child benefit measure brought in 11 years ago had not worked fairly.A change to child benefit is just one of a raft of changes coming in on 6 April, the start of the new tax year, including a cut in national insurance for employees to 8% from
  
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• Teachers in England and Wales report vermin and pests in schools

  06-04-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Union poll on school buildings also highlights sewage and wastewater leaks, overheating, severe cold and mouldA survey by the UK’s biggest education union on the state of school buildings in England and Wales has found two in five teachers reporting signs of vermin or pests and more than a quarter complaining of sewage or wastewater leaks.Of the 8,000 members of the National Education Union who responded to the online poll, two-thirds (68%) said they worked in buildings that leaked, with o
  
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• ‘Deadly failure’: Australia demands Israel take ‘appropriate action’ against those responsible for killing aid workers

  06-04-2024 06:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Foreign minister Penny Wong says IDF’s killing of the seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom, ‘cannot be swept aside’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has demanded Israel take “appropriate action” over its military’s “deadly failure” that killed seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom.The foreign minister, Penny Wong, said she and the deputy prime minister
  
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• ‘The memories are too much’: Sderot residents return six months after Hamas attack

  06-04-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Families are being offered grants to go home but many have stayed away and others are already thinking of leaving againDowntown Sderot, an impoverished Israeli town just a kilometre away from the north-eastern corner of the Gaza Strip, is still quiet six months after 7 October. There is no longer any trace of the police station where Hamas militants took hostages and engaged the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a two-day battle before the Israelis decided to blow up the building. The site has been
  
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• Peru’s embattled president dismisses ‘Rolexgate’ investigation as a ‘smoke-screen’

  06-04-2024 05:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Dina Boluarte has denied wrongdoing after being accused of illicit enrichment in relation to her use of at least three Rolex watches and designer jewelleryPeru’s president, Dina Boluarte, has dismissed an investigation into her use of luxury watches as a “smoke-screen”, denying wrongdoing and saying that the items had been loaned to her, though she admitted to journalists that it was a “mistake” to have accepted them.Earlier on Friday she faced closed-door questioni
  
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• Fire at Bernie Sanders' Vermont office investigated as arson

  06-04-2024 05:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  A fire at Sen. Bernie Sanders' Vermont office is being investigated as arson, the Burlington Fire Department said Friday.
  
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• Missing '1923' actor Cole Brings Plenty, 27, found dead in Kansas

  06-04-2024 05:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Actor Cole Brings Plenty, who had been missing since Sunday amid a domestic violence investigation, has been found dead, authorities in Kansas said Friday.
  
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• The world's eclipse chasers arrive in North America

  06-04-2024 04:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For them, experiencing a total solar eclipse is an otherworldly thrill that begs to be repeated.
  
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• NSW weather: significant flooding threat remains for parts of Sydney despite heavy rain easing

  06-04-2024 04:51 via theguardian.com
  
  NSW premier says rising flood levels present ongoing danger for some communities, including in western SydneyBoM weather radar: track the path of the storms and latest updates and warnings for NSW and QueenslandGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSydney may have woken up to blue skies on Saturday, but flood levels were continuing to rise across parts of New South Wales with evacuation orders issued after an overnight deluge broke rainfall records.Suburbs on t
  
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• Julie Bishop ‘deeply honoured’ to be appointed UN special envoy for Myanmar

  06-04-2024 04:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Australian foreign minister named as secretary general António Guterres’ special envoy to country gripped by civil warThe former Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop has been appointed the United Nations secretary general António Guterres’ special envoy on Myanmar, the world body has said.Bishop, the Australian National University’s chancellor, will take up the UN role that has been vacant since June last year, when Singaporean diplomat Noeleen Heyzer s
  
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