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• David Cameron heads to Brussels for Gibraltar talks

  11-04-2024 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Following Brexit, the British overseas territory has been operating under temporary rules.
  
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• Starmer to make defence pledges with ‘bedrock’ of nuclear deterrent

  11-04-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  On visit to Barrow, Labour leader due to say defence procurement will strengthen security and growthKeir Starmer will promise to make the UK’s nuclear deterrent the “bedrock” of his security plan to keep Britain safe.On Friday he will become the first Labour leader in 30 years to visit Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, where nuclear submarines are being built. He will be joined by the Australian high commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, and the shadow defence secretary, John Healey
  
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• Baldur's Gate 3 wins big at Bafta Games Awards

  11-04-2024 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Super Mario Bros Wonder won two, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor missed out despite six nominations.
  
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• Leverkusen strike late to beat stubborn West Ham

  11-04-2024 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bayer Leverkusen score twice in the last 10 minutes to break West Ham's resistance and take the advantage after the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final.
  
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• Liverpool suffer shock home defeat by Atalanta

  11-04-2024 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool face a huge battle to stay in the Europa League after a shock home defeat to Atalanta in the quarter-final first leg at Anfield.
  
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• Villa narrowly beat Lille in quarter-final first leg

  11-04-2024 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Goals from Ollie Watkins and John McGinn give Aston Villa a narrow first-leg lead over Lille in their Europa Conference League quarter-final as Unai Emery marks his 1,000th game as a manager.
  
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• Jeremy Paxman says Parkinson’s ‘makes you wish you hadn’t been born’

  11-04-2024 23:06 via theguardian.com
  
  BBC presenter made statement as Parky Charter – a list of recommendations about condition – delivered to No 10Jeremy Paxman has said Parkinson’s disease “makes you wish you hadn’t been born” as he delivered a list of recommendations about the condition to Downing Street.The former University Challenge and Newsnight presenter and fellow members of the Movers and Shakers podcast – which discusses the challenges of living with the disease – marked Wor
  
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• Watch: Masters leader DeChambeau fires three consecutive birdies

  11-04-2024 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bryson DeChambeau birdies the 14th, 15th and 16th holes at Augusta as he finishes his first round seven under par to lead the Masters.
  
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• Man arrested in Alabama bombing outside state attorney general’s office

  11-04-2024 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, allegedly put stickers on state buildings with antifa, anti-police and anti-Ice sentimentsAn Alabama man has been charged with detonating an explosive device outside the state attorney general’s office.In a statement on Wednesday, the justice department announced that authorities had arrested 26-year-old Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert of Irondale on charges of malicious use of an explosive and possession of an unregistered destructive device. Continue read
  
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• DeChambeau leads after three consecutive birdies

  11-04-2024 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bryson DeChambeau birdies the 14th, 15th and 16th holes at Augusta as he finishes his first round seven under par to lead the Masters.
  
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• Liverpool suffer shock home defeat to Atalanta

  11-04-2024 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool face a huge battle to stay in the Europa League after a shock home defeat to Atalanta in the quarter-final first leg at Anfield.
  
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• Sam Bankman-Fried appeals FTX fraud convictions and 25-year prison sentence

  11-04-2024 22:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-CEO and former crypto mogul, 32, was found guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy to launder money in NovemberSam Bankman-Fried appealed his fraud convictions and 25-year prison sentence on Thursday.The ex-CEO of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange was found guilty on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy to launder money in November and sentenced to more than two decades in federal prison in late March. The former crypto mogul, 32, had signaled he would contest the court’s
  
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• Trump and Mike Johnson push for redundant ban on non-citizens voting

  11-04-2024 22:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Planned bill to ban already illegal practice is latest Republican step to spread falsehoods about immigration and voter fraudDonald Trump and the House speaker, Mike Johnson, plan to push for a bill to ban non-citizens from voting, the latest step by Republicans to falsely claim migrants are coming to the country and casting ballots.Voting when a person is not eligible – for instance if they lack US citizenship – is already illegal under federal law. It is unclear what the bill Johns
  
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• Glasgow back up host for 2026 Commonwealth Games

  11-04-2024 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport understands that Scotland is the 'last resort' plan after Australia pulled out over costs.
  
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• Trump campaign calls for more presidential debates ‘much earlier’ in election race – as it happened

  11-04-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can read more of our US politics coverage here. The Democratic senator for Virginia, Tim Kaine, is best known nationally as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 presidential election, a race they lost to Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence. The Biden ally is a member of the Senate foreign relations and armed services committees.Kaine has repeatedly reiterated his backing for Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas following the terror
  
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• Five thousand children with gender-related distress awaiting NHS care in England

  11-04-2024 21:57 via theguardian.com
  
  New gender clinics looking at ‘creative ways’ of reducing waiting lists amid shortage of cliniciansFive thousand children and adolescents with gender-related distress are awaiting NHS treatment – yet a shortage of clinicians meant only 12 had been seen at a new London-based gender clinic by the start of this week.Two newly opened gender centres, in London and Liverpool, are looking at “creative ways” of reducing the waiting lists, such as running group sessions with
  
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• 'Alonso's passion for F1 shines blindingly bright'

  11-04-2024 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fernando Alonso's passion for Formula 1 shines like a blinding light as 42-year-old announces his decision to race on with Aston Martin, writes Andrew Benson.
  
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• US seeking to deter Iran from strike on Israel, officials say

  11-04-2024 21:38 via theguardian.com
  
  US declaring commitment to Israeli security while also working to prevent regional war, say officialsThe US is seeking to deter Iran from carrying out a retaliatory strike against Israel with concerted declarations of commitment to Israeli security, while at the same time trying to prevent the outbreak of a major regional war, officials in Washington have said.US officials still believe that a direct Iranian missile or drone strike is possible within the next few days, in retaliation for the Isr
  
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• Taylor Swift's music returns to TikTok

  11-04-2024 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The artist's songs were removed from the platform in January after a dispute over licensing.
  
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• Lara Trump’s RNC robocall falsely claims ‘massive fraud’ in 2020 election

  11-04-2024 21:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Call shows the Republican party to be ‘more committed to the big lie than ever’, says Democratic lawyerThe Republican National Committee sent out a scripted robocall on behalf of its new co-chair Lara Trump, falsely claiming Democrats were guilty of “massive fraud” in the 2020 election.“We all know the problems,” the RNC call said, according to CNN, which also said the call was sent 145,000 times in the first week of April. Continue reading...
  
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• Man charged with murder over Bradford stabbing of wife appears in court

  11-04-2024 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Habibur Masum was subject of three-day manhunt after Kulsuma Akter was attacked while pushing pramA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a mother who was stabbed to death as she pushed her baby in a pram in Bradford city centre.Habibur Masum, 25, is charged with murdering Kulsuma Akter, 27, who was believed to be his wife, on Saturday. The baby was not harmed in the incident, police said. Continue reading...
  
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• Gang culture at neurosurgery department, doctor alleges

  11-04-2024 21:01 via bbc.com
  
  Neurosurgeon Mansoor Foroughi alleges he was dismissed after he raised safety concerns.
  
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• Met police failed to act on Commons ‘honeytrap’ sexting reports last year

  11-04-2024 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  The force has said there was nothing to suggest at the time that the messages were part of a wider patternThe Metropolitan police first had reports of unsolicited messages targeting a number of MPs, staff and journalists in Westminster last year, but officers failed to notify politicians.After the former Conservative MP William Wragg said he was manipulated into giving the personal phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on a dating app, Scotland Yard said it was working with other police fo
  
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• Wisconsin Republicans allege anti-GOP bias in latest election challenge

  11-04-2024 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Complaint claims officials violated state law by not contacting eligible Republicans nominated by their party to work the pollsWisconsin Republicans have hit the state election commission with complaints alleging that officials in the state’s two largest cities illegally rejected Republican applicants for poll worker positions for the primary election.The complaints, filed by the Milwaukee county Republican party and Dane county Republican party, claim officials in Milwaukee and Madison vi
  
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• Did Angela Raynor break the law?

  11-04-2024 20:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plus, historical revelations about a no 10 affair
  
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• Could Iran attack Israel? And can Biden stop it?

  11-04-2024 20:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plus, historical revelations about a no 10 affair
  
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• PM defends NHS record as targets missed in England

  11-04-2024 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The latest figures show many patients face long waits, but the PM insists headway is being made.
  
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• OJ Simpson, NFL star cleared in ‘trial of the century’, dies aged 76

  11-04-2024 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ex-American football star was controversially acquitted of the murder of his wife and a friend in 1995.
  
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• OJ Simpson dies aged 76, family says

  11-04-2024 20:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  OJ Simpson, the former American footballer who was controversially cleared of double murder, has died aged 76, his family says.
  
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• Labour may fail to grab target seats as young voters turn away over Gaza and climate

  11-04-2024 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Party figures say decision to tack to right on issues such as immigration could also diminish predicted landslide‘Lesser of two evils’: voters in Sheffield Hallam look to Labour with reluctanceLabour risks losing in a number of its target seats as previously loyal progressive voters turn away from the party, senior party figures and polling experts have warned.Experts said Keir Starmer’s party could struggle to win as many as a dozen of its key targets, and could even lose two
  
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• Family accuse government of 'attack on the truth'

  11-04-2024 20:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of a murdered man express anger over a government legal challenge against his inquest.
  
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• Mexico calls on UN to expel Ecuador over embassy raid as tensions soar

  11-04-2024 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Ecuadorian police forced their way inside embassy in Quito to arrest former vice-president who was seeking asylum in MexicoMexico is demanding that the United Nations expel Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top UN court over a police raid last week on the Mexican embassy in Quito.Tensions between Mexico and Ecuador have soared since late last week when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into the diplomatic mission to arrest Ecuador’s former vice-president Jorge
  
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• Alonso extends Aston Martin deal until end of 2026

  11-04-2024 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fernando Alonso signs a deal to stay with Aston Martin until at least the end of 2026 - keeping him in Formula 1 until he is 45.
  
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• Ex-Ford foundation member calls Liz Cheney 'only person on this planet' worthy of top award after snub he says was over Trump

  11-04-2024 19:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pulitzer-winner David Hume Kennerly defended Liz Cheney after he resigned from the Ford Foundation over its refusal to consider her for its public service award — driven, he said, by the possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidential election.
  
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• Japanese leader asks US to overcome ‘self-doubt’ about global leadership

  11-04-2024 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Fumio Kishida warns of risks from China in address to Congress and says Japan determined to do more to share responsibilityJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, on Thursday called on Americans to overcome their “self-doubt” as he offered a paean to US global leadership before a bitterly divided Congress.Warning of risks from the rise of China, Kishida said that Japan – stripped of its right to a military after the second world war – was determined to do more to sha
  
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• Sen. Bob Menendez's trial to proceed without his wife due to her health issues

  11-04-2024 19:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Bob Menendez's criminal trial will continue as scheduled on May 6 — but without the New Jersey Democrat's wife and co-defendant Nadine Menendez.
  
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• Posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to be published

  11-04-2024 19:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  A memoir Vladimir Putin foe and Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published this fall.
  
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• Bowen: Israel denies famine looms in Gaza, but evidence is overwhelming

  11-04-2024 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  International pressure has led Israel to agree to let in more aid after seven charity workers were killed.
  
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• Measles elimination in the U.S. is under 'renewed threat,' CDC warns

  11-04-2024 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The CDC warned in a report that the rapid increase in measles cases this year represents a renewed threat to the disease's elimination in the U.S.
  
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• Local officials increasingly targeted for threats and harassment, new data shows

  11-04-2024 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Threats and harassment against local public officials rose in 2023, according to research tracking political violence and hostility provided to NBC News.
  
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• Prosecutor explains unusual charge against former Virginia school administrator after 6-year-old shot teacher

  11-04-2024 18:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Virginia prosecutor said Thursday that he will pursue the case against a former assistant principal indicted on a felony child neglect charge at the elementary school where a 6-year-old shot a teacher last year, and suggested others could be charged as the investigation continues.
  
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• Man in court over murder of wife as she pushed pram

  11-04-2024 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kulsuma Akter, 27, was stabbed to death in Bradford city centre on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Polish MPs debate liberalising right to abortion

  11-04-2024 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Abortion in Poland is heavily restricted, but the new prime minster has pledged to liberalise the law.
  
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• Obituary: The spectacular fall of NFL star OJ Simpson

  11-04-2024 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The one-time all-American sport star and Hollywood actor was at the centre of an infamous 1995 murder trial.
  
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• DATELINE FRIDAY SNEAK PEEK: Justice for Joy

  11-04-2024 18:33 via nbcnews.com
  When Joy Hibbs is found dead in a fire, an autopsy shows she was murdered beforehand. The case went cold for years, until decades later, a shocking secret is revealed. Blayne Alexander reports Friday, April 12 at 9/8c on NBC.
  
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• Postmistress jailed while pregnant rejects ex-Post Office boss' apology

  11-04-2024 18:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Seema Misra was pregnant when she was wrongly jailed after being prosecuted by the Post Office.
  
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• Wife killed in 'out of character' attack by husband with dementia

  11-04-2024 18:30 via bbc.com
  
  The 74-year-old died at their home a result of blunt force trauma to her head, chest and neck.
  
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• Wife died in 'out of character' attack by husband with dementia

  11-04-2024 18:30 via bbc.com
  
  The 74-year-old died at their home a result of blunt force trauma to her head, chest and neck.
  
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• Ukrainian MPs pass law to boost troop numbers

  11-04-2024 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The conscription bill is approved as the military faces Russian advances in the east.
  
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• Rope climber attempts world record at Eiffel Tower

  11-04-2024 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anouk Garnier climbs a 110m rope to the Eiffel Tower's second floor in just 18 minutes.
  
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