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• 'England should be better but win has given belief'

  01-07-2024 23:46 via bbc.com
  
  Gareth Southgate says England know they "should be better than they have been" at Euro 2024 but their late last-16 win over Slovakia has given them belief.
  
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• Briton who founded charity helping Ukrainian soldiers dies ‘in battlefield’

  01-07-2024 23:40
  
  Peter Fouché set up Project Konstantin, which provides supplies and delivers aid to frontlineA British man who founded a charity providing support to Ukraine soldiers has died while fighting in the country, the organisation said.Peter Fouché died last Thursday “in the battlefield” after getting badly injured “in combat against Russian forces”, Halyna Zhuk, commercial director and co-founder of Project Konstantin, said in a video message. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It just will not happen!' - Ronaldo in tears after extra-time penalty saved

  01-07-2024 23:32 via bbc.com
  
  Watch as Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty draws a 'world class' save from Jan Oblak in the Euro 2024 last-16 match between Portugal and Slovenia in Frankfurt.
  
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• Trump’s near-total Supreme Court victory: From the Politics Desk

  01-07-2024 23:30
  
  Trump won a near-total victory at the Supreme Court on several fronts. The 6-3 majority opinion grants him broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
  
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• Prosecutors say they plan to retry Karen Read after mistrial declared in murder case

  01-07-2024 23:30
  
  A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors said they were at an impasse in the murder trial of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend in 2022.
  
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• Air Europa plane diverts to Brazil after severe turbulence injures dozens

  01-07-2024 23:26
  
  About 40 passengers taken to hospitals after flight from Madrid to Montevideo forced to make emergency landingAn Air Europa flight from Madrid to Montevideo has been forced to make an emergency landing at a Brazilian airport due to “severe turbulence”, the airline said.About 40 passengers, mostly with minor injuries, were taken to hospitals in Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte state after the plane was diverted early on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory candidate was trustee of church that ‘endorsed’ conversion therapy

  01-07-2024 23:22 via bbc.com
  
  A report finds St Thomas Philadelphia church in Sheffield had "supported" conversion therapy.
  
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• The best Android tablets in 2024

  01-07-2024 23:19
  
  These are the best Android tablets for students, workers, creatives, families, and everyone else. Here’s what you should know before buying one.
  
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• What would happen to Biden’s campaign cash if he drops out? That’s up to Kamala Harris

  01-07-2024 23:08
  
  Campaign finance experts say VP Kamala Harris could use the tens of millions of dollars in Biden’s campaign account if she became the Democratic nominee.
  
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• Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice resigns from police department in West Virginia amid public outrage

  01-07-2024 23:02
  
  The former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 has resigned from a small police department in West Virginia.
  
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• Miles Franklin award 2024: Alexis Wright continues dream run as shortlist announced

  01-07-2024 23:00
  
  Much-lauded Praiseworthy joins works by Gregory Day, André Dao, Sanya Rushdi, Jen Craig and Hossein Asgari competing for Australia’s highest literary honourGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAlexis Wright continues her dream run with the acclaimed novel Praiseworthy, one of six books announced as the shortlist for the 2024 Miles Franklin literary award, Australia’s highest literary honour.Announced on Tuesday, the other five books up for the $60,000 prize are Gregory D
  
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• 'Five alarm fire': Supreme Court immunity ruling raises fears about future lawless presidents

  01-07-2024 22:57
  
  Although the Supreme Court ruling on Monday concerned Donald Trump, it has major repercussions for future White House occupants.
  
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• Woman with sickle cell disease celebrates 80th birthday, defying life expectancy odds by decades

  01-07-2024 22:42
  
  Retired special education teacher Patricia McGill, 80, is among the oldest people in the U.S. with sickle cell disease.
  
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• Israel orders Palestinians to leave southern Gaza area after rocket fire

  01-07-2024 22:38 via bbc.com
  
  People have been fleeing in darkness after being told to leave areas east of Khan Younis.
  
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• France's 'luck' continues as Mbappe struggles with mask

  01-07-2024 22:33 via bbc.com
  
  An own goal was enough to send France into the Euro 2024 quarter-finals at Belgium's expense but their scoring struggles remain a concern.
  
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• Hurricane Beryl: Caribbean leader calls out rich countries for climate failures as ‘horrendous’ storm makes landfall

  01-07-2024 22:32
  
  Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines calls Cop ‘largely a talk shop’ and beseeches west to honor commitmentsThe prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) has decried a lack of political will in western Europe and the US to tackle global climate change as Hurricane Beryl has made landfall as an “extremely dangerous” category 4 storm.Speaking from his residence in SVG on Monday, Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves described the unfolding catastrophe as th
  
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• At least 39 killed in Kenya’s anti-tax protests, says rights watchdog

  01-07-2024 22:27
  
  Toll of dead and injured at anti-government rallies where police opened fire is almost double earlier figure disclosedAt least 39 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in anti-government demonstrations in Kenya, the national rights watchdog has said, as activists geared up for a new round of protests this week.The toll announced by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) is almost double the figure previously disclosed by the authorities for those killed while contestin
  
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• Murray to make Wimbledon decision on Tuesday

  01-07-2024 22:18 via bbc.com
  
  Andy Murray will make a final decision on Tuesday whether he is fit enough to play in the Wimbledon singles later that day.
  
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• Hurricane Beryl broke a startling record before making landfall in the Caribbean

  01-07-2024 22:16
  
  On Sunday, Hurricane Beryl became the first Category 4 storm ever to form in the Atlantic Ocean in the month of June.
  
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• O.J. Simpson being in BET Awards 'In Memoriam' blasted as 'just wrong' by families of Nicole Brown Simpson, Ron Goldman

  01-07-2024 22:12
  
  A tribute to O.J.
  
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• Labour will take global lead on climate action, Ed Miliband vows

  01-07-2024 22:08
  
  Exclusive: shadow energy security secretary vows to fill ‘vacuum’ left by Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zeroLabour will promise to take the lead on global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, filling a “vacuum of leadership” on the world stage and proving Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zero has been a “historic mistake”, Ed Miliband has said.The shadow energy security and net zero secretary said the UK needed to change course and was “off track&r
  
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• Rishi Sunak hints he might not quit as Tory leader immediately if he loses election – as it happened

  01-07-2024 21:58
  
  PM says he ‘loves this party dearly’ and would always put himself at the service of it’Rishi Sunak is speaking at a campaign event in Staffordshire. As the advance briefing predicted, he has just told his audience.I tell you this: once you have handed Keir Starmer and Labour a blank cheque, you won’t be able to get it back.We’ve had a strategy in place and we’ll try to keep to it, which is to carve out really protected time for the kids, so on a Friday –
  
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• Transgender runner Nikki Hiltz is headed to the Paris Olympics

  01-07-2024 21:57
  
  Transgender runner Nikki Hiltz punched their ticket to Paris after winning the 1500 meter race at Sunday's U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials.
  
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• Sex abuse head teacher 'could have been stopped'

  01-07-2024 21:45 via bbc.com
  
  Neil Foden has been jailed for sexually abusing girls - but there were complaints about him in 2019.
  
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• Detroit changes rules for police use of facial recognition after wrongful arrest of Black man

  01-07-2024 21:44
  
  City to pay $300,000 to Robert Williams, whose driver’s license was incorrectly flagged in shoplifting investigationThe city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a Black man who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting and to also change how police use facial recognition technology to solve crimes after the software identified him as a suspect.The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver’s license photo was incorrectly flagged by facial recognition
  
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• Boston Celtics' majority owner puts team up for sale after winning NBA title

  01-07-2024 21:43
  
  The NBA champions are up for sale.
  
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• Met apologises for spying on police justice campaigners in 1980s and 1990s

  01-07-2024 21:31
  
  Force admits use of undercover officers was ‘indefensible’ and had ‘corrosive effect’ on public trust, inquiry hearsThe Metropolitan police have issued a series of wide-ranging apologies to campaigners for the “indefensible” use of undercover officers to spy on them, a public inquiry has heard.The Met admitted to “serious failings and wrongdoing” by some of the undercover officers, conceding there was a “general failure” by senior manag
  
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• Adoptee stolen at birth sues Chile over thousands of dictatorship-era thefts

  01-07-2024 21:07
  
  Jimmy Lippert Thyden González alleges country engaged in plan to steal babies from perceived enemies in 70s and 80sA Chilean-American man raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean state, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.The case filed by Jimmy Lippert Thyden González, 43, aims to advance the task of Chilean prosecutors and human rights groups wor
  
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• Mistrial declared in Karen Read’s case over killing of her Boston police boyfriend

  01-07-2024 21:01
  
  Prosecutors say Read ran over John O’Keefe with an SUV and fled scene in 2022, but jury was unable to reach verdictA mistrial has been declared in the Karen Read case after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges that she murdered her boyfriend, a Boston police officer.The local district attorney’s office quickly issued a statement saying that prosecutors intend to retry the case, which jurors first began hearing in late April. Continue reading...
  
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• Risk of serious injury as strangling during sex becomes normalised among young Australians

  01-07-2024 21:00
  
  Sexual violence experts concerned about health risks and lack of consent after survey shows almost 60% of respondents under 35 had been choked at least onceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastStrangling a partner during sex is widely perceived as normal especially among young people, with more than half of adults aged 35 and under reporting they have been strangled, many of them unaware of potentially serious health consequences.It is a finding that has sexua
  
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• Hunter Biden sues Fox News under New York's 'revenge porn' law

  01-07-2024 20:58
  
  Hunter Biden is accusing Fox News in a lawsuit of distributing “revenge porn” by broadcasting nude images of him as part of a miniseries that was available on the conservative outlet’s streaming service, Fox Nation.
  
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• Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become first female members of Garrick Club

  01-07-2024 20:52
  
  Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 yearsThe Garrick Club has named Judi Dench and Siân Phillips as distinguished members, making them the first women to be allowed to join the club in its 193-year history.The actors were given fast-tracked membership during the club’s annual general meeting on Monday evening. Until now, no woman had been allowed into the Garrick unless invited in and accompanied around
  
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• AI writer served by Wimbledon and IBM commits double fault

  01-07-2024 20:49
  
  Catch Me Up online service muddles facts about players amid All England Club push to embrace technologyWimbledon staff perhaps need not fear losing their jobs to the artificial intelligence revolution just yet, after the club’s latest experiment with generative technology got off to a shaky start.Wimbledon’s new online feature, Catch Me Up, which publishes pre- and post-match player profiles with AI-generated stories and analysis, has made errors on the first day of the championships
  
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• BET posts 'unfiltered' Usher speech after censorship during live awards ceremony

  01-07-2024 20:48
  
  BET has shared Usher's full speech when accepting his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 BET Awards, following criticism from fans that the live broadcast was heavily censored.
  
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• Trump's SCOTUS win pushes his Jan 6. trial until after the election

  01-07-2024 20:47
  
  The Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision will further delay special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump.
  
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• Starmer says far-right win in France would not stop Labour trying to forge better EU deal

  01-07-2024 20:47
  
  Labour leader hopes to gain closer economic ties with EU if he becomes PM and says he would work with ‘whoever’Keir Starmer has said that a government in France led by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party would not hamper a Labour government’s intention to negotiate a better EU deal.The RN made historic gains in the first round of France’s snap elections on Sunday with 33% of the vote, bringing the possibility the party could emerge as the largest in the final
  
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• Electioncast: Getting The Message?!

  01-07-2024 20:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plus, how to plan for election night
  
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• Bin collectors to go on strike during Edinburgh Festival

  01-07-2024 20:34 via bbc.com
  
  Waste and recycling staff in Edinburgh vote to strike over a pay dispute during the Festival.
  
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• US-Mexico border crossings fall to three-year low after Biden’s executive order

  01-07-2024 20:32
  
  About 84,000 people crossed into the US in June, the lowest monthly total since Biden assumed office in January 2021Undocumented crossings at the US’s southern border have fallen to a three-year low, marking the lowest in Joe Biden’s presidency just a short time after he signed a controversial executive order limiting immigration there in June.The latest data from the federal Customs and Border Patrol obtained by CBS News is the most recent since Biden signed his executive order &nda
  
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• The US president is now king above the law, liberal justice says

  01-07-2024 20:21 via bbc.com
  
  The three liberals, led by Sonia Sotomayor, painted a dark picture of absolutist power.
  
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• Man used 'slapping therapy as diabetes cure', court hears

  01-07-2024 20:12 via bbc.com
  
  Hongchi Xiao was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence late last year.
  
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• Sotomayor says immunity ruling makes a president ‘king above the law’

  01-07-2024 20:11
  
  Stark dissent from liberal supreme court justice says decision will let presidents commit crimes with impunityIn a stark dissent from the conservative-majority US supreme court’s opinion granting Donald Trump some immunity from criminal prosecution, the liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision was a “mockery” that makes a president a “king above the law”.The court ruled Monday that Trump cannot be prosecuted for “official acts” he took while pre
  
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• Anxious donors plot next moves after Biden debate calamity

  01-07-2024 20:08
  
  Campaign announces record fundraising in wake of Trump debate but wealthy Democrats undecided on path forwardA silver lining of Joe Biden’s pernicious debate performance was, according to a succession of upbeat emails from the president’s re-election campaign, a record fundraising haul.By Sunday night, only three days after he stumbled through 90 painful minutes in the company of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, more than $33m had dropped into Biden campaign coffers. Deba
  
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• Supreme court returns decision on Republican-backed social media laws to lower courts

  01-07-2024 20:00
  
  Laws in Florida and Texas were designed to restrict big tech’s power over alleged bias towards conservative speechThe US supreme court on Monday threw out judicial decisions involving challenges to Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas that restricted the power of social media companies to remove or down-rank objectionable content.The justices directed lower appeals courts to reconsider a pair of decisions regarding these 2021 laws authorizing the states to regulate the content-moder
  
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• Charity founder dies in Ukraine 'battlefield'

  01-07-2024 19:45 via bbc.com
  
  Peter Fouché died last week while working as a combat medic in Ukraine, his charity said.
  
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• Trump win as top court deals blow to Jan 6 case

  01-07-2024 19:24 via bbc.com
  
  The former president achieves his immediate objective of delaying the trial until after November's election.
  
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• Pat Tillman's mom calls Prince Harry 'divisive' after he's picked for late son's award

  01-07-2024 19:20
  
  American veteran Pat Tillman's mother has spoken out after Britain's Prince Harry was picked to receive an award at the ESPYS that was set up to honor her son.
  
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• Head of French Greens accuses far-right’s Bardella of only wanting to debate men

  01-07-2024 19:10
  
  Marine Tondelier urges National Rally leader to take part in TV debate before second-round parliamentary electionMarine Tondelier, the head of the French Green party, has called on the far-right National Rally (RN) leader, Jordan Bardella, to take part in a TV debate with her before Sunday’s second-round parliamentary election, accusing him of only wanting to debate with men.Tondelier, known for her trademark green jacket, has emerged as one of the main figures of the New Popular Front lef
  
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• Performance of French far right, who ‘see Europe as the problem’, fears German foreign minister – as it happened

  01-07-2024 19:00
  
  This live blog is closed.Explainer: what happens now?Marine Le Pen’s victory has been applauded by other far-right leaders in Europe. Santiago Abascal, who heads the far-right Vox party across the border in Spain, called it a “victory of hope, freedom and security for the French people”, while André Ventura, leader of Portugal’s Chega party, hailed “a great victory”, adding: “Europe is waking up! Soon, it will be Portugal!”Matteo Salvini, It
  
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• Uefa investigating Bellingham over gesture

  01-07-2024 18:57 via bbc.com
  
  Uefa are investigating England midfielder Jude Bellingham after he made a gesture following the win over Slovakia at Euro 2024.
  
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