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• Austrian nationalist party leader rumored to be in talks to form government

  05-01-2025 22:58 via foxnews.com
  
  Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Sunday announced that he would meet with far-right politician Herbert Kickl as speculation grows that he will ask the Freedom Party leader to form a government.Van der Bellen made the announcement after meeting with Chancellor Karl Nehammer and others at his presidential palace. Nehammer has announced his intention to resign after coalition talks between his conservative Austrian People's Party and the center-left Social Democrats collapsed over the
  
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• Trump invites House Republicans to Mar-a-Lago ahead of inauguration

  05-01-2025 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has invited multiple groups of House Republicans to join him at Mar-a-Lago next weekend, three sources involved in the planning told NBC News.
  
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• New Orleans attacker recorded visits to city weeks earlier, wore Meta smart glasses during attack

  05-01-2025 21:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  The New Orleans terrorist attacker visited the city twice in the weeks before the attack and recorded video of the area using Meta smart glasses, the FBI revealed Sunday.
  
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• Amazon Prime Video picks up Melania Trump documentary set for release this year

  05-01-2025 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Amazon Prime Video has licensed an upcoming documentary about incoming first lady Melania Trump that is set to be released later this year, an Amazon MGM Studios spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.
  
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• Israeli PM office denies reports that Hamas forwarded list of hostages to release in event of deal

  05-01-2025 19:59 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has denied reports that Hamas has forwarded a list of hostages to be released in a potential cease-fire agreement Sunday.Reuters reported earlier Sunday that Hamas had approved a list of 34 hostages it may be willing to release in exchange for a cease-fire agreement. Hamas officials said the deal was contingent on Israel reaching an agreement to withdraw from Gaza and enact a permanent cease-fire."Contrary to what was claimed, Hamas has not forw
  
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• FBI: New Orleans attacker recorded area using Meta smart glasses weeks before attack

  05-01-2025 19:43 via msnbc.com
  
  FBI officials said the man behind the deadly New Year's Day attack in New Orleans had visited the city twice in late 2024 and recorded the Bourbon Street area using Meta smart glasses. NBC News' Kathy Park reports on the other new details the FBI released. 
  
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• Tributes paid after former Greek PM Costas Simitis dies aged 88

  05-01-2025 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Four days of mourning declared for death of Pasok party co-founder, thearchitect of country’s entry into euroTributes have been paid to the former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis, who with dogged determination guided Greece into the eurozone and took the vital steps to ensure it was ready to host the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.News of Simitis’s death at the age of 88 was met on Sunday with outpourings from across the political spectrum, with friends and foes alike voicing admi
  
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• Austria’s president to meet far-right leader amid coalition speculation

  05-01-2025 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘New path’ to power may be opening for FPÖ after collapse of talks between country’s centrist partiesAustria’s president has said he will meet the leader of the country’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), amid speculation that the pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam party will be tasked with trying to form a government after centrist parties failed to find agreement.The Alpine country of 9 million has been plunged into political crisis after the collapse of coalition tal
  
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• Northampton beat leaders Bath in epic encounter

  05-01-2025 18:48 via bbc.com
  
  Defending Premiership champions Northampton Saints beat current leaders Bath 35-34 in a scintillating match at Franklin's Gardens.
  
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• Snow brings disruption to flights, trains and roads

  05-01-2025 18:31 via bbc.com
  
  New flood warnings issued for southern England as an amber warning remains in place for parts of the UK
  
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• Winter storms leave travelers stranded at Kansas City airport over weekend

  05-01-2025 18:22 via nbcnews.com
  Winter weather bringing heavy snowfall and cold temperatures across the country prevented flights from taking off at Kansas City International Airport. Some travelers are left stranded in Missouri until after the weekend. KSHB's Elyse Schoenig reports.
  
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• Your pictures of Sunday snow across UK

  05-01-2025 18:09 via bbc.com
  
  Snow drives north on Sunday as bitter conditions are set to return for much of the UK next week.
  
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• Musk says Farage 'doesn't have what it takes' to be Reform UK leader

  05-01-2025 17:51 via bbc.com
  
  Nigel Farage claims Musk's call is due to a disagreement support for far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
  
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• Washington Post cartoonist quits after drawing of Bezos, other billionaires with Trump is rejected

  05-01-2025 17:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  A Washington Post cartoonist has quit her role at the paper, saying that her bosses blocked publication of a satirical cartoon that depicted billionaires, including one resembling Post owner Jeff Bezos, kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Body of missing Indian journalist found in septic tank

  05-01-2025 17:20 via bbc.com
  
  Mukesh Chandrakar's corpse was found with severe injuries consistent with a blunt-force attack, police say.
  
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• Sen. Adam Schiff says the New Orleans attack shows Kash Patel shouldn’t lead the FBI

  05-01-2025 17:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday that the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans shows Kash Patel “should not be confirmed” as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI.
  
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• Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says

  05-01-2025 16:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Unrwa senior officer describes 60,000 people sheltering in school buildings sharing 12 bathrooms, but says without aid things will get worseSocial order in Gaza is likely to collapse further if Israel goes ahead with its threat this month to end all cooperation with the UN refugee agency for Palestinians, Louise Wateridge, its senior emergency officer, has warned.Wateridge, who has just returned from Gaza, described the territory as increasingly fractured and said the two Knesset bills due to co
  
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• Watch: Will it snow where you are?

  05-01-2025 16:14 via bbc.com
  
  Amber warnings for heavy snow and ice remain in place for parts of England, Scotland and Wales, with travel delays and power cuts likely.
  
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• How to drive in snow and icy weather

  05-01-2025 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tips on what to carry in your car, and how to drive in snow and icy weather.
  
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• Schiff: ‘Kash Patel should not be confirmed’ to lead the FBI

  05-01-2025 15:56 via nbcnews.com
  Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) says he believes Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick to run the FBI, is unqualified to run the bureau, especially in light of the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans.
  
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• 'Humans are all they know' - Fate of whales uncertain as marine zoo shuts

  05-01-2025 15:36 via bbc.com
  
  Campaigners, politicians and zoo managers disagree on where Wikie and her son Keijo should be sent.
  
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• Filmmaker Jeff Baena, husband of Aubrey Plaza, dead at 47

  05-01-2025 15:34 via bbc.com
  
  His body was found by an assistant at his Los Angeles home on Friday morning, US media report.
  
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• Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia's Kursk region

  05-01-2025 15:01 via bbc.com
  
  The Russian Defence Ministry says efforts to fight back against Ukrainian forces are continuing.
  
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• Grooming gangs attack on Phillips 'disgraceful smear', says Streeting

  05-01-2025 14:54 via bbc.com
  
  Wes Streeting says his cabinet colleague has "done more than most people ever do" to fight grooming gangs.
  
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• Motorbike-sized tuna sold to Tokyo sushi restaurateurs for $1.3m

  05-01-2025 14:48 via bbc.com
  
  The huge bluefin, which was auctioned in Tokyo, will be served at restaurants across Japan.
  
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• Is Elon a Musk-Have for Nigel Farage?

  05-01-2025 14:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Reform’s former communications director is on
  
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• Austrian chancellor quits as bid to form coalition without far right falls apart

  05-01-2025 13:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The leadership of Austria’s ruling conservatives held a crisis meeting on Sunday to pick a successor to Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation on Saturday as attempts to form a coalition government without the far right fell apart.
  
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• NHS App upgrade to give patients more choice over treatment

  05-01-2025 13:32 via bbc.com
  
  Plans for an upgraded NHS app to allow more patients in England to book treatments will be announced by the health secretary on Monday.
  
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• Gauff beats Swiatek as US win United Cup

  05-01-2025 12:56 via bbc.com
  
  Coco Gauff and Taylor Fritz clinch victory for the United States over Poland in the United Cup final in Sydney.
  
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• Italy’s Meloni boosts ties with Trump in surprise Florida visit

  05-01-2025 11:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made a surprise trip to Florida to meet with Donald Trump late on Saturday, as the key European leader sought to buttress ties with the president-elect before his inauguration on Jan. 20.
  
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• South Korean protesters brave cold and snow to demand Yoon’s ouster as detention deadline looms

  05-01-2025 11:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hundreds of South Koreans, bundled up against freezing temperatures and snow, rallied overnight into Sunday near the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, calling for his ouster and arrest, as authorities prepared to renew their efforts to detain him over his short-lived martial law decree.
  
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• Hamas releases video of Israeli hostage Liri Albag as ceasefire talks resume

  05-01-2025 11:30 via bbc.com
  
  It comes as Israel intensified strikes on Gaza, killing 88 people over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
  
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• Who collaborated with the Nazis? 425,000 suspects named as one country reckons with its WWII past

  05-01-2025 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Netherlands has named 425,000 people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during World War Two as part of The Huygens Institute’s “War in Court” project,
  
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• Watch: Snowy Sunday in parts of the UK

  05-01-2025 09:51 via bbc.com
  
  Many people in the north of England and Wales woke up to wintery scenes.
  
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• New York becomes first US city with congestion charge

  05-01-2025 09:17 via bbc.com
  
  The scheme has faced resistance, including from President-elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Filth and frolics - how pointy shoes once caused moral outrage in London

  05-01-2025 09:14 via bbc.com
  
  Shoes seen as demonic and vain were blamed for making men "effeminate" and bringing the plague to London.
  
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• Woman had eight organs removed in cancer treatment

  05-01-2025 08:20 via bbc.com
  
  Horsham's Fay Louise planned her own funeral after doctors found a tumour in her appendix in 2023.
  
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• Detectorist unearths warrior's gold scabbard stud

  05-01-2025 07:07 via bbc.com
  
  Experts say the stud, found at a detecting rally, could be one of "less than a dozen in the country".
  
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• Britain's first supermarket petrol station - when fuel cost just 15p a litre

  05-01-2025 06:48 via bbc.com
  
  An archivist says the petrol station's electronic payment system could not keep up with demand.
  
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• After bruising election loss, what next for Kamala Harris?

  05-01-2025 06:10 via bbc.com
  
  The outgoing vice-president is weighing her options, which could include another White House run, or a bid to be California's governor.
  
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• 75 Hard: Is the TikTok fitness challenge really worth it?

  05-01-2025 02:28 via bbc.com
  
  The challenge involves forgoing alcohol and unhealthy food for 75 days and doing multiple daily workouts.
  
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• Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet among stars gathering for Golden Globes

  05-01-2025 01:36 via bbc.com
  
  Zendaya, Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande are among the nominees at the Los Angeles ceremony.
  
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• Slicing veggies, baking cakes - will Meghan's rebrand work?

  05-01-2025 01:33 via bbc.com
  
  The Duchess of Sussex appears to be embarking on a new era in her glossy new Netflix show.
  
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• Road-tripping Chinese grandma inspires millions after fleeing abusive marriage

  05-01-2025 00:07 via bbc.com
  
  Su Min, 60, became a feminist icon after she left her abusive husband and started travelling through China.
  
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