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• Egypt reportedly releases details on plan to rebuild Gaza; there's no mention of 'cooperation' with the US

  12-02-2025 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Egypt has apparently released the initial details of a proposal Cairo has put together to rebuild the Gaza Strip within three to five years, though there’s no mention of a plan to work with the Trump administration or Israel.According to a reporter for i24 News, Egyptian sources told Qatari Al Araby TV the plan is a move to counter the proposal first put forward by President Donald Trump last week suggesting the U.S. would "take over" Gaza and forcibly displace all Palestinians living
  
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• Trump offers Putin a way back in from the cold

  12-02-2025 21:16 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC's Steve Rosenberg analyses how one phone call between Moscow and DC has already upended east-west relations.
  
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• England want to end Scotland 'hurt' - Mitchell

  12-02-2025 21:06 via bbc.com
  
  England are intent on ending their four-year "hurt" against Scotland when the old rivals meet in the Six Nations, says scrum-half Alex Mitchell.
  
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• Reform UK sets out plan to tax renewable energy

  12-02-2025 20:48 via bbc.com
  
  Deputy leader Richard Tice argues net-zero policies are to blame for higher energy bills in the UK.
  
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• Everton sponsor leaves UK after porn ad probe

  12-02-2025 20:28 via bbc.com
  
  Gambling site Stake will leave the UK as a regulator investigation continues.
  
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• Sicily's gangsters forced to modernise but complain they can't get the staff

  12-02-2025 20:24 via bbc.com
  
  An investigation reveals a crime group having to adapt to modernity and displaying a nostalgia for past ambitions.
  
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• Trump calls Putin AND Zelensky to begin talks

  12-02-2025 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president says negotiations to begin 'immediately'
  
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• 'It's a new reality' - US stance on Ukraine a bitter blow to Zelensky

  12-02-2025 20:14 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC's Defence correspondent breaks down a drastic shift in Washington's position on the war in Ukraine.
  
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• Middle East crisis: Hamas says it rejects US and Israeli ‘threats’ over Gaza ceasefire – as it happened

  12-02-2025 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the Israel-Gaza war, read our full report:Arab mediators scramble to save Gaza ceasefire as Israel bolsters troop numbersOf the many factors that will determine the fate of the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, one of the most difficult to quantify and predict is the level of popular support for Hamas.My colleague Jason Burke, the Guardian’s international security correspondent, has written this analysis piece on the topic: Continue reading...
  
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• Santorini fears for summer tourist season as earthquakes hit island

  12-02-2025 20:04 via bbc.com
  
  The Greek island's most important industry will bounce back, but staffing is a worry say hoteliers
  
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• Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office

  12-02-2025 19:46 via bbc.com
  
  The billionaire has made a number of exaggerated or unevidenced claims during a White House event.
  
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• Prince William gets behind camera on film school visit

  12-02-2025 19:34 via bbc.com
  
  The Prince of Wales wants to encourage young people who see film careers as "distant to reality".
  
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• Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO

  12-02-2025 19:33 via bbc.com
  
  HIV treatments and other services have been disrupted, says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
  
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• Elon Musk's 'take your kid to work' day

  12-02-2025 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  He brought his son to the Oval Office for a surprise press conference
  
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• England set-up not a 'lazy environment' - Buttler

  12-02-2025 19:10 via bbc.com
  
  Captain Jos Buttler rejects the idea England have not trained enough during their difficult tour of India, saying they do not have a "lazy environment".
  
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• Hegseth sets out hard line on European defence and Nato

  12-02-2025 19:05 via bbc.com
  
  The US defence secretary tells Europe to spend more and take responsibility for Ukraine's future defence.
  
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• Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement

  12-02-2025 19:00 via bbc.com
  
  The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.
  
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• Wrongly convicted Andy Malkinson gets first payout

  12-02-2025 18:49 via bbc.com
  
  A man who was wrongly jailed for 17 years receives the first instalment of a compensation payout.
  
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• Mother of Israeli hostage begs Trump, Netanyahu to bring son home before ceasefire collapses: 'No more time'

  12-02-2025 18:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Idit Ohel, the mother of Israeli hostage Alon Ohel, urgently pleaded for President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure the release of the remaining Oct. 7 captives held by Hamas amid fears the current ceasefire deal is disintegrating."They have no more time. And please don't go back to war. Please. Because if that happens, if we go back to war, the hostages could die. The hostages that are alive could die," she told Fox News Digital. "That's what happened last ti
  
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• 'We are tired of war': Israelis and Gazans fear ceasefire collapse

  12-02-2025 18:42 via bbc.com
  
  People on both sides of the conflict have shared their anxieties as gears grow that the fighting could resume.
  
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• Killer of MP David Amess left Prevent too quickly, review says

  12-02-2025 18:31 via bbc.com
  
  The programme's handling of the Conservative MP's murderer was "sub-optimal", a review says.
  
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• The Neo-Nazi MI5 spy

  12-02-2025 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  And how the BBC exposed the lies from MI5
  
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• Families welcome judge-led inquiry into Nottingham attacks

  12-02-2025 18:17 via bbc.com
  
  Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, were killed on 13 June 2023.
  
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• Love rats: Canadians get chance to feed rodents named after old flames to owls

  12-02-2025 17:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Program is meant to help the endangered northern spotted owl – and it’s only C$5! – but rat lovers are not amusedRevenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. And for an endangered owl breeding program in Canada, it’s also a dish best served dead.For the price of a coffee, spurned and disgruntled lovers can revel in the satisfaction of having a dead rat named after an ex, before it is fed to a northern spotted owl. Continue reading...
  
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• Feral pigs roaming Cairngorms park caught and killed

  12-02-2025 17:35 via bbc.com
  
  Forestry and Land Scotland said the group of eight animals were humanely culled.
  
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• King tries his arm at American Football

  12-02-2025 17:24 via bbc.com
  
  King Charles throws an NFL ball on a visit to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
  
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• Sergeant who 'pinned down' soldier plans to leave Army, inquest hears

  12-02-2025 17:12 via bbc.com
  
  Gunner Jaysley Beck's assault was incorrectly categorised as a minor sanction.
  
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• NHS trust fined £1.6m over failings in baby deaths

  12-02-2025 17:03 via bbc.com
  
  The fine over the deaths of Adele O'Sullivan, Kahlani Rawson and Quinn Parker is the largest for an NHS trust in maternity care.
  
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• US releasing Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik in Marc Fogel exchange, official says

  12-02-2025 17:00 via foxnews.com
  
  The United States is releasing Russian prisoner Alexander Vinnik as part of the deal to secure Marc Fogel's freedom, a Trump administration official told Fox News on Wednesday.Fogel, an American teacher who had been detained in Russia since 2021, was freed on Tuesday. A plane carrying him landed in the U.S. late last night. Vinnik was arrested in 2017 in Greece at the request of the U.S. on cryptocurrency fraud charges. He was later extradited to the United States where he pleaded guilty la
  
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• UN halts humanitarian work in Yemen's Houthi stronghold after staff detentions

  12-02-2025 16:31 via foxnews.com
  
  The United Nations said Monday it suspended its humanitarian operations in the stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they detained eight more U.N. staffers, affecting the global response to one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.In a statement, the U.N. said the "extraordinary" decision to pause all operations and programs in northern Saada province was due to the lack of necessary security conditions and guarantees.A spokesman for the Houthis didn’t immediately re
  
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• How I exposed MI5's lie about its violent abusive agent

  12-02-2025 15:47 via bbc.com
  
  The Security Service gambled BBC correspondent Daniel De Simone had no evidence. A note, an email and a recording proved it wrong.
  
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• MI5 lied to courts to protect neo-Nazi spy after BBC revealed violent abuse

  12-02-2025 14:59 via bbc.com
  
  In an unprecedented admission, the Security Service apologises for “inaccurate” evidence.
  
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• Egypt to present 'vision' to rebuild Gaza without displacement

  12-02-2025 14:49 via bbc.com
  
  The Arab state is seeking an alternative to Donald Trump's plan to relocate some two million Palestinians.
  
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• 'We gave our two houses to the homeless'

  12-02-2025 13:56 via bbc.com
  
  A retired couple who say they "have enough money" have given two homes to The Wallich in Swansea.
  
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• Philippines storm survivors join climate protest outside Shell HQ in London

  12-02-2025 13:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Greenpeace protest draws attention to worsening typhoons and demands accountability from major pollutersFor two days and two nights, Ronalyn Carbonel and her four children clung to the roof of their home as a huge storm raged around them. With the wind battering her village of Rizal, about 10 miles east of Manila in the Philippines, and water swirling through the rooms below them, they had no choice but to wait, hoping that someone would come to rescue them and hundreds of their neighbours.&ldqu
  
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• Canada and Mexico tariffs risk inflating US housing crisis, Trump is warned

  12-02-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Dozens of congressional Democrats urge president to reconsider threatened import duties on US’s two largest trading partnersPressing ahead with steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico risks exacerbating the US housing crisis and threatening the broader economy, dozens of congressional Democrats have warned Donald Trump.The US president, after threatening to hit imports from the US’s two biggest trading partners with a 25% tax, is weighing how to proceed after approving a one-mo
  
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• Trump’s disdain for South American allies is China’s gain

  12-02-2025 12:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The US is targeting its own allies and its withdrawal from the region has left a power vacuum for China to fill inWhile Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, were engaged in a very public row over the deportation of migrants last month, China’s ambassador to Bogotá was enthusiastically tweeting that diplomatic relations between China and Colombia had reached their “best moment”.After Petro refused to receive a plane from the US carrying handcuffed de
  
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• Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say

  12-02-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  At company owned by a Trump mega-donor, workers brought from Mexico earned per day about the same as their US counterparts were paid by the hourUline, a Wisconsin-based office supply company owned by one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers, paid workers it brought from Mexico to work at its US warehouses just a fraction of what their US counterparts were paid, according to four sources who spoke to the Guardian.The workers from Mexico earned per day about the same as their US count
  
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• Intense heatwave in southern Brazil forces schools to suspend return

  12-02-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Record highs delay start of classes in Rio Grande do Sul, where floods linked to climate crisis left 180 dead last MayDuring historic floods last May that left more than 180 dead in Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, the water rose to the ceiling of the Olindo Flores school in the city of São Leopoldo, destroying furniture, books and parts of its infrastructure.When classes resumed more than a month later, its 500 students had to be relocated to another school for month
  
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• Australian healthcare workers threaten Israeli man, claim to have killed Jews in their care on camera

  12-02-2025 10:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Two Australian healthcare workers are being investigated after threatening to kill an Israeli man on camera, claiming they had previously killed Jews in their care.The man and woman, who said they were doctors, spoke with the man via Chatrouletka, a website where strangers are matched internationally to have conversations.After the Israeli man revealed his nationality, the female worker said "it's Palentine's country, not your country you piece of s---," according to the video.JEWISH CHILDREN, T
  
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• Canada appoints fentanyl czar, fulfilling Trump's request amid tariff threats

  12-02-2025 09:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Canada appointed a fentanyl czar on Tuesday in accordance with a deal made with U.S. President Donald Trump to avoid additional tariffs on Canadian imports.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose Kevin Brosseau, who spent decades with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for the position aimed at working with the U.S. to "detect, disrupt and dismantle" the fentanyl trade. His appointment is effective immediately.Brosseau has extensive law enforcement experience, having served as deputy commissioner an
  
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• Rubio says American Marc Fogel freed from Russia due to 'strength' of Trump

  12-02-2025 08:09 via foxnews.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Marc Fogel, an American who had been detained in Russia since 2021, was released because the U.S. has a "strong president" in President Donald Trump.Rubio made the comments during an appearance on Fox News' "Hannity.""We have a great team here … but none of this is possible without President Trump," Rubio said. "This is the 10th American that has come home after being detained somewhere overseas in just three weeks. And for the White House,
  
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• Tycoon profited after India relaxed border security rules for energy park

  12-02-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Military experts raise concerns over change to protocols on Pakistan border to allow project that was handed to billionaire Gautam AdaniThe Indian government relaxed national security protocols along the Pakistan border to make way for a renewable energy park, a project ultimately handed to one of India’s richest men, Gautam Adani, official documents reveal.The Adani Group is constructing the Khavda plant, the largest renewable project in the world, in the state of Gujarat. The
  
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• China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows

  12-02-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Russia, Turkey and Egypt also among worst perpetrators of transnational repression around the globeA quarter of the world’s countries have engaged in transnational repression – targeting political exiles abroad to silence dissent – in the past decade, new research reveals.The Washington DC-based non-profit organisation Freedom House has documented 1,219 incidents carried out by 48 governments across 103 countries, from 2014 to 2024. Continue reading...
  
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• Freed American hostage Marc Fogel lands in US after years in Russian captivity

  12-02-2025 04:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Marc Fogel, an American who had been detained in Russia since 2021, landed back in the U.S. on Tuesday.Fogel, a history teacher who was working at the Anglo-American School in Moscow, returned to the U.S. after his release from Russia following talks with the Trump administration.He was serving a 14-year sentence after his arrest in August 2021 at a Russian airport for possession of drugs, which his family said was medically prescribed marijuana.Fogel was seen in a picture posted by the White Ho
  
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• Solomon Islands landowners seek compensation over catastrophic oil spill

  12-02-2025 01:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Claim over the 2019 Rennell Island disaster, which saw more than 300 tonnes of fuel leak into the water, filed in the Solomons High courtThe companies allegedly responsible for the one of the worst environmental disasters in Solomon Islands’ history are being sued over the catastrophic oil spill that caused harm to an ecologically sensitive island.The claim over the 2019 Rennell Island disaster was filed in the Solomons high court last week, just days before the statute of limitations expi
  
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• Fox News Politics Newsletter: FEMA rebels fired

  12-02-2025 01:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.Here's what's happening…-House Dems organize rapid response task force and litigation group to combat Trump agenda-$1,300 coffee cups, 8,000% overpay for soap dispensers show waste as DOGE locks in on Pentagon-Noem, Hegseth and Bondi plead with Congress for border money amid large-scale deportationsThe Department of Homeland Security tol
  
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• NOAA releases chilling audio of Titan submersible explosion

  12-02-2025 01:01 via foxnews.com
  
  Newly released audio from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) audio recorder documented the eerie suspected sounds of the Titan submersible implosion in 2023.The moored passive acoustic recorder was about 900 miles from the Titan submersible implosion site, according to the Department of Defense.In the audio recording, posted on defense websites on Friday, listeners can hear what sounds like static, followed by a loud roar of thunder.COAST GUARD OFFERS UPDATE ON DEADLY TITAN
  
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• 'Playing with the courts': Trump admin hit with dozens of suits after years of president condemning 'lawfare'

  12-02-2025 00:54 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump's court battles have not ended now that he’s back in the Oval Office — instead, dozens have piled up against his administration as Democrats and activists vow to fight Trump and his policies in the judicial system.Trump faced four criminal indictments during the interim of his first and second administrations, which landed accusations of "lawfare" on the national stage as Trump maintained his innocence and slammed the cases as efforts by the Democratic Party to
  
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• Associated Press says it was barred from Oval Office over use of 'Gulf of Mexico'

  12-02-2025 00:49 via foxnews.com
  
  The Associated Press says its reporter was barred from an event at the Oval Office Tuesday for the outlet's refusal to use the term "Gulf of America" in accordance with President Trump’s executive order renaming the body of water between the United States and Mexico."Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessi
  
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