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• Can this man find a link to any Welsh person in 60 seconds?

  07-03-2025 23:59 via bbc.com
  
  Every week, Elis James tries to find a mutual connection with a random Welsh caller - in one minute.
  
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• Woman kidnapped as a toddler in the US 25 years ago found alive in Mexico

  07-03-2025 23:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrea Michelle Reyes was two when her mother took her from her father in Connecticut and fled the countryA woman who was abducted in Connecticut as a toddler has been found alive 25 years later in Mexico.Andrea Michelle Reyes was two years old when she was taken by her mother, Rosa Tenorio, in October 1999, according to a news release from the New Haven police department. Tenorio did not have legal custody of Reyes, who was in the care of her father at the time of the kidnapping, police said. C
  
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• Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead

  07-03-2025 23:48 via bbc.com
  
  Trolleys are weighed before checkout to identify any items customers might have missed or scanned twice.
  
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• Syrian security forces accused of executing dozens of Alawites

  07-03-2025 23:37 via bbc.com
  
  The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Right says 162 civilians were executed in a coastal region linked to ousted president Bashar al-Assad.
  
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• Cyclone Alfred weakens as it closes in on Australia's east coast

  07-03-2025 23:34 via foxnews.com
  
  A tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city, bringing flooding rain to the coastal region.Tropical Cyclone Alfred had been expected to become on Saturday the first cyclone to cross the east Australian coast near the Queensland state capital since 1974.On Friday, it was moving west toward Brisbane with sustained winds near its center of 59 mph and gusting to 81 mph.SECRETARY DUFFY TOURS HELENE DAMAG
  
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• Guardiola will judge Grealish 'on the pitch'

  07-03-2025 23:30 via bbc.com
  
  Pep Guardiola says he will not control players' private lives after images of Jack Grealish at a social club were shared on social media.
  
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• Party drug MDMA may have protected survivors of Nova attack from trauma, study suggests

  07-03-2025 23:00 via bbc.com
  
  Neuroscientists in Israel find signs that the drug helped festival survivors in the attack and the aftermath.
  
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• Syrian security forces execute 125 civilians in battle against Assad loyalists

  07-03-2025 22:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Fighting in Latakia is marked escalation by Bashar al-Assad loyalists against Syria’s new Islamist-led governmentAbout 125 civilians have been executed by government security forces in north-west Syria during a rolling two-day battle with loyalists to the ousted Assad regime, a Syrian war monitor reported on Friday.The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), a human rights monitor considered independent and credible, documented “large-scale field executions of men and young adults, w
  
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• ‘Desperate’ son of Hong Kong’s jailed Jimmy Lai seeks meeting with Keir Starmer

  07-03-2025 22:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Worries mount for health of media mogul and pro-democracy activist, 77, as his trial nears endThe son of the jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has called for an urgent meeting with the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, saying he was “desperate” as his father’s defence drew to a close in a high-profile trial.Sebastien Lai said a fresh diplomatic push was now needed to free the 77-year-old pro-democracy activist, who holds British citizenship and has been kept behind bars in
  
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• Day centre a refuge for the homeless in Queensland during Cyclone Alfred

  07-03-2025 22:22 via bbc.com
  
  Thousands have been told to evacuate ahead of tropical storm's arrival on Australia's eastern coast.
  
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• Mexico: 200 pairs of shoes found at clandestine crematorium

  07-03-2025 22:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Discovery in Jalisco is demonstration of country’s crisis of forced disappearance related to organised crimeTwo hundred pairs of shoes have been found at a clandestine crematorium on a ranch in the Mexican state of Jalisco, in a disturbing demonstration of the country’s crisis of forced disappearance related to organised crime.Warrior Searchers of Jalisco, a collective of relatives of the disappeared, found the crematorium following an anonymous tip-off, and the authorities have sinc
  
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• Hunter Bell fourth as GB's Walcott-Nolan earns 1500m bronze

  07-03-2025 22:11 via bbc.com
  
  Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell finishes fourth as fellow Briton Revee Walcott-Nolan takes bronze and France's Agathe Guillemot wins gold in the women's 1500m at the European Indoor Championships.
  
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• GB's Walcott-Nolan wins 1500m bronze at European Indoors

  07-03-2025 21:48 via bbc.com
  
  Great Britain's Revee Walcott-Nolan wins 1500m bronze at the European Athletics Indoor Championships as gold-medal favourite Georgia Hunter Bell misses out.
  
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• Burial site revealed to be older than Stonehenge

  07-03-2025 21:30 via bbc.com
  
  The monument near Dorchester is redated to about 200 years earlier than previously thought.
  
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• Syrian government still faces threat from Assad loyalists

  07-03-2025 21:18 via bbc.com
  
  Clashes between Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in the dictator's former heartlands show the risks ahead, writes Middle East correspondent Hugh Bachega.
  
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• Meghan's new Netflix show renewed for second series

  07-03-2025 20:35 via bbc.com
  
  The Duchess of Sussex launched With Love, Meghan on Tuesday.
  
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• Court orders South Korean President Yoon freed from jail for martial law trial

  07-03-2025 20:30 via foxnews.com
  
  A South Korean court on Friday ordered impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from jail, a move that could allow Yoon to stand trial for his rebellion charge without being physically detained.Yoon was arrested and indicted in January over the Dec. 3 martial law decree that plunged the country into political turmoil. The opposition-controlled parliament separately voted to impeach him, leading to his suspension from office.The hearings in his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Cour
  
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• Trump 'strongly considering' large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia

  07-03-2025 20:14 via bbc.com
  
  The president has reversed US policy and says he trusts Putin and finds dealing with Ukraine difficult.
  
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• 'We're gutted' - Make-A-Wish trip cancelled after Eurostar disruption

  07-03-2025 20:12 via bbc.com
  
  Toni Mannion was looking forward to making "special memories" with her terminally ill daughter.
  
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• Four sentenced over £200m money laundering plot

  07-03-2025 19:53 via bbc.com
  
  The case was one of the biggest of its kind in UK legal history, the Crown Prosecution Service says.
  
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• Reform UK refers MP Rupert Lowe to police

  07-03-2025 19:39 via bbc.com
  
  The party alleges the Great Yarmouth MP made "threats of physical violence" against its party chair.
  
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• Three Bulgarians guilty of spying for Russia in the UK

  07-03-2025 18:59 via bbc.com
  
  Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova, and Tihomir Ivanchev undertook elaborate surveillance on people and places targeted by Russia in one of the largestforeign intelligence operations in the UK.
  
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• Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail

  07-03-2025 18:15 via bbc.com
  
  Louise Littlejohn said she was shocked and then laughed when she received the error strewn voicemail transcription.
  
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• Ros Atkins on... the week after the Oval Office row

  07-03-2025 18:12 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins takes a look at the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
  
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• Itoje rejects Carling criticism of England coaches

  07-03-2025 18:11 via bbc.com
  
  England captain Maro Itoje rejects Will Carling's suggestion that Steve Borthwick's inexperienced coaching set-up is preventing the side from reaching its potential.
  
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• Toppled private spacecraft can't complete Moon mission

  07-03-2025 17:51 via bbc.com
  
  The mission was supposed to last 10 days but less then a day after landing, the craft is running out of power.
  
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• Trump says he wrote to Iran and wants to negotiate nuclear weapons deal

  07-03-2025 17:24 via theguardian.com
  First step by president to open discussions comes as Iranian government locked in dispute over negotiating with USDonald Trump has said he wants to negotiate a new deal with Iran to prevent its development of nuclear weapons and sent a letter to its leaders saying he hoped they would open talks.It is the first practical step taken by the US president to see if new negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme are possible. Continue reading...
  
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• Warm sunshine for UK this weekend but will it last?

  07-03-2025 17:22 via bbc.com
  
  Warm and sunny this weekend but it will turn colder next week
  
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• UN says 186 missing and at least 2 dead after migrant boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti

  07-03-2025 17:17 via foxnews.com
  
  At least two people have died and 186 others are missing after four boats carrying migrants from Africa capsized overnight in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, the U.N.'s migration agency said on Friday.Two vessels capsized off Yemen late Thursday, said Tamim Eleian, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration, or IOM. Two crewmembers were rescued, but 181 migrants and five Yemeni crewmembers remain missing, he told The Associated Press.VENEZUELAN GANGS ARE FAR FROM A 'FAKE' PRO
  
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• Poland announces military training plan for all men

  07-03-2025 16:55 via bbc.com
  
  Poland's prime minister said his government plans to have a model ready by the end of the year.
  
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• How spy ring living double lives did Kremlin's dirty work

  07-03-2025 16:36 via bbc.com
  
  A spy cell tracked the Kremlin's enemies across Europe, plotting honeytraps, kidnap and murder.
  
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• Nigerian king faces Shell in London high court over decades of oil spills

  07-03-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  King Okpabi, ruler of Ogale, says Shell has caused chronic pollution, while oil firm argues it is not responsible His Royal Highness King Godwin Bebe Okpabi has carried bottles of water drawn from the wells of his homeland in the Niger delta to the high court in London.It stinks. “This is the water that Shell has left for my people,” said the ruler of the Ogale community in Ogoniland, Nigeria. “This is poison, and they are spending millions of dollars to pay the best lawyers in
  
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• Hostages freed from Gaza tell Trump he was 'sent by God' to save them, but dozens more remain

  07-03-2025 15:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Hostages freed from Gaza visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to tell him that his re-election to the White House gave them hope after hundreds of days in Hamas captivity. In a Thursday press event, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff told reporters that seven people freed from Gaza, along with some of their loved ones, met with the president this week to share their horrific stories of abduction, severe abuse and time in captivity.One Israeli hostage, Omer Shem
  
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• Price of first-class stamp to rise to £1.70

  07-03-2025 15:25 via bbc.com
  
  The cost of a second-class stamp will also rise to 87p on 7 April, Royal Mail announces.
  
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• Pope Francis still receiving oxygen therapy, will not read Sunday prayers: Vatican

  07-03-2025 15:19 via foxnews.com
  
  Pope Francis is still receiving breathing assistance using different types of ventilation, Vatican sources said on Friday. While the pope is "not running down the halls" of Rome’s Gemelli, he is apparently able to move. Additionally, Vatican sources say the pope is eating solid food and does not need "assisted feeding."Yesterday, the pope recorded a message thanking those who had been praying for his recovery. The recording was "clearly an effort for him," Vatican sources said, pointing ou
  
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• Huge unexploded World War II-era bomb found in crowded Paris residential area

  07-03-2025 15:17 via foxnews.com
  
  A half-ton World War II-era bomb found near train tracks in a crowded residential area just outside of Paris unleashed travel chaos across the region Friday, prompting disruptions at Europe's busiest rail station and closures of major roads leading into the French capital. The unexploded bomb was found overnight by workers doing earthmoving activity near the tracks in the Seine-Saint-Denis area north of Paris, according to French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot.  Bomb disposal expe
  
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• Zelenskyy confirms Ukraine will attend US peace talks in Saudi Arabia, 1 week after Oval Office clash

  07-03-2025 14:31 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that his team will meet with their American counterparts in Saudi Arabia for peace talks. The statement comes just one week after Zelenskyy’s Oval Office clash with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, which ended with him leaving the White House ahead of schedule."Next Monday, I have a visit planned to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with the Crown Prince. After that, my team will stay in Saudi Arabia to work with our American pa
  
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• UN prepping for spending cuts as DOGE roots out waste in US, internal docs show

  07-03-2025 13:35 via foxnews.com
  
  An internal United Nations memo obtained by Fox News Digital shows that the organization is trying to brace itself for U.S. funding cuts as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) works to root out waste.The memo was sent to heads of various departments and offices with the subject line "Managing the 2025 regular budget liquidity crisis." According to the memo, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres issued a directive to manage cashflow "conservatively" and to suspend hiring. It a
  
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• Norway's crown princess condition worsens as she battles lung disease

  07-03-2025 13:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit's chronic lung disease has worsened to the point where it’s affecting "her ability to perform her duties," the Royal House of Norway announced. Mette-Marit, 51, is suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, described by the Mayo Clinic as a condition that irreparably damages and scars the lungs, leading to shortness of breath. "The Crown Princess has daily symptoms and ailments that affect her ability to perform her duties," the Royal House of Norway
  
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• The Week: Is Starmer’s Trump Strategy Working?

  07-03-2025 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adam, Chris, Caitríona and James discuss the week.
  
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• Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum

  07-03-2025 11:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: What appears to be a vast burial site found at former Rapid Support Forces base in Sudan, while rescued detainees speak of torture, starvation and deaths of fellow inmates‘Here you will die’: detainees speak of executions, starvation and beatings at hands of Sudan’s Rapid Support ForcesMore than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum, according to evidence seen by the Guardian.A visit to a base b
  
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• China slams Trump-imposed ‘arbitrary tariffs,’ vows retaliation against US

  07-03-2025 11:08 via foxnews.com
  
  Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday accused the United States of "meeting good with evil" for imposing a new round of "arbitrary tariffs" and vowed retaliation.  The fiery words from Wang came during a Friday news conference on the sidelines of China’s annual parliamentary session, just days after the U.S. levied duties against China – as well as Canada and Mexico – over accusations of fentanyl smuggling.All countries have called these allegations unjustified, with
  
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• Unexploded WWII bomb in Paris halts Eurostar travel to London, trains across France

  07-03-2025 10:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Eurostar trains to London, including all trains heading to northern France, stopped abruptly on Friday morning after an unexploded bomb dating to World War II was found.
  
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• Cyclone Alfred live updates: Brisbane city CBD deserted; power outages across Gold Coast; BoM tracking map and weather forecast shows flood risk for Queensland and northern NSW – latest news

  07-03-2025 10:08 via theguardian.com
  BoM path track map predicts cyclone off Australia’s coast to make landfall in SE Qld on Saturday morning near Brisbane, the first storm of its size to do so in decades. Follow the latest updates todayBrisbane flood map: suburbs at risk during Cyclone AlfredWhy did TC Alfred slow down on its path towards the east coast?Send us your photographs and videos of Cyclone AlfredGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWelfare recipients told to perform mutual obligations as cyclo
  
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• Eurostar and French train services suspended as suspected WW2 bomb found near Gare du Nord – Europe live

  07-03-2025 09:56 via theguardian.com
  French media say device discovered on tracks in Saint DenisRegional traffic from Paris Gare du Nord will not resume before mid-afternoon, the train operator of the RER B line confirmed in a social media post.Eurostar has issued an update on its website saying that they were “expecting disruption to our services in and out of Paris this morning,” and advising passengers to “please change your journey for a different date of travel.”Eurostar sincerely apologises for the dis
  
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• Eurostar and French train services halted at Gare du Nord after WW2 bomb found

  07-03-2025 09:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Unexploded bomb found on tracksduring overnight maintenance work near France’s busiest train terminalTraffic at the Paris Gare du Nord train station has been halted after a second world war bomb was found on tracks leading to France’s busiest terminal, officials said.The unexploded bomb was found in the middle of the tracks overnight during maintenance work carried out in the suburb of Saint Denis, the national SNCF rail company said. Continue reading...
  
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• Mark Butler calls Australia’s private hospitals and insurers to urgent meeting amid Healthscope financial crisis

  07-03-2025 09:48 via theguardian.com
  Health minister convenes meeting after reports second-largest private hospital operator risks voluntary administrationTropical Cyclone Alfred LIVE: latest news and updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe health minister, Mark Butler, has convened an urgent meeting with the chief executives of Australia’s private hospitals and health insurers amid warnings the second-largest private hospital operator, Healthscope, is facing a financial crisis.The Australian Fin
  
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• Ex-Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson and Derek Hatton face bribery charges

  07-03-2025 09:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Twelve charged with bribery and misconduct relating to council contracts, say Merseyside policeThe former Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson and former city politician Derek Hatton are among 12 people charged with bribery and misconduct relating to council contracts, Merseyside police said.More details soon … Continue reading...
  
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• US owner of UK pharmacy chain Boots to be taken private in $10bn deal

  07-03-2025 09:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Walgreens Boots Alliance sold to Sycamore Partners and ends almost a century of trading on public marketsThe US owner of the high street pharmacy chain Boots is to be taken private in a $10bn (£7.8bn) deal that will bring an end to almost a century of trading on public markets for Walgreens Boots Alliance.The company, which operates more than 1,800 Boots stores in the UK, has been sold to the US private equity firm Sycamore Partners after struggling in the internet era as customers have tu
  
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• China’s foreign minister condemns US imposition of tariffs as ‘two-faced’

  07-03-2025 08:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Wang Yi hits out at 20% levy on Chinese goods and warns ‘law of the jungle’ could emerge from Donald Trump’s policyChina’s foreign minister has accused the US of “two-faced” behaviour, condemning the imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods and warning against the “law of the jungle” that could emerge from Donald Trump’s “America First” policy.Speaking at the sidelines of China’s annual parliamentary gathering, Wang Yi said Ch
  
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