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• Knife-wielding man injures multiple people in Amsterdam, including 2 Americans

  27-03-2025 23:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A man wielding a knife seriously wounded five people in Amsterdam, including two from the U.S., during a stabbing attack in a shopping district on Thursday, according to Dutch police.The Associated Press said police noted the attack, which lasted for several minutes, ended when the suspect was stopped by a passerby near the city’s Dam Square late Thursday afternoon.Police closed off the area, which was tended to by emergency crews who responded in ambulances and a trauma helicopter.In a st
  
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• Dan Tiernan’s unpredictable and wildly entertaining stand-up

  27-03-2025 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Dan Tiernan's electrifying stand-up special.
  
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• Rubio warns visas will be revoked for all foreign student ‘activists’ amid Tufts arrest

  27-03-2025 19:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday looked to make Washington’s position on the recent visa removal of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk "abundantly clear" and said anyone found to be "creating a ruckus" will have their visa revoked."I don't care what movement you're involved in," he told reporters from a press event in Guyana. Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?"We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social acti
  
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• Secret documents on Nazis who fled to Argentina after WWII being declassified

  27-03-2025 19:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Argentina is set to declassify all government-held files relating to Nazi fugitives who fled and settled in Argentina after World War II, according to reports. The documents will likely include Nazi-linked bank accounts and archival records detailing the use of Nazi "ratlines" which were monetary and logistic pathways Nazis used to escape justice and flee Argentina following the war.Guillermo Alberto Francos, Argentina’s interior minister, made the announcement Tuesday, the Buenos Air
  
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• US attorney general unlikely to open criminal investigation of Signal leak, report says – live

  27-03-2025 18:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Pam Bondi suggests there would be no inquiry into the leaked Signal communications about airstrikes in Yemen, New York Times reportsTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving e
  
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• Reeves could tax pensions and wealth if economy worsens, says IFS

  27-03-2025 18:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Chancellor may have to reconsider pledge not to raise taxes in light of ‘risky and changing world’, thinktank saysPensioners and wealthy people could be the target of tax increases at Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget if the drastically worsening economic backdrop fails to improve, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.After the chancellor’s spring statement featured deep cuts to welfare to meet her fiscal targets, the UK’s leading experts on the public financ
  
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• Tory peer investigated for third time by Lords watchdog over ‘VIP lane’ contracts

  27-03-2025 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Investigation follows publication by Covid-19 inquiry of messages sent by Lord Chadlington introducing SG Recruitment to governmentA Conservative peer who introduced a company he was involved in to the government to supply PPE is under investigation for the third time for potential breaches of the rules governing members’ conduct in the House of Lords.The new investigation follows the publication by the Covid-19 public inquiry of text messages and emails sent by Peter Gummer, whose peerage
  
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• Why Rachel Reeves may have to raise UK taxes in October

  27-03-2025 18:04 via bbc.com
  
  The chancellor is on track to meet her own fiscal rules, so why is there talk of tax rises in the autumn?
  
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• Six Russian tourists dead after submarine sinks in Red Sea, Egyptian officials say – latest updates

  27-03-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Incident took place near the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of HurghadaThe Russian consulate in Hurghada said the submarine, named “SINDBAD”, had 45 Russian tourists on board in addition to crew members.The consulate said four people had died, but did not specify if they were Russian, Reuters reported.Six people have died and nine others are injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, two municipal officials said. AP reported that
  
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• Six Russian tourists dead after submarine sinks in Red Sea, Egyptian officials say – as it happened

  27-03-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Incident took place near the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of HurghadaThe Russian consulate in Hurghada said the submarine, named “SINDBAD”, had 45 Russian tourists on board in addition to crew members.The consulate said four people had died, but did not specify if they were Russian, Reuters reported.Six people have died and nine others are injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, two municipal officials said. AP reported that
  
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• Key European leaders say it is ‘not the time’ to start lifting sanctions against Russia – Europe live

  27-03-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  UK prime minister Keir Starmer calls out Russia for ‘playing games’ as French president Emmanuel Macron says Europe must prepare for any scenarioThe search continues for four US soldiers that went missing in Lithuania on Tuesday night, as their vehicle has been discovered submerged in water.The operation continues on Thursday with attempts to reach the area. Lithuanian defence minister Dovilė Šakalienė said that the vehicle was located at “more than 5 meters do
  
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• ‘Good chance’ Reeves will have to raise taxes in autumn budget, thinktank says – UK politics live

  27-03-2025 17:59 via theguardian.com
  Institute for Fiscal Studies also warns Reeves over her focus on sticking with fiscal rules regardless of real world eventsIn an interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, said she would not accept free tickets for concerts again in the future.Asked about the controversy about her decision to accept two corporate tickets for a Sabrina Carpenter concert at the O2, she repeated the line that she used at her press conference yesterday – that a family membe
  
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• Germany says it 'will not give in' as Trump announces 25% tariffs on all car imports

  27-03-2025 17:55 via bbc.com
  
  Major economies vow to retaliate, with China accusing Washington of violating international trade rules.
  
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• Gérard Depardieu faces verdict in sexual assault trial as prosecutor calls for suspended sentence

  27-03-2025 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  The French actor denies allegations during filming of Les Volets Vert, as defendants’ lawyers describe him as ‘sexual predator’ and ‘misogynist’Gérard Depardieu should be found guilty of the “indisputable” sexual assault of a set decorator, as well as sexual assaults of an assistant film director, the French state prosecutor has told Paris’s criminal court, requesting the actor serve an 18-month suspended prison sentence.Depardieu is on tria
  
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• Next continues success story by reporting first £1bn in annual profits

  27-03-2025 17:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Retailer ‘defies gravity’ to become only fourth in UK to pass £1bn profit thresholdIt may not be a fashion leader or the cheapest place to fill your wardrobe, but Next has quietly confirmed its place as a British success story by ringing up £1bn in profits for the first time.Next’s growth came despite static sales of its own label in the UK as it expands the brand overseas – including via online marketplaces such as Zalando – and sells other labels it ha
  
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• Real Madrid quartet probed for alleged indecent conduct

  27-03-2025 17:35 via bbc.com
  
  Uefa has opened an investigation into allegations of indecent conduct by four Real Madrid players during their Champions League last-16 win against Atletico Madrid.
  
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• Fake £4m Xanax drug gang boss jailed

  27-03-2025 17:35 via bbc.com
  
  The gang, managed from Thailand, produced 11 million pills in the West Midlands to be sold online.
  
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• Man who died from sepsis 'not treated urgently'

  27-03-2025 17:29 via bbc.com
  
  William Hewes died after his meningitis, caused by a meningococcal infection, developed into sepsis.
  
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• Five people injured in stabbing in Amsterdam, police say

  27-03-2025 17:27 via bbc.com
  
  Police say a suspect has been arrested but the motive remains unclear.
  
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• Carmaker shares fall after Trump 25% tariff move as Reeves warns against trade war

  27-03-2025 17:26 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor says UK not planning retaliatory tariffs on US ‘at the moment’ while PM calls move ‘very concerning’Business live – latest updatesUK politics live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has said the UK is not immediately planning retaliatory tariffs on the US after Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on all car imports, sending shares in carmakers around the world sharply lower.“We are not at the moment in a position w
  
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• Ex-RAF pilot who killed himself and four others on M6 was suicidal, inquest hears

  27-03-2025 17:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Coroner records Richard Woods’s death as suicide after he crashed into family’s car while driving wrong wayA former RAF pilot who killed a family of four and himself when he drove the wrong way for more than a mile on a motorway wanted to take his own life, an inquest has heard.Richard Woods was almost four times over the legal drink-drive limit when his Skoda Fabia hit a Toyota Yaris head on, at speed, on the M6 northbound in Cumbria in October last year. A two-thirds empty bottle o
  
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• Alleged MS-13 leader arrested in Virginia as part of Trump crackdown on gangs

  27-03-2025 17:19 via theguardian.com
  US attorney general lauded arrest of Salvadorian man, 24, accused of leading the street gang on the east coastThe alleged leader of the MS-13 gang on the US east coast has been arrested in Virginia, Pam Bondi announced on Thursday.The US attorney general lauded the early morning arrest of the 24-year-old man from El Salvador, who was described as one of MS-13’s top three leaders in the United States, as a major victory in the Trump administration’s effort to crack down on a gang know
  
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• Senators demand Pentagon investigates Signal leak scandal in bipartisan letter

  27-03-2025 17:16 via theguardian.com
  Top Republican and Democrat on Senate armed services committee urge inspector general to launch inquiryThe Republican chair and the ranking Democrat on the Senate armed services committee have written to the acting watchdog of the Department of Defense to demand an investigation into the scandal over how a senior American journalist was added to a Signal app group chat in which top government figures shared details of US airstrikes in Yemen at the weekend.Addressing Steven Stebbins, the acting i
  
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• EU appears to back down on carbon levy on international shipping

  27-03-2025 17:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Bloc set to accept compromise that would allow companies to trade carbon credits, in blow to climate financeThe long-awaited carbon levy on international shipping that was to supply vital climate finance looks set to be significantly diluted, after the EU appeared to be backing down in global talks, in a blow to vulnerable countries.The EU is set to accept a compromise that would allow companies to enter into a system of trading carbon credits instead of paying directly for their emissions, the
  
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• Six Russian tourists die after submarine sinks off Egypt coast

  27-03-2025 16:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Another 39 people rescued and brought to shore after incident on vessel at Red Sea resortSix dead in Red Sea sinking – latest updatesSix Russian tourists have died and 39 people have been rescued after a submarine sank near the resort of Hurghada, the latest in a series of fatal accidents involving tourists on Egypt’s Red Sea coast.Four survivors, including at least one child, were admitted to intensive care, according to an official statement. Continue reading...
  
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• Aviation watchdog to look at ‘resilience’ rules after Heathrow closure

  27-03-2025 16:40 via theguardian.com
  CAA urged to tackle ‘flawed regime’ as it reviews whether to take further steps on airport’s regulatory modelBritain’s aviation watchdog will review the rules on “resilience” after Heathrow was closed because of a fire at an electricity substation.Europe’s largest airport was closed in the early hours of Friday last week after the blaze at the Hayes substation in west London hit electricity supplies. No planes were allowed to take off or land, causing di
  
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• Thousands of jobs at risk as British Steel threatens closure

  27-03-2025 16:27 via bbc.com
  
  The company announces a consultation that could see the closure of two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe.
  
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• Premier League to have two transfer windows this summer

  27-03-2025 16:17 via bbc.com
  
  The Premier League says it will have two transfer windows this summer to allow Manchester City and Chelsea to sign players before the Club World Cup.
  
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• The Signal chat leak raises questions about accountability in Trump’s cabinet

  27-03-2025 16:12 via theguardian.com
  
  High-ranking officials can spill military secrets with apparent near-total immunityUS politics live – latest news updatesThe problem with the now infamous Signal chat read around the world is not just that sensitive military-operations details were broadcast, but that this reveals a pattern of what appears to be institutional dishonesty inside the Trump administration and the legal ramifications that presents.While the national security sphere operating in secret is nothing new, the leak e
  
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• New Jersey police chief accused of pooping on floor to harass co-workers

  27-03-2025 16:08 via theguardian.com
  
  North Bergen’s Robert Farley allegedly drugged coffee pot and shaved body hair on colleagues in series of ‘pranks’A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting Viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.NJ.com reported that Robert Farley, chief of North Bergen police, repeatedly harassed his co-
  
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• Kildunne starts as England make 13 changes for Wales

  27-03-2025 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  England head coach John Mitchell makes 13 changes to his starting XV to face Wales in Saturday's Women's Six Nations game at Principality Stadium.
  
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• Zelenskyy sensationally predicts Putin 'will die soon'

  27-03-2025 15:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stunningly predicted that Russian President Vladimir Putin will die soon as his health is deteriorating. Zelenskyy made the sensational prediction in an interview Wednesday, when the Ukrainian leader also called on the U.S. not to bring Russia in from the global political wilderness amid ongoing peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.  "He will die soon, that is a fact, and everything will be over," Zelenskyy told Eurovision News in P
  
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• Israel parliament defies protests to pass law tightening grip over judges

  27-03-2025 15:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Opposition parties say political control of appointments will make judges subject to politicians and undermine democracyIsrael’s parliament has passed a law expanding elected officials’ power to appoint judges, in defiance of a years-long protest against Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to drive through judicial changes.The approval of the bill, which opposition parties say will make judges subject to the will of politicians, comes as Netanyahu’s government is locked in a st
  
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• Trump cuts 69 global programs tackling child labor and human trafficking

  27-03-2025 15:53 via theguardian.com
  
  More than $500m in grants axed as US risks decades of progress in protecting vulnerable workers worldwideThe Donald Trump administration has terminated 69 international programs aimed at combating child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, potentially undermining decades of progress in protecting vulnerable workers globally.The Washington Post obtained an email detailing how the US Department of Labor’s bureau of international labor affairs (ILAB) will immediately end grants totaling
  
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• H&M to use digital clones of models in ads and social media

  27-03-2025 15:44 via bbc.com
  
  Some fear the move could mean less work for models, photographers and make-up artists.
  
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• Europe says no to Trump push to lift sanctions on Russia, upending Black Sea ceasefire

  27-03-2025 15:43 via foxnews.com
  
  European leaders have made clear they will not adhere to President Donald Trump’s plans to help Russia re-enter the world market and lift international sanctions until Moscow ends its illegal war – essentially rendering the Black Sea truce dead in the water. Earlier this week, the Trump administration touted its negotiations with Ukraine and Russia and said both nations had agreed to "eliminate the use of force" in the Black Sea – but the Kremlin later confirmed this was o
  
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• Flight bookings between Canada and US down 70% amid Trump tariff war

  27-03-2025 15:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Airline capacity between two countries reduced through October 2025 as high-profile incidents of Ice arrests on riseAirline travel between Canada and the US is “collapsing” amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, with flight bookings between the two countries down by over 70%, newly released data suggests.According to data from the aviation analytics company OAG, airline capacity between Canada and the US has been reduced through October 2025, with the biggest cuts occurring between th
  
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• Mike Waltz left Venmo account public in further security breach – report

  27-03-2025 15:30 via theguardian.com
  
  National security adviser faces new scrutiny after adding journalist to group chat discussing Yemen attack plansMike Waltz, Donald Trump’s national security adviser who is at the center of the storm over a group chat which leaked highly sensitive military plans to a journalist, left his Venmo account open to the public, according to a new report.The oversight represents a further security breach, days after the news that Waltz added the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic to a Signal chat in w
  
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• BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey after covering protests

  27-03-2025 15:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Mark Lowen considered ‘threat to public order’ after reports on nationwide anti-government demonstrations Europe live – latest updatesThe BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been arrested and deported from Turkey after reporting on the country’s largest anti-government protests in years.The broadcaster said Lowen was arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday, having been there for several days to cover the protests, which were prompted by the arrest last week of the mayor of Istanbu
  
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• US wine importers and bars nervously wait for tariff decision: ‘It’s a sad situation’

  27-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Many importers halt shipments on chance White House makes good on threat of 200% markup on European goodsAs the threat of exorbitant US tariffs on European alcohol imports looms, a warehouse in the French port city of Le Havre awaits a delivery of more than 1,000 cases of wine from a dozen boutique wineries across the country.Under normal circumstances, Randall Bush, the founder of Loci Wine in Chicago, would have already arranged with his European partners to gather these wines in Le Havre, the
  
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• Stinging deaths, back yard poisons and billions spent: model predicts Australia’s fire ants future

  27-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Cost blow-out has experts worried people will use ‘huge’ volumes of pesticides to protect themselves from ‘tiny killers’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian households will spend $1.03bn every year to suppress fire ants and cover related medical and veterinary costs, with about 570,800 people needing medical attention and 30 likely deaths from the invasive pest’s stings, new modelling shows.The Australia Institute research
  
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• Richest households will benefit most from Dutton’s fuel tax excise, analysis shows

  27-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Opposition leader exaggerating benefits to Australians, experts say, with those with no car or who drive EVs seeing less savingsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPeter Dutton is exaggerating how much Australians will save from his plan to cut fuel prices for a year, economists say, as exclusive analysis shows the richest households will benefit the most from his pre-election cost of living pitch.The opposition leader has promised he will resuscitate Scott Morrison’
  
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• 'Raducanu needs plan quickly to build on Miami progress'

  27-03-2025 15:00 via bbc.com
  
  After her run at the Miami Open, BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller looks at the support Emma Raducanu may need to continue her form.
  
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• Muslim groups reject push for new Islamophobia definition at Australian universities

  27-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Groups call for a unified anti-racism standard and say separate definitionwould ‘shield’ universities from criticism of the antisemitism definitionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA coalition of Muslim and Palestinian organisations have rejected a push by universities to adopt a new definition of Islamophobia, arguing it would “shield” the institutions from criticism of their contentious new antisemitism definition, and that a unified standard th
  
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• Labor’s grassroots environmental group dismayed by rushed bill protecting salmon industry

  27-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Labor Environment Action Network says it won’t ‘sugar coat’ its reaction after working ‘so hard’ on obtaining commitment for EPAGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor’s grassroots environment action network has told its members it does not support legislation that Anthony Albanese rushed through parliament this week to protect salmon farming in Tasmania, describing it as “frustrating and disappointing”.In an email on T
  
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• Federal election ‘will be won or lost in the suburbs’, Chalmers says

  27-03-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Treasurer is scathing of Coalition’s pledge to repeal Labor’s tax cuts but admits he is ‘very concerned’ about global trade war Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal election will be a battle of the suburbs, the treasurer says, declaring Labor’s budget and economic plan is focused squarely on the outer suburban areas which may decide the next prime minister.In an interview with Guardian Australia’s Full Story podcast, Jim Chalm
  
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• Swinney leads tributes to SNP minister McKelvie

  27-03-2025 14:43 via bbc.com
  
  Emotional parliamentarians shared their memories of McKelvie following her death at the age of 57.
  
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• 6 dead after tourist submarine sinks off Egypt's coast: officials

  27-03-2025 14:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Six people have died and nine were injured when a tourist submarine sank off the Egyptian coast on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.All the victims were Russian, and were among 45 passengers aboard the tourist submarine, said provincial officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to not having authorization to speak to the media. The sinking happened off one of the beaches in the tourist promenade area in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada, and that is where 29 people were res
  
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• Fears intensify of return to civil war as South Sudan vice-president arrested

  27-03-2025 14:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Riek Machar’s house arrest and armed clashes signal ‘a severe unravelling’ of 2018 peace deal, his party saysSouth Sudan’s first vice-president and main opposition leader, Riek Machar, has been placed under house arrest, prompting a warning from the UN that the country is at risk of relapsing into widespread conflict.Machar’s party said his arrest had in effect collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war. Continue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Bowen: Zelensky is buoyant, but Europe will struggle to guarantee Ukraine's security

  27-03-2025 14:12 via bbc.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shares this thoughts on Europe's support and his country's resilience.
  
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