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• Congo boat disaster death toll rises to 148, with more than 100 still missing

  18-04-2025 23:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Fire broke out during onboard cooking before wooden vessel capsized with 500 passengers aboardThe death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week has risen to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said on Friday.About 500 passengers were on board the wooden boat when it capsized on Tuesday after catching fire on the Congo River in the country’s north-west. Continue reading...
  
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• Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

  18-04-2025 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Jennifer Vasquez Sura relieved husband is alive but Trump officials say in mocking X post he is ‘never coming back’US politics live – latest updatesJennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that he is “never coming back
  
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• Pubs to stay open late for VE Day 80th anniversary

  18-04-2025 23:31 via bbc.com
  
  The government has given the go-ahead for pubs and bars to stay open for two hours longer than usual.
  
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• Scores killed in US strikes on Yemen fuel port of Ras Isa, Houthi officials say

  18-04-2025 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Death toll reportedly hits 80 with 150 wounded in deadliest attack since Washington launched its campaign US military strikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa fuel port have killed at least 80 people including civilians and rescue workers, according to the Houthi-run health ministry, in the deadliest attack since Washington launched its campaign against the Iran-backed militants.The rebels’ Al-Masirah TV, citing local officials, said the toll from the strike had “risen to 80 dead and 150 wou
  
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• A gunshot tore brothers apart decades ago. The FSU shooting split them up for good

  18-04-2025 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ricardo and Robert Morales parted ways in 1982 after a gunshot killed their father, a Cuban-American exile turned CIA informant in Miami known as "Monkey," and tore their family apart.
  
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• Crews restore power to nearly all customers after island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico

  18-04-2025 22:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Power was restored to more than 98% of customers Friday after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico earlier this week, authorities said.More than 1.45 million customers had electricity less than 48 hours after the outage hit, according to Luma Energy, which oversees the transmission and distribution of power on the island.PUERTO RICO NO LONGER SAFE BET FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS AS TRUMP CRACKDOWN EXPANDS TO US TERRITORYLuma warned that "some customers may continue to experience temporary outages du
  
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• Trump says US will 'take a pass' on Ukraine peace efforts if Russia refuses to play ball

  18-04-2025 22:02 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. will "just take a pass" at peace efforts for Ukraine if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to agree to ceasefire terms. "If for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we're just going to say 'you're foolish, you're fools, you're horrible people,' and we're going to just take a pass," Trump told reporters. "But hopefully we won't have to do that."The president’s comments echoed those made by Secretary of State M
  
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• Trump team reveals lack of expertise – and patience – as it threatens to abandon Ukraine peace talks

  18-04-2025 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump said he could stop war in 24 hours, but team appears daunted by negotiation with ‘a lot of detail attached to it’Ukraine war live updates: Trump denies being ‘played’ by PutinOne key to a successful negotiation is always being willing to walk away from the table. But it isn’t clear whether the Trump administration has threatened to give up on a Russia-Ukraine peace deal as a negotiating tactic or simply because it lacks the concentration for a complicated nego
  
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• Two Britons among four killed in cable car crash near Naples

  18-04-2025 19:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Margaret Elaine Winn, 58, and Graeme Derek Winn, 65, died with Israeli woman and Italian driver of cable carTwo British tourists were among four people who died when a cable car crashed to the ground near Naples in southern Italy.Prosecutors in Torre Annunziata have opened an investigation into possible manslaughter charges after the crash on Thursday at Monte Faito, a peak about 28 miles (45km) south-east of Naples. Continue reading...
  
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• Italian opposition file complaint over far-right party’s use of ‘racist’ AI images

  18-04-2025 19:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Centre-left parties slam ‘racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic’ faked images posted on social media by League partyOpposition parties in Italy have complained to the communications watchdog about a series of AI-generated images published on social media by deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini’s far-right party, calling them “racist, Islamophobic and xenophobic”, the Guardian has learned.The centre-left Democratic party (PD), with the Greens and Left Alliance, filed a
  
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• Hamas terror group reportedly buckling under financial strain amid Israeli military gains and growing unrest

  18-04-2025 18:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the terror group is reportedly facing an unprecedented financial crisis.Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that salary payments to many Hamas government employees have ceased, and even senior officials received only half of their usual pay during Ramadan. Terrorists, who once earned $200 to $300 a month, are struggling to get paid as the IDF tightens its grip, and the flow of humanitarian aid has bee
  
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• Chinese firm aiding Houthi attacks on US vessels, as airstrikes kill 74

  18-04-2025 18:10 via foxnews.com
  
  The State Department has accused a Chinese firm of directly aiding Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen by providing satellite imagery used to target U.S. and international vessels in the Red Sea.The news comes as U.S. airstrikes targeting an oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 74 people and wounded 171 others on Thursday, the group said.State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Company Limited is helping the Houth
  
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• ‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike

  18-04-2025 16:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her familyAs a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly.“If I die, I want a loud death,&
  
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• China dismisses Zelenskyy’s claim it has supplied weapons to Russia

  18-04-2025 16:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Beijing rejects Ukrainian president’s accusation as ‘groundless’ and says it is committed to ending the conflictRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesChina’s foreign ministry has dismissed as “groundless” the accusation by Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the country had been supplying weapons to Russia.The comments, made at a regular press briefing in Beijing on Friday, came a day after the Ukrainian president said China was supplying weapons to Russia, inclu
  
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• Hamas rejects Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal over ‘impossible conditions’

  18-04-2025 13:21 via theguardian.com
  Militant group says it will not accept deal without guarantee of end to Gaza war or full withdrawal of Israeli troopsMiddle East crisis – live updatesHamas has formally rejected Israel’s latest ceasefire proposal, saying it will not accept a “partial” deal that does not guarantee an end to the war or a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.Hamas’s chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, accused Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of putting forward a
  
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• Dramatic rise in fake political content on social media as Canada prepares to vote

  18-04-2025 12:30 via theguardian.com
  Report finds over a quarter of Canadians exposed to ‘more sophisticated and more politically polarizing’ fake contentMore than a quarter of Canadians have been exposed to fake political content on social media that is “more sophisticated and more politically polarizing” as the country prepares to vote in a federal election, researchers have found, warning that platforms must increase protections amid a “dramatic acceleration” of online disinformation in the fi
  
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• US forges ahead with plans for steep port fees on China-built vessels

  18-04-2025 11:44 via theguardian.com
  New rules part of effort to revive US shipbuilding, but penalties scaled back after warnings about impact on consumersThe Trump administration is forging ahead with plans to charge steep fees on Chinese-built ships for stopping at US ports in an effort to revive its shipbuilding industry, but scaled back the penalties after warnings about the impact on consumers.The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) significantly watered down original plans from February, under which vessels built in
  
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• Idaho police release bodycam footage of shooting that killed autistic teen

  18-04-2025 10:29 via nbcnews.com
  Police in Idaho released body-worn footage showing officers fatally shooting a knife-wielding, intellectually disabled teenage boy from the other side of a fence. 17-year-old Victor Perez, who was autistic, had a developmental disability and cerebral palsy, was taken off life support a day after being declared brain dead.
  
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• US man hijacks small plane in Belize, stabs 3 people before he's shot dead

  18-04-2025 09:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Authorities at the Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport (P.G.I.A.) say they were alerted to a U.S. man who was hijacking a small plane in Belize on Thursday.The man stabbed two passengers and a pilot, before one of the stabbed passengers fatally shot him, according to officials in Belize and the United States. The passenger was licensed to carry a firearm and later turned his weapon over to the police."We are praying for him," Chester Williams, Belize police commissioner, told rep
  
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• ‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdown

  18-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostilityAs the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.The ceremony on Holy Thursday, in which the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem washes the feet of 12
  
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• Actor Haley Joel Osment faces alcohol, cocaine charges

  18-04-2025 05:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Actor Haley Joel Osment was charged with misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of alcohol in public and possession of cocaine after his arrest in California this month, the Mono County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
  
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• ‘We’re going to stand up to Trump,’ says Mark Carney in second Canadian election debate

  18-04-2025 05:17 via theguardian.com
  PM focuses on threat from across the border as most polls show his Liberals leading Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party in tight raceCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, faced sustained attacks from his Conservative rival at an election debate on Thursday but the Liberal leader sought to focus attention on what he calls Canada’s top threat: Donald Trump, the US president.Most opinion polls show Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party trailing Carney’s Liberals ahea
  
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• US airstrikes on Houthi oil port in Yemen reportedly kill dozens

  18-04-2025 05:11 via theguardian.com
  Death toll, if confirmed, would make strikes on Ras Isa port one of the deadliest in month-long US campaignUS airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 33 people and wounded 80 others, Houthi-run media said early on Friday, which if confirmed would mark one of the deadliest days of a campaign launched under US President Trump that has involved hundreds of strikes since 15 March.The strikes hit the Ras Isa oil port and were intended to deprive the rebels of “illegal revenue that has
  
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• California man accused of kidnapping 10-year-old he met on Roblox

  18-04-2025 04:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  A child reported missing from Taft, California, was found Sunday after an alleged abduction by a 27-year-old who had been communicating through the gaming site Roblox and the messaging platform Discord, Kern County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
  
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• U.S. man hijacks flight in Belize, stabs 3, is shot dead

  18-04-2025 04:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  A U.S. man hijacked a small plane in Belize on Thursday, stabbing two passengers and a pilot, before one of the stabbed passengers fatally shot him, officials said.
  
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• Maryland senator meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador amid battle over US return

  18-04-2025 03:46 via theguardian.com
  Chris Van Hollen posts photo on X but does not provide update on status of man wrongly deported from USThe Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen met in El Salvador with Kilmar Ábrego García, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.Van Hollen posted a photo of the meeting on X, saying he also called Ábrego García’s wife “to pass along his message of love”. Continue reading
  
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• Sen. Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia as Trump fights to keep him in El Salvador

  18-04-2025 03:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Maryland Democrat flew to the Central American country Wednesday with the goal of meeting with Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration says was mistakenly deported.
  
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• FSU shooting: What we know after 2 were killed on the Tallahassee campus

  18-04-2025 02:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  A gunman opened fire at Florida State University on Thursday, killing two people and wounding several others.
  
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• Court denies Trump administration’s appeal against order to ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported US man – live

  18-04-2025 01:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Fourth circuit court rejects appeal saying it‘shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge’ who is interpreting supreme court decisionDonald Trump’s administration will ask a US federal appeals court on Thursday to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press (AP) for referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.The Trump administration has argued that the lower-court ruling, which mandates AP journali
  
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• Appeals court rejects Trump request in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, citing due process concerns

  18-04-2025 01:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  The administration is testing the bounds of existing law. A judge in Thursday’s ruling said officials were taking action “without the semblance of due process.”
  
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• Luigi Mangione indicted on federal murder charge over healthcare CEO killing

  18-04-2025 01:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Suspect, charged with four federal counts, faces separate state charges over death of Brian Thompson in ManhattanLuigi Mangione was indicted on Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last year, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty.The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also charges Mangione with two counts of stalking and a firearms count. Continue reading...
  
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• Deadly campus shooting at Florida State University

  18-04-2025 01:05 via nbcnews.com
  Two people are dead after police say a gunman opened fire on the campus of Florida State University. Authorities say the suspect is the son of an area sheriff’s deputy. NBC News’ Priya Sridhar reports. 
  
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• Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing delayed

  18-04-2025 01:00 via nbcnews.com
  The long-awaited resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez was postponed indefinitely after both sides’ attorneys fought over whether the judge should consider a comprehensive risk assessment prepared by the California Parole Board. Lawyers for Menendez announced plans for a motion to recuse the LA District Attorney. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz was there.
  
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• Luigi Mangione indicted on federal charges in death of UnitedHealthcare CEO

  18-04-2025 00:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal grand jury Thursday indicted Luigi Mangione on four charges in the December ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in New York City.
  
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• Two killed and six injured in Florida university shooting, officials say

  18-04-2025 00:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Police took in suspect Phoenix Ikner, 20, a Florida State University student and son of a sheriff’s deputyTwo people were killed in a mass shooting at the Florida State University (FSU) campus in Tallahassee on Thursday, and six others were injured, police said.The 20-year-old suspect is believed to be a student and the son of a sheriff’s deputy who had access to one of her weapons, a handgun, which was found at the scene, Sheriff Walt McNeil said at a news conference. Continue readi
  
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• How Trump has paved the way for new GOP policy fights: From the Politics Desk

  18-04-2025 00:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trump has paved the way for a sprawling, animated and consequential set of policy fights within the Republican Party over taxes, tariffs and more.
  
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• Donald Trump ‘expecting to make second state visit to UK in September’

  18-04-2025 00:06 via theguardian.com
  
  US president and first lady received invitation in February from King Charles for unprecedented repeat tripDonald Trump has said he is expecting to travel to to the UK in September for his second state visit.King Charles is preparing to host the US president and first lady as the UK government tries to bolster transatlantic ties after Trump imposed a series of tariffs on trading partners. Continue reading...
  
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• FDA to suspend quality-control program for food testing due to staff cuts

  18-04-2025 00:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The FDA labs that test food to prevent illness have been affected by wider health and human services staff cutsThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is suspending a quality-control program for its food-testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to an internal email seen by Reuters.The proficiency testing program of the FDA’s Food Emergency Response Network is designed to ensure consistency and accuracy across the agency&r
  
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