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• Trump criticised after posting AI image of himself as Pope

  03-05-2025 23:53 via bbc.com
  
  The image, shared by White House social media accounts, comes as Catholics prepare to pick the next pontiff.
  
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• Labour minister sorry over grooming gangs remark

  03-05-2025 23:06 via bbc.com
  
  Leader of the Commons Lucy Powell has sought to clarify comments she made in "the heat of" a radio debate.
  
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• Arsenal to use 'anger and rage' of Bournemouth loss against PSG

  03-05-2025 23:00 via bbc.com
  
  Arsenal will use the "anger, rage and frustration" from their home loss to Bournemouth against PSG on Wednesday, says boss Mikel Arteta.
  
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• Williams, 50, defeats Trump in semi-final to make Crucible history

  03-05-2025 22:21 via bbc.com
  
  Three-time champion Mark Williams produces a vintage display to defeat world number one Judd Trump 17-14, becoming the oldest ever player to reach a World Championship final.
  
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• Fourteen children arrested over boy's fire death in Gateshead

  03-05-2025 21:44 via bbc.com
  
  Eleven boys and three girls aged between 11 and 14 years old are held on suspicion of manslaughter.
  
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• 'I saw Southampton breaking and the ref down, so I blew his whistle'

  03-05-2025 21:23 via bbc.com
  
  Jamie Vardy is not quite ready to blow the whistle on his legendary Leicester City career, after reaching 199 goals for the club.
  
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• Singapore ruling party wins election in landslide

  03-05-2025 20:26 via theguardian.com
  People’s Action party retains majority, with sample counts showing it winning all but 10 seats in 97-seat legislatureSingapore’s ruling party has notched a resounding win in general elections, official results have shown, giving the prime minister, Lawrence Wong, the clear mandate he sought from voters.Wong’s long-ruling People’s Action party crossed the threshold of 49 seats early on Sunday to form a majority government in the wealthy city-state’s 97-seat unicamera
  
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• Prime minister of Yemen’s government announces resignation

  03-05-2025 20:06 via theguardian.com
  Ahmad bin Mubarak says he was not able to take the decisions he needed to or to fully exercise his powersAhmad bin Mubarak, the premier of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, has announced his resignation saying he was unable to fully exercise his powers.Bin Mubarak had been entangled in bitter disputes for months with Rashad al-Alimi, who heads the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), two ministers and a member of the PLC told AFP. Continue reading...
  
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• Match-fixing scandal to Crucible final - fall and rise of Zhao

  03-05-2025 19:55 via bbc.com
  
  Zhao Xintong began this season banned from snooker but is tipped to be the sport's new "megastar" if he becomes the first Chinese player to win the world title.
  
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• This week proves Nigel Farage's PM ambition is not a wild notion

  03-05-2025 18:06 via bbc.com
  
  The next General Election is miles away and parties can surge and sink, but this week's results show Farage has changed the race, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
  
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• Find out who won in your postcode

  03-05-2025 17:50 via bbc.com
  
  Find out who's winning where using our lookup tool, as the first results are declared.
  
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• 'Trump was the game-changer': Three things to know about Australian election result

  03-05-2025 17:15 via bbc.com
  
  The BBC's Australia correspondent Katy Watson breaks down who won and lost the election - and what it means.
  
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• This hockey town in Michigan has deep ties to Canada. Then came Trump’s tariffs

  03-05-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  From the local sports team to local businesses, Saginaw is intimately intertwined with its northern neighborThere are few entities that embody the close, fraternal ties between the US and Canada quite like the Saginaw Spirit junior ice hockey team.In a place whose fortunes have been more down than up in recent decades, the Dow Event Center hockey arena in Saginaw, Michigan, comes alive with more than 5,000 fans once these young stars take to the ice. A huge banner depicting the players adorns th
  
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• Why economists say Trump's claim of falling grocery, gas prices is misleading

  03-05-2025 16:33 via abcnews.go.com
  "Prices are still going up," one expert said.
  
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• What Reform might do with its newly won power

  03-05-2025 16:19 via bbc.com
  For the first time the party has won control of local councils, as well as two mayoralties.
  
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• Farage celebrates 'unprecedented' election results, as Labour and Tories digest losses

  03-05-2025 16:02 via bbc.com
  Reform UK took control of 10 local councils, won two mayoral races and added a fifth MP to its ranks.
  
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• Israeli airstrikes kill at least 40 people in Gaza, officials say

  03-05-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Bureij, Beit Lahiya, Gaza City and Khan Younis hit as Israeli government prepares to expand offensiveIsraeli airstrikes have killed at least 40 people across Gaza during the past 24 hours, civil defence officials in the devastated Palestinian territory said, as Israel’s government prepared to order an expansion of its military offensive.Nine people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; another six people died in a separate strike targeting a famil
  
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• World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says

  03-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ growsA leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks affect communities with low vaccination rates in the American south-west, Mexico and Canada.The US is enduring the largest measles outbreak in a quarter-century. Centered in west Texas, the measles outbreak has killed two unvaccinated children and one adult and spread to neighbor
  
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• Harry's emotional avalanche hits the Royal Family

  03-05-2025 12:55 via bbc.com
  The prince's BBC interview is first-hand confirmation of the scale of the royal rift, writes royal correspondent Sean Coughlan.
  
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• The Interview: Is Prince Harry's safety at risk?

  03-05-2025 11:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Nada Tawfik speaks to Prince Harry about reconciliation with the royal family
  
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• Dying Syrian grandmother allowed to come to UK in Home Office U-turn

  03-05-2025 11:41 via theguardian.com
  Soaad Al Shawa had been barred from spending final days with her family, who fled Damascus to settle in GlasgowA Syrian grandmother who is dying of cancer has been given permission to come to the UK to spend her final days with the grandchildren she has never met, after a Home Office U-turn.The government had wanted to bar Soaad Al Shawa, who has liver cancer and has been given just weeks to live by doctors, from travelling to spend her last days with her daughter Ola Al Hamwi, son-in-law Mostaf
  
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• South Korea’s conservatives pick hardline Kim Moon-soo as presidential candidate

  03-05-2025 11:09 via theguardian.com
  People Power party trail in polls in election called after President Yoon Suk Yeol was removed for trying to impose martial lawSouth Korea’s conservative People Power party has picked former labour minister Kim Moon-soo as its candidate for the 3 June presidential election, which was called after the removal of Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed attempt to impose martial law.Kim will face the liberal Democratic party’s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, who has led each of the declared conservativ
  
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• Crimea is at the crux of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Here's why it's important.

  03-05-2025 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Washington-brokered negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have largely boiled down to a diamond-shaped peninsula about the size of Massachusetts.
  
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• Attendees at the first three White House "influencer briefings" shows an overwhelming right-leaning guest list.

  03-05-2025 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried something new on Monday.
  
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• Amazon angers the White House and a 49-year-age gap goes viral: The news quiz

  03-05-2025 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Canada holds an election, a legislator gets disciplined, and oh boy are we doomed if this geologic event happens.
  
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• What Prince Harry was like during our exclusive interview

  03-05-2025 09:14 via bbc.com
  I sat down with Prince Harry moments after a UK court ruled he could not have his security reinstated.
  
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• Donkey has two mums after 'one in a million' birth

  03-05-2025 09:08 via bbc.com
  Two donkeys gave birth at exactly the same time leaving their carers with a mystery to solve.
  
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• Stomach cancer is increasingly being detected earlier, raising hopes for survival

  03-05-2025 09:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  Doctors are increasingly detecting stomach tumors at an early stage, new research finds, raising hopes for treatment for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
  
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• ‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media

  03-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Today on World Press Freedom Day, there are warnings that US attempts to withdraw from promoting independent journalism will have far-reaching effectsAs Donald Trump’s executive order in March led to the shuttering of Voice of America (VOA) – the global broadcaster whose roots date back to the fight against Nazi propaganda – he quickly attracted support from figures not used to aligning themselves with any US administration.Trump had ordered the US Agency for Global Media, the
  
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• 2 planes ordered to 'go around' because of Army copter near D.C. airport

  03-05-2025 06:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two commercial flights approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport were ordered to do “go-arounds” Thursday because of an Army helicopter, three months after a mid-air collision that killed 67 people, officials said.
  
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• Federal election 2025 live: Australia polls open, voting begins; Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton on election day campaign for Labor and Coalition – latest news

  03-05-2025 06:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Voting booths open across Australia as last polls suggest Albanese set to be re-elected as Australian prime minister. Follow today’s news livePolls tracker; Election guide; Interactive seat explorerParty policies; Micro parties explained; Full election coverageListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUnder a perfect blue sky perhaps more reminiscent of home than the customary grey of London, ex-pats in
  
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• ‘Humiliated Tories’ and ‘angry Labour’: what the papers say about Reform’s local election rout

  03-05-2025 05:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Success of hard-right party is a ‘sobering day’ for Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, UK papers report after a ‘populist wave sweeps England’Saturday papers in the UK were dominated by the Reform party’s victory at the polls, in which it gained an MP at Labour’s expense and won a string of local councils.A jubilant Nigel Farage said his hard-right populist party had now supplanted the Conservatives and pledged that Reform-run councils and mayoralties would block
  
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• Trump administration to cut thousands of jobs from CIA and other spy agencies – report

  03-05-2025 05:18 via theguardian.com
  
  CIA to lose 1,200 while NSA among other agencies reported to face downsizing amid president’s drive to shrink federal workforceThe White House plans to cut staffing at the Central Intelligence Agency by 1,200 positions while other intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency will also shed thousands of jobs, the Washington Post has reported.A person familiar with the plan confirmed the changes to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Continue reading...
  
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• Judge references Shakespeare in striking down Trump order targeting law firm

  03-05-2025 05:11 via abcnews.go.com
  A federal judge on Friday issued a permanent ruling barring the Trump administration from implementing an executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie.
  
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• Good Samaritans rescue woman from attempted carjacking in N.J., officials say

  03-05-2025 04:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Three good Samaritans — including two Army reservists -- saved a woman who was being attacked during an attempted carjacking in Camden County, New Jersey, officials said.
  
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• Nepo babies or superstars in waiting?

  03-05-2025 04:29 via bbc.com
  Is Blue Ivy another example of a celebrity child given an unearned spotlight or could she be a genuine star?
  
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• Trump order targeting law firm struck down; supreme court asked to allow Musk’s Doge access to social security data – as it happened

  03-05-2025 04:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Judge rules Perkins Coie executive order violates constitution; Trump administration asks supreme court to lift block on Doge accessing data. This blog is now closed.The seeds were sown for yesterday’s ousting of Mike Waltz as national security adviser long before “Signalgate”, notes Politco.The outlet reports that his approach to the job was unpopular and Waltz was seen as too cocky. One person close to the White House said:He’s a staff, but he was acting like a principa
  
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• Woman who held Elizabeth Smart captive for months is arrested after visiting park

  03-05-2025 04:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  The woman who kidnapped and held Elizabeth Smart captive for nine months in the early 2000s was arrested in Utah this week after visiting at least two parks, which she can't do because of her status as a sex offender.
  
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• Trump can't drop funding for NPR, PBS, group says

  03-05-2025 04:04 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The nonprofit corporation overseeing National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service is firing back at President Donald Trump's executive order to pull funding.
  
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• Trump admin live updates: White House backtracks on renaming Veterans Day

  03-05-2025 03:31 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The White House is backtracking after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he was renaming Veterans Day.
  
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• Police investigate after white mother used racist slur at Minnesota park

  03-05-2025 03:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Video taken at a Minnesota public park this week shows a white woman apparently admitting she used a racist slur against a Black youth she accused of taking an item that belongs to her child.
  
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• 2 women shot on campus of small technical college near Los Angeles

  03-05-2025 03:24 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The mayor of a Southern California city says two women have been shot on a college campus and taken to the hospital
  
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• Fear and loathing over van dwellers on Bristol's leafy streets

  03-05-2025 03:06 via bbc.com
  A suburban culture clash is playing out - and as tempers flare, there are no easy solutions.
  
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• Why some Texas residents are wary of Elon Musk's potential SpaceX town

  03-05-2025 02:52 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Elon Musk’s SpaceX already has a footprint in South Texas but now wants to create an official municipality for the launch site called Starbase.
  
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• RFK Jr. unveils 'radical' change to vaccine testing

  03-05-2025 02:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson called the move "a radical departure from past practices."
  
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• Chris Mason: Fireworks for Reform as Labour and Tories write election post-mortems

  03-05-2025 02:41 via bbc.com
  Senior Reform figures believe the primary driving motivation behind their surge is betrayal.
  
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• Judge orders mental health assessment for man accused of killing 11 at Vancouver festival

  03-05-2025 02:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Canadian judge on Friday ordered a man accused of ramming his sport utility vehicle through a Filipino heritage festival crowd, killing 11 people and injuring dozens, to receive a mental health assessment to determine if he’s fit to stand trial.
  
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• Sheriff says Elway golf cart incident appears to be a 'tragic accident'

  03-05-2025 02:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  The California sheriff whose office is investigating the death of John Elway’s agent after a golf cart incident said on Friday that it appears to be an accident.
  
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• Six Swarthmore College students suspended over pro-Palestinian camp

  03-05-2025 01:55 via theguardian.com
  
  As some colleges, including Yale and Tulane, revive protests this spring, campuses respond with disciplinary actionOver the first two days of May, a total of six Swarthmore College students were interim suspended for the creation of a campus encampment earlier in the week. The students in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, were suspended without due process and were told to evacuate from campus, said Swarthmore’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in a 2 May statement.Of the six students who w
  
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• Win for Maine as Trump officials agree to halt school funding freeze

  03-05-2025 01:54 via theguardian.com
  
  USDA had suspended funds for child nutrition program after state said it would not bar trans girls from girls’ sportsThe Trump administration has agreed not to freeze funds to Maine schools, a win for a state that was targeted by the president over its support of transgender rights.In a settlement disclosed on Friday, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it would halt all efforts to withhold funds for a child nutrition program in Maine. The USDA had suspended those dollars after Ma
  
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