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• Runner who hit opponent in head with baton faces assault and battery charge

  13-03-2025 01:29
  
  A high school track athlete faces a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery after a viral video showed her hitting a competitor's head with her baton during a race.
  
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• All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

  22-03-2025 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statementLiving standards for all UK families are set to fall by 2030, with those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners, according to new data that raises serious questions about Keir Starmer’s pledge to make working people better off.The grim economic analysis, produced by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), comes before the chancellor, Rachel Ree
  
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• Energy secretary orders investigation into Heathrow disruption – as it happened

  22-03-2025 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Miliband said he wanted ‘to understand any wider lessons to be learned on energy resilience for critical national infrastructure’Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association’s director general, criticised Heathrow airport in as a result of the disruption, reports the PA news agency.“This is yet another case of Heathrow letting down both travellers and airlines,” he said. Walsh added:From that arises the question of who bears the costs of taking care of
  
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• Proposed nuclear power plants in Queensland could not access enough water to prevent a meltdown, research finds

  22-03-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  About 1,000 times the combined capacity of Wivenhoe and Boondooma dams was required to cool Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors in 2011Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProposed nuclear power plants in Queensland would not have access to enough water to stop a nuclear meltdown and could strain capacity on drinking water and irrigation supplies even under normal operations, research has found.Analysis by the Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) has found that one of
  
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• Peter Dutton’s taxpayer-funded flight to ‘long lunch’ on Noosa River was investigated by expenses watchdog

  22-03-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Expenses authority found claim was within parliamentary rules because Dutton attended ‘in his official capacity as a minister’See all our Australia election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe expenses watchdog launched an investigation into then-home affairs minister Peter Dutton’s use of a taxpayer-funded flight to attend a “long lunch” on a luxury island on the Noosa River in 2019, internal documents reveal.Dutto
  
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• Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events

  22-03-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists say widespread damage to both world heritage-listed reefs is ‘heartbreaking’ as WA reef accumulates highest amount of heat stress on recordGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing momen
  
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• Fixing a flawed levy on the banks could leave Australia’s budget billions of dollars better off

  22-03-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Australia’s banks have been given an easy ride at taxpayers’ expense. And economists Chris Richardson argues the banking levy is a fraction of what it should be Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe budget would be billions of dollars better off every year if Australia’s biggest banks were forced to pay taxpayers for an unspoken guarantee that taxpayers will bail them out in a crisis.Days out from a fourth Labor budget that will show a looming decade of
  
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• Gaza’s ceasfire brought hope, but it was the calm before a brutal storm

  22-03-2025 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  New strikes are ‘just a beginning’ said Netanyahu, after Trump inspires Israel to seize territory with massive military onslaughtIn Gaza this weekend, the mood is darker than it has been at perhaps any time in this long, appalling war. Last Tuesday Israeli warplanes, tanks, artillery, drones and ships launched a wave of strikes, shattering the increasingly fragile pause in hostilities that had brought respite to the devastated territory for nearly two months. The ceasefire had also b
  
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• ‘Wake-up call’: ministers launch urgent investigation into Heathrow shutdown

  22-03-2025 19:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Government says lessons need to be learned after the substation fire that caused chaos for 300,000 passengersThe government has launched an urgent investigation into the power shutdown that crippled Heathrow airport, with experts warning it was a “wake-up call” about vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical infrastructure.The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has commissioned the independent National Energy System Operator (Neso) to investigate the incident and assess the UK&rsquo
  
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• Three killed and at least 15 injured in mass shooting in New Mexico

  22-03-2025 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities responded on Friday to reports of gunfire at a park and have asked for videos from bystanders to aid in investigationThree people were killed and at least 15 others were injured in a mass shooting on Friday night at an “unsanctioned car show” in Las Cruces, New Mexico.Local police said the shooting occurred at around 10pm on Friday at Young Park following “an altercation between two groups of people”. There were approximately 200 people at the park when the sh
  
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• Israel strikes southern Lebanon amid calls for halt to ‘endless war’

  22-03-2025 18:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Strikes come as freed hostages and family members of people still held in Gaza urge Netanyahu to stop the fightingIsrael carried out dozens of air and artillery strikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday in its most intense aerial assault on Lebanon for four months, endangering the shaky truce that ended a year-long conflict against Hezbollah, as 40 survivors of Hamas captivity called on the Israeli government to halt the “endless war”.The Israeli airstrikes came after three rockets
  
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• Heathrow boss defends running of airport after criticism of shutdown

  22-03-2025 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Thomas Woldbye says most other airports operate similar back-up power systems to Heathrow, as Ed Miliband announces investigationThe chief executive of Heathrow has defended the running of the airport after a fire at an electrical substation stopped about 1,300 planes and disrupted the journeys of hundreds of thousands of global passengers.It comes after Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association’s director general, criticised Heathrow for the disruption, while the energy se
  
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• Turkey’s protests over Istanbul mayor grow into ‘fight about democracy’

  22-03-2025 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Anger over detention of Ekrem Imamoğlu becomes a touchstone for opposing President Recep Tayyip ErdoğanWhen demonstrators gathered ­at Istanbul’s city hall last week in outrage at the arrest of mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, 26-year-old Azra said she was initially too scared to defy a ban on gatherings. As protests grew on university campuses and in cities and towns across Turkey, she could no longer resist joining.“I saw the spark in people’s eyes and the excite
  
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• Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales

  22-03-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Public consulted after concerns over children removed from parents on evidence of psychologists without right qualificationsUnregulated experts could be banned from the family courts under new proposals for proceedings involving children in England and Wales.The Family Procedure Rule Committee, which sets the rules in family court cases, has proposed changes to the rules, which are now out for public consultation. It follows growing concern from MPs and campaigners about court-appointed experts
  
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• ‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time

  22-03-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporterSecret surveillance of Britain’s ­notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philb
  
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• White House reportedly halts funding for legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children

  22-03-2025 16:29 via theguardian.com
  Critics say cuts will mean that children will have to face off alone in court against experienced Ice attorneysThe Trump administration is reported to have cut funding to a legal program that provides representation for unaccompanied immigrant children, one month after directing immigration enforcement agents to track down minors who had entered the US without guardians last month.Organizations that collectively receive more than $200m in federal grants were informed that the contract through th
  
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• Israel strikes Lebanon after first rocket attack since ceasefire

  22-03-2025 15:41 via bbc.com
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu has promised "to act forcefully" after the rocket attack into northern Israel.
  
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• Bomb squad carries out controlled burn of explosive chemicals found in St Leonards

  22-03-2025 15:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Five hundred canisters being examined after man arrested in East Sussex town on suspicion of producing illegal substancesA bomb squad has carried out a controlled burn of explosive chemicals discovered at a property in an East Sussex town as they continue to examine a further 500 canisters.A major incident was declared on Friday while an operation continued to make the chemicals safe, with 73 people forced to move to a nearby hotel. Continue reading...
  
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• Anning wins historic world indoor 400m gold for GB

  22-03-2025 15:17 via bbc.com
  
  Great Britain's Amber Anning announces herself on the global stage by winning women's 400m gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
  
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• Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants

  22-03-2025 15:05 via bbc.com
  
  Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who entered the US under a Biden-era programme face deportation.
  
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• Pope to make first public appearance in five weeks, Vatican says

  22-03-2025 14:57 via bbc.com
  
  Pope Francis is to give his blessing and greet a crowd from hospital for the first time since he was admitted on 14 February.
  
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• Trump revokes security clearances for Biden, Harris and other political enemies

  22-03-2025 14:54 via theguardian.com
  In Friday memo, president also pulls clearances for Antony Blinken, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Letitia JamesDonald Trump moved to revoke security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and a string of other top Democrats and political enemies in a presidential memo issued late on Friday.The security-clearance revocations also cover the former secretary of state Antony Blinken, the former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, the former Illinois representative Adam Kinzinger and the New York at
  
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• Anning wins GB's first ever women's 400m world indoor title

  22-03-2025 14:05 via bbc.com
  
  Amber Anning wins the first ever women's 400m world indoor title for Great Britain, narrowly beating USA's Alexis Holmes at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Nanjing, China.
  
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• Tumour removal was 'hardest thing', Davina McCall tells Comic Relief

  22-03-2025 14:02 via bbc.com
  
  The TV presenter recounts her experience as Red Nose Day celebrates its 40th year.
  
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• 'If Big George hit you, you stayed hit': George Foreman obituary

  22-03-2025 14:01 via bbc.com
  
  George Foreman goes down as one of the greatest ever heavyweight boxers, one part of a "holy trinity of heavyweight boxers with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier".
  
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• 'If Big George hit you, you stayed hit' - Foreman obituary

  22-03-2025 14:01 via bbc.com
  
  George Foreman goes down as one of the greatest ever heavyweight boxers, one part of a "holy trinity of heavyweight boxers with Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier".
  
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• Five key moments in the battle for Khartoum

  22-03-2025 14:01 via bbc.com
  
  BBC Verify examimes social media footage of the fight for control of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum
  
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• Hundreds arrested in third night of Turkey protests

  22-03-2025 13:37 via bbc.com
  
  Police arrested Istanbul's mayor, a key opposition figure, on Wednesday, sparking protests.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton hits out at 'yapping' critics after F1 sprint win in China

  22-03-2025 13:18 via bbc.com
  
  Lewis Hamilton hits out at "yapping" critics after taking his first win for Ferrari in the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.
  
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• Utah nurse allegedly killed woman by injecting unprescribed insulin

  22-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nurse allegedly convinced woman she had cancer while plotting to collect more than $1m from the victim’s life insuranceA registered nurse in Utah allegedly convinced a woman that she had terminal cancer, injected unprescribed insulin into her, and killed her with that method while plotting to collect more than $1m from the victim’s life insurance, according to police.Meggan Randall Sundwall faces charges of first-degree felony aggravated murder as well as obstruction of justice after
  
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