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Natalie Fleet leaves 'triggering' safeguarding minister role
The MP for Bolsover has spoken about how she was groomed and raped as a teenager.
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US judge sets 2027 trial date for Venezuela’s Maduro and wife
Former President Maduro pleads not guilty to drug charges; lawyer plans to challenge legality of US military operation.
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US Weighs Putting Nuclear Power Plants in Ocean Waters
The Trump administration is exploring the potential for nuclear power projects in the 3.2 billion acres of federal waters managed by the US government.
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US Goes All-In on Diesel Production Amid Growing Global Shortage
US refiners are ramping up diesel production to near-record levels, bucking seasonal trends as the Russia and Iran wars trigger a global supply crunch.
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Bill Risking Mercedes Ban Over China Ties Advances in US Senate
A Senate panel advanced legislation that could eventually ban the sale of Mercedes-Benz Group AG vehicles in the US over the German automaker’s partial Chinese ownership, setting up a potential clash as the proposal moves through Congress.
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Why Trump Is Using a Century-Old Law to Threaten Canada With 50% Tariffs
US President Donald Trump is reaching for a tariff power that has sat unused since Congress created it during the Great Depression. After the Supreme Court invalidated his use of an emergency powers law to advance his second-term trade agenda, Trump is turnin…
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Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Deal Gets EU Conditional Approval
Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. won conditional approval from the European Union, a positive development for the deal even as it faces a high-stakes US lawsuit that threatens its progress.
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Warsh Leaves Bond Traders in the Dark on Next Week’s Rate Move
The Kevin Warsh Fed is already putting its stamp on financial markets: Just days before the central bank’s next meeting, traders are still split on whether it’s going to raise interest rates or not.
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OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face, Sparking Cyber Alarms
Since April, when Anthropic PBC unveiled its Mythos model, cyber and national security experts have warned that the internet has entered a new era full of artificial intelligence-powered risks.
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Maduro Trial Date Set for June 2027 in US Drug-Trafficking Case
Nicolás Maduro appeared in court for the first time since March as a judge set a June 1, 2027, date for the ousted Venezuelan leader’s trial in a US drug-trafficking and narco-terrorism conspiracy case.
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Trump push for Syrian intervention against Hezbollah ‘short-sighted’
Analysts say US president’s pressure on Damascus to intervene in Lebanon could undermine domestic security.
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QatarEnergy Prepares to Extend LNG Force Majeure Into October
QatarEnergy is preparing to further extend force majeure on liquefied natural gas shipments through mid-October, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a move that would prolong the supply shock that has disrupted the global gas market amid war …
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Mamdani U-turn on threat to arrest Netanyahu citing lack of authority
The New York City mayor instead called on US authorities to act on International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against the Israeli prime minister.
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FAA to Require Aircraft Be Equipped to Withstand 5G Interference
The US Federal Aviation Administration said it will require aircraft to be equipped to withstand interference from 5G wireless signals in neighboring frequencies as the industry prepares for a planned spectrum auction next year.
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Wreckage of Pan Am plane that shaped aviation safety found 74 years on
The deaths of 52 people on the Clipper Endeavor led to the introduction of mandatory pre-flight safety briefings.
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Iran’s judiciary warns against ‘infiltrators’, announces new executions
Many cases related to security offences are prosecuted using a law announced after last year’s 12-day war with Israel.
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Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s trial set to begin in June 2027
The criminal trial of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife is scheduled to begin on June 1, 2027, a federal judge said Wednesday.
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Mid-air mass brawl halts easyJet's Tenerife to Liverpool flight
Air traffic control says the Liverpool-bound flight had to return to Tenerife after the violence on board.
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Trump threatens to bomb Iranian bridges, power plants over ship attacks
Iranian official says Tehran would retaliate by targeting ‘energy facilities in which the United States has interests’.
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Why Traore has opened a new front with Burkina Faso’s Muslim community
New legislation and arrests are driving a rift between Burkina Faso’s military government and Muslim scholars.
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Restricted airspace, a midair turn and maybe a ‘triumphal arch’: A pilot takes us through the tricky landing into Washington | CNN Politics
The descent into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is one of the trickiest for pilots to navigate due to its complex airspace. With the addition of President Trump’s proposed 250-ft “triumphal arch,” there will be yet another obstacle to consider. CNN…
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Zelenskyy sacks Syrskii: How many generals have Ukraine, Russia fired?
Several Ukrainian and Russian generals have been sacked from their militaries over the course of the war in Ukraine.
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Nearly 1,000 people have died from Ebola in DR Congo
According to WHO figures, 999 people have died in DRC and two in Uganda due to the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.
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Preliminary independent autopsy results for Nolan Wells’ death are released
The cause of death for Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old whose body was found July 6 along the shoreline of Horn Island off the Mississippi coast, has not been determined, according to preliminary independent autopsy results announced Wednesday.
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The London borough with one of England's lowest fertility rates
Islington is a snapshot of a trend playing out across inner London, Britain and much of the world.
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Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests
Matthew Wright is accused of trying to save the company millions of pounds in penalties.
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Can the Suez save Asian oil consumers after Houthis shut Bab al-Mandeb?
About 6 million barrels of crude per day that pass through the strait to Asia are now at risk, experts say.
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Burnham says he will review early prisoner release scheme
The prime minister says he cannot commit to changing the policy but wants to look at it in detail "before we go further forward".
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‘Creeping death’: Israel weaponises ‘Yellow Line’ to annex Gaza
Analysts and locals say the move mirrors what happened after the 1967 war with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
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Trump approves deal with Saudi Arabia that could allow kingdom to enrich nuclear fuel, official says
President Donald Trump has approved a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia that could lead to the kingdom enriching its own fuel for civilian reactors, according to a US official.
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OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
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Inside North Korean summer camp welcoming Russia and China | CNN
Hundreds of Russian and Chinese students are attending North Korea’s Songdowon International Children’s Camp this year, state media reports. The UK sanctioned the controversial camp, located in the coastal city of Wonsan. CNN’s Will Ripley reports.
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New Prince George photo released for his 13th birthday
It's a big year for the young prince, who will start secondary school at the elite Eton College in September.
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Ukrainian drones hit more sites of Russian online retailer Wildberries
Logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight.
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Supreme Court faces scrutiny over potential ‘loopholes’ in prediction markets policy
Justice Amy Coney Barrett had a fast answer when she was asked during a recent Senate hearing if the Supreme Court had done anything to address the meteoric rise of prediction markets — and the ethical predicament they present for the judiciary.
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An invisible serial killer arrived. Now this nation is racing to protect its treasured native birds
The pacific nation is rushing to vaccinate 300 breeding pairs of its most endangered native birds to protect them from H5N1 strain of birdflu.
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On Iran, a $37 billion price tag and no answers on how it ends
“We need some hard answers and some straight talk.”
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In new video, Mamdani acknowledges he doesn’t have authority to arrest Netanyahu
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a new video Tuesday that he does not have the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he were to come to New York City.
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Iran war live: US launches new attacks; Hegseth says war has cost $37.5bn
New attacks Trump threatens to bomb a suspected Iranian nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain ‘very heavily’.
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