64 minutes ago China and Canada respond to Trump’s tariff threats and border comments – live

China’s embassy in Washington has responded to Trump’s announcement, saying that no one will win a trade war or tariff war’Prosecutors drop federal cases against TrumpCorey Lewandowski, an adviser to Donald Trump, has said that he and the president-elect have “no concerns at all” regarding Pete Hegseth’s confirmation by the Senate as the next US secretary of defense.During an appearance on NewsMax, Lewandowski was asked if Trump had any concerns about Hegseth and his nomination, to which Lewandowski responded: “We have no concerns at all.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Family of Brit teen who faces 20 years in UAE prison over fling with UK girl speaks out

Marcus Fakana, from Tottenham, north London, was arrested for having a sexual relationship with the 17-year-old girl while he and his family were on holiday in the United Arab Emirates

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2 hours ago ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and visit from RFK Jr

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i.Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i.Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Can Keir Starmer REALLY get sicknote Britain back to work? Economic inactivity due to ill health has soared 7

Worklessness due to long-term sickness has risen seven-fold in parts of the country since Covid, according to startling figures laying bare the crisis Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to tackle.

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2 hours ago ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow wrote earlier this year.In 2023, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Bishop says one third of the population will die in World War III and the survivors will wish they had

His Grace Mar Mari Emmanuel, from Sydney, does not see a bright future for the world and says it is going to be the 'most disastrous' time humanity has ever had to go through

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3 hours ago Top NATO chief urges leaders to get ready for 'wartime scenario' after Putin 'threatens WWIII' as Germany draws up list of bunkers that could be used as emergency shelters

Speaking in Brussels yesterday, Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer warned that NATO members needed to adjust their production and distribution lines in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail.

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3 hours ago Young people twice as likely to get specific cancer potentially due to common habit

Cases of gallbladder cancer are on the rise among young adults and experts fear the modern diet could be to blame

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3 hours ago How Brits support for assisted dying suddenly changes after they are told what the process involves

While almost three quarters of compassionate Britons back changing the law in principle, this support collapses when they are told how assisted dying works in other countries.

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