49 minutes ago Trump officials to receive immediate clearances and easier FBI vetting

Exclusive: president-elect’s team planning for background checks to occur only after administration takes over bureauDonald Trump’s transition team is planning for all cabinet picks to receive sweeping security clearances from the president-elect and only face FBI background checks after the incoming administration takes over the bureau and its own officials are installed in key positions, according to people familiar with the matter.The move appears to mean that Trump’s team will continue to skirt FBI vetting and may not receive classified briefings until Trump is sworn in on 20 January and unilaterally grant sweeping security clearances across the administration. Continue reading...

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85 minutes ago Can the Chancellor REALLY promise no more tax rises? Fears Rachel Reeves will add another broken vow to Labour's U

Rachel Reeves made the tax commitment in an appearance at the CBI conference, as she tries to quell a mounting revolt over her £40billion 'tax-bomb' Budget.

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98 minutes ago Trump reveals huge trade tariffs against key economies as election interference case dropped: Live

President-elect flexes muscles on world stage after securing brace of legal wins

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1 hour ago Arrowe Park Hospital suffers 'cyber security' emergency telling patients to 'do not come'

Arrowe Park Hospital in Liverpool has decleared a "major incident" and told patients only to attend the emergency department if they have a "genuine emergency"

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1 hour ago Chilling cockpit audio from doomed Boeing 737 DHL plane just before it crashed in fireball is revealed

The recording captured the air traffic controller frantically doling out messages, warning other planes to abort their landing or takeoff as the emergency situation unfolded

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1 hour ago Clashes in Pakistan as thousands march on capital demanding Imran Khan release – video

At least five police and paramilitary personnel have been killed and dozens of people injured in Pakistan as thousands of supporters of the jailed former prime minister Imran Khan forced their way through security barriers and entered the capital of Islamabad.Authorities have enforced a security lockdown in the capital for the last three days after Khan called for supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to march on parliament for a sit-in demonstration to demand his release. PTI alleges that Khan is being held as a political prisoner. Voted out of power by parliament in 2022 after he fell out with Pakistan’s powerful military, Khan faces charges ranging from corruption to instigation of violence, all of which he and his party deny.Pakistan: five killed, dozens injured as ...

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2 hours ago London travel news LIVE: Metropolitan and Elizabeth lines suspended while Gatwick Airport trains face delays

Several lines have been part-suspended during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, while people travelling to Gatwick are also facing delays.

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2 hours ago ‘Education is survival’: parents of Rohingya refugee children fight for their right to go to school in India

Official attitudes are hardening towards the minority group amid an anti-Muslim crackdown, say activistsFor Rohingya refugee Hussain Ahmed, the hope that his children might receive a formal education to secure a better adulthood than his own was what “kept him going”. After fleeing to India from Myanmar in 2016, he began working as a construction worker in a country where he is not allowed to seek legal employment. Then he met with a new hurdle.“For the last few years, I have been running from pillar to post, trying to get a local government-run school to enrol my 10-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. I cannot afford the fees of privately run schools, so the government ones were my only hope. But all of them turned my children down,” says Ahmed, who lives in the Khajuri Khas area...

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3 hours ago PLAY TEAMSHEET: Can YOU remember the Liverpool team that secured a dramatic 1

Every day we'll challenge you to name a different starting XI from the Premier League era. We'll give you a team's rough formation, and the number of letters in each player's name. Then it's up to you!

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