17 h. ago British father has his three children taken away by Italian authorities after he took them to live 'off

Authorities were called to the homestead in September 2024 after all five members of the family needed to be taken to hospital because they had been poisoned by mushrooms.

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6 d. ago Father of teen whose death was linked to social media has ‘lost faith’ in Ofcom

Ian Russell says watchdog lacks ‘urgency’ and is not willing to use its powers ‘to the extent required’ The father of Molly Russell, a British teenager who killed herself after viewing harmful online content, has called for a change in leadership at the UK’s communications watchdog after losing faith in its ability to make the internet safer for children.Ian Russell, whose 14 year-old daughter took her own life in 2017, said Ofcom had “repeatedly” demonstrated that it does not grasp the urgency of keeping under-18s safe online and was failing to implement new digital laws forcefully. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Inside the incestuous upstairs, downstairs tryst that could rock British aristocracy

Northamptonshire labourer Robbie Calder, 65, has filed a legal request that could force the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, to take a DNA test to prove definitively whether the men are related.

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2 w. ago Brit dad dies after reaching mountain top in Sri Lanka during daughter's birthday hike

The British father-and-daughter duo decided to scale Ella's Rock in Sri Lanka to celebrate the daughter's 34th birthday, but tragedy struck once they reached the top of the mountain

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2 w. ago European Union to reveal ratings for candidate countries – Europe live

Kaja Kallas to issue update this afternoon on progress countries are making towards becoming union memberIn other news, Czechs are mourning the archbishop emeritus of Prague, Dominik Duka, who has died overnight at the age of 82.Cardinal Duka – whose father flew in the British RAF during the second world war – was one of the most influential religious leaders in the Czech Republic, serving as a dissident priest under communism who eventually got imprisoned alongside playwright turned president Václav Havel. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British father dies while celebrating his daughter's 34th birthday with hike up Sri Lankan mountain

A British man has tragically died while celebrating his daughter's 34th birthday with a hike up a Sri Lankan mountain. 

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2 w. ago British father fights to keep his three children after moving with his wife to Italian 'crumbling ruin' to live 'off

A British father is fighting to keep his three children after he moved them, along with his wife, to live an off-grid life in a 'crumbling ruin' in the Italian wilderness. 

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3 w. ago British family's heartbreak as body of father is found two days after his son, 11, drowned when they got into trouble swimming off Malta

The 37-year-old's body was discovered following an extensive search operation involving Maltese police, the armed forces and local rescue teams.

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3 w. ago Trump demanded trans issues be excluded from sex education. 11 states complied

16 other states have sued the White House over the federal program, saying it’s trampling on authority of CongressUS politics live – latest updatesAt least 11 states and two territories are capitulating to a recent demand from the Trump administration to strip references to gender identity and the existence of transgender and non-binary people from a federal sex education program, officials confirmed to the Guardian.The administration set a Monday deadline to remove the references or risk losing millions of dollars of federal funding. Almost all of the states that are complying have Republican-controlled state legislatures and most have Republican governors. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lithuania says it will shoot down smuggling balloons from Russia’s ally Belarus

PM blames Alexander Lukashenko for not stopping ‘hybrid attacks’, which closed Vilnius airport four times last weekEurope live – latest updatesLithuania’s prime minister has authorised the shooting down of smuggling balloons that cross the border from Russia’s ally Belarus, calling them “hybrid attacks” in an echo of the term used to describe Moscow’s destabilisation efforts.Incursions by balloons carrying contraband cigarettes prompted the Nato and EU member state to close Vilnius airport four times last week and shut its border crossings with Belarus temporarily. Continue reading...

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