3 h. ago Road safety concerns over Teith Bridge prompt Stirling MP's call for action

The busy bridge connecting Deanston and Doune is the only route for pedestrians and cyclists to make their way between the villages - often into the face of busy traffic.

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16 h. ago Michigan child protection workers sued for failing to save three

Suit alleges state officials didn’t act despite being aware of ‘years of horrific abuse and neglect’

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19 h. ago The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict | Editorial

Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workersAfter 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed heavy strikes last month, the UN reports.Even so, Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers is particularly chilling. Though they died on 23 March, it took days for Israel to grant access to the site, the UN said. Another man was last seen in Israeli custody. Two grounds for seeing this not only as tragic but as a war crime stand out. The first is that the UN says the men were shot “one by one”, and a forensic expert said that preliminary evidence “suggests they were executed, not from a distant range”, given the “specific an...

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29 h. ago Takeaways from AP's story on safety concerns about Shell's fleet of oil production ships

A huge oil spill in 2011 from the Bonga, a floating oil production vessel off the coast of Nigeria owned by Shell, was one of the worst there in a decade

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45 h. ago Convicted child killer Lori Vallow Daybell tells jurors their job is to ‘protect’ her at new murder conspiracy trial

The ‘Doomsday mom’ is on trial again, this time acting as her own attorney, as she faces charges in the 2019 death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow

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46 h. ago Child protection meeting was held amid safety concerns for Pearson kids three days before they were killed in Walkden firebombing

A further pre-inquest review hearing into deaths of Michelle Pearson and four of her children has been held

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64 h. ago Trump administration guts mine safety and reproductive health divisions in sweeping HHS cuts

The Health and Human Services has begun an overhaul of its 28 divisions despite concerns about public safety

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65 h. ago US officials challenge Ofcom’s risk to free speech caused by online safety laws

Exclusive: State department said to have raised concerns over whether new online safety act infringes on freedom of expressionUS state department officials have challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression created by new online safety laws, the Guardian understands.A group of officials from the state department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) recently met with Ofcom in London. It is understood that they raised the issue of the new online safety act and how it risked infringing free speech. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say

Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crimeSome of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two eyewitnesses.The eyewitness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago 'Dubai is just an illusion – porta potty party case shows deeper, darker issues'

Ukrainian model Maria Kovalchuk was found with 'slave-like' injuries and a broken spine on a roadside in Dubai. Authorities say she fell, but one lawyer claims the case echoes concerns about the safety of the country

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3 d. ago Grand National 2025: Olympian sees 'unruly' horse banned from running at Aintree

James Manclark's horse Mr Incredible will not be allowed to race in the Grand National at Aintree this weekend after the British Horseracing Authority cited safety concerns

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3 d. ago Moment police snare killers who fled abroad after murdering DPD driver in broad daylight

Watch the moment Austrian police caught two men who fled the UK after the brutal murder of a DPD delivery driver.

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3 d. ago Lab workers balloted on strike action amid patient safety concerns

More than 40 staff in the microbiology department at Liverpool Clinical Laboratories (LCL) are expected to take part in the vote, according to Unite.

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4 d. ago Dumfries and Galloway Council officials had 'no alternative' but to close Kirkcudbright Bridge

Locals had just one hour’s notice that the crossing was to be shut to vehicles due to safety concerns about the condition of the structure.

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4 d. ago Historic tree to be cut down at the White House over safety concerns

President Donald Trump says a tree that’s nearly two centuries old will be removed from the White House grounds because it’s deteriorating

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4 d. ago Volunteer rescuers race to find survivors two days after Myanmar earthquake

Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killedRescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanmar, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.Red Cross officials said Myanmar was facing “a level of devastation that hasn’t been seen over a century in Asia”, after a 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the centre of the country on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Aftershocks frighten Myanmar survivors while death toll from Bangkok high

Rescuers search for bodies in worst-hit city of Mandalay while authorities in Thailand say dozens still trapped under rubble of tower blockResidents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings on Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar and at least 17 in neighbouring Thailand.The initial 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the central Myanmar city of Mandalay early on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Dozens of police officers batter down door of pacifist Quaker meeting house to arrest activists 'discussing climate change and Gaza'

More than 30 police officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held at the Westminster Meeting House at around 7.30pm on Thursday, March 27, according to Youth Demand.

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5 d. ago Mom and grandma charged after naked boy with bound hands and covered in bruises runs into California grocery store for help

The child and his sister have been placed with child protective services

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6 d. ago ‘I play video games almost every day’ – singer Amy Lee talks writing Devil May Cry’s killer track

With the new Evanescence song, Afterlife, revealed in anticipation of Netflix's new Devil May Cry series releasing next week, we spoke to lead singer Amy Lee to learn about how the unique collaboration came to be.

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