3 h. ago Girl, 3, beaten to death by other children after mum left them all to go gambling

Blessing Buckles suffered a brain bleed after she and seven other children - as young as 11 months - had been left home alone in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for several hours

Events

7 h. ago Aids devastation highlights America’s deterioration under Trump

Editorial: Trump and Musk laid waste to USAID in a spree of destruction. Now millions of people will lose their lives as a result, and America its hard-won reputation

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9 h. ago Louisiana mom learns her fate after daughter, 3, was beaten to death by two boys while she was at the CASINO

Dineshia Yates, 27, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and cruelty to juveniles after her daughter, Blessing Buckles, was killed by other children while unattended.

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10 h. ago ‘I can’t protect my unborn baby from HIV’: The stark reality of Trump’s aid cuts

From the pregnant woman who fears HIV will now be transmitted to her child, to the father of four lying in agony on a mattress with no access to drugs. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, chief international correspondent Bel Trew finds the US president’s brutal severing of aid – and abrupt halt in medication – is already tearing lives apart

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10 h. ago The Aids crisis was set to end by 2030 – now Trump’s cuts will mean 4 million more deaths

HIV infections and deaths from Aids are set to skyrocket in the next five years if US-funded programs are not reinstated, write Rachel Schraer, Alicja Hagopian, Bel Trew and Rebecca Thomas

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10 h. ago Louisiana girl, 3, was beaten to death by other CHILDREN mom asked to babysit while she went gambling

Dineshia Yates, 27, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and cruelty to juveniles after her daughter, Blessing Buckles, was killed by other children while unattended.

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11 h. ago Fact check: Prematurity is the biggest global killer of children under five

There are 12 different causes of death that killed more than 100,000 children under five in 2023.

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18 h. ago Five children injured including one fatally as Putin military hits Ukraine city with mass drone attack

More than 2,520 children have been killed or injured in Putin’s war in Ukraine, United Nations children’s organisation UNICEF has said, with the real death toll likely to be higher that this UN-verified figure

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41 h. ago Trump 'reduces amount he wants Ukraine to repay America from $300bn to $100bn' after latest round of negotiations over rare minerals deal

Trump was insistent in the early days of his administration that his opposite number in Kyiv would have to repay America for all of the aid it had supplied to support Ukraine

Economics

43 h. ago Trump’s tariff chaos has left America’s maple syrup makers in a sticky mess

Much of the equipment comes from Canada, the world's maple syrup powerhouse

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52 h. ago Harvard draws a line against Donald Trump while Democrats figure out Resistance 2.0

ANALYSIS: America’s oldest university stands up to Donald Trump while Democrats figure out how they can too, writes John Bowden

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58 h. ago Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts, aid official says

An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts

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60 h. ago Fox News host teaches Donald Trump how to say ‘Make America Great Again’ in Spanish

During a friendly interview that will air on Fox News’ Spanish-language channel, the president also doubled down on his proposal to send American citizens to El Salvador prisons for unspecified crimes.

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62 h. ago Donald Trump's trade war tariffs slammed by France for unleashing 'tsunami of destabilisation'

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou hit out at Trump’s America for going ‘over to the side of the aggressors’

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64 h. ago Mother axes her baby and two young children to death before taking her son, seven, to visit his grandparents because she 'did not have the strength to deal with him'

Mytko is under investigation for the multiple murders of her children 'with particular cruelty' in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk region on April 14.

Society

65 h. ago Mum hacks her three children to death in brutal axe attack as neighbours hear 'really loud' screams

Valentina Mytko, 29, hacked her daughter, four, and sons, eight and seven months, as another child of hers, aged 7, watched, according to the country’s Investigative Committee

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3 d. ago Trump memo outlines plan to slash US state department budget in half

Cuts would mean dramatic decreases in funding for humanitarian aid, global health and international groupsThe Trump administration is reportedly proposing to slash the state department budget by nearly half in a move that could drastically reduce US international spending and end its funding for Nato and the United Nations, according to an internal memorandum.The memo based on spending cuts devised by the White House office of management and budget envisions the total budget of the state department and USAID, the main foreign assistance body which has been largely dismantled by Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, being reduced to $28.4bn, a reduction of $27bn or 48% from what Congress approved for 2025. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Goldman Sachs’ chief hopeful Trump will listen to corporate America

David Solomon warned of risk of uncertainty, even after bank reported first-quarter results boosted by market volatility

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3 d. ago Plans to celebrate America's 250th anniversary were underway. Then came the federal funding cuts

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's administration will force them to scale back or eliminate celebrations next year commemorating the nation's 250th anniversary

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3 d. ago Kate Garraway offers rare update on personal life as she replaces Lorraine Kelly

Good Morning Britain star Kate Garraway has opened up about her children, Darcey and Billy, 15 months after the death of their father Derek Draper

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