74 m. ago Sean Duffy warns ‘substantial’ number of Americans will miss Thanksgiving with their family due to shutdown

Transportation chief says dozens of ‘sick-outs’ reported Saturday at major airports

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85 m. ago Three dead in holiday hotspot popular with Brits after enormous waves batter the island

A Dutch tourist died and nine people were rushed to hospital after being swept into the sea in the popular northern city resort of Puerto de la Cruz.

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1 hour ago The nut secret: 14 easy, delicious ways to eat more of these life

A handful of nuts a day can help manage obesity and reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and some kinds of cancer. Yet most of us don’t get enough. Here’s a no-fuss guide to getting your 30g a dayHow often do you eat nuts? The planetary health diet, introduced in 2019 and updated last month, recommends that everyone eat a portion every day (unless you have an allergy). Alongside eating more fruit, vegetables, whole grains and legumes, and fewer animal products and sugary foods, this could help prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, as well as slash food-related greenhouse gas emissions.Yet according to Prof Sarah Berry, the chief scientist at Zoe, many don’t eat any nuts at all. In the UK, the average consumption is 6g a day. Romanian researchers found higher levels of nut consumption in Canada, some African countries and some regions of Europe and the Middle East, and lower levels in South America. But overall, they said: “Consumers may not have ...

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2 h. ago Nation's security 'not just the military's responsibility' and UK 'must be defended'

As country marked Remembrance Day on Sunday Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, the Chief of Defence Staff, said it was important for society to “understand the stakes” of maintaining our safety

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2 h. ago Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell lands taxpayers with £134k expenses bill for second home

Details of the bill come just days after the Chief Constable asked for an extra £140 million from the Scottish government.

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3 h. ago UK military to help Belgium combat suspected Russian drone flights

New chief of Britain’s armed forces announces specialists and equipment are on the way after Belgian counterpart asked for help

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3 h. ago National security is more than just military might, UK Defence chief warns as Britain sends drones to Belgium over 'Russian' drone attacks

Sir Richard Knighton said security also requires the 'support of a society that understands' what is at stake in an increasingly 'dangerous world'.

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3 h. ago Armed forces chief ‘confident’ they are safe places for women to serve

His comments came after soldier Jaysley Beck, 19, took her own life in her barracks after she was sexually assaulted by a sergeant.

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4 h. ago UK probes whether buses made in China can be turned off from afar

Investigation comes after Norway found Yutong vehicles could be ‘stopped or rendered inoperable’ by Chinese company

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5 h. ago Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports

Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with droughtWater levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%, according to reports, as the country suffers from severe water shortages.“The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than 3%,” Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s second largest city by population, told the ISNA news agency. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago ‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’ The founder of Peta on gruesome stunts and her bloody fight for animal rights

After 45 years as chief fake blood thrower, Ingrid Newkirk is still waging war on everything from leather to cashmere. Is she still relevant?Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) was flying from Minneapolis in the US to the company HQ in Norfolk, Virginia when her plane encountered strong wind shear. The pilot attempted an emergency landing, but failed; back up they went.On the third attempt, with “a teaspoon of fuel” in the tank, he finally got the plane down safely. During those moments, Newkirk, now 76, scribbled a will on a napkin. She has tweaked it over the years, but it still reads like a horror movie prop list: her liver is to be sent to France to be made into foie gras, her skin to Hermès to create a handbag and her lips to whichever US president is in power, to shame them for granting a “patronising” pardon to a turkey each Thanksgiving. As wills...

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6 h. ago British troops sent to help defend Belgium's skies against suspected Russian drones

Sir Richard Knighton, the new chief of the UK's armed forces, revealed the deployment as he described Russia as 'the most pressing threat right now' to Europe.

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7 h. ago Thousands gather at the Cenotaph for Remembrance Sunday as Britain to fall silent in tribute to our war heroes

THOUSANDS have lined the streets around the Cenotaph as the nation prepares to pay tribute to our fallen war heroes. Veterans have also gathered in Whitehall for Remembrance Sunday to remember the 886,000 British personnel who died in the First World War. The King - who is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and...

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8 h. ago Barcelona chief makes transfer claim amid Marcus Rashford dilemma

Barcelona have the option to sign Marcus Rashford on a permanent basis at the end of this season for £26million, with the Manchester United star currently on a season-long loan

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13 h. ago Revealed: Electric buses serving Britain's towns and villages could be remotely taken over and deactivated by their Chinese manufacturers

Yutong vehicles have been purchased by transport networks across the country since 2018, with the overall number operating in Britain believed to stand at more than 2,500.

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14 h. ago Armed forces head says UK security ‘not responsibility of military alone’

Sir Richard Knighton took over as Chief of the Defence Staff in September.

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15 h. ago After British ICC chief issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu, mysterious claims emerged that he sexually abused a female colleague... Is he a vile sexual predator? Or target of a Mossad dark

Until last year, Karim Khan (pictured) was little known outside a charmed circle of international lawyers and globe-trotting diplomats.

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17 h. ago Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago

Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protesterA border patrol chief claimed on Saturday that his agents came under fire in Chicago while conducting immigration enforcement operations, just two days after a federal judge said that he had lied to her about having been struck by a rock during a previous confrontation with protesters in the city.Gregory Bovino, the border patrol chief and frequent Fox News guest who has become the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, said on social media that his agents had been “shot at”, and subjected to “vehicular assaults, physical assaults, impeding, violent mobs, vehicular blockades”, for a number of hours. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago University calls Charles Dickens a racist for damning 1851 essay criticising China

The University of Manchester is warning students that an 1851 essay co-authored by Charles Dickens 'expresses racist views, particularly against Chinese people.'

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17 h. ago Army reservist retraces family’s footsteps to Dutch battlefield

Colour Sergeant James Gould has visited the site where his grandfather fought to liberate Europe from the Nazis

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