28 h. ago Labour support for assisted dying law falls as more MPs switch position to oppose change over coercion fears and effect on vulnerable people

The Commons will next week debate changes to the plan to allow terminally ill people with less than six months to live to end their own lives, ahead of a crunch vote later this month.

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50 h. ago Fears more people could die after eight killed by poison in Greater Manchester

Police have traced 45 people in the UK and Europe who have died after taking the unnamed substance

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2 d. ago Several feared dead in stampede during IPL title celebrations

Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in southern India

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7 d. ago Ricky Gervais carries out his own DIY operations because of one crippling fear

TV star and comedy legend Ricky Gervais may be confident performing in front of thousands of people, but he has a crippling fear of going to the doctors

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8 d. ago ‘A cynical ploy to hold power’: how the US right has exploited racial division

In the documentary White with Fear, an insidious long-running campaign to villainize people of color in the US is laid bareIn the year 1968, a group of housewives in Dearborn, Michigan, then a nearly all-white suburb of Detroit, gathered for a workshop on how to shoot a gun. The women at the pistol range, mostly late-middle age and grandmotherly, were reacting to rhetoric from Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign, which fixated on a so-called crime wave. They were scared, defensive, willing to pick up a gun as a guard against what Nixon called “cities enveloped in smoke and flame”.The neighboring city of Detroit was 40% Black, and the “crime” supposedly overtaking US cities meant, in this context, Black people, and white suburbia’s racist fear of them. Nixon knew this, though he didn’t say it outright – “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the Blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to,” he once said, as quoted in the op...

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8 d. ago People fear plans to transform outdated sports centre could be 'kicked into the long grass'

Vale of Glamorgan Council expressed an interest in redeveloping the sports facilities in Barry, but a number of reasons led them to re-think their plan

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9 d. ago Doctors fear ‘devastating consequences’ for pregnant people after RFK Jr order on Covid

The US health secretary decided to remove booster shots from the recommended immunization scheduleAdvocates for pregnant people said they are alarmed by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s unprecedented and unilateral decision to remove Covid-19 booster shots from the recommended immunization schedule.A vaccine’s inclusion on the schedule is important for patient access, because many private health insurance plans determine which vaccines to cover based on the schedule. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Almost half fear unexpected £100 bill 'would leave them struggling to pay rent or mortgage'

The Salvation Army’s Captain John Clifton said: 'When nearly half of people are so financially fragile that they are living in fear of a £100 bill, something has gone very wrong'

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1 week ago Naval court charges 17 Greek coastguards over deadliest migrant shipwreck in Mediterranean for a decade

Up to 650 people are feared to have drowned when an overcrowded fishing vessel sank off the Greek coast in 2023

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1 week ago I was at the Liverpool trophy parade and saw the fear on peoples' faces

WalesOnline journalist Jo Ridout attended the Liverpool trophy parade and says the atmosphere was electric - before horror struck

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1 week ago Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education | Jan

Attacks on the university make clear that the administration will wield its power against anyone who incurs its displeasureIn record time, a court has at least temporarily put a stop to the Trump administration’s latest attack on Harvard University, part of a larger retaliation spree that began in April.On Thursday, Kristi Noem had revoked Harvard’s certification to host international students, causing fear and existential uncertainty for thousands of young people and their families. The swift restraining order comes as a relief. But it is no cause for complacency.Jan-Werner Müller is a Guardian US columnist and a professor of politics at Princeton University Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tourists fear sinking European holiday destination will end up 'like Atlantis'

Europe is a popular tourist destination for many people around the globe, but one common travel destination is sinking, and people fear it will 'end up like Atlantis'

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2 w. ago Popular snack sold in Tesco and Asda recalled over fears it could make people sick

If you've purchased this product and you have a intolerance to wheat, you should return the product for a full refund

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2 w. ago NSW floods: second person dead and ‘grave fears’ for two still missing as crisis worsens

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say intense rainfall has spread north bringing life-threatening riskNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA second person has died in flood waters on the New South Wales mid-north coast and authorities hold grave fears for two people still missing.NSW police said the body of a man, likely in his 30s and who was missing since Wednesday night, was found near Rosewood on Thursday morningSign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 w. ago NSW floods: one dead and ‘grave fears’ held for three missing people as crisis worsens

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say ‘heavy, intense rainfall’ has spread north bringing life-threatening riskNSW floods live updates: latest flooding newsNSW floods map: record-breaking rain in charts and mapsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne man has died and authorities hold grave fears for another three people reported missing in unprecedented flooding on the New South Wales mid-north coast.The premier, Chris Minns, said the region had experienced “a very difficult 48 hours” with more to come as communities braced for 100mm of additional rainfall over the next 24 hours and up to 300mm in some isolated areas. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘First aid fear’ is costing hundreds of lives a year as people afraid to act, charity warns

Many are hesitant to provide assistance during emergencies, new research shows

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2 w. ago Warning for Brits with blackbirds in their garden as deadly disease spreads rapidly

A mosquito-borne virus that has recently emerged in the UK has fueled fears for the nation's blackbirds, with scientists urging people to help monitor the situation

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3 w. ago So ends the Keirbot’s immigration week: literally everyone hates it. Possibly even him | Marina Hyde

Several strongly worded X posts, a bungled Albanian scheme and the ghost of Enoch Powell. Once again, he’s smashed itOn Friday morning, Keir Starmer was posting without compromise. “If you’re one of the smugglers putting people in small boats across the channel,” ran the prime minister’s communique on X, “we’re coming after you.” Imagine the fear that would have struck into the hearts of all those people smugglers who follow his account.Alternatively, you could consider the above as a performance for the benefit of people other than those to whom it appears to be addressed – which would certainly make it of a piece with Starmer’s entire shtick for “immigration week”. Because that really has been quite a performance – and one the critics are already calling unconvincing, excruciating and wooden. On several occasions the prime minister was outperformed by his lectern.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trans people fearing arrest due to ‘confusion’ around Supreme Court ruling, say campaigners

Misinformation about the practical consequences of the ruling has prompted confusion within the community

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3 w. ago The good news from Kyiv: with or without a ceasefire, Ukraine has a newfound confidence | Nathalie Tocci

Its European allies must commit to the long-haul – but they, as much as Zelenskyy, will reap the rewardsMy train rolled into Kyiv last week as Russian ballistic missiles and drones hit the city, killing a mother and her son. I had last been in Ukraine just over a year earlier. Back then, in April 2024, the mood was dark. Frustrated by delays in western military aid, people had a palpable fear of escalating Russian territorial gains, perhaps even a collapse of Ukraine’s frontline. Today, the international context is even more fraught. The Biden administration was frustratingly slow and scared, but few doubted that the US wanted to prevent Russia from prevailing. The same cannot be said of Donald Trump, whose ideological affinity with Vladimir Putin has thrown Europe, starting with Ukraine, off balance.But despite the Trump administration’s betrayals, I found the mood in Kyiv more confident than a year previously. After more than three years of war, Ukrainians are tired, but they are ...

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