34 h. ago UN experts demand action to avert ‘annihilation’ of Palestinians in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

More than 20 experts call on countries to act or ‘witness the slaughter of innocents’‘Desperate people’: Gaza faces wave of looting, theft and violenceThe Dutch government, seen as one of Israel’s most loyal allies in the European Union, is calling for an urgent review of the EU Israel association agreement, the basis for the EU-Israeli free trade agreement, the Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp told the Guardian.Veldkamp described the Israeli ban on the supply of aid into Gaza as “catastrophic, truly dismal” and in clear breach of international humanitarian law.You cannot starve the people of the Gaza Strip. It is against international law. It’s morally wrong. It’s dangerous. I don’t think it’s in Israel’s own interest. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Horror in London after Tube station stabbing with attacker still on the loose

Horror in London after Tube station stabbing with attacker still on the loose  Daily Express

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8 d. ago Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review – the horror is still breathtaking

This dreadfully suspenseful four-parter about the killing of the innocent Brazilian man reveals the staggering number of blunders that led up to itIn Britain, we are not short of stories of police incompetence, malfeasance or deception, but the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes stands out because the manner of his death is so shocking. De Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian working as an electrician in London, boarded the tube at Stockwell station on the morning of 22 July 2005. Moments later, before the carriage doors could close, armed police sprinted on to the train and shot him seven times, point blank, in the head. De Menezes had been mistaken for a suicide bomber; he was entirely innocent of any crime.Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a four-part drama by Jeff Pope, portrays the horror of that moment with breathtaking clarity. The sheer power and speed of the killing are viscerally startling: De Menezes (Edison Alcaide) is tackled, pinned and shot before he can ...

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9 d. ago Sick children are being treated in cupboards in Wales' 'crowded, chaotic' hospitals, medics claim

Doctors and nurses have also spoken of elderly people being treated in toilets and people dying waiting for beds in shocking testimony as they demand action from the Welsh Government to end 'corridor care'

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1 week ago Even Tesla drivers seem to hate Elon Musk. Their honking protest warms the heart | Zoe Williams

The demonstration outside the Tesla showroom in west London was one of the smallest I have seen. But everyone who passed by was keen to show their supportPark Royal is the worst underground station in London and therefore the world. You come out of a stubby 1930s entrance hall that must have been cute once, right on to a dual carriageway. There’s a hotel on the other side of the road, and a tourist will most likely approach you, asking how she’s supposed to cross, and your answer will be just a sub-verbal collapse into nothingness. There is no obvious way to cross the road. This place was built for cars, and if you’re not a car, you’re stuck in a tube station now. There is actually an underpass, but that’s no excuse for dystopian urban planning.I was there helping the Stop Trump Coalition make a video before the US president’s state visit, whenever that might be, and they were there to see Tesla Takedown, which is not as antagonistic as it sounds, just a score of people, one dressed...

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1 week ago I went to a Tesla protest this weekend – here’s what I learned | Zoe Williams

The demonstration outside the Tesla showroom in west London was one of the smallest I have seen. But everyone who passed by was keen to show their supportPark Royal is the worst underground station in London and therefore the world. You come out of a stubby 1930s entrance hall that must have been cute once, right on to a dual carriageway. There’s a hotel on the other side of the road, and a tourist will most likely approach you, asking how she’s supposed to cross, and your answer will be just a sub-verbal collapse into nothingness. There is no obvious way to cross the road. This place was built for cars, and if you’re not a car, you’re stuck in a tube station now. There is actually an underpass, but that’s no excuse for dystopian urban planning.I was there helping the Stop Trump Coalition make a video before the US president’s state visit, whenever that might be, and they were there to see Tesla Takedown, which is not as antagonistic as it sounds, just a score of people, one dressed...

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1 week ago Driver ‘faces off’ with Just Stop Oil protesters on ‘last day of action’

Just Stop Oil announced the group would stop direct action after it had won its demand to end new oil and gas.

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1 week ago Judge tells knife thug 'you're lucky he didn't die' after sickening attack outside pub

George Bennett, 19, who has a history of violent offending, was warned he faced a life sentence after he knifed Reece Ashall in the back outside a Southport pub

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1 week ago Parents 'furious' with school's plan to ban skirts for girls

One mum said she would never have chosen the school for her daughter if she'd have known about the trousers-only policy

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2 w. ago Council offers £12m to revamp overcrowded and inaccessible 'tourist hotspot' Tube station

South Kensington is gateway to Natural History Museum, Science Museum and V&A but has no step-free access

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2 w. ago Police robbery blitz after pregnant woman is punched by phone snatcher at London Tube station

Officers say 1,245 robberies across the transport network - around three a day - is a reduction of nearly 20 per cent

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2 w. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Phone snatcher punches pregnant woman in stomach outside Tube station

Phone snatcher punches pregnant woman in stomach outside Tube station  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago Jean Charles de Menezes' mum makes extraordinary gesture to cops who killed innocent son

A new drama about innocent Jean Charles de Menezes coming to Disney+ is bringing some 'relief' to his family 20 years after he was shot by police at a London tube station

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3 w. ago Probe launched after passenger falls from platform and dies at Ickenham Tube station

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch have launched an investigation into the death

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3 w. ago Sick video shows pensioner brutally beaten for bumping into 'hooligan' passenger on Russian tube

The brutal attack was caught on CCTV showing a younger man repeatedly kicking, punching and dragging an older gentleman along the platform at the tube station in Moscow

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3 w. ago Tube journeys disrupted as East London station platform to be closed from May to August

Tube journeys disrupted as East London station platform to be closed from May to August  Yahoo News UK

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3 w. ago Busy Tube and Overground station latest to be hit by fire brigade ban on 'community book swap' scheme

Blackhorse Road loses free book exchange despite mayor’s pledge to intervene

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4 w. ago Knife thug stabbed friend to death after eyebrow shaved off in drunk prank

Matthew Higgins stabbed David Eaton twice in the heart.

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4 w. ago Angry parents demand crackdown as knife thugs ‘invade’ London enclave

Angry parents demand crackdown as knife thugs ‘invade’ London enclave  London Evening Standard

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