6 h. ago Horror as social media influencer Valeria Márquez shot dead during TikTok livestream

Valeria Márquez's death is being investigated as a femicide – the killing of a woman or girl for reasons of gender – as the community in Zapopan, Mexico, mourns her passing

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24 h. ago Dog attack Livingston: Toddler, 3, bitten by 'bull breed' dog outside shop as police hunt owner

Police are hunting for the owner of the dog, who was seen heading towards Pumpherston & Uphall Station Community Primary School.

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37 h. ago US and Saudi Arabia sign $142bn arms deal as Trump to meet Syrian leader

White House touts deal made on first stop of US president’s four-day diplomatic tour to Gulf statesUS politics live – latest updatesThe United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a $142bn arms deal touted by the White House as the “largest defence sales agreement in history” in the first stop of Donald Trump’s four-day diplomatic tour to the Gulf states aimed at securing big deals and spotlighting the benefits of Trump’s transactional foreign policy.During the trip, the White House also confirmed that Trump would meet with Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former rebel commander whose forces helped overthrow Bashar al-Assad in 2024. The informal meeting will be the first face-to-face meeting between a US president and a Syrian leader since 2000, when Bill Clinton met with the late leader Hafez al-Assad in Geneva. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Boy, 5, 'mauled by dog on train attack' as police trace man seen in CCTV

Northumbria Police are appealing for information after a five-year-old boy was attacked by a dog on a train between Benton and Palmersville stations on the weekend

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49 h. ago UK police arrest man for arson after fire at PM Starmer's house

UK police arrest man for arson after fire at PM Starmer's house  Reuters

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49 h. ago Police issue major update after Keir Starmer's house torched

As a precaution and due to the property having previous connections with a high-profile public figure, officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command are leading the investigation into this fire.

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56 h. ago UK police investigate overnight fire at prime minister’s house in London

UK police investigate overnight fire at prime minister’s house in London  AP News

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57 h. ago Police say New Jersey house fire that killed two was not accidental

The Gloucester County prosecutor’s office said the details of the explosion are ‘suspicious’ but did not elaborate further

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61 h. ago UK police investigate overnight fire at Prime Minister Keir Starmer's house in London

UK police investigate overnight fire at Prime Minister Keir Starmer's house in London  AJC.com

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62 h. ago Counterterrorism police probe fire at Keir Starmer’s London house

Officers alerted to blaze at prime minister’s property in Kentish Town early on Monday morning

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63 h. ago Counterterrorism police probe fire at Starmer’s London house

Officers were called to blaze in Kentish Town early on Monday morning

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64 h. ago UK police investigate overnight fire at Prime Minister Starmer's house

British police are investigating an overnight fire that damaged door of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s house in north London

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64 h. ago Keir Starmer house fire: Police investigate links to two other fires

Keir Starmer house fire: Police investigate links to two other fires  BBC

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64 h. ago Fire at Sir Keir Starmer's house in north London investigated by police

Fire at Sir Keir Starmer's house in north London investigated by police  Sky News

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3 d. ago Piecemeal policies for Scotland's housing crisis don't cut it

Professor Duncan Maclennan writes on what needs to be done to combat Scotland’s housing crisis

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4 d. ago Revealed: Iranian man arrested over 'foiled terror plot on Israeli embassy' is asylum seeker who was living in taxpayer

Footage on social media showed Special Forces and armed police dragging the semi-naked 40-year-old from the house in Rochdale on May 3.

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4 d. ago Man, in his 70s, dead after two house fires in Bilston as police investigate

West Midlands Fire Service was called to the two fires on neighbouring roads near Wolverhampton in the early hours of Saturday morning

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5 d. ago Why a police raid of a meeting at a London Quaker house is causing outrage

Why a police raid of a meeting at a London Quaker house is causing outrage  The Guardian

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5 d. ago Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?

When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrestsWhen six young women gathered in central London to discuss the climate crisis and the war in Gaza, the setting could not have been more appropriate. The building in which they sat was a Quaker meeting house, the home of a movement whose centuries-long history is rooted in protest and a commitment to social justice. On the table were cups of jasmine tea, ginger biscuits and a selection of vegan cheese straws.But the events that brought this apparently convivial gathering to an abrupt end have sparked protests of a different kind and raised questions about how justice is administered by the UK’s largest and most embattled police force. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Man, 87, who died after being robbed ‘would do anything for anyone’

Police said the man died on Thursday in Manor House, north London, and his family have been informed.

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