1 hour ago Police chiefs issue THIRD dispersal order in Greater Manchester this weekend

Officers say this one is to prevent fireworks being abused

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1 hour ago Move over Halloween, Mariah is back! Queen of Christmas officially launches holiday season with iconic video as she continues annual tradition

The famous pop star, 56, who is also affectionately known as the 'Queen Of Christmas ', continued her annual tradition with the new clip.

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2 h. ago Swinney holds talks on cutting whisky tariffs with US ambassador

The First Minister will also attend a whisky event and the rugby at Murrayfield with Warren Stephens.

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2 h. ago US public health officials vigilant as newer mpox variant detected

Risk to general public is low but cases in California suggest virus is spreading undetected in some communitiesA newer variant of mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, is now spreading through some communities in the US and Europe.The risk to the general public is low, but community transmission in new places signals greater challenges for public health to detect cases and stop the spread. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘You’re either poor or rich’: the Argentinians struggling under Milei’s chainsaw austerity

Despite falling inflation, a majority are failing to make ends meet as wages and purchasing power have nosedivedFrancisco Jiménez spends at least eight hours a day, seven days a week, riding through the streets of Buenos Aires as a delivery app rider, yet he still struggles to make ends meet.Next month, the 32-year-old will have to leave his rented house on the outskirts of Argentina’s capital and move with his wife and three children into his mother-in-law’s flat because he can no longer afford the rent. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago England vs Australia referee was stabbed as match turned violent before culprit escaped

Rugby official Nika Amashukeli was put through a frightening ordeal due to the attack with the offender absconding, never to be found

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2 h. ago When to head out this weekend as Greater Manchester to be hit by 'band of heavy rain'

The Met Office there will continue to be outbreaks of heavy rain for much of the region today

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2 h. ago All TfL lines that will be shut this weekend during month of London Underground chaos

Transport for London (TfL) has announced a number of closures and service changes across the network in November, including the London Underground, London Overground and Elizabeth line

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3 h. ago Police watchdog contacts Met over claim Andrew asked officer to dig up information on Virginia Giuffre

The Met confirmed last month that it was ‘actively looking into’ the claim

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3 h. ago Syrian asylum seeker followed woman out of nightclub and strangled and sexually assaulted her in 'horrible attack'

The victim was walking home from a night out in the early hours of the morning on May 12 last year when she was attacked by Fawaz Alsamaou.

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3 h. ago More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickersMore than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK and while in the care of the authorities are still missing, according to data obtained by the Guardian.Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs of lorries and are thought to have been taken by traffickers. Kent is often the place where they arrive. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Even when unthinkable things were happening to me, my first instinct was to work. Am I addicted?

It was only years later, when I heard the word workaholic being used seriously for the first time, that I wondered whether I had a problemHave you ever heard a word that jolts you to attention? That word, for me, was “workaholism” – and when I heard it through my headphones earlier this year, listening to an audiobook on the tube, I felt a pang of something between recognition and panic. It transported me back to the worst time in my life.In May 2016, when I was nearly five months pregnant, I travelled to rural Norway to make a short documentary for the Guardian. The Norwegian government was making asylum seekers – from mostly Muslim countries – take cultural education classes about women’s rights. I’d been invited to a class in Moi, a town by a lake framed with pine trees, 100km south of Stavanger. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Learners desperate for driving tests 'taken advantage' of by bots and scammers

A total of 38 MPs signed a letter to the Local Transport Minister raising concerns that scammers are buying up tests on DVSA’s official portal so they can be sold for profit

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4 h. ago UK snow forecast: Met Office gives verdict for November after temperatures drop

Met Office meteorologists are looking ahead as we move into November

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4 h. ago Moment Question Time filming halted and audience burst into applause as Andrew news breaks

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being stripped of his royal titles brought BBC’s Question Time to a halt on Thursday (30 October), as host Fiona Bruce stopped the show mid-recording in order to announce the news.

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4 h. ago Confirmed Chelsea line up vs London City Lionesses | News | Official Site

Confirmed Chelsea line up vs London City Lionesses | News | Official Site  Chelsea Football Club

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4 h. ago Cooper announces £5m in aid for Sudan amid ‘horrifying’ scenes in El Fasher

The Foreign Secretary was speaking at a conference in Bahrain on Saturday.

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5 h. ago Andrew to be 'chucked under bus' as senior staff and officials 'speak out'

Royal author Andrew Lownie has suggested that more people are coming forward with claims against Prince Andrew, because the momentum is now firmly against him

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5 h. ago Police issue TWO dispersal orders across Manchester over anti

Officers will be able to order people to leave

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5 h. ago Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid

Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killedThousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighbourhoods into “war zones”.At least 121 people, including four police officers, were killed on Tuesday during a police assault on the Complexo da Penha and the Complexo do Alemão, two large tapestries of favelas in north Rio. The operation made global headlines when scores of mutilated bodies were dumped at the entrance to one of those favelas. Continue reading...

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