8 d. ago Bird flu warning as milk trend in UK could be 'transmission route' for virus

A type of milk consumed in the UK could be a "tenable transmission route" for bird flu, health officials warn

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9 d. ago Local census trans numbers should not be used, says official statistics body

The data was downgraded last year amid concern some respondents may not have understood the question properly due to language barriers.

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2 w. ago Stagecoach announced as official transport provider of Scottish Grand National

A new partnership between Stagecoach and Ayr Racecourse will see a transport and entry ticket launched for the Scottish Grand National.

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2 w. ago Atletico Madrid provide official response to Julian Alvarez to Liverpool transfer rumours

Atletico Madrid have dismissed claims that Liverpool have already made an approach to sign former Manchester City forward Julian Alvarez in the upcoming transfer window

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2 w. ago Mahmoud Khalil feared the U.S. would immediately deport him after his arrest, new court filings show

Although one ICE official said Khalil had been transferred from a New Jersey facility due to bedbugs, Khalil said in his hours-long detention there, he heard no mention of bedbugs

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3 w. ago The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtainIn, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I was about to go to Moscow. “A Russian friend of mine would dearly like the latest volume of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. I don’t suppose you’d smuggle it in for him?” I did, of course, disguising it rather feebly by wrapping it in the dust jacket of the most boring book I owned: Lebanon, A Country in Transition. A customs official at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport flicked through it briefly, but even though the text was in Russian he didn’t spot what it was about. Two nights later, near the entrance to Gorky Park, I handed over the book to a shifty character who seemed to be a supplier of forbidden goods to the dissident community. He gave me a small 18th-century icon in exchange for it.It’s only now, all these years later, that I’ve realised I was almost certainly a rather n...

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3 w. ago US arrests more immigrants in February 2025 than any month in last seven years

Guardian data analysis shows administration transformed immigration enforcement in only a few weeksUS immigration enforcement officials arrested more people in the first 22 days of February 2025 than in any month over the last seven years, according to a Guardian review of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.The Guardian review, which analyzed DHS data from the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency, in addition to interviews with immigration lawyers, advocates and former Ice officials, show how the administration has transformed immigration enforcement in the US within just a few weeks. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Texas lawmakers consider bill that would send trans people to jail for up to two years

Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a felony for trans people to identify as their gender on official documents, punishable by up to two years in jail.

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4 w. ago Trains disrupted as World War 2 bomb discovered on tracks to Paris station

The discovery of a Second World War bomb has disrupted morning traffic to and from Paris’s busy Gare du Nord train station, transport officials have said.

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last month It’s official: London’s public transport is now the most expensive in the world

It’s official: London’s public transport is now the most expensive in the world  Time Out London

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