24 m. ago Schoolgirl who vanished in River Thames named as recovery mission launched

Kailyah Coa disappeared in the London river on Monday afternoon sparking a huge search from emergency services.

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55 m. ago Girl missing in River Thames in east London named as Kaliyah Coa

Girl missing in River Thames in east London named as Kaliyah Coa  The Guardian

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77 m. ago Youth Demand say they will press on with 'disruptive' action in London after pro

It came days after members of the group were arrested at a Quaker meeting

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82 m. ago Heavy criticism of Met Police at rally after arrests of Youth Demand supporters

Around 100 people gathered outside the University of London’s Senate House Library in central London on Tuesday evening.

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83 m. ago Shirley Ballas' stalker Kyle Shaw believed Strictly star was his aunt and blamed her for dad's death

Kyle Shaw stalked the BBC star for more than six years, believing she was his biological aunt and was partly responsible for his brother's suicide, the court heard

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89 m. ago Kaliyah Coa: Girl, 11, missing in River Thames named by police

Met Police has launched a recovery mission along the Thames to locate Kaliyah, with officers conducting a thorough search of the area

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96 m. ago British mother and her daughters, eight and five, are killed in New York car crash after Audi 'driven by glam wigmaker' ploughed into family as they walked along busy street 

Tributes have been paid to Natasha Saada, 34, who grew up in Mill Hill, north London, and her two young daughters, who were killed after a car smashed into the family in New York on Saturday.

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1 hour ago US officials challenge Ofcom’s risk to free speech caused by online safety laws

Exclusive: State department said to have raised concerns over whether new online safety act infringes on freedom of expressionUS state department officials have challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression created by new online safety laws, the Guardian understands.A group of officials from the state department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) recently met with Ofcom in London. It is understood that they raised the issue of the new online safety act and how it risked infringing free speech. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago US officials challenge Ofcom over risk to free speech caused by online safety laws

Exclusive: State department said to have raised concerns over whether new act infringes on freedom of expressionUS state department officials have challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression created by new online safety laws, the Guardian understands.A group of officials from the state department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) recently met Ofcom in London. It is understood that they raised the issue of the new online safety act and how it risked infringing free speech. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Viola Davis Favors Utilitarian Inspiration in Sleeveless Textural Ensemble for ‘G20’ Photo Call in London

Viola Davis Favors Utilitarian Inspiration in Sleeveless Textural Ensemble for ‘G20’ Photo Call in London  WWD

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3 h. ago TfL accused of not 'properly informing' Streatham residents about changes to A23 road

Locals in south London neighbourhood ‘fed up with being left out of decisions that directly impact their daily lives’, Lib Dems claim

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3 h. ago London protests LIVE: Youth Demand accuse Government of 'trying to shut us down' at pro

The ‘Shut It Down For Palestine’ rally has begun in Bloomsbury

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3 h. ago Policeman who became hero of the 1980 Iranian embassy siege in London, but shunned the limelight, dies at the age of 85

PC Trevor Lock became the de facto leader of the 26 hostages and went on to rugby tackle the lead gunman in a room full of gas as the SAS stormed the building.

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3 h. ago New rail links needed if Heathrow Airport expands, London Assembly warned

Solutions include extending the Elizabeth line to Staines - dubbed an ‘absolute game-changer’ for access to the airport from Surrey and south-west London

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3 h. ago Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say

Unofficial Trump adviser’s cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions dependUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.On Friday, Congress was notified that almost all of USAID’s own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a spectacle of struggle and control | Editorial

The US president wields tariffs not as a policy tool but as an instrument of pressure, rewarding loyalty and punishing defiance – even among alliesDonald Trump has probably not read much Michel Foucault. But he appears to embody the French philosopher’s claim that “politics is the continuation of war by other means”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his fondness for tariffs. He presents taxing foreign imports as a way to rebuild the American economy in favour of blue-collar workers left behind by free trade and globalisation. Yet he plainly thinks that politics is not about truth or justice. It is about leverage and supremacy.Britain is learning first-hand that Mr Trump, with his us-versus-them framing and taste for spectacle, is an accidental Foucauldian – using tariffs as tools of loyalty and dominance, even against allies. If Mr Trump follows through on his threat to impose a 20% tariff on all imports, UK growth will suffer. The effect depends on the response....

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4 h. ago Jack London State Historic Park to host fourth annual ‘Call of the Wild Day’

Jack London State Historic Park to host fourth annual ‘Call of the Wild Day’  Sonoma Index-Tribune

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4 h. ago Alphawave Stock Soars in London as Qualcomm Reportedly Mulls Takeover Offer

Alphawave Stock Soars in London as Qualcomm Reportedly Mulls Takeover Offer  Yahoo Finance

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4 h. ago Rail renationalisation: Train firms 'will be told to cut cancellations to 2%' to tackle dire performance

Great British Railways to crack down on worst cancellation rate in a decade

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4 h. ago Housing minister confronted over safety of new homes in Grenfell grilling

Housing minister Alex Norris, who was grilled on the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, said safety is 'in contest with' Labour's target to build more homes

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