61 m. ago Zelenskyy heads for Trump White House meeting as Russia names new US ambassador – Europe live

Appointment of Alexander Darchiev is latest sign of thaw in US-Russian relationsin AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

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92 m. ago Details emerge of exactly why Daniel Dubois pulled out of Joseph Parker fight

The Brit will be hoping to return to the ring soon after he was forced to pull out of his heavyweight title defence against Parker last weekend

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1 hour ago Family of US marine veteran killed in Ukraine tells funeral in Kyiv he died fighting for freedom

Ethan Hertweck, a 21-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran who was killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, has been honored with a funeral service in Kyiv attended by family and friends

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1 hour ago Gene Hackman tribute blunder as BBC host forced to apologise for mistake

BBC Breakfast host Charlie Stayt was forced to issue an apology after a live blunder occurred as he was discussing the tragic death of Hollywood star Gene Hackman

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2 h. ago Family forced to leave home after sex beast raped mum while she slept

"I loved living in that house. It was a quiet peaceful estate and my daughter and I had built our lives in that house."

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2 h. ago Zelenskyy in US for Trump meeting as Macron says he has ‘very little hope’ EU can avoid tariffs – Europe live

Macron blamed US-EU row on ‘misunderstandings’ on the part of the US administrationin AthensThe peaceful scenes in central Athens have now been eclipsed by the eruption of full scale clashes between rock-throwing youths and riot police. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Man who forced woman to miscarry by spiking her drink with abortion drugs that robbed her of chance to become a mother has jail sentence increased

Stuart Worby, 40, secretly put one of the crushed up pills into the drink and inserted the second as he sexually assaulted the blindfolded woman under the guise of 'kinky sex on August 3, 2022.

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2 h. ago Trump reportedly wants to shrink size and focus of state department; climate agency braces for more cuts – live

President wants radical overhaul of state department, including fewer diplomats and embassies, Politico reports; Noaa expects more cuts after hundreds firedUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago How Trump made Farage look a fool and Starmer a prime minister

The Reform UK leader – who considers himself Britain’s ‘Trump whisperer’ – will have been left crestfallen after hearing the man in the Oval Office describe the prime minister as ‘a very special person’, writes David Maddox

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2 h. ago Family forced to leave home where they'd 'built our lives' after mum was raped while asleep

Rugby club member Robert Smith raped woman who he knew was intoxicated after he'd earlier taken her home and placed her on her bed

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2 h. ago Monster Hunter Wilds hits staggering player count as Capcom responds to PC issues

Monster Hunter Wilds is one of our favourite games of the year, and it's hit a huge number of players on Steam already — but Capcom has been forced to respond to performance issues

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2 h. ago BBC Breakfast reporter forced to apologise over Gene Hackman blunder: 'Let's get that straightened out'

The actor, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their New Mexico home along with their dog on Wednesday

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3 h. ago Foreign aid minister quits over cuts to her budget in fresh blow for Starmer

Anneliese Dodds warns it will be impossible to continue supporting Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan

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3 h. ago Ruling blocks Trump’s mass firings at agencies; RFK Jr fails to address measles outbreak – US politics live

Ruling called victory for Americans ‘illegally fired from their jobs’, while anonymous official tells NBC Kennedy has done nothing about outbreakUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Dodds quits as international development minister over aid cut to fund defence

Anneliese Dodds warned that the move would affect the UK’s support for Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine.

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3 h. ago Force defends decision to close and sell off several town police stations

'The decision has been made with the best interests of taxpayers and the community in mind,' the chief constable insists

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3 h. ago Anneliese Dodds quits after Starmer slashes foreign aid budget

US president brushes aside request by prime minister over Ukraine security guarantees

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4 h. ago London restaurants opening in March, from Tatar Bunar to Luna Omakase

Pasta in Soho, Ukrainian in Shoreditch and sushi in the City: Ben McCormack rounds up March's hottest restaurant launches

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4 h. ago Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget

Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and UkraineAnneliese Dodds: soft left intellectual pushed to resign over Starmer’s slide rightUK politics live – latest updatesAnneliese Dodds, the international development minister, has quit her post over Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the international aid budget by almost half to pay for a generational increase in defence spending.The senior Labour MP, who attended cabinet, warned that the UK pulling back from development would bolster Russia, which has already been aggressively increasing its presence worldwide, as well as encouraging China’s attempts to rewrite global rules. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Second US company recalls pet food as bird flu spreads to cats through tainted meat

Cats in two states tested positive after eating raw food from Wild Coast Raw, which issued voluntary recallAs the bird flu outbreak continues gaining force in the US, a second company selling raw pet food issued a voluntary recall after cats from two different households in Oregon contracted H5N1 from the tainted meat earlier this month.Two more cats in different households in Washington state have tested positive for bird flu after eating the same brand of raw pet food nearly two weeks after the recall, officials announced on Wednesday. One cat was euthanized, while the other remains under veterinary care. Continue reading...

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