29 h. ago London climate week receives boost as Trump policies weigh on New York event

London climate week receives boost as Trump policies weigh on New York event  Yahoo News UK

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35 h. ago Birmingham bus brawl sees 'person stabbed' and passengers 'fight with weapons'

West Midlands Police responded to a 'stabbing on a bus in Northfield' this week, following reports of a mass brawl, allegedly with weapons, on a National Express vehicle

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37 h. ago Teenager forced to expose herself in Met Police strip search says she may ‘never feel normal again’

Two Metropolitan Police officers have been sacked for gross misconduct following a four-week tribunal examining the strip-search in a Hackney school in 2020

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44 h. ago British man 'caught accepting cocaine in police sting' faces 12 years in Bali jail

Elliot James Shaw, 50, is the fourth Brit to come before a Bali court on cocaine trafficking charges in recent weeks. Shaw was arrested after a police sting operation at a hotel near a Bali beach

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50 h. ago NFL suspends Justin Tucker for first 10 weeks of the season for violating personal conduct policy

The NFL has suspended former Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker for the first 10 weeks next season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy

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53 h. ago New Olympics chief Kirsty Coventry vows IOC will ‘ensure fairness’ for female athletes

Task force of scientists and federations to revise policyTrans and DSD athletes expected to be banned from female categoryKirsty Coventry has said there is now “overwhelming support” among International Olympic Committee members to protect the female category in a significant shift in its gender eligibility policy.Coventry, who was chairing her first meetings as the IOC’s new president, said that a taskforce of scientists and international federations would be set up within weeks to come up with a new policy. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago IOC’s Kirsty Coventry announces ‘scientific approach’ to protect ‘female category’

Task force of scientists and federations to revise policyTrans and DSD athletes expected to be banned from female categoryKirsty Coventry has said there is now “overwhelming support” among International Olympic Committee members to protect the female category in a significant shift in its gender eligibility policy.Coventry, who was chairing her first meetings as the IOC’s new president, said that a taskforce of scientists and international federations would be set up within weeks to come up with a new policy. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Missing Newport woman has not been seen for a week as police issue appeal

Concerns for the welfare of Sade Hughes are growing

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4 d. ago Moment escaped bears eat a WEEK's worth of honey after breaking free from Devon wildlife enclosure

Brown bears Mish and Lucy, both five years old, broke free from their enclosure at Wildwood Devon at Escot Park near Ottery St Mary yesterday afternoon.

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4 d. ago Bears ESCAPE from Devon wildlife park enclosure...and eat a week's worth of honey

Police were called to Wildwood Devon at Escot Park near Ottery St Mary after receiving reports that Mish and Lucy, both five years old, had escaped.

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4 d. ago Police called as bears escape from Devon wildlife park enclosure

Police were called to Wildwood Devon at Escot Park near Ottery St Mary after receiving reports that Mish and Lucy, both five years old, had escaped.

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4 d. ago Trump is not interested in listening to US experts on Iran and the Middle East

The US president is more willing to listen to Israel than his predecessors were and is also deeply suspicious of the CIAWhen Donald Trump ordered the US military to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend, the debate among intelligence officials, outside experts and policymakers over the status of Tehran’s nuclear program had largely been frozen in place for nearly 20 years.That prolonged debate has repeatedly placed the relatively dovish US intelligence community at odds with Israel and neoconservative Iran hawks ever since the height of the global war on terror. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Police officer 'is the reason' prime Madeleine McCann suspect could walk free in a matter of weeks... after cop 'paid sex offender's fine'

Investigators suspect Christian Brueckner, 48, played a part in young Madeleine vanishing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007.

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5 d. ago Trump and Netanyahu aim to remake the Middle East with bombs. Iran shows why that will always fail | Sina Toossi

The US has rashly followed Israel into a war that will not end Iran’s nuclear programme or topple its governmentSina Toossi is a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International PolicyThe joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran over the weekend – targeting nuclear facilities, infrastructure and symbolic state institutions – reflect the bankruptcy of a decades-long approach to Iran that has hinged on pressure, coercion and destabilisation. This latest gambit appears less a strategic gamechanger than a desperate bid to regime-change Iran and prop up a rickety regional status quo built around unchecked Israeli dominance.The timing of Israel’s initial surprise attack on 13 June was no coincidence. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – who has long sought to sabotage any prospect of US-Iran detente – appears to have steamrolled Donald Trump into the escalation he has always wanted. The result looks like a trap: Trump, once again, manoeuvred into a destabilising Middle East con...

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5 d. ago Billi Mucklow shows off her revenge body in a blue swimsuit and stylish holiday snaps

Billi Mucklow looked sensational in a blue swimsuit and stylish holiday snaps this weekend - after her ex Andy Carroll was reportedly questioned by police.

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7 d. ago Is the controversial suicide capsule coming to Britain? Australian right

Dr Philip Nitschke, the Australian right-to-die campaigner known as 'Dr Death' who is behind the Sarco euthanasia pod, said he will be 'enthusiastically' seeking to bring it the Britiain.

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9 d. ago Detectives close major Edinburgh road to reconstruct alleged hit and run

Police will close a busy stretch of Queensferry Road overnight this week as part of an investigation into the alleged hit-and-run that killed Ian Harrower.

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1 week ago Rapist jailed after victim gives evidence against him from 'beyond the grave'

Ryan Callaghan, 33, convicted by a jury after they hear his victim's account given to police weeks before she took her own life, traumatised by attack.

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1 week ago Deadly clashes over Morales candidacy deepen Bolivia crisis in election run

Six killed and hundreds injured in weeks of unrest, as supporters demand former president be allowed to runFatal clashes between police and supporters of former president Evo Morales have deepened Bolivia’s political and economic crisis, heightening tensions in the Andean country just two months before the presidential election.Six people have been killed and more than 300 injured in weeks of unrest. The dead include four police officers, one of whom was reportedly killed by dynamite which had been strapped to his body. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ice reportedly shifting away from immigration raids on farms and hotels

Workplace raids will be stopped after Trump conceded that deportations are hurting agricultural and hospitality industriesThe Trump administration deportation campaign is reportedly shifting its focus away from raids on the agricultural and hospitality sectors after Donald Trump conceded this week that his immigration policies are hurting the farming and hotel industries.The New York Times reported that an internal email was sent on Thursday by Tatum King, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), to regional department leaders at Homeland Security Investigations, directing them to stop workplace immigration enforcement actions unless related to criminal investigations. Continue reading...

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