28 m. ago Salt Lake City Mormon church shooting leaves two dead and six injured in parking lot

A shooting outside a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, has left two people dead and at least six more injured, with three in critical condition. Suspects remain outstanding

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42 m. ago EU accused of fuelling Putin’s war by importing Russian liquefied natural gas

Despite Brussels’ pledge to ban Russian LNG by 2027, shipments to European ports increased in the last yearEuropean governments have been accused of fuelling Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as new data shows the Kremlin earned an estimated €7.2bn (£6.2bn) last year from exporting its liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU.Brussels has pledged to ban imports of Russian LNG – natural gas that is supercooled to make it easier to transport – by 2027 but an analysis suggests there is yet to be any letup in the vast quantities being received at European ports from Russia’s LNG complex on the Yamal peninsula in Siberia. Continue reading...

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42 m. ago Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sightsOn 30 May last year, Kim Sajet was working in her office in the grandly porticoed National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The gallery is one of the most important branches of the Smithsonian Institution, the complex of national museums that, for almost 200 years, has told the story of the nation. The director’s suite, large enough to host a small party, has a grandeur befitting the museum’s role as the keeper of portraits of the United States’ most significant historical figures. Sajet was working beneath the gaze of artworks from the collection, including a striking 1952 painting of Mary Mills, a military-uniformed, African American nurse, and a bronze head of jazz and blues singer Ethel Waters.It seemed like an ordinary Friday. Until, that is, an anxious colleague came in to tell Sajet that the president of the United...

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42 m. ago Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far

US tech bosses are exerting leverage on EU regulators via Trump and Vance. But Europe isn’t powerless, and it isn’t aloneThe US is advancing a new global order. Over the past eight decades Washington pursued – when it suited American interests – an order based on international law, liberalism, multilateralism and democratic values. The new one is based on autocracy and the use of force, and is underpinned by xenophobic nationalism.For the transatlantic relationship this is transformative: it means that coercive action now drives policy change. Europe’s security dependency on the US is leverage to be ruthlessly exploited. Silicon Valley tech firms’ business interests converge with those of the White House, and the US instrumentalises far-right politicians in Europe to achieve its foreign policy objectives.Armida van Rij is a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform Continue reading...

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75 m. ago At least two dead in shooting at LDS church in Salt Lake City as police hunt for suspects

At least six more were injured in the shooting, including three in critical condition, police say

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84 m. ago Salt Lake shooting LIVE: Two dead and more wounded after incident outside Mormon church in US

The shooting has taken place outside of a church with heavy police presence reported - a manhunt is now underway after the incident with the suspect still at large

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2 h. ago Somalia's fight against extremist militants shows signs of success on the streets of Mogadishu

Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints

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2 h. ago Former Premier League referee David Coote to be sentenced over child abuse video

David Coote is due to attend Nottingham Crown Court after a category A video of a child was found by police officers.

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3 h. ago Moment fire rips through massive Birmingham factory: Residents warned to stay indoors

Residents were warned to stay indoors as 75 firefighters and 13 crews were called to the scene just after 7pm. They were still battling the blaze in the early hours of Thursday morning.

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4 h. ago 'I'm not mad at you': Tributes to teenage driver of car who died alongside 18

Summer Louise Scott, 17, (pictured) was behind the wheel of a Toyota which left the road and struck a tree in Rotherham in the early hours of December 13.

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4 h. ago Huge fire rips through Birmingham carpet factory as 80 firefighters battle blaze

Crews were called to the scene just after 7pm on Wednesday, initially deploying a crew of 40 firefighters to tackle the blaze. The fire service has since doubled the number of firefighters at the scene

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5 h. ago Man who held himself out as Native American activist sentenced to 46 years for serial rapes

A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women, scenes he recorded on video

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5 h. ago Met Police's 'dereliction of duty to keep London safe' in scandal over checks on 22,000 recruits including serial rapists

More than 130 officers and staff at Scotland Yard committed crimes or misconduct after they were not properly vetted, a damning review has found

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5 h. ago Many schools remain closed for fourth day as recovery efforts continue

A yellow warning of snow and ice has been issued for the whole of Scotland on Thursday morning.

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5 h. ago Serial rapist David Carrick among Met Police officers not properly vetted before joining force

Carrick, who was given 37 life sentences for his crimes, was not properly vetted in 2017, with checks failing to reveal an allegation of domestic abuse against him

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5 h. ago Serial rapist PC David Carrick slipped through police background checks

The former Met officer was among 131 rogue officers who committed offences after the force failed to follow vetting guidelines because of pressure from chiefs to boost workforce numbers, report reveals

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5 h. ago Two serial rapists among police officers not properly vetted

A report found 131 Metropolitan Police officers and staff who were not fully checked went on to commit crime or misconduct.

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5 h. ago Met Police diversity push let sex predators & violent offenders serve in force after overturning vetting failures

A POLICE diversity drive let sexual predators and violent offenders serve as officers or support staff, a review reveals. The Metropolitan Police approved applicants from minority groups who failed vetting, just to boost its recruitment targets under former PM Boris Johnson. They included rapist Cliff Mitchell, who is now serving 17 and a half years...

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5 h. ago Date set for Trump to give State of the Union address to Congress

House Speaker Mike Johnson has invited the president to give the annual address to Congress on Tuesday February 24

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6 h. ago Predator firefighter, 34, who sexually assaulted, stalked and tried to rape different women is jailed

Former firefighter Jamie Scott, 34, has been jailed for five-and-a-half years at Perth Sheriff Court after he was found guilty of a string of stalking and sex attack offences against three women.

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