All news by author Elizabeth Baker

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US stocks lose $1 trillion after Chinese AI startup unveils chatbot, dubbed ’Sputnik moment’
Trump calls emergence of DeepSeek a ‘wake-up call’ amid doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom.
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Israel reports that 8 of the 26 hostages listed by Hamas for release in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire are dead
Israel says a Hamas list shows that eight of the 26 hostages still to be freed in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal are dead.
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Swedish national security adviser resigns after losing classified documents
Henrik Landerholm left behind documents at a hotel, a phone at an embassy and a notebook after a radio interview.
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Ex-NATO commander criticizes Navy’s decision to rename submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French as ’PC gone mad
An ex-Nato commander has blasted woke Navy chiefs for renaming a submarine to avoid upsetting the French.
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Charles, overcome with emotion, wipes away tears during Auschwitz liberation service after delivering a heartfelt Holocaust Memorial Day tribute
Emotional King Charles III appeared to shed a tear as he listened intently to survivors stories on his historic visit to Auschwitz
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Mass prison break: Jail housing 3,000 criminals ’completely torched,’ resulting in multiple deaths
A massive prison break has occurred in the city of Goma – M23 rebels stormed the city and announced its ’liberation’, as the UN has called for the rebels to ’cease all hostilities’.
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Trump family’s memecoin launches trigger a surge of scam tokens
Scammers launched more than 6,800 fraudulent tokens to scam users amid the high-profile launch.
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Global tech shares drop as China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek alarms investors
Chinese startup’s $6m product raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom.
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Flexible working inequality is creating a ’two-tier workforce’ in Britain
Office workers have more flexibility than frontline staff such as nurses and shop workers, report says
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The human impact of social care cuts: ’It feels like we don’t exist’
The week before Christmas, one couple received the devastating news their local council was cancelling care and reducing support - with no negotiation.
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Supporters of Lucy Letby celebrate her 35th birthday at a Clapham pub
A pub in Clapham Common was the venue of choice for supporters of convicted child killer Lucy Letby to celebrate her 35th birthday.
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Violent drug dealer avoids deportation due to the possibility that his daughter might be transgender
A violent drug dealer dodged deportation as his daughter thought she might be transgender.
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Wetherspoon pub landlady stabbed in triple stabbing as police swarm the venue
Three people, including the establishment’s landlady were allegedly knifed with cops swarming the Wetherspoon pub and three people arrested in connection with the incident.
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Myanmar claims it’s deported over 50,000 Chinese scammers
Myanmar claims it has deported over 50,000 Chinese scammers tied to scam factories since October 2023.
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CIA suspects Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, but has low confidence in this conclusion
The CIA now believes the most plausible explanation for the origins of Covid-19 is that it leaked from a laboratory in China, it has emerged.
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Senior military intelligence officer faces imprisonment for groping a female colleague during a drunken night out in Dubai
A highly decorated military intelligence chief is facing jail for groping a female officer.
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Trump launches largest deportation operation in U.S. history
President Donald Trump has begun flying ‘illegal immigrant criminals’ out of the United States yesterday in what he calls the ‘largest deportation operation’ in American history.
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British Museum partly closes after dismissed contractor shuts down IT systems
A recently dismissed contractor shut down several systems before being arrested, the museum said
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Weapons, ricin, and hate: The chilling discoveries inside Axel Rudakubana’s family home
Inside Axel Rudakubana’s semi-detached home in Banks, West Lancashire, where he lived with his parents, officers found a deadly array of weapons after his killing spree
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Ex-footballer Barton in court over alleged domestic assault following overturned ruling
Joey Barton has appeared in court to respond to charges of assaulting his wife Georgia, after the High Court overturned an earlier decision to throw the case out
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Reynolds: UK has case to avoid Trump’s proposed import tariffs
The government is set to make the case to Donald Trump’s new administration that there is no need for huge tariffs on UK exports to the US, the business secretary has said.
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Kazakh oligarch Timur Turlov hides billions and deceives the state
Kazakh businessman Timur Turlov, linked to Russian authorities, is facing the collapse of his empire.
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Trump signs executive order to declassify JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination files
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order believed to be related to the declassification of the assassination files of multiple high-profile Americans.
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Police investigate "serious assault" in Plymouth’s West Hoe, public urged to avoid area
Officers with Devon and Cornwall Police remain at the scene of a "serious assault" in the West Hoe area of Plymouth, and have advised people to stay away from the area
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Trump threatens 10% tariff on China, sending yuan and Chinese stocks lower
Yuan and Chinese stocks fall despite suggestion of lower tariff than president mentioned during campaign