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Kuwait flight hostages are suing British Airways and the UK government
Passengers and crew held hostage after a 1990 British Airways flight landed are suing the airline and the UK government for “deliberately endangering” them.
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Military horses have run loose again in central London
Military horses have broken free and run loose through central London for the second time since April.
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Neil Foden, a former headteacher who ’abused trust,’ has been jailed for ’shocking’ sex offences against four girls
Sentencing Foden to 17 years in prison, Judge Rowlands described him as "a man looked up to by many" who had "managed to hide a dreadful secret".
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Biden’s family reportedly urged him to stay in the presidential race, shifting blame to his advisers
The US president met with his family at Camp David, after a disastrous debate performance last week led to calls for him to drop out of the election
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A major search is underway for a 14-year-old schoolboy who got separated from his friends while swimming
A 14-year-old boy has gone missing while swimming with his friends at a beach on the River Mersey.
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Rush hour disruption affected a major London Underground line due to a fire alert
Commuters have been warned of severe disruption to their morning journeys across the London transport network.
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Banksy has claimed credit for a migrant boat artwork displayed in the crowd at Glastonbury
The art installation drew criticism from government ministers after Rishi Sunak made "stopping the boats" one of his five priorities.
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UK haulage industry urges investment in electric truck infrastructure
There are just 300 electric HGVs in the 500,000-strong lorry fleet – and only one public charging point, says RHA.
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Farage denies ’stoking prejudice’ amid Reform scandal
Reform UK leader echoes Donald Trump in response to claim hostile state actors are backing his party
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Rishi Sunak claims the UK is a better place to live after 14 years of Conservative rule
Britain is “a better place to live” than when the Conservatives came to power in 2010, Rishi Sunak has insisted at the start of the final campaign weekend before the UK general election on Thursday.
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Former Honduran president receives 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.
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British tourist in critical condition after being struck by a car while on holiday
A British cyclist is in ‘critical condition’ after a car crashed into the back of their bike on the Spanish island of Majorca.
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Jay Slater’s family ’devastated’ as police call off search for missing teen two weeks after his disappearance
Jay Slater’s family have said they are ‘devastated’ by the news that police have decided to call off their searches for the missing teenager.
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Revealed: 428-year-old secret dossier uncovers Elizabeth I’s spy network
For more than a century, it lay undisturbed in the National Archives: a single sheet of paper, headed The names of the Intelligencers, with the power to unveil a hidden network of secret Elizabethan spies.
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Two police officers hospitalized after being attacked by protesters at far-right AfD congress in Germany
Two police officers have been hospitalised after clashes with hooded protesters outside the congress of Germany’s far-right AfD, as the party met weeks after its record European Union election result.
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France heads to the polls for a high-stakes snap parliamentary election
Ballot could see Marine Le Pen’s National Rally form government as polls suggest support for far-right party has strengthened.
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Man killed, and five others injured after Tesla collides with double-decker bus
A man has died and five others have been injured after a crash between a double-decker bus and a Tesla in York.
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London Pride: Sadiq Khan leads 32,000 participants in a march through the capital
Crowds gathered in London on Saturday as part of the capital’s Pride celebrations, with a parade making its way from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square.
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The family of a murdered teen cadet calls for action to combat the surge of knife crime
Nathaniel Shani was stabbed in the neck by two boys since jailed for over a decade, and his family are now calling on politicians to take action on knife crime
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The EU finalizes up to €1 billion in aid to Egypt as part of a migration agreement
The EU on Saturday finalized a deal for the disbursement of up to €1 billion in macro-financial assistance to Egypt, within their partnership geared at curbing irregular migration and boosting the North African country’s economy.
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Amazon instructed to remove ’how-to suicide guides’ from its site to prevent future deaths
Four coroners have, since December last year, raised grave concerns about the suicide guides after people who bought them on the shopping site took their own lives
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Iran threatens ’devastating war’ if Israel attacks Lebanon
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah prompted the US to launch diplomatic efforts to prevent a full-scale war in the region.
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A family’s castle estate is up for sale after being in their possession for 700 years
A 14th Century castle and surrounding lands which have been owned by the same family for more than 700 years is to go up for sale.
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A man has died and seven others have fallen ill after taking ’contaminated’ pills
A man has died after taking what police believe was "potentially contaminated" zopiclone, a medication which is used to treat insomnia.
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Who killed the deputy mayor’s daughter? Tragedy strikes on the beaches of Russian-occupied Crimea
On Sunday, June 23, dozens of vacationers on a beach in occupied Crimea were injured, and five were killed, after Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian missile over Sevastopol.