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Sue Gray resigns as chief of staff at Downing Street
The departure of the top civil servant and partygate investigator comes following weeks of negative briefing and infighting that overshadowed Labour’s party conference in Liverpool.
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Chinese hackers have breached U.S. court wiretap systems, according to reports from the Wall Street Journal
Chinese hackers accessed the networks of U.S. broadband providers and obtained information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
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AUKUS navies remotely control ships from 10,000 miles away in an experiment
The navies of Britain, Australia and the U.S. were able to control uncrewed ships in Australia while sitting more than 10,000 miles away in Portugal as part of a series of military experiments, Britain’s Royal Navy said on Friday.
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Bahrain fails in its attempt to block a lawsuit in the UK over spyware used against dissidents
Bahrain cannot claim state immunity to block a lawsuit brought in Britain by two dissidents who say its government hacked their laptops with spyware, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.
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Two British men plead not guilty to charges of spying for China
Two Britons, including a former researcher for a senior British lawmaker, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a charge of spying for China.
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Georgia’s ruling party sees falling ratings amid EU tensions but remains ahead of the opposition
The Republic of Georgia is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on October 26. The ruling party, Georgian Dream, enters the contest with historically low approval ratings but still has a strong chance of defeating a fragmented opposition.
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Elon Musk joins Donald Trump on stage at a rally held at the location of an attempted assassination
Donald Trump brought out Elon Musk during his return to the Pennsylvania fairgrounds, the site where he was nearly assassinated in July.
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CPS offers plea deals to Entain suspects before deciding on charges
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has offered plea discussions with suspects from Entain as it gears up to make charging decisions by the end of the year.
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55-year-old man fatally mauled by bear while mushroom picking in Slovakia
A 55-year-old man has been killed by a wild brown bear while foraging for mushrooms in a Slovakian forest.
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Government to fund £120 blood test aimed at detecting 12 common cancers
Mionco screening has potential to be a ‘gamechanger’ in five years, says health secretary, Wes Streeting
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Israeli bombing strikes Beirut again
In the last few hours Beirut has been under intense air strikes by Israeli forces.
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British climber rescued after going missing on 23,000-foot mountain
A British climber and her counterpart have reportedly been rescued safely after their food and equipment fell down a ravine.
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EasyJet captain pleads with ‘drunk’ passengers during midair brawl
Shocking footage has emerged of two men attempting to brawl in the middle of a flight to Turkey.
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British food companies lobbied to delay the £1.7 billion plastic packaging tax, as revealed by documents
New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints
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Four migrants including child die while trying to cross English Channel
French minister Bruno Retailleau said the child was ‘trampled to death in a boat’
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Top Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali was killed in an air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in north Lebanon has killed Hamas official Saeed Atallah Ali and his family, the militant group has said.
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Five areas of Britain set to be slammed by polar blast
Temperatures are soon going to tumble - from the balmy 18C recorded by the Met Office on Friday in Santon Downham, Suffolk, to freezing in places, including across Perth and Kinross
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Orpington dog attack: Several out-of-control dogs mauled a woman and two children, aged 4 and 6
Two children aged four and six along with a woman have been savagely mauled by four dogs in a street in St Paul’s Cray, southeast London this morning and have been rushed to hospital
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British couple try to fight off Italian gangster over £67,000 designer watch
This is the disturbing moment a British couple attempted to fend off against a mugger in the Spanish island of Magaluf over a designer watch worth more than £67,000.
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Putin’s snipers are teaching schoolchildren that "killing Ukrainians is not murder"
Russian schoolchildren are being taught lessons by military snipers who claim killing Ukrainians is not murder.
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Moment a 14-year-old girl ’stabs two teachers and a pupil’ in a school playground knife attack
The moment a schoolgirl allegedly stabbed two teachers and a fellow pupil has been played to a jury.
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Murder for hire: Inside Iran’s proxy war with Israel in the West
The Islamic Republic’s long shadow war with Israel is playing out in the West with a rise in alleged Iran-linked murder and kidnapping plots, often with the help of hired assassins.
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NatWest, RBS, and Ulster Bank have experienced outages, leaving Brits unable to access their money through mobile banking
Several banks, including NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, are all experiencing web outages according to DownDetector and customers can’t access their money as a result
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US military says it hit 15 Houthi targets in Yemen
US forces carried out strikes on 15 targets in areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthi rebels, the US military has confirmed.
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Shameless Boris Johnson says he regrets saying sorry over Partygate
The disgraced former PM declined to comment on whether he regretted apologizing to the Queen over celebrations held on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral.