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Girl among four injured after funfair ride ’malfunctions’
Four people, including an 11-year-old girl, have been taken to hospital after a funfair ride is believed to have malfunctioned at a country show in Lambeth, south London, officials have said.
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Labour pledge planning law move to boost prison places
Labour has announced it would build more prisons by allowing ministers to bypass the traditional planning process, if it wins the general election.
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Owners who do not microchip cats face £500 fines
All cats in England must be microchipped and registered on a database from Monday under new laws.
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Kyrgyzstan court extends custody of four journalists
A Kyrgyz court ordered on Friday that four reporters, who were charged in January with “inciting mass unrest” through their investigative stories about corruption in the Central Asian country, remain in pre-trial detention until August 8, according to their editor, Bolot Temirov.
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Single bullet to head killed journalist Lyra McKee in Derry, court hears
Pathologist gives evidence in trial of three men accused of murder in joint enterprise to encourage and assist gunman
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David Cameron falls victim to hoax call from ‘former Ukraine president’
Foreign secretary had brief video call with person claiming to be Petro Poroshenko, says Foreign Office
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Yemen’s Houthis detain 11 UN employees in unclear circumstances
Aid group workers also taken as UN says it is trying to secure access to its personnel and clarify the situation around the detentions
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Israel rescues four hostages taken by Hamas from music festival on October 7, including Noa Argamani
Harrowing footage previously showed Noa begging for her life as Hamas thugs dragged her to Gaza
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Israeli strikes kill 18, including refugee camp mayor
The mayor of the Nuseirat refugee camp was killed along with four children and one woman, officials said.
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Danish PM Frederiksen cancels election events after attack
The assault Friday evening “caused minor whiplash,” the Danish leader’s office said. A 39-year-old man has been arrested in the attack.
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The children as young as 10 being groomed into county lines drug gangs
There’s one harrowing memory that sticks in Michael White’s mind. It was a cold winter’s evening, when his 15-year-old son walked through the door after spending the night with ‘friends.’
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Princess of Wales ’very sorry’ for missing Trooping the Colour event
"I do hope that I’m able to represent you all once again very soon," the Princess of Wales, who is undergoing preventative chemotherapy for an undisclosed form of cancer, told her regiment in a "deeply touching" letter.
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US moves against BEC fraud
A workers’ union in Massachusetts received last year an email purportedly from an employee of an investment consulting firm, requesting a payment change.
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Workers at Samsung Electronics walk out for the first time ever
A labor union at Samsung Electronics in South Korea said many workers went on strike Friday, marking the first such walkout in the smartphone and chipmaking giant’s 55-year history.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen attacked by man in Copenhagen
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was attacked by a man in the capital city of Copenhagen on Friday, her office said in a brief statement to CNN.
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Hunter Biden’s daughter gives surprise testimony at trial
The daughter of Hunter Biden has told jurors that her father seemed "great" and "hopeful" around the time he purchased a gun in October 2018.
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Belgium’s agent of chaos
Flemish far-right frontman Tom Van Grieken battles to break up Belgium.
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’My 17-year-old was brutally killed, but I’m glad she fought for freedom’
An abandoned Myanmar military camp sits atop a wooded hill, overlooking a picturesque lake which is well known in these parts because of its unique heart-like shape.
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Childminder admits killing baby boy
A childminder has admitted shaking and killing a nine-month-old baby she was supposed to be looking after.
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Marcus Rashford: Man Utd forward caught speeding on M60 in Rolls-Royce just months after crash
The Manchester United striker was caught driving above the 70mph limit on a motorway in Manchester on 12 December - he could now face a driving ban.
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$200,000 NABU bribery attempt: top lawyer Oleksii Nosov exposed in a corruption scheme benefiting Alliance Bank
NABU exposed lawyer Nosov in a bribery scheme benefiting Alliance Bank, media reports say.
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UK Labour’s Keir Starmer arrives on the world stage
A D-Day furore for his rival lets the Labour leader play PM in waiting. But questions remain over his party’s defense plans.
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Brit tourist dies trying to save two kids struggling in water off Costa Blanca beach
A 52-year-old British tourist rushed into the water to aid two youngsters, aged six and seven, along with others after they began to struggle in the water - the tourist has sadly died
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Two British judges quit top Hong Kong court amid pro-China crackdown on dissent
It comes after a report by The Independent showing the judges were being paid £40,000 to sit on the court for up to a month at a time
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Protesters attempt to spoil world’s most eligible bachelor’s wedding
The world’s most eligible bachelor is officially off the market after getting married in the society wedding of the year – gate crashed by Just Stop Oil.