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'Hillsborough Law could be Starmer's legacy'
The bill has been delayed in Parliament in a dispute over an opt-out for the security services.
Game on: NBA prepares for 2026 draft
Fresh off the NBA Finals, teams are preparing for the 2026 draft where fresh talent will get to shine. NBC News' Marquis Francis reports on what to expect and how the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade is shaking up the league.
Council leader chosen as Labour mayoral candidate
Bev Craig is Labour's candidate for metropolitan mayor of Greater Manchester.
Donaldson's downfall shakes NI's battle-hardened political landscape
Donaldson has been told to expect a "lengthy sentence" for a string of child sex crimes, including rape.
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EU faces fierce criticism over plans to host Taliban in Brussels
Rights campaigners and MEPs say meeting would normalise regime that erases women from public life Rights campaigners and MEPs have warned that a meeting between EU officials and a Taliban delegation in Brussels risks normalising a regime that has banned girls from school beyond the sixth grade and sought to erase women from public life, while its ranks include two leaders accused of crimes…
Kenyan minister orders halt to construction of US Ebola facility
Decision comes after Aden Duale was held in contempt for ignoring previous high court ruling to stop work Kenya’s health minister told a court he had ordered preparations for a US-run Ebola quarantine facility to stop, after being held in contempt for ignoring a previous order to end work. Many Kenyans strongly oppose the facility , with deadly protests erupting since the complex was announced in…
UK prioritised ties with UAE over averting mass atrocities in Sudan, MPs to be told
Foreign Office failed to act on warnings of genocide due to ‘pressure’ from emirates, Yale human rights investigator will tell a parliamentary select committee The British government had received intelligence that Ethiopia appeared to be supporting a genocidal militia in Sudan’s civil war as far back as 2024 but did not go public with the news for fear of upsetting the United Arab Emirates (UAE),…
Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business'
Rival parties have raised concerns over the gift received by the Reform UK leader before he became an MP.
Peter Murrell jailed for more than five years for embezzling SNP funds
The former party chief executive had admitted embezzling more than £400,000 over a 12-year period.
Bank of America’s Francisco Blanch: ‘Oil supplies will return to normal because it’s in the interests of both the US and Iran’
The analyst highlights how the economy and energy flows have weathered the shock and argues that, at least in terms of energy, the US has emerged from the conflict stronger than before
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Football players, coaches among 19 arrested over match-fixing and illegal betting
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency and police have jointly arrested 19 people, including serving footballers and coaches, over illegal bookmaking, with one player accused of both fixing matches and…
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Crimean Bridge closed for six hours, leaving nearly 3,000 vehicles queued
Vehicles backed up at the entrance to the Crimean Bridge — the crossing linking mainland Russia and occupied Crimea — on the morning of June 26, the Telegram channel Krymskii most: operativnaia inf…
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NYC set to freeze rents as critics warn of crumbling buildings and bankrupt landlords
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised a rent freeze for people living in 1 million apartments if he got elected
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Japan mulls delaying minimum wage hike
Japan's average minimum hourly wages in fiscal 2025, which ended in March, stood at ¥1,121, up 6.3% from the preceding year.
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Ex-New York Mets pitcher says he narrowly escaped death in Venezuela earthquake
Jenrry Meija attributes escape from hotel to ‘divine intervention’ and says he rescued an elderly man from the building seconds before it collapsed
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Venezuela earthquakes: frantic search for survivors continues, with 235 confirmed dead so far – latest updates
“We hope to rescue as many living people as possible’, says the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, but authorities fear the death toll will be in the thousands Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Ro…
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Heathrow expects fall in passengers and profits this year because of Iran war
Airport has also been ‘engaging closely’ with regulator to discuss cost of plan to build third runway Business live – latest updates Heathrow has said that passenger numbers and profits will fall t…
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Venezuela earthquakes latest: Death toll soars to 235 with 50,000 missing as emergency crews search for survivors
Health minister says nearly 4,300 people injured
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Immigration minister says he ‘won’t be intimidated’ to drop his views after unauthorised article - UK politics live
Mike Tapp wrote a piece for the Times calling for overseas care workers to be exempt from hardline immigration changes In response to the ongoing controversy, immigration minister Mike Tapp, who wa…
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Red warning for south-east England after record June heat; 150 million Europeans to experience temperatures above 35C today – Europe heatwave live
Paris to ban drinking alcohol in public as police ask organisers to cancel city’s Pride march; First time red warnings issued in UK for three consecutive days European heatwave is worst ever and im…
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BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson taking a break from work due to health issues
The Radio 2 presenter said he was now "concentrating on getting better".
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Most Venezuelan city in the US rallies to help after quakes
In Doral, where more than 40% of residents are of Venezuelan origin, the community has come together to send aid to the country after it was hit by earthquakes.
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Ukraine launches one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia and Crimea
The Russian Defense Ministry says it intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones overnight
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King becomes first monarch to reveal tax bill as royal public funding to double to £100m
New figures show the monarch paid £12.9m in tax last year, but do not give any detailed breakdown of how that tax was calculated.
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Zelensky Steps Up Threats Against Belarus for Aiding Drone Attacks
Ukrainian officials say their northern neighbor is allowing its radio relay stations to be used to guide Russian attack drones more precisely.
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Photos: Venezuela Earthquakes Cause Death and Destruction in Caracas, La Guaira and Beyond
Two powerful quakes shook the South American country, causing death and destruction.
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Flu outbreak at Texas Air Force base nears 300 cases amid change to vaccine policy by Hegseth
One congressman claims on social media that the outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base is ‘getting worse’
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La reacción de Sebastian Berhalter tras titularidad, asistencia y gol con Estados Unidos
El mediocampista se dijo con sentimientos encontrados, pues pese a que el USMNT no pudo vencer a Turquía, firmó una noche de ensueño con la Selección, por lo que se dijo entusiasmado con lo que viene.
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Yen’s decline makes perfect sense to some analysts
They have started to wonder whether there is really much at all holding the currency up.
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Weather tracker: Heatwave on course to tip temperatures over 40C in Germany and Poland
Extreme heat continues to impact daily life – and sporting events – across Europe. Plus, a tornado in Russia Temperatures are forecast to rise dramatically in parts of central and northern Europe t…
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MoJ to examine case of British woman strangled by US fighter pilot, justice minister says
Sarah Steele has told of ‘degrading’ experience under US military justice system after assault by airman in Cambridge A UK justice minister has described the case of a British woman strangled by an…
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Park to protect 12,000 koalas to go ahead via contentious carbon credit deal by Albanese government
Minns government waited on federal approval of carbon credit scheme before proceeding with long-awaited great koala national park Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our brea…
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Toddler dies in hot car after becoming trapped in 40C heatwave
Paris is recording temperatures well above 40C for the first time in 150 years
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Russia reports one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on its soil, annexed Crimea
The Russian Defense Ministry says it intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones overnight over 12 Russian regions, as well as the illegally annexed Crimea, the Azov and the Black Sea
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Iranian national sought by US on hacking charges arrested in Montenegro
Montenegrin police say they have arrested an Iranian national who is wanted by the United States for mass hacking attacks that caused damage of $3.4 billion
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A Russian soldier who threatened Putin with an army mutiny racked up 10 million Instagram views. Who is he?
Russian soldier Alexander Lunin published a video address to Vladimir Putin on Instagram on June 25, threatening a military mutiny if he was not allowed to meet with the Russian president on live t…
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Trump caves after holding housing bill hostage over SAVE America Act: report
Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday he will transmit the housing bill to the White House following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump
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Alfaro tras empate de Paraguay: "La sensación que me queda es sabor a poco"
El DT argentino reconoció que el objetivo era ganarle a Australia, pero fue realista sobre la complejidad del rival; por lo que la “Albirroja” se quedó con cuatro puntos y deberá esperar otros resu…
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Hong Kong reports 36% rise in FDI inflows so far this year, InvestHK data shows
Hong Kong continued to draw US and European firms to expand their businesses in the city in the first half of this year, the latest data shows, adding new momentum to its superconnector role. A tot…
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Starmer and home secretary in row over minister's future
Shabana Mahmood believes Mike Tapp should be sacked for writing an article but No 10 say he remains in post.
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Mexico’s new UK ambassador from ‘party of poor’ has 10 houses and £1m of jewellery
Alejandro Gertz Manero’s cars and properties contrast starkly with Morena party’s long association with austerity With his million-dollar jewellery collection and his two Rolls-Royces, Mexico’s new…
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Why Europe can't air condition its way out of extreme heat
Hundreds of people are dead from Europe’s heatwave, in a continent where air conditioning is not the norm. But while ACs may save lives, they can also make the problem worse.
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Iran and Egypt will headline Seattle's 'Pride Match.' Here's why that's controversial
Iran and Egypt's FIFA World Cup game on Friday is being marketed as the 'Pride Match' by Seattle organizers. It's not a decision made by FIFA, but that hasn't stopped a wave of controversy from clo…
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Venezuelans hope online posts will bring news of missing after devastating earthquakes
People in Venezuela and abroad are desperately searching for loved ones after two powerful earthquakes struck Wednesday evening
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Myanmar torches $600 million in seized heroin, meth and other drugs
Myanmar authorities have burned more than $600 million worth of seized illegal drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, ketamine, marijuana and opium, in nationwide events marking the U.N.’s Inter…
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Friday vote could bring mandatory Bible reading to Texas classrooms
The Texas board of education is set to vote on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes stories and passages from the Bible
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Operation Cleansing Fire: Hungary’s new leader moves to break Orbán’s entrenched power structure
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has proposed constitutional changes, including the possible removal of the president
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Home Office plan to use more military bases to house asylum seekers
Three new sites in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, and Yorkshire could house about 3,750 asylum seekers if permission is granted.
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Cambridge hospital staff investigated over accessing records of boy hurt in crocodile pit
About 40 members of staff reported to have looked at information of boy, three, who ended up in zoo enclosure About 40 members of hospital staff accessed the medical records of a three-year-old boy…
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Aid trickles in, survivors sleep outside, and looting breaks out in La Guaira, the Venezuelan city hardest hit by the earthquake
The government raises the death toll to 235 and the number of injured to 4,300 one day after the two quakes
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Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu relishes chance to face ‘serious Brazil’ in knockout stage
Japan advanced to the round of 32 as the runner-up in Group F.
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The do's and don'ts of being a tennis parent
Pushy parents are well documented in tennis - BBC Sport looks at when things get out of hand and asks if the system is to blame.
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Más fuertes que nunca: Pulisic, Berhalter y Trusty responden tras la derrota de Estados Unidos
Los jugadores del USMNT dieron la cara tras el tropiezo ante Turquía que les impidió una fase de grupos perfecta; además, destacaron el trabajo que los llevó a ser líderes de grupo y el aprendizaje…
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FSB says teenager detained in Russia for planning school attacks and mass killings
Russia’s Federal Security Service and the Investigative Committee announced on June 26 that a 17-year-old had been detained in Dagestan on suspicion of planning attacks on schools and mass killings…
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Judge orders Elon Musk to testify over alleged $1 million voter giveaway fraud
In a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower said Musk must sit for a deposition as the lawsuits move forward
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Asia stock markets slide as tech shares slump
Trading on South Korea's Kospi index was halted for the third time this week to prevent panic selling.
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky orders 40-day offensive to press Putin to end war
France claims interception of Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tanker off Sicily
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Pochettino: “Turquía se va a casa y nosotros seguimos, no al revés”
Mauricio Pochettino aseguró que la derrota ante Turquía es anecdótica, destacó que Estados Unidos terminó líder de grupo y valoró el esfuerzo de sus jugadores. Además, confirmó que Pulisic está bie…
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The U.S. can shrug off its last-gasp loss to Turkey. Now the stakes go up.
The U.S. men’s national team lost 3-2 to Turkey, but advances to face Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32 with Christian Pulisic healthy.
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Mbappe v Haaland: Who is more important for their country?
Two of the greatest forwards in world football will go head-to-head at Boston Stadium on Friday, as France and Kylian Mbappe take on Norway and Erling Haaland.
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