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Fifa World Cup matches face heightened terror risk in US amid Iran conflict
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Fifa World Cup matches face heightened terror risk in US amid Iran conflict

Experts warn of ‘soft target’ vulnerabilities and intelligence gaps as federal agencies prepare to secure 78 matches across 11 citiesFifa World Cup matches set to be held across the United States face heightened terrorism risks, with experts warning that vulnerabilities are being amplified by the US-Israel conflict with Iran and a depletion of counter-terrorism expertise within federal law enforce...

How the Trump White House works against itself in its efforts to prevent overdoses
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How the Trump White House works against itself in its efforts to prevent overdoses

Contradictory policies that gut harm reduction programs while supporting naloxone access are confusing expertsWithin just a few weeks, the Trump administration has proposed multiple contradictory policies related to overdose prevention – some that could help save lives and others that experts say could further strain health resources and put people at risk for overdose.These policies include a new...

Advisers urge JP Morgan investors to vote to split chair and CEO positions
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Advisers urge JP Morgan investors to vote to split chair and CEO positions

SS and Glass Lewis back shareholder resolution amid fears over power wielded by Jamie Dimon, who holds both rolesInvestors in JP Morgan have been urged to vote in favour of splitting the role of chief executive and chair at America’s largest bank, amid concerns over the power wielded by its billionaire boss Jamie Dimon.ISS and Glass Lewis, which issue advice to some of the world’s biggest fund man...

‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest
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‘Amazon of America’: film paints vision of a post-coup Brazil giving up rainforest

Vitória Régia imagines rightwing Bolsonaro plot succeeded with US help – and highlights threats facing Indigenous peoplesThe year is 2025 and far-right coup plotters have annihilated Brazil’s democracy, assassinating the president, closing the national congress and surrendering the Amazon rainforest and its untold riches to the United States.“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Amazon of America...

First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Tenerife – Europe live

First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Tenerife – Europe live

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Spain has begun the evacuation of the first passengers from the MV Hondius ship which arrived in Tenerife on SundayPassengers begin evacuating cruise ship hit by hantavirusIn other news, there are reports of Russian attacks continuing on Ukraine despite a ceasefire that was meant to run from Saturday 9 May to Monday 11 May.There are reports of people being injured by Russian strikes in areas inclu...

First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship has left Tenerife – Europe live

First plane carrying passengers evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship has left Tenerife – Europe live

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Spain has begun the evacuation of the first passengers from the MV Hondius ship which arrived in Tenerife on SundayPassengers begin evacuating cruise ship hit by hantavirusIn other news, there are reports of Russian attacks continuing on Ukraine despite a ceasefire that was meant to run from Saturday 9 May to Monday 11 May.There are reports of people being injured by Russian strikes in areas inclu...

Plaid Cymru leader says he hopes to be made first minister as early as Tuesday

Plaid Cymru leader says he hopes to be made first minister as early as Tuesday

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Rhun ap Iowerth says he hopes his party’s programme for government will get backing from across the SeneddUK politics live – latest updatesThe leader of Plaid Cymru is hoping to become Welsh first minister as early as Tuesday after his party won a historic victory in the Senedd elections, soundly beating Labour and holding off Reform UK.Plaid fell short of winning a majority in the Welsh parliamen...

‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism

‘I was in a terrible state’: actor David Morrissey tells how social anxiety led him to alcoholism

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Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Liverpool-born actor says depression and anxiety followed death of his father when he was 15The actor David Morrissey has spoken of how “terrible” social anxiety contributed to him becoming an alcoholic.“I am a recovering alcoholic,” Morrissey, who has been sober for 21 years, told Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Continue reading....

Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East

Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East

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Saudi Arabia’s state oil company’s profits up 26% to £26.9bn in first three months of yearBusiness live – latest updatesSaudi Arabia’s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship millions of barrels of oil out of the Gulf despite conflict in the Middle East.Profits at Saudi Aramco hit $33.6bn (£26.9bn) in the first three months...

Streaming platform Twitch lets users enter viral ‘mogging’ beauty contests

Streaming platform Twitch lets users enter viral ‘mogging’ beauty contests

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Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing.The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with another...

Mogging, gen Z and why streaming platform Twitch has changed its rules

Mogging, gen Z and why streaming platform Twitch has changed its rules

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Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing.The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with another...

Gullah Geechee people set out to keep their family land. Unclear titles and surging taxes are pushing them out

Gullah Geechee people set out to keep their family land. Unclear titles and surging taxes are pushing them out

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Property disputes, predatory developers and surging sea levels are putting the historic Black community at riskOn Arthur Champen’s half-acre property in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, a thicket of southern live oaks, palmettos and pine trees muffle the roar of cars on nearby highway 278. His haint blue house, lightened by the sun, sits on stilts to protect it from flooding that comes with the...

How TMZ is finding its footing on the political scene, even after some misfires

How TMZ is finding its footing on the political scene, even after some misfires

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The salacious gossip website is hounding politicians and tracking vacationing members of CongressTMZ has only been in Washington DC for a matter of weeks, but the salacious gossip website is already having an impact: hounding politicians, tracking vacationing members of Congress and reporting on a senator taking a trip to Disney World.It’s been quite the start as the website and TV channel attempt...

Putin suggests Ukraine war is winding down but aides say it is ‘long road’ to peace

Putin suggests Ukraine war is winding down but aides say it is ‘long road’ to peace

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Kremlin spokesperson plays down idea of quick resolution of conflict after president said he thought it was ‘coming to an end’Vladimir Putin has said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down, hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years and even as two of his senior aides played down the notion of a quick end to the conflict.“I think that the...

Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest as Starmer vows to fight on – UK politics live

Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest as Starmer vows to fight on – UK politics live

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Catherine West issues ultimatum for the PM as ex-minister Josh Simons joins calls for prime minister to quitAt the start of her programme Laura Kuenssberg addressed Catherine West and Bridget Phillipson who were sitting waiting for the main interviews.Kuenssberg told West she wanted a cabinet minister to challenge Keir Starmer. She said she was sitting next to one of them. What was her message to ...

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

How could Labour remove Keir Starmer? Four possible routes

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Replacing a leader is difficult, as Jeremy Corbyn proved – but MPs can apply pressure, publicly or privatelyMany Labour MPs believe Keir Starmer will not survive as Labour leader for long enough to fight the next election. What they cannot agree on, however – even after a disastrous set of results in this week’s elections – is how his departure might come about.The Labour rulebook makes it notorio...

Nobel laureate’s smuggled memoir details beatings and neglect in Iranian prisons

Nobel laureate’s smuggled memoir details beatings and neglect in Iranian prisons

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Writing by Narges Mohammadi, arrested 14 times for activism, offers a disturbing insight into treatmentIn an exclusive extract of writing smuggled from prison in Iran, the Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has described the “torture” of solitary confinement, and her systematic medical neglect by the prison system.The writing from the past decade will be part of a soon to be published mem...

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

Phillipson: challenge to Starmer would be wrong despite election ‘kicking’

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Education secretary says voters feel let down but do not want Labour to ‘spend more time talking amongst ourselves’UK politics live – latest updatesLabour MPs would be wrong to remove Keir Starmer, even though voters have given the party a “real kicking” at the ballot box and people feel “bitterly let down”, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said.Phillipson said Labour had been “too...

Passengers begin evacuating cruise ship hit by hantavirus

Passengers begin evacuating cruise ship hit by hantavirus

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Spanish passengers are brought off MV Hondius by medical teams in hazmat suits after being screened for the infectionCruise ship hantavirus outbreak – latest updatesAn evacuation has begun of passengers aboard a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of hantavirus.Spanish passengers wearing blue plastic ponchos and hair coverings were brought off the vessel by medical teams in hazmat suits...

Spain starts evacuating passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife – Europe live

Spain starts evacuating passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife – Europe live

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Spanish health officials says all 146 passengers remain asymptomatic The government has begun the evacuation of the first passengers from the MV Hondius ship which arrived in Tenerife this morning, ending a journey that started in southern Argentina on 1 April.A small group of passengers, all Spanish nationals, is now headed to Tenerife’s port of Granadilla, Spain’s health ministry said. Continue ...

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

‘Better the devil you know’: former Labour voters in Birmingham unsure about replacing Starmer

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Focus group sceptical that replacing Keir Starmer would improve party’s fortunes, with some drawn to Reform or the GreensUK politics – liveAs Keir Starmer faces the prospect of a leadership challenge, former Labour voters in a Birmingham constituency were last week feeling nervous about what could come next.A month ago, the group from Birmingham Yardley had very little good to say about the prime ...

Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest as PM vows to fight on – UK politics live

Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest as PM vows to fight on – UK politics live

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Catherine West says party must ‘move quickly’ and that unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge the PM by Monday, she willAt the start of her programme Laura Kuenssberg addressed Catherine West and Bridget Phillipson who were sitting waiting for the main interviews.Kuenssberg told West she wanted a cabinet minister to challenge Keir Starmer. She said she was sitting next to one of them...

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife with Spanish passengers to be evacuated first – Europe live

Hantavirus-hit cruise ship arrives in Tenerife with Spanish passengers to be evacuated first – Europe live

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Spanish health officials says all 146 passengers remain asymptomatic as vessel arrives in Tenerife waters Good morning, and welcome to our Europe live blog. Spanish health ​officials have said all the passengers on the ‌hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius remain asymptomatic after the vessel arrived in Tenerife on Sunday, almost a month after the first passenger died of the rodent-borne disease on boar...

Cruise ship hit by hantavirus arrives in Tenerife to evacuate passengers

Cruise ship hit by hantavirus arrives in Tenerife to evacuate passengers

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MV Hondius anchors offshore carrying 146 people as authorities scramble to get planes to take them homeThe cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of hantavirus has arrived in Tenerife for the evacuation of those onboard.The ship arrived in the Canary Islands in the early hours of Sunday morning carrying 146 people, after three people died of the virus and eight more became ill. Continue re...

Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM as Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest – UK politics live

Starmer insists he won’t quit as PM as Labour MP challenges ministers to trigger leadership contest – UK politics live

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Former junior minister Catherine West says that unless a cabinet minister comes forward to challenge the PM by Monday, she willGood morning. There were many predictions for Labour’s future ahead of the English, Scottish and Welsh elections, which have been terrible for the party, but there is one outcome foreseen by no one: a leadership challenge by Catherine West.West, MP for Hornsey and Friern B...

Prague derby abandoned after fans storm pitch with Slavia seconds from title

Prague derby abandoned after fans storm pitch with Slavia seconds from title

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Sparta keeper Surovcik says he will pursue legal actionSlavia chairman Tvrdik calls incident in derby ‘disgrace’The derby between Slavia Prague and Sparta Prague was abandoned on Saturday after hundreds of home fans stormed the pitch in the closing minutes, when Slavia were leading 3-2 at their Fortuna Stadium and seconds away from clinching the Czech League title.Slavia supporters breached securi...

Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism

Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism

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Open letter criticising invitation to Nigel Farage warns of association with ‘racism and inflammatory rhetoric’Political leaders have been invited to a rally opposing antisemitism on Sunday, with British Jews hoping the “silent majority” will join them for a “million mensch march” across central London.The prime minister, Keir Starmer, is considering attending the Standing Strong: Extinguish Antis...

Woman charged after alleged antisemitic abuse at children’s netball game in Sydney

Woman charged after alleged antisemitic abuse at children’s netball game in Sydney

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NSW police called to incident in Maroubra amid reports of offensive comments made at under-12s gameFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has been charged with using offensive language after alleged antisemitic comments were made at a children’s netball involving a Jewish-led team in Sydney.New South Wales police sai...

Pension scams: Britons warned over criminals offering inheritance tax loopholes

Pension scams: Britons warned over criminals offering inheritance tax loopholes

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Fraudsters exploit confusion or anxiety over new IHT rules by offering a ‘safe haven’ for savings potsThe caller pitches a great deal. Shift the moneysaved in your pension and reinvest it in a scheme overseas where you can avoid it being caught under next year’s changes to the UK’s inheritance tax (IHT) system.From April next year, any money left in a defined contribution pension after your death,...