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Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’
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Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced.The cu...

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
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Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says
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The Guardian · World

Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024The UK government breached environmental law on several occasions when granting farmers permission to use a bee-killing pesticide, a watchdog has found.In 2023 and 2024, the Depar...

Pippa Neill Environment reporter
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Married at First Sight UK cast member arrested on suspicion of rape
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Married at First Sight UK cast member arrested on suspicion of rape

Anonymous individual arrested after claims of sexual misconduct on reality TV show and police calls for contactA cast member from Married at First Sight UK has been arrested on suspicion of rape, after claims of sexual misconduct on the reality TV show.The individual and the alleged victim are not b...

Michael Savage Media editor
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‘Truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape uncovered by UK crime agency
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‘Truly international’ network of drug-facilitated rape uncovered by UK crime agency

NCA says offenders arrange to sexually assault and film victims via online networks with crimes often taking place in trusting relationshipsCriminal investigators in the UK say they have uncovered a “truly international network” of organised drug-facilitated sexual assault in which victims are sedat...

Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent
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Outrage over ‘cruel’ Florida move to ban undocumented students from college
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Outrage over ‘cruel’ Florida move to ban undocumented students from college

Critics condemn decision by education board aligned with hard-right Ron DeSantis to block access to college systemImmigration advocates in Florida have decried a “cruel and harmful” new rule by education officials aligned to hard-right Republican governor Ron DeSantis to ban undocumented students fr...

Richard Luscombe in Miami
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‘Why is your cat blue?’: Wilbur, the pet who changed colour, puzzles owners
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‘Why is your cat blue?’: Wilbur, the pet who changed colour, puzzles owners

Family find answers via social media after their furry friend returned home with an unusual makeoverWilbur the cat is usually a rather elegant grey, black and white creature, so her human family were a little taken aback, to say the least, when she came home bright blue.Concern that Wilbur might hav...

Steven Morris
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Canadian boy dies of rabies after waking to find bat on his face
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Canadian boy dies of rabies after waking to find bat on his face

Eleven-year-old developed symptoms 19 days after encounter in ‘exceedingly rare’ case in Canada Doctors in Canada say a child who awoke to find a bat resting on his nose and mouth while visiting an Ontario cottage later died of rabies, in an “exceedingly rare case” that highlights the need for bette...

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
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How Labour diverted billions from NHS services to appease Trump – The Latest
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How Labour diverted billions from NHS services to appease Trump – The Latest

The NHS will divert billions of pounds from essential services to pay for new medicines, under the terms of the US-UK trade deal agreed in December, which could lead to more than 200,000 excess deaths, analysis has found.Ministers have defended the deal as a way of helping British drug exports avoid...

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Nigel Farage reported to standards watchdog over ‘crypto lobbying’
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Nigel Farage reported to standards watchdog over ‘crypto lobbying’

Commissioner asked to investigate Reform UK leader after private meeting with Bank of England governorThe standards watchdog has been urged to investigate whether Nigel Farage lobbied the Bank of England to drop a cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling his party, po...

Rowena Mason and Tom Burgis
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Venezuelan man saved from collapsed mall eight days after earthquakes
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Venezuelan man saved from collapsed mall eight days after earthquakes

Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not surviveA 43-year-old security guard who survived last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela thanks to a pocket of air in his workstation cabin has been pulled from the collapsed baseme...

Tom Phillips in Caracas, Sam Jones and agencies
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Women from minority backgrounds in UK less likely to receive epidurals, research finds
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Women from minority backgrounds in UK less likely to receive epidurals, research finds

Exclusive: Guardian analysis exposes evidence of racial inequalities in pain relief offered across healthcare‘The epidural failed and no one believed me’How the ethnicity pain gap follows people from birth to deathWomen from Black and Asian backgrounds are less likely than their white counterparts t...

Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent
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Starmer considers letting pubs stay open for England v Mexico match after backlash
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The Guardian · World

Starmer considers letting pubs stay open for England v Mexico match after backlash

Government seeks workaround after licensing rules threaten to force pubs to shut before World Cup tie finishesWorld Cup live – latest updatesUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer is exploring ways to keep pubs open into the early hours of Monday after facing backlash over strict licensing ru...

Helena Horton and Peter Walker
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Novice climber rescued after surviving 1,500ft fall down California mountain
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Novice climber rescued after surviving 1,500ft fall down California mountain

The woman, 31, suffered some injuries but was found alert and in good spirits on Mount Shasta, officials saidA novice climber was rescued after surviving a 1,500ft fall down California’s Mount Shasta on Sunday, officials said.The woman, 31, was attempting to ascend the mountain along the Left of Hea...

Lucy Campbell
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Two teenage boys detained for rape as court of appeal overrules ‘lenient’ sentences
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Two teenage boys detained for rape as court of appeal overrules ‘lenient’ sentences

First judge found to have erred by giving 15-year-olds youth rehabilitation orders for rape of two girls in HampshireTwo 15-year-old boys who were spared custody for raping two girls have been sentenced to four years’ detention after the court of appeal ruled their sentences were “unduly lenient”.Af...

Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
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Dangerous heatwave scorches eastern US ahead of Fourth of July weekend
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Dangerous heatwave scorches eastern US ahead of Fourth of July weekend

National Weather Service warns heat index could reach 115F as extreme heat grips midwest, Ohio valley and east coastSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailA “prolonged, dangerous heatwave” is expected to intensify across parts of the central and eastern United States over the next few days...

Anna Betts in New York
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