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Top auto regulator investigates deadly Tesla crash into Texas home
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Top auto regulator investigates deadly Tesla crash into Texas home

The vehicle was using an automated driving feature at high speed and killed a 76-year-old woman standing in the homeSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe top US auto regulator opened an investigation on Monday after a Tesla using an automated driving feature slammed into a Texas home...

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UK defence secretary promises delayed investment plan before Nato summit
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UK defence secretary promises delayed investment plan before Nato summit

Dan Jarvis, who took role earlier this month, is said to have secured billion more for plan than predecessorDan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, promised to publish the delayed defence investment plan (Dip) before the Nato summit in a fortnight amid indications he has already secured around a bill...

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor
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Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power
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Burnham and Starmer hold ‘frosty’ meeting to thrash out transition of power

With Burnham and his team potentially having only weeks before he becomes PM, Starmer has agreed to give him access to civil serviceKeir Starmer has met Andy Burnham for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what sources said was a “frosty” meeting to thrash out a transition of power.The...

Pippa Crerar Political editor
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Bev Craig to stand as Labour candidate for Greater Manchester mayor
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Bev Craig to stand as Labour candidate for Greater Manchester mayor

Leader of city council braces for bitter fight with Reform UK in byelection for Andy Burnham’s replacementLabour’s candidate to replace Andy Burnham as Greater Manchester mayor has been named as Bev Craig, the leader of the city council.Burnham, who could be prime minister in under four weeks, is ex...

Josh Halliday North of England editor
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Appeals court allows Trump to fast-track deportation process nationwide
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Appeals court allows Trump to fast-track deportation process nationwide

Ruling lets DHS apply expedited removal to non-citizens who are living far from border A federal appeals court cleared the way on ⁠Tuesday for the Trump ⁠administration to expand ​a fast-track deportation process that would allow for the expedited removal of immigrants who are living far from the bo...

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Canadian police warn of possible copycat attacks after deadly shootout in Montreal
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Canadian police warn of possible copycat attacks after deadly shootout in Montreal

Assailant behind shooting that left three people dead wrote ‘incel’-like manifesto that was posted by a far-right outletPolice in Canada are warning of possible copycat attacks after three people died in a shootout in Montreal and the assailant’s lengthy manifesto, which called for “a new bloodletti...

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
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Electricity prices jump in Europe as demand soars in the heatwave
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Electricity prices jump in Europe as demand soars in the heatwave

Great Britain has paid at least six times the normal price for imported power as millions turn on air conditioning and windfarm output sagsThe heatwave has prompted a sharp rise in electricity prices across European markets as millions turn to air conditioners and electric fans to battle record high...

Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
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HMRC announces 22% tax on cash interest held in stocks and shares Isas
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HMRC announces 22% tax on cash interest held in stocks and shares Isas

Treasury also promises a new first-time buyer Isa with no upper age limit, as the ‘age at which a first home is bought is rising’Isa reforms announced on Tuesday promise a new first-time buyer account with no upper age limit, and a tax on interest on cash savings held in a stocks and shares wrapper....

Hilary Osborne
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Donald Trump to present World Cup trophy to winners, says Gianni Infantino
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Donald Trump to present World Cup trophy to winners, says Gianni Infantino

Two men due to share trophy-presenting on 19 July‘We are together all the time’, says Fifa president Donald Trump will hand over the World Cup trophy to the winners at the final on 19 July, Gianni Infantino has said.Infantino and Trump have forged a close relationship in the buildup to these finals,...

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DUP seeks to distance party from ‘wicked deceiver’ Jeffrey Donaldson
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DUP seeks to distance party from ‘wicked deceiver’ Jeffrey Donaldson

Denunciation comes after former Democratic Unionist leader convicted of child sexual offencesThe Democratic Unionist party has denounced Jeffrey Donaldson as a “wicked deceiver” who led a “double and duplicitous life” a day after its former leader was convicted of child sexual offences.Leaders at th...

Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy to skip postwar conference amid tensions with Poland
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy to skip postwar conference amid tensions with Poland

Ukraine’s president will not attend after sparking Polish ‘outrage’ over naming of military unitVolodymyr Zelenskyy will skip a high-level conference on the postwar reconstruction of Ukraine amid a deepening rift with Poland over his naming of a military unit for one that killed tens of thousands of...

Jakub Krupa
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Trump says DC reflecting pool repairs may not be done in time for 4 July
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Trump says DC reflecting pool repairs may not be done in time for 4 July

US president planned to revamp the now algae-stricken pool ahead of the holiday and America’s 250th birthdayDonald Trump has acknowledged that repairs to the algae-stricken reflecting pool in Washington DC may not be completed in time for the Fourth of July, when the president plans to convene a big...

Chris Stein in Washington
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Boat crash victim’s family dismayed after driver George Pino found not guilty
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Boat crash victim’s family dismayed after driver George Pino found not guilty

Prominent Florida real estate broker found not guilty by Miami jury of manslaughter and felony vessel homicideThe family of a teenager left with a permanent disability from a birthday party boat crash that killed another girl has reacted with dismay at the acquittal of the prominent Florida real est...

Richard Luscombe in Miami
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Tate brothers seek judicial review of decision not to tell them accusers’ names
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Tate brothers seek judicial review of decision not to tell them accusers’ names

High court hears identities of women accusing Andrew and Tristan Tate of rape withheld for fear they could be revealed Andrew and Tristan Tate are not being told the names of the women who have accused them of rape and human trafficking over fears the brothers might publish them on social media, the...

Daniel Boffey Chief reporter
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Merz backs plans to raise Germany’s retirement age to 70 in pension changes
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Merz backs plans to raise Germany’s retirement age to 70 in pension changes

Recommendations from commission propose gradual rise in retirement age by the early 2090sEurope live – latest updatesGermany will gradually raise its retirement age to about 70 by the early 2090s under recommendations backed by the chancellor, Friedrich Merz, as a means of future-proofing the pensio...

Kate Connolly in Berlin
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Chilean court convicts three former Pinochet agents in 1976 car bomb attack
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Chilean court convicts three former Pinochet agents in 1976 car bomb attack

The three who were convicted in the Washington DC killing were agents of Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret policeFifty years after Gen Augusto Pinochet’s secret police detonated a car bomb in the heart of Washington DC, killing Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean minister and ambassador to the US, and...

John Bartlett in Santiago
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