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Taking power in Mali might be a stretch but insurgents can force hand of weakened regime
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Taking power in Mali might be a stretch but insurgents can force hand of weakened regime

Coordinated attack by JNIM and the Tuareg minority inflicted significant casualties on government forces and Russian auxiliariesWhen al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic militants launched a series of attacks on military bases and raids into major towns in Mali and neighbouring Burkina Faso last summer, obse...

Jason Burke International security correspondent
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Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023
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Lebanon accuses Israel of committing ‘ecocide’ in country since 2023

Claim by environment minister opens new report into profound ecological damage allegedly done by IDF forces Lebanon’s minister for the environment has accused Israel’s military of committing “an act of ecocide” in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country’s natural resources d...

Damien Gayle
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Calls for ‘student premium’ to support disadvantaged young people after GCSEs
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Calls for ‘student premium’ to support disadvantaged young people after GCSEs

Social mobility groups say post-16 funding gap risks young people falling out of education, work and trainingA coalition of 14 social mobility organisations is urging the government to fund a “student premium” to support disadvantaged young people post-16 and prevent them from “falling through the c...

Sally Weale Education correspondent
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Tuesday briefing: Can a deeply divided UK agree on an assisted dying bill?
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Tuesday briefing: Can a deeply divided UK agree on an assisted dying bill?

In today’s newsletter: As campaigners and critics reckon with the bill’s failure, the debate reveals a country struggling​ to support ​vulnerable people ​and those living with terminal illnessGood morning. Last week the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill in England and Wales fell at the final...

Martin Belam
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Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation
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Trump fires independent board overseeing National Science Foundation

Positions ‘terminated, effective immediately’, says email to scientists sent on president’s behalf, in move labelled ‘dangerous attack’ on US innovationThe Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF).Members of the National Scien...

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Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat
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Welsh Labour faces ‘existential’ change as party braces for May election defeat

‘Critical debate’ about party’s identity and direction looms if it loses control of Senedd next month after 27 years in powerWelsh Labour is the democratic world’s most successful election-winning machine, coming first in Wales in every general election since 1922 and every devolved election since 1...

Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent
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Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn
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Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn

Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligationThe UK’s most senior progressive rabbis have warned that Israel’s current political direction risks becoming “incompatible with Jewish values”, while insisting that criticism of the coun...

Aamna Mohdin Community affairs correspondent
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Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules buffer should be ‘significantly larger’, say peers
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Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules buffer should be ‘significantly larger’, say peers

Lord committee says chancellor and recent predecessors have allowed themselves too little room for manoeuvreBusiness live – latest updatesRachel Reeves should aim to run a “significantly larger” buffer against her fiscal rules, according to a report from a House of Lords committee that says the UK’s...

Heather Stewart Economics editor
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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment
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Humanoid robots to become baggage handlers in Japan airport experiment

Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortagesJapan’s famously conscientious but overburdened baggage handlers will soon be joined by extra staff at Tokyo’s Haneda airport – although their new colleague...

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
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Train collision in Indonesia kills seven as rescuers work to reach survivors
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Train collision in Indonesia kills seven as rescuers work to reach survivors

Efforts continue to free two trapped passengers in wreckage after long-distance train collides with commuter train outside Jakarta, injuring 81Rescuers were racing to reach survivors on Tuesday morning outside the Indonesian capital of Jakarta after two trains collided overnight, killing at least se...

Agence France-Presse in Jakarta
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Baby on board: US woman gives birth on Delta flight
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Baby on board: US woman gives birth on Delta flight

Paramedics on Atlanta-Portland flight help Ashley Blair give birth to ‘gorgeous’ Brielle Renee just before landingWhen baby Brielle Renee was born, new mom Ashley Blair was flying high – quite literally. Blair unexpectedly went into labor shortly before her full Delta flight from Atlanta to Portland...

Gabrielle Canon
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Nathan Chasing Horse sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault
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Nathan Chasing Horse sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault

Dances With Wolves actor assaulted Indigenous women and girls, exploiting his position as a spiritual leaderNathan Chasing Horse has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.A Nevada judge gave the Dances With Wolves actor his sentence Monday. A jury had pr...

Associated Press
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Half of England’s schools unfit due to leaks, mould and faulty toilets, poll finds
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Half of England’s schools unfit due to leaks, mould and faulty toilets, poll finds

NAHT survey says widespread disrepair forcing closure of playgrounds and classrooms, with Send facilities also hitHalf of headteachers say parts of their school are either out of use or unfit for purpose due to leaks, damp, mould, asbestos, ageing boilers and malfunctioning fire doors, according to...

Sally Weale Education correspondent
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First teenage suicide linked to domestic abuse recorded in England and Wales
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First teenage suicide linked to domestic abuse recorded in England and Wales

Police warn of violent pornography and ‘toxic’ influencers as suicides outstrip homicides for third year runningThe first teenage girl has been identified as having been driven to kill herself after domestic violence, as police chiefs blamed violent pornography and “toxic” influencers for being behi...

Helena Horton and Hannah Al-Othman
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UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study
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UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study

Resolution Foundation report says ‘crisis’ stems from rising ill-health and a failing system of benefits and job supportBritain has the third-highest rate of young people not in work or education among Europe’s richest countries because of rising ill-health and a failing system of benefits and job s...

Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent
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Man pleads guilty to role in 2002 murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay
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Man pleads guilty to role in 2002 murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay

Jay Bryant’s admission came more than two decades after the rapper’s killing, but he didn’t name others involvedSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxNearly a quarter century after rap star Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot to death, a man admitted in court Mo...

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