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• Suspected robber faces felony charge after boosting $1.50 from Dairy Queen

  25-03-2025 01:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Allison Fettingallegedly brandished a black handgun and ordered the clerk to give her money out of the register
  
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• Breakthrough in mystery of life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii tomb

  07-04-2025 13:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the time, Emily Hauser writes
  
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• Autistic teen fighting for life after being shot multiple times by police in Idaho

  07-04-2025 12:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  The shooting sparked protests outside the Pocatello Police Department on Sunday
  
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• Fox News pundit believes Trump tariffs will reverse ‘crisis in masculinity’

  07-04-2025 12:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Donald Trump is actually saying ‘no more’ to this and to the crisis in masculinity,’ political pundit Batya Ungar-Sargon said
  
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• UK ‘behind the curve’ on Russian undersea spying, former minister says

  07-04-2025 11:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  The comments came after it was revealed the navy had captured Russian sensors suspected of trying to spy on Britain’s nuclear submarines
  
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• Rare virus that killed Gene Hackman’s wife kills three in small California town

  07-04-2025 11:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Betsy Arakawa was killed by Hantavirus earlier this year, and health experts in California are worried about the number of cases so early in the season
  
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• Trump’s tariffs have tanked financial markets. Why it’s best not to panic

  07-04-2025 11:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Share markets have posted biggest declines since the pandemic - but there’s no need to panic, Luke Hartigan reports
  
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• Europe and Asia markets plunge as Trump says ‘you have to take medicine’

  07-04-2025 11:14 via theguardian.com
  
  US president tells reporters foreign governments will have to pay ‘a lot of money’ to lift leviesBusiness live – latest updatesStock markets across Europe slumped on Mondayafter Donald Trump said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterised as “medicine”.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, the US president indicated he was not concerned about market losses that have already w
  
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• Middle East crisis live: Israeli attack on tents housing journalists in Gaza kills at least two, say Palestinian medics

  07-04-2025 11:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Airstrikes hit media tent outside Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, say medics, injuring nine othersIsraeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to visit US President Donald Trump at the White House later today.The close allies will meet on Monday to “discuss tariffs, efforts to bring back Israeli hostages (from Gaza), Israel-Turkey relations, the Iranian threat, and the fight against the international criminal court”, which has accused the Israeli leader of war crimes, his Jerusal
  
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• FTSE 100 plunges 6% to one-year low amid market turmoil, as Trump says ‘sometimes you have to take medicine’ – business live

  07-04-2025 11:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Japan’s Nikkei 225 tumbles nearly 9% on Monday as Hong Kong’s Hang Seng down 8% and South Korea trading temporarily halted amid Trump tariff concernsHong Kong stocks have plummeted more than 9% at open, while Singapore stocks dropped over 7%, according to reports.Hong Kong and Chinese stocks dived on Monday as markets around the world crumbled in the face of the widening global trade war and fears it will unleash a deep recession, Reuters says. Continue reading...
  
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• EU ministers to meet to consider response to Donald Trump’s tariffs – Europe live

  07-04-2025 11:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Meeting in Luxembourg follows EU trade commissioner’s meetings with US counterparts last week as Trump signals no intention to back downOutgoing German economy minister Robert Habeck is not mincing his words this morning in response to a question on US tariffs and how they were calculated.He says:“The calculations, from my point of view, are nonsense. Even the basis of the calculation is nonsense. The assumption that a trade budget surplus or deficit is a problem in itself, is a wron
  
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• Starmer to give speech on tariff turmoil but car industry says actions will have limited impact – UK politics live

  07-04-2025 11:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister to focus on car industry, which has been hit by 25% tariffs on exports to US, but manufacturers say ‘greater action almost certainly needed’Last night the Conservative party claimed that the changes to the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate announced by the government amounted to a U-turn.But this morning Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, said the changes – which don’t involve 2030 being changed as the phase out date for the sale of most new petrol and d
  
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• UK house prices slide after rush to beat stamp duty changes

  07-04-2025 11:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Average price fell by 0.5% in March to £296,699, the steepest decline since March last year, Halifax saysBusiness live – latest updatesUK house prices have suffered their steepest decline in a year as the market cools after a buyer rush to beat changes to stamp duty changes in England and Northern Ireland.The average price of a property fell by 0.5% last month to £296,699, the steepest decline in value since March last year, according to Halifax. Continue reading...
  
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• Peter Dutton would ‘dictate’ what students are taught, education minister warns private school sector

  07-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Opposition leader has ‘opened the doors’ to abolishing the department of education and cutting funding to schools, Jason Clare claimsInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe education minister has written to the peak independent and Catholic school bodies warning a Peter Dutton government will “dictate” what students are taught and promi
  
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• Marine Le Pen claims inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr

  07-04-2025 10:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Leader is appealing the court’s decision to ban her from running in the 2027 election
  
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• UK has ‘huge opportunity’ to be space watchdog, says former science minister

  07-04-2025 10:48 via theguardian.com
  George Freeman urges country to act as global lead for space regulation, insurance and financeThe UK’s role in the next generation of interplanetary exploration should be that of a space “watchdog” leading on regulation, insurance and finance, a former science minister has said, in an effort to rein in a situation he compared to the wild west.George Freeman, the MP for Mid Norfolk who was minister for science, research, technology and innovation under Boris Johnson and Rishi Su
  
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• Labour: changes to EV rules will have ‘negligible’ impact on UK emissions

  07-04-2025 10:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Transport secretary says overhaul in response to Trump tariffs supports car firms and climate goalsUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesLabour’s changes to electric vehicle (EV) rules in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs will have a negligible impact on emissions, the transport secretary has said.Keir Starmer has confirmed plans to boost manufacturers, including reinstating the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. Continue reading
  
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• North Korea hosts first international marathon since coronavirus pandemic

  07-04-2025 10:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of runners participated in North Korea’s first international marathon since the coronavirus pandemic began.
  
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• Weather tracker: Arctic air sends chill through eastern Europe

  07-04-2025 10:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Cold spell will move south this week with temperatures about 5-10C below average from Russia to GermanyAfter a cold weekend in north-eastern Europe, chilly conditions are expected to spread southwards this week. This cold spell is due to a large area of high pressure over the North Sea, which allowed very cold Arctic air to sink southwards over the weekend and will continue to do so this week.The chill began to be felt on Saturday in countries such as Poland and Lithuania, which had daytime high
  
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• Lori Vallow Daybell: ‘Doomsday’ mom who killed two of her children goes on trial over death of husband

  07-04-2025 10:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  A woman who was convicted of killing her two youngest children and conspiring to kill a romantic rival is on trial again
  
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• Marine Le Pen claims claims inspiration from Martin Luther King Jr

  07-04-2025 10:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Leader is appealing the court’s decision to ban her from running in the 2027 election
  
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• Rights groups urge Starmer to dial down anti-migrant rhetoric

  07-04-2025 10:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: 136 organisations call on PM to stop using ‘demonising language’, after his remarks before crime summitMore than 130 refugee and human rights organisations have called on Keir Starmer to stop using language that demonises migrants, after he made controversial remarks before an international people-smuggling summit.The criticisms are contained in a letter to the UK prime minister, coordinated by the campaign coalition Together With Refugees. It has been sent to the prime mi
  
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• Panic in Sweden, Denmark and Germany as markets tank across Europe following Trump tariffs

  07-04-2025 10:08 via express.co.uk
  
  Stocks across Europe nosedived as trading opened on Monday, with markets sharply down in Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany and Amsterdam.
  
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• ‘It will cripple the town’: Scunthorpe ponders life after steel as 2,700 jobs at risk

  07-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Business owners say they are already struggling and furnace closures would make trading worse, but some residents say it’s time to move on“Everyone is despondent,” said Roj Rahman when trying to sum up the mood of a town where thousands of people could be out of work and 160 years of iron and steelmaking history could come to a juddering end in just a few months.“The steelworks is the very fabric of Scunthorpe,” he said. “It’s not just the steelworks, it
  
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• Australia may dodge global trade war recession but Chalmers flags ‘substantial’ risks to growth

  07-04-2025 09:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Economist Warwick McKibbin says ‘economic and policy flexibility’ puts Australia in better position to escape fallout from Trump tariffsElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA global trade war will not drive Australia’s economy into recession, new Treasury modelling suggests, even as Jim Chalmers says he is realistic about “substantial” risks to growth from Donald Trump’s
  
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• Trump’s billionaire supporter Bill Ackman calls for 90-day pause on tariffs to avoid ‘economic nuclear war’: Live

  07-04-2025 09:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Stock futures drop again as president remains defiant on trade plan roiling international markets
  
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• Tourists in Italy will have to book place at beach via app in latest crackdown on visitors

  07-04-2025 09:41 via express.co.uk
  
  The idyllic beach in Sardinia has long been a favourite destination for tourists and has become a victim of its own popularity.
  
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• Labor may use ‘powers’ to take back Port of Darwin, Marles says – as it happened

  07-04-2025 09:36 via theguardian.com
  
  This blog is now closedASX 200 sheds $100bn in biggest one-day fall in five years as Trump tariffs send shares tumblingAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the first episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese reiterates that ‘social media companies have a social responsibil
  
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• ASX 200 sheds $100bn in biggest one-day fall in five years as Trump tariffs send shares tumbling

  07-04-2025 09:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Other times when ASX dropped by more than 4% include during pandemic, 2008 global financial crisis and 1987 stock market crashFalling Australian dollar spells bad news for travellers and shoppersGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastElection 2025 live updates: Australia’s federal election campaignThe Australian share market has recorded its biggest one-day fall in almost five years after fears of a full-blown trade war and global recession spooked investors, wipin
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Macron demands strong action if Putin continues to refuse peace

  07-04-2025 09:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Zelensky calls on West to amp up pressure after Putin's latest deadly air raid on Kyiv
  
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