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• The markets are tumbling, again — how can you recession-proof your finances?

  07-04-2025 19:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  With global markets in disarray, is now the time to panic or stash cash in your attic? Personal finance influencer Vivian Tu, tells Mike Bedigan what people should be doing instead
  
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• El Salvador President Nayib Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

  14-04-2025 18:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Supreme Court ordered Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from Salvadoran prison
  
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• Two dead, another infected, as rare brain disease reported in one Oregon county

  14-04-2025 18:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which causes sponge-like holes to develop in the brain, have been found in Hood River County
  
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• Two American college students jailed in Denmark for allegedly fighting with Uber driver

  14-04-2025 18:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Owen Ray’s mother fears for her son, as she claims he and his friend are being ‘locked up 23 hours a day’ in a Copenhagen jail
  
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• Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana, where thousands of immigrants are detained in private prisons

  14-04-2025 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward
  
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• Bukele won’t commit to returning man who was mistakenly deported from U.S.

  14-04-2025 18:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to ‘facilitate’ the man’s return after he was deported and incarcerated in a Salvadoran prison
  
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• John Oliver skewers ‘toddler’ Trump’s tariffs fiasco and JD Vance’s role in administration

  14-04-2025 18:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Comedian rebukes president for ‘total chaos’ of economic policy and warns: ‘The monkey still has a gun!’
  
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• One dead, five missing, after boat capsizes off Florida’s Treasure Coast

  14-04-2025 18:08 via independent.co.uk
  A survivor from the overturned vessel told to investigators that five people had drowned
  
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• A fugitive Indian jeweler accused of a $1.8bn bank fraud has been arrested in Belgium

  14-04-2025 17:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fugitive Indian jeweler Mehul Choksi, who has been accused of involvement in one of India’s biggest bank frauds, has been arrested in Belgium
  
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• Karenna Groff, former NCAA woman of year, is killed with her family in upstate New York plane crash

  14-04-2025 17:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after noon on Saturday in a muddy field in Copake, New York, near the Massachusetts line, killing everyone on board, NTSB officials said
  
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• What to know about fluoride, the substance at the heart of SNL’s ‘unfunny’ skit

  14-04-2025 17:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fluoride has hit the headlines again after a “mean” SNL skit
  
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• More than 70 arrested during Athens riots after Molotov cocktails thrown at police

  14-04-2025 17:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Several cars and motorcycles were set on fire outside a police station as tempers flared in Exarchia
  
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• Trump tariffs live: President suggests he can predict the future while markets react to tech duty pause

  14-04-2025 17:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  President says he will detail the new tariffs on chips soon, as his commerce secretary warns that exemptions for electronic goods will likely be short-lived
  
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• What is foot and mouth disease? The outbreak that has closed borders in Europe

  14-04-2025 17:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Foot and mouth disease – usually referred to by its acronym FMD – is the most feared livestock disease in the world
  
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• Cody Balmer was arrested for allegedly setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s residence. What we know

  14-04-2025 17:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Suspect in the arson attack had prior simple assault charges and shared disgruntled posts about the United States
  
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• Trump claims he wants to boost American manufacturing. But the industry is already in chaos over his tariffs

  14-04-2025 16:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump trade policies created an ‘unwillingness to work with American companies,’ U.S. coffee grower says
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump accused of Putin ‘propaganda’ by Kyiv after labelling Sumy attack a ‘mistake’

  14-04-2025 16:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  EU foreign ministers to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine and new sanctions on Russia
  
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• Blue Origin flight live updates: Katy Perry and star-studded crew return from brief space launch

  14-04-2025 16:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The first all-female trip to space in more than six decades launched from West Texas on Monday morning
  
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• Sarah Palin’s defamation case against the New York Times returns to trial

  14-04-2025 16:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The case is, in many respects, an old-school media libel action resurrected into a newly complicated defamation landscape,’ one legal expert said about the new trial
  
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• Katy Perry and all-female crew land safely after being blasted into space on Blue Origin rocket

  14-04-2025 15:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jeff Bezos’s partner joins crew on trip to space on board his company’s private rocket
  
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• ‘Mental health is real’: Kyren Lacy’s father shares emotional tribute after son’s apparent suicide

  14-04-2025 15:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former LSU receiver, 24, died in an apparent suicide in his car while being pursued by authorities in Houston over the weekend
  
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• British holiday hotspot Lanzarote hit by flash floods after month of rain falls in hours

  14-04-2025 15:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Footage shows cars submerged on waterlogged roads and streams turned into dangerous rapids in the Spanish island
  
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• Blue Origin launch live: Katy Perry and all-female crew blast off into space

  14-04-2025 15:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Singer will join Gayle King, Lauren Sanchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn on the first all-female trip to space in more than six decades
  
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• AOC tells massive crowd in Utah that working Americans are ‘more qualified’ than most in Congress

  14-04-2025 15:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Many of us are far more qualified to understand what real life is actually like,’ AOC cried out to thousands of Democratic supporters Sunday
  
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• Katy Perry blasted into space on all-female rocket launch

  14-04-2025 15:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jeff Bezos’s partner joins crew on trip to space on board his company’s private rocket
  
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• Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 20-26

  14-04-2025 15:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Celebrities having birthdays during the week of April 20-26 include actor Giancarlo Esposito, singer-TV personality Kelly Clarkson and comedian George Lopez
  
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• As legacy of Ford fades in Brazil, China's BYD looks to extend global lead in EV sales

  14-04-2025 15:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chinese giant automaking company BYD bought Ford Motor Co.'s former facilities in Brazil and has promised to run the company’s largest plant outside China in the hardscrabble city of Camacari in northeastern Bahia state
  
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• Flood water and thick mud flow through Lanzarote streets as state of emergency declared

  14-04-2025 15:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Roads have become muddy rivers in Lanzarote on Monday, 14 April, after torrential rainfall over the Spanish Canary Island.
  
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• Blue Origin launch live: Katy Perry and all-female crew about to blast off into space

  14-04-2025 14:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  US singer will join five other women on the first all-female trip to space in more than six decades
  
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• Why is Trump trying to excuse Russia’s latest massacre?

  14-04-2025 14:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump’s mumbled explanation for Russia’s ‘horrible’ Sumy bombing is no sign that he’s getting tough on Putin, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
  
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