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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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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin insists no timeline for peace after Trump’s latest tirade against Zelensky

  15-04-2025 12:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump once again falsely accuses Zelensky for starting Putin's invasion
  
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• Watch: David Lammy addresses Sudan conference as UK pledges £120m aid package

  15-04-2025 12:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch as David Lammy speaks at a conference on Sudan on Tuesday, 15 April, as the UK government announces a £120m food and aid package for the country.
  
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• Egypt’s tourism boost risks ruining country’s beaches forever, campaigners warn

  15-04-2025 12:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Environmentalists warn that even light construction on the beach would destroy one of Egypt’s last untouched marine sanctuaries
  
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• Multiple prisons in France hit by ‘co-ordinated’ attacks involving gunfire and arson

  15-04-2025 12:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vechicles set alight in prison car parks and a prison in the southern city of Toulon faced fire from an automatic weapon
  
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• Trump tariffs latest: JD Vance says good chance of UK trade deal and praises ‘cultural affinity’ with Britain

  15-04-2025 12:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  The UK has welcomed J.D. Vance’s statements, saying Britain was in a “good position” to negotiate
  
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• ‘We are the victims’: College student detained in Denmark after Uber brawl breaks silence

  15-04-2025 12:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Owen Ray, 19, and his friend are now stranded in Denmark after having their passports seized following an alleged Uber brawl earlier this month
  
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• Salvadoran man convicted in murder of mom-of-five in Maryland

  15-04-2025 12:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  The act of violence sent shock waves through Bel Air, a suburban community northeast of Baltimore
  
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• Rescue group releases new footage of pet dog lost in wild for 500 days: ‘Roast chicken seems to be favourite’

  15-04-2025 12:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  The tiny dog has been visiting the rescue group’s ‘trap site’ on a regular basis
  
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• MAGA is surging in popularity among Republican Party members, polling shows

  15-04-2025 11:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump says he’s ‘not, at all, surprised’ about the results of an NBC News poll suggesting his Make America Great Again movement has garnered an uptick in GOP support
  
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• Watch live: David Lammy addresses Sudan conference as UK pledges £120m aid package

  15-04-2025 11:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as David Lammy speaks at a conference on Sudan on Tuesday, 15 April, as the UK government announces a £120m food and aid package for the country.
  
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• Tiny detail on animal bone changes what we know about our human ancestors

  15-04-2025 11:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has been revealed
  
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• Judge Indira Talwani blocks Trump from ending Biden-era immigration program

  15-04-2025 11:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Massachusetts justice moves to shield immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela from administration’s hard-line deportation measures
  
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• Soldier jailed by Russia after he voluntarily surrendered to Ukraine

  15-04-2025 11:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ivanishin, who was reported to have denied all the charges, will serve his sentence in a maximum security facility
  
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• Multiple prisons in France hit by ‘co-ordinated’ attacks with gunfire and arson overnight

  15-04-2025 11:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vechicles were set alight in prison car parks and a prison in the southern city of Toulon was fired at from an automatic weapon
  
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• Man who didn’t want to look after girlfriend’s pet sent bomb threat to cruise she was on

  15-04-2025 11:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Hey, I think someone might have a bomb on your cruise ship’
  
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• El Salvador immigrant found guilty of murdering mother-of-five Rachel Morin

  15-04-2025 10:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The act of violence sent shock waves through Bel Air, a suburban community northeast of Baltimore
  
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• Illegal immigrant found guilty of murdering mother-of-five Rachel Morin

  15-04-2025 10:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The act of violence sent shock waves through Bel Air, a suburban community northeast of Baltimore
  
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• Tortillas in New Mexico, steak in Oregon... Bigfoot in California? Why US states are adopting new symbols

  15-04-2025 10:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Legislating isn’t always about taxes, tariffs and other serious issues. Lawmakers sometimes yearn for levity and the rare chance to find common ground
  
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• Lego boss and close friend of Danish royal family killed in skiing accident

  15-04-2025 10:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Michael Halbye, 64, had been skiing in the Verbier region on Saturday when he fell off piste and was fatally injured
  
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• How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown

  15-04-2025 10:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Harvard has become the first of six Ivy League schools to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands. Josh Marcus reports
  
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• At least 1800 hospitalised in Iraq as sandstorm halts flights and triggers power outages

  15-04-2025 10:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Airports in Najaf and Basra temporarily shut as visibility impaired due to the sandstorm deemed to be the biggest this year
  
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• Trump tariffs live updates: Vance says good chance of UK trade deal and praises ‘cultural affinity’ with Britain

  15-04-2025 09:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  The UK has welcomed the J.D. Vance’s statements, saying Britain was in a “good position” to negotiate
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump hits out at Zelensky and claims ‘millions are dead because of three people’

  15-04-2025 09:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump once again falsely accuses Zelensky for starting Putin's invasion
  
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• Another US aircraft carrier in Mideast waters ahead of second round of Iran-US nuclear talks

  15-04-2025 09:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
  
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• Adorable moment elephants huddle to protect calves during California earthquake

  15-04-2025 09:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  They formed a protective circle, with ears spread and flapping
  
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• Trump says Xi in Vietnam to ‘screw’ US as China calls for unity against tariff ‘bullying’

  15-04-2025 09:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chinese president urges Vietnam to resist ‘unilateral bullying’
  
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• JD Vance says Trump ‘working very hard’ with UK on negotiating trade deal

  15-04-2025 08:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  The UK government has been pursuing a tariff exemption deal with the US
  
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• Trump and cabinet tear into CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins in Oval Office showdown

  15-04-2025 08:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump and his cabinet hit out at a CNN journalist during a tense Oval Office showdown after she asked about a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
  
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• Steve Bannon wants nearly ‘unmitigated disaster’ Commerce Secretary Lutnick yanked off media

  15-04-2025 08:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has gushed about the coming glory days when ‘millions’ of Americans will soon be screwing screws into cell phones thanks to Trump tariffs
  
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