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The UK seeks to send a message to Moscow as it outlines higher defense spending

The UK seeks to send a message to Moscow as it outlines higher defense spending
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UK Sikhs may ‘no platform’ Labour MPs over lack of Amritsar massacre inquiry

Exclusive: Sikhs ‘frustrated’ over Labour’s failure to investigate UK’s role in 1984 Golden Temple massacre

British Sikhs are threatening to “no platform” Labour MPs over failure to deliver a public inquiry into UK complicity in the 1984 Golden Temple massacre in India, amid warnings “frustrated” Sikh voters could back Reform UK.

Over 450 gurdwaras, charities, associations and university societies have written to prime minister Keir Starmer demanding he honour previous promises to fully investigate the affair or risk “massive consequences for the re-election of many Labour MPs.”

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Road accident in northern Nigeria kills 22 athletes returning from a sports festival

Road accident in northern Nigeria kills 22 athletes returning from a sports festival [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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New Yorker Has Viral Theory About Short Nails: ‘Recession’

The expert gave a “heads up” on the trend in a viral TikTok video.
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Ncuti Gatwa Regenerates Into Billie Piper in Shocking ‘Doctor Who’ Finale Twist — Is She the New Doctor?

The series has been somewhat cryptic about confirming her official role.
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One Dead, 11 Injured in North Carolina Mass Shooting. Suspect At Large.

The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said authorities responded to a report of multiple persons shot at a residence on Walnut Acres Drive.
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Can Trump fix the national debt? Republican senators, many investors and even Elon Musk have doubts

Can Trump fix the national debt? Republican senators, many investors and even Elon Musk have doubts [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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Grok comments on NYT FBI article https://t.co/RCmj8XG3NN Recent reports highlight growing tension within the FBI following Director Kash Patel’s actions to remove senior officials and implement controversial measures. Patel, who became the ninth Director of the FBI on February… pic.twitter.com/wS8vJEW0pZ

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Riots after Southport attack more similar to those in 1958 than in 2011, study finds

Researchers question unrest being far-right protests and say disorder had more in common with 1950s race riots

The riots that swept the UK last summer had more in common with race riots in the 1950s in Nottingham and Notting Hill, west London, than they did with disorder that broke out in 2011, academic researchers have found.

Violence first erupted on the streets of Southport after the murder of three young girls, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside town. The perpetrator, Axel Rudakubana, was later jailed for a minimum of 52 years.

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American Teacher in South Korea Compares School Lunch to U.S.—’Grotesque’

William Pacheco has painful memories of the school lunches he was served as a kid growing up in Florida in the 1990s.