Biden says ‘carnage’ must end after horror of 21 killed at Texas school
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America is absorbing the shock of another bloody mass shooting a day after an 18-year-old man wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles entered an elementary school in Texas and gunned to death at least 19 child...
Inflation rate for UK’s poorest forecast to hit 14% after price cap rise
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Britain’s poorest households are expected to see their living costs increase by almost twice the rate as the richest in society do when energy bills rise this autumn, leading economists have warned. The Institute for ...
Two years after my mum’s death, flowers have become a portal to her
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It was springtime, two years ago, and my mum was dying. The crocuses bordering the paths of my local park were in full bloom and every day the plucky sprays of purple, yellow and white seemed to inch further skywards....
America howls with pain after Texas. Yet again we ask: ‘When are we going to do something?’
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“Texas.” It was said with incredulity, by one parent to another, outside my children’s school at pickup. On the east coast of the US on Tuesday night, where I live, the after-school clubs were letting out just as news...
‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C
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Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. But now, he says, the heat is getting worse. “In those days there were many trees in the wh...
Death of woman with epilepsy may be re-examined after Diane Stewart case
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The mother of a woman with epilepsy who died in 2016 hopes the high-profile murder of Diane Stewart could hold the key to establishing her daughter’s cause of death. Emily Whelan, 25, was found unresponsive in her bed...
Amanda Gorman decries US inaction on gun violence in poem after Texas school shooting
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Amanda Gorman, the 24-year-old US poet who rose to fame for her performance at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, has written a poem as the nation mourns the killing of 19 children in a mass shooting at an element...
‘What are we doing?’ Chris Murphy makes impassioned appeal after Uvalde school shooting – video
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Connecticut senator Chris Murphy has made emotive appeal for gun violence reform on the floor of the US Senate moments after learning 14 students had been massacred at an elementary school in Texas. "Mr. President, 14...