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Victorian cabinet to get major overhaul as deputy premier and three senior ministers confirm retirements
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Four senior Victorian government ministers, including the deputy premier, James Merlino, have confirmed they will quit politics, paving the way for a massive shake-up of the government’s leadership group just five mon...
Missguided will not refund customers, administrators confirm
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Customers of the collapsed fast fashion retailer Missguided will not receive refunds for returns, administrators of the business have confirmed. It comes after the Manchester-based company fell into insolvency last mo...
‘Historic day’: Finland’s leaders confirm intention to join Nato – video
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Speaking at the presidential palace in Helsinki, the Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö, and prime minister, Sanna Marin, formally declared that the country would apply for Nato membership. The Finnish parliament is ex...
Dead eagle found in Dorset was poisoned but case closed, police confirm
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A rare white-tailed eagle found dead in Dorset was poisoned, police have confirmed – but they have shut the case, in a decision the RSPB has called “baffling”. The eagle was one reintroduced on the Isle of Wight, waar...
Libyan presidential vote will not go ahead on Friday, officials confirm
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A Libyan parliamentary committee has said it has become “impossible” to hold a long-awaited presidential vote on Friday as scheduled, in a blow to international efforts to end a decade of chaos in the oil-rich country...
Stephen Port victim’s family did not confirm ‘suicide note’, inquest told
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The family of serial killer Stephen Port’s third victim deny confirming his handwriting was on a “suicide note” found on his body, 'n geregtelike doodsondersoek het gehoor. The body of Daniel Whitworth, 21, a chef, was found in a Barking...
Paul Dacre will get second chance to apply for Ofcom chair, ministers confirm
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Paul Dacre will “imminently” be offered another chance to become chair of the media regulator, Ofcom, ministers have confirmed. Ministers have been attempting to appoint the former Daily Mail editor to run the watchdo...
Police confirm four dead after single-vehicle collision in Bedfordshire
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Four people have died after a road collision that left a car on fire in a field. Police were called to the scene in Bedfordshire in the early hours of Sunday. One man was pronounced dead at the scene and on Monday off...
Manchester United confirm signing of Raphaël Varane from Real Madrid
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Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Raphaël Varane from Real Madrid, presenting the World Cup winner to the Old Trafford crowd before before Saturday lunchtime’s match with Leeds. The deal for the Frenchma...
July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm
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July was the world’s hottest month ever recorded, US government scientists have confirmed, a further indication of the unfolding climate crisis that is now affecting almost every part of the planet. The global land a...
Afghanistan likened to fall of Saigon as officials confirm Taliban take Kandahar
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Mitch McConnell has warned that America’s retreat from Afghanistan risks a replay of the nation’s humiliating withdrawal from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1975. As thousands of American soldiers were o...
Manchester United confirm £42.7m deal with Real Madrid for Raphaël Varane
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Manchester United have confirmed they have reached an agreement with Real Madrid to sign the centre-back Raphaël Varane. Having completed the signing of Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho in a £73m deal last week, ...
US officials confirm 130 incidents of mysterious Havana syndrome brain injury
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There have been more than 130 incidents of unexplained brain injury known as Havana syndrome among US diplomats, spies and defence officials, some of them within the past few weeks, it has been reported. The New York ...
Tanzania police confirm 45 people died in stadium crush
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A stampede at a Tanzanian stadium crushed 45 people to death as mourners paid last respects to the late President John Magufuli, police said on Tuesday – many times more than the five fatalities initially announced af...
Capitol riot suspect’s ‘I Was There’ shirt helps confirm his role, sê aanklaers
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If any of the Texas police officers who came to detain Capitol riot suspect Garret Miller were not sure they had the right man, the T-shirt they found him wearing offered something of a clue: it featured a photograph ...
UK scientists confirm arrival of brown marmorated stink bugs
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It is brown, stinky and will strike fear into the hearts of apple and other fruit growers. Scientists have now confirmed that the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys), a small flying insect that emits an unp...