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Four Hours at the Capitol review – a chilling look at the day the far right ‘fought like hell’
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Nick Alvear started believing in Trump “because 800,000 kids in America go missing every year – held captive, tortured and killed … enslaved sexually … I’m part of the first wave bringing awareness of this.” It is per...
Children locked in rooms at youth prison up to 23 hours a day – report
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Children being held in a privately run prison have been locked in their rooms for up to 23 hours a day in uncomfortably hot conditions, according to a damning report by three inspectorates. Inspectors who arrived unan...
Father warned police hours before officer Tasered son, inquest hears
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The father of an ex-soldier who died after being Tasered warned police hours before the incident that his son, who had post-traumatic stress disorder, was “insane” and needed sectioning, but no welfare check was carri...
Officials knew of California oil spill 12 hours before cleanup began
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More than 12 hours passed after officials were notified of a sheen on the water off the coast of southern California before a response to the Huntington Beach oil spill began, records show. Questions are now arising o...
Australia told French submarine firm it didn’t have green light to proceed hours before deal cancelled
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Australia cautioned the French contractor – hours before the $90bn submarine deal was cancelled – that its achievement of a key contractual milestone did “not provide any authorisation to continue work”. The letter, s...
Guardian Australia Reads: Peter Doherty on Covid, Twitter and Dan Murphy’s opening hours
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He has the most evoked name in Australia thanks to the Covid-19 modelling that bears it. Features editor Lucy Clark recommends Paul Daley’s profile on Peter Doherty, which ranges from politics to books, misinformation...
DfE considering return of Sats at 14 and axing teaching hours limits
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Radical proposals to bring back national testing for 14-year-olds and scrap limits on teaching hours are under consideration by ministers, the Guardian has learned. Plans have also been drawn up to hand more powers to...
Democrats barrel toward make-or-break vote as crucial 24 hours begins
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The next 24 hours will make clear whether Democrats are on the verge of pushing through a once-in-a-generation expansion of the social safety net or nearing a complete collapse of Joe Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda...
Low pay, long hours, broken dreams: working at Europe’s biggest meat exporter
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In October last year, Lucian Roșu found himself unemployed and homeless in Boxtel, a town in the southern Netherlands. “I went to the railway station and slept there in the cold and the rain,” he says. A few hundred m...
NHS ‘on the edge’ with some patients waiting 48 hours for a bed
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The NHS is struggling to cope with growing demand for urgent and emergency care, health officials have warned, with hospitals under the kind of pressure “usually seen at the height of winter”. A&E units across the...
Aukus: Australia sent ‘extremely satisfied’ letter hours before axing French contract
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France has said Australian military officials sent them a letter confirming they were “extremely satisfied” with French submarines just hours before they announced the €56bn (£48bn) contract would be cancelled in favo...
French woman held by Home Office officials at Gatwick for eight hours
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A French woman who has an EU settlement application under way was detained and held by Home Office officials at a London airport for more than eight hours. Tessa Stines has been living in the UK for the past year and ...
Kabul airport comes under rocket fire as US Afghanistan evacuation enters final 48 hours
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Several rockets were fired at Kabul airport on Monday, less than 48 hours before the United States is due to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Eyewitnesses said the rockets were launched from a car and w...
Afghanistan live news: US embassy warns of ‘specific, credible threat’ at Kabul airport as Biden says terror attack ‘highly likely in next 24-36 hours’
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Speaking on Saturday afternoon, Biden vows further strikes against Islamic State as airport terror threat ‘remains high’; largest UK evacuation mission since second world war comes to a close
Toyota take historic Le Mans 24 Hours victory in new Hypercar class
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Toyota ushered in a new era of sportscar racing as they ended the last, with another dominant win at the Le Mans 24 Hours. For the drivers, Britain’s Mike Conway, Japan’s Kamui Kobayashi and Argentina’s José Maria Lóp...
‘We walked 18 hours, no food’: Taliban advance triggers exodus of Afghans
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A weary Zebah Gul and her eight children are gathered quietly in a small room at a transit centre in Herat, north-eastern Afghanistan. Their six-month attempt to escape the war and find safety has failed. They have ju...