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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez denounces Elon Musk at Franco anniversary event
Pedro Sánchez has hit out at Elon Musk and his allies for “openly attacking our institutions, inciting hatred and openly calling for people to support the heirs of Nazism”, saying the politics of division, disinformation and hatred risk ushering in a new age of authoritarianism.
Speaking in Madrid on Wednesday …
Police carry out controlled explosions after alert in central London
A series of controlled explosions have been carried out in central London after Britain’s busiest shopping area was evacuated.
Bomb disposal teams carried out the detonations after a cordon was put up around the scene in the Regent Street area of central London.
The explosions were carried out as a …
Edinburgh to introduce tourist tax for overnight stays
Hotels, short-term lets and campsites in Edinburgh will start charging a visitor levy on all overnight stays in May, in a phased introduction to the scheme.
The levy, the first mandatory city-wide scheme in the UK, will be payable on all stays from July next year that are booked from …
Outdated guidelines mean doctors failing to spot heart condition in women
Doctors are failing to diagnose women with a potentially deadly heart condition because tests rely on outdated studies from the 1970s and do not account for natural differences in sex and body size.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic condition where the muscular wall of the heart becomes thickened, making …
Boy fatally stabbed on London bus named as Kelyan Bokassa
A 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death on a London bus has been named by his mother as Kelyan Bokassa.
Kelyan was travelling on a 472 bus to Abbey Wood when he was attacked at about 2.30pm on Tuesday as the bus was on Woolwich Church Road. Paramedics treated …
Bank of England plans to ease ‘burden’ on lenders as regulations eased
The Bank of England plans to slash the “reporting burden” on UK banks and allow insurers to make riskier investments without initial approval, as it comes under
government pressure to ease regulations
introduced after the financial crisis.Sam Woods, a deputy governor at the Bank who leads …
Acts of hate are on the rise in Australia – but naming them is proving fraught
Rates of antisemitism and Islamophobia in Australia have risen sharply since 7 October 2023, according to almost every source that has tracked incidents or surveyed attitudes.
But the extent of the rise has been questioned.
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Starmer attacks Badenoch over call for new inquiry into sexual abuse gangs
Keir Starmer has accused Kemi Badenoch of “bandwagon jumping” in calling for a new inquiry into sexual abuse gangs, as he condemned the Conservative leader for her plan to try to vote down a bill on children’s wellbeing.
In sometimes bitter exchanges at prime minister’s questions, as the topic of …
Facebook is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
end factchecking on its platforms
and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users.The American-Filipino journalist said Mark Zuckerberg’s move to relax content …