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2024 was Earth’s warmest year on record
2024 was Earth’s warmest year on record. Will 2025 be of the same ilk?
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LA fires latest: wildfires become most destructive in city’s history
The LA fires still rage – catastrophic reality has rivalled fiction in the home of American disaster movies. As the fires spread the insurance losses mount. Estimates are that they’ve reached $13bn in just 24 hours.
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‘In hours 100 houses were gone’ – Hollywood director describes LA fires
We spoke to Malibu resident Jon Turteltaub. He’s also a film director and his credits include ‘Cool Runnings’, ‘National Treasure’ and ‘The Meg’.
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LA fires ‘like being in a blast furnace’, says journalist and author
We were joined by John Vaillant, journalist and author of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for his book Fire Weather, an account of the 2016 inferno that engulfed the oil town of Fort McMurray in Canada and an examination of our future in a more flammable world.
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How LA fires and climate change are fuelling US insurance crisis
With LA still under a red flag alert and new fires having to be dealt with, the impact on the ability of local people to insure their homes is under the spotlight.
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UK economy: slump in pound piles pressure on Labour
The cost of government borrowing rose again this morning and the pound fell – with financial markets still worried by the country’s faltering economy and weak public finances.
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‘Reeves has made UK more vulnerable’ says economist
We spoke to the economist Rupert Harrison who was chief of staff to former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.
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Busiest year on record for NHS emergency services in England
NHS England figures today say it was the busiest year on record for emergency services.
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Farmers heckle Environment Secretary during speech
The Environment Secretary has been met by a barrage of tractor horns and heckling farmers as he gave a speech on reforming the agricultural sector.
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Bradford’s year as UK city of culture begins – what will it change?
First Londonderry, then there was Hull and Coventry. Now, it’s the turn of Bradford to take up the mantle of UK City of Culture.
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Jimmy Carter funeral: Presidents pay tribute in Washington DC
Five former and serving US presidents have come together for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter.
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Army veteran becomes first disabled person to ski solo to South Pole
An army veteran has become the first disabled person to ski solo to the South Pole.
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Police covert surveillance of journalists and lawyers found unlawful
A massive police covert surveillance operation involving the Northern Ireland and Metropolitan police forces has been found unlawful by a panel of judges.
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Farage and Musk hold talks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Nigel Farage has been beside the seaside. Not in his Clacton constituency, but on the sun-kissed Florida coast.
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Labour refuses pay out for women affected by pension age changes
The government has been accused of a “bizarre and totally unjustified decision” – after rejecting compensation payments to women born in the 1950s who were not properly warned that their pension age was being increased – dubbed the WASPIs.
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DUBBED Life under Assad in ‘the capital of Syria’s revolution’
Syria’s third city, Homs, was called ‘the capital of the revolution’ against the regime of Bashar al Assad.
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Life under Assad in ‘the capital of Syria’s revolution’
Syria’s third city, Homs, was called ‘the capital of the revolution’ against the regime of Bashar al Assad.
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‘International community needs to get behind Syrian people’, says UN
The UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, addressed the Security Council earlier from Damascus where he met Syria’s new leadership.
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What Syria’s new army might look like
The leader of Syria’s HTS rebel group has promised to disband the armed factions that toppled Bashar al Assad and unite them under the authority of the defence ministry.
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Could an Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal be imminent?
Speculation is mounting that a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza could be imminent, as the White House said they were cautiously optimistic.
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Russia vows revenge after Ukraine kills top general in Moscow
A high ranking Russian general has been killed in Moscow after a device hidden in an electric scooter exploded as he was walking past.
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‘We need to act’: Education Secretary on child safeguarding
As a result of what happened to Sara Sharif, the government published new safeguarding measures in its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
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Sara Sharif: Father and stepmother sentenced to life imprisonment
The judge accused them of a ‘campaign of torture’ while showing not one shred of remorse as he sentenced Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother to life behind bars.
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Council funding crisis risks further explosion in knife violence, campaigners warn
New research, shared with Channel 4 News, suggests that children directly affected by violence are twice as likely to regularly attend youth clubs as those who have not.
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DUBBED True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave
His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.
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Letby lawyers to make new bid to challenge her convictions
Lawyers for the serial child killer Lucy Letby say they will make a new bid to challenge her convictions.
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Church abuse scandal: next Archbishop already facing calls to quit over inaction
The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell is facing renewed calls to quit, just three weeks before he takes over as de facto leader of the Church of England.
