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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 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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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.
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Alleged Chinese spy named as Yang Tengbo
Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo – who has links to Prince Andrew – has denied allegations that he is a spy.
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Syrians have become a ‘scapegoat’ in Germany, says Syrian journalist
We spoke to Syrian journalist and pro-democracy activist Rami Jarrah.
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Scholz loses vote of no confidence – what now for Syrians?
Events in Syria are being watched very closely here, not least because this country has hosted more than a million Syrian refugees since 2015, more than any other European country.
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How are events in Syria playing out in the US?
What chance is there of accountability for the Assad regime given the evidence being uncovered at Al-Qutayfa and elsewhere in Syria?
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Assad could one day face court, says former US war crimes ambassador
We spoke to Stephen Rapp, who served as the US ambassador at large for war crimes issues in the Office of Global criminal justice under President Obama.
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‘It’s a slaughterhouse, a machinery of death,’ says Syrian Emergency Task Force director
We spoke to Mouaz Mustafa and asked how certain he was that his uncle was one of those buried in the mass graves of Al-Qutayfa.
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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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Is Labour’s immigration plan working?
The search for a solution to ever rising illegal migration took the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to Rome today for talks with her Italian counterpart.
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US government insists drones spotted over New Jersey pose no threat
The US federal government has insisted that drones spotted in the night time skies of New Jersey pose no threat.
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Israeli forces ramp up attacks in northern Gaza
Forty people have been killed in a strike on a school in Beit Hanoun in the far north of the Gaza strip, according to local civil defence workers.
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Nearly 1,000 feared dead as cyclone hits French island Mayotte
A tropical cyclone, made stronger by climate change causing rising ocean temperatures, has killed hundreds of people in Mayotte, a French department in the Indian Ocean. The island’s top government official told the local broadcaster that the death toll may yet rise to near 1,000.
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Grand Theft Hamlet: Shakespeare remade in a video game
Two actors struggled to find work during the pandemic, they found an unlikely outlet for their craft – staging a production of Hamlet entirely inside the online world of Grand Theft Auto.
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New Georgia president will ‘escalate tensions’, says RUSI associate fellow
We spoke to Natia Seskuria, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services think tank.
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Georgia: Former Man City footballer named president
A former Premier League footballer has been chosen as the new President of Georgia – though not by its people.
