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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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Prince Andrew reportedly invited ‘spy’ to Buckingham Palace
The Home Secretary has declined to directly comment on the case of a Chinese businessman, accused of being a spy, who was invited to Buckingham Palace by Prince Andrew, according to The Times newspaper.
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South Korea: MPs vote to impeach President Yoon
The South Korean parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, who tried, briefly, to impose martial law on his country.
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Lab-made ‘mirror bacteria’ risks life on Earth, scientists warn
Leading scientists have called for any efforts to one day make “mirror bacteria” in a lab to stop – warning that it would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.
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Former diplomat: Prince Andrew ‘spy’ contact shows China’s strategy of interference ‘in action’
An alleged Chinese spy described as a “close confidant” of Prince Andrew has lost an appeal against a decision to ban him from the UK on national security grounds.
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Analysis: UK economy shrinks for second month in a row
Britain’s economy unexpectedly shrank in October, according to the latest official data.
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Horror in Gaza as Israeli airstrike on refugee camp kills dozens
After a brief lull while it turned its attention to Syria, Israel’s military has resumed its bombing of Gaza.
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Syrians fight to identify loved ones in desperate prison search
While many Syrians celebrate, others continue their desperate search for loved ones disappeared by Assad’s brutal regime.
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Russian forces retreat as celebrations fill Syria’s streets
It’s been a day of celebration across Syria.
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France’s fourth PM in a year: what challenges lie ahead?
National Rally have branded Francois Bayrou a “dummy of Macronism” and will choose their moment to once again wield their guillotine.
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Sara Sharif: Britain’s latest child murder tragedy – what hope of change?
Sara is not the first child to be murdered by those meant to love and protect; just the latest innocent young face to be held up as a symbol of this country’s child protection failings.
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Syria: Mourners gather for activist Mazen al-Hamada funeral [DUBBED]
He was the Syrian activist who became a symbol of the Assad regime’s brutality. Mazen Al-Hamada was one of tens of thousands detained and tortured after the 2011 uprising against Assad’s rule.
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Syria: Inside Captagon drug factory which funded Assad’s brutal regime [DUBBED]
It’s been called the poor man’s cocaine. Captagon: the drug that funded Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule in Syria.
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Liverpool library torched by rioters reopens
One of the buildings torched during the riots this summer was a Liverpool library. The Children’s Laureate described the attack as an “assault on the truth”.
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Revealed: The cycle of homelessness, hospital admission and discharge
Hospital bosses are desperate to free up beds, but some are occupied by homeless people, who can’t be discharged without somewhere safe to go.
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Sara Sharif: New details revealed over 10-year-old’s case
A day after the father and stepmother of Sara Sharif were found guilty of her murder, a report has revealed that 485 children were killed or seriously harmed by abuse or neglect in England in the year to April.
