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Iran protest: Activists hack state TV as children arrested for school demonstrations
Mass protests in Iran have now entered their fourth week posing the biggest challenge to the country’s Islamic leaders in years. Calls for the downfall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are gathering pace and so too is the crackdown by state police, with human rights groups estimating at least 185 people have been killed,…
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Children among 10 killed in Donegal petrol station blast
Police have warned the death toll from a huge explosion in a small village in Ireland could rise. Ten people including three children have so far been confirmed dead in the blast that destroyed a petrol station and shop in Creeslough. Several other victims are in hospital.
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Kabul: Suicide bomb blast kills at least 19 people at education centre
A suicide bomber has killed 19 people and injured dozens more at an education centre in Afghanistan where teenage girls were sitting an exam.
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“The story will continue because of my grandson”, says TikTok famous Auschwitz survivor
Tova Friedman was just five when she arrived at Auschwitz – young enough to be one of the Nazi death camp’s youngest survivors.
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Cost of living crisis: ‘Care providers are going out of business week by week’
For businesses, there’s no cap on energy prices. And with their utility bills heading through the roof, schools, hospitals and care homes are facing difficult choices as they try to budget for the months ahead.
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UK heatwave: Temperatures top 38C
Dozens of schools have closed, many train services have been cancelled or delayed amid fears the searing heat could cause train tracks to buckle – and flights were suspended at Luton airport because of problems with the runway.
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UK heatwave: Cobra meeting held as national emergency declared over soaring temperatures
Ministers have warned there could be significant disruption to transport services on Monday and Tuesday – as temperatures across a swathe of England could peak as high as 40 Celsius.
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‘Like living in a gas chamber’: the citizens suffering on Clean Air Day
Today is Clean Air Day – the UK’s largest air quality campaign embracing business, schools and the wider community which aims to highlight the dangers of air pollution.
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‘Catastrophic collision of failures’ revealed in mental health services
An exclusive Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered an 800% increase over the past five years in coroners issuing official warnings about cases involving mental health issues.
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Railway shutdown: UK facing biggest train strike in decades
The government has denounced the biggest train strike for decades as an “act of self harm”.
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The psychologist treating trauma in Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine has led to millions of people fleeing their homes, leaving their jobs, their schools, their relatives and their friends. That trauma, as well as witnessing the destruction of war is taking its toll.
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Record number of patients in hospital with Covid-19 in Scotland
The number of Covid infections is rising again across the UK.
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Birmingham City’s Troy Deeney calls for mandatory teaching of black, Asian and minority ethnic history
The footballer Troy Deeney has launched a campaign to make the teaching of Black, Asian and ethnic minority history mandatory in schools – saying the current education system is failing children from minority backgrounds.
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“Mad anti-vax people” talk “nonsense”, Education Secretary says
We spoke to Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi and began by asking him how confident he is that schools can avoid a return to online learning.
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Covid: Johnson hopes to ‘ride out Omicron’ without another lockdown
Schools are short of teachers, supermarkets are struggling to find staff, trains are cancelled and hospitals are declaring critical incidents.