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Saudi Arabia under pressure over Khashoggi disappearance
The pressure on the government of Saudi Arabia is growing following the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi last week. A range of organisations are attempting to distance themselves from the regime. The Financial Times, CNN and the World Bank have all pulled out of a conference planned for later this month in Riyadh. And Turkey appears…
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Deaths after flash floods in Majorca
At least nine people are believed to have died in torrential rainstorms on the island of Majorca.
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Jamal Khashoggi: ‘hit squad’ linked to disappearance
The last-known CCTV images of Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi show him walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week.
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Jamal Khashoggi: Turkish authorities claim prominent journalist killed in Saudi consulate
A prominent writer, critical of his country’s leadership, vanishes and rumours abound that he’s been murdered by the regime. It might sound like the plot of a thriller, but Jamal Khashoggi’s friends say the allegations are deadly serious. His fiancée says he went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never came out. Turkish officials…
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Cuadrilla to restart fracking in Lancashire
The shale gas firm Cuadrilla is expected to start its long delayed work on a well in Lancashire next week, after years of protests and planning battles.
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Brexit clashes on day one of Tory Party conference
It’s day one of the Conservative Party conference and the Prime Minister is calling on her party to unite for Brexit but that hasn’t stopped Boris Johnson calling her Chequers plan ‘deranged’. We’re in Birmingham to speak to former Home Secretary Amber Rudd about her party’s Brexit worries.
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Economists warn of new financial crisis on anniversary of 2008 crash
They predicted the global financial meltdown a decade ago, now economists are warning another crash is on the way – putting the world’s economies at risk.
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Somerset councillors vote to slash spending
Fifteen million pounds in cuts to public services, from youth services to gritting the roads. Amid noisy protests outside, councillors in Somerset have voted to slash spending over the next two years, declaring the authority had “a duty to live within our means”. Councillors blamed cuts in government funding and warned if they didn’t make the sweeping cuts…
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Clare Bowen on Nashville, her childhood cancer and solo album
She found fame playing a country singer in the US television series Nashville. Now, with the sixth and final season over, Australian actor Clare Bowen is releasing a solo album that’s been over five years in the making.
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Natasha Devon: ‘Self-harm is always a symptom of some kind of distress’
Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield, mental health campaigner Natasha Devon and Leah Auty, who began self-harming as a teenager before seeking help with the counselling service Harmless, discuss the findings of the Good Childhood Report.
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Legendary DJ Sasha on the history of dance music, mental health and Avicii
In a rare TV interview, Alexander Coe – better known as Sasha – talks about his place in dance music’s history and about how the industry is starting to talk about mental health after the recent death of the DJ Avicii, who is thought to have taken his own life.
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Trump: ‘Impeach me and market will crash’
‘I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job’, Donald Trump has insisted – telling Fox News that if he was impeached the markets would crash and “everybody would be very poor”. And in another tirade against his former laywer Michael Cohen – who claimed the President directed him to make…
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Deborah Arnott, ASH: ‘E-cigarettes most popular quitting aides’
Martin McKee, who is professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Deborah Arnott, from Action on Smoking and Health, discuss vaping.
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Westminster car crash suspect being questioned by counter-terrorism police
Counter-terrorism officers are still questioning a 29-year-old British man who drove a small car into a security barrier in front of the Houses of Parliament early this morning, injuring pedestrians and cyclists. The police say the man, who’s not known to them, is not co-operating with the inquiry. Officers have been searching three properties in…
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Rashida Tlaib interview on Palestine, Trump’s America and becoming the first Muslim congresswoman
She says Americans are disconnected, not divided, and Israelis and Palestinians have more in common than they think. Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is now the Democratic party candidate for Michigan’s 13th district, a story hailed as the epitome of the American dream.