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FactCheck: caution advised on Covid-19 death toll
Experts have long warned not to put too much weight on deaths reported on a single day.
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LGBT children forced into homelessness by fear of persecution in their own homes
Imagine growing up with the threat of violence, attacks – and forced marriage. And this from your own parents.
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Sara Canning: ‘I’m torn between being over moon for friends and heartbroken because person I wanted to marry isn’t here to see that happen’
Sara Canning, the partner of the murdered journalist Lyra McKee, urged the Prime Minister to legislate for same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
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Series 3, Episode 5: Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is an American author and winner of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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Author Tayari Jones on Trump: ‘I do not believe he represents the soul of our nation’
Trump’s America has become a battleground for racial equality, LGBT rights and most recently reproductive rights, with extreme abortion laws introduced in Ohio, Alabama, Missouri and Georgia.
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Lyra McKee’s friends feel ‘worthless’ after Northern Ireland Office spends just £318 on LGBT rights
Ruth Davidson says she will go back to Theresa May over PM’s promise to advance LGBT rights in Northern Ireland
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Lyra McKee’s partner: Theresa May ‘derelict in her duties to Northern Ireland’
In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, Sara Canning reveals Lyra had been planning an ‘incredibly romantic’ proposal – and they were supposed to get engaged this week. She also accuses her killers of being ‘no better than paedophiles’.
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Divorce laws to be reformed to end ‘blame game’
Divorce laws in England and Wales are to be overhauled under plans to make it easier for couples to end their marriage without a “blame game”.
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FactCheck: is austerity reducing life expectancy?
Life expectancy in England is not growing at the rate that experts predicted before 2011. What’s going on?
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Civil service is near breaking point, union warns
Staff complained of being overworked and understaffed – with some pointing to Brexit as a contributing factor.
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Spice Girl Mel B on domestic abuse
In 1994, Melanie Brown was one of 600 hopeful young women who auditioned to join the Spice Girls – a group that became the world’s most famous young female band of all time.
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Bakery wins ‘gay cake’ court appeal
The manager of a Belfast bakery said he was “delighted and relieved” after the Supreme Court ruled that his company was not discriminating against a customer when it refused to make a cake iced with the slogan “support gay marriage”.
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Catholic church abuse victim on meeting the Pope
Irish survivors of Catholic abuse who held a private meeting with the Pope yesterday have said he appeared to have no knowledge of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, where women who had children outside marriage were locked up and their babies taken from them.
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The unsolved murder of transgender woman Mesha Caldwell
2017 was one of the deadliest years for transgender people in the United States. At least 28 murders were reported by the Human Rights Campaign, the worst on record. Many in the LGBT community fear the struggle for acceptance has taken a step backwards under President Trump. His administration has already tried to ban transgender…
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How Channel 4 News has shone a light on the issue of immigration and deportation over the last decade
Immigration, and our attitude to it, has rarely been out of the headlines, as these revelatory Channel 4 News reports by Simon Israel from the last decade show.