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Chaos at UK airports as e-passport gates fail
Long queues have been building up at major airports around the UK after electronic passport gates stopped working – leaving many passengers forced to wait for several hours.
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Post Office former postmaster describes company as a ‘mafia’
We spoke to former postmaster Seema Misra.
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Post Office used ‘unacceptable’ racist slur to describe Horizon scandal suspects
As if wrongly prosecuting hundreds of people wasn’t enough – now the Post Office has been forced to apologise for using racist terms to describe postmasters caught up in the Horizon computer scandal.
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Equality and Human Rights Commission says it has ‘paused’ independent investigation into chair Baroness Falkner
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has announced it has “paused” an independent investigation into its Chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner. On Tuesday, this programme revealed that Baroness Falkner was under investigation by an external barrister after allegations about her conduct from a number of staff. Our report also examined claims of a toxic culture at…
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Channel 4 News names STV’s Kathryn Samson as Scotland Correspondent
Kathryn Samson is an award-winning Scottish journalist, with over 15 years of experience in television news. She joins from STV where she has served as Westminster Editor and Correspondent since 2019.
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Coronation Big Help Out: millions fewer volunteering in UK since 2019
People across the UK have been invited to join a volunteering drive as part of the Coronation weekend – described as the Big Help Out.
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Ukraine: Red Cross warehouse among buildings hit in Russia airstrikes
At least 3 civilians have been killed and dozens injured after Russia launched another wave of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine during the night.
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Expert AI warning – machines don’t know ‘right and wrong’
They call him the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence, a pioneer of the technology but Dr Geoffery Hinton has quit his job at Google – saying he was worried about the dangers of AI.
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Can the fentanyl crisis be solved? Expert explains
We spoke to Ben Westhoff – who’s spent years investigating the hazardous world of synthetic drugs – and the illegal industry behind the opioid epidemic.
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The impact of the deadly fentanyl ‘plague’ on one American city
The supply of fentanyl reaching the US is increasingly arriving from south of the border, supplied by Mexico’s crime cartels.
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Teachers ‘leaving in droves’: data reveals school staffing problem
During a strike there is inevitably much talk about pay, but we look at the data behind the ongoing dispute between the government and the teaching profession.
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‘It’s as close to a civil war as you can get’ says former UN Humanitarian coordinator in Sudan
Professor Mukesh Kapila was the UN Humanitarian coordinator in Sudan until 2004 and joined us from Geneva.
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Sudan’s warring generals agree new ceasefire – but civil war fears grow
Sudan’s warring generals have agreed – in principle at least – to a seven day ceasefire starting on Thursday, as fighting continues in the capital Khartoum.
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50 found dead after suspected Kenya ‘starvation cult’ ritual
The Kenyan President William Ruto has compared a Christian cult suspected of telling followers to starve themselves to death, to terrorism. Police in Eastern Kenya have already discovered the bodies of more than fifty people.
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The British aristocratic families reckoning with their slave owning past
The descendants of some of the country’s biggest slave owners have launched a joint appeal for the Government to apologise – and atone for Britain’s role in slavery – including a programme of restorative justice. The signatories include the current Earl of Harewood.