Day: April 13, 2025
Starmer condemns Russian missile strike on Ukraine after 34 killed on Palm Sunday
April 13, 2025Sir Keir Starmer has condemned a deadly Russian missile strike that killed at least 34 people in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as residents gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday. The Prime Minister said he was “appalled” by the attack, which saw two ballistic missiles hit the heart of the city on Sunday morning. The dead […]
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Israel’s latest strike on Gaza hospital is ‘appalling’, says Archbishop of York
April 13, 2025The Archbishop of York has condemned Israel’s “appalling” latest strike on a hospital in Gaza, which left a girl dead. The pre-dawn strike on Palm Sunday hit Anglican-run Al-Ahli Hospital – the only Christian unit in Gaza. Patients were forced to evacuate and a girl died as people fled because medical staff were unable to […]
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Donald Trump ‘fully fit’ to serve as US president, White House doctor says after recent physical exam
April 13, 2025The 78-year-old is 20 pounds (9kg) lighter since his last exam five years ago showed him bordering on obesity. He was also found to have scaring on the right ear from a gunshot wound after a failed assassination attempt last July. His doctor, Navy Captain Sean Barbabella, cited the avid golfer’s “active lifestyle” that ”continues […]
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Government to review how ‘Manchester bomb plotter could attack prison guards’
April 13, 2025Abedi threw hot cooking oil over three officers on Saturday before stabbing them with “home-made weapons”, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said. The officers sustained life-threatening injuries including burns, scalds and stab wounds in the “unprovoked” and “vicious” attack in HMP Frankland, Country Durham, according to the trade union covering prison staff. HMP Frankland in […]
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Summon Chinese ambassador after MP refused entry to Hong Kong – Davey
April 13, 2025Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse was refused entry to Hong Kong without explanation (Jonathan Brady/PA) PA Archive Sir Ed Davey has called on the Foreign Secretary to summon the Chinese ambassador and demand an explanation after a Liberal Democrat MP was refused entry to Hong Kong. Bath MP Wera Hobhouse had travelled to Hong Kong […]
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Body found in search for girl, 11, who went missing in River Thames
April 13, 2025The family of an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the Thames last month have been told that a body has been found in the river. Kaliyah Coa, who had been playing with another young girl and boy during a school inset day, slipped into the water on March 31 before a life ring could […]
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Body found after girl, 11, went missing in River Thames
April 13, 2025A body has been found after an 11-year-old girl went missing in the River Thames, police have said. The Metropolitan Police said they were alerted to a body in the River Thames in Maritime Quay around 9am on Sunday morning. Officers said the body is yet to be formally identified, “however, the family of Kaliyah […]
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Expert warns hay fever season has arrived early as ‘pollen bomb’ hits UK
April 13, 2025Hay fever season has started early as pollen rates have surged across the UK. Pollen levels in London and the South East of England reached “very high” levels on Sunday and are predicted to continue until Tuesday when they drop a little, according to the Met Office. Other areas of the country, in the South […]
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Murder probe launches after death of woman in her 40s in London
April 13, 2025Noora Mykkanen Published April 13, 2025 2:48pm Updated April 13, 2025 2:48pm A woman in her 40s was found ‘seriously injured’ before her death in southeast London this morning. The alarm was raised at about 6.41am this morning after a seriously injured woman was discovered on Hatfield Close in Lewisham. Crews from the London Ambulance […]
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Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for Tulip Siddiq – as she denies claims against her
April 13, 2025Anti-corruption authorities in Bangladesh have issued a warrant for the arrest of British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq. Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sought the warrant over allegations Ms Siddiq received a 7,200sq ft plot of land in the country’s capital, Dhaka. Ms Siddiq’s lawyers have told Sky News the allegations are “completely false”, adding there was […]
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