Airline to weigh passengers alongside their hand luggage for 'flight safety'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Flight passengers will be weighed alongside their hand luggage for “safety reasons” says a major airline company. Read More
Desperate asylum seeker 'shot in knee trying to board dinghy without paying traffickers'
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Ruthless smugglers shot a desperate refugee through the kneecap and foot for trying to board a dinghy without paying, it is claimed. Read More
Madagascar: At least 12 killed in stadium stampede at opening ceremony
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar’s national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games has…
Travel warning for Spain, France and Turkey as illness spreads
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Many Britons will look forward to going on holiday all year, but the excitement shouldn’t stop them from being cautious when overseas….
Thousands of women and girls were sexually assaulted after peace deal in Ethiopia's Tigray, study shows
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Scores of women and girls in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region were sexually assaulted, often by multiple men alleged to be combatants Read…
New flame retardants found in breast milk years after similar chemicals were bannedNew flame retardants found in breast milk years after similar chemicals were banned
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Reading Time: < 1 minute In the early 2000s, researchers tested breast milk samples from U.S. mothers and found high levels of toxic compounds used as a…
Asylum seekers say Bibby Stockholm conditions caused suicide attempt
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Thirty-nine asylum seekers who were briefly accommodated on the Home Office’s controversial Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset have said conditions Read More
With one glowering mug shot, Trump joins a notorious album of (alleged) criminals
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The celebrity mug shot has become an industry unto itself, fueling everything from memes and t-shirts to late-night comedy bits as the…
Lockdowns and the 'rule of six' DID slow the spread of Covid - but most international travel restrictions didn't work, according to major review of disruptive pandemic restrictions
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Unprecedented stay-at-home orders including social distancing and the ‘rule of six’ did reduce the spread of Covid infections, a landmark review of…
'I will try again': Dozens of people saved from sea after migrant boats get into trouble off France
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Reading Time: < 1 minute As the UK prepared to release its latest immigration figures, dozens of people were being saved by French officials from the sea….