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Earthquake with 4.3 magnitude rocks San Francisco Bay Area | San Francisco
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 rocked the San Francisco Bay Area early on Monday, waking up many people, with more than 22,000 saying they felt it, according to the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was just east-south-east of Berkeley, the survey said. It happened shortly before 3am PT. People posted online that […]
Russian violation of Estonian airspace brings region ‘closer to conflict’, foreign minister says – Europe live | Russia
Russian provocations represent ‘destabilising escalation’ that brings region ‘closer to conflict than at any time in recent years,’ Estonia’s foreign minister says Flanked by foreign ministers and senior diplomats from other countries, Estonia’s Tsahkna reads out a statement on behalf of 50 countries and the EU condemning the incident in which three Russian fighter jets […]
Hiring of military lawyers as immigration judges alarms law experts | Trump administration
The Trump administration has started recruiting hundreds of military lawyers to sit as immigration judges, presiding over what are often life-and-death federal decisions for immigrants in the US, as experts warn the White House strategy is high-risk and arguably unlawful. The judgeships are temporary, but renewable, and the government’s goal is to fill an acute […]
Ted Cruz urges Trump to back older retirement age for pilots | Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who heads the US Senate’s commerce committee, has urged Donald Trump to support international efforts by an airline trade group to raise the mandatory pilot retirement age to 67 – despite opposition from a pilots association, which says such a move could increase travel risks. In a letter first reported […]
European officials warn Israel not to annex parts of West Bank in response to recognition of Palestinian state – Middle East crisis live | Palestinian territories
European officials warn Israel over West Bank annexation plans following moves towards recognition We are restarting our live coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and the diplomacy around it. European officials have reportedly warned Israel not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank in retaliation for western countries recognition of Palestinian statehood. The UK, […]
Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK – politics live | Politics
Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UK Good morning. Last month Reform UK unveiled its “Operation Restoring Justice” plan for the mass deportation of people living in Britain without permission to be here. It was aimed at illegal immigrants, but Nigel Farage, the […]
Weather tracker: Flash floods and landslides wreak havoc in California | Flooding
Flash flooding and landslides led to the death of a two-year-old boy in California in the US last week, after heavy rainfall followed on the heels of Tropical Storm Mario further south. The storm skirted the Pacific coast of Mexico with minimal disruption, eventually dissipating to the west of Baja California on Tuesday, but the […]
Sky News Australia admits editorial failure after guest insults Islam while wearing bacon-covered shirt | Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia has admitted a failure of editorial process allowed a guest to deliver a highly offensive diatribe against Islam while wearing a shirt festooned with raw bacon rashers. Introducing the UK-based man as a “social media sensation”, Sky News host Freya Leach sat mute while Ryan Williams called Muslims terrorists and explained he […]
Records of deadly 1934 pit explosion in Wrexham to be displayed near site | Wales
Poignant records relating to a colliery disaster in the 1930s that lay unseen for decades at the National Archives are being put on display close to the site of the mine in north Wales. Among the documents at the west London archive are petitions and emotional letters calling for the bodies trapped in the underground […]
Vodafone franchisees warned of ‘massive impact’ of commission cuts on mental health | Vodafone
Vodafone franchisees warned the telecoms group of the “massive impact” commission cuts were having on their mental health four years before a group of 62 launched a £120m high court claim against the company, it has emerged. Franchisees of the high street chain said they were feeling stressed and had suffered from “anxiety” as a […]