Real World News
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China mosque demolition sparks stand-off in Ningxia 10 August 2018 Image copyright Weibo Image caption The Weizhou mosque is a towering structure that features domes and minarets in a Middle Easte…
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10 August 2018 Image copyright Getty Images Department store chain House of Fraser is to appoint administrators after giving up the fight to save the business. In a statement, it said that talks with investors and creditors had "not concluded in a solvent solution". House of Fraser employs 17,500 people, including 11,500 concession staff. Its fat…
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North Korea lashes out at US diplomats over sanctions 10 August 2018 Related TopicsTrump Kim summit Image copyright AFP Image caption Is the rhetoric returning to the big guns? …
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US migrants: Judge orders deportation plane turnaround 10 August 2018 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made a number of changes to crackdown on US migr…
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Immigration: Scrap targets after Brexit, CBI urges 10 August 2018 Related TopicsBrexit Image copyright Getty Images The net migration targets should be scrapped after Brexit, business body the CBI has said. Targets should be replaced with a system that…
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France floods: 1,600 evacuated, German missing at campsite 9 August 2018 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHeavy floods hit southern France Heavy floods have forced the evacuation of 1,600 people - most of them campers - in southern France, officials say. They say a 70-year-old German man who was helping to supervise children at …
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Yemen war: Children killed in air strike on bus 9 August 2018 Related TopicsYemen crisis Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Red Cross said a hospital it supports in Saada had received doze…
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Child abuse inquiry: School 'reputations put before abuse victims' 9 August 2018 Image caption Pupils at Ampleforth (pictured) and Downside were subjected to "appalling" sexual abuse over 40 years, the report says …
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Boris Johnson's comments comparing women who wear the burka to "bank robbers" and "letter boxes" would not "reach the bar" for a criminal offence, the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has said. Commissioner Cressida Dick admitted that "some people have clearly found it offensive" but that officers that specialise in dealing with hate crime believed "he did not commit a criminal offence". https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/johnson-remark-does-not-reach-bar-for-criminal-offence/ar-BBLH76g
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Waits for non-urgent surgery in England rise sharply 9 August 2018 Image copyright Getty Images The number of patients waiting more than a year for non-urgent surgery in England has risen sharply to the highest level in more than six years. The figure r…
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8 August 2018 Related TopicsRussian spy poisoning The US is to impose sanctions on Russia after determining that it used nerve agent against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the UK in March. The move was announced on Wednesday by the US state department. Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious on a bench in the town of Salisbury, England, on 4 March. …
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A Metropolitan police officer diagnosed with terminal brain cancer is trying to raise £250,000 for treatment in the US in the hope of seeing her only daughter grow up. Pc Jade Goffin, 30, has been told she will not live to see five-year-old Eva celebrate her eighth birthday. In February last year she was diagnosed with late-stage triple negative breast cancer, a rare, aggressive form of the disease. She fought it for a year with chemotherapy and radiotherapy and returned to work this February. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/pc-dying-from-cancer-makes-250k-therapy-plea-for-more-years-with-daughter-a3905426.html
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Three men from the notorious Rochdale paedophile ring will be stripped of their UK citizenship after they lost an appeal. Taxi drivers Abdul Aziz, 47, Adil Khan, 48, and Abdul Rauf, 48, were among nine men jailed over appalling crimes against girls in Greater Manchester in 2012. The then home secretary Theresa May ruled in 2015 that all three men - who have dual British and Pakistani nationality - should have their names deleted from the roll of British citizens. The decision was a prelude to government plans to deport them to Pakistan upon their release from jail. The trio, who all have British children, challenged the decision - claiming it violated…
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US mid-term elections: Women break records for nominations 8 August 2018 Related TopicsUS mid-term elections 2018 Image caption L-R Democrat Gretchen Whitmer, Republican Susan Hutchison and Democrat Rashida Tlaib, who is certain to be the first M…
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Samantha Eastwood death: Midwife 'found in shallow grave' 8 August 2018 Image copyright Samantha Eastwood Image caption Samantha Eastwood's family has thanked members of the public for their suppo…
