UK creative industries set behaviour standards after Strictly and MasterChef rows

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An independent standards authority says the industry must learn from recent scandals and create safer working environments

New guidelines will be issued this week for the UK’s creative industries after a series of scandals including reports of inappropriate behaviour by Gregg Wallace and Gino d’Acampo, and bullying allegations on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.

The Creative Industries Indep­endent Standards Authority (CIISA) will set new standards with the aim of stamping out bullying, harassment and discrimination, and address “power imbalances”.

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What will happen when Sir Keir Starmer visits US President Donald Trump? – BBC.com

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  1. What will happen when Sir Keir Starmer visits US President Donald Trump?  BBC.com
  2. What can Keir Starmer say at the White House that Donald Trump might listen to? | Andrew Rawnsley  The Guardian
  3. Macron and Starmer Have Played Trump’s Game Before, but the Rules Are Changing  The New York Times
  4. Macron, Starmer to meet Trump as Europeans flesh out ideas for Ukraine guarantees  Reuters
  5. Don't expect a Love Actually-style moment from the Starmer-Trump meeting  Sky News
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Three people arrested on suspicion of murder decades after UK man vanished

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Two men and a woman arrested in connection with 2002 disappearance of Robert Scott Clive in North Shields

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder more than 20 years after a man went missing in north-east England.

Robert Scott Clive, 30, originally from Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, was living in North Shields when he disappeared on 10 October 2002.

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Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct

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Database, first proposed by Trump in 2020 and created by Biden administration in 2023, is now offline

Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move undetected between agencies.

The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), which stored police records documenting misconduct, is now unavailable, the Washington Post first reported.

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‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients

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Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him

When two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea that she was about to find herself at the dark heart of one of the world’s biggest child abuse cases.

The French mother of three, now 38, was shocked when the officers told her she had been the victim of Joël Le Scouarnec, a surgeon and an alleged serial paedophile accused of raping and sexually abusing hundreds of children.

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Hamas hands over six hostages but Israel delays release of 600 Palestinians

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Ceasefire in jeopardy as Israel says it will wait ‘until release of next hostages is guaranteed’

Hamas released six Israeli hostages on Saturday, but Israel delayed the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in exchange, putting the five-week-old ceasefire agreement once more in jeopardy.

The government said the release would be delayed “until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed, and without the degrading ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza.

The statement by Benjamin Netanyahu’s office came as vehicles apparently carrying prisoners left the open gates of Ofer prison, only to turn around and go back in.

The release of 620 Palestinian prisoners had been delayed for several hours and was meant to occur just after six Israeli hostages were released on Saturday.

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Three-year-old girl killed in collision in Manchester city centre

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Greater Manchester police say girl died from her injuries after incident on Mosley Street involving tram and van

A three-year-old girl has been killed in a collision between a tram and a van in Manchester.

Greater Manchester police officers attended the scene on Mosley Street, near to St Peter’s Square, after the collision on Saturday morning.

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‘You dream about such things’: Brit who discovered missing pharaoh’s tomb may have unearthed another

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Archaeologist believes his ‘find of the century’ – of Pharaoh Thutmose II – could be surpassed by ongoing excavation

To uncover the location of one long-lost pharaoh’s tomb is a career-defining moment for an archaeologist. But to find a second is the stuff of dreams.

Last week British archaeologist Piers Litherland announced the find of the century – the first discovery of a rock-cut pharaoh’s tomb in Egypt since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.

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Woman charged in dating app druggings and one death of older men in Las Vegas

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FBI says Aurora Phelps met men online for dating then drugged them and stole cars and money

A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, FBI officials in Las Vegas said on Friday.

Three of the men died, authorities said, and she has been charged in one of their deaths.

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Shocked by Trump, Europe Turns Its Hopes to Germany’s Election – The New York Times

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  1. Shocked by Trump, Europe Turns Its Hopes to Germany’s Election  The New York Times
  2. German election: Parties wrap up campaigning  DW (English)
  3. Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake  CNN
  4. Immigration and an ailing economy dominate Germany’s election as far-right eye gains  NBC News
  5. Voters will head to polls in Germany elections  CBS Chicago
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Trump signs order protecting American companies from ‘overseas extortion’ – The Hill

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  1. Trump signs order protecting American companies from ‘overseas extortion’  The Hill
  2. Trump threatens to launch tariff attack on EU tech regulation  EURACTIV
  3. Trump orders trade chief to revive tariff retaliation against digital taxes  Reuters
  4. Trump Weighs Tariffs to Counteract Foreign Taxes on Tech Firms  The Wall Street Journal
  5. Donald Trump considers tariffs to counter digital services taxes on Big Tech  Financial Times
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Suspect in Berlin stabbing wanted ‘to kill Jews’ — police – DW (English)

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  1. Suspect in Berlin stabbing wanted 'to kill Jews' — police  DW (English)
  2. Berlin Stabbing Extends Chain of Attacks Ahead of German Election  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Man stabbed at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial days before crucial election  The Guardian
  4. Syrian refugee arrested after Berlin stabbing as Germany prepares to vote  Reuters
  5. Suspect in Berlin Holocaust Memorial attack was known to police  Yahoo
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