Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown

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Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket

Reselling tickets for profit is to be outlawed under plans due to be announced this week, the Guardian has learned, as the government goes ahead with a long-awaited crackdown on touts and resale platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub.

Ministers had been considering allowing touts – and ordinary consumers – to sell on a ticket for up to 130% of face value, as part of a consultation process that ended earlier this year.

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Child among seven dead after atmospheric river storm drenches California

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Lingering thunderstorms pose risk of mudslides in areas around Los Angeles recently ravaged by wildfires

A powerful atmospheric river weather system has mostly moved through California but not before causing at least seven deaths and dousing much of the state.

Among the dead was a seven-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean by waves estimated up to 20ft at a state beach on Friday. The girl’s father, 39-year-old Yuji Hu, of Calgary, Alberta, was killed while trying to save his daughter.

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Home secretary says asylum reforms will ‘unite a divided country’ as full plans published – BBC

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  1. Home secretary says asylum reforms will 'unite a divided country' as full plans published  BBC
  2. Britain’s Labour Government Plans New, Tougher System for Asylum Seekers  The New York Times
  3. U.K. Follows Europe and U.S. in Crackdown on Asylum Seekers  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Britain toughens asylum policy in major overhaul as anti-immigration sentiment rises  Reuters
  5. UK’s sweeping asylum law changes: How will they impact refugees?  Al Jazeera
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GWR train fitted with F1 tech for two-month superfast wifi trial

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Tryout of system, which switches between signals from 5G masts to low Earth-orbit satellites, could lead to wider rollout

Train wifi in the UK, long a source of frustration for passengers, is about to get radically faster – for a lucky few at least.

A two-month trial has begun on one Great Western Railway (GWR) train, fitted with technology from Formula One that switches between the signals from 5G masts to low Earth-orbit satellites to provide almost seamless, superfast wifi.

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Gunmen abduct 25 girls from a high school in northwestern Nigeria – AP News

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  1. Gunmen abduct 25 girls from a high school in northwestern Nigeria  AP News
  2. Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls from Nigerian school, kill vice principal  CNN
  3. Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap 25 students from Kebbi high school  DW
  4. GGCSS Maga: Gunmen kidnap 25 girls from Nigerian school in Kebbi state  BBC
  5. What to know about abductions of schoolchildren in Nigeria  AP News
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Trump’s reversal with call to release Epstein files reveals inability to control Maga allies

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President attempts to save face politically after pressuring Republicans to back off their pushes to release files

Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to back the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, an abrupt reversal, is a rare instance of the president being unable to tame his Maga base and being instead forced to accede to it.

Many Republicans are expected to support a vote in the US House this week to force the justice department to release the files. Once the measure passes, it would still need approval in the US Senate, where 13 Republican senators would need to join with all 47 Democrats to approve it.

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Shabana Mahmood plans to remove more families from UK in asylum shake-up

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Home secretary will also consult on ending financial support for those with children if refused asylum, document shows

The government has failed to show the “necessary toughness” to enforce the removal of families whose asylum claims have been refused, Shabana Mahmood has claimed.

In a policy document published on Monday as the government sets out plans for the biggest shake-up of asylum laws in 40 years, the home secretary also set out plans to consult on measures to allow the removal of financial support for families with children under the age of 18 if they have been refused asylum.

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Ukraine signs deal with France for 100 Rafale fighter jets – Euronews.com

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  1. Ukraine signs deal with France for 100 Rafale fighter jets  Euronews.com
  2. Ukraine to get up to 100 French-made Rafale fighter jets  BBC
  3. France Wants to Build Jet Fighters for Ukraine. Neither Has the Cash.  The Wall Street Journal
  4. Ukraine and France ink deal for jets and missile defenses, Paris says  abcnews.go.com
  5. Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv to buy 100 Rafale warplanes, drones and air defence systems from France  The Guardian
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Ukraine’s Cash Is Running Low, and Europe Has No Good Plan B – The New York Times

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  1. Ukraine’s Cash Is Running Low, and Europe Has No Good Plan B  The New York Times
  2. EU Pitches €90 Billion Ukraine Grant if Russian Asset Loan Fails  Bloomberg.com
  3. Ukraine’s $200 Billion Lifeline From Europe Stumbles on Pushback in Belgium  The Wall Street Journal
  4. EU finance ministers agree using frozen Russian assets most effective way to fund Ukraine  Reuters
  5. By delaying a decision on using Russia’s frozen assets for Ukraine, Europe is quietly hedging its bets  The Conversation
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Parasitic ant queen chemically manipulates workers into killing their mother – CNN

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  1. Parasitic ant queen chemically manipulates workers into killing their mother  CNN
  2. Why some ant colonies get tricked into killing their own queens  NPR
  3. 'Nothing but a nightmare': Worker ants are tricked into murdering their mom by an imposter queen — who quickly takes the throne for herself  Live Science
  4. Watch an invading queen ant trick workers into killing their mother  National Geographic
  5. Parasitic Queen: Now She’s Stealing an Ant Fief  The New York Times
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