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

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

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

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

  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

  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)

  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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Hamas releases six hostages as part of Gaza ceasefire deal – Axios

  1. Hamas releases six hostages as part of Gaza ceasefire deal  Axios
  2. Family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says new returned body is hers  BBC.com
  3. Pentagon Upheaval, Hamas Releases More Hostages, NY State Prisons  NPR
  4. Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel confirmed as those of former hostage Shiri Bibas  CNN
  5. Live Updates: Hamas Is Set to Release More Hostages From Gaza  The New York Times
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NHS doctor who ‘glorified terrorist violence’ wins deportation challenge

Home Office moved to cancel Menatalla Elwan’s leave to remain over posts on Hamas’s 7 October attack

An Egyptian NHS doctor who “glorified terrorist violence” by mocking Israeli civilians fleeing the Hamas attacks in October 2023 has won a legal challenge against deportation.

In one of three social media posts hours after the attacks began, Dr Menatalla Elwan, 34, who worked at an NHS trust in Liverpool, reposted footage of music festivalgoers running from Hamas terrorists and wrote “if it was your home, you would stay and fight”, accompanied by a smiling face emoji.

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Alarm as bird flu now ‘endemic in cows’ while Trump cuts staff and funding

Experts say current US outbreak is unlikely to end without intervention with further mutation of virus likely

A newer variant of H5N1 bird flu has spilled over into dairy cows separately in Nevada and Arizona, prompting new theories about how the virus is spread and leading to questions about containing the ongoing outbreaks.

The news comes amid a purge of experts at federal agencies, including employees who were responding to the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Department of Agriculture.

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US congresswoman ‘rooting’ for Canada and Mexico against Trump’s threats

Democrat Jasmine Crockett calls it ‘really wild’ that it is foreign leaders who are speaking truth to power

The congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has revealed she is “rooting” for Canada and Mexico over Donald Trump in their attempts to stand up to him, saying it is “really wild” to find herself in that position given he is the president of the US.

“They are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now,” the Democratic representative from Texas said on Friday on the popular Breakfast Club podcast, alluding to the political feuds Trump has engaged in with the US’s two North American neighbors during the first month of his second presidency. “They can see what it is and they were like, ‘We are not messing with this crazy regime.’”

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As Conflict Rages in Congo, President Offers U.S. Minerals Deal – The New York Times

  1. As Conflict Rages in Congo, President Offers U.S. Minerals Deal  The New York Times
  2. Security Council urges Rwanda to stop supporting M23 in eastern DR Congo  UN News
  3. UN Security Council demands rebels withdraw from captured Congolese cities  Voice of America
  4. Institute for the Study of War  Institute for the Study of War
  5. War in eastern Congo: Thousands seek refuge in Burundi  DW (English)
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