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Nicola Haseler BBC News, Bedfordshire Reporting fromLuton Crown Court Harriet Heywood BBC News, Bedfordshire Contributed Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, were found dead at their home A man who killed his mother and two siblings…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said “we hope that we can finish this war this year” on the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. But he warned that Ukraine needs security guarantees to prevent Moscow returning, suggesting EU and Nato…
AFP Court sketch of Joel Le Scouarnec at his first trial in 2020 A French former surgeon accused of abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, has told a court that he admits to having “committed despicable acts” and…
As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny to help. As described in the Wall Street Journal, Sonny is a chatbot that relies…
Toronto’s Pearson airport says operations are back to normal roughly a week after a crash landing that sent 21 people to hospital and led to days of travel disruptions at Canada’s busiest airport. A spokesperson for the airport says the…
Israeli tanks moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002 on Sunday, shortly after Israel’s defence minister said troops would remain “for the coming year” in parts of the Palestinian territory. Associated Press journalists saw a handful of…
Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany’s next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, vowed to help give Europe “real independence” from the U.S. as he prepared to cobble together a government. Merz, 69, faces complex…
The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning as part of the Trump administration’s agenda to reduce the federal workforce. The terminated workers, who were told their employment would end at 5 pm…
US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign – the latest development in the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back the federal workforce. The email came after…
It’s the dead of winter. You’ve been shoveling snow for weeks. You keep hearing the political ads, but it’s just dawning on you that election day is Thursday — this coming Thursday. If you’re struggling to figure out your vote,…
