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  • NewsEvening Standard

    Sadiq Khan admits mayoral elections will be judgement day on Ulez and other transport policies

    Asked at a BBC London TV hustings whether he had succeeded in bringing Londoners with him on clean air and car travel, he says: ‘We will find out on May 2’

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  • NewsStoke on Trent Live

    Royal Stoke's new £32m multi-storey opens in bid to end parking misery

    A ribbon cutting ceremony has taken place to celebrate the £32m project which aims to tackle long-running parking problems

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  • NewsRFI

    French police union threatens to disrupt Olympics relay

    A French police trade union is threatening to disrupt the Olympics torch relay ahead of the start of the Paris Games in July unless officers are given bonuses they were promised. The union says they're ready to strike later today, Thursday. The police's Alliance Union said that the French prime minister's office and economy ministry are holding up special Olympics payments promised to police, which could amount to as much as 1,900 euros.Warning that a first demonstration had been called for toda

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  • NewsRFI

    Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in village raid - Human Rights Watch

    Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took place on Feb. 25 in the country's northern villages of Nondin and Soro, and some 56 children were among the dead, according to the report. The human rights organization called on the United Nations and the African Union to provide investigators and to support local

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  • NewsAFP

    Taiwan president-elect names cabinet ahead of inauguration

    Taiwanese president-elect Lai Ching-te named his cabinet and security team appointees on Thursday as he prepares to take office next month.Lai named security council head Wellington Koo as his new defence minister, replacing Chiu Kuo-cheng.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    The loopholes in Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill that asylum lawyers are preparing to exploit

    Politicians and peers have had their say on the Rwanda Bill. Now, lawyers are gearing up to put the legislation to the test after four months’ planning to keep asylum seekers off the planes being lined up by Rishi Sunak.

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    Young breast cancer survivors almost twice as likely to develop another cancer, study finds

    Women who survive breast cancer before the age of 50 are almost twice as likely as their peers to develop second cancers, research shows.

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