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  • NewsThe Independent

    Easter travel – live: Storm Nelson brings bank holiday chaos as planes can’t land and flooding cancels trains

    Journeys on popular routes such as the M25 are expected to take twice as long

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Olly Alexander urged to boycott Eurovision over Israel participation

    Actor Maxine Peake, rock band Goat Girl and novelist Sarah Schulman are among the open letter’s signatories

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  • NewsThe Guardian

    ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

    Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

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  • HealthThe Telegraph

    Why lying on the floor is good for you

    Gen Z are clearly keeping their bedrooms cleaner and tidier than their parents might fear. Because the latest trend on social media is not for those who forget to run the hoover regularly. To date, videos marked with hashtag #floortime have been viewed an astonishing 52.4 million times on TikTok. In essence, young people all over the world are kicking off their shoes and lying flat on their floors.

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  • CelebrityThe Independent

    John Boyega speaks publicly for the first time about ‘tragic murder’ that shaped his life

    Boyega’s childhood friend was just 10 years old when he was attacked and left to die on his way home from a libary in Peckham, south London

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  • NewsStoryful

    Wildlife Crew Saves Distressed Elk From Freezing Water

    A bull elk that had fallen into the icy waters of a river in Banff had a lucky escape on March 27, when Parks Canada’s rescue team dragged it back to safety.The rescue, which attracted quite the crowd down the banks of the Bow River, was recorded by Mariam Fernie Bokhari and shows the rescuers using a chainsaw to carve a path through the ice.In the video, a crew member can be seen falling in the water as the elk follows the carved trail, before the team eventually succeeds by pulling the elk’s h

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  • NewsAFP

    False posts ahead of India vote target West Bengal chief with 'fake injury' claim

    Ahead of India's general elections that begin April 19, critics of West Bengal state leader Mamata Banerjee shared a photo collage they falsely claimed depicted her faking an injury. But the pictures -- one showing her with a bloodied forehead while the other showing a different part of her face bandaged -- were from two separate incidents. A spokesman for Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party told AFP she was wounded when she slipped and fell at her home in March.

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