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Criticisms in report 'taken out'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
Criticisms of Boris Johnson's key policy to tackle youth violence were removed from the official report into the scheme, leaked documents show.
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Warning over free school meals

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
A charity warns that possible changes to the free school meals system could end up discouraging poor families from working more.
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Syria 'failing to keep to truce'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Syria has failed to comply with a peace plan obligation to pull forces from urban areas and urges more observers.
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Hospitals 'overcharging for care'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
NHS money is being wasted by hospitals wrongly charging the health service for treating short-stay patients, a watchdog says.
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Hackers target abortion provider

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
Thousands of attempts have been made to hack into the computers of Britain's largest provider of abortion services, the BBC learns.
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India launches long-range missile

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
India says it has successfully launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, able to carry a nuclear warhead as far as China.
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China slams US ambassador's statement on activist

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
BEIJING (AP) -- China says U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke acted inappropriately when he urged Beijing to free a Chinese activist recently sentenced to jail....

Dick Clark, TV and New Year's Eve icon, dies at 82

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Clark stood as an avatar of rock `n' roll virtually from its birth and, until his death Wednesday at age 82, as a cultural touchstone for boomers and their grandkids alike....
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Egypt's mufti visits Aqsa mosque

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
One of Egypt's leading Islamic clerics is criticised after praying at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, despite Arab opposition to visiting Israel-controlled areas.
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Former Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor dies at 94

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stanley R. Resor, who served two presidents as secretary of the Army for six years during the height of the Vietnam War and represented the U.S. during force reduction negotiations in the mid-1970s, has died. He was 94....
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Nurse accused in baby abduction had miscarried

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
SPRING, Texas (AP) -- Verna McClain told her fiance she had given birth to their child. But after she suffered a miscarriage, authorities said, she went looking for another baby to present to him....
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America's New Year's host Dick Clark dead at 82

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Clark stood as an avatar of rock `n' roll virtually from its birth and, until his death Wednesday at age 82, as a cultural touchstone for boomers and their grandkids alike....
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VIDEO: Final marathon for 101-year-old

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
A 101-year-old runner has told the BBC that this Sunday’s London Marathon will be his last long distance race.
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Clarke hails deal to reform court

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says an agreement reached at a conference in Brighton will make "a big difference" to the operation of the European Court of Human Rights.
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US Muslim: I was tortured at FBI's behest in UAE

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- His interrogators usually came in the morning. Peeking under a blindfold in a cold concrete cell, Yonas Fikre says he caught only glimpses of their shoes....
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US Muslim: I was tortured at FBI's behest in UAE

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- His interrogators usually came in the morning. Peeking under a blindfold in a cold concrete cell, Yonas Fikre says he caught only glimpses of their shoes....
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The Shot Heard 'Round the World' Continues to Echo

America became free and strong because of gun-toting patriots.

Car shipments boost Japan exports

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
Japan's exports rose in March, data shows, boosted by a jump in car shipments as the sector continues to recover from last year's natural disasters.
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VIDEO: 'Sniper fire' as crowds greet UN

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Syria is failing to comply with its ceasefire obligations as gunfire is reported during a UN observer visit.
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May stands by Abu Qatada deadline

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 11:29
The home secretary tells MPs radical cleric Abu Qatada's deportation case has "no right" to be referred to the European Court of Human Rights.
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