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Dexys: Back, against the odds

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Kevin Rowland reflects on Dexys' unlikely return
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VIDEO: Chilean police clash with protesters

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Police in Chile use tear gas and water cannon to try to break up a protest against the screening of a documentary that praises the former military government of General Augusto Pinochet.
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Study suggests risks from same-sex parenting

Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married mother-father parents.

"The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go," University of Texas sociology professor Mark Regnerus said in his study in ...

Hundreds evacuated as Colo., NM fires spread

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
LAPORTE, Colo. (AP) -- Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves from a sanctuary....
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Brown: I got NHS apology over son

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
NHS chiefs apologised to Gordon Brown after revealing it was "highly likely" staff disclosed details of his son's cystic fibrosis that later appeared in the Sun, he tells the Leveson Inquiry.
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Attacks on guide dogs 'rising'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Attacks on guide dogs by other dogs have reached a new high of more than eight a month, a charity says.
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Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Labour 'cuts rhetoric' not enough

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Labour must move beyond its opposition to austerity and spell out what it would do in power, the GMB union warns ahead of its annual conference.
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Housing statistics use criticised

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Labour writes to the UK Statistics Authority to complain at "consistent misrepresentation and misuse" of data by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.
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Spain deal boosts euro and stocks

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Stocks in Asia and the euro make gains as a eurozone deal to shore up Spain's troubled banks provides a boost to the single currency.
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Helicopter crash: Kenya govt minister among 6 dead

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's internal security minister was killed with five other people when the police helicopter they were traveling in crashed in a forest near Kenya's capital, officials said. An anti-corruption crusader said the incident calls into question the government's procurement of airplanes and helicopters for its security forces....

Helicopter crash: Kenya govt minister among 6 dead

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's internal security minister was killed with five other people when the police helicopter they were traveling in crashed in a forest near Kenya's capital, officials said. An anti-corruption crusader said the incident calls into question the government's procurement of airplanes and helicopters for its security forces....

Silicon Valley Bank opens in UK

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
Silicon Valley Bank, the US hi-tech bank with $20bn in assets, opens its first UK branch offering banking and loan services to the UK tech industry.
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Affairs of politics and heart mark French election

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
PARIS (AP) -- Back-room deals, black lists and bitter duels. Political and personal intrigue has wormed its way into Sunday's final round of French legislative elections. President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party is battling to assure a solid majority and fulfill his vows to boost growth in Europe and redefine the presidency as one beholden to the people....

Hollande's leftists ahead in parliamentary vote

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party, bolstered by leftist allies, stands positioned to take control of the lower house of parliament so he can revamp a country his partisans see as too capitalist for the French, and push to save the eurozone through growth, not austerity....

Flash flooding causes M1 closure

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-16 11:22
The M1 in West Yorkshire is closed following sudden torrential downpours leading to flash flooding.
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