All news for 2025-09-02

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Southampton murder: teen arrested after 25-year-old Tia Langdon found dead
The 25-year-old was found on Thursday, August 28, with significant injuries.
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Trump administration approves Paragon deal, granting immigration agents access to spyware
US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move forward with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel that makes spyware capable of hacking into any mobile phone, including encrypted applications.
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“Seven years of horror”: Charlotte Arnould reacts to Depardieu trial order
The French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting the actor Charlotte Arnould at his Paris home in 2018.
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Afghanistan earthquake kills over 1,400 as Taliban plead for global aid
The Taliban have called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people and left thousands more injured.
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Trump family earns $500M from World Liberty crypto venture
The Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, launched its namesake digital tokens for sale on Monday, increasing Donald Trump’s family fortune by approximately $5 billion in paper value.
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Scotland drug deaths dropped last year, but the crisis is far from over
The release of Scotland’s latest drug death statistics is an annual event that has become tragically routine.
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Trump reduces union rights: 500,000 federal workers lose protections
Donald Trump promised his presidency would usher in a “golden age” for American workers, but his administration has gutted union protections for tens of thousands of federal workers in what labor activists and historians have called the largest acts of union busting in American history.
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Pregnant Brit Bella Culley may be released from Georgian prison after paying fine
The pregnant British teenager Bella Culley has reportedly been informed she will be released from the Georgian prison where she is being held on drug-smuggling charges if she pays a substantial fine.
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Career criminal jailed for 45 years over revenge killing of ex-prison officer
A career criminal was labeled a "violent, inhumane coward" as he was sentenced to a minimum of 45 years in prison for the murder of a former prison officer.
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Sainsbury’s tests facial recognition to address record levels of shoplifting
Sainsbury’s will introduce facial recognition cameras to identify repeat shoplifters and potentially ban them from stores.
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Protester scales King’s Cross clock tower with dog in pro-Iran demo
A protester has climbed on top of the King’s Cross station clock tower while holding a dog, unfurling a banner reading ‘Freedom for Iran’ and ‘Iran belongs to its people’.
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Trump ends years of debate with decision on Space Command headquarters
Donald Trump plans to announce on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command headquarters will move from Colorado to Alabama, ending years of political bickering over the fate of the hub for the military’s space-related operations.
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Atwood slams officials for treating students like “stupid babies” in book censorship row
Margaret Atwood has released a new short story critiquing elected officials for a wide-ranging book ban in the Canadian province of Alberta.
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44-year-old charged with sexual assault of child at Loch Ness Bay Campsite
A man has appeared in court in connection with an alleged sexual assault of an eight-year-old boy in his tent at Loch Ness Bay Campsite.
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Russian fugitive billionaire and Igor Sechin’s “wallet” Roman Avdeev continues to push schemes under the cover of Sobolev, Sudarikov and Kozhaev
The scandalously famous billionaire Roman Avdeev, who invested in premium construction and the 36.6 pharmacy chain, sold off his assets and left for the «rotten West».
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UK building safety regulator blamed for 1,200 empty homes two years after Grenfell reforms
Sky News can reveal that there are 1,210 completed homes which cannot be occupied due to delays caused by the government’s building safety regulator.
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Sterling slumps as investors lose confidence in UK’s fiscal plans
The value of the pound experienced its largest single-day drop in months as the cost of 30-year government borrowing reached its highest rate since 1998.
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Police officers win £50,000 sex discrimination case over selfie with singer
Two male police officers who were labeled "sexist" and suspended for taking a selfie with a female celebrity have won £50,000 in a sex discrimination case.
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“Psychopath” murder conviction under threat: CCRC cites “exceptional circumstances” in Ben Field case
The Criminal Case Review Commission said "exceptional circumstances" could lead to the conviction of Ben Field, 34, being ruled unsafe - six years after he was jailed for killing Peter Farquhar, 69.
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Met Police arrest father Ted writer for ‘inciting violence’ on X
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has described being arrested after landing at Heathrow Airport due to a series of Twitter posts.
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North Korea’s Kim crosses into China ahead of military parade
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has crossed the border into China on his signature green train to attend a military parade in China celebrating the formal surrender of Japan in the Second World War, North Korean state media have reported.
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“Corruption kills”: Serbs demand Vucic’s resignation after station tragedy
Tens of thousands of protesters silently marched in Belgrade on Monday to commemorate the deaths of 16 people killed when a roof on a renovated railway station collapsed, demanding snap elections they hope would oust President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling SNS party.
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Colin Smyth hosted girl guides at Holyrood days after being charged with possessing indecent images of children
An MSP met a girl guides group at Holyrood days after he was charged with possessing indecent images of children.
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Protests sweep Iranian cities as anger mounts at clerical rule
Thousands of Iranians have held protests in cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, Kerman, and Ahvaz, condemning corruption, unpaid wages, and the collapse of public services.
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Teenagers arrested after young man fatally injured in Luton altercation
After 6pm on Sunday, police were called to reports of an altercation involving two men and a woman on Humberstone Road.
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