All news by author Elizabeth Baker

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Trump family’s memecoin launches trigger a surge of scam tokens
Scammers launched more than 6,800 fraudulent tokens to scam users amid the high-profile launch.
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Global tech shares drop as China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek alarms investors
Chinese startup’s $6m product raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom.
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Flexible working inequality is creating a ’two-tier workforce’ in Britain
Office workers have more flexibility than frontline staff such as nurses and shop workers, report says
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The human impact of social care cuts: ’It feels like we don’t exist’
The week before Christmas, one couple received the devastating news their local council was cancelling care and reducing support - with no negotiation.
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Supporters of Lucy Letby celebrate her 35th birthday at a Clapham pub
A pub in Clapham Common was the venue of choice for supporters of convicted child killer Lucy Letby to celebrate her 35th birthday.
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Violent drug dealer avoids deportation due to the possibility that his daughter might be transgender
A violent drug dealer dodged deportation as his daughter thought she might be transgender.
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Wetherspoon pub landlady stabbed in triple stabbing as police swarm the venue
Three people, including the establishment’s landlady were allegedly knifed with cops swarming the Wetherspoon pub and three people arrested in connection with the incident.
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Myanmar claims it’s deported over 50,000 Chinese scammers
Myanmar claims it has deported over 50,000 Chinese scammers tied to scam factories since October 2023.
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CIA suspects Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, but has low confidence in this conclusion
The CIA now believes the most plausible explanation for the origins of Covid-19 is that it leaked from a laboratory in China, it has emerged.
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Senior military intelligence officer faces imprisonment for groping a female colleague during a drunken night out in Dubai
A highly decorated military intelligence chief is facing jail for groping a female officer.
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Trump launches largest deportation operation in U.S. history
President Donald Trump has begun flying ‘illegal immigrant criminals’ out of the United States yesterday in what he calls the ‘largest deportation operation’ in American history.
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British Museum partly closes after dismissed contractor shuts down IT systems
A recently dismissed contractor shut down several systems before being arrested, the museum said
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Weapons, ricin, and hate: The chilling discoveries inside Axel Rudakubana’s family home
Inside Axel Rudakubana’s semi-detached home in Banks, West Lancashire, where he lived with his parents, officers found a deadly array of weapons after his killing spree
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Ex-footballer Barton in court over alleged domestic assault following overturned ruling
Joey Barton has appeared in court to respond to charges of assaulting his wife Georgia, after the High Court overturned an earlier decision to throw the case out
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Reynolds: UK has case to avoid Trump’s proposed import tariffs
The government is set to make the case to Donald Trump’s new administration that there is no need for huge tariffs on UK exports to the US, the business secretary has said.
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Kazakh oligarch Timur Turlov hides billions and deceives the state
Kazakh businessman Timur Turlov, linked to Russian authorities, is facing the collapse of his empire.
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Trump signs executive order to declassify JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination files
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order believed to be related to the declassification of the assassination files of multiple high-profile Americans.
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Police investigate "serious assault" in Plymouth’s West Hoe, public urged to avoid area
Officers with Devon and Cornwall Police remain at the scene of a "serious assault" in the West Hoe area of Plymouth, and have advised people to stay away from the area
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Trump threatens 10% tariff on China, sending yuan and Chinese stocks lower
Yuan and Chinese stocks fall despite suggestion of lower tariff than president mentioned during campaign
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Prince Harry wins legal battle against the Sun, secures apology and damages
Prince Harry has won his long-running legal battle against the publisher of the Sun, as well as ’substantial’ damages and an unprecedented apology.
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Kyle Clifford admits to horrific crossbow murders in Bushey family home
Triple crossbow killer Kyle Clifford has pleaded guilty to murdering the wife and two daughters of BBC star John Hunt in a horrific attack last July.
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Trump’s Diet Coke button returns to the White House
Donald Trump used the valet button to order Diet Coke during his presidency from 2017 to 2021, but Joe Biden had it removed upon taking office.
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Amid loneliness and struggle, some elderly Japanese women opt for jail
The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.
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India collaborates with Google and Meta to tackle ’pig butchering’ crypto scams
India intensifies crypto scam crackdown by teaming up with Google and Meta to combat $2 billion loss from "pig butchering" schemes.
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Libyan police chief arrested in Italy for alleged war crimes
The head of Libya’s judicial police has been arrested after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant over war crimes allegations, media reports say.