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General election: Corbyn reveals 'confidential' Northern Ireland Brexit report – live news Labour leader says government report states Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will be ‘highly disruptive’Tory ministers back candidates accused of IslamophobiaBBC’s Andrew Neil lays down gauntlet to Boris Johnson over interview 11.52am GMTChannel 4 has issued an apology after subtitles below a speech made by Boris Johnson suggested he said he wanted democratic control over the migration of “people of colour”.It said: “Boris Johnson says ‘people of talent’ not ‘people of colour’. Our earlier tweet was a mistake. We misheard and we apologise.” 11.48am GMTNigel Farage had been billed to speak at a Brexit party defence rally in Westminster but failed to show up.A party spokesman said Farage felt his prese...

London fire chief Dany Cotton resigns after Grenfell criticism Commissioner brings forward her retirement and will step down on New Year’s EveThe London fire commissioner in charge of the highly criticised response to the Grenfell Tower fire has resigned following renewed calls from bereaved families and survivors of the disaster for her to quit.Dany Cotton announced on Friday that she would be stepping down on New Year’s Eve, bringing forward her planned retirement in June. In October, after the public inquiry into what happened on the night of the fire found serious failings in the London fire brigade’s (LFB) preparation and response, Cotton refused to resign, saying she wanted to see out reforms. The inquiry concluded that the LFB’s delay in evacuating the burning building cost liv...

Australia fires: five blazes merge north of Sydney as conditions forecast to worsen More than 100 bushfires were burning in New South Wales on Friday, more than half of them out of controlFive fires burning to the north of Sydney joined up into one huge conflagration on Friday, with out-of-control blazes threatening homes and lives.On a day that brought choking smog to Sydney, the premier of New South Wales said the entire coastline of the state was on fire. Continue reading... Go to Source

'You're a damn liar': Biden lashes out at voter and seems to call him fat 2020 contender appeared to say ‘look, fat’ after 84-year-old man questioned his age and his son Hunter’s business activitiesA voter at a campaign event in Iowa got into a spat with Joe Biden on Thursday in an exchange that had the Democratic 2020 hopeful slamming the man as a “damn liar” and seeming to call him “fat”, which had conservatives leaping up to attack the candidate.The man in the audience took the microphone and described himself as an 84-year-old retired farmer, then argued that Biden is too old to be president and pressed him on his son’s business activities in Ukraine, saying the former vice-president had “sent” Hunter to the country to work with an energy company. Continue reading... Go to Source...

Indian police shoot dead four men suspected of Hyderabad rape The men had been in police custody and were shot near the scene of the crime during a reconstructionIndian police have shot dead the four men accused of the brutal gang rape of a young vet in Hyderabad, in circumstances that have been described as “suspicious”.The four had become high-profile objects of hatred within the country, following their alleged premeditated attack on a 27-year-old veterinary doctor last Wednesday. Continue reading... Go to Source

BBC's Andrew Neil lays down gauntlet to Boris Johnson over interview Presenter issues challenge to prime minister, saying matter is ‘question of trust’ Latest election news – live updatesAndrew Neil has laid down the gauntlet to Boris Johnson by challenging him to the BBC interview he has so far refused to commit to, saying it was “a question of trust” for the prime minister.Gazing directly down the camera to an audience of millions, Neil said Johnson was the only leader of a main party not to have faced a prime-time grilling by him. Continue reading... Go to Source

Brexit is one of most spectacular mistakes in EU history, says Tusk Exclusive: Donald Tusk says it would still be better for both sides if UK stayed in EUBrexit has been “one of the most spectacular mistakes” in the history of the EU and followed a campaign marked by “an unprecedented readiness to lie”, Donald Tusk has said.In his first interview since standing down as European council president last week, Tusk said Brexit was “the most painful and saddest experience” of his five years in office, a tumultuous period marked by the Greek eurozone crisis, bitter rows over migration and the election of Donald Trump. Continue reading... Go to Source

Man charged with murder of 12-year-old Harley Watson Terence Glover, 51, also faces attempted murder charges over collision in Loughton, EssexA 51-year-old man has been charged with murder after a 12-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run outside an Essex school.Harley Watson died in hospital after a vehicle ploughed into children who were leaving Debden Park high school, in Loughton, shortly before 3.20pm on 2 December. Continue reading... Go to Source

Amazon pulls Chile dictatorship 'death flights' T-shirts after backlash Leftwing opponents were dropped from helicopters into seaRange of shirts with mocking allusions to practice were on saleAmazon has come under fire for selling T-shirts glorifying the “death flights” of Chile’s military dictatorship in which leftwing opponents of the regime were dropped from helicopters in an attempt to hide their murders.More than 3,000 people were killed or forcibly disappeared during Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, and in 2001, the then president, Ricardo Lagos, revealed that at least 120 of them were later thrown to their deaths from helicopters into “Chile’s ocean, lakes and rivers”. Continue reading... Go to Source

142,000 died from measles last year, WHO estimates Number of cases reported so far this year is three times higher than at same stage in 2018The worldwide surge in deadly measles outbreaks is showing no sign of abating, with nearly 10 million cases and 142,000 deaths last year, according to new estimates, and three times more cases reported so far this year than at the same stage in 2018.Most of those dying are small children, and thousands more suffer harm including pneumonia and brain damage. New scientific evidence shows survivors are at greater risk soon afterwards because their immune system is impaired. Continue reading... Go to Source