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Starmer meets China's President Xi at G20 summit
Reuters Sir Keir Starmer is due to meet President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Brazil, with the government saying it wants “stable and pragmatic engagement” with China. The meeting will be the first time a UK prime minister has met the Chinese president in person since 2018. Sir Keir will say it is…
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Xiaomi taps PhonePe’s app store for India smartphones
Xiaomi will replace its app store with fintech PhonePe’s offering for customers in India starting January in a major win for the Indian startup. The smartphone vendor, the second largest in India, will automatically push the update to customers’ devices in India to replace GetApps with PhonePe’s Indus AppStore, it informed customers over the weekend.…
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Teenager who killed bus driver detained for four years
Police Scotland Keith Rollinson died after being attacked A teenage boy who admitted killing a bus driver by headbutting and “raining punches” on him has been sentenced to four years and four months in custody. Keith Rollinson, 58, died of a cardiac arrest in hospital following the incident at the bus station in Elgin’s St…
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Teen who killed bus driver detained for four years
Police Scotland Keith Rollinson died after being attacked A teenage boy who admitted killing a bus driver by headbutting and “raining punches” on him has been sentenced to four years and four months in custody. Keith Rollinson, 58, died of a cardiac arrest in hospital following the incident at the bus station in Elgin’s St…
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Roblox no longer allows users under 13 to message others outside of games
Roblox will not let users under the age of 13 message others outside of games and experiences on the platform, the company said Friday. Roblox also announced a series of other built-in protections for young users, such as age-gating certain experiences, along with enhanced parental controls. Roblox has been criticized for failing to protect children…
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Hundreds of Honduran villages cut off by torrential rain
Reuters Many roads and bridges became impassable after days of rain Torrential rain caused by Tropical Storm Sara has cut off more than 1,700 communities in Honduras. The slow-moving storm caused widespread flooding across the Central American nation. So far, Honduran officials have confirmed only one death but said that more than 110,000 people had…
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Missile news welcomed in Ukraine but 'won't win war'
President Zelensky has been pushing for this moment for months. When it finally came, he was a little coy. Strikes are not made with words, he said in his nightly address: “Such things are not announced, missiles speak for themselves”. President Biden has given Ukraine permission to use long range missiles supplied by Washington to…
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First significant snow of the season for the UK
Monday will bring a spell of heavy rain which is likely to turn to snow as the low pressure system moves across the southern half of the UK and collides with colder air moving down from the north. A yellow Met Office severe weather warning is valid from Monday evening until Tuesday morning, covering southern…
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'I started driving two years ago – now I've been signed up by McLaren'
McLaren Racing Ella says she “wants to win and I want to keep improving, but I just keep climbing up the ladder and see where I go” “We are all driving the same car on the same track. It is who wins at the end of the day.” Ella Lloyd, 19, is joining one of…
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'Outside the box' – Boss Beard says penalty decision cost Reds derby
Liverpool manager Matt Beard says the officials “let them down” after referee Abigail Byrne awarded a penalty to Everton when Fuka Nagano clipped Honoka Hayashi as replays showed the foul appeared to be outside the area. READ MORE: Liverpool ‘let down by officials’ in loss to Everton Available to UK users only. Source: www.bbc.com…