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May’s end of austerity claim ‘not credible’, says Labour

Theresa May’s claim that austerity is coming to an end is as likely as her winning Strictly Come Dancing, Labour has said. The prime minister told the Conservative Party conference that, after a decade of economic sacrifices, the end was in sight. But shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the words “lacked credibility”. He said children’s services faced a £2bn budget ...

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Hackers didn’t access any third-party app: Facebook

Tendering a fresh apology in the data breach that affected 50 million users, Facebook has said that a detailed investigation found no evidence that the hackers accessed any third-party apps using Facebook Login.   In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook last week admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their “access ...

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Theresa May’s failure to mention Chequers ‘gives Barnier hope’

EU negotiator reportedly believes speech could signal room for Brexit compromise Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, has taken Theresa May’s failure to namecheck Chequers in her Tory conference speech as a sign that she may be ready to dump the plan and get realistic, according to sources in Brussels. In her speech in Birmingham, May spelled out her vision ...

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Muslim Council of Britain to train women to run mosques

Six-month programme aims to increase diversity and follows calls for greater involvement Britain’s leading Muslim organisation has launched a scheme to train women for leadership positions in mosques and community bodies. Twenty women have embarked on the six-month intensive programme run by the Muslim Council of Britain, aimed at equipping them for leadership positions. As well as one-to-one mentoring, the ...

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Tower Hamlets Council calls for a People’s Vote

Tower Hamlets councillors have backed the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and called for a People’s Vote on Brexit, and urged the Government to “abandon any plans for a hard Brexit”. Councillors agreed a motion at a meeting of the Full Council. The Mayor had earlier called for a People’s Vote at the launch of the local council’s Brexit Commission, which ...

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7 Turkish soldiers killed in blast blamed on Kurdish rebels

Kurdish rebels on Thursday detonated an explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey, killing at least seven soldiers, a senior official said. Two other soldiers were wounded in the attack. The explosion occurred on a road near the town of Gercus in the majority-Kurdish province of Batman. Numan Kurtulmus, a deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party, said the soldiers, ...

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Indonesia quake and tsunami toll climbs to 1,424

Indonesia’s disaster agency says the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that struck a central island last week has increased slightly to 1,424. National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho provided the updated figure Thursday at a news conference in Jakarta.   The disasters struck Palu and surrounding districts in Central Sulawesi province last Friday.   Nugroho said other ...

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Tackling drugs and violent crime in Tower Hamlets

John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, held a violent crime summit on 21 September at the Osmani Centre, E1 with police officers, industry experts and community groups to consider the best way to tackle drug dealing and violence on the streets. The move builds on successful partnership work between the council and police, which has already resulted in the imprisonment of 160 ...

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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman dies at 96

BOISE, Idaho : Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase “God particle,” died Wednesday at 96. Lederman directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago from 1978 to 1989. He’s described as a giant in his field who also had a passion for sharing science, ...

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US, China look on as Putin seeks India arms deals

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India on Thursday looking to tie up billions of dollars in arms deals with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, likely irking the US, China and Pakistan in one fell swoop. The Kremlin said before the two-day visit that the “key feature” would be the signing of a $5-billion deal for the advanced S-400 air defence ...

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