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Top 10 climate disasters of 2024 leave insurers with £180bn bill
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Top 10 climate disasters of 2024 leave insurers with £180bn bill

The world's 10 most costly climate disasters of 2024 caused £182bn in damage and claimed 2,000 lives, analysis of insurance payouts revealed yesterday.

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December 30, 2024
Georgia's pro-west leader calls herself 'only legitimate president' as head of state sworn in
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Georgia's pro-west leader calls herself 'only legitimate president' as head of state sworn in

Georgia's pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, said she would leave the palace but remain the country's legitimate officeholder yesterday after refusing to hand over the keys to her successor in the wake of a controversial general election.

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December 30, 2024
Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre boost small charity with song sample
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Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre boost small charity with song sample

Snoop Dogg has worked with artists including Stevie Wonder, Katy Perry, and Mariah Carey – and now a small London charity for people with learning disabilities has joined that list.

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December 30, 2024
TV news, wind power and women in trousers: modern life predicted 100 years ago
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TV news, wind power and women in trousers: modern life predicted 100 years ago

When the scientist and inventor Prof Archibald Montgomery Low predicted \"a day in the life of a man of the future\" a century ago, his ideas were dismissed by some as \"ruthlessly imaginative\".

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December 30, 2024
Channel death toll hits record high as three people drown
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Channel death toll hits record high as three people drown

Three people drowned yesterday falling from an overcrowded small boat heading from France to the UK, as 2024 became the deadliest year yet for the perilous crossings.

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December 30, 2024
MPs Prepare Amendments for Assisted Dying Bill at Next Vote
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MPs Prepare Amendments for Assisted Dying Bill at Next Vote

Up to 30 MPs who backed assisted dying could withdraw support at the next parliamentary vote, MPs have said, as several prepare to suggest amendments on coercion and the role of medics.

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December 30, 2024
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Safety checks ordered amid fears of defects in thousands of schools

Exclusive Investigations into structural concerns over postwar buildings

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December 30, 2024
Plane crash at airport in South Korea kills 179
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Plane crash at airport in South Korea kills 179

Distraught family members gathered at Muan international airport in South Korea yesterday after a plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok crashed, killing all but two people onboard, in the country's worst domestic civil aviation disaster.

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December 30, 2024
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New year refresh A month-by-month guide to sorting out your finances

Rupert Jones and Hilary Osborne offer a checklist of the vital tasks you need to tackle throughout the year, from filing your tax return to making the most of your holiday cash

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December 28, 2024
Lost in music How Britain's clubs are disappearing fast - and why they are worth rescuing
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Lost in music How Britain's clubs are disappearing fast - and why they are worth rescuing

When the patrons of Watford's Przym nightclub celebrated New Year's Eve a year ago, they were marking the end of an era - or rather, seven eras.

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December 28, 2024
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Nissan shares down 15% as investors react to plan for merger

Shares in the Japanese carmaker Nissan have taken their biggest fall since August's stock market sell-off, as investors turned their attention to the company's planned tie-up with domestic rivals Honda and Mitsubishi.

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December 28, 2024
Climbing out of trouble? Rise in share price suggests BA's turbulent days may be over
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Climbing out of trouble? Rise in share price suggests BA's turbulent days may be over

It's been a long and turbulent time since anyone used British Airways' old slogan \"the world's favourite airline\" with a straight face.

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December 28, 2024
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North-south divide flips as EU's periphery beats core economies

The European Central Bank is facing a tough balancing act in 2025, trying to navigate a reversal of fortunes in eurozone economies as the hardest-hit nations of the 2010s debt crisis outperform the traditional core.

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December 28, 2024
Number of retailers on the brink of collapse up by 25%
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Number of retailers on the brink of collapse up by 25%

Footfall levels up 18% on Christmas Eve compared with last year.

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December 28, 2024
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London-listed mining company halts operations in Mozambique

The London-listed mining company Gemfields said yesterday it had temporarily halted its ruby mining operation in Mozambique after groups \"took advantage\" of political unrest to attempt to invade and set fire to its site, resulting in two deaths.

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December 28, 2024
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Aid convoy reaches besieged area of Sudanese capital

An aid convoy has reached a besieged area of Khartoum for the first time since Sudan's civil war broke out in April 2023, bringing food and medicines in a country where half of the people are at risk of starvation.

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December 28, 2024
Mexico The mayor who turned wasteland into a utopia
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Mexico The mayor who turned wasteland into a utopia

Mexico City's mayor, Clara Brugada, has never been afraid to court controversy and has taken some imaginative steps in her efforts to undo decades of economic and cultural inequality.

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December 28, 2024
Crisis on cat island On Aoshima, is time finally running out for human and feline inhabitants?
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Crisis on cat island On Aoshima, is time finally running out for human and feline inhabitants?

The reason for Aoshima's nickname is clear before we set foot on the island.

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December 28, 2024
Pāua lunch Remote cafe fuels pie mania in New Zealand
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Pāua lunch Remote cafe fuels pie mania in New Zealand

Celebrities rave about them, politicians have bulk-ordered them, local people queue and tourists drive hours for them. The pāua pie – a flaky creation filled with a seafood delicacy – is enticing crowds in New Zealand to a cafe on the isolated east coast of the North Island.

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December 28, 2024
Italian aces After years of obscurity, tennis has won the nation's hearts
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Italian aces After years of obscurity, tennis has won the nation's hearts

At the age of 47, diehard AC Milan fan Ninni Licata has hung up his football boots in exchange for a tennis racket.

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December 28, 2024
Ecuador's president in firing line over fate of four missing boys
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Ecuador's president in firing line over fate of four missing boys

The disappearance of four youngsters in Ecuador after they came into contact with the armed forces is posing a major challenge to President Daniel Noboa's \"war on drugs\".

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December 28, 2024
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Musk row with Maga far right over Indian-born Trump adviser

Bitter infighting has broken out between Elon Musk and Donald Trump's hardline Maga base after the president-elect chose an Indian-born entrepreneur to be his adviser on artificial intelligence.

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December 28, 2024
Two sailors killed on first night of Sydney to Hobart yacht race
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Two sailors killed on first night of Sydney to Hobart yacht race

Two sailors in Australia's annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race died on the first night of the competition as wild weather conditions forced mass retirements.

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December 28, 2024
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North Korea Soldier Dies After Being Captured by Kyiv's Forces

South Korea's intelligence agency has reported that a North Korean soldier, believed to be the first captured while supporting Russia's war in Ukraine, has died after being taken alive by Ukrainian forces.

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December 28, 2024
'I want my Ukraine' Women's resistance movement aims to infuriate occupiers
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'I want my Ukraine' Women's resistance movement aims to infuriate occupiers

Women's resistance movement aims to infuriate occupiers

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December 28, 2024
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Nato to boost Baltic Sea presence after suspected cable sabotage

Nato will boost its military presence in the Baltic Sea, the alliance announced yesterday, after the suspected sabotage of an underwater power cable running between Finland and Estonia.

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December 28, 2024
Plane that crashed in Kazakhstan 'suffered external interference'
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Plane that crashed in Kazakhstan 'suffered external interference'

The aircraft involved in the Christmas Day plane crash in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people experienced \"external physical and technical interference\", according to preliminary results of the investigation, Azerbaijan Airlines said yesterday.

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December 28, 2024
Let's see who'll be leaving' Presidential standoff nears crunch point in Georgia
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Let's see who'll be leaving' Presidential standoff nears crunch point in Georgia

A defining moment looms for the elegant 19th-century Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi: the question of who will occupy its halls tomorrow, when Georgia's pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, is supposed to hand over to her successor.

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December 28, 2024
History lessons The two crucial choices that will determine humanity's fate
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History lessons The two crucial choices that will determine humanity's fate

For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozovic's conclusion on what must happen to avoid today's world imploding is disarmingly simple yet a daunting challenge: \"We need dramatic social and technological changes.\"

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December 28, 2024
The Arctic is becoming smaller
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The Arctic is becoming smaller

Relic of the ice age faces a bleak future in rapidly heating world

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December 28, 2024