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A nurse arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies has been released on bail pending further enquiries. Lucy Letby was also questioned over the alleged attempted murders of six other infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.Police searched the 28-year-old’s home in Chester on Tuesday and set up a forensics tent outside, and were also seen at her parents’ house in Hereford.Officers are investigating the deaths of 17 infants and 15 non-fatal collapses between March 2015 and July 2016.Ms Letby was arrested on Tuesday after a long-running investigation into a higher-than-expected amount of baby deaths at the hospital.…

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A diver who has volunteered to help get 12 boys and their football coach out of a cave complex in Thailand has said the rescue could happen “today or tomorrow”. Ivan Karadzic told Sky News he expected the mission to take place “very soon”.He also said the “mood has changed” among the rescue team after a former Navy Seal diver died while taking part in the effort.”It makes us very sad,” he said. Image: The trapped boys have been covered in hypothermia blankets Rescue teams are racing against time amid worsening weather and lowered oxygen levels in the underground complex.Thai…

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The chief executive of Airbus has accused Theresa May’s government of having “no clue” on Brexit. The comments by Tom Enders came as the prime ministers meets a divided cabinet at Chequers to discuss Britain’s future relationship with the European Union.Airbus has warned it would leave the UK in the event of a hard Brexit.”The sun is shining brightly on the UK, the English team is progressing towards the final, the RAF is preparing to celebrate its centenary and HMG (Her Majesty’s Government) still has no clue, no consensus on how to execute Brexit without severe harm,” Mr Enders said…

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If you’re Chinese, it’s obvious: US tariffs are “typical trade bullying”, according to the Ministry of Commerce here in Beijing. China Daily, a state-run newspaper, isn’t so polite.The Trump administration is “behaving like a gang of hoodlums”, it says. Image: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have appeared to have a warm relationship in the past Chinese media had been pretty measured up to this point.According to propaganda instructions leaked to China Digital Times, news organisations were ordered “to prepare well for protracted conflict”.They were also told: “Don’t attack Trump’s vulgarity; don’t make this a war of insults.”That advice seems to…

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China has accused the US of unleashing the “largest-scale trade war” as the global giants slapped tit-for-tat duties on $34bn (£25.6bn) worth of each other’s imports. Ramping up the criticism in the escalating dispute, Beijing said Donald Trump’s administration was “behaving like a gang of hoodlums” after Washington pressed ahead with levying 25% tariffs on a range of products – and retaliated in kind. Image: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says a trade war ‘is never a solution’ Goods affected include Chinese machinery, electronics and cars.The US president has also threatened to raise the stakes, warning the US could eventually target…

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British holidaymakers have been urged to be on alert for terror attacks overseas as millions prepare for summer breaks abroad. Counter-terror chiefs have issued a fresh appeal calling for people to watch a safety video depicting a firearms attack unfolding to ensure they know how to react.The four-minute video was created in the wake of the deadly Sousse attack in Tunisia in 2015, in which 30 Britons were among 38 victims killed when a gunman opened fire at a beach resort.Tour operator Thomas Cook began taking British tourists back to Tunisia in February this year for the first time since…

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Mark Carney has hit out at the current “hostile” environment for world trade, in a thinly veiled attack on Donald Trump. The governor of the Bank of England told an audience in Newcastle there were signs of damage to global economic activity as the US president targets trade imbalances – with China, the world’s second-largest economy, now firmly in his sights after tit-for-tat measures against the EU, Canada and Mexico.With less than 24 hours before the US is expected to impose tariffs on over $300bn (£226bn) of Chinese goods, Mr Carney said much of the disruption had, so far, been…

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A British cave diver who helped find a missing football coach and 12 boys has been honoured by Thai authorities. Robert Charles Harper was one third of the British cave diving team who found the twelve teenagers and their coach, who had been trapped in a Thai cave in pitch darkness without food or water for nine days by monsoon rains.Rescuers are still trying to save the group – who may have to dive more than a mile to safety.Mr Harper, from Wells in Somerset, received a warm farewell at Suvarnabhumi Airport and was given a certificate of appreciation by…

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Water is being pumped out of a flooded cave in Thailand in a bid to extract 12 boys and their football coach trapped inside. The boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach were found deep inside the cave on Monday, nine days after they went missing following a football game on 23 June.Rescuers are battling against the clock to beat monsoon rains expected on Saturday, and have managed to reduce water levels in the cave by around 40%.But parts of the passageway leading to where the boys and coach were found are still flooded all the way to the ceiling…

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UK plants and at least 40,000 jobs are at risk if the country leaves the European Union without a free trade deal, Britain’s biggest carmaker has warned. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has told the government that, while its “heart and soul” are in the UK, a bad Brexit could force a re-think, with a “no-deal” scenario forcing it out of the UK because of an expected £1.2bn surge in tariff costs.JLR exports 80% of its cars worth £18bn annually.Dr Ralf Speth, chief executive of JLR, said: “We, and our partners in the supply chain, face an unpredictable future if the…

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