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President Donald Trump has announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. It is the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Mr Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. Mr Trump told reporters at the White House: “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of […]

Social media platforms must do more to stop explicit images of children being shared online, a police chief has said. Acting Chief Constable Becky Riggs called for tech giants to make greater use of AI to prevent obscene pictures being shared, but stopped short of backing a complete ban on social media for under 16s as in Australia. The senior officer, who is national lead for child protection and abuse […]

The Health Secretary has warned that a resident doctors’ strike over Christmas would have a “much different degree of risk” than previous walkouts, adding that he “cannot think of a single other trade union in this country that would behave this way”. Wes Streeting said he offered to extend the British Medical Association’s (BMA) strike mandate if it called off the action and called the union’s decision not to take it up […]

English actor Ray Winstone has said he is “very proud to be a Londoner” after receiving the Freedom of the City of London. Born in Hackney, the 68-year old, who starred in The Departed and King Of Thieves, was honoured on Wednesday at a ceremony in central London in recognition of his fundraising and charitable work. Known for his distinct East End accent and for playing a range of “hard […]