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Another Coup In Africa, Soldiers Appear On State TV To Announce Takeover
Dec 7, 2025 - World 
Military personnel in Benin on Sunday announced that they had ousted President Patrice Talon, although his entourage said he was safe and the army was regaining control.
Austrian Woman Left To Freeze On Mountain By Boyfriend Identified, Tributes Pour In
Dec 7, 2025 - World
Prosecutors have alleged Plamberger left Gurtner "unprotected" to go for help around 2 am, but did not use the available emergency blankets or bivouac sack to protect her from the cold.
Water leak in the Louvre damages hundreds of works, museum says
Dec 7, 2025 - World 
Open valve in heating system affects 300 to 400 items just weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised security concernsA water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre’s Egyptian department, the Paris museum said on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.“Between 300 and 400 works” were affected by the leak discovered on 26 November, the museum’s deputy administrator, Francis Steinbock, said, describing them as “Egyptology journals” and “scientific documentation” used by researchers. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer to make Iceland boss Richard Walker a Labour peer
Dec 7, 2025 - World
Appointment marks a rapid political transformation for a former Tory donor and potential candidate for MPThe formerly Conservative-supporting boss of the supermarket Iceland is to be made a Labour peer when the party appoints another 25 representatives to parliament’s upper house later this month.Keir Starmer will appoint Richard Walker to the House of Lords, the Guardian understands, the culmination of an unusual and rapid political transformation for someone named as a prospective Tory MP candidate a little over three years ago. Continue reading...
Thousands of patients in England at risk as GP referrals vanish into NHS ‘black hole’
Dec 7, 2025 - World
Exclusive: Watchdog finds 14% of cases not put on hospital waiting lists, with many reporting worsening health and rising anxietyOne in seven people in England who need hospital care are not receiving it because their GP referral is lost, rejected or delayed, the NHS’s patient watchdog has found.Three-quarters (75%) of those trapped in this “referrals black hole” suffer harm to their physical or mental health as a result of not being added to the waiting list for tests or treatment. Continue reading...
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