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Police still using AI tool despite inaccurate evidence in Israeli football fan ban

At least 21 police forces across England are still using Copilot AI despite West Midlands Police (WMP) blocking Microsoft’s tool after inaccurate evidence formed a decision to ban Israeli football fans, Sky News can reveal. The Birmingham force turned off access to the software after admitting, following initial denials, that a Copilot “hallucination” was responsible […]

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Violence triggered by killing of notorious Mexican drug lord could hit the World Cup

The Mexican authorities would’ve expected a violent backlash after the killing of El Mencho, one of the country’s most powerful cartel bosses. But it’s likely they’ll have been surprised at the scale of violence across so much of the country. That violence appears to have calmed down for now, but there’s nothing to indicate it

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Tourette’s campaigner ‘deeply mortified’ after racial slur at BAFTAs

A Tourette’s campaigner who yelled out a racial slur at the BAFTAs has spoken out about the incident, saying he is “deeply mortified”. John Davidson MBE was attending the awards ceremony after inspiring the film, I Swear, which dramatises his life with severe Tourette syndrome. The condition is characterised by sudden, involuntary, repetitive sounds or

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Battle for Warner Bros heats up as Paramount’s best and final offer submitted

Paramount Skydance has offered even more money for Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), adding pressure on the media giant to accept a bid it has so far rejected. The entertainment conglomerate behind film production company Paramount Pictures and TV network CBS, announced a revised, best and final offer of $31 per WBD share and additional fees

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‘It’s a disaster in the making’: Empathy but mostly concern in town set to house hundreds of asylum seekers

“It’s not a solution moving asylum seekers from hotels to army barracks. Lots of people refer to it as moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic,” says campaigner Kim Bailey.  Kim has become well known in the town of Crowborough in East Sussex – part of a group which is taking Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

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Rob Reiner’s son Nick pleads not guilty to murder of his parents

Rob Reiner’s son Nick has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of the actor-director and his wife Michele Singer Reiner. Reiner’s lawyer, deputy public defender Kimberly Greene, entered the plea on his behalf as he stood behind glass in court in Los Angeles. The 32-year-old, the third of

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Queen meets Gisele Pelicot and praises rape survivor’s ‘extraordinary dignity’

The Queen has met French rape survivor, Gisele Pelicot, and told her she was left “speechless” by the account of her ordeal in her new memoir. Ms Pelicot was drugged and raped her by her ex-husband who also allowed strangers to rape her while she was unconscious for almost a decade. The Palace said in

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Shake-up of support for children with special needs and disabilities unveiled

The government has unveiled sweeping plans to reform support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in England’s schools. Under the proposals, the number of pupils receiving an education, health and care plan (EHCP), which sets out the level of help a young person is legally entitled to, will start falling each year

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Parents charged with murder of three-month-old son in north London

Two parents have been charged with the murder of their three-month-old baby. Dounia Chetaouat, 32 and Abdelkader Essid, 44, have been accused of killing their young son at a home in North Finchley, north London. The Metropolitan Police said officers were called to a report of an unresponsive baby boy at a property in Kingsway

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