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    34-year-old mother dies in Heraklion police cell days before trial for abandoning newborn in bin

    A 34-year-old woman died in a Heraklion police holding cell on Sunday, days before she was to stand trial for abandoning her newborn baby in a trash bin in May 2025. Her death is being treated as sudden, with an autopsy pending.

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Hormuz, heat and Chequers

Iran tests Swiss talks as heat strains Europe and Starmer weighs a managed exit

Fragile authority set the day’s rhythm: at sea, in party rooms and under a punishing European sky. The biggest risks were not abstract ones, but queues at ports, overloaded hospitals, jittery parliaments and alliances fraying in public.

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World · Updated 15m ago

The US under Trump: second term

A new executive order directing USAID cuts and conditionalities has triggered diplomatic fallout with partner governments and NGOs, while US-Iran negotiations have concluded their first round with an agreement for technical talks.

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