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Soldiers in Niger say they have removed President Mohamed Bazoum from power, after armed troops earlier blockaded the presidential palace in Niamey, the capital in one of the world’s most unstable nations. A group of soldiers appeared on the west African country’s national television late on Wednesday, a few hours after the president had been detained. Reading from a statement, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, seated and flanked by nine other officers wearing fatigues, said the defence and security forces had decided to “put an end to the regime that you know due to the deteriorating security situation and bad governance”. He said the…

Conservative weaponisation of discontent about London’s Ulez traffic charging scheme in the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection could be used to save a raft of under-threat Tories in the city’s outskirts, MPs have claimed. The former party leader Iain Duncan Smith, who is defending a 1,262-vote majority in the ultra marginal north-east London seat of Chingford, said that opposition to expansion of the charge translated beyond the byelection last week and could motivate certain groups, including Labour voters and users of older cars. “It’s not party political and is clearly deeply unpopular with Labour voters. To impose a Ulez zone in an area like…

LeBron James’s son, Bronny James, was rushed to the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball workout, a spokesperson for the family told news outlets on Tuesday. The 18-year-old basketball prospect was treated in the intensive care unit before being released to general care, the spokesperson said. “Yesterday while practicing Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical staff was able to treat Bronny and take him to the hospital. He is now in stable condition and no longer in ICU,” the spokesperson said. “We ask for respect and privacy for the James family, and we will update media when there is…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (formerly Facebook) and its subsidiary has been slapped with $20 million (US$13.54 million) in fines after an Australian court found it secretly harvested data from users. Onavo Protect, which was acquired by Meta in 2013, is a free virtual private network service that promised to keep user data “safe online” and give customers “peace of mind” when browsing the internet. However, in 2020, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a lawsuit against the company and Facebook Israel alleging that the app was secretly collecting “significant amounts” of data for commercial purposes from February 2016 to…

An evening at San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium billed as a fantasy football encounter between Manchester United and Wrexham was bad-tempered and aggressive, featuring a slew of yellow cards, one red, a serious injury to Paul Mullin, a half-naked pitch invader and victory for Phil Parkinson’s League Two team. When Sam Dalby steered beyond Radek Vitek in the second half to make it 3-1 to Wrexham, substitute beat substitute – each had entered following the break – and the record 34,248 crowd had witnessed a contest in which United were run ragged for swathes. The game became combative just 12 minutes in when United’s…

Dame Alison Rose, the chief executive of NatWest Group, has stood down after a row over the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account with the private bank Coutts, which NatWest owns. Rose has resigned from the banking group after Farage complained to the BBC about a report that claimed his accounts with Coutts were closed for commercial reasons. The broadcaster has since apologised and amended its story. In a statement released on Wednesday morning, the NatWest Group chairman, Sir Howard Davies, said: “The board and Alison Rose have agreed, by mutual consent, that she will step down as CEO of the NatWest Group. It…

Thousands of radiographers in England are to strike on Tuesday amid a row with the government over pay, recruitment and retention. Members of the Society of Radiographers (SoR) have voted to reject the 5% pay award offered by ministers and called for talks to reopen after other public sector workers, including junior doctors, were offered more. Alarming numbers of staff are quitting the profession and not enough is being done to recruit or retain workers, the union says. The 48-hour strike will run from 8am on Tuesday and will involve 37 NHS trusts where members have a mandate to strike. These include the Royal…

The ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 was thrown into uncertainty on Monday after Rishi Sunak failed to publicly back the policy. The Prime Minister declined to explicitly say that the ban would take effect that year when asked, for the second time this month. On Monday morning, Andrew Mitchell, the foreign minister, also declined to fully commit to the 2030 ban remaining government policy in the future. Downing Street sources moved to play down suggestions that a change was imminent, saying Mr Sunak was not currently considering a change. However, senior Tories are calling for a…

Erik ten Hag has called on Manchester United to sign a striker “as soon as possible” to allow enough time to integrate a new recruit into the team, with the manager admitting the club’s failure to do so so far this summer is not ideal. Having strengthened his midfield with Mason Mount and replaced goalkeeper David de Gea with Andre Onana, Ten Hag is targeting Atlanta’s Rasmus Højlund or Eintracht Frankfurt’s Randal Kolo Muani as his new No 9. “The only thing I can say is we do everything that’s in our power to get it done,” Ten Hag said. “If it…

Apartment owners are suing the City of Los Angeles for keeping in place its emergency ban on rent increases first implemented at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a lawsuit filed July 24 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles is asking the court to put a stop to the city’s ongoing rent freeze on grounds that it violates the United States and California constitutions and deprives landlords of due process. “For more than three years, rental housing providers have been saddled with cost increases impacting virtually every line item of their profit and loss statement,”…