Plus, what Jon Sopel gives thanks for in the US...
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| UK and France promise action after 27 Channel deaths |
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| Three men guilty of murdering black jogger |
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| Three white men have been found guilty of murdering a black jogger in the US state of Georgia last year, in a case that became a rallying cry to racial justice protesters. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was shot in a confrontation with Travis and Gregory McMichael and their neighbour, William Bryan. The defendants said they acted in self-defence during a citizen's arrest; prosecutors said race was a factor. The men now face minimum sentences of life in prison. In February they will face another trial in a federal hate crimes case, alleging they targeted Arbery because he was black. Watch our in-depth report on the trial here - or listen to Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis’s reactions in the Americast. | |
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| Man charged with murders in Somerset |
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| A man has been charged with the murders of a couple who were killed in their home as their children slept upstairs. Jennifer and Stephen Chapple were found at the house in Dragon Rise, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, at 21:45 GMT on Sunday. Collin Reeves, 34, also of Dragon Rise, is due to appear at Taunton Magistrates' Court on Thursday. Post-mortem examinations confirmed the couple died from multiple stab wounds. The children, aged five and six, were unhurt and are being looked after by family members, Avon and Somerset Police said. | |
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| | | | | This will be my eighth and final Thanksgiving before I move back to the UK, and the thing that has struck me about living here is the courtesy, respect and old-fashioned politeness. When I tell Americans there are those in Britain who could learn from this, they seem startled. Surely, they ask, Britain - with its Royal Family - is the epitome of etiquette and courtliness. I ask if they've ever tried to get on the Victoria Line at Oxford Circus in the rush hour. But there will be a lot of families who won't be gathering this year. A friend from Ohio - the kindest, most gentle soul - says his family won't be getting together because of toxic divisions that have come to the fore in the past few years. He works in the media and is sick of having his family telling him he works for fake news. It has been a growing and depressing phenomenon in America, where the list of no-go topics for the dinner table is now so extensive, better to call the whole thing off. | |
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| | Jon Sopel | BBC North America editor | |
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| | | | As almost all the papers lead on the tragedy in the Channel, attention turns to the French authorities. “Why didn’t France stop them?” asks the front page of the Metro, saying the migrants made “the perilous trip in a blow-up boat”. The Sun says the lack of action is “shameful,” while the Mail and the Express quote Boris Johnson, who said people-smuggling gangs were “getting away with murder”. Read all the front pages here. | |
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| | | Bulb UK government sets aside £1.7bn after energy firm fails |
| | | | Sweden First female PM resigns on day one |
| | | | Hospitals 100 people with learning disabilities held for 20 years |
| | | | Germany Scholz seals deal to end 16 years of Merkel government |
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| A 13-year-old girl from Suffolk has uncovered a hoard of Bronze Age axes – on just her third metal-detecting trip. Milly was scouring a field near Royston, Hertfordshire, when she made the find. Read more – and see the 14th Century axe heads – here. Meanwhile in Halifax, West Yorkshire, a golf course had to close when a pair of pot-bellied pigs invaded the fairways. Two men were hurt and the pigs pushed golf trolleys over. "We had to close because they were wandering around and took over the course," the course director said. | |
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