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Royal Navy Warship To Head To Libya
The UK is set to send a Royal Navy warship to the Mediterranean to help tackle arms smuggling in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
He told the G7 summit in Japan the UK was ready to take an "active leadership role" in helping Libya deal with people trafficking and the migration crisis. The UK already has a survey vessel, HMS Enterprise, operating in the area.
Officials are to seek UN approval for the new warship to seize boats taking arms to so-called Islamic State.
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Intelligence Agencies Advertise To Recruit More Women
UK intelligence agencies say they are recruiting more female staff - and are targeting middle-age and "mid-career" women for jobs.
MI6 and and GCHQ advertised on the Mumsnet website for the first time this year, and MI5 has raised its target for women employees to 45% by 2021. Flexible working and the importance of "high emotional intelligence" are also being stressed in recruitment. The agencies were responding to calls from MPs to recruit more women.
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Data Breach In NI Prisons Not Serious Threat
A data breach involving the personal details of hundreds of Northern Ireland Prison Service employees has been described as "a major embarrassment".
However, it is not being treated as a major security breach.
A junior employee at the Department of Justice sent a spreadsheet with names and dates of birth of prison officers and civilian staff. It was mistakenly sent to an outside contractor.
The person who received the information is employed by a company that carries out work for the prison service, and they have been security vetted.
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Julie Beards Found Guilty
A woman has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a student with learning difficulties.
Julie Beards blamed her husband for the murder of Susan Whiting, 20, who was drugged, raped and killed in August, Leicester Crown Court heard.
Steven Beards, 34, had already been convicted of rape and murder of the Walsall student and sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 33 years.
Julie Beards, 36, who also has learning difficulties, denied murder.
Her husband, whom the judge described as "a sexually motivated violent killer" denied the charges.
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New Leader Of Afghan Taliban Announced
The Afghan Taliban have announced a new leader to replace Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike.
In a statement, the Taliban acknowledged Mansour's death for the first time and named his successor as Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada. Analysts say it is unlikely the group will change direction under Akhundzada, a religious scholar seen as hardline.
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US Justice Department Seeking Death Penalty For Charleston Shootings
The US justice department is seeking the death penalty in the case of the Charleston church shooting which claimed nine lives last year.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the "nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm" were factors in choosing the death penalty.
Dylann Roof is charged with the murders of nine worshippers at an African-American church in South Carolina. Police said he spent an hour sitting with parishioners before opening fire.
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Egypt Sends Sub To Find Flight MS804 Boxes
Egypt has deployed a robot submarine to search for the flight data recorders of the missing EgyptAir plane.
"We are moving hard to retrieve the two boxes," President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said in his first public comments on the crash. The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard when it vanished from radar early on Thursday.
Mr Sisi said there was "no particular theory we can affirm right now" for what caused flight MS804 to crash. Investigators say smoke was detected in various parts of the cabin three minutes before it disappeared.
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Car & Suicide Bombings In Syria Kill Dozens
A series of car and suicide bombings has hit two government strongholds on Syria's Mediterranean coast.
State media said at least 78 people were killed, while a monitoring group put the death toll at more than 120.
Four bombings targeted bus stations in the port city of Tartous and in Jableh, a town to the north, which have until now escaped the worse of the civil war. A news agency linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) said the jihadist group was behind the attacks.
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German Serial Killer Suspected To Be Dead Pensioner
A pensioner who died in 2014 could have been behind a spate of sadistic killings in the 1970s and 1990s, German investigators say.
They are examining Manfred Seel's links with the murders of five women and a teenage boy. Organs had been taken from all of the victims' bodies.
The five women were all working as prostitutes when they died. Investigators say it is possible the killer had an accomplice and that there may have been other victims.
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Man Found In Buckingham Palace Is A Convicted Murderer
A man who has admitted scaling Buckingham Palace's wall is a convicted murderer, a court has heard.
Dennis Hennessy, 41, of Wembley, north-west London, pleaded guilty to one count of trespass on a protected site and one count of criminal damage. He admitted the charges at Westminster Magistrates' Court, where he was jailed for four months.
The court heard how he had been on licence after being convicted of the murder of a homeless man in 1992.
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