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Inmates Removed From HMP Bedford After Riots
About 50 or 60 inmates are understood to have been removed from HMP Bedford after a number of prisoners were involved in a riot.
At least 150 inmates are thought to have been involved in Sunday's incident at the Category B facility; the Prison Officers Association has said 230.
Bedfordshire Police said three men had been arrested in connection with a criminal investigation into the unrest. Two inmates were taken to hospital for treatment and have returned to prison.
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Car Bomb In Turkey Kills Eight And Injures Dozens
The joint leaders of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party, People's Democracy (HDP), have been arrested along with at least nine other MPs.
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag are accused of spreading propaganda for militants fighting the Turkish state. Hours after Mr Demirtas was arrested in Diyarbakir, a car bomb killed eight people and injured more than 100.
Militants have been fighting for years to achieve independence for the Kurds, Turkey's biggest ethnic minority.
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Travel Firms Call For Decision On Resuming Flights To Sharm el-Sheikh
The government has been urged to set a date for the resumption of UK flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, one year after they were suspended over terrorism fears.
The flight ban to the Egyptian Red Sea resort followed the suspected bombing of a Russian airliner on 31 October 2015, killing all 224 people on board.
A group of more than 30 travel firms is calling for a decision on when direct flights from the UK can resume. The government said British nationals' security was its "top priority".
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President Obama Issues Warning On Presidential Election
President Barack Obama has urged Democrats of all ethnic backgrounds to get out and vote for Hillary Clinton, warning that the fate of the US republic - and the world - is at stake.
He said her Republican opponent Donald Trump was a threat to hard-earned civil rights. President Obama was speaking at a rally in North Carolina.
Mr Trump said Mr Obama should stop campaigning for Mrs Clinton and focus on running the country. "The bottom line is, no-one wants four more years of Obama," he told supporters in Pensacola, Florida. He said Mrs Clinton had become "unhinged" in recent days.
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IS Leader Urges IS Fighters To Defend Mosul
The Islamic State (IS) group has released an audiotape which it says is from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ordering Iraqis to defend the city of Mosul against the Iraqi army.
The recording has not been verified yet but analysts believe it is genuine. Baghdadi's whereabouts are unknown. Some officials have said he may be inside Mosul alongside IS fighters.
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UN Secretary General Sacks South Sudan Peacekeeper
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has sacked the commander of the UN force in South Sudan after a report said it had failed to protect civilians in July.
The report backed claims by aid workers that the UN troops refused to respond when government soldiers attacked an international aid compound in Juba.
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Member Of Armed Forces Dies In Training Exercise
A member of the armed forces has died in a training exercise at RAF Tain weapons range, 30 miles from Inverness.
Police said there were no other casualties, but the range remains sealed off and the person's next of kin have been informed.
A police spokesman said an investigation will be launched but it was a "contained incident" and there was no threat to the public. An Army spokeswoman confirmed that officials were handling the incident. She said: "We are aware of an incident at the Tain base, near Inverness. "We will release more information as and when it becomes available. It would be inappr…
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Iraqi Forces Enter Outskirts Of Mosul
Iraqi forces have for the first time entered the eastern outskirts of Mosul, as they attempt to drive Islamic State (IS) militants from the northern city.
Elite Counter-Terrorism Service troops seized control of the state television building in Kukjali hours after launching an assault on the area.
Units of the army's ninth division are meanwhile said to be bearing down on south-eastern districts of the city.On Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told the 3,000 to 5,000 militants believed to be inside Mosul, which they overran in June 2014, that there was "no escape" and to "either surre…
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Cyber Security To Get £1.9bn Government Boost
Automatic defences to stop hackers hijacking websites or spoofing official domains will get a boost from a £1.9bn government cybersecurity strategy.
Chancellor Philip Hammond said that hostile "foreign actors" were developing attacks that threatened the UK's electrical grid and airports. He added that to defend itself Britain must have ways to retaliate in kind. He also addressed a need to tackle cyber-scammers, including finding fresh ways to intercept booby-trapped emails. "If we do not have the ability to respond in cyberspace to an attack which takes down our power network - leaving us in d…
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French Military To Leave Central African Republic
France is ending its military mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), three years after it intervened to stop mass killing after a rebellion ousted former president Francois Bozize.
The withdrawal of the 2,000 French troops comes as a fresh wave of killings has rocked CAR.
France says Sangaris succeeded in its mission to stop fighting in CAR.
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