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China kindergarten stabbing leaves six dead, 3 children A stabbing at a kindergarten in China’s Guangdong province has left six people dead, including three children. A 25-year-old man has been arrested. The other victims are a teacher and two parents, AFP reported, quoting a local official. Another person remains injured. The attack happened on Monday at 07:40 local time just as parents were dropping their children off for summer classes. The suspect was arrested by…

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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk Many of Sunday’s front pages lead with the allegations that have been made against a ‘top’ BBC presenter, which claims he paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos. BBC star crisis over sex photos The Sunday Telegraph says the BBC has been accused of “mishandling the complaint.” The Sunday Times leads with the thoughts of Nazir Afzal, who led the prosecution in the Rochdale grooming gang cases. He told…

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Threads: Kim Kardashian and the Dalai Lama among celebrities joining Meta’s new app THE INDEPENDENT SAYS Kim Kardashian, Rylan Clark and the Dalai Lama are among some of the celebrities to have signed up for the new social media platform Threads. The app from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – the company behind Facebook and Instagram – has a text-style format which encourages users to post updates and join public discourse. Threads launched on Wednesday (5 July),…

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The launch of Meta’s Threads proves yet again we are too much in awe of the internet THE GUARDIAN SAYS I came to social media to stay in touch with friends and family when I lived overseas. I stayed for its cornucopia of character development opportunities. As this last week has shown, they are on limitless offer. We all know by now that should you wish to improve your resilience to harassment and abuse, be…

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FACE IT I’m a tech expert and anyone joining Facebook’s new Threads app must watch out for nasty trick THE SUN SAYS AN expert has warned of the hidden dangers that could be lurking on Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads app. The Twitter rival attracted ten million people in the first seven hours of launching. But Jake Moore, Global Security Advisor at ESET, says users should watch out for fraudsters jumping on all the excitement. Fake…

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