Friday, April 4, 2025

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The UK draws up a list of US products they can put retaliatory tariffs on, a Milton Keynes man who charged at police with a knife and was shot dead has been named, and Ukrainian soldiers are using a party drug to treat PTSD.

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1| UK threatens to retaliate to Trump's tariffs and draws up 400-page hitlist of US goods to tax

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2 |The truth about Trump's tariffs and the 'Brexit dividend'

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3 | Knife-wielding man shot dead by police at train station identified

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4 | Letby's lawyer delivers reports he says 'undermine' convictions

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5 | The illegal party drug helping Ukraine's traumatised troops live again

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