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Shares in electric vehicle maker Tesla sank to a new 52-week low on Tuesday, closing around $138 per share, or 8% lower for the day in an otherwise mixed day for stocks. CEO Elon Musk tried to blame the sinking price partly on macroeconomic factors.

^ The power company manager had barely begun explaining how his workmen were restoring service, when a residents’ representative from a nearby housing block interrupted to give thanks. Gesturing to the workmen repairing buried power lines, the middle-aged woman declared they were heroes. “I want to say that all the workers of communal services, electric companies and others are all our soldiers: heroes in the rear,” she told the Telegraph, before walking off.

The prime minister has said "the world is watching" the Taliban after women in Afghanistan were ordered to stop attending university until further notice. Taliban security forces in Kabul have been enforcing the higher education ban for women by blocking their access to universities, with a video showing women weeping and consoling each other outside a campus in the capital.

With overcrowding, understaffing and rising levels of violence, why would anyone want to work in a prison? ITV News was given rare and exclusive access to new recruits working on the frontline in the country’s most notorious prisons. Officer Brown, 23, is on an early shift at HMP Belmarsh, a maximum-security male prison in South East London with a fearsome reputation, housing 700 inmates from terrorists to sex offenders.

The Home Office could use disused cruise ships to house asylum seekers while their claims are being processed. Home Secretary Suella Braverman confirmed her department is looking at the idea as an alternative to resorting to costly hotels and suggested officials were in talks with ship companies. Disused holiday parks and former student halls are also being "looked at" under new plans by the Home Office, she added, saying that hotels were costing the British taxpayer over £5 million a day.

A statement is released by the Bulgarian government following an investigation by Sky News and others that uncovered a host of allegations of abuses against migrants entering the country from Turkey.

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The prospects for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the near future remain dim, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, said on Monday, adding that he expected the war to rage on as Moscow escalates its attacks on Ukraine’s already decimated infrastructure. “I am not optimistic about the possibility of effective peace talks at the immediate future,” Mr. Guterres said in a year-end news conference. “I do believe that the military confrontation will go on, and I think we’ll have to still wait a moment in which serious negotiations for peace will be possible.”

Home births have been cancelled for some patients on Wednesday as hospitals are concerned that ambulances will not respond to some emergency calls. In some parts of London expectant mothers have been told that home births have been “suspended” due to concerns that ambulances will not arrive to take them to hospital.

The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria in order to receive a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

Chris Parry told Sky News in an update from Ukraine, that the 4x4 vehicle used to evacuate the most vulnerable citizens was written-off after being hit by a Russian tank round.

Well worth a listen on the events and story of Snake Island in the Blacksea.

Footage has shown the moment the protester is tackled to the ground after lighting a fire outside Buckingham Palace. The suspect is pushed up against the front gate fence of the London estate by a police officer before the pair struggle to the ground.

A white former Texas police officer who fatally shot a Black woman through a window of her home in October 2019 was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison on Tuesday. The former officer, Aaron Dean, was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, who had been playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew. Dean was responding to Jefferson’s home after a neighbor had called a nonemergency line around 2 a.m. to say he had noticed an open front door.

Two people have died and tens of thousands of households were left without power after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked northern California. The tremor, 215 miles (350km) north of San Francisco, has caused widespread damage to roadways. "Anything that was on the walls broke off the walls," said JB Mathers, a resident of the coastal city of Eureka. Authorities have closed several roads and warned the public to brace for aftershocks.