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Chris Mason: How Lammy and Vance's unlikely friendship is being leveraged

For weeks now, there has been a barrage of barbs from Donald Trump aimed at the prime minister and Sir Keir Starmer has notched up his public criticisms of the US president. David Lammy, who spends a fair amount of his time overseeing prisons in England and Wales as justice …

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How Trump’s Jesus-like image and feud with the Pope are sparking backlash

'It's a special thing to be on Planet Earth': Artemis crew welcomed home in Houston The four astronauts flew around the Moon in a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans in history. US & Canada Watch the Artemis II re-entry: Separation, blackout, then splashdown The …

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Oasis among record number of British acts entering Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Oasis among record number of Brits entering Rock & Roll Hall of Fame A record number of British performers are to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, with Oasis, heavy metal legends Iron Maiden and Sade amongst those voted in. The total of six …

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Harry and Meghan arrive in Australia for four-day tour

Harry and Meghan arrive in Australia for four-day tour The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived in Australia for a four-day tour which will see them combine visits to charitable causes alongside private, money-making engagements. The couple - no longer working royals and visiting in a private capacity - …

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Greek police using masked migrants to forcibly push other migrants back across border

Greek police using masked migrants to forcibly push other migrants back across border Police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey, according to wide-ranging evidence uncovered by the BBC. We have seen internal police documents in which guards describe …

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Former Nato chief warns UK's national security 'in peril'

A key government adviser has warned that the UK's security is "in peril" and accused the country's leaders of "corrosive complacency" towards defence. Lord George Robertson, the former Nato secretary general who wrote the government's Strategic Defence Review (SDR), has accused "non-military experts in the Treasury" of "vandalism" in a …

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Watchdog investigates 11 police officers over handling of Wimbledon school crash

Eleven Metropolitan Police officers are being investigated by the police watchdog for their handling of the initial inquiry into a crash in Wimbledon that killed two schoolgirls three years ago, the BBC has been told. Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, both eight, died after a Land Rover driven by Claire …

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Lebanon enters talks with Israel but with no cards to play

With Lebanon, again, engulfed by war, I remember a meeting I had with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace, a modernist building at the top of a hill overlooking Beirut last August. Aoun, a former army chief, took office after a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese …

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The Papers: 'PM refuses to join blockade' and 'Hungary enters new era'

'PM refuses to join blockade' and 'Hungary enters new era' The Prime Minister's plans to allow Britain to be able to sign up to EU single market rules, without a parliamentary vote by MPs, is on four of the front pages. The Daily Mail says Labour is being accused of …

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Political turmoil in Indian border state as nine million lose voting rights

Political turmoil in Indian border state as nine million lose voting rights Muhammad Daud Ali, a former Indian army technician, recently discovered that he was no longer a voter in his home state of West Bengal. His name - and those of his three children - had been struck off …

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