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Von Der Leyen Wins Second Term As President Of EU

'Next five years will define our place in the world,' she says

Women And Girls 'Treated Like Meat' In Police Custody

Women and girls have been treated like meat and subjected to unjustified strip searches in police custody, according to a damning new report.

Starmer Uses Summit To Reset Relationship With EU

Sir Keir Starmer declared that Britain is "back on the international stage" as he sought to put the UK at the centre of European cooperation and build closer ties with the continent.

Fatal Flaws In Planning Led To ‘Avoidable' Covid Deaths

Inquiry chair demands radical reform of pandemic plans

Labour Can Easily End Austerity At A Strokeby Taxing The Rich Hard

Never let your opponents define the terms of a debate.

China Leads World With Growth In Solar And Wind Power

The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, according to a new report.

Pensions Hike To £12k-AYyear

Boost touted for those in retirement

Get Out Of Jail Could Britain Solve Its Prison Problems By Going Dutch?

Earlier this year, before he became the UK prisons minister, James Timpson described how Britain should follow the Dutch example of mild sentencing to help solve the prisons crisis.

Steep Decline Palestinians Fear Eviction From East Jerusalem

On the wall of the living room of Zohair Rajabi's house is a map showing his neighbourhood: the stepped alleys winding down the steep slopes facing Jerusalem's Old City, and the flat roofs of houses.

Trump Deserves Our Sympathy But Not Our Support In November

I was on the phone with my daughter when emails started streaming through.

Question Time Biden Touts His Record, But The Doubts Refuse To Go Away

In the shadow of the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, where Donald Trump officially became the party's nominee, two days after surviving an attempt on his life, Joe Biden was still confronting a question he thought he'd answered: will he be the Democratic nominee in November? "1,000%," the president said in an interview, which aired on Monday but was recorded before a would-be assassin shot at Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday. In the roughly 36 hours that followed, the presidential contest was suspended.

Kate's Belief In The Heal Good Power Of Nature

Princess backs museum's garden launch

Putin's A Threat To All Of Europe

PM's warning before historic Zelensky address to Cabinet

PM Keir: Eu Must Sort Migration

Time to smash smuggler gangs

King's Speech Could Make Or Break Starmer's Government

The King’s Speech will set out a lot of unnecessary legislation for show. It will resemble a worthy to-do list for the new government – mostly creating new bureaucracies, setting targets in law and making things that are already illegal more illegal.

Delicious Prospect Stands In Way Of Olympic Rematch

In Rio, at the 2016 Olympics, Joe Joyce lost a controversial decision in the super-heavyweight final.

Southgate Calls It A Day After Euro 2024 Final Heartache

Gareth Southgate has stepped down as England manager after the Euro 2024 final defeat to Spain.

IMF Figures Show Brexit Has 'Drained Life From Economy'

Opponents of Brexit have warned that the latest figures from the International Monetary Fund IMF) confirm that leaving the EU has drained the life” out of the UK economy.

Fury Over Vance's Claim UK Under Labour Is 'Islamist'

Donald Trump’s choice for vice-president has provoked fury by describing the UK under Labour as an “Islamist country” with nuclear weapons.

Last Of Putin Ships 'Have Fled Crimea'

UKRAINE announced yesterday it had driven the last of Vladimir Putin's fleet out of Crimean waters.

Anti-Vaxxers Blamed For Jags Plunge

Cases of whooping cough and measles surge after conspiracy theories spread

Batman Fans Can Enter Wayne's World

BATMAN fans can prepare to be wowed - a huge new exhibition celebrating the comic book superhero has now opened inside the Bat Cave-like interiors of Manchester's Depot Mayfield.

IDF Strikes Kill At Least 60 People Across The Gaza Strip

At least 60 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said, including in an attack on a school sheltering displaced people and another on an Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone", as ceasefire talks appeared to stall once again.

Orbán: Trump's 'Detailed Plans' Would End Ukraine War Straight After Election

Viktor Orbán has claimed in a letter to a top EU body that Donald Trump has "detailed and well-founded" plans for peace between Russia and Ukraine a claim likely to inflame tensions about the Hungarian prime minister's diplomatic freelancing.

Israel-Gaza War Internal Pressure Mounts On Starmer To Shift UK Policy

The first internal pressure on the Labour government to shift Britain's policy on Israel came yesterday, when Labour Friends of Israel said that the UK should restore funding to the UN's Palestinian relief agency, Unrwa.

Why Is The Pundit Class Desperate To Push Joe Biden Out Of The Race?

I am not usually one to offer diagnoses of people I've never met, but it does seem like the pundit class of the US media is suffering from severe memory loss.

High Stakes Dizzying Win But There's No Safety Net If Labour Fails

The asteroid hit at dawn. The seats of four Tory former prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson - fell in an hour at around 6am on Friday, capping a historically unprecedented collapse for the Conservative party.

China Nation 'Decisive Enabler' Of Russia's War Against Ukraine

Nato leaders have labelled China a "decisive enabler" of Russia's war against Ukraine and called its deepening ties with Moscow a cause of "deep concern", in what has been seen as the most serious rebuke against Beijing from the alliance.

Fears Of New Missile Crisis As Germany Agrees To Host Long-Range US Weapons

A US announcement of a plan to station long-range missiles in Germany for the first time since the cold war has set off a diplomatic furore between Washington and Moscow and elicited comparisons to the European missile crises of the 1980s.

Relations With The EU Starmer Begins The Reset With Bilateral Talks And Summit

Keir Starmer is to kickstart the resetting of the UK's relationship with the EU in bilateral meetings next week with the prime minister of Ireland and the president of France.