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Israeli Minister In Provocative Visit To Al-Aqsa Mosque Site In Jerusalem

Israel's extremist national security minister has visited the holiest Muslim site in Jerusalem, recording a video saying he went to "pray", in a provocative move as he seeks to disrupt ceasefire talks.

Violence Against Women In Brazil Reaches Highest Level On Record

Brazil has recorded unprecedented levels of rape and other forms of gender-based violence for the second year running, amid growing concerns over rightwing efforts to criminalise rape victims who have an abortion.

Starmer Discusses Processing Asylum Seekers Outside The UK

Keir Starmer is looking into plans to process asylum seekers outside the UK as part of a rethink of the government's immigration policies, even as a returns agreement with the EU appears more distant than ever.

Biden 'Now More Open To Calls To Step Aside'

Joe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the party's two main congressional leaders told him they doubted his ability to beat Donald Trump.

Top NHS Body ‘Failing' In Several Key Areas Amid Enormous Debt

GREATER Manchester's debt-laden top NHS body is 'failing' in several key areas and now faces 'enforcement' action.

The Afghan Women Defying The Taliban To Be Olympians

When she steps out onto the cycling track at the Paris Olympics on 27 July, Yulduz Hashimi won't just be fulfilling a childhood dream.

Obama Reported To Have Serious Doubts About Biden

Democrats believe president could drop out 'this weekend'

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.