95 minutes ago Donald Trump calls January 6 a 'day of love' as he's quizzed on US Capitol riot in Florida town hall

Trump made the controversial comments at a Univision town hall event aimed at Latino voters in Florida

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1 hour ago ITV Good Morning Britain suffers technical blunder as Richard Madeley forced to step in

Richard Madeley and co-star Kate Garraway returned to our TV screens on Thursday morning and the show faced major technical issues

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2 hours ago Liam Payne addressed rumours before flying to Argentina to see One Direction bandmate

The star was forced to comment on wild speculation

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2 hours ago Middle East latest: An Israeli strike wounds 2 civilians in Syria, its military says

Syria’s military says Israel carried out a strike in the coastal city of Latakia, wounding two civilians and damaging a military post

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3 hours ago Strictly's Wynne Evans keeps his hands to himself after THAT 'live show incident' on glum outing with pro partner Katya Jones in Cardiff

The opera singer and the pro-dancer have been accused of suffering from tension within their partnership as eagle-eyed fans have spotted a couple of awkward moments between the two.

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3 hours ago The Crime Is Mine review – François Ozon’s 1930s crime comedy is a moreish crowdpleaser

Ozon and a stellar cast serve up an entertaining, if shallow caper that shades a little too close to #MeTooFrançois Ozon has directed plenty of complex, demanding and serious dramas: Everything Went Fine, Summer of 85 and By the Grace of God, along with adaptations of Fassbinder. But he also has a sweet tooth for breezy, silly, crowd-pleasing theatrical comedies like this one (which does however appear to contain a Fassbinder reference, if you look hard enough). Watching it is like being force-fed a large box of chocolates; moreish, though. There is certainly an amazing blue-chip cast of French movie-acting royalty, including Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini and André Dussollier.The Crime Is Mine is adapted from a 1934 French stage comedy called Mon Crime by Georges Berr and Louis Vern...

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3 hours ago Why is Germany shooting its own stagnating economy in the foot? | Simon Nixon

A proposed Italian-German bank merger makes sense for Europe, but Berlin is opting for domestic protectionismA potential merger between a German bank and an Italian rival would not normally elicit much interest beyond the business pages. But these are not normal times. The Italian bank UniCredit recently provoked a political backlash in Germany by acquiring a 21% stake in the German lender Commerzbank. Even chancellor Olaf Scholz weighed in, calling the Italian move “an unfriendly attack”. The significance of this row runs far beyond the worlds of Italian and German finance.News of the acquisition came just weeks after the publication of a report by Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, on how to address the EU’s declining competitiveness against the US and Ch...

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3 hours ago Middle East crisis live: US stealth bombers strike Houthi targets in Yemen

Pentagon says US air force used long-range B-2 stealth bombers to target ‘five hardened underground weapons storage locations’ of Iran-backed Houthis See all our Middle East coverageA brief update on the Israeli strikes on Syrian coastal city Latakia (see earlier post here).Two people were injured and there was some damage to private properties, Syrian state media reported citing a military statement. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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