34 m. ago Wales' Labour First Minister backs Wealth Tax and piles pressure on Keir Starmer

Eluned Morgan said those with the broadest shoulders pay more as ordinary people were desperately struggling with the cost of living

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41 m. ago Courteney Cox embraces Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek after she storms to victory over Amanda Anisimova in most one

The Friends actress, 61, looked sensational as she paired her black garment with a set of classic ivory trousers.

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78 m. ago South Africa vs Italy live: Reaction as Springboks dominate despite Jasper Wiese red card

South Africa 45-0 Italy: Springboks seal series win with dominant performance in Gqeberha

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79 m. ago Jasper Wiese red card: Why was Springbok sent off in South Africa v Italy?

The Springboks stood firm despite going down a man to lead the Azzurri in the second match of the series in Gqeberha at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium

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1 hour ago UK Government must deliver promise on unfettered trade – Little

The deputy First Minister delivered the main address at an Orange Order parade in Lisburn.

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2 h. ago South Africa vs Italy live: Latest score and updates as Springboks reduced to 13 men

South Africa continue their July action with a second meeting with the Azzurri

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4 h. ago Voices: Keir Starmer has achieved the first half of his impossible mission

The small boats deal with France was a negotiating triumph – but if it doesn’t work, the prime minister is doomed, says John Rentoul

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5 h. ago Trump announces 30% tariffs on imports from the EU and Mexico

The fresh tariffs were announced in separate letters posted on Truth Social

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5 h. ago Trump announces sweeping tariffs on America's biggest trading partners as he slams 'major threat to economy'

President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs to the US' biggest trading partner as he slammed that the trade deficit was a 'major threat' to America's economy.

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5 h. ago South Africa vs Italy live: Latest score and updates as Springboks bid to seal series

South Africa continue their July action with a second meeting with the Azzurri

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7 h. ago How Angela Rayner has become the most influential figure in Starmer’s government – for now

The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the deputy prime minister’s influence is unmatched since the welfare rebellion

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8 h. ago Top Tories enjoy Ascot Ladies Day freebies on eve of historic assisted dying vote

Kemi Badenoch’s shadow ministers Stuart Andrew, Greg Smith and Louie French were off to the races last month – on the same day Parliament sat miles away in Westminster

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8 h. ago ‘You don’t get a second chance at a shot like this – horses wander off’: Mike Wells’s best phone picture

The former World Press Photo of the Year winner on why capturing a good image remains instinctive in the age of mobile photography‘Scrambling to catch this shot felt like 3D chess,” says photographer Mike Wells. “My eyes were balancing Connemara’s famous mountains, its wild ponies and the stone walls, while my mind computed the variables: the rush to catch the last rays of evening sun, that moment when a sea breeze lifts the ponies’ manes, and whichever way they will amble next.”In 1981, Wells won the World Press Photo of the Year for an image shot in Uganda depicting a malnourished boy’s hand resting in the palm of a Catholic priest. “When I was working in the 1970s and 80s, unless you could afford a motor drive for your camera, you often got just one chance at the critical shot,” Wells says. “You could never tell whether you really had captured the moment until you got back from Africa, or at least out of the darkroom. That image wasn’t well lit or well composed, ju...

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8 h. ago Africa’s top garment exporter could fold under US tariffs, minister says

Lesotho, which supplies Levi’s and Wrangler, declares ‘state of disaster’ as Trump threat triggers job cuts

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9 h. ago Stephen Griffiths' sister unveils chilling childhood in Crossbow Cannibal documentary

Stephen Griffiths was jailed for life in December 2010 after admitting the murders of three women in Bradford and was given a whole life tariff

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10 h. ago Unite boss accuses Angela Rayner of ‘totally and utterly abhorrent’ behaviour as clash with Labour escalates

The general secretary of Unite has launched fresh attacks on deputy prime minister Angela Rayner

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12 h. ago What links a prosecco cocktail and raw beef? The Saturday quiz

From blessed and venerable to I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which of Shakespeare’s female characters has the most lines?2 What is the only shipping forecast area named after a person?3 Which high street chain was sold for £1 in June?4 Where does the bánh mì sandwich come from?5 Which TV presenter was horseracing’s champion lady rider in 1990?6 What irritant has the botanical name Urtica dioica?7 Which Conservative peer’s father drafted the 1945 Labour manifesto?8 What is Africa’s largest antelope?What links: 9 Prosecco and peach cocktail; sliced raw beef; brownish-orange hair?10 Cutting; doglike; millstone; before millstone; wise judgment?11 American Dad; I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here; Jeopardy; Police Squad; Up Pompeii?12 First class (62%); second class (41%); third class (25%); crew (24%)?13 Abcoulomb; defence; hijack; nope; stupid?14 Servant of God; Venerable; Blessed?15 Altai; Buryat; Chukchi; Evenki; Kalmyk; Nenets? Continu...

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12 h. ago Keep fit Brits beg Dubai to export viral ice gym as UK swelters in yet another heatwave

Dubai is used to dealing with record-breaking temperatures with the mercury regularly rising above 45c - prompting leisure facilities and services to innovate to cope with the heat

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13 h. ago Yes, Israel’s plan for Rafah would be a crime – but international law has never protected Gaza | Raja Shehadeh

Palestinians continue to hold on to the practice we call sumoud – refusing to give up or leave – despite the world turning its back on usOver the past 21 long months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, voices all over the world have decried the demise of international law and the rule-based order. And indeed, the facade of Israel’s adherence to international law has vanished and policies that constitute war crimes are now brazenly declared.This week, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has shared plans to forcibly move Palestinians into a camp in the ruins of Rafah. Once they enter, they cannot leave. In other words, a concentration camp, which by definition is an internment centre for members of a national group (as well as political prisoners or minority groups) on the grounds of security or punishment, usually by military order. Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, was quoted in the Guardian as saying that Katz “laid out an operational plan for a crime against humani...

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14 h. ago Young people don’t feel part of the EU – and they’re right | Francesco Grillo

Its remote, top-down structures need a fresh, citizen-led approach fit for the digital age. Let’s start by extending Erasmus to school-goersThe former Italian prime minister Mario Draghi produced his much-awaited prescription for how to reboot Europe’s economy last year. The Draghi report was rightly applauded as a rude awakening for a European Union that is far too complacent about its own obsolescence. Draghi concluded that an €800bn-a-year public spending boost would be needed to end years of stagnation. If Europe did not catch up with its rivals, he warned, it would face a “slow and agonising” decline.And yet, one ingredient was missing from Draghi’s recipe. In his nearly 400-page roadmap for rescuing the EU, the word “democracy” is mentioned only three times (once in the bibliography). By contrast, “integration” is used 96 times and “defence” 391 times. It’s true that Draghi’s report was explicitly devoted to the future of European competitiveness (and not more widely to the Eu...

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