75 m. ago Wales star banned as Steve Tandy forced to make team change for final two games

Wales have been dealt a blow ahead of matches against New Zealand and South Africa

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78 m. ago Labour peer accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘using children as a weapon’ in asylum reforms

Lord Alf Dubs, who fled from the Nazis as a child refuge, described the government’s proposals as ‘shabby’ after the Home Office said it could deport children of failed asylum seekers

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83 m. ago 'Quiet piggy!' Moment Trump lashes out at reporter asking about Epstein files

The president was facing questions about Jeffrey Epstein aboard Air Force One

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1 hour ago Commuters stunned after 'knifeman with machete' rampages through south London Tube station

Shell-shocked passengers were forced to shelter inside a train carriage after the armed man reportedly ran through the station

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2 h. ago Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies

Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ peopleShabana Mahmood is facing demands for compassion and clarity after it emerged that only a “few hundred” asylum seekers would initially be permitted to come to the UK under three new schemes for refugees.The home secretary had justified a series of hardline policies – such as the deportation of families and the confiscation of assets from claimants – by saying she would also open the “safe and legal” routes for “genuine” claimants. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Tragic I'm A Celebrity star forced to quit show over 'fears he'd die on live TV'

Comedian Freddie Starr was 68 when he entered I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2011, but he was forced to leave the show due to serious concerns about his health

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2 h. ago Masked robbers steal £450k watch and £1.1m in cryptocurrency after forcing their way into a car travelling from Oxford to London

Two men and three women were driving from the university city to London on the afternoon of November 4 when the raiders struck, Thames Valley Police said.

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2 h. ago Scotland vs Denmark LIVE score and goal updates from the World Cup winner takes it all clash

Steve Clarke’s side are just 90 minutes from qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in 28 years and the nation are believers

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2 h. ago Scotland vs Denmark LIVE as utterly crackers team leak rumour fills the Hampden sky

Steve Clarke’s side are just 90 minutes from qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in 28 years and the nation are believers

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2 h. ago Brits told to take weaker showers and to stop rinsing dishes in bid to save water

Officials are ordering Brits to stop rinsing dishes and take weak showers to help plug up the nation’s water crisis. The Environment Agency blamed drought conditions for the alarm

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2 h. ago Venezuela’s top opposition leader claims ‘new era’ is coming despite lack of clear plan

María Corina Machado pens a ‘freedom manifesto’ as plan to force Nicolás Maduro from power remains unclearVenezuela’s top opposition leader, the Nobel laureate María Corina Machado, has declared her country “at the edge of a new era” as Donald Trump refused to rule out a ground invasion to topple its authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, but also signalled he was open to talks.Machado, who has lived in hiding since her movement’s candidate was widely believed to have beaten Maduro in last year’s presidential election, made her claim in a “freedom manifesto” that was published on Tuesday as uncertainty continued to shroud the South American country’s future. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago The tiny island nation one point from becoming the smallest country EVER to reach the World Cup

Most people hear 'Curacao' and think of the blue liqueur that brightens up cocktail menus around the world. But this tiny Caribbean Island is now shaking up something far more intoxicating.

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2 h. ago The 'dangerous' travel destination seeing a surge in visitors

The FCDO advises against all travel to parts of this east African nation. However, its department of tourism said 10,000 tourists visited in 2024 - a 50 per cent increase on the previous year.

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3 h. ago Cop30 live: first draft text revives shift away from fossil fuels

So-called “mutirão decision” text provides first look at potential outcomes of UN climate summit – but don’t call it a cover text, say BraziliansWe should not fear the forces of denial and delay, UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has warned, because “they are losing this fight”.Speaking to delegates at Cop30, the Labour politician acknowledged the existence of climate deniers and delayers across the world – including in the UK – and described them as “well funded, well organised, and determined”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Labour minister says UK will not tolerate ‘covert and calculated’ spying by China

The Tories have pressed the Government to place China in the enhanced tier of the foreign influence registration scheme (Firs)

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3 h. ago Amanda Owen defiantly hits back at critics after being branded a 'pretend farmer' as she shares reality of juggling 'high glamour with keeping the nation fed'

Amanda Owen has hit back at her critics who have accused her of not being a real farmer and simply pretending to perform the role for TV.

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3 h. ago Warning over ‘dangerous brain drain’ as number of Britons leaving UK revealed

UK net migration reached a new record high, new figures show, as Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood comes under fire over asylum crackdown

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3 h. ago Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’

After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaignThe night before Mahmood Mamdani was expelled from Uganda in 1972, a senior professor from the university where he had been employed as a lowly teaching assistant wandered into his family home, looking for spoils. The rest of the family had already left – for the UK, the US and Tanzania – but 26-year-old Mamdani had decided to remain until the final day of the three-month period that Idi Amin, the Ugandan president, had designated for all Asians to leave the country. Passing over the furniture and other remnants of decades of family life, the professor hit upon a carton of Johnnie Walker Red, which Mamdani invited him to take home. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Donald Trump addresses health fears as reporters notice 'hoarse voice' at major briefing

Donald Trump has been forced to address concerns about his health after his "hoarse voice" was heard at a conference

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4 h. ago UN plan just ‘first step’ toward peace in Gaza, says Palestinian foreign minister

Varsen Aghabekian Shahin backs resolution, while Hamas rejects idea of international force inside territoryAnalysis: One of the oddest UN resolutions in historyThe Palestinian foreign minister has described the UN security council resolution endorsing Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza as a necessary first step on a long road towards peace, even as Hamas rejected it as a form of international guardianship with which it will not cooperate.Arab state leaders who have reluctantly adopted the plan said the US urgently needed to set out the composition of the proposed Palestinian technocratic committee that is to deliver services inside Gaza, as well as the leadership of the international stabilisation force (ISF), which is supposed to oversee security. Membership of the board of peace, the body that is to oversee the ISF and a Palestinian civilian police force also remains unknown. Continue reading...

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