EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock US Vice-President Kamala Harris says people in Gaza “are starving” and has urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” there. She said “there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks”, which would “get the [Israeli] hostages out”. Earlier, Israel did not attend truce talks in Egypt, saying
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I’ve never covered a by-election like it. Bizarre, noisy, angry, colourful. 11 candidates, all men. Oh, and wildly unpredictable. Candidates disowned. And the local and the international jostling alongside each other for attention. The big characters: the two former Labour MPs, George Galloway and Simon Danczuk. The candidates abandoned, not least Azhar Ali, who won
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PA Media By Jennifer McKiernan & Doug Faulkner BBC News Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned police chiefs of a “growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule”. He wants more robust police responses that he says are needed to protect politicians and democratic processes. This includes an “immediate response” from police to intimidatory
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House of Commons/UK Parliament By Dearbail Jordan Business reporter, BBC News The former Post Office chairman has shocked MPs by claiming that the company’s current chief executive Nick Read is under investigation. Henry Staunton made the allegation at a hearing to discuss compensation payments to sub-postmasters at the centre of the Horizon scandal. Alan Bates,
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PA MediaCopyright: PA Media On Friday, former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson told GB News that “Islamists” had “got control” of the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. On Saturday, Anderson was suspended from the Conservative party after “refusing to apologise” for those comments. Khan responded, describing Anderson’s remarks as, “Islamophobic, anti-Muslim and racist”. The London
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