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Keir Starmer forced on back foot at PMQs over ‘weak’ defence plan
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Keir Starmer forced on back foot at PMQs over ‘weak’ defence plan

Prime minister says he will take no lectures from Tories after Kemi Badenoch says investment plan is insufficientUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer was forced on the defensive in the Commons over his long-delayed defence investment plan announced this week, which critics argue leaves his...

Alexandra Topping Political correspondent
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E Jean Carroll asks judge to order Donald Trump to pay $5m he owes her
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E Jean Carroll asks judge to order Donald Trump to pay $5m he owes her

Move follows supreme court refusal to hear Trump’s appeal of civil case verdict in sexual abuse and defamation caseThe New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexua...

Guardian staff and agency
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Two people onboard small plane die after it crashes in field in Essex
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Two people onboard small plane die after it crashes in field in Essex

Two-seat Cessna aircraft was carrying out short flight experience when it crashed in Ongar on Tuesday, police sayTwo people have died after a light aircraft on a “short flight experience” crashed in a field near Ongar in Essex, police have said.The two-seat Cessna plane crashed in a field off Mill L...

Matthew Weaver
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Duke of York’s theatre to be renamed after Tom Stoppard
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Duke of York’s theatre to be renamed after Tom Stoppard

New name recognises the playwright’s huge impact on British theatre with producer Sonia Friedman saying he would be ‘tickled pink’The Duke of York’s theatre in the West End is to become the Tom Stoppard theatre in honour of the playwright who died in November.The theatre is currently presenting Carr...

Chris Wiegand
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Fears of Catholic schism as defiant sect ordains ultra-conservative bishops
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Fears of Catholic schism as defiant sect ordains ultra-conservative bishops

Consecrations by Society of Saint Pius X bring automatic excommunication for bishops – and crisis for Pope LeoA rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics has defied Pope Leo by ordaining bishops without his consent, which they declared a “sacred duty” despite it causing their automatic excommunica...

Angela Giuffrida in Rome
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New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’
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New Orleans residents on warning to abandon sinking city: ‘Nobody wants to leave home’

After a recent study found New Orleans is at a ‘point of no return’ amid the climate crisis, some locals say they will ‘only leave if forced to’. But what would it take to stay?When a study in May concluded that New Orleans has hit a “point of no return” due to the climate crisis that will require p...

Oliver Milman in New Orleans, with photos and video by Thalia Juarez and graphics by Andrew Witherspoon
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Sudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty says
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Sudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty says

Report accuses paramilitary force of crimes including ethnic cleansing in systemic campaign against civiliansThe Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its seizure of El Fasher last year, Amnesty International has alleged.Many of the...

Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi
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BBC staff fear strike action inevitable after anger at 1% pay rise offer
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BBC staff fear strike action inevitable after anger at 1% pay rise offer

Unions reject proposed below-inflation increase which comes as corporation prepares to cut thousands of jobsBBC staff fear a strike is on the horizon at the broadcaster after anger over a below-inflation pay rise offer made amid plans to cut thousands of jobs.There is widespread consternation among...

Michael Savage Media editor
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Halifax to disappear from UK high street as Lloyds axes bank brand after 173 years
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Halifax to disappear from UK high street as Lloyds axes bank brand after 173 years

Group confirms it will stop opening new accounts under the name and move existing ones to LloydsLloyds Banking Group has announced it is axing the Halifax brand, meaning the 173-year-old former building society’s name will disappear from UK high streets.The group will stop opening new accounts under...

Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
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