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Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award
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Plymouth’s the Box wins 2026 Art Fund museum of the year award

‘Ambitious and welcoming’ venue that opened in 2020 praised for ‘reimagining what being a museum can mean’The Box in Plymouth has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world, for its “ambitious and welcoming approach”.Awarding it the £120,000 prize, jud...

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
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Ex-Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins believed to be in talks over top security role
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Ex-Foreign Office chief Olly Robbins believed to be in talks over top security role

Civil service high-flyer caught up in Mandelson vetting row thought to be discussing comeback with Burnham’s teamThe Foreign Office chief who lost his job over the Peter Mandelson vetting scandal is in discussions with Andy Burnham’s team about taking on a security-related role under the likely new...

Ben Quinn and Pippa Crerar
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Robert Jenrick says questions about £5m donation to Farage are legitimate
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Robert Jenrick says questions about £5m donation to Farage are legitimate

Reform MP appears to contradict party leader’s claim money from crypto billionaire is ‘none of your business’Robert Jenrick has said it is “legitimate” for the media to ask questions about Nigel Farage’s £5m personal donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire, just days after the Reform UK leader to...

Rowena Mason and Phillip Inman
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Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her
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Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her

Former employee files complaint accusing company of ‘coercive surveillance’ and first amendment violationThe Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams is suing the tech company over its efforts to “silence” her.A 57-page complaint filed to a US district court in California on Thursday argues that an in...

Ella Creamer and Michael Savage
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New York prosecutors seek to drop Harvey Weinstein rape charge
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New York prosecutors seek to drop Harvey Weinstein rape charge

Accuser declines to testify in fourth trial after May mistrial with prosecutors citing her ‘extraordinarily taxing ordeal’Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday moved to drop a third-degree rape ⁠charge against Harvey Weinstein after the woman accusing the disgraced movie mogul of assaulting her said she...

Reuters
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White House seeks extra funds for Iran war as part of $87.6bn request
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White House seeks extra funds for Iran war as part of $87.6bn request

Top Democrat signals party will not back paying for unpopular conflict never authorized by CongressThe White House has requested Congress approve $87.6bn in new funding, much of which would go towards the costs of Donald Trump’s war with Iran, but a top Democrat has signaled the party will not suppo...

Chris Stein in Washington
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Rescue teams race to Venezuela amid fears thousands killed in earthquakes
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Rescue teams race to Venezuela amid fears thousands killed in earthquakes

US among nations sending help to search for survivors on country’s north coast where dozen of buildings flattenedVenezuela earthquake – latest updatesRescue teams are racing to Venezuela’s shattered northern coast after a sucker punch of almost simultaneous earthquakes reduced dozens of buildings to...

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Camille Rodríguez Montilla in La Guaira and María de los Ángeles Graterol in Caracas
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UN-backed plan to free ships trapped in strait of Hormuz rejected by Iran
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UN-backed plan to free ships trapped in strait of Hormuz rejected by Iran

Blocking of proposal backed by Oman signals new threat to free passage through strait vital to world economyIran has rejected UN-backed plans for the mass evacuation of ships through the strait of Hormuz , creating a new threat to the free passage of commercial ships through the strait.The proposal,...

Patrick Wintour and William Christou
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City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case
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City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case

French capital hails ‘landmark decision’ against oil firm relating to disclosure of emissions from oil and gas productsA Paris court has ​ruled that the French oil company TotalEnergies must disclose the climate risks linked to emissions from its oil and gas products and set out plans to ⁠address th...

Agence France-Presse
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Israeli forces arrest Palestinian ‘doctor of the poor’
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Israeli forces arrest Palestinian ‘doctor of the poor’

Dr Mazen Al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old physician well known for providing care to low-income Palestinians, was arrested in the occupied West BankIsraeli forces on Sunday arrested a prominent 71-year-old Palestinian physician known as the “doctor of the poor” in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the occupie...

Lorenzo Tondo
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‘Paralysed by fear’: Venezuelans tell of escape and loss after huge earthquakes
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‘Paralysed by fear’: Venezuelans tell of escape and loss after huge earthquakes

People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents of the capital, Caracas, scrambled out on to the streets from shuddering, fractured build...

María de los Ángeles Graterol and Camille Rodríguez Montilla in Caracas, and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
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