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Armenia’s pro-Europe party wins election and cements shift away from Russia
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Armenia’s pro-Europe party wins election and cements shift away from Russia

Result strengthens PM Nikol Pashinyan’s drive for deeper integration with Europe despite warnings from MoscowArmenia’s ruling pro-Europe party has won parliamentary elections, confirming the country’s pivot towards Europe and away from its traditional ally, Russia.Final results in the small South Ca...

Pjotr Sauer in Yerevan
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Push to regulate UK bailiffs too slow, warns supervisory body
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Push to regulate UK bailiffs too slow, warns supervisory body

A year after government pledge to regulate sector, ECB criticises ‘lack of visible progress’ and ‘no clear plan’The UK government has been accused of dragging its feet over plans for the mandatory regulation of bailiffs amid concerns about harmful practices in an industry that collects more than £1b...

Rupert Jones
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Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds
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Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds

Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches boomingRecord numbers of octopuses found off the south-west coast of England last year have now spread as far as Scotland and Wales and are transforming the fishing industry and the mar...

Matthew Taylor
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More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest
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More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest

Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decadeMore than 1,300 patients a month in England are dying needlessly due to long A&E waits, a tenfold rise in a decade, figures suggest.There were more than 300 deaths linked to long waits...

Andrew Gregory Health editor
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Japanese city shuts down nearly 100 schools after unprecedented bear sighting
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Japanese city shuts down nearly 100 schools after unprecedented bear sighting

Police and hunters in Utsunomiya, 100km north of the capital, resume their search for animal that is not usually seen so close to TokyoA city in Japan has closed all its 94 primary and secondary schools after a bear was spotted in the municipality for the first time.Officials in Utsunomiya, a city o...

Gavin Blair in Tokyo
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Extra £174m earmarked for ‘spiralling’ bill for Lower Thames Crossing
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Extra £174m earmarked for ‘spiralling’ bill for Lower Thames Crossing

More than £3bn is due to be spent on the proposed road tunnel between Kent and Essex, which is estimated to have higher costs per mile than HS2Ministers have earmarked more than £170m extra to help build the Lower Thames Crossing road tunnel, fuelling concerns over the “spiralling” costs of one of t...

Phillip Inman
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Top chefs back Andy Burnham for prime minister to cut VAT on hospitality
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Top chefs back Andy Burnham for prime minister to cut VAT on hospitality

Tom Kerridge says ‘whole of hospitality’ should get behind Burnham who has called for VAT cut from 20% to 10%Chefs and restaurateurs have said they hope Andy Burnham becomes prime minister after he backed calls to cut VAT tax for hospitality businesses.Burnham, who is standing as the Labour candidat...

Helena Horton
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‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds
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‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds

Investigation reveals more than 4.4 million people live in ‘news deserts’ that lack dedicated local reportingLocal social media groups are fuelling misinformation in areas with no reliable sources of news, according to an investigation that reveals the scale of fake news flowing to vulnerable commun...

Michael Savage Media editor
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Starwatch: Venus and Jupiter to shine side-by-side at dusk
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Starwatch: Venus and Jupiter to shine side-by-side at dusk

Solar system’s two brightest planets appear close together low above the western horizon after sunset this weekThe two brightest planets meet this week in the western twilight sky. The chart shows the view looking west-northwest at 21:45 BST. No stars will yet be visible, but Venus and Jupiter will...

Stuart Clark
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Israel strikes Iran despite Trump plea as Middle East crisis threatens to escalate
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Israel strikes Iran despite Trump plea as Middle East crisis threatens to escalate

Latest exchange of attacks threatens to drag Middle East into regional war and comes after US president said ‘I call all the shots’, not Israel’s PMMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsrael launched airstrikes on central and western Iran on Monday in apparent defiance of Donald Trump after he urged re...

Mark Saunokonoko
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Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg
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Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg

Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasonsSilicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace Maga politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has...

Aisha Down
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The jailing of Germany’s most wanted woman – podcast
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The jailing of Germany’s most wanted woman – podcast

Dancer, dog owner, bank robber. Germany’s most wanted woman, Daniela Klette, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after decades on the run. Deborah Cole and Jason Burke reportTo her friends and neighbours, there was nothing extraordinary about Claudia Ivone.As our Berlin correspondent, Deborah C...

Presented by Annie Kelly with Deborah Cole and Jason Burke; produced by Tom Glasser, Saskia Collette, Ivor Manley and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producer Sami Kent
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