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Monday briefing: What can Andy Burnham learn from Spain’s Pedro Sànchez?
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Monday briefing: What can Andy Burnham learn from Spain’s Pedro Sànchez?

In today’s newsletter: The Spanish prime minister has remade himself as Europe’s leading leftwing standard-bearer. Could his success offer the UK’s PM a route forward?Good morning. To international onlookers, Pedro Sànchez appears to have achieved the impossible. Where other European leftist and lef...

Michael Segalov
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More women will die if domestic abusers leave prison early, victim’s parents warn
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The Guardian · World

More women will die if domestic abusers leave prison early, victim’s parents warn

Parents of Michaela Hall, whose partner killed her after he left prison in 2021, say Probation Service cannot cope with mass releaseMore women will die if ministers include domestic abusers in the early prison release scheme, the parents of a woman murdered by her partner shortly after he was freed...

Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
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Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic
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Public in England and Wales wrongly think most killers are minority ethnic

Research from King’s College London finds that Reform voters’ perceptions were furthest from the truthThe public overestimate how many minority ethnic people are killers, as well as how many foreign national offenders there are, a new study has found.The research from King’s College London tested kn...

Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent
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Hayden Panettiere, actor in Heroes and Nashville, dies aged 36
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Hayden Panettiere, actor in Heroes and Nashville, dies aged 36

Panettiere’s death was announced by her father, who called her ‘an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her’Hayden Panettiere, the actor known for her roles in television shows such as Heroes and Nashville, has died aged 36.Panettiere’s death w...

Sian Cain
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Loosening of planning rules in England to allow more new homes near stations
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Loosening of planning rules in England to allow more new homes near stations

Angela Rayner to launch guidance for ‘default yes’ on developments near transport hubs, including on green belt sitesThousands more homes could be built within 10 minutes of transport hubs, including on green belt sites, under a loosening of planning policy announced by Angela Rayner on Monday.The h...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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Jared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on Gaza
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Jared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on Gaza

Trump’s son-in-law and envoy held rare meeting with Hamas chief in Egypt in push for progress on ceasefireDonald Trump’s son-in-law and envoy, Jared Kushner, held a rare meeting with Hamas’s political chief on Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire...

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Five teenagers killed after car driven on wrong side of Irish motorway
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Five teenagers killed after car driven on wrong side of Irish motorway

Head-on collision between two vehicles on M9 in County Kildare also injured four other people, say policeFive teenagers have died and four other people have been seriously injured in a crash involving a car driving in the wrong direction on a motorway in the Republic of Ireland, police said.Gardaí c...

Nadeem Badshah
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Reform accused of targeting the most vulnerable with £50bn benefit cut
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Reform accused of targeting the most vulnerable with £50bn benefit cut

Robert Jenrick takes aim at disabled people and foreign nationals after saying UK guilty of ‘suicidal empathy’Reform UK has been accused of excluding the most vulnerable from society and punishing non-Britons living in the UK as it prepared to outline £50bn of cuts to benefits for disabled people an...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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At least six people dead from days of storms and record flooding in Indiana
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At least six people dead from days of storms and record flooding in Indiana

Four-year-old boy, two men and three women among those who died since storms began on 11 August, officials sayDays of storms and flooding in Indiana left at least six people dead as flood waters peaked in Indianapolis’s White River – and rains were expected to ease in the state capital region and ot...

Associated Press
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Democrats demand answers from Trump on USS Abraham Lincoln conditions
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Democrats demand answers from Trump on USS Abraham Lincoln conditions

Senator Ruben Gallego calls carrier’s months-long deployment a ‘deep problem’ as wellbeing concerns mountDemocrats on Sunday intensified their demands for answers from the Trump administration over conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as the aircraft carrier’s nearly nine-month deployment conti...

Marina Dunbar
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Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought
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Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought

Suppliers could factor water scarcity into charges as part of Ofwat proposal to reduce consumptionWater companies could be allowed to raise bills for customers during periods of drought under proposals being considered by the sector’s regulator for England and Wales.Suppliers would be permitted to f...

Joanna Partridge
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