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Rachel Reeves and Scott Bessent argued in person about Iran war, sources say
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Rachel Reeves and Scott Bessent argued in person about Iran war, sources say

UK chancellor said to have told US treasury secretary she did not like his tone during meeting in Washington in AprilUK politics live – latest updatesMiddle East crisis – live updatesRachel Reeves had an angry exchange with her US counterpart, Scott Bessent, in Washington last month over the war in...

Kiran Stacey Policy editor
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Moscow shuts down airports and mobile signals as Victory Day parade looms
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Moscow shuts down airports and mobile signals as Victory Day parade looms

Kremlin tightens security ahead of Russia’s biggest national celebration on 9 May amid fears of Ukrainian drone strikesRussia shut down airports and temporarily cut mobile internet access for many users in Moscow on Tuesday, as it tightened security ahead of the 9 May Victory Day parade marking the...

Pjotr Sauer
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Macron backs Armenia’s pro-Europe PM as re-election campaign draws to close
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Macron backs Armenia’s pro-Europe PM as re-election campaign draws to close

French president pitches in for Nikol Pashinyan, who faces stiff challenge from pro-Russia parties in vote next monthEmmanuel Macron has made an unabashed pre-election pitch on behalf of Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, saying the country’s destiny lay with Europe.The French president also...

Patrick Wintour in Yerevan
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Trump accuses pope of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with Iran stance
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Trump accuses pope of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with Iran stance

US president directs fresh criticism at pontiff days before secretary of state Marco Rubio’s visit to VaticanMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for...

Angela Giuffrida in Rome
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France serves up €1 meals to all university students in effort to cut hardship
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France serves up €1 meals to all university students in effort to cut hardship

Ministers take action after survey shows almost half of students had gone without food for financial reasonsFrench universities have begun offering €1 (86p) meals to all students regardless of income in a measure designed to address financial hardship.Student unions have been pushing to extend the €...

Agence France-Presse in Amiens
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UK’s long-term borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998
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UK’s long-term borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998

Rise in bond yields due to fuel prices and stability concerns will eat away at Rachel Reeves’s fiscal headroomBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK government’s long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 1998, amid rising fuel prices and concerns about political stability.The yield...

Heather Stewart Economics editor
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Zelenskyy condemns Russian ‘cynicism’ over parade truce as attack kills five
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Zelenskyy condemns Russian ‘cynicism’ over parade truce as attack kills five

Russian attack on gas facility in Poltava region kills three energy firm employees and two emergency service workersVolodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the Kremlin of “utter cynicism” for killing five people in overnight strikes at the same time as seeking a truce so it can stage a military parade in Mo...

Luke Harding in Kyiv
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Lawyer who represented Hamas in court says UK police falsely listed him as member of group
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Lawyer who represented Hamas in court says UK police falsely listed him as member of group

Fahad Ansari says it was ‘chilling’ that police ‘equated him with his client’ after he was stopped on return from family holiday in IrelandA lawyer who filed Hamas’s challenge to proscription in the UK was recorded by police as being a member of the banned group, “equating him with his client”.On a...

Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
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Campaigners hope to save mother tree of bramley apple
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Campaigners hope to save mother tree of bramley apple

Appeal launched to buy Nottinghamshire cottage, where tree was planted in 19th century, and turn it into heritage centreCampaigners have launched an appeal to try to save for the nation the mother tree of perhaps the most popular cooking apple in the world.The original bramley apple tree, which grow...

Patrick Barkham
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Ohio voters head to polls to select candidates for midterm elections
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Ohio voters head to polls to select candidates for midterm elections

State expected to play major role in deciding whether Republicans maintain control of Congress in his final two yearsVoters in Ohio on Tuesday are selecting candidates ahead of November’s midterm elections. The state is expected to play a major role in deciding whether Donald Trump’s fellow Republic...

Chris Stein
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Can Indiana lawmakers win after defying the president’s vote?
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Can Indiana lawmakers win after defying the president’s vote?

Seven Republican state senators battle for re-election against candidates backed by Donald TrumpIndiana voters go to the polls today in a test of the Republican party’s staying power after the party’s state lawmakers resisted Donald Trump’s bruising campaign to pressure them into redrawing the congr...

Cate Brown
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Police investigate suspected arson attack at ex-synagogue in east London
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Police investigate suspected arson attack at ex-synagogue in east London

Minor damage to gates is believed to have been caused by fire that CCTV shows was started deliberately, Met saysCounter-terrorism officers are investigating a suspected arson attack at a former synagogue in east London, the Metropolitan police have said.The Jewish security charity Shomrim said fire...

PA Media
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Remains of US airman missing since second world war laid to rest in Florida
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Remains of US airman missing since second world war laid to rest in Florida

Robert Cyr Jr, a US navy airman, had gone missing in 1944 when his seaplane crashed in the Segond channelThe remains of a US military aviator who went missing after his crew crashed during the second world war were recovered and identified through DNA analysis and his family recently laid him to res...

Ramon Antonio Vargas
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