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Gunmen kill at least 29 at football pitch in north-east Nigeria, governor says
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Gunmen kill at least 29 at football pitch in north-east Nigeria, governor says

Attack in Adamawa state continues wave of violence across the country, including armed raid on orphanage in KogiGunmen have killed at least 29 people in north-east Nigeria, a state governor said on Monday, with local people saying the attackers targeted young people gathered at a football pitch, the...

Agence France-Presse
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Number of executions in North Korea rose dramatically during Covid – report
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Number of executions in North Korea rose dramatically during Covid – report

Regime used its isolation after closing borders to escalate killings when global scrutiny disappeared, NGO claimsNorth Korea dramatically increased its use of the death penalty after closing its borders during the Covid-19 pandemic, using its isolation to escalate killings when international scrutin...

Raphael Rashid in Seoul and Justin McCurry in Tokyo
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Britain becoming ‘soft target’ for Russian propaganda, says security expert
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Britain becoming ‘soft target’ for Russian propaganda, says security expert

Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfareBritain is becoming a soft target for Russian and other state propaganda because the UK is not prepared to educate people on how to deal with information warfare, according to a former W...

Dan Sabbagh
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Mandelson and McSweeney: a partnership forged on winning and crushing the Labour left
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Mandelson and McSweeney: a partnership forged on winning and crushing the Labour left

Former chief of staff who helped bring Mandelson out of Labour shadows for Washington post to be questioned by MPs on vetting processLike many Labour stories, Peter Mandelson’s and Morgan McSweeney’s both start at Lambeth council.Mandelson was in his mid-20s. It was 1979, and he was a new councillor...

Jessica Elgot Deputy political editor
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Starmer tells MPs to ‘fight together’ before critical day for his premiership
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Starmer tells MPs to ‘fight together’ before critical day for his premiership

The prime minister faces a standards investigation over Mandelson affair and testimony from Morgan McSweeneyKeir Starmer has told Labour MPs to “stick together and fight together” as ministers launched a massive operation to shore up his fragile position before a critical day for his premiership.The...

Pippa Crerar political editor
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King Charles arrives in Washington for state visit fraught with tension
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King Charles arrives in Washington for state visit fraught with tension

The British monarch and Queen Camilla come to a city still reeling from shooting at dinner attended by TrumpKing Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Washington on Monday for a state visit in a city still rattled by a weekend shooting and a transatlantic alliance showing fresh signs of strain.Britis...

David Smith in Washington
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‘Chonkers’ the large sea lion charms the San Francisco Bay area
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‘Chonkers’ the large sea lion charms the San Francisco Bay area

Residents and visitors in California alert each other whenever they spot the above average size animal at Pier 39A gigantic 2,000lb steller sea lion nicknamed “Chonkers” has become an unexpected local celebrity after taking up residence in the San Francisco Bay.The massive sea lion swam up to a dock...

Anna Betts
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US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz
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US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz

German chancellor suggests Trump administration is being outwitted at negotiating table by TehranUS politics live – latest updatesThe US is being “humiliated” by Iran’s leadership, according to Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, who suggested the Trump administration was being outwitted at the ne...

Julian Borger Senior international correspondent
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Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life
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Call for UK gambling reform after ‘generous and caring’ woman takes her own life

Ellen Mulvey ran up huge betting losses online and wrote ‘addiction is the worst disease’ before she diedA family is calling for wholesale reform of the gambling industry after an inquest heard details of the life and death of Ellen Mulvey, a “generous and caring” woman with a high-flying City job w...

Mark Brown North of England correspondent
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Birmingham council leader says end of city’s bin strike ‘within sight’
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Birmingham council leader says end of city’s bin strike ‘within sight’

Long-running dispute could be resolved as improved offer is made to workers, who first began strike in January 2025The end of the year-long Birmingham bin strike is now “within sight”, the city council leader has said after committing to an improved offer for refuse workers.On Monday, John Cotton, t...

Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent
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Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout
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Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout

Exclusive: Sources say chancellor is examining exceptional measures to protect household budgetsRachel Reeves is considering imposing a one-year rent freeze on private sector homes amid growing alarm in government about the impact of the Iran war on voters’ budgets.Landlords in England would be bann...

Kiran Stacey Policy editor
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Mexico warns US involvement in anti-drug operation should not to be repeated
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Mexico warns US involvement in anti-drug operation should not to be repeated

Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico was not aware of US participation until four officials were killed in car crashClaudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said on Monday that her government told the United States, in a diplomatic note, that the unauthorized presence of US officials at an anti-narcotics ope...

Reuters in Mexico City
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UK information commissioner steps back amid workplace investigation
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UK information commissioner steps back amid workplace investigation

John Edwards says he is fully cooperating with ICO’s independent inquiry into ‘HR matters’The UK’s information commissioner has stepped back from his job after the data protection regulator launched an independent workplace investigation into unspecified “HR matters”.John Edwards, the national watch...

Robert Booth UK technology editor
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Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim
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Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim

Lawyers for Avara Foods and Freemans of Newent say legal claim backed by 1,300 people is ‘entirely inferential’Lawyers for one of the country’s biggest producers of industrially farmed chicken have attacked a claim that they are responsible for pollution in the River Wye and River Usk.More than 1,30...

Damien Gayle
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German tourist dies after being bitten at snake show on family holiday in Egypt
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German tourist dies after being bitten at snake show on family holiday in Egypt

Man, 57, was watching snake-charming show when reptile crawled into his trousers, say German policeA German tourist has died after a snake crawled into his trousers and bit him as he watched a show in Egypt on a family holiday, police in Germany have said.The 57-year-old man was watching the snake-c...

Agence France-Press
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Florida’s Republican governor unveils plan for redrawn congressional maps
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Florida’s Republican governor unveils plan for redrawn congressional maps

Proposal from Ron DeSantis would net Republicans up to four additional US House seats ahead of midterm electionsRon DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, on Monday unveiled his proposal for redistricting his state’s congressional maps, a move he hopes will net his party up to four additional Hous...

Richard Luscombe
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King Charles to meet Donald Trump off camera to avoid awkwardness
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King Charles to meet Donald Trump off camera to avoid awkwardness

British officials pushed for White House meeting to be held privately fearing repeat of Zelenskyy scenes US politics live – latest updatesKing Charles will be spared the potential humiliation of being upbraided in public by Donald Trump this week after the White House agreed that any meeting between...

Kiran Stacey and Pippa Crerar
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