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Counter-terror police investigate arson attacks on Iranian and Jewish targets
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Counter-terror police investigate arson attacks on Iranian and Jewish targets

Met police look into incident near office of Iran International after attempted firebombing of a synagogueCounter-terrorism investigators are examining three separate arson attacks in London against an Iranian dissident and Jewish targets amid fears the Iranian state may be behind them.The latest at...

Matthew Weaver and Vikram Dodd
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Top Gun 3 officially confirmed with Tom Cruise returning
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Top Gun 3 officially confirmed with Tom Cruise returning

Paramount confirmed the actor will play flying ace Maverick again in one of first major films in new eraTom Cruise is heading to the skies once again with the confirmation of Top Gun 3.While a sequel had been reportedly in the works since 2024, this week saw an official announcement from Paramount d...

Benjamin Lee
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Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped
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Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped

Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should ‘have their hands ripped off our NHS’, say MPs MPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its £330m NHS contract with the spy-tech company Palantir, calling it “dreadful” and “shameful” in a debate on Thursday, after which the government said i...

Robert Booth UK technology editor
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Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right
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Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right

Individuals such as Matt Goodwin and Lord Frost benefited from largesse of self-styled ‘illiberal democracy’UK politics live – latest updatesThe last 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule have been kind to a number of British political figures – from the Tory peer David Frost to Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin a...

Ben Quinn Political correspondent
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Condé Nast will close its women’s health magazine, Self, after 47 years
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Condé Nast will close its women’s health magazine, Self, after 47 years

The magazine company is also shuttering some editions of Allure, Glamour and Wired deemed to be unprofitableCondé Nast is planning to shutter Self, its women’s health magazine, after 47 years.In a memo published on the magazine giant’s website on Thursday, the media company’s CEO, Roger Lynch, expla...

Maya Yang
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London primary schools see 3.5% drop in children entering reception
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London primary schools see 3.5% drop in children entering reception

Capital’s schools hardest hit in England and Wales by rising housing costs and falling birthrate, with further falls predicted in coming yearsSchools in London continue to be hardest hit by housing costs and the falling birthrate. Further closures and mergers of primary schools are expected after a...

Richard Adams Education editor
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Trump officials urge other countries to join new ‘trade over aid’ push
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Trump officials urge other countries to join new ‘trade over aid’ push

US calls free-market capitalism ‘surest path to prosperity’ and seeks to forgo direct aid to developing countriesMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Trump administration has moved to formally enlist foreign governments in a sweeping reorientation of global development policy, directing American dip...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington
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Utah reports more than 600 measles cases as outbreak spreads across US
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Utah reports more than 600 measles cases as outbreak spreads across US

Data shows 85% of those infected in the state have been not vaccinated against measles as dozens are hospitalizedMeasles: how does it spread and how can I protect my child?Utah has emerged as a major center of measles infections in the US, as an outbreak that has been building for some time continue...

Marina Dunbar
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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’
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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’

Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international lawMiddle East crisis – live updatesWhen they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previous...

William Christou in Beirut
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Hegseth’s Pentagon prayer mirrors fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction
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Hegseth’s Pentagon prayer mirrors fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction

The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogueIt was perhaps inevitable that a braggadocious Christian nationalist defense secretary elevated from his role as a weekend Fox News television host would pluck a fake Bible verse from a viole...

Richard Luscombe
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Next chief executive Simon Wolfson paid record £7m last year
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Next chief executive Simon Wolfson paid record £7m last year

Company says ‘sustained outperformance’ merited pay rise as it ups profit guidance by £8m for the year to January 2027Business live – latest updatesThe Next chief executive, Simon Wolfson, took home more than £7m last year, his highest ever pay package, and could be handed up to £9.27m this year aft...

Sarah Butler
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Senate Democrats move to stall Trump’s ‘absurd’ bid to install new Fed chair
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Senate Democrats move to stall Trump’s ‘absurd’ bid to install new Fed chair

Democratic lawmakers urged Republican leaders to postpone the confirmation hearing of Kevin WarshSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxDemocrats have moved to stall Donald Trump’s effort to exert greater control over the US Federal Reserve, condemning the presi...

Shrai Popat in Washington
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Epsom church minister condemns ‘intimidating’ protest over alleged gang-rape
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Epsom church minister condemns ‘intimidating’ protest over alleged gang-rape

The Rev Catherine Hutton says ‘hate cannot drive out hate’ after protesters gather to demand information about suspectsThe minister of a church near the scene of an alleged gang-rape in Epsom has condemned the “intimidating” protest involving hundreds of people gathering in the Surrey town to demand...

Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent
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More US young men than young women say religion is important to them
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More US young men than young women say religion is important to them

Men aged 18-29 who see religion as central rises to 42%, Gallup survey finds, compared with 30% of young womenYoung men are now more likely than young women in the US to say religion plays a major role in their lives, according to the newest findings from Gallup.Data covering 2024-25 indicates that...

Marina Dunbar
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Millionaires fund last-ditch attempt to save humpback whale stranded in Germany
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Millionaires fund last-ditch attempt to save humpback whale stranded in Germany

Critics say efforts to rescue the animal, nicknamed Tommy, unlikely to succeed and could lead to further harmA last-ditch effort to rescue a wayward whale that has transfixed Germans for weeks has begun in the Baltic Sea despite criticism it has little chance of success and could further harm the 12...

Deborah Cole in Berlin
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Archbishop of Canterbury backs pope’s calls for peace amid Trump feud
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Archbishop of Canterbury backs pope’s calls for peace amid Trump feud

Sarah Mullally urges Anglicans to join Leo’s ‘courageous’ call and says human cost of war is incalculableThe archbishop of Canterbury has said she is standing in solidarity with Pope Leo XIV’s calls for peace amid his public feud with Donald Trump.Days after the US president objected to comments fro...

Caroline Davies
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