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Simon Harris to be Ireland’s youngest PM after clinching party leadership
Simon Harris is set to become Ireland’s youngest prime minister after he was appointed as the new leader of the…
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Russia mourns Moscow concert hall attack victims as death toll rises to 137
Russia has lowered flags to half-mast for a day of mourning after scores of people were gunned down with automatic…
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Blinken begins latest Middle East tour, set to meet Arab leaders in Cairo
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of the Middle East by holding talks in Saudi Arabia…
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More than 100 Palestinians killed in 24 hours
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells US Republican senators Israel will continue the war to defeat Hamas, with one senator saying,…
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Israeli Supreme Court temporarily halts plan to return Palestinian hospital patients to Gaza after doctors appeal
Israel’s Supreme Court has temporarily halted a government plan to send a group of Palestinian patients being treated in East…
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Biden administration unveils strictest ever US car emission limits to boost EVs
President Joe Biden has announced the strictest regulation on vehicle exhaust emissions ever enacted in the US in a bid…
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Two arrested in Russia’s first LGBTQ+ extremism case
Two employees of an LGBTQ+ club in the Russian city of Orenburg have been arrested on suspicion of being members…
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Third ex-police officer sentenced in Mississippi torture case
A third former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for torturing two black men in…
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Ex-wife of Amazon Boss donates $640m to US non-profits
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is giving $640m (£504m) to non-profit organisations, more than double her previously planned donations for the…
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Putin hails illegal annexation of Crimea after claiming election win
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hailed the “return” of Crimea to Russia at a concert marking the 10th anniversary of…
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