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Ayodhya: India’s PM inaugurates Hindu temple on hotly disputed religious site
Ayodhya has been one of the most hotly contested arguments on the planet.
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Singer Jelly Roll wants to be ‘part of solution’ to US fentanyl crisis
As a former drug dealer and addict – the country music star Jelly Roll now wants to be “part of the solution” to America’s fentanyl crisis.
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25 killed after market shelled Russian occupied Ukraine, Moscow-installed officials say
25 people have been killed by shelling at a market in Donetsk city, in Russian occupied Ukraine, according to Moscow-installed officials who blamed Ukraine for the attack.
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Arab states don’t want wider Middle East conflict, RUSI analyst says
We spoke to Baraa Shiban, an Associate fellow at the RUSI defence think tank and a Yemeni human rights activist.
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Israel-Gaza: Fears hostilities could spread across Middle East as UN chief calls for ceasefire
“The Middle East is a tinderbox” the United Nations chief Antonio Gutteres warned today – amid mounting fears that the war in Gaza risks spreading the hostilities across the region.
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Natasha Jonas and Bianca Walkden on the Paris Olympics
Tonight the Liverpool boxer Natasha Jonas will defend her world welterweight title against Mikaela Mayer – cheered on by an enthusiastic home crowd.
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Can the military maintain order in Ecuador?
The family of a fugitive Ecuadorian drug kingpin have been arrested in Argentina and deported back to Ecuador – after his escape from jail sparked a wave of violence and riots across the Andean nation.
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Could child benefit be extended to give support to middle income families?
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering whether to extend child benefit to hundreds of thousands more families in his spring budget – to give direct support to middle income families.
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Ukraine will never agree to ‘frozen conflict’ with Russia, Zelenskyy aide says
President Biden’s administration is also battling Republicans who’ve been blocking billions of dollars in US military support for Ukraine.
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Fighting in Gaza is ‘unbearable and needs to stop now’, says shadow foreign secretary David Lammy
We spoke to Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy.
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Israel-Gaza: Deadly Syria airstrike heightens Middle-East tensions while fighting continues in Gaza
Five senior members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have been killed in an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus.
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Zelenskyy on Trump, Putin and how the war could end – full interview
We spoke to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside his heavily fortified Government offices – we asked him first, if his decision to stay in Ukraine after the invasion had convinced western leaders that he was someone they should invest in.
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Ukraine-Russia war: Putin ‘banking on fatigue in the West’, says foreign policy expert
A top NATO official has warned Europe to be prepared for all out conflict with Russia within the next 20 years. But the “second army of the world” which boasted of taking Kyiv in 3 days is said to have suffered more than 300,000 casualties since the full scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Netanyahu rejects calls for developing Palestinian state after Gaza war
A spokesperson for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has insisted there can be “no security and stability in the region” without the creation of a Palestinian state.
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We got ‘too close to the truth’, says forensic accountant who was called in by the Post Office to investigate then sacked
We spoke to Ian Henderson from Second Sight forensic accountants, who were called in by the Post Office to investigate.