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Israel-Gaza dominates agenda as Biden wins Michigan primary
The Israel-Gaza conflict has impacted the US Presidential race where, despite a comfortable win for Joe Biden in Michigan’s Democratic primary, he faced a significant protest vote.
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Bernie Sanders on Gaza, genocide and Trump
US Senator Bernie Sanders tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy why the US should stop its funding for Netanyahu’s “horrific war against the Palestinian people”, why a second Trump victory could foment right-wing movements across the world with disastrous consequences, and why taking on the ruling class is a necessary but “long, long process”, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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Christian nationalism is a ‘danger’ to US democracy, says filmmaker
The subject of God and politics has long fascinated American actor and filmmaker Robert Reiner. The veteran Democrat supporter’s latest film is called “God and Country”.
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Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill becomes Northern Ireland’s first nationalist first minister
Stormont has finally been restored and for the first time in 103 years it’s not a unionist at the helm. Making history Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill, who’s become the first nationalist to lead Northern Ireland – a state she wants to abolish. She’s pledged to be a “first minister for all” and will share power…
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Northern Ireland’s Assembly to reconvene two years to the day since devolution collapsed
Party leaders have met in Stormont Castle to discuss priorities for the first day of Northern Ireland’s new government. Tomorrow, the power-sharing assembly will finally be recalled – two years to the day since devolution collapsed – and with its first republican First Minister, Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill. But the leader of the Democratic Unionists…
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Why is Taylor Swift the latest target of America’s right-wing anger and conspiracy?
She’s the world’s biggest pop icon, who’s dating an American football star, but Taylor Swift has suddenly become the focus of right wing conspiracy theorists – who’ve accused her of being a deep-state psy-op agent of the Pentagon, in league with her boyfriend to push Covid vaccines and get the Democrats back into power. If…
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No routine checks on goods between Britain and N Ireland under plans paving way for Stormont Assembly to resume
There will be no routine checks on goods crossing from Britain into Northern Ireland – under the new agreement between the Democratic Unionists and the UK government.
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FactCheck: extreme A&E waits in Northern Ireland now 36 times higher than 2009
Health service targets say no-one should wait this long.
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Reform UK’s Richard Tice claims Tory MPs ‘terrified’ of his party and urges Sunak to call election
Rishi Sunak is facing more calls from his political opponents to call an election early this year. On his left flank, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told a campaign rally in Guildford that the Prime Minister should stop “clinging on to power.” From the right, the Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice claimed…
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The DRC: Election for some of world’s poorest people, in a country rich in natural resources
When it comes to natural resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world’s richest countries.
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‘I’m worried that if it’s not the bullets that kill them, it will be the lack of water,’ says Layla Moran MP of civilians trapped in Gaza church
The Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran says her relatives are among hundreds of civilians trapped in a Catholic Church in Gaza City as Israeli forces operate nearby.
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Glenys Kinnock: Former Labour minister, MEP and wife of Neil Kinnock dies aged 79
The former minister and MEP, Baroness Glenys Kinnock, has died at the age of 79.
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Republican George Santos expelled from Congress after bipartisan vote
The US House of Representatives has voted to expel the Republican congressman George Santos – who’s been charged with a series of crimes and ethics violations. One Democrat described him as a “shameless liar and a disgrace to mankind”.
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Henry Kissinger dies aged 100 – a look at one of the US’s most controversial diplomats
He was one of the world’s most powerful and most controversial diplomats – celebrated and reviled in equal measure. Former US secretary of State Henry Kissenger, the man who shaped America’s Cold War policy – has died at the age of a hundred.
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Diplomacy ‘only way’ to security for Israelis and Palestinians, says former Palestinian Authority spokesperson
We spoke to the former Palestinian Authority spokesperson Nour Odeh.