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Covid: ‘Absolute folly’ to believe pandemic over, says PM
Despite the extreme pressure on the NHS and other essential services, Boris Johnson has suggested that England’s limited level of restrictions is the right one, although he warned that it would be “absolute folly” to believe that the pandemic was over.
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Covid: Omicron spreading at unprecedented rate says WHO
Today the World Health Organisation stated that Omicron was spreading at an unprecedented rate, as the fight to contain the variant continues.
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Ask the expert: Your Covid questions answered
How can we get a booster? What if you’re pregnant? How effective are the different jabs? Will schools have to close?
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Afghanistan ‘is in crisis and nobody knows how to control it’, says girls’ education activist
It has been nearly a month since the Taliban effectively banned girls from secondary education by ordering schools to re-open only for boys. Millions of teenage girls across the country are now denied the opportunity to continue their education.
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FactCheck: Boris Johnson’s conference speech
Let’s give it the FactCheck treatment.
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Starmer faces down hecklers as he breaks with Corbyn in Labour conference speech
“Are you shouting slogans or changing lives?” That was the question Labour leader Keir Starmer threw at hecklers during his first in-person conference speech as leader.
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Lib Dem ‘policies will appeal to disgruntled Tory voters’, says Ed Davey
Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, has given his keynote speech at the party’s annual conference today, pledging to smash down the Tory’s blue wall.
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FactCheck Q&A: vaccinating healthy 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid
Millions of youngsters have already had the jab in other countries.
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Covid: jabs for 12-15s are dividing opinion
The announcement that vaccines are going to be offered to 12 to 15-year-olds in schools like this one, the John Smeaton Academy in Leeds, has divided opinion.
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Covid: Vaccine risk to children ‘extremely low’, says epidemiologist
Epidemiologist Dr Mike Tildesley is a member of the government advisory group SPI-M, which provides infectious disease modelling evidence to Sage.
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Call for police to get mandatory neurodiversity training after officer assaulted young autistic boy in school
The family of an autistic child, who was assaulted by a police officer in school, have called for officers to receive mandatory training on how to deal with children with similar conditions.
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Afghanistan: Who are IS-KP?
The Islamic State affiliate, known as IS-KP, which says it carried out the bombings, is considered the most extreme militant group in Afghanistan.
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Covid: All 16 and 17-year-olds in England invited for jab
Teaching unions are warning that disruption for pupils in England is “inevitable” as schools open after the summer holidays.
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Is the Great British ‘staycation’ here to stay?
With foreign travel still largely off limits, most people have been braving the unpredictable British weather for a staycation.
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‘The Taliban have a good PR, but they haven’t changed’ – Afghan NGO executive
Pashtana Durrani runs the charity Learn in Kandahar which focuses on getting girls into education. She has moved location a number of times to keep safe as the Taliban have taken one region after another in Afghanistan. She spoke with Jon Snow about the heightened sense of fear felt by people in her community. ‘People…