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Israeli strikes on Lebanon continue as ceasefire talks gain pace
Israel has pressed ahead with a series of air strikes in southern Beirut – as well as the south of Lebanon, even though American-led efforts to agree a ceasefire with Hezbollah are still going on.
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New data shows extent displacement in northern Gaza
There’s little hope in Gaza that the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu will change anything on the ground. The International Criminal Court did not include allegations of ethnic cleansing – but human rights activists say that’s what’s happening in northern Gaza.
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Energy price rise puts pensioners under more pressure charity warns
The average household energy bill in England, Scotland and Wales is set to go up again in January – the second rise this winter. The energy regulator said its price cap would go up by £21 a year for a typical household, on top of a 10% increase in October.
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UN climate talk proposal ‘slap in the face’, says think tank director
Earlier we spoke to Mohamed Adow, founder and director of Power Shift Africa.
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What next after Russia’s hypersonic missile attack on Ukraine?
Top diplomats from NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks next week after Russia’s attack on the city of Dnipro with an experimental hypersonic missile.
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Trump names Pam Bondi as new prospective Attorney-General
Next week Donald Trump was due to face his reckoning with the law – sentenced before a Manhattan court for 43 counts of falsifying business records. Instead, that’s on hold – and he’s deciding who should oversee America’s justice system.
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Sixth person dies in suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
The parents of a British woman who died in Laos from suspected methanol poisoning have paid tribute to their “kind and loving daughter, with a spark for life”. Simone White is one of six tourists who’ve died, apparently after drinking contaminated alcoholic drinks.
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How much aid is Israel allowing into Gaza?
Days after warnings of an imminent famine in northern Gaza, a group of aid organisations says Israel has failed to meet a US deadline to allow a minimum of 350 aid trucks a day into the Strip by today.
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Rosebank: Legal challenge over Scottish oil field begins
The fight between environmental campaigners and fossil fuel moved to the Scottish courts today.
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Green energy transition is ‘unstoppable’, says Ed Miliband
We spoke to energy secretary Ed Miliband and began by asking him what he thought of Donald Trump saying climate change is a hoax.
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COP29: Azerbaijan’s president praises oil and gas in speech
It’s been a day of stark contrasts at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan where 80 world leaders had gathered.
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‘Justin Welby was absolutely right to resign’ says Dean of Chapel at King’s College Cambridge
We spoke to Reverend Doctor Stephen Cherry, Dean of Chapel at King’s College, Cambridge.
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What is Justin Welby’s legacy as Archbishop of Canterbury?
From women bishops to same-sex marriage, Justin Welby spent his eleven years as head of the Church of England brokering compromises between deeply divided factions in the Anglican church.
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‘We want more resignations than just Justin Welby’, says victim of John Smyth
We spoke to one of John Smyth’s victims, Mark Stibbe, a former vicar and now an author.
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Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation ‘won’t fix the problem’, says Bishop of Dover on church abuse scandal
We spoke to the Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin from Canterbury.
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Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over church abuse scandal
Justin Welby’s resignation as the Archbishop of Canterbury came after days of mounting pressure following a damning report into the cover-up of horrific abuse.
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Will Trump and his new team make the world safer or more dangerous?
It’s been a week since America voted to return Donald Trump to the White House, and there are already reports of new appointments – including Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz and Elise Stefanik. How will these people shape the way Trump deals with the world – what’s going to happen in Ukraine and the Middle East? And what will China do?
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Lessons from an election: a reckoning for Democrats and the mainstream media
Kiran Moodley reflects on his experience reporting on the lead-up to the US Election, and its perhaps inevitable outcome.
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‘We’ve lost the ability to safeguard children on social media’, says mother of murdered teen Brianna Ghey
Brianna Ghey’s mother, Esther Ghey, is now campaigning to raise awareness about the dangers of social media and the “toxic” online world which her daughter came to inhabit. She wants tighter regulation on internet access and more parental controls.
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Daniel Khalife pleads guilty to escaping Wandsworth prison last year
The former soldier Daniel Khalife has changed his plea to guilty and admitted escaping from Wandsworth prison.
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Post Office needs ‘cultural change’ after Horizon scandal, says business secretary
The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has called for a change of culture at the Post Office, as he gave evidence to the inquiry into the Horizon scandal.
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Trump’s re-election is a ‘heavy defeat for the climate agenda’, says former UN climate adviser
We spoke to former UN senior climate adviser Tom Rivett-Carnac.
