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While the attacker fled on foot, police helped Healy-Rae reach a nearby hospital to have his facial wounds stitched up. Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the attack on Healy-Rae — who had been a junior minister in his…
Read moreAhead of this year’s G7 summit, Canada extended a behind-the-scenes offer to alliance members for “priority access” to its critical minerals stockpile, according to a letter seen by POLITICO from Hodgson. Canadian Prime…
Read moreWe do not yet know why she was killed, and it would be wrong to speculate. But Britain already knows where political violence can lead: Jo Cox. David Amess. Still others whose plots were mercifully foiled by the police.…
Read moreHe writes about how political decisions, public debate and government policy shape communities across the country. Dating in a big British city as a millennial is already difficult enough. You spend a week exchanging…
Read moreFortune, the general secretary of the Co-operative Party, was the only candidate still running for the position – and was elected by a unanimous vote of Labour’s National Executive Committee earlier today. Two other…
Read moreHe added that he regrets not appearing when he was first summoned around a year ago, stating that had he testified then, there would be no arrest warrant today. The Belgian arrest warrant for Avramopoulos, dated June 21…
Read moreA Facebook post shares a video which appears to show an explosion on the South Tower—the second tower to be attacked—without a plane hitting it. The text on the video reads: “Where is the plane? When amateur footage gets…
Read moreOur verdict Misleading. This is based on incomplete data for 2025/26 compared with a full year’s worth of data for 2023/24. If you compare the latest nine months with the equivalent nine months in 2023/24, apprenticeship…
Read moreA 12-day appeal is underway into whether Boningale Homes should be allowed to build the estate south of Albrighton after Shropshire Council rejected the application. Instead of being determined by the planning inspector…
Read moreThe European Commission put forward five new taxes in 2025, expected to raise €60 billion per year. But the proposal was met with resistance by national governments, reluctant to back new levies that would overwhelmingly…
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