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Number of people out of work due to long-term sickness at record high
Unemployment is up; employment is down. The UK jobs market is not in great shape according to the latest official figures.
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Creating deepfake porn to be made a criminal offence after C4 investigation
Creating sexually explicit deepfake images is to be made a criminal offence in England and Wales.
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‘Over 70 per cent of the public’ support anti-smoking bill, says Public Health Minister
We spoke to Public Health Minister Andrea Leadsom about the Prime Minister’s anti-smoking bill.
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MPs vote in favour of toughest smoking laws in world
MPs have just finished debating and voted in favour of a plan to stop young people born after 2009 ever buying a packet of cigarettes.
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‘We are not interested in a regional war’, says former Israeli PM
We spoke to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak.
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Israeli society seems divided on how to react to Iran’s missile strikes
As politicians and the military work out their response to the Iran attack, Israeli society seems divided on how best to react.
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As the world focuses on Iran’s attack on Israel, bloodshed continues in Gaza
As the world waits to see how Israel will respond to Iran’s attack, in Gaza, the bloodshed continues.
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Year of civil war in Sudan ‘a nightmare of hunger and displacement’
What’s happening between Israel, Iran and Hamas may be vexing the international community, but for a full year now another war has been creating what the UN Secretary General today described as a ‘nightmare of hunger and displacement’. The Sudanese civil war is only a year old today but it has already displaced over 8…
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Israel fears repeat Iran attack, says former editor of Jerusalem Post
We are joined by author and former editor of the Jerusalem Post, Yaakov Katz.
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How long could it take to clear the Rwanda asylum seeker backlog?
Official figures show that while we enjoyed a calm sunny Sunday yesterday. More than 500 migrants crossed the Channel in small boats – the busiest day so far this year. So if the flights do eventually take off – how will the government’s Rwanda plan cope with these sorts of numbers?
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Rwanda asylum boost for Sunak as bill expected to become law
After a protracted battle with the House of Lords, the government’s Rwanda legislation is finally expected to become law this week. With flights blocked at least until that happens, the Commons Public Accounts Committee was today taking evidence about the policy and its cost.
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Donald Trump trial: day one of historic Stormy Daniels court case
Today jury selection began in a grim block in Manhattan in the first of four trials facing the former president.
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Iran ‘failed’ says former US Assistant Secretary of Defence
We spoke to Mary Beth Long, a former US Assistant Secretary of Defence.
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Will Israel listen to Biden’s pleas for de-escalation after Iran attack?
Biden has already warned Israel that the US will not participate in any action against Iran.
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Iran is responding to ‘obnoxious behaviour’ from Israel, says Tehran professor
We spoke to Tohid Asadi, a professor at the University of Tehran.