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Ukraine war: Kyiv accuses Russia of destroying Nova Kakhovka dam
A mass emergency evacuation of thousands of people is under way in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson.
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Nova Kakhovka dam destruction was a ‘pre-planned, terrorist attack,’ says Zelenskyy aide
We spoke to Igor Zhovkva, who is one of President Zelenskyy’s closest aides, and asked him if he had any evidence that the Russians had blown up the dam?
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What life is like in flooded Kherson after Nova Kakhovka dam destroyed (dubbed)
Much of Kherson, which was liberated by Ukraine late last year, has been turned into a giant lake.
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CBI survives confidence vote as members back reform
The new leadership of the Confederation of British Industry said they wanted to break with the organisation’s recent past.
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‘We are absolutely a credible organisation.’ says CBI Director General
We spoke to the new director general of the CBI, Rain Newton-Smith, and started by asking for her response to today’s results.
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Prince Harry tells court press have ‘blood on their hands’
Prince Harry had longed for years to get his own back on the tabloid press whom he blamed for the death of his mother and then for what he saw as endless intrusions into his private life.
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Prince Harry ‘the only person rich and powerful enough’ to take on tabloids in court, says former Guardian editor
We spoke to Alan Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian and asked him who has more to lose in this High Court battle: Prince Harry or the newspapers?
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Jailed and tortured for daring to speak out against Taliban in Afghanistan
Afghanistan- ever since the West withdrew in haste almost two years ago and the Taliban retook power, we stopped paying much attention.
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Baroness Hallett: Covid inquiry head issues public rebuke to government
The Covid inquiry and the government continue to lock horns.
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New wave of nursing strikes in Wales amid bitter pay dispute
Nurses in Wales have begun a fresh wave of strikes amid a bitter dispute over pay.
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Peter Singer on animal rights, protest and controversy
He’s the moral philosopher whose hugely influential 1975 book ‘Animal Liberation’ made the moral case for respecting the rights of animals and not eating meat.
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New supergroup Mantra of the Cosmos on clashing egos, watching the news and Bez’s love of the maracas
For some people, the eighties and nineties never really ended, and for those people – Shaun Ryder’s announcement of a new supergroup featuring him and Bez, plus Oasis bassist Andy Bell and The Who drummer Zak Starkey, will be a cause for nostalgia-tinged celebration.
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‘This is an emergency’: Dr Chris Van Tulleken on why ultra processed food fuels obesity, tooth decay and illness
Most of what we eat isn’t really food, according to the doctor, academic and TV presenter Chris Van Tulleken.
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Kathleen Folbigg: Australian jailed for 20 years over deaths of her four children pardoned
She was once branded “Australia’s worst female serial killer” – but a woman who spent 20 years behind bars – convicted of killing her four babies – is today free, having been pardoned in what’s being dubbed one of the country’s greatest-ever miscarriages of justice.
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Universal basic income: The answer to poverty or a disincentive to work?
Is it the answer to tackling poverty or a disincentive to work?
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Mortgage lenders continue to hike rates and pull deals
People trying to get or renew a mortgage are facing worsening economic pain – as lenders continued to hike rates and pull deals over the past few days.
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Prince Harry does not attend his case against Mirror Group Newspapers
The cameras turned up en masse, but the Prince did not, and if the Duke of Sussex was hoping to get the judge onside for his case against Mirror Group Newspapers, it seems his absence had the opposite effect.
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‘Conservative incompetence on this is jaw dropping’: Shadow immigration minister on Rishi Sunak’s asylum policy
We spoke to Labour’s Shadow Immigration Minister, Stephen Kinnock.
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Rishi Sunak says two new barges will be used to house asylum seekers
Rishi Sunak took to the English Channel today – insisting his plan to stop asylum seekers doing the same was working.
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‘Inch-by-inch we are liberating our land’, says adviser to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence
We spoke to Yuriy Sak, who’s an adviser to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.
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Russian army has ‘consistently underperformed’ in Ukraine, says retired US lieutenant colonel
We spoke to retired Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who was the top Ukraine expert on the US National Security Council.
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Ukraine war: Has the counter-offensive now begun?
The silence Kyiv had been encouraging seemed to break today – and in the last few hours a Ukrainian deputy defence minister appeared to confirm that the war may be about to enter a new phase, with her country’s forces moving to “offensive actions” in some places.
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FactCheck: why is the government taking legal action over the Covid inquiry’s order for Johnson’s WhatsApp messages?
Why is the government continuing with legal action and could this case set a precedent for the future? FactCheck takes a look.
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‘Never has there been more important a time for Nato’ amid rising China tensions, says former senior White House adviser
Lindsay Gorman is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States think tank and a former White House senior adviser.
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Inside Finland’s war preparations on Nato’s new frontline with Russia
The war in Ukraine, and Nato membership, has shifted the mindset in Finland which has an 800-mile border with Russia.
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United Arab Emirates receives surprise COP28 backing from under-threat island nation Maldives
Western politicians have called for the UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber to be removed from the position amid fears that his day job, running a fossil fuel giant, leaves him hopelessly compromised.
