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Five Americans head home in £5bn prisoner swap deal with Iran
Five Americans who’ve spent years in jail in Iran are finally on their way home – after a prisoner swap deal was brokered by Qatar.
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North Korea meets Russia: Putin and Kim Jong Un to discuss arms and nuclear tech
A meeting of two isolated leaders, usually too afraid of leaving home. North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un left his country by armoured train for the first time in four years to meet President Putin in Eastern Siberia.
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Luis Rubiales resigns as president of Spanish FA over Jenni Hermoso kiss
Spain’s football chief Luis Rubiales has resigned, after prosecutors began criminal action against him for kissing a member of his country’s women’s team following their World Cup final victory.
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Rent crisis: half of renters would lose in one month home if they lost job
More than three million people in England who are in work and rent their own homes don’t have enough savings to pay their rent for a month, if they lose their job.
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Narco gang violence overshadows Ecuador presidential election
Presidential elections in Ecuador are going to a run off – after no candidate managed to get enough votes in the first round to be declared the winner.
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Saudi Arabian border guards accused of killing hundreds of migrants in new report
Saudi Arabian border guards have been accused of killing hundreds of migrants as they tried to cross the border from Yemen – with one person telling the Human Rights Watch group that they were “fired on like rain”.
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Manipur: The ethnic tensions behind the rapes and violence
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a no confidence motion, in the wake of a video showing shocking violence which went viral round the world.
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“Not convinced by the evidence for a windfall tax on the banks”, says shadow chancellor
Labour wants banks to be compelled to follow a new set of rules – rather than just leaving it up to them.
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Farage bank row: ‘This is not the first case like this’, says David Davis MP
Earlier Matt spoke to the former Brexit secretary, David Davis, who’s described the decision to close Nigel Farage’s account as “thinly veiled political discrimination”.
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NatWest chief exec resigns for breaching customer confidentiality over Nigel Farage’s account
The boss of NatWest, Dame Alison Rose, has resigned after admitting she gave information to the BBC about Nigel Farage’s relationship with the bank, and had made a “serious error of judgement”.
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“He has to prove that the audience wants to see Kevin Spacey again”, says PR expert
Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has been cleared of sexually assaulting four men. He had described the allegations against him as “madness”. We spoke to celebrity PR and brand expert Mark Borkowski and started by asking him how easy will it be for Spacey to rebuild his reputation.
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Kevin Spacey ‘humbled’ by not guilty verdict at sexual assault trial
The Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey said he was “humbled” by the outcome of his trial, after he was cleared of sexually assaulting four men.
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‘A lot of uncertainty’ around longevity of Commonwealth Games, says British Olympian
The 2026 Commonwealth Games have been thrown into doubt after Australia’s Victoria state pulled out of hosting them.
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Trumps says he expects to be indicted again in January 6 probe
Former US president Donald Trump says he expects to be arrested again – after being informed that he’s a target in a Justice Department investigation – and must report to a grand jury.
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Cookham Wood: weapons and violence rife at young offenders institute, report reveals
Children armed themselves with homemade weapons for protection at a young offenders institution in Kent where violence was rife – a damning report has revealed.