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What happenedDonald Trump has said the US-Iran conflict is basically at an end, signalling that he does not currently intend to expand the military campaign despite speculation that the fighting might resume after the US midterm elections. The president said Israel and other US allies in the Persian...

What happenedJemima Goldsmith has alleged that Russell Brand physically attacked her during their relationship, saying she experienced “violence, coercive control and abuse”. Goldsmith, who dated Brand for about a year from 2013, said she had called police to remove him from her home during an incid...

What happenedThe BBC will launch two new categories of Men’s and Women’s Footballer of the Year at the Sports Personality of the Year awards, the first for a specific sport since they started in 1954.Five of the nine awards on offer – including the headline prize – will be decided by a public vote t...
A family of six beavers has been released into the Loch Ness catchment, 500 years after the species was last recorded living there. The animals were relocated to the area from elsewhere in Scotland, where they had been causing problems on farmland. At least 15 beaver families will be introduced over...

Did you hear that the world is ending on Friday? That’s according to three 1960s physicists.“Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve,” they said in an article in the journal Science published on 4 November 1960. “They will be squeezed to death.”The Austrian-American physicist Heinz von Foerste...
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The Explainer Ministers plan to extend deal, overruling MPs and medics who dispute value and efficacy of data platform built on US tech giant’s software

The Explainer Multinational Force-Ukraine ‘is not a peacekeeping or a ceasefire-monitoring force, nor is it connected to Nato’, says MoD

The Explainer The Trump administration has imposed further sanctions on the International Criminal Court. Why?

THE EXPLAINER The country’s big bet on artificial intelligence has created billions in losses and a major market upheaval

Talking Point Tesla and SpaceX CEO has brought money into politics on a previously unthinkable scale – but his actual influence is debatable

Talking Points Pope Leo drives a rethinking of just war doctrine

Talking Point Monarch and PM both stop short of apologising for Britain’s role in slave trade, and sidestep growing calls in Commonwealth for financial redress



Projections of continued population growth caused ‘immediate stir’ and raised fears for the future

Under the radar The rock may have formed early in Mars’ history

Under the Radar Withdrawal resulting from US funding cuts leaves Somalia in precarious position against extremist insurgents

Speed Read It comes less than two weeks after the rapper was dropped by Ed Sheeran’s tour

Speed Read Democratic lawmakers have demanded more details about the ad

Speed Read The two leaders have “never gotten along better,” Trump claimed

Speed Read The parts were “inexplicably diverted” to the city, Bloomberg reported
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