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May 03, 2024

Your At-A-Glance Guide To Election Declaration Times

The results of yesterday’s elections are being declared over several days, starting shortly after the polls closed last night and ending on Sunday.

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Turkey Halts Trade With Israel Over Gaza Deaths

Turkey yesterday suspended all imports and exports to Israel citing the country's ongoing military action in Gaza and vowed to continue to impose other measures until the Israeli government allows the flow of humanitarian aid to the region.

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The AI App That Shows Just How Bad Dating Is Right Now

As a new app launches with the promise to help men placate their ‘angry girlfriends’, Olivia Petter asks what this type of technology says about our expectations of men – and women

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Sunak 'Worse Than Truss' As Tories Facing ‘Armageddon'

Rebel MPs sharpen knives as election mauling predicted

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NHS Watchdog Sanctions Mental Health Hospital For Having History Of Poor Care

A private mental health hospital used by the NHS has been sanctioned by the service’s safety watchdog, which warned it has had a “history” of substandard care.

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EU And US Urge Georgia To Halt Its 'Foreign Agents' Bill

The government of Georgia is under international pressure to abandon its plans to designate certain organisations foreign agents”.

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Do Today's US Protests Really Compare To Sixties Struggles?

As the calendar turned from April to May, police marched onto the campuses of two major universities, one on each coast of the United States, and dispersed hundreds of students.

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Biden Condemns Violence At Colleges Amid Gaza Protests

Joe Biden yesterday condemned the unrest and violence that has disrupted college campuses over the last week, while stressing the importance of the right of Americans to protest peacefully in support of the Palestinians’ treatment during Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

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Disco-pop princess fills the dancefloor like no other

Dua Lipa is doing what she does best on Radical Optimism’, getting feet tapping and bodies moving to slickly-made beats with an undeniable chart-topping energy

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Hollywood made Dunaway pay for her independence

With new documentary ‘Faye’ set to premiere in Cannes, Geoffrey Macnab tells the cautionary tale of how the strong, chic ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ star ended up acting in B-movies

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Dortmund unlock the joy of Sancho after United misery

As the Borussia Dortmund players eventually left the pitch after their customary serenading by the yellow wall, there was only one player everyone was talking about.

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Villa frailties exposed by confident Olympiacos

The problem with assuming a Europa League winner with Sevilla is bound to conquer the continent is that there is more than one of them.

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Chelsea beat lacklustre Spurs with magic free kicks

As the saying goes, fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Ange Postecoglou insisted Tottenham had “far more important issues” than defending set pieces before a second London derby in five days, but a potential problem for the Spurs manager is now growing into a crisis after this defeat to Chelsea.

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As a father, I think banning smartphones is hypocritical

Today, around 3,000 schools in the UK have had to stop educating children and instead let adults use their buildings as polling stations in which to exercise their democratic right to vote.

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Court hears recording of Trump discuss 'hush plot'

Jurors played audio evidence of Donald Trump and his former fixer’ hatching a plan to offer someone money

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'Life-changing' sickle cell drug approved for NHS

New treatment for sickle cell disease is set to be rolled out across the UK following a successful, patient-led appeal.

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Fox facing police probe over upskirt shot of TV presenter

Police are investigating a social media post by Laurence Fox, in which he shared an upskirt photograph of a female TV presenter.

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Inside the nightmare launch of Manchester's Co-op Live

Falling debris, broken hand dryers and Harry Styles: music editor Roisin O’Connor on the 365m indoor venue’s woes

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Protesters block transport of asylum seekers to barge

Forty-five people were arrested in southeast London yestersday after a group of protesters blocked a coach set to take asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge.

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French police 'torture' fuels.Channel crossings record

Migrants say increased aggression led to 711 arrivals in a day

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Mental health care for new mothers a 'house of cards'

Maternity expert leads call for better provision for women

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SNP in bid to stop ‘tartan Tory' being future leader

Party insiders reveal long-term succession strategy to ensure controversial ex-minister Kate Forbes blocked from power

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Johnson forgets his photo ID ... a rule he introduced

Boris Johnson fell foul of legislation he introduced himself as prime minister when he was reportedly turned away from a polling station after failing to take photographic identification.

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Students arrested as police break up pro-Gaza protests

Officers in New York stormed Columbia University building

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Scientists use skull to build face of Neanderthal woman

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton found in the foothills of Iraq is believed to have been a woman aged in her mid-forties, according to researchers who pieced her skull back together.

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Netanyahu tells Blinken he will not end war on Hamas as part of deal for hostages

Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have told Antony Blinken he would not accept an end to the war in Gaza as part of a potential ceasefire and hostage deal.

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Make WhatsApp lobbying more transparent, urge MPS

Reform called for after Cameron’s Greensill Covid messages

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Labour fails in bid to unseat Scotland's SNP government

Labour’s attempt to unseat Scotland’s SNP government failed yesterday after the Greens voted against a motion of no confidence in Humza Yousaf’s minority administration.

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Conservative mayor points finger at Sunak before polls

High-profile Tory mayor Ben Houchen has lashed out at the state of the Conservative Party under Rishi Sunak as he battles to hold on to his job running Tees Valley.

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Can Panesar spin his way into House of Commons?

The ex-England cricketer is an aspiring MP... but a Labour majority could leave him stumped, writes Sean O’Grady

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