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  • Jens Stoltenberg.

    Live
    Nato summit live: Stoltenberg says Ukraine Nato membership is ‘not the question of if, but when’

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

    Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in Afghanistan
  • Shardey sitting on a chair in the street outside his old shop, with the Liver Building towers in the background.

    Home Office U-turn grants Wirral ‘legend’ right to live in UK after 46 years

    Retired newsagent who fundraised £50,000 for legal battle was due to take case to court in autumn

  • NHS patients raising safety concerns too often ‘fobbed off’, says commissioner

  • From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

  • UK will give Ukraine £3bn a year ‘for as long as it takes’, says Starmer

  • Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

  • Bushey crossbow killings: suspect taken to hospital after being located – as it happened

  • Tributes paid to three women killed in ‘devastating’ Bushey crossbow attack

  • Suspect found with injuries after triple crossbow killings in Bushey

UK politics

  • Suella Braverman at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC

    Braverman hits back at Badenoch over ‘public breakdown’ comments

  • Protesters holding signs protesting Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel.

    US ‘pressuring UK to block ICC’s Netanyahu arrest warrant’

    • Dawn Butler apparently reported to police for celebrating ‘melanin’ in Labour government

    • UK will be ‘leading European nation’ in Nato, defence secretary pledges

    • UK politics: Badenoch confirms she did criticise Sunak over election at shadow cabinet – as it happened

    • Prisons crisis must not jeopardise Labour’s pledge on domestic abuse, Starmer told

    • Barratt to build fewer houses this year despite Labour pledge to fix shortage

    • Syrian asylum seeker in UK says he ‘lost everything’ after Rwanda roundup

Analysis and explainers

  • Jaswant Singh Chail was jailed for nine years after he was detained close to the late Queen’s home.

    What are the laws on crossbows and could they be changed soon?

  • Bob Blackman

    New leader of backbench Tory MPs holds the party’s future in his hands

  • Two of them smiling

    What is the national wealth fund and what will it invest in?

  • An apartment block next to water in the Millennium Village on the Greenwich Peninsula in London.

    Four ways Labour could deliver on pledge to build 1.5m new homes

Culture

  • A mother holds a young child in her arms as they both look into distorting mirrors at the top of a spiral staircase

    Young V&A wins Museum of the Year award

  • The family are standing outside a house. De Chair, Crook and two of the children are peering round the house at at something out of shot. Rees-Mogg is holding the youngest child on his hip.

    Jacob Rees-Mogg and family to star in fly-on-the-wall documentary

    Show will follow former Tory MP, his six children and family’s nanny in run-up to and aftermath of election
  • Metropolitan police marching in formation

    ‘Highly offensive’: police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets

    Police Federation says title for series about new recruits is ‘disgusting choice of language’

  • Hip-hop band Cypress Hill makes 1996 Simpsons joke come true

  • Era of culture wars is over, pledges new culture secretary Lisa Nandy

  • Oldham Coliseum theatre saved from closure

  • Hollywood studio Paramount agrees $28bn merger with Skydance

Education

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters in tents at Birmingham university's campus

    High court allows two UK universities to remove Gaza protest camps

  • A grand school building

    Former girls’ school in London to reopen as pioneering youth hub

  • Rachel Reeves in front of a red backdrop with the Treasury logo

    Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

  • composite image showing the writer against a backdrop with cut-out images of a book, a union jack flag, a twisted church spire, a newspaper headline reading 'shocking rise', Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Farage

    My home town: how Chesterfield changed under Conservative rule

Society

  • A patient undergoing laser eye surgery.

    Eye doctors say private cataract operations have hurt the NHS

  • Bottles and can of soft drinks in a supermarket.

    Children’s sugar consumption halved since tax announcement, study finds

    • Dr Robert Laurenson Vivek Trivedi speak to the media

      Junior doctors confident further strikes can be avoided after meeting Streeting

    • Sstaff on an NHS hospital ward

      ‘Dysfunctional’ culture at UK nursing regulator is safety threat, review warns

    • Design comprising closeup pic of Lucy Letby's eyes behind the scales of justice

      Lucy Letby: killer or coincidence? Why some experts question the evidence

Multimedia

  • The new prime minister of the UK, Keir Starmer, has met the president of Ukraine on the margins of the Nato summit in Washington

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    Keir Starmer meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Nato summit in Washington – video

  • Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria

    Politics Weekly Westminster: Starmer in the US, Badenoch and the PopCons - podcast

    • People explore a digital floral artwork

      Digital flowers and a school in ruins: photos of the day – Wednesday

    • Police urge Bushey triple murder suspect Kyle Clifford to 'make contact' – video

    • Keir Starmer hails diverse Commons in first speech to parliament as PM – video

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