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A precision operation that’s part of a grander scheme or a one-off magic trick to score spy ops points against the enemy? Either way, what to make of a second day of exploding devices that has killed a dozen and wounded more than 3-thousand? Hezbollah's response awaited after a security…

Editorial: Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power depends on his nation being at war. The region is paying a high price

The last time Oxford Street came anywhere close to being “pedestrianised” was in the utter depths of the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020. I recall running — okay, perhaps jogging — blissfully along the central white line through a desolate West End from Marble Arch to Centre Point as…

Until the single justice procedure is fundamentally overhauled, miscarriages of justice will continue to be uncovered. A joint Evening Standard/ITV News investigation has again revealed vast inadequacies in the system, from grieving families to pensioners with dementia and even the dead being wrongly prosecuted under secretive fast-track courts.

Labour made big promises while seeking power. It must fulfil them or risk real damage, says Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale

From banging on about ‘childless cat ladies’ to spreading racist rumours about Haitians eating pets, Trump’s running mate can’t seem to move on from his strange fixation with felines, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The people of Springfield, Ohio, are enduring bomb threats, hate and vandalism because of xenophobic smears

Making healthy life expectancy central to all government policy is the surest way of stemming demand on the health service, says surgeon and former health minister Lord Darzi

‘Years of inconsistent Government policies have pushed housing associations to their limits’