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China’s defense minister has renewed threats of his country’s takeover of self-ruled Taiwan as he opened a security forum in Beijing on Thursday

The far-right podcaster has spread absurd conspiracy theories that the first lady of France was born male

I’ve been in the same room as President Trump on a number of occasions but I first had a proper meeting with him at the Republican convention in Milwaukee before his reelection. Days earlier, a gunman had tried to take his life. Upon entering his hotel suite, the first thing…

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The UK prime minister said the two countries are working together to put pressure on Vladimir Putin to get him to agree to a peace deal with Ukraine

Israel did not immediately acknowledge the pact

COMMENT: His legal appeal against being deported could sink the government’s flagship immigration initiative, writes Mary Dejevsky. He has a right to know why he’s been chosen to be returned to France – and so do the rest of us

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn was warned about language after he quoted Peter Mandelson and described Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal acts…

Donald Trump’s second state visit in six years starts today at King Charles’s Windsor estate in style: a carriage ride (past Harry and Meghan’s old haunt of Frogmore Cottage, as it happens), a lavish evening banquet and panoply of military bands and fly pasts. It is a massive ceremonial courtesy…

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DOWNING Street has accused Elon Musk of using “dangerous and inflammatory” language at the Unite The Kingdom protest on Saturday.