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Exclusive: Labour vows to crack down on police failures to keep women safe, as campaigners warn lives are being put at risk

Lewiston entered the weekend in stunned grief, emerging from the shelter-in-place order to plan memorials and fundraisers while praying for the dead and the survivors still hospitalised – as the community started to heal from physical and emotional scars. Andrea Blanco and Sheila Flynn report from Maine

Starmer warned of ‘existential threat’ in Labour seats with large Muslim population

Long Covid has over 200 symptoms, for many sufferers the pandemic is far from over

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

UN reports suggest 42 per cent of housing in Gaza has been destroyed following Israeli bombardment

Locals began returning to daily life after Maine authorities lifted a shelter-in-place order following the deadly mass shooting at a Lewiston bar and bowling alley as the armed and dangerous suspect remained at large, write Andrea Blanco and Sheila Flynn

Michigan governor’s office calls tribute ‘disturbing’

Biden’s remarks casting doubt on the death toll in Gaza caused outrage at home and abroad, report Bel Trew from Tel Aviv, Richard Hall from New York City, and Andrew Feinberg from Washington, DC.