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    The work and pensions secretary called a halt to an interview with the ITV show on Monday.

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    Lady Leshurr narrowly escaped being eliminated from Dancing On Ice this weekend.

  • Britain faces three-month 'halfway house' lockdown after Easter

    Britain faces a three-month lockdown "halfway house" after Easter, with a full reopening delayed until all over-50s have had their second dose of the vaccine, The Telegraph understands. Ministers are considering proposals to begin reopening swathes of the economy in April under similar restrictions to those in place over the summer, with "rule of six" and social distancing measures in force in pubs and restaurants. A return to full normality will be delayed for at least 12 to 14 weeks to allow all over-50s to have their second dose of the vaccine, according to a source familiar with the discussions. Ministers are keen to reopen hospitality venues in some capacity before the G7 summit in the second week of June, when the UK will host world leaders at Carbis Bay, Cornwall. National measures will be eased in advance of the summit, allowing pubs, restaurants and tourism to begin to trade again. Boris Johnson has previously suggested England will return to the geographical tiers system after the lockdown ends, but sources suggested the tiers may apply to the whole country rather than to specific areas. "The appetite for regional tiers will only come if you have large swathes of the country that are significantly lower in case numbers and new variant case numbers and hospitalisations," a source said.

  • EU threatens to block Covid vaccine exports amid AstraZeneca shortfall

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  • ‘Don’t let him off the hook’: Beto O’Rourke says Ted Cruz is guilty of sedition

    Mr Cruz is facing calls to resign from several House Democrats

  • Neighbours spoiler pictures show Melanie Pearson return to Erinsborough

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  • Indian and Chinese troops involved in new border clash in eastern Himalayas

    Indian and Chinese soldiers armed with sticks and stones have brawled again along their disputed frontier, Delhi said, as the neighbours' months-long border stand-off continued. Indian security officials said there were clashes after at least 18 Chinese soldiers tried to cross into Indian-claimed territory at Naku La in Sikkim on January 20. Soldiers on both sides were carrying firearms, but did not use them. A senior Indian Army official told the Telegraph that four Indian soldiers were wounded after they challenged the Chinese PLA soldiers. All four Indian wounded had been hospitalised, and their condition was described as stable. The officer said the number of injured Chinese was “in double figures”. An official army statement gave few details, describing the clash as a minor stand-off and saying it had been "resolved by local commanders as per established protocols". The military asked journalists "to refrain from overplaying or exaggerating" the incident. Zhao Lijian, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, urged India "not to take any unilateral action that may further complicate or exacerbate the border tension." Yet an opinion piece in China's Global Times, a hawkish state-owned tabloid, said the reports were false and blamed Indian rumour-mongering. Tensions have been high since May when deadly clashes erupted high in the Karakoram mountains along the poorly defined frontier between the rivals. Both sides have mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers, artillery and fighter aircraft along the fiercely contested border known as the Line of Actual Control, or LAC, that separates Chinese and Indian-held territories from Ladakh in the west to India's eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China claims in its entirety. May's brawl exploded into hand-to-hand combat with clubs, stones and fists on June 15 that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. China is believed to also have had casualties, but has not given any details. Indian and Chinese army commanders met for the ninth round of talks after a gap of two-and-a-half months in Ladakh on Sunday but neither side released any details of the outcome.

  • Huckabee Sanders Announces Run for Governor

    Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced on January 25 that she was running for governor of Arkansas.In a campaign video that drew deeply on her time as press secretary and targeted a number of issues including gun rights and “cancel culture,” she said: “With the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line of defense.”The gubernatorial election is due to take place on November 8, 2022. Credit: Sarah Huckabee Sanders via Storyful

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    Former president was accused of conspiring with DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark

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  • Sturgeon refuses to say if she would quit if it is found she lied over Salmond

    Nicola Sturgeon has refused to confirm that she would quit as First Minister if it is found that she deliberately lied to Holyrood over the Alex Salmond affair, as she accused her predecessor of spreading “false conspiracy theories” about her. The First Minister insisted she had not misled the Scottish Parliament about her handling of sexual harassment complaints against Mr Salmond, as two inquiries examining her conduct, which her opponents believe could see her forced from office, gather pace. In a submission to an investigation into whether Ms Sturgeon broke the ministerial code, Mr Salmond said statements which Ms Sturgeon made to Holyrood about when she first became aware of complaints against him were “simply untrue”.

  • E.T. signal from Proxima Centauri? A conversation with Breakthrough Initiatives' Pete Worden

    Space.com recently talked with Breakthrough Initiatives executive director Pete Worden about a signal coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, and about the search for alien life more generally.

  • Johnson faces Tory anger over continued school closures

    Conservative MPs warned the Prime Minister that children are becoming the ‘forgotten victims’ of the pandemic.

  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor. There is only one way to respond

    Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump, has ambitions as blatant as her compatriots such as Josh Hawley, Kevin McCarthy and Ivanka Trump. To preserve our newfound decency, it’s time for a widespread cancellation

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    Around one in 10 local areas are continuing to see a rise in rates.

  • Scottish Tory leader says he would boycott independence referendum without UK government approval

    SNP set out 11-point ‘roadmap’ to second independence referendum at the weekend

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    A government spokesperson suggested that the coronavirus could have emerged from a US military lab

  • India distributes one million Covid vaccine doses in just six days

    India has an ambitious target of inoculating 300 million people in the first phase of immunisations

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