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  • EU threatens to block Covid vaccine exports amid AstraZeneca shortfall

    EU threatens to block Covid vaccine exports amid AstraZeneca shortfallBloc may receive only half of purchased 100m doses in first quarter of the year * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverage

  • 'I had to leave': Therese Coffey explains why she 'walked off' Good Morning Britain interview

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

  • Revealed: The Jobs With The Highest Covid Death Rates

    The figures cover the period from March 9 to December 28, 2020.

  • Biden fires controversial Trump doctor accused of misleading public about former president’s condition amid Covid-19 diagnosis

    New White House physician is a longtime primary care doctor to President Joe Biden, and will now oversee his medical care for the next four years

  • EastEnders' Linda Carter discovers more of Katy Lewis's abuse

    A visit from Frankie's step-brother Jed unearths painful secrets.

  • 'Traitors get shot': Texas man arrested over Capitol riots after his son tipped off FBI

    A Texan teenager who tipped off the FBI about his father's alleged involvement in the Capitol riots said he would "do it again", despite claiming his father threatened to shoot him for being a "traitor". Jackson Reffitt, 18, said he felt a moral obligation to report his father to the authorities after watching him participate in the violent riots on live TV. His father, Guy, 48, was arrested at his home in Wylie, Texas on January 16 and faces charges of obstruction of justice and knowingly entering a restricted building. According to court documents, Mr Reffitt had allegedly threatened his wife and children, saying: “If you turn me in, you’re a traitor and you know what happens to traitors … traitors get shot”. The younger Mr Reffitt said he was "afraid" of what his father might think of him, but told local station Fox 4 that he had acted according to his "moral compass".

  • 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.

  • Johnson faces Tory anger over continued school closures

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

  • Watchdog to investigate claims Justice Department officials plotted to help Trump overturn election result

    Former president was accused of conspiring with DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark

  • 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

  • China’s Communist Party pushes dangerous fringe Covid theories as it feels pressure of WHO probe

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

  • Brexit butchers EU trade for Scottish beef producers

    Brexit has dealt a blow to Andrew Duff's business. The 32-year-old had been on the verge of expanding the family business, using his social media marketing skills to promote the rare beef that has been reared on farms across the Scottish lowlands and borders for centuries. Instead his Macduff business is now one of thousands across Britain that lack the financial firepower to throw at the myriad health checks, customs declarations and higher logistics costs that are required to export goods into the European Union.

  • 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

  • Boris Johnson intends to ease lockdown restrictions 'where he can' in three weeks' time

    Boris Johnson intends to start easing some coronavirus lockdown restrictions 'where he can' on 15 February, his spokesman has confirmed.

  • UK risks becoming ‘failed state’ unless it reforms Union, Gordon Brown warns

    The UK risks becoming a “failed state” unless it prioritises reforms to the Union, former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Mr Brown urged  Boris Johnson to consider ideas such as replacing the House of Lords with a “senate of the regions." The former Labour leader also called on the Prime Minister to set up a commission on democracy which would review how the UK is governed.

  • Latest weekly Covid-19 rates for local authority areas in England

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

  • Farmer's son who murdered a schoolboy after paying him to hide their sexual relationship jailed for life

    A farmer's son who murdered a schoolboy after paying more than £2,000 to stop him revealing their sexual relationship has been sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in custody. Matthew Mason, 20, admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death with a wrench in woods in Ashley, Cheshire, on December 12 2019 but denied murder, arguing he experienced a loss of control after being blackmailed by the teenager. Earlier this month a jury at Chester Crown Court rejected his claims and found him guilty of murder by a majority verdict. Sentencing Mason on Monday to a life term, the Honorary Recorder of Chester Judge Steven Everett told him: "This was a pre-meditated murder, carefully planned and, in my judgment, ruthlessly carried out showing no empathy for your victim and a callous disregard for his family and friends."

  • Giuliani slams ‘hate-filled left-wing’ as he responds to £1.3bn defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems

    Donald Trump’s personal lawyer claims legal action is intended to ‘frighten people of faint heart’

  • Heathrow warns quarantine hotels would have ‘huge ramifications’ for travel industry

    Requiring all international arrivals to enter quarantine hotels would have “huge ramifications” for the aviation sector, Heathrow airport has warned. Ministers are considering the measure in a bid to combat the spread of coronavirus variants, such as strains discovered in Brazil and South Africa and Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of the Government’s Covid-O committee on Tuesday to decide on stricter rules. “However, we must be clear that a blanket hotel quarantine is effectively the closure of our borders which carries huge ramifications for Britain and its aviation sector, already on its knees.”

  • Former PM Brown sees no democratic mandate for Scottish independence vote

    Britain's former prime minister Gordon Brown said on Monday he did not think the Scottish National Party would have a democratic mandate to hold a referendum on Scottish independence even if it wins May's Scottish elections as expected. "No, no, I don't think so," Brown, who is Scottish, said on BBC radio in answer to a question on whether the SNP would have a democratic mandate if it won the election on a platform of holding a referendum.