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Steve Bannon faces four months in jail after losing appeal for contempt of Congress charge
Bannon is now one step closer to serving his four-month jail sentence
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Ex-prisoner who stabbed grandfather to death days after release detained indefinitely
Thomas O’Halloran, 87, was on mobility scooter when Lee Byer launched unprovoked ‘senseless and savage’ attack
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Prozac one of 30 antidepressants probed by UK watchdog over links to suicide
Exclusive: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is looking at every antidepressant on the UK market
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Pandemic agreement talks reaching end with deal elusive
Countries trying to strike a landmark global agreement on handling future pandemics began discussing how to keep the process alive as they ran out of time to seal a deal Friday.Countries did finally begin thrashing out text wording but could not get everything completed in time.
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Keir Starmer attacks ‘unquenchable Tory thirst for gimmicks’ and promises to scrap Rwanda plan ‘straight away’
The Labour leader criticised Rishi Sunak’s approach to the small boats crisis as ‘gimmicks, not serious government’ and set out the party’s own plans to crack down on people smugglers
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Keir Starmer says Left-wing activists who call for open border migration are wrong
Left-wing activists who call for open border migration are wrong, said Sir Keir Starmer as he pledged to “dramatically reduce” the number of small boat crossings by cracking down on people smugglers.
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VideoSunak: Latest ONS figures show UK economy has real momentum
Rishi Sunak has said he is "encouraged" that the economy has "real momentum", after the latest ONS figures show the UK economy is has grown by 0.6% between January and March. The prime minister added "we are heading in the right direction and people will start to feel that change".