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  • PoliticsThe Independent

    Investigate whether drinking played role in chaotic House hearing, senior Democrat says

    During a committee hearing, Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene insulted a colleague’s ‘fake eyelashes’

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  • NewsEvening Standard

    Horror as bus bursts into flames in Twickenham

    The bus driver and passengers managed to escape to safety

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Rudy Giuliani sings ‘New York, New York’ at birthday party before ‘being served with court papers’

    Rudy Giuliani sang “New York, New York” at his 80th birthday party before being “served with notice of his Arizona indictment”. According to the New York Post, two officials with Arizona’s attorney general’s office arrived at the gathering around 11pm to hand Mr Giuliani the papers in the case alleging he and 17 others were involved in a 2020 election interference plot. The former New York City mayor was celebrating his birthday in Palm Beach, and a video shows him signing during the party.

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Slovakia’s Fico ‘further stabilised’ after assassination attempt, judge rules suspect to stay in custody

    Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in serious condition and still faces risks of complications but has stabilised, officials said on Saturday, following Wednesday's assassination attempt. The prime minister, 59, was shot at five times at point-blank range in an attack that sent shockwaves through Europe and raised concerns over the polarised state of politics in Slovakia, a central European country of 5.4 million people."We have not won yet, that is important to say," Deputy Prime Ministe

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  • OpinionThe Independent

    Voices: Accusing your political opponents of lying is a terrible election tactic

    COMMENT: Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves have already insulted the voters by insulting each other, writes John Rentoul

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  • NewsYorkshire Live

    Yorkshire council bosses u-turn on apostrophe ban for street signs after global outrage

    North Yorkshire Council said all new street signs would be made without the punctuation to avoid problems with computer systems

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  • NewsRFI

    Have the French fallen out of love with Europe?

    Although France is a founding member of the European Union, surveys show Euroscepticism is on the rise in the nation. In the lead up to the EU elections, RFI looks at what's feeding the disenchantment and what, if anything, can be done to rekindle the flame. The European project has been fuelled by French men. Jean Monnet and Robert Schumann helped lay the foundations for what would become the EU, Jacques Delors founded the single currency and Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand and incumbent

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