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  • NewsEvening Standard

    The history of Gibraltar, Spain and Britain as countries hold high-level meeting

    Spain is said to be 'ready to sign deal on post-Brexit status of Gibraltar'

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Tuesday evening news briefing: Covid could be ‘man-made’, says Gove

    Good evening. Michael Gove has suggested that Covid was “man-made”, as he gave evidence to the official inquiry into the pandemic. Elsewhere, all 41 workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel in the northern Himalayas have been safely rescued after 17 days stuck underground.

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  • NewsABC News

    Israel-Gaza live updates: 5th hostage transfer begins, Israeli source says

    A four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel has been extended by two days, Qatari officials announced on Monday. Dozens of the more than 200 people taken hostage during Hamas' Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel and held in the war-torn Gaza Strip for nearly two months were released over the last few days during the truce. Hamas has freed 69 of the hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    All 41 trapped workers rescued from Indian tunnel

    All 41 workers trapped in the collapsed tunnel in the northern Himalayas have been safely rescued after 17 days stuck underground.

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  • NewsAssociated Press

    How a group of ancient sculptures sparked a dispute between Greece and the UK

    For decades, Britain and Greece were able to differ, largely politely, over the world's toughest cultural heritage dispute: What's the right place for some of the finest ancient Greek sculptures ever made, which have been displayed in London for more than 200 years but which Greece vocally wants back. Diplomacy failed when U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak abruptly called off a London meeting scheduled for Tuesday with Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Sunak's spokesman linked the snub with

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  • OpinionThe Independent

    Voices: ‘Napoleon’ is more progressive than you think

    COMMENT: Despite some flamboyant inaccuracies, Ridley Scott’s biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix is a truthful exploration of how France ended up crowning an emperor just years after beheading a king, writes Clémence Michallon

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Tantric yoga guru arrested in international sex slave raid

    A yoga guru accused of running an international tantric sex slave ring using “mental manipulation” to “eliminate consent” has been arrested in a massive raid spanning Paris and southern France.

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