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State-backed loans to go to firms importing critical minerals into UK
Rachel Reeves to encourage import of raw materials from Commonwealth countries to counter China’s grip on mark…
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Passengers carried off Singapore Airlines plane after severe turbulence – video report
One passenger has died and dozens have been injured after a flight from London to Singapore was hit by turbule…
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Singapore Airlines flight: British man dead and 30 injured after severe turbulence – as it happened
One man dies and 18 hospitalised, with a further 12 requiring treatment in hospital, after plane encounters se…
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British passenger dies after severe turbulence on London-Singapore flight
Thai authorities say Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, probably had heart attack, and seven are critically injured as pass…
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Animals on the run: from a runaway racehorse to an escaped circus elephant – video
So far, 2024 has been a busy year for animal escapes. From a sauntering circus elephant in Montana to huskies …
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India’s wealthy ‘fear London is worse than Delhi for muggings’
Fear of crime in UK capital is one of biggest concerns of rich Indians, says entrepreneurIndian business peopl…
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Remembering the coup in Chile and clashes in Haiti: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
Images of the struggle for human rights and freedoms around the world this week, from a women’s march for just…
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Colourful kites fill London sky in solidarity with people of Afghanistan
Event celebrates Afghan culture and protests against restrictions on women and girls two years after Taliban o…
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Noodle vendor who parodied Salt Bae jailed in Vietnam for ‘anti-state propaganda’
Peter Lam Bui posted his video after a Vietnamese official visited the celebrity chef’s London steakhouseA Vie…
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What is happening with Afghan refugees in the UK?
About 9,000 of the people who arrived in Britain since the fall of Kabul are still living in temporary accommo…
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India reduces security outside UK high commission in New Delhi
Barriers also removed from high commissioner’s residence after Sikhs protest at Indian mission in LondonNew De…
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‘A hotel is not home’: Afghan families still wait for a place of their own in UK
Families who fled Taliban rule say they are grateful for the help they have received but long for a home where…
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Bookseller of Kabul becomes asylum seeker in London
Shah Muhammad Rais survived decades of misrule in Afghanistan but finally fled to escape the TalibanHe was mad…
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‘Hope is essential’: Afghanistan’s silenced musicians find a new stage
A British orchestra will this week play, for the first time, a programme of Afghan music, featuring exiled Afg…
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BBC to pay £30,000 to Bangladeshi Labour councillor for identity mix-up
Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges ‘reflects notion all people of …