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Cop27: UN Secretary Guterres’ opening speech on fossil fuels and the war in Ukraine For free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox, sign up for our breaking news emails Sign up to our free emails for breaking news An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has refused to negotiate with Vladimir Putin …

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Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has given a firm hint that benefits and pensions will rise in line with inflation next year. Asked about the Autumn Statement and whether vulnerable people will be at the forefront of ministers’ minds during the Autumn Statement process, Stride told Times Radio: “Well, the Prime Minister has …

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America’s in-between periods don’t usually get us. Wake us up when you elect another president. But it should be, and for all the wrong reasons. Anyone who has covered some of them knows that they are very different this year. The mood is dark in America. There is a sense of fear for the future. …

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Related video: Grant Shapps says Williamson’s texts to chief whip were ‘unacceptable’ Sign up to the Inside Politics email for a free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Bullying allegations against Sir Gavin Williamson continue to mount, with reports that he told a senior public servant …

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Interest in the open-source social media platform known as Mastodon has risen again as users look for an alternative to Twitter, should Elon Musk’s acquisition spell the end of the website as we know it . If you’re fleeing the sinking ship of Twitter for Mastodon’s potential life raft, or wondering if you will, here’s …

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NHS reaches deal for life-saving breast cancer drug bbc.co.uk NHS England to offer ‘potentially life-saving’ drug for aggressive breast cancer The Guardian A ‘life-saving’ breast cancer drug is to be offered on the NHS The Times Drug offers lifeline to 1,600 women with rare aggressive form of breast cancer The Independent NHS approves life-extending drug …

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Rishi Sunak has said it is “morally right” for Britain to meet its climate change commitments in his speech at Cop27, but stopped short of paying reparations after Boris Johnson said the country could not afford the luxury to do so. The prime minister made a very brief appearance on the world stage on Monday …

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Attendees of the Cop27 climate meeting have discovered that the conference’s internet connection is blocking access to the global human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) as well as other key news websites needed to get information during conversations. HRW is to lead a panel discussion at Cop27 together with Amnesty International, whose website is …

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O Livia Attwood has revealed she is ‘heartbroken’ after being forced to quit I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here due to medical reasons ‘outside her control’. The former Love Island star, 31, who made show history by becoming the first former islander to take part, posted a statement on her Instagram account after …

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Rishi Sunak has slammed Boris Johnson’s administration’s plans to build a new royal yacht, sparking criticism of the £2.5m of taxpayers’ money that has already been spent on the “vanity project”. As Whitehall prepared for cuts expected in Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement next week, the project, intended to boost trade after Brexit, was dropped in …

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