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Blind man left with ‘no dignity’ after two-year delay in getting guide dog while stuck on housing waiting list

Research shows 73 per cent on social housing waitlists experience accommodation harmful to health

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Peer demands ban on sale of ancestral remains after auction lists shrunken heads and skulls

Exclusive: ‘If we legislate to prevent the sale of dead coral we should legislate to prevent the sale of dead Africans and indigenous peoples,’ Lord Paul Boateng said

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Israeli soldier urges UK to be Churchill not Chamberlain in standing against ‘evil’ Iran

Wounded soldier Barak Deri said his war started on 7 October last year when he faced ‘the toughest choice’ of his life

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Keir Starmer pins hopes for economic growth on British Hollywood – with new tax relief on its way

The prime minister spoke exclusively to The Independent about how important the creative arts are to him personally, as someone who has grown up playing the flute and the violin

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MPs pile pressure on Labour to oppose Saudi bid to join UN’s Human Rights Council

Exclusive: Labour under pressure to take a stand against human rights abuses

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Nearly two-thirds of gas stations are empty in Tampa area as millions flee path of Hurricane Milton

Floridians attempting to leave the area have been caught up in heavy congestion leaving via a small number of routes

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‘Nothing persuades anyone anymore’: Insiders from the Trump and Harris campaigns get candid about their election fears

One says this election features ‘the most staggering issue I’ve seen in my entire 50-year career in American politics’. Another thinks North Carolina will decide everything. Andrew Feinberg speaks to strategists about what they actually believe will happen in the next month — the good, the bad and the ugly

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‘Angry’ families to launch their own maternity inquiry after losing faith in NHS probe

‘I’m furious... it’s not our job to fix that maternity unit’, says father

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Calls for special envoy to help release Britons held for years without fair trial

The families of Britons imprisoned abroad accuse the Foreign Office of caring more about ‘not upsetting’ relations with key trade partners than calling for the release of their loved ones.

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Hospitals across US reporting IV shortages after Hurricane Helene led to plant shutdown in NC

Hospitals are calling on the Biden administration to take urgent action, including declaring a national emergency

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MAGA superintendent says he was fired for promoting Kirk Cameron book fair featuring ‘anti-woke’ titles

Ousted Spotsylvania County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Taylor is taking his former bosses to court over his extracurricular religious activities

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How Joe Biden helped fuel a Middle Eastern war and ‘collapse American credibility’

President said he wanted to avoid a regional war in the Middle East, but his unconditional support for Israel has allowed it to happen, Richard Hall writes.

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‘I was abused by my stepfather, step-grandfather and husband, but my mother said it didn’t matter’

Even her own half-sister and half-brother – her stepfather’s biological children – don’t believe what happened to her. A domestic and sexual abuse survivor tells her story to Jane Dalton

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Cornell international students did $200k damage to Airbnb in 8 days during summer program, lawsuit claims

EXCLUSIVE: Eliza VanCort, a motivational speaker and best-selling author, says her home was defiled in ‘bizarre’ ways

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Voices from Gaza on their year of hell: ‘The pain is indescribable’

Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna hear the story of an ambulance driver who has to dig through rubble for survivors – including his own family – and a doctor treating horrific injuries. Gaza journalist Nedal also recounts having to flee his home and other shelters five times, having seen a…

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Four Gaza hostage families torn apart by 7 October: ‘I’m screaming for the world to help’

Bel Trew speaks to freed hostages – who describe the terror of more than 50 days held in captivity by Hamas – as well as the families whose loved ones are still being held, or have been killed by their captors. One thing unites them all: the fight to bring…

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Schools are being bombarded with hoax shooting threats - and the semester has just begun

Students and teachers are already on edge because of the gun violence epidemic. The social media rumor mill is only making things worse, police and educators tell Josh Marcus

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Why isn’t Chelsea vs Nottingham Forest on TV today?

Everything you need to know ahead of the Premier League fixture

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Pub landlord targets ‘entitled’ diners leaving excess leftovers at carvery with £2.40 charge

The landlord of The Star Inn said ‘the proof in the pudding will be in the eating’ if his policy is successful

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Israel expands strikes to northern Lebanon as more than one million people flee their homes

IDF attacks continued on Saturday as rumours circulated over the fate of the man thought to have been the potential replacement for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

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I profiled Diddy. His rebranding as ‘Love’ was a ‘psychopath move’

Sean Combs sat down three years ago for a magazine profile in which he applauded #MeToo while waxing lyrical about this love of women – as he launched a rebranding as ‘Love’ himself in his latest name change. The entire interview was performative, the writer tells Sheila Flynn – and…

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The real turf surf owners: Southern California city takes its beach back after legal battle over ‘surf gang’

Eight years ago, two surfers said a surfing gang had taken over a local beach, harassing outsiders who tried to ride the waves. The lawsuit finally came to an end last month, with the city promising to improve access, Katie Hawkinson reports

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Why is TikTok obsessed with vibration plates?

Vibration plates are the latest workout trend taking the internet by storm but health experts are still undecided about their health benefits, Brittany Miller writes

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Labour government without accurate data on courts crisis amid fears of soaring trials backlog

‘Unfathomable’ lack of accurate data on courts crisis means government ‘cannot hope’ to understand or fix it, experts tell The Independent

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Taliban profit as flights diverted around Middle East crisis fill up Afghan airspace

Flying through Afghan airspace is proving to be the safest option for international airlines, with Iran’s missile bombardment of Israel causing a noticeable shift in flight patterns

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