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‘A thunder punch to the stomach’: Son of British couple jailed in Iran shocked at severe 10-year sentence

After more than a year held in Iranian prisons, the Foremans finally had a 10-year sentence confirmed this week

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Waffle House customer maced, tased, and zip-tied over hash brown order, lawsuit says

Exclusive: Gregory Lynn Hall, 62, claims he was assaulted by a riot gear-clad security guard after getting in the middle of an argument between a Waffle House cook and a server who turned out to be the cook’s wife

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Refugees face ‘grave harm’ after ICE memo allows arrests for those without green cards, advocates warn

‘Only after years of background checks, biometric screenings, and in-person interviews were they invited to rebuild their lives here. To now subject them to arrest and open-ended detention is a stunning betrayal of both our legal commitments and our moral compass,’ says one refugee advocate

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‘Faces are missing, homes no longer stand’: Palestinians on the struggles of observing Ramadan in the ruins of Gaza

IN FOCUS: Two years of war have left much of the territory in ruins. As the holy month begins, the UN warns that conditions on the ground are ‘the worst they’ve seen’. Maira Butt reports

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One by one, children in this Indian village started to drop dead with liver disease. Nobody can explain why

ON THE GROUND: Health workers are rushing to assess a sudden outbreak of deadly illness in a small village in northern India. Rumours are spreading in the absence of a clear cause, and families are grieving amid a climate of fear and uncertainty. Namita Singh reports from Chhainsa

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Dual citizens may be able to travel to the UK with an expired British passport after all

Ryanair says UK government has changed rules for British nationals who are also citizens of another country

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‘I fear for my daughter’s future’: Families in Zimbabwe struggle to survive a year after Trump’s aid cuts

ON THE GROUND: One year after Donald Trump’s aid cuts, villagers and farmers in Zimbabwe’s parched Mwenezi district – hit hard by the climate crisis – are being forced to make some tough decisions to survive. Tawanda Karombo reports

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Bill Gates drops out of landmark India AI summit amid criticism over Epstein

Modi government is receiving flak for inviting Gates to its AI summit despite his Epstein links

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Reward for information about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie increased to more than $200K

The 84-year-old mother of ‘Today’ show star Savannah Guthrie has been missing for more than two weeks

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DHS halts travel and restricts staff visiting disaster areas amid government shutdown, report says

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Three costly retirement regrets in your 70s and 80s - and how to avoid them

‘Having a comprehensive plan is rarely something anyone regrets,’ one expert said

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Karoline Leavitt says Truth Social posts are straight from Trump – week after staffer blamed for ‘Obama ape’ video

Officials previously blamed a staffer for a grotesquely racist video reposted by the president’s account earlier this month

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The ‘breakdancing’ of the Winter Olympics with athletes ‘running like hamsters’: Welcome to ski mountaineering

IN DEPTH: The Milano-Cortina Games will be the first to feature ski mountaineering, an Alpine sport which combines fast-paced action with tricky, technical descents. It could be a runaway success – but its introduction has split opinion

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Here’s how much to save for a comfortable retirement - at any age

‘Time is the most critical piece of building wealth and preparing for retirement,’ one expert said

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ICE deports asylum seeker to Africa, where abuser who bought her as ‘wife’ is waiting to kill her, lawyers claim

First in The Independent: A Congolese woman’s life is in ‘grave danger’ after ICE secretly flew her to an unknown African nation, according to an emergency motion filed in federal court

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How bad are Trump’s aid cuts now Congress is fighting back?

IN DEPTH: The US president has signed into law a new $50 billion health aid package after pushback from legislators. But will it make the difference it should in the long term? Rachel Hagan investigates

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I read 95 books last year – here’s how I managed it

FIRST PERSON: Trying to stick to your resolution of reading more in 2026? From picking tomes to match your mood to planning your to-read list, Katie Rosseinsky has some advice on how to boost your book power

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A retired police officer, a GB News presenter and a plumber: Who is running in the Gorton and Denton by-election?

As voters prepare to cast their ballots on Thursday, The Independent looks at who the options are

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‘I’m a doctor, but I still missed my own low testosterone diagnosis’

Low testosterone can significantly impact quality of life and overall health, but the symptoms are often vague and misdiagnosed as depression

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Secret prison documents show government plan to tackle IPP scandal will fail

Exclusive: Damning projections reveal the government’s action plan to progress IPP prisoners is a ‘failure’, which will leave at least 500 prisoners languishing without release 18 years after the sentence was abolished

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Wuthering Heights has torn the Independent’s culture desk apart

OFFICE POLITICS: Are you currently distrusting your friends and loved ones due to their feelings about Emerald Fennell’s garish bodice-ripper? Then you are not alone! Here at ‘The Independent’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ has left us more divided than ever. So, in the interest of healing, we asked eight of our writers…

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‘It was terrifying’: Australia faces reckoning over brutal police crackdown on pro-Palestine protests

IN FOCUS: Police in Sydney are being investigated by a state watchdog over their response to protests of Israel president Isaac Herzog’s visit. Namita Singh talks to witnesses and rights groups about an incident that shocked Australia

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Anderson Cooper to depart CBS ‘60 Minutes’ to focus on CNN and his family

The long-running news show has been at the center of controversy in recent weeks after CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss intervened in a broadcast

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‘Traumatised’ detective sues force over ‘tainted’ probe on ex-partner’s alleged affair

Andrew Fearon claims he suffered psychiatric injury and a loss of earnings after the breakdown of his relationship with ex-colleague Rebecca Hutt

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Deadliest January on record for migrants after 699 killed while fleeing homes

The spike in deaths has been driven by hundreds of deaths on the Central Mediterranean route, which rights groups say are preventable

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