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Ministry of Defence sources said discussions are ongoing about whether to send troops to the country to support it amid Russia’s ongoing invasion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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