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Exclusive: The Pope has shown backing for Hungary’s so-called ‘peace deal’ between Kyiv and Moscow – while Trump’s election puts US aid at risk

Campaigners have criticised the offer, saying it shows ‘how little the aviation industry cares about the climate’

Peggy Grande told The Independent that Donald Trump is likely to give a ‘preferential trade deal to the UK’

Completion of sanctuary for domestic abuse survivors built with our readers’ donations will be ‘moment of pride for us all’, says developer

Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics. As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US presidential race and results, a new edition of lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word has been published. He shares some ‘f****ing’ factoids…

‘I think that I’m still trying to grapple with the fact that our country dislikes women so much,’ one accuser told Kelly Rissman after the resounding election results

Melissa Montoya disappeared after a night out in Dulce, New Mexico on March 9, 2001. For 23 years, there was no movement in the case but Darlene Gomez, an advocate for MMIW cases, never gave up the search for her friend. She tells Andrea Cavallier how a new tip could…

‘The basic information of most adults in the United States, and in many other parts of the world, is already widely available,’ one identifty theft expert told Justin Rohrlich

The Reform UK leader said he has ‘got a great relationship’ with the president-elect