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Two-state solution party could determine Benjamin Netanyahu’s fate

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International trade hit as freight vessel becomes wedged across vital shipping route

Virginia has executed more than 1,300 people in its 400-year history

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Anti-Kremlin activists promise mass protest ahead of national election

Independent monitors says the pharma giant may have used ‘out-of-date information’

Fresh lockdown measures imposed across continent as mutant Covid strains cause spike in infections

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UK imposes sanctions on Beijing over Uighur Muslim abuses

Israelis casting votes for fourth time in two years

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Ban on export of Covid jabs to Britain threatens to slow campaign to inoculate population

More than half of people in France, Germany and Spain believe jab is unsafe

Republicans and Democrats await president’s opening move on illegal immigration

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Government set to move migrants out of 58 neighbourhoods to cut risk of ‘religious and cultural parallel societies’

Is the Good Friday Agreement unravelling? How much of a threat are AI deepfakes? And can we really now see round corners?

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Moscow erupts after US president says Russia will ‘pay’ for election meddling

Tensions over Covid vaccine supplies have escalated into a battle of words between Brussels and London after Ursula von der Leyen threatened to use emergency powers to ban exports of the jabs to the UK

Experts say sperm whales shared behaviours to outmanoeuvre 19th-century hunters

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Brazilian U-turn on Huawei hints at political cost of coronavirus jabs

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European safety concerns over vaccine remain despite positive data from UK campaign

Democratic senator calls for ‘proper oversight’ over Brett Kavanaugh investigation into sexual assault claims

Defence review says the nuclear superpower represents ‘systemic challenge’ to British prosperity and values

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Bahrain and South Korea have highest minimum ages for consensual sex while Nigeria has lowest

Voters punish chancellor’s party amid slow Covid vaccine rollout and face mask scandal

Commission points out that system for sharing doses has been ‘well known for months’

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Australia also expecting flood of arrivals from the city state after Beijing tightens election rules