All news for 2024-09-29

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Four rivals in the UK Conservative leadership contest outline their vision
The four candidates vying to be the next leader of Britain’s Conservatives began to outline their vision for the nation on Sunday, with immigration due to dominate the debate over the future of the party after a crushing election defeat.
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UK government to tighten hospitality rules following donations controversy
Britain’s government will close a loophole that meant ministers did not have to declare hospitality they had received, cabinet office minister Pat McFadden said on Sunday when pressed again to explain the use of donations for clothing and gifts.
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Boy, 8, fatally shot in the head and face while ’hunting rabbits’ on a farm; man in his 60s arrested for ’manslaughter’
An eight-year-old boy fatally shot in the head and face yesterday was reportedly hunting rabbits on farmland, while a man in his 60s has been arrested.
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Tottenham humiliates Manchester United as Bruno Fernandes is sent off
This is the nadir of Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United tenure. A slipshod shambolic mess that Tottenham exploited gleefully, pinging the ball about and punching through their storied hosts as if in a men-v-kids knockabout.
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Airstrikes launched at Yemen’s Hodeidah port
There are reports of an airstrike on the the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in Yemen. Reuters reports that fuel tanks were hit.
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Scientists respond to Boris Johnson’s claims that COVID was ‘made in a lab’
Boris Johnson has revealed that he now believes that the Covid pandemic was the result of a leak from a Chinese laboratory.
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Hezbollah confirms death of seventh senior leader
Hezbollah has confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, another of its senior leaders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Associated Press are reporting.
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Starmer’s visit to Brussels could lead to an overhaul of the Brexit deal
Prime minister hopes to use talks with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen this week to prepare for a reset in the spring
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Kate Middleton could make her next appearance within weeks following cancer-free announcement
A former royal insider has revealed when the Princess of Wales will likely make her next public appearance.
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Clapham triple stabbing leaves one dead and two injured in night of violence
Clapham triple stabbing leaves one dead and two injured in night of violence.