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The strongest winds are likely to hit south Wales and areas around the Bristol Channel (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Fresh weather warnings in place as wet and windy weekend continues

Tory peer Michelle Mone said she regrets not admitting she was linked to PPE Medpro straight away (PA/Neo-space.com)

Michelle Mone admits ‘error’ in denying links to PPE firm

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A person watching high waves in Doolin in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland (Niall Carson/PA)

High winds and potential coastal flooding as Storm Fergus sweeps Ireland

An Israeli attack helicopter fires a missile over the Gaza Strip (Leo Correa/AP)

Heavy fighting rages in Gaza as US sends more tank ammunition to Israel

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Canadian singer Bryan Adams was friends with Diana (Yui Mok/PA)

Bryan Adams: Meeting Diana was one of the greatest things to happen to me

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Robert Jenrick appearing on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)

Jenrick ‘not interested’ in Tory leadership bid

Elon Musk has restored the X account of Alex Jones (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

X boss Elon Musk restores account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan criticised Scotland’s Pisa scores (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Keegan blames ‘nationalist’ policies for Scotland’s falling education scores

(Left to right) Paul Fenning and Michael Fenning in their Wonka themed home in Doncaster (Danny Lawson/PA)

Couple adorn home with Willy Wonka-themed Christmas lights

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A woman casts her vote in the presidential elections at a polling station in Cairo (Amr Nabil/AP)

Egyptians vote in election set to give El-Sissi another six years as president

A Chinese coast guard ship uses water cannon against Philippine coast guard patrol ship, BRP Cabra as it approaches Second Thomas Shoal (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Chinese coast guard ships blast Philippine vessels with water cannon

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Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Iran bans relatives of Mahsa Amini from accepting human rights award in France

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What the papers say (Peter Byrne/PA)

What the papers say – December 10

A car is buried under rubble on Main Street after a tornado hit Hendersonville, Tennessee (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean/AP)

Six people killed as storms tear through Tennessee

Keely Dalfen, The Brick’s chief executive (The Brick/PA)

Good cause calling itself ‘fourth emergency service’ launches Christmas campaign

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Hermann Escarra, chairman of the Special Commission for the Defence of Guyana Essequibo, stands next to Venezuela’s new map that includes the Essequibo territory (Matias Delacroix/AP)

Venezuela and Guyana agree to ‘high-level meeting’ over disputed territory

Then-chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme (Jeff J Mitchell/PA)

Rishi Sunak to be quizzed on Eat Out scheme and lockdowns at Covid inquiry

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Rwanda president Paul Kagame (PA)

Rwanda president Paul Kagame like ‘Putin of Africa’, Bill Browder claims

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Waves crashing against the shore at Doolin in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland (Niall Carson/PA)

Weekend of wet and windy weather continues as Storm Fergus closes in

Housing Secretary Michael Gove (PA)

Gove defends ‘salty’ middle finger social media post aimed at Labour

Michael Gove defended the legislation (Brian Lawless/PA)

Gove defends ‘robust’ Rwanda legislation as Sunak dealt blow from Tory right

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Penpa Tsering speaks at an event marking the anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India (Ashwini Bhatia/AP)

China is exterminating Tibetan identity, says exiled president

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan quoted Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in his letter (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Relentless London protests creating Met Police funding gap, Sadiq Khan warns

Police attend the scene in Collingwood Road, Sutton (Yui Mok/PA)

Mother charged over fire which killed her two sets of twins

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Cape Verde’s Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky heads to Argentina for swearing-in of new president

The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children (Josh Shinner/Kensington Palace/PA)

King chooses coronation Christmas card but family photo for William and Kate

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People walking past a Government sign warning people to stay at home on the High street in Winchester, Hampshire (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on nation’s social fabric – report

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University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

University leader resigns after evidence on campus antisemitism

A general view of Mallaig (Martin Keene/PA Wire)

Parts of Scotland hit by earthquake

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Rishi Sunak is battling to get Tory MPs not to rebel on his Rwanda policy (James Manning/PA)

Blow for Sunak’s Rwanda legislation from legal assessment for Tory right

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Two dead and two injured in car crash involving police vehicle in Shropshire

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstration in Glasgow (Jane Barlow/PA)

Yousaf says UK ‘complicit in killing children’ in Gaza

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(Peter Byrne/PA)

Murder probe launched after newborn baby’s body found outside Ipswich premises

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Labour demands travel bans for perpetrators of settler violence in West Bank

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Protesters in Trafalgar Square (James Manning/PA)

Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters call for immediate ceasefire

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A man dressed as Santa Claus holds a beer as he and others participate in SantaCon (John Minchillo/AP)

Thousands of revellers descend on NYC for annual Santa-themed bar crawl SantaCon

Gatwick said the air traffic control outage had since been fixed (PA)

Passengers face hours of delays after Gatwick Airport system outage

Municipal workers dismantle a monument to Soviet military leader Mykola Shchors in Kyiv (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Soviet-era statue of Red Army commander taken down in Kyiv

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Much of the country faces heavy rain (PA)

Storms Elin and Fergus named as weather warnings in place across UK and Ireland

The shooting took place in Hackney, east London (Lucy North/PA)

Teenager charged with murder after woman shot dead in east London

Odhran Kelly (PSNI)

Second man charged with murder of 23-year-old nursing assistant Odhran Kelly

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Activists demonstrate with a sign reading ‘negotiate a plant based treaty’ at the summit in Dubai (AP)

Opec ‘panicking’ as Cop28 talks focus on possible fossil fuel phase-out

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Stephen Fry suffered broken bones after a fall earlier this year (Ian West/PA)

Stephen Fry says he feels ‘self conscious’ going out without walking stick

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Palestinians search for bodies following Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Britain abstains on UN vote demanding ceasefire in Gaza

Paul Nowak, second-left, TUC general secretary, spoke at a special conference on strikes (PA)

Unions on collision course with the Government over new strike law

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Storm Elin and Storm Fergus are predicted to bring gale force winds to parts of Ireland as Met Eireann issues a range of weather warnings for both Saturday and Sunday. (PA)

Storm Elin and Storm Fergus to bring gale force winds to Ireland

Kate Forbes urged the First Minister to work with MSPs to develop a ‘reformed’ Bill (Jane Barlow/PA)

Forbes: Scottish Government must not prolong gender legal battle

Much of the country faces heavy rain (PA)

Storm Elin named as weather warnings in place across UK and Ireland

Three people are said to have died (Italian Firefighters Via AP)

Deadly fire breaks out at hospital near Rome

Patrick O’Neal poses with his father, actor Ryan O’Neal (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo, File/PA)

Co-stars Barbra Streisand and Lee Grant remember ‘incredible talent’ Ryan O’Neal

Fresh air strikes have hit the Gaza Strip (AP)

Israel presses on with Gaza bombardments as war enters third month

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to the participants of the National Mothers’ Meeting in Pyongyang (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Allies urge stronger international push against North Korea’s nuclear programme

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Olena Zelenska at Buckingham Palace (Jacob King/PA)

Ukraine’s first lady warns of ‘mortal danger’ if West backs down over support

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Peter Park said the exam had been tough, but it was worth it (Tulare County District Attorney’s Office via AP)

US teenager sworn in as lawyer after passing state bar exam