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Starmer rules out even informal post-election deal with Lib Dems
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Keir Starmer has ruled out even an informal post-election deal with with Liberal Democrats, following a similar pledge about the Scottish National party, as Labour seeks to close down Conservative accusations about a ...
The informal volunteer groups leading Ukraine’s aid effort
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Talina Zharikova first met people who had fled fighting in Donbas in a bomb shelter near her flat in the south-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro when the invasion started. For a while, she and her neighbours hosted the...
Conservatives’ alarm grows over threat of tactical voting in safe seats
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On one of the final days of campaigning in Honiton last week, a Liberal Democrat canvasser found himself on the horns of a dilemma as he scrambled for every vote. “I saw this house and there was a huge Labour poster o...
Labour wins Wakefield byelection regaining ‘red wall’ seat from Conservatives
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Labour has regained Wakefield from the Conservatives in a byelection triggered after a Tory MP was imprisoned for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy. The new Labour MP, Simon Lightwood, is an NHS communications execut...
Conservatives claim canceling US student debt will be expensive. They’re wrong
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Conservatives love to talk about how expensive canceling student debt would be. In the words of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, federal student debt cancellation, even when means-tested, is “regressi...
The Crypto Crash: all Ponzi schemes topple eventually
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One week ago, as cryptocurrency prices plummeted, Celsius Network – an experimental cryptocurrency bank with more than one million customers that has emerged as a leader in the murky world of decentralized finance, or...
Russian-language Ukrainian TV channel aims to topple Putin
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In a 19th-century building in the heart of Kyiv, a group of journalists were hard at work. Olga Volkona, a TV presenter, was preparing to interview a military expert. In a nearby room, reporters were posting content t...
‘Our friends didn’t die in vain’: Sudan’s activists aim to topple military regime
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A small house on a street in central Khartoum, lost among the dusty blocks of offices and cheap hotels but not difficult to find. On the wall outside, a slightly faded portrait of the smiling young man who once lived ...