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Hamas and Israel have agreed a ceasefire deal pausing the war in Gaza and designed to broker an end to the brutal 15-month conflict, the mediator Qatar has said, and it is set to be officially accepted by Israel after a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

The announcement on Wednesday night …

No 10 has been accused of having a “revolving door” after it refused to say whether the new Treasury minister Emma Reynolds would recuse herself from policy on China after she lobbied the government on the issue.

Reynolds, who worked as managing director for TheCityUK, a lobby group for banks …

Russia planned to conduct “acts of terrorism in the air”, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, by plotting a wave of fire bomb attacks that could have brought down planes mid flight around the world.

Warsaw had been involved in countering “acts of sabotage” conducted by Russia, Tusk …

The Italian government is seeking to clamp down on fake and paid-for online reviews in an effort to protect the country’s hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions from misleading and damaging content.

Under a draft law announced this week, which still needs to be approved in parliament, anyone wanting to write …

Prof Alexis Jay is right: we need action, not more inquiries (

Former chair of child abuse inquiry says another one would only delay action, 7 January

It’s becoming existential. First the Tory MPs began to wonder if there was any point to them being in Westminster. Sure, the title impresses some people and gets them one or two freebies, but those minor thrills soon start to pall as reality kicks in. Just drifting in the liminal …

Italy’s interior minister has been urged to open an investigation into police in the northern city of Brescia amid allegations that seven female climate activists were made to take off their underwear and perform squats during questioning.

The activists were among 22 people brought to Brescia’s main police station on …

Ireland’s two main centre-right parties have clinched a deal with a group of independent lawmakers to form a coalition government, six weeks after an election that

wiped out the Greens

In the deal, sealed on Wednesday, Fianna Fáil’s leader, Micheál Martin, will become …

An aspiring law student who addressed MPs in parliament has had his conviction for being part of a violent conspiracy quashed after new evidence showing he was wrongfully identified in a drill music video.

Ademola Adedeji, 21, from Manchester, was among 10 black teenagers found guilty of using the Telegram …

Yorkshire have put controversial plans to take the 162-year-old members’ club into private ownership on hold.

In announcing his intention to demutualise the county last year the chair, Colin Graves,

claimed that