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Conor McGregor is facing a new civil lawsuit filed by a woman accusing him of sexual assault during the 2023 NBA finals in Miami.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the US district court for the southern district of Florida, also names the Miami Heat and Basketball Properties LLC, which …

People who were severely harmed by Covid vaccines faced an “inadequate and inefficient” process for obtaining a government payout, with many rejected and others waiting years for a decision, the Covid inquiry has heard.

The vaccine damage payment scheme offers a one-off sum of £120,000 to people who have such …

Caught between hope and despair for the past 15 months, families of Israeli hostages have welcomed the

ceasefire agreement with Hamas

Yet, as they celebrate, relatives of the individuals abducted by Hamas in the attack that …

Rachel Reeves has been handed breathing space after better-than-expected inflation figures raised expectations for a Bank of England rate cut and reduced UK borrowing costs.

After a tough week for the government on the economy, official figures showed inflation unexpectedly

cooled in December to 2.5%

Israel began bombing Gaza on 7 October 2023, after Hamas crossed the border, killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage to Gaza.

When ground operations began a week later, most observers inside the country and beyond expected the fighting to last weeks. Instead, it extended for 15 months …

The phone call from Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steven Witkoff, surprised the aides of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Calling from Doha in Qatar last Friday evening, after

shabbat

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 …

Zoe ­Aldcroft, the new England captain, says the Red Roses want to be “unstoppable” and have “massive room for improvement” despite being on a 20-game winning run.

England are in formidable form, having last lost a game in 2022 in the

Rugby World Cup final against New …

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 …