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An Israeli negotiating team has arrived for talks in Qatar amid renewed optimism that a ceasefire-for-hostages deal with Hamas in Gaza can be achieved by the end of the year.

Both sides have expressed optimism in recent days that a deal may be close for a phased release of the …

The £3.3bn

takeover of the UK soft drinks maker Britvic

The Competition and Markets Authority said it had cleared the proposed deal, a day before the deadline for the first phase of its investigation …

It’s that time again. Not the time when the cricket enthusiasts are paying attention, because we always are – June in Barbados, August in Galle, whatever you’ve got. No, it’s the brief time either side of Christmas when the cricket is high profile enough that everybody outside our odd community …

Business figures have been sounding increasingly alarmed about the state of the UK’s jobs market in recent days, with the recruiter James Reed claiming it augurs a recession.

There were certainly some signs of a slowdown in the

latest labour market data

Ben Stokes will go into England’s seismic 2025 with no plans to temper his all-action approach to bowling. “I ain’t holding back,” insisted the captain, despite ending the tour of New Zealand nursing a second hamstring injury in the space of five months.

England’s 2-1 series win in New Zealand …

Vaibhav Suryavanshi only makes you feel old. And compared to a 13-year-old Indian batting prodigy, most of us

are

An unemployed woman with cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability was signed up to 24 Optus contracts for multiple phones, smart watches and tablets over 15 months, the consumer watchdog has alleged in a lawsuit claiming the telco sold hundreds of vulnerable people phones and plans they could not afford.

Good morning. In October 2021, a boat carrying dozens of Tamils trying to find their way to Canada sprung a leak. They were rescued by the British navy and brought to Diego Garcia, a tropical island in the middle of the Indian Ocean that was under the control of the …

Satellite images have laid bare the scale of the damage to the Mayotte archipelago after

cyclone Chido made landfall

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are feared dead in the French Indian Ocean territory after its worst cyclone in nearly a century. French President Emmanuel Macron …

Syria’s rebel factions will be “disbanded”, the head of the group that led the ousting of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as he seeks to reassure minorities at home and abroad that the country’s interim leaders will protect all Syrians, as well as state institutions.

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the …