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Conservative candidate Kemi Badenoch has attacked the local council in her North West Essex seat for having “potentially disenfranchised” thousands of postal voters who have not received their ballots. The British Cabinet minister said up to 2,600 voters were affected…

A security guard in England has been found guilty of masterminding “graphic” plans to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby. Gavin Plumb developed an “obsession” with the star over a number of years and assembled an “abduction kit”…

Pro-Palestinian protesters have breached security at Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners from the roof as a senator quit the government over its direction on the Gaza war. Tensions over Israel’s war against Hamas dominated parliament’s final sitting day before…

Hurricane Beryl has ripped off roofs in Jamaica, battered fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95 per cent of homes on two islands in St Vincent and the Grenadines before rumbling toward the Cayman Islands and Mexico’s Caribbean…

Polling stations across the UK have opened as voters have their say in the country’s general election after weeks of campaigning. Millions of people will cast their vote between 7am and 10pm, with opinion polls suggesting the opposition Labour Party…

The US government has officially ended its legal fight against an upcoming expedition to the Titanic shipwreck after the company that owns the ship’s salvage rights scaled back its dive plans. But the US said in court filings last week…

Artist Banksy has slammed the criticism he received from the UK home secretary against his small boats-crossing artwork at Glastonbury. An inflatable boat filled with migrant dummies in orange life jackets was hoisted into the crowd gathered to watch the…

Rishi Sunak insisted he had a “very good chat” with Boris Johnson after the pair were not seen together at a Tory rally. The former UK prime minister made a surprise appearance at the London event on Tuesday night in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Wednesday for the second time in as many months as they visited Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances. Mr Putin and Mr…

Captain Sir Tom Moore’s daughter and her husband have been disqualified from being charity trustees amid an ongoing inquiry into the foundation set up in the war veteran’s name. A statement from the Ingram-Moore family said Hannah and her husband…