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Challenging the politics that brought Donald Trump to power
Letters: Readers respond to an editorial commenting on the Republicans’ rout in the US midterm elections
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Israelis and Palestinians react as Eisenkot given mandate to form government – video
Israelis gathered in the streets of Tel Aviv as Israel’s president gave Gadi Eisenkot – prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival – the mandate try to form a new government
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It is time the government treated hunger and obesity as two interlinked problems
Letter: The cabinet committee the MPs want should become the delivery arm of a statutory right to adequate food, writes Prof Kent Buse of the World Obesity Federation
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Abdul El-Sayed’s Oxford years: PhD, political influences and sporting distinction
Michigan senator-elect’s former peers recall his time at university in Britain – and his love of coronation chicken sandwiches
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The political playbook that unraveled US transgender rights in the past decade
From the military to healthcare, Trump systematically dismantled Obama-era protections for transgender rights
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Eisenkot warns of Israel crisis as he starts to form government to replace Netanyahu
Israel's former military chief Gadi Eisenkot started the tough task Sunday of forming a government, reaching out to Benjamin Netanyahu's allies as he warned the veteran prime minister had brought the…
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Israel’s president picks Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot to form government
Knesset has been deadlocked since the election last month when Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition lost its majority
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‘The blue wave isn’t applicable to trans people’: advocates in Washington state prepare to fight ban
Legal challenge against ballot initiative that bans transgender girls’ participation in girls’ school sports is poised to set off a battle over rights
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The cautionary tale of Beck O’Connor … and a government accused of using ‘threatening’ tactics to silence critics
When the state’s first independent victims’ commissioner spoke out, the LNP’s next move was calculated and brutal. Community groups now fear retribution – and funding cuts
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The Coalition plans to scrap Victoria’s treaty with First Peoples if it wins the election – but is that what voters want?
Jess Wilson, who once supported the federal Indigenous voice to parliament, has vowed to repeal Victoria’s treaty within the first 100 days of a Liberal government
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‘The light of dawn is on the horizon’: the best moments from US midterm victory speeches
Tuesday’s winners offered a new politics at a time when ‘there is something broken in America’
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UK spent £100m on zombie Brexit border inspection posts
Five of seven facilities in England and Wales never reached operational stage as Tories vacillated over plans to check goods The UK wasted at least £100m in taxpayers’ money to set up zombie Brexit border inspection posts that were never used, it has been revealed. The overall cost of Brexit was put at an estimated £4.7bn by the National Audit Office last year but this included years-long transformation of the software used for customs declarations and other systems built to cope with the UK leaving the single market. Continue reading...
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