Health
Government failings allowed Covid 'to spread like wildfire' in care homes, inquiry finds
The sixth report from Covid inquiry criticises the lack of PPE and the way patients were discharged from hospital.
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Inside Health
Experts warn poor at-home injecting techniques and new drugs mean new health risks.
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Politics
Burnham risks wrath of Commons Speaker for talking too much at PMQs
The prime minister takes longer than his predecessors to respond to questions from MPs, writes Matt Chorley.
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Health
Covid failings in care homes: What the inquiry says
From the shocking lack of PPE to restrictions on visitors - the key points from the sixth Covid inquiry report.
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International
Will these countries become a challenge for Trump? world world
'Middle Powers', that is, those countries which are smaller than the big powers, but whose influence is huge, such countries should unite to get their point across and establish their position.
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International
Israel's far right find fertile ground among first-time voters
More than half a million young people will cast their ballots in Israel next week - and they could make all the difference.
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International
Putin proposes "trilateral talks" between China, the United States and Russia: Trump responds, Beijing remains silent, and Kiev opposes
After Putin suggested that the three parties hold talks during APEC, Trump expressed his willingness to participate and emphasized that the focus of the talks would be denuclearization. At present, China has not expressed its position on the three-party talks.
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International
DeepSeek is banned from US government systems: Sino-US AI competition continues to heat up
DeepSeek's free chatbot application ranks high on the Apple App Store download rankings, and its AI models are also used by U.S. technology companies. Companies such as Snowflake, Vercel and OpenRouter have integrated DeepSeek into the services they provide to customers.
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Sports
Race, illness, injury, repeat - REDs and why men are suffering in silence
British long-distance runner Jake Smith was enduring a relentless pattern of race, illness, injury, repeat - he had no idea he had REDs and was under-fuelling.
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International
After Hong Kong actors Chung Xueying and Yuan Lilin spoke out, they recounted their experiences of being sexually offended
BBC Chinese interviewed four women from different industries to understand how verbal offenses occur in the work environment; how they deal with gender offenses when they are packaged as "jokes".
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International
Morocco's first female prime minister caught between the king, clerics, and feminists
Will Fatima El Mansouri advance women’s rights amid religious and political barriers?
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Science
Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon
A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.
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