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News : London Evening Standard
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News : Sky
Trump says US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
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News : Guardian
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EXCLUSIVEAfghan asylum seeker charted his journey across Europe posing in TikTok videos clad in designer gear and a gold watch before arriving in the UK where he raped schoolgirl, 15
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Teachers strike outside school over gangs of male pupils trying to intimidate them in class and the playground
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Kemi Badenoch brutally mocks 'caretaker' leader Starmer at PMQs as she jibes that Net Zero zealot Ed Miliband wants to 'recycle himself' into No10
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