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Campaign Against Antisemitism cancels ‘walk together’ event amid safety concerns

...The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has cancelled its “walk together... ...Thousands had been expected to attend the event in central London... ...Gideon Falter, chief executive of the CAA, had previously encouraged... ...communities,” said Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist....

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Inquiry launched into BBC World Service funding

...countries across Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle... ...Last month BBC director-general Tim Davie said the World Service... ...The BBC launched its World Service, then called Empire Service, on... ...will need to discuss a long-term funding solution for the World Service...

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GB News investor Sir Paul Marshall steps down from board

...Sir Paul Marshall is stepping down from the board of GB News after... ...businessman Lord Theodore Agnew as the new director of its owner,... ...He is a former Treasury and Cabinet Office minister, and has sat... ...the dramatic growth of GB News across its platforms” and was looking...

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Rival Covid-19 jab developers face off in High Court patent trial

...An expected three-and-a-half week trial before judge Mr Justice Meade... ...Rival developers of Covid-19 jabs have faced off at the High Court... ...Tom Mitcheson KC, representing Pfizer and BioNTech, said in written... ...and Drew Weissman when at the University of Pennsylvania in...

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Teachers stage walk-outs at two Norfolk schools

...Bob Groome of the National Education Union said: "Our members have... ...Teachers and other workers from Aurora Eccles and Aurora White Farm...

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Terry Carter, Battlestar Galactica and McCloud actor, dies aged 95

...1970 hit Company Of Killers, opposite Van Johnson and Ray Milland... ...US actor Terry Carter, who starred in 1970s TV shows including Battlestar... ...for WBZ-TV Eyewitness News in Boston in 1965.... ...Carter is survived by his wife Etaferhu Zenebe-DeCoste, his two children...

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Dame Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson to star in Slow Horses ‘companion piece’

...Dame Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are to star in a new Apple TV+... ...Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, Apple TV+, said: “Down Cemetery... ...The series’ executive producers include Banks, Dame Emma, Herron... ...and Slow Horses executive producers Jamie Laurenson and Hakan Kousetta...

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UK resisting calls to ban Iran’s IRGC to maintain diplomatic link – minister

...But Home Office minister Laura Farris suggested Foreign Secretary... ...Banning Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) could sever... ...secretary Suella Braverman have urged the Prime Minister to proscribe... ...Senior Tories including former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and ex-home...

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Migrants die attempting Channel crossing just hours after Rwanda Bill passes

...Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Rwanda scheme will “deter vulnerable... ...Home Secretary James Cleverly said “these tragedies have to stop”... ...Illegal migration minister Michael Tomlinson told Times Radio: “It... ...Mr Sunak has insisted he will not let the European Court of Human...