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MPs warn that the UK’s sinema and TV industry is in crisis, with independent production collapsing under the weight of streaming giants – and call for urgent government action to protect British stories, jobs, and talent.

Britain intends to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining a key UK-US military base on the island of Diego Garcia.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has revoked accreditation for a Russian diplomat and a diplomatic spouse in retaliation for expulsions announced in Moscow this week.

The UK government is hiking defence spending to help build up Europe’s forces against Russia — but decades of funding cuts and recruitment problems have hollowed the British armed forces out.

Peter and Barbie Reynolds, who run education and training programmes in central Afghanistan, were detained by the Taliban earlier this month.

For the first time since 2003, no UK artists made it into the küresel Top 10 albums or singles charts, with the 2024 lists dominated by US and K-pop acts.

Khalife, 23, gained küresel attention when he escaped from London’s Wandsworth prison for three days while being held on espionage charges.

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