Hello and welcome to The Telegraph’s live blog of the war in the Middle East. Follow along as we bring you all of the latest updates as Hamas and CIA officials ready to meet Egyptian mediators in Cairo today as ceasefire talks resume. First up this morning: Hamas ‘only thing’ standing in way of ceasefire...
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UK Sees Significant Decrease in Number of Student Visa Applications Due to Policy Changes – VisaGuide.News
A decline in the number of student-dependent applications and student visa applications has been noted in the United Kingdom in the first three months of this year, as a result of new legislation introduced at the beginning of this year. Statistics from the UK’s Home Office reveal that student visa applications declined by 79.5 percent...
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Africa’s week in pictures: 26 April – 2 May 2024
3 May 2024 Share A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond: JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP Women stand side-by-side wearing the colours of Chad’s national flag, as they wait to see the interim President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno at a campaign event on Friday. YASSINE GAIDI/GETTY IMAGES Tunisia’s ancient Roman Amphitheatre of...
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Ireland to send police to the border as migrant row with UK grows
Mr Harris was then forced to insist that “of course” there would be no police checkpoints and suggested that Mr Sunak was politicking ahead of the local elections. He did not rule out sending officers to the border but the department of justice insisted that they would not be “assigned to physically police the border with Northern...
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Arsonists attack home owned by chief of leading German arms manufacturer over Ukraine links
German Left-wing extremists have launched an arson attack on the summer home of the chief of Rheinmetall, a major German arms manufacturer, in protest at his support for Ukraine. In an anonymous post on social media, the activists said they had targeted the house of Armin Papperger because he was a profiteer of the “so-called...
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Ukraine-Russia war live: 100-mile US glide bombs fail in Ukraine
Modern battle tanks are weapons of shock and awe. They are best used manoeuvring around the battlefield at speeds of up to 50mph and delivering devastatingly accurate strikes with their 120mm cannons. But in Ukraine they have been deployed on the frontline more as mobile pillboxes or as 60-ton sniper rifles. This is why it...
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Rwanda bill ‘raises major concerns’, top human rights official says
The Rwanda bill that ministers hope will curb the number of small boats crossing the Channel “raises major concerns”, a leading human rights official has said as he called for key clauses to be reversed. Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, said he was “concerned” about the new law and he...
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US election poll tracker: Trump has edge on Biden
Donald Trump maintains a narrow lead in the polls for the US election. The former president leads the incumbent in several swing states, which could be critical to securing the White House in November. Concerns about Joe Biden’s age and the cost of living could work in Mr Trump’s favour as he bids to become...
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Top 10 countries with most beautiful people in the world – it’s good news for UK
The top 10 countries with the most attractive people have been revealed – and it might surprise you where the UK places on the list. A study conducted by Insider Monkey looked at stats for the most followed people on Instagram to determine which country had the most “beautiful” people in the world. Those countries...
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How Israel and Iran went from ‘best friends’ to arch-enemies on the cusp of all-out war
In a clear sign of what exactly Israel considered to be an existential threat, suspected Mossad agents carried out a string of attacks on nuclear scientists inside Iran in the early 2010s. In just two years, five prominent physicists were shot dead or killed in car bombs. Israel also reportedly developed an advanced computer worm...
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Russia-Ukraine war latest: Ukraine bombs Crimean airbase
The news on Thursday morning that two more alleged Russian spies have been arrested in Germany will make disquieting reading for Nato officials. It is the latest spying scandal to hit Germany after the hugely embarrassing leak of a phone call between German air force officers discussing a potential delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, which was intercepted by...
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‘I shot down drones over Israel and was back in my office sending emails by 4pm’
A lawyer by day, by 4pm Sunday, the reservist was back in the office “shooting off emails” as opposed to shooting down missiles. Like the others in his squadron, who are the likes of engineers and teachers, it is a complex double life they lead. “I took a shower, went to sleep for a few...