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Kiana and Ali Rahmani receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of their mother, imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, in Oslo City Hall (Javad Parsa/NTB via AP)

Twins accept Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of mother jailed in Iran

People walk along the seafront in Doolin in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland (Niall Carson/PA)

Village in Ireland hit by ‘possible tornado’ as homes and cars seriously damaged

Skiers dressed as Santa Claus gathered in Maine to raise money for charity (Robert F Bukaty/AP)

Skiing Santas hit the slopes in US resort

An Israeli attack helicopter fires a missile over the Gaza Strip (Leo Correa/AP)

Heavy fighting rages in Gaza as US sends more tank ammunition to Israel

Argentina’s incoming President Javier Milei waves after his swearing-in ceremony at the Congress in Buenos Aires (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Right-wing Javier Milei sworn in as Argentina’s president

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Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, right, attends an ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on Sunday (AP)

West African leaders recognise Niger’s junta but say sanctions will remain

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (Liam McBurney/PA)

Government negotiations with DUP on Windsor Framework concluded, Sinn Fein says

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Then-chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme (Jeff J Mitchell/PA)

Rishi Sunak to be quizzed on Eat Out scheme and lockdowns at Covid inquiry

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The woman was reportedly left bruised (Joe Giddens/PA)

Teenage girls arrested after Jewish woman violently assaulted and robbed

The strongest winds are likely to hit south Wales and areas around the Bristol Channel (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Fresh weather warnings in place as wet and windy weekend continues

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (centre, right) opens Brent Cross West mainline station (Kristina Wemyss/PA)

Sadiq Khan opens first new London mainline train station in 10 years

Demonstrators in Berlin protest against antisemitism in Germany (Carsten Koall/dpa via AP)

Thousands demonstrate in Berlin against antisemitism

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Doctor Who star Ruth Madeley (Ian West/PA)

Doctor Who actress says Tardis wheelchair ramp is ‘for every disabled kid’

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A vehicle sits by the side of the road near damaged power lines (Mark Zaleski/AP)

Clean-up begins after six killed in Tennessee storms

Michael Gove defended the legislation (Brian Lawless/PA)

Gove defends ‘robust’ Rwanda legislation as Sunak dealt blow from Tory right

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan quoted Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in his letter (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Relentless London protests creating Met Police funding gap, Sadiq Khan warns

Tory peer Michelle Mone said she regrets not admitting she was linked to PPE Medpro straight away (PA/Neo-space.com)

Michelle Mone admits ‘error’ in denying links to PPE firm

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A person watching high waves in Doolin in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland (Niall Carson/PA)

High winds and potential coastal flooding as Storm Fergus sweeps Ireland

Canadian singer Bryan Adams was friends with Diana (Yui Mok/PA)

Bryan Adams: Meeting Diana was one of the greatest things to happen to me

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Robert Jenrick appearing on Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA)

Jenrick ‘not interested’ in Tory leadership bid

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Elon Musk has restored the X account of Alex Jones (Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)

X boss Elon Musk restores account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan criticised Scotland’s Pisa scores (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Keegan blames ‘nationalist’ policies for Scotland’s falling education scores

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(Left to right) Paul Fenning and Michael Fenning in their Wonka themed home in Doncaster (Danny Lawson/PA)

Couple adorn home with Willy Wonka-themed Christmas lights

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A woman casts her vote in the presidential elections at a polling station in Cairo (Amr Nabil/AP)

Egyptians vote in election set to give El-Sissi another six years as president

A Chinese coast guard ship uses water cannon against Philippine coast guard patrol ship, BRP Cabra as it approaches Second Thomas Shoal (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Chinese coast guard ships blast Philippine vessels with water cannon

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Mahsa Amini died in police custody in Iran (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Iran bans relatives of Mahsa Amini from accepting human rights award in France

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What the papers say (Peter Byrne/PA)

What the papers say – December 10

A car is buried under rubble on Main Street after a tornado hit Hendersonville, Tennessee (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean/AP)

Six people killed as storms tear through Tennessee

Keely Dalfen, The Brick’s chief executive (The Brick/PA)

Good cause calling itself ‘fourth emergency service’ launches Christmas campaign

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Hermann Escarra, chairman of the Special Commission for the Defence of Guyana Essequibo, stands next to Venezuela’s new map that includes the Essequibo territory (Matias Delacroix/AP)

Venezuela and Guyana agree to ‘high-level meeting’ over disputed territory

Lancashire Constabulary mourns ‘highly respected’ assistant chief constable

Hong Kong’s chief executive John Lee casts his ballot at a polling station during the district council elections in Hong Kong on Sunday (Louise Delmotte/AP)

Hong Kong holds first council elections since ‘pro-patriots’ overhaul

Police have appealed for witnesses (PA)

Three people stabbed and slashed in ‘targeted attack’ in Liverpool

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Cape Verde’s Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky heads to Argentina for swearing-in of new president

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McDonald’s aid it was ‘shocked and saddened” by the incident’ (Jonathan Brady/PA)

McDonald’s apologises after security guard mops pavement around homeless man

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Rwanda president Paul Kagame (PA)

Rwanda president Paul Kagame like ‘Putin of Africa’, Bill Browder claims

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Waves crashing against the shore at Doolin in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland (Niall Carson/PA)

Weekend of wet and windy weather continues as Storm Fergus closes in

Housing Secretary Michael Gove (PA)

Gove defends ‘salty’ middle finger social media post aimed at Labour

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Penpa Tsering speaks at an event marking the anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India (Ashwini Bhatia/AP)

China is exterminating Tibetan identity, says exiled president

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Rishi Sunak is facing a difficult start to the week (James Manning/PA)

Tory factions to hold summits over Sunak’s Rwanda Bill before crunch vote

Police attend the scene in Collingwood Road, Sutton (Yui Mok/PA)

Mother charged over fire which killed her two sets of twins

The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children (Josh Shinner/Kensington Palace/PA)

King chooses coronation Christmas card but family photo for William and Kate

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People walking past a Government sign warning people to stay at home on the High street in Winchester, Hampshire (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on nation’s social fabric – report

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University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

University leader resigns after evidence on campus antisemitism

A general view of Mallaig (Martin Keene/PA Wire)

Parts of Scotland hit by earthquake

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Rishi Sunak is battling to get Tory MPs not to rebel on his Rwanda policy (James Manning/PA)

Blow for Sunak’s Rwanda legislation from legal assessment for Tory right

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Two dead and two injured in car crash involving police vehicle in Shropshire

Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstration in Glasgow (Jane Barlow/PA)

Yousaf says UK ‘complicit in killing children’ in Gaza

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(Peter Byrne/PA)

Murder probe launched after newborn baby’s body found outside Ipswich premises

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Labour demands travel bans for perpetrators of settler violence in West Bank

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Protesters in Trafalgar Square (James Manning/PA)

Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters call for immediate ceasefire

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A man dressed as Santa Claus holds a beer as he and others participate in SantaCon (John Minchillo/AP)

Thousands of revellers descend on NYC for annual Santa-themed bar crawl SantaCon

Gatwick said the air traffic control outage had since been fixed (PA)

Passengers face hours of delays after Gatwick Airport system outage

Municipal workers dismantle a monument to Soviet military leader Mykola Shchors in Kyiv (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Soviet-era statue of Red Army commander taken down in Kyiv

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