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HMS Argyll spent eight hours saving every soul aboard Grande America in the Bay of Biscay

The Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell has said that the Chancellor has shown “cowardice” over Brexit. McDonnell claims Philip Hammond could have done more to ensure Brexit isn't hugely damaging to the economy. He made the comments at a speech at Bloomberg today. McDonnell said: "The position of the chancellor of the exchequer comes with a responsibility which I think Philip Hammond actually has abdicated in his current role. If Brexit ends up leading to even half of what the government’s...

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The Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has called on Bangladesh to take Shamima Begum as their national. Speaking ahead of the 16th National Peace Symposium at the UK’s largest mosque, the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad said Muslim countries should show sympathy to Begum and take her in. As her parents were originally from Bangladesh, "the first duty is of Bangladesh to take her as their national", he said. Despite the Caliph's initial policy been...

Esther McVey was called out for propagating out-dated Brexit myths this weekend after tweeting a 2014 claim by the Telegraph that all EU members would have to adopt the euro by 2020. The tweet, which has been deleted after garnering thousands of likes and retweets, questioned whether the public was aware of what "the EU has planned for its member states", despite the source being over four years old and based on inaccurate assumptions. The UK has a permanent opt-out...

The extreme far right now commands an electorate of over 22 million across Europe. From 1999 to 2014, the share of seats of extreme right-wing- and neofascist parties in the European Parliament has more than doubled from 11% to 23%, and they are projected to be the second largest bloc in May's elections. Is Europe under threat from the biggest rise of the far right since the 1930s? Walter Baier of Transform! Europe last weekend adressed the ¡No Pasaran! conference...

Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to use next week's Spring Statement to end the freeze on working-age benefits after a new report revealed some 200,000 Brits have been pushed into poverty due to the cutbacks. The freeze on DWP benefits is due to start its fourth year in a row from April 8 after MPs signed off the cost-cutting sanctions in a vote earlier this week. But social reform think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has urged Hammond...

Some tragic news has emerged from Ethiopia. All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight have died after crash landed. Seven Britons were among 157 people killed after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after take-off. iT occurred around 31 miles south of the capital at around 8.44am local time (5.44am GMT). The flight was scheduled to fly from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in Kenya. "The group CEO who is at the accident scene right now regrets to confirm...