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Iran has attacked Iraq with ballistic missiles, US official says
A dozen ballistic missiles struck Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan at 1am on Sunday, reportedly targeting the US consulate’s new building.
WATCH: BBC reads Brexiteer’s letter on UK receiving Ukrainian refugees
"How about reading an email from those of us who are unhappy about more immigration," he told the BBC.
Gary Lineker hits back after Reclaim Party tell him to ‘take a refugee in first’
"You should probably have plucked out another name. I went first…and second…..and will continue to host," he said.
Watch: US embassy salutes elderly couple who stood up to three Russian soldiers storming their property
The couple heroically manage to escort the soldiers off the property, even as gunshots are fired to ward them off.
Pictures of empty shelves in Moscow emerge as discontent over Putin’s war grows
Panic buying triggered by sanctions and the collapsing ruble has resulted in bare shelves in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia.
Telegraph says Ukraine crisis has ‘humiliated EU’ as Britain ‘stands up to Russia’
Camilla Tominey said the EU has been excruciatingly slow to react "because so many of its members are compromised by their links to Moscow."
Jonathan Pie tells Americans why the UK has been slow to come down hard on Russian oligarchs
"The dreadful, terrifying truth is stronger sanctions against Putin are in danger of hurting us more than him.”
Covid hospitalisations in England are rising and experts ‘don’t know why’
Cases and admissions are rising across all age groups and regions. "What we don’t understand is exactly why," a UCL professor said.
Ukrainians come up with ingenious way of checking journalists aren’t enemy soldiers
A Guardian journalist was asked to write "Putin is a c**k" to prove he wasn't one of the enemies.