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‘Talking tough not same as effective action’ – extracts from letter from Labour MPs calling for ‘refresh’ on migration policy Here are more extracts from the letter to Andy Burnham signed by nearly 80 Labour MPs urging him to adopt a more liberal stance on immigration. (See 9.24am.) double quotation markImmigration and asylum is a…

The prime minister told reporters that he asked a musician, who was performing when the fire started, what happened. “He said that there was a fire at the cut-out switch, and after that things happened very quickly. There was blasting and everybody tried to flee from the smoke and flames. “Many of them were not…

US President Donald Trump has delivered a primetime address in which he accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and alleged “shocking vulnerabilities” in American voting systems. Trump, who spoke from the White House on Thursday, has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud and foreign meddling in the 2020 election, which he lost…

Pitbull and his legion of fans have set the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing bald caps at his headline BST Hyde Park show. The rapper and singer, who has been called Mr Worldwide, lived up to his name by inspiring a global trend in recent years which sees crowds rock…

If ever Paris needed a place to cocoon, it was the last week of June. The week that the city turned into one giant sauna, when temperatures reached 106 degrees Fahrenheit. The week that I got into a fight on a bus with a group of Parisians who didn’t understand that windows, in fact, need…

Iran’s slain ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday will be buried at the country’s holiest shrine in Mashhad after a week of mass funeral processions, rallies and mourning ceremonies that has coincided ​with a flare-up in conflict with the US. Khamenei’s son and successor, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, has still not made any public appearances.