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Margaret Thatcher statue egged within hours of being erected in home town
The controversial new $530,000 statue has already drawn calls that people should gather and pull it down.
- by Hayley Dixon and Sophie Tanno
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Ukrainian troops holding destroyed village believe Russians withdrawing across border
The secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said that Ukraine could win the war, which is not going as Russia planned.
- by Jonathan Landay
Sweden seeks NATO membership as ruling party drops 73-year opposition
The moves by Sweden and Finland to join NATO have been the direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- by Niklas Pollard and Simon Johnson
Russia has lost ‘a third of ground forces’ in Ukraine attack
A defiant Ukrainian president has also vowed to one day host the Eurovision Song Contest in the embattled city of Mariupol, currently in Russian hands.
- by Tom Balmforth and Jonathan Landay
Queen Elizabeth visits horse show after missing parliament opening
Elizabeth, 96, missed the grand set-piece ceremony at parliament on Tuesday because of what Buckingham Palace described as “episodic mobility problems”.
- by Michael Holden
UK targets Putin’s ‘shady network’ as political class reckons with Russian money
Seven Putin family members and five financiers were targeted with travel bans and asset freezes on Friday.
- by Rob Harris
Russian soldier on trial in first Ukraine war-crimes case
Sergeant Vadim Shyshimarin, 21, is accused of shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head during the first days of the war.
- by Oleksandr Stashevski and Richard Lardner
Opinion
Political leadership
How Sinn Fein went from ‘pariah’ party to Irish political powerhouse
Growing support for the new look Sinn Féin is not only a huge turnaround in the party’s fortunes, but makes Irish unity more likely.
- by Ray Bassett
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Royal family
On the eve of her Jubilee, an anxious nation frets over the Queen’s health
She has ruled for 70 years, but her increasing frailty has many royal watchers speculating if the Queen may even abdicate after the big celebrations in June.
- by Rob Harris
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UK politics
Boris Johnson orders one in five public service jobs cut as post-Brexit economy stalls
Ministers were given one month to come up with plans to cut civil service employee numbers by 91,000.
- by Jahnavi Nidumolu
Lost 150-year-old platypus specimens that stunned the world discovered in UK museum
Collected by British scientist William Caldwell, the specimen jars helped change the course of scientific thinking and supported the theory of evolution.
- by Rob Harris