It was only on 8 July that the Iranian foreign ministry told British officials they were in Kerman, southeastern Iran. The British Foreign Office has still not had any contact with the couple.

British couple held in Iran are alive, officials say — but no one has seen them Lindsay and Craig Foreman’s family feared they were being held in Iran’s Evin prison when it was bombed by Israel

Scoop: A British couple detained in Iran went missing for weeks as their terrified family feared they were in one of the country’s most notorious prisons when it was bombed by Israel.

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Who is behind the anti-Elon Musk protests targeting Tesla in London? From Bluesky radicals to slick PR professionals, Alexander Butler reports on the Britons trying to take down Elon Musk

From Bluesky radicals to slick PR professionals, @the-independent.com reports on the British groups trying to take down Elon Musk.

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UPDATE: London mayor Sadiq Khan has stepped in to reverse this decision.

London Underground book exchanges forced to close over fire safety issues Transport for London said it was forced to close the beloved book-swaps across every London Underground station

A sad day for London. The London Fire Brigade said books kept in these mini-libraries posed a "combustible material" fire safety risk.

London Underground book exchanges forced to close after 20 years due to fire safety issues

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Former BNP activist trains children to ‘fight’ British state with explosive arrows Exclusive: Former BNP activist Matt Single also taught children to fire gas-powered air pistol pellets at a screen labelled ‘BBC’

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Exclusive: Former BNP activist trains children to ‘fight back’ against British state with explosive arrowheads

US joins North Korea in refusing to blame Putin for Ukraine war US president Donald Trump also refused to call Russian president Vladimir Putin a dictator

The United States has joined North Korea, Russia and Belarus in refusing to blame Vladimir Putin for starting the Ukraine war.

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£3million Oscar Wilde-linked mansion mysteriously burns down after huge drugs bust Exclusive: The grade II-listed eight-bedroom house went up in flames months after police busted a gang using it to grow cannabis. Alexander Butler reports

The tragedy was just the latest development in the “strange” and “sad” destruction of the house, residents said.

I went down the of the well-to-do civil parish to find out more. Read here:

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But the £3million eight-bedroom mansion was left a charred and smouldering ruin on Sunday morning after a mysterious fire ripped through it overnight.

Built over 100 years ago for Oscar Wilde’s theatre producer, Grade II-listed grand country home The Court once stood proudly at the heart of Chorleywood. (Copyright: Savills).

But for Xinjiang's Uyghurs, who are facing an alleged genocide, the rollout of China’s newest chatbot was just another way to erase their 12million people from history.

For many Chinese people, DeepSeek's meteoric rise as a competitor to US rival ChatGPT was a shining example of China's technological prowess.

China’s AI app DeepSeek is trying to erase our genocide from history, Uyghurs warn As DeepSeek takes the world by storm, Alexander Butler speaks to Uyghurs worried about the app’s ‘dangerous’ erasure of their alleged genocide

China’s new AI app DeepSeek is trying to erase our genocide from history, Uyghurs warn
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The terrible cost of peace between Israel and Hamas: In numbers In the wake of the Hamas attack that killed around 1,200 Israelis – with another 250 taken hostage – more than 46,700 Palestinians have been killed, while 1.9 million have been displaced from their ho...

The terrible cost of peace between Israel and Hamas: In numbers

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