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UN says ‘civil order is starting to break down’ as key hospital in Gaza ‘ordered to evacuate’

Exclusive: Labour vows to crack down on police failures to keep women safe, as campaigners warn lives are being put at risk

Lewiston entered the weekend in stunned grief, emerging from the shelter-in-place order to plan memorials and fundraisers while praying for the dead and the survivors still hospitalised – as the community started to heal from physical and emotional scars. Andrea Blanco and Sheila Flynn report from Maine

Prime minister told to ignore Tories seeking to oppose ban and get on with it: ‘No more loopholes, no more delay’

Pence has finally suspended a presidential campaign that never really got off the ground. It marks the latest step in a career mired in unpopularity, Kelly Rissman writes

Benjamin Netanyahu says war will be ‘long and difficult’ – while fears grow over the situation for Palestinian civilians in the Strip as communications go dark

Lewiston residents speak to Sheila Flynn and Andrea Blanco as they emerge from days spent sheltering as they waited for news on the gunman who slaughtered 18 people and scarred the town forever

Starmer warned of ‘existential threat’ in Labour seats with large Muslim population

Long Covid has over 200 symptoms, for many sufferers the pandemic is far from over

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

UN reports suggest 42 per cent of housing in Gaza has been destroyed following Israeli bombardment