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Ministers must treat medicines supplies as a ‘defence’ issue as it faces ‘hostile activity’ over the brewing trade war

Ukraine’s forces battled with six Chinese troops in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian president said, sharing footage of one of the supposed Chinese prisoners with his hands zip-tied together on X

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

SPECIAL REPORT: More than a quarter of a million women around the world died during their pregnancy or within six weeks of giving birth in 2023, WHO figures reveal. Rebecca Thomas and Alicja Hagopian report

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‘It’s mind-blowing... a total misrepresentation,’ one British tattoo artist whose work was cited as a symbol of the crime syndicate Tren de Aragua tells Io Dodds