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Joe Biden to visit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

The US president often highlights his Irish roots and has taken a keen interest in issues related to the Good Friday agreement. → Read More

China's military must become 'Great Wall of Steel', President Xi Jinping says

Speaking for the first time in his precedent-breaking third term as head of state, Mr Xi called for China to step up its ability to safeguard national security and manage public security. → Read More

Supermarkets begin to drop limits on fresh produce

Asda removed its limit of three on cucumbers, lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries - but has left restrictions on tomatoes and peppers. Morrisons also removed its restriction on cucumbers, but kept its limit of two items per customer on tomatoes, lettuce and peppers. → Read More

Three arrested after spate of 'sushi terrorism' in Japan

One video showed a man licking the top of a soy sauce bottle on a sushi train before going on to lick his finger and touch pieces of sushi believed to be intended for other customers. → Read More

Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet: Why Harry and Meghan waited until now to use royal titles for their children

Technically Harry and Meghan's children became a prince and princess when the King acceded to the throne, but they have remained "master" and "miss" on the Buckingham Palace website for the last six months. → Read More

Glastonbury Festival 2023: Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses join Sir Elton John as headliners

Arctic Monkeys and Guns N' Roses will join Sir Elton John in headlining this year's Glastonbury Festival. → Read More

COVID-19: China lab leak 'most likely' caused outbreak, FBI director says

Christopher Wray accuses the Chinese government of "doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate" efforts by the US and others to learn more about the pandemic's origins. → Read More

'Smugglers' charged €8,000 each for migrants' 'voyage of death' to southern Italy, police say

At least 65 people, including 14 children, died when their overcrowded wooden boat slammed into a sandbank a few hundred metres off Italy's Calabrian coast and broke apart in rough seas early on Sunday. → Read More

Luciana Berger rejoins Labour after leaving over antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn

The former MP for Liverpool Wavertree, who is Jewish, quit the party in February 2019, saying she could not "remain in a party that I have today come to the sickening conclusion is institutionally antisemitic". → Read More

UK and EU 'inching towards' Northern Ireland post-Brexit trade deal, Irish prime minister says

Momentum has been building through weeks of fraught talks and a deal to ease checks on trade introduced under the Northern Ireland Protocol is expected within days, with Tory MPs told they must be in Westminster on Monday. → Read More

Rishi Sunak: We're 'giving it everything' to seal deal on Northern Ireland Protocol

Momentum has been building through weeks of fraught talks and a deal to ease checks on trade introduced under the Northern Ireland Protocol is expected within days, with Tory MPs told they must be in Westminster on Monday. → Read More

Counter-terror police investigating after broadcasters receive death threat letters from neo-Nazi group

Political activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu shares an image of the letter, signed by the National Action London Cell, which contained racist abuse and threats to her life. Meanwhile, presenter and transgender activist India Willoughby says she also received a letter. → Read More

Brothers jailed for attempting to import guns hidden in microwave from US to UK

Four loaded firearms were discovered inside the microwave: two Glock 19 Gen 5 pistols; a Glock 17 Gen 5 pistol; one Taurus G2C pistol and 59 rounds of ammunition. The serial number on each gun had been removed. → Read More

Roald Dahl book rewrites branded 'absurd censorship' by Salman Rushdie

Content deemed offensive, such as references to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race have been removed or rewritten to ensure Dahl's classics can be enjoyed by all children, the publishers said. → Read More

R Kelly: Prosecutors ask for singer to serve 25 more years in prison for child pornography convictions

It would mean the 56-year-old Grammy Award winner, who has already been convicted in New York of racketeering and sex trafficking and sentenced to 30 years in prison, would not be eligible for release until he was around 100. → Read More

Biden: Three unidentified objects shot down by US 'most likely' linked to private companies

The US president said "nothing right now suggests they were related to the Chinese spy balloon programme". He said he made no apologies for protecting America's skies, but added: "We are not looking for a new Cold War with China." → Read More

Rail workers, nurses and frontline Royal Mail workers to stage fresh strikes

Tens of thousands of RMT members will strike on 16 March, while tens of thousands of nurses will stage a 48-hour strike on 1 March and frontline Royal Mail staff have voted in favour of renewed walkouts. → Read More

Tens of thousands of nurses to stage 48-hour strike which will include A&E workers

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said no services will be exempt, meaning the strike will involve for the first time nursing staff working in emergency departments, intensive care units, cancer care and other services that previously did not take part. → Read More

Missing Nicola Bulley had 'significant issues with alcohol' and menopause struggles

Police previously said the mother-of-two had "specific vulnerabilities" that made her a "high-risk" missing person - but did not specify what those were. → Read More

Romania scrambles fighter jets after detecting suspicious 'weather balloon' in its airspace

The air force sent two MiG 21 LanceR jets to the area in the southeast 10 minutes after its surveillance system detected the object, the defence ministry said. It comes amid heightened tensions between the US and China after Washington shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon. → Read More