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Ukraine war: Volodymyr Zelensky urges world to 'show strength' and resist Russia's 'nuclear blackmail'
Watch: Children set off rocket-propelled grenade launcher Putin offers to share Russia’s advanced weapons with allies Security blunder allows Ukraine to destroy Wagner Group base Russia building prison 'cages' to parade captured soldiers Listen to the latest episode of our daily Ukraine podcast
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Tuesday morning UK news briefing: Today's top headlines from The Telegraph
The Royal Navy is planning to end its role in charge of tackling Channel migrants, The Telegraph has learned.
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Policy watch: Where Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak stand on the key issues
We are at the halfway point in the battle for the Tory leadership and Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are intensifying their bids to be the next prime minister.
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Tory leadership hustings: Dates of events in the battle to be next prime minister
The seventh members' hustings is set to take place on August 16 in Perth, with Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss continuing their battle to win the Tory leadership race.
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Omicron booster vaccine will be used in UK rollout after world first approval
Britain’s autumn Covid vaccination campaign will use a new omicron-specific jab as default after the country became the first in the world to authorise a variant vaccine.
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Beware of sex and violence, says Game of Thrones prequel star ahead of new series
Be prepared for sex and violence, the star of the Game of Thrones prequel has said, while assuring audiences that the new series won't be "gratuitous". British actor Steve Toussaint stars in House of the Dragon, set 200 years before the events in the global hit Game of Thrones, which faced criticism for its depictions violence and its inclusion of frequent sex scenes. Toussaint has told audiences that the prequel which premiered on Monday in London will also include nudity and gore despite criti
The TelegraphLetters: The candidates for PM had better have an answer to the energy crisis
SIR – I share Alan Rogers’s frustration (Letters, August 13) at the absence of energy from a list of policy priorities in a Conservative Party questionnaire for members – presumably for the benefit of our next prime minister.
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Jurgen Klopp warns Darwin Nunez after Liverpool star 'provoked' into costly moment of madness
Jurgen Klopp claimed Darwin Nunez was "provoked" after his striker was sent off for butting Joachim Andersen in a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace at Anfield.
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Trump claims FBI 'seized his three passports' during FBI search of Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump has claimed FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago home took his passports, calling it a “political assault”.
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Wolves poised to break club transfer record with £38m deal for Matheus Nunes
Wolves have agreed a club record £38 million fee with Sporting for Matheus Nunes and are now hopeful of convincing the Portugal international to complete the move.
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Darwin Nunez sent-off for crazy headbutt as 10-man Liverpool slip up against Crystal Palace
These are early days to talk of the rise and fall of title challenges but at the mid-point of August, Liverpool are already four points behind their great rivals of the era, Manchester City, and contemplating the good and the bad that comes with another fiery Uruguayan leading their attack.
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Porn King: The Rise & Fall of Ron Jeremy, review: an unsettling portrayal of porn's 'average Joe'
Sex industry insiders used to joke that there are just three things a porn star should never do: animals, underage actors and Ron Jeremy. That punchline carries a much darker tone, now that the walrus king of the 1980s porn scene has been charged in California with over 30 counts of sexual assault (including 12 of rape) dating back to 1996. He denies the charges and the trial has been suspended pending a mental health evaluation for Jeremy.
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Red Rose, review: this slick smartphone horror will make you fear for your teenagers' safety
The fear that screen-based technology is stealing our children’s souls is real. It’s been exploited by horror films ever since the five-year-old Heather O’Rourke crawled toward her family’s haunted television in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic Poltergeist.
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Eilish McColgan continues memorable summer with European Championships silver
If this summer is to be Eilish McColgan’s track swansong before moving up to the marathon, she is doing an excellent job of bowing out in style.
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Filmmaker Alastair Fothergill: ‘I had to get David Attenborough up 87 steep steps – he practised at home’
Alastair Fothergill has known Sir David Attenborough for nearly 40 years, and produced or directed the majority of his most celebrated programmes, but Attenborough, now 96, has not appeared on location since 2011 - until now.
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Rishi Sunak plans to combat Civil Service ‘groupthink’ by making staff spend a year in industry
All senior civil servants will be encouraged to spend a year away from Whitehall if Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister as part of a drive to challenge government “groupthink”.
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US private equity firm in swoop for British tech company Darktrace
A US private equity firm has launched a multibillion-pound takeover bid for the cybersecurity company Darktrace in the latest American raid on British tech.
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Anthony Joshua 'not bothered' about titles as he prepares for Oleksandr Usyk rematch
So fixated is Anthony Joshua on avenging his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk, he is even blanking his own promoter. Eddie Hearn imagined he might lift his fighter’s mood when he informed him he would be competing for The Ring Magazine’s heavyweight title, after Tyson Fury’s vacation of the belt. But Joshua, with his entire body of work at stake here beside the Red Sea on Saturday night, could scarcely have been less impressed.
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Exclusive: Royal Navy backs out of Channel migrant patrols
The Royal Navy is planning to end its role in charge of tackling Channel migrants, The Telegraph has learned.
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Boris Johnson moves out of Downing Street to spend the rest of his premiership at Chequers
Only the wallpaper appears to be staying. Removal men spent Monday loading up two lorries with the contents of the flat above Number 11 Downing Street that has been Boris and Carrie Johnson’s home for just over three years.
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Affluent A-level pupils least likely to have offers of university place
Teenagers from the most affluent backgrounds are the least likely of any group to have received a university offer for the first time on record, The Telegraph has found.
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Strip judges of court case listing powers to prevent criminals ‘clogging up justice’, says minister
Judges should be stripped of timetabling powers to speed up justice, says a senior minister.
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Households should be told to turn down their boilers to save on energy bills
Households need to be told how to turn down the temperature of their boilers to save money on their energy bills, a coalition of more than 100 Tory MPs has said.
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Benin Bronzes must not be returned to Nigeria as it ‘profited from slavery’
The Benin Bronzes must not be returned to Nigeria because the African nation profited from slavery, a US civil rights group has warned the Charity Commission.
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Third Tory MP ditches Rishi Sunak for Liz Truss as next PM
A former Cabinet minister has become the third Tory MP to defect from Rishi Sunak to Liz Truss in the Conservative leadership race.
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Gary Neville hammers Manchester United owners and labels Old Trafford a footballer’s 'graveyard'
Gary Neville likened Manchester United to a school in special measures and described Old Trafford as a footballer’s “graveyard” as he analysed the start of the Erik ten Hag era at his former club.