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Prince Harry Follows Diana’s Footsteps in Angola as Specter of Land Mines Returns

Harry walked through a minefield in Angola, retracing a journey by his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Several countries plan to revive use of the weapons.

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Prince Harry, left, walking through a minefield in Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, on Wednesday, in a photo released by The Halo Trust. He repeated the journey that his mother, Diana, took in 1997.

Men Who Cut Down Beloved Tree in England Get More Than 4 Years in Prison

The tree, a landmark that stood by Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, was found illegally cut down in 2023.

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Police Investigate Burning of Migrant-Boat Effigy in Northern Ireland as a Hate Crime

An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident condemned by political and religious leaders as racist and threatening.

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A British Surgeon Shares What She Saw in Gaza’s Hospitals

Dr. Victoria Rose spent 21 days in the territory, treating people who were shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from Israeli bombs.

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Dr. Victoria Rose at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in May, in a picture distributed by Anadolu Agency, a Turkish state news outlet. “I’ve not seen this volume and this intensity before,” she said of the traumatic injuries she treated.

The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner

Court proceedings revealed how a criminal gang in Britain was directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who owns Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair.

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Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in London, was the target of an arson plot directed by Russian operatives.

Pro-Palestinian Activists Lose Appeal Against U.K. Government Ban

The decision means that the group called Palestine Action will be banned as a terrorist organization in Britain while its full legal challenge to the ban plays out.

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A Palestine Action activist, Lisa Luxx, outside the High Court in London on Friday.

3 Managers Arrested Over Deaths at U.K. Hospital Where Lucy Letby Worked

People who were managers when Ms. Letby was convicted of killing babies were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence.

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The Cheshire police, which investigated baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, said they had arrested three senior managers who worked at the hospital between 2015 and 2016.

Nonprofits Lose Legal Bid to Halt U.K. Exports of Fighter Jet Parts to Israel

A top court ruled Monday that the British government, rather than judges, should decide on the “acutely sensitive and political issue.”

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Demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London last month, ahead of a court hearing on the British government’s supplying arms to Israel.
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