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John McBurney, Monica McWilliams, Tim O’Connor and Mitchell Reiss at the launch of the Independent Reporting Commission in Belfast (Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye)

Heightened vigilance needed as 194 homeless due to paramilitary threats – report

Lawyers for Harry say a failure to carry out a risk analysis meant he was treated in an ‘unlawful and unfair’ way by the move to provide him with a different degree of protection when visiting the country (PA)

‘Impact of Harry attack should have been factored into security review’

Party leaders announced a deal for the extraction of seabed minerals (NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norwegian government makes deal over deep sea mining in Arctic Ocean

Home Secretary James Cleverly views photographs of victims of the genocide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial (Ben Birchall/PA)

Cleverly thanks Rwandans for showing pain they endured during genocide

The City regulator has moved to clamp down on credit rating agencies sharing patchy information with lenders (Alamy/PA)

City watchdog clamps down on ‘poor quality’ credit ratings

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has defended Sir Keir Starmer’s comments on Margaret Thatcher. (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Sarwar defends Starmer’s comments on Thatcher despite ‘destructive’ policies

Forecasters say more rain is expected (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Flood risk for parts of the UK with more heavy rain expected

Flights were suspended from Munich (AP)

Freezing rain causes deadly accidents in Germany

The London Stock Exchange saw trading halted on hundreds of stocks on Tuesday after another outage on the stock market (PA)

Trading halted in hundreds of firms as London Stock Exchange suffers outage

Nordic workers are demanding a collective bargaining agreement (AP)

Danish union to take action against Tesla in solidarity with Swedes

Some items on the festive plate are actually falling in price, analysts Kantar said (PA)

Cost of traditional Christmas dinner for four ‘up by just 1.3% on last year’

The UK services sector grew last month, a survey has suggested (Danny Lawson/PA)

Service sector returns to growth after months of malaise

The RRS Sir David Attenborough passed close to the gigantic iceberg (Andrew Meijers/British Antarctic Survey via AP)

British research ship crosses paths with world’s largest iceberg in Antarctic

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Attracting teenagers with their sweet flavours, these devices are facing scrutiny for their environmental implications (AP)

Bill to ban disposable e-cigarettes in France approved

Severe weather conditions have hit southern Germany (AP)

Munich Airport suspends all flights due to freezing rain

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Palestinians inspect a house after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza (AP)

Israel strikes Gaza’s second largest city in new phase of the war

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Vehicles driving through service water on a flooded part of the A37 near Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)

Train passengers face delays as heavy rain leads to flood warnings

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking to the media at the Cop28 summit (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Sunak says ‘enough is enough’ as he steps up fight to control immigration

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Rising sea levels put coastal communities at greater risk of flooding from the sea (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Last decade hottest on record, says World Meteorological Organisation

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Rescue workers and volunteers work at the site of a bus accident at the Prachuap Khiri Khan province in Thailand (Sawang Rungrueang Rescue22 Foundation via AP)

Fourteen dead and more than 30 injured after bus crashes in western Thailand

The King speaks at the World Climate Action Summit at Cop28 in Dubai (Chris Jackson/PA)

King and Queen planning first trip to Australia and New Zealand – report

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Police officers pursue a deer down a hallway at Cedar Grove Elementary School in Toms River, New Jersey (Toms River Police Department via AP)

Deer’s escape after breaking into US school captured on police bodycams

The USS Carney warship in the Mediterranean Sea (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/US Navy via AP)

US and allies in talks on naval task force after Houthi attacks in Red Sea

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The Duke of Sussex’s legal challenge over his security arrangements while in the UK will reach the High Court (PA)

Harry’s legal challenge against Home Office to begin

The Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria (PA)

Sellafield denies nuclear site’s networks have been victim of cyber attacks

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What the papers say (Peter Byrne/PA)

What the papers say – December 5

James Cleverly announced the plans to MPs (Yui Mok/PA)

Cleverly pledges ‘biggest ever reduction’ in net migration with new plans

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Rishi Sunak (Yui Mok/PA)

Timeline of the Government’s Rwanda asylum deal

Melanie C performs at the Isle of Wight Festival (David Jensen/PA)

Spice Girl among celebrities who have made hacking claim settlements, court told

Paddy McCourt playing for Celtic (PA)

Former NI footballer Paddy McCourt cleared of sexual assault conviction

The Government’s handling of compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal has led to a ‘segregation of suffering’, it has been claimed (PA)

Infected blood compensation has led to ‘segregation of suffering’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was urged to meet with the parliamentary watchdog scrutinising UK intelligence activities (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Sunak rebuked as PMs ‘dodged Intelligence and Security Committee since 2014’

The Princess of Wales arrives to officially open the Evelina London Children’s Day Surgery Unit (Aaron Chown/PA)

Kate to meet young patients at opening of children’s hospital’s day surgery unit

Inquiries are ongoing into the blast (AP)

Blast levels house in US as officers served search warrant

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Dancer Dan Corthorn performs a Christmas ballet titled The Reunion at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 Arrivals, celebrating the emotion of festive reconnections at the airport (Matt Alexander/PA)

Ballet dancers help Heathrow prepare for second-busiest December

Thames Water said revenues rose to £1.3 billion but it spent a record £1 billion on improving its network (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Thames Water warns overhaul will ‘take time’ as debts mount and profits slump

The sixth game in the Grand Theft Auto series will be released in 2025, and will include its first female protagonist, Lucia (Screengrab/Rockstar Games/PA)

Grand Theft Auto VI trailer revealed early after online leak

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Around 3,300 Scottish 15-year-olds were assessed in the study (David Davies/PA)

Scotland’s education study figures decline amid ‘profound’ Covid-19 impact

Jamel Boyce died six years after being stabbed in a fight outside a supermarket in south London (Family handout/Metropolitan Police/PA)

Murder charge following death of man six years after he was stabbed

Ikea has revealed plans to hike pay for UK staff as part of more than £35 million of investment in higher wages and bonuses (Ikea/PA)

Ikea announces 2024 pay rises for UK staff worth £10 million

Sir Keir Starmer said at the Resolution Foundation conference that the EU is not a ‘silver bullet’ to boost growth (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)

Starmer: EU is no ‘silver bullet’ to fix UK economy

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The UN refugee agency sounded the alarm for hundreds of Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift on the Andaman Sea (AP)

400 Rohingya Muslims on board two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea

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Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda (Ben Birchall/PA)

James Cleverly to seal new asylum treaty during visit to Rwanda

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (Justin Tallis/PA)

Why was Rwanda policy blocked by courts and what is Rishi Sunak’s Plan B?

Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda, where he will sign a new treaty with Rwanda (Ben Birchall/PA)

Cleverly visits Rwanda to sign asylum seeker treaty

Campaigners have long been calling for compensation to be extended (PA)

Government ‘working at a snail’s pace’ over infected blood payments

Russian drone attacks continue to hit civilians (AP)

Deadly Russian shelling hits southern Ukrainian city

People have been urged to stay away from the area (Peter Byrne/PA)

Schools in ‘lockdown’ as armed officers respond to assault in village

Some 156,525 new cars were registered in November (Gareth Fuller/PA)

New car market up 9.5% in November

Sarah Henshaw was described as ‘incredibly kind’ by family (Derbyshire Police/PA)

Jury sworn in before trial of man charged with murdering woman found in lay-by

The number of older cases in the UK asylum system has fallen by nearly half in a month, new figures showed, as the Government works towards its target of clearing the backlog by the end of the year (Alamy/PA)

Asylum legacy backlog falls but more recent cases still rising

Alice Arthur said online shopping has made things much easier (Alice Arthur/PA)

4G mast means gran on remote island can Christmas shop online for first time

Shane MacGowan’s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke, has said she worried about his death for 35 years (Liam McBurney/PA)

Shane MacGowan’s widow: I spent 35 years worrying about his death

Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil

Biffy Clyro and Fatboy Slim announced as headliners of Victorious Festival