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NATO has confirmed that Sweden and Finland will be formally invited to join the military alliance as it vowed to "significantly strengthen" its "deterrence and defence" in a "new strategic concept".

The Queen has met Nicola Sturgeon, the day after Scotland's first minister suggested a date for a new referendum on Scottish independence.

The Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian shopping centre amounts to a war crime, according to the G7.

Boris Johnson has called questions over his leadership "political commentary" as rumours mount that a few of his own MPs are considering defecting to the Labour Party.

Russia targeted a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk on purpose, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed, as he released a video showing a missile hitting the building.

Dominic Raab has said he will not back a proposed amendment to the British Bill of Rights which would give women the fundamental right to an abortion.

An anti-Brexit and anti-Conservative protester has had his amplifiers seized outside Parliament and could be prosecuted, police have said.

Podcaster and campaigner Dame Deborah James, whose frank accounts of life with bowel cancer sparked an extraordinary deluge of charity donations, has died, her family have announced.

There are fears of an agricultural "catastrophe" in Italy after crops were damaged by seawater following the worst drought in 70 years.

Christopher Emms was in "survival mode" by the time he was moved to his second Saudi Arabian jail.

The trial of 20 men accused of carrying out one of the worst peace-time terror attacks in Europe is expected to conclude in Paris later on Wednesday.