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Centrist Bayrou offers alliance with MacronFrançois Bayrou, president of the Democratic Movement and veteran of three previous elections, says France needs ‘exceptional response’ to ‘extreme risk’ -
Kim Jong-nam's body targeted in morgue break-in, say policeMalaysian authorities seek to question senior North Korean diplomat and man connected with Air Koryo, while dismissing claims that assassins were duped -
Russian replica to give children chance to storm the ReichstagDefence ministry says it is building model to enable Youth Army to recreate episode from Soviet capture of Berlin in 1945
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Finland's solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wagesBoth left and right are promoting the idea of a basic wage for everyone, currently on trial, as a solution to the new world of work
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UKUKCressida Dick appointed first female Met police commissionerMet’s former head of counter-terrorism to take over from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe as Britain’s top police officer
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EuropeEuropeChancellor to soften blow of business rate changes in budget, MPs told - Politics liveRolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and Ivan Rogers, the former British ambassador to the EU, giving evidence to the Brexit committee
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A tale of four skulls: what human bones reveal about citiesHas the great urbanisation of our species over the last 5,000 years been good for humanity or bad? It’s a story that can be told by examining ancient skeletons – which reveal incredible dangers, but also point to a bright future
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Cologne library opens its doors to refugees: 'You fill this room with life'The Cologne Public Library is serving as a social and educational space for the city’s refugees, as counterparts across Germany increasingly become places for community engagement. Could the UK learn from this?
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How to donate: South Sudan famine and Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria food crisesFamine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, while Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria are also at risk. Here’s a roundup of some of the main appeals
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EU and UK united in effort to combat famine in South SudanFunding response follows UN warnings that 40% of South Sudan’s population are in urgent need, with people already dying from hunger
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After Guantánamo: what became of the Britons freed from the US camp?Jamal al-Harith joined Isis and became a suicide bomber, but what did the future hold for the other UK citizens and residents?
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Donald Trump's envoys head to Mexico as cracks emerge in border wall planBureaucratic wrangles pose threat to US president’s campaign pledge but visit by top officials raises other contentious issues
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Kim Jong-nam killing: the arrested, the wanted, and people of interestWho are the people arrested and sought in connection with the assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother?
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Lord Neuberger thinks the media should have a ‘degree of responsibility’ in its reporting, but isn’t that a curb on its liberty to speak out?Support a free press – don’t judge it
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Premature baby hippo saved by children’s hospital staff – video reportFiona, a prematurely-born Nile hippo calf, is making excellent progress at her home at The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden after the staff from a local children’s hospital stepped in to help
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Kim Jong-nam's death: what we know so far – video reportKim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un, died from a seizure en route to hospital on 13 February after complaining that a woman had sprayed chemicals on his face at Kuala Lumpur international airport
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The foiled bomb plot in Kansas that didn't make Trump's terror list – videoWhen a plot by a pro-white militia to bomb a Somali mosque in Kansas was foiled by the FBI last October, the aborted conspiracy received little national coverage – nor did it make Donald Trump’s list of 78 ‘under-reported’ terrorist attacks.
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The lives of others: inside the Stasi Museum – in picturesSince 1990, the museum has served as a research and memorial centre investigating the political system of the former East Germany
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Mosul refugees get married at Khazer camp – in picturesThe wedding of Hussain Zeeno Zannun, 26, and Chahad, 16, who both fled from Isis in Mosul, northern Iraq
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Israeli PM says Palestinians should self-govern but without military power – videoBenjamin Netanyahu says while he supported self-government for Palestinians, any solution must not be a threat to the state of Israel
Trump's feminist critics gagged by Chinese internet giant Weibo