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Controversial Tube ads spark outrage as right to die debate divides Britain

British MPs are to debate a bill which would legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. A decade after a similar bill was overwhelmingly rejected, the result appears to be on a knife’s edge.

  • Rob Harris

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The unelected members of the House of Lords technically have the power to block legislation.

‘Indefensible’ House of Lords to be replaced with elected chamber, Starmer pledges

The Labour leader will seek to replace it with an elected upper chamber that has a higher proportion of Scottish seats.

  • Rob Harris
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Pandemic highlights the importance of a sustainably funded WHO

Making the world safer and healthier means member states of the World Health Organisation must tackle its long-term funding challenge.

  • Helen Clark, Graça Machel, Paul Martin, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Elhadj As Sy and Gordon Brown
COVID-19 vaccination rates have been low across Africa, largely due to a shortage of supply.

Variants like Omicron ‘haunt world’ due to vaccine imbalance between rich and poor nations: scientist

A top South African scientist warns that until we vaccinate enough people around the globe new variants will develop over and over again.

  • Lesley Wroughton
Scott Morrison underlined sections of Bill Gates’ book on how to beat climate change as he prepared to shift his government towards a net zero emissions target.

The billionaire, the book and the PM: How Bill Gates convinced Scott Morrison on net zero

Scott Morrison underlined sections of Bill Gates’ book on how to beat climate change as he prepared to shift his government towards a net zero emissions target.

  • Rob Harris
The parent group of Lex Greensill’s firm Greensill Capital collapsed owing money to some three dozen entities.

Greensill scandal widens as ex-British PMs hauled before inquiry

Four of the five living former prime ministers – David Cameron, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Sir John Major – are likely to be called to give evidence in public along with Lex Greensill.

  • Christopher Hope
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Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd says Gordon Brown’s account of the climate talks is an “urban myth”.

‘It didn’t happen’: Rudd rejects claim he tried to punch Chinese negotiator at 2009 climate talks

Kevin Rudd says he makes no apology for “vigorously prosecuting” Australia’s interests at the Copenhagen negotiations but former British PM Gordon Brown’s account is an “urban myth”.

  • Rob Harris
Rupert Murdoch must be cursing the fact that News Corp's Australian assets made an already weak quarter look worse.

Rudd courted Murdoch when it was politically convenient: ex-News chief

Former Murdoch lieutenant, Les Hinton, says Kevin Rudd's crusade for a royal commission into the mogul's Australian media empire smacks of double standards.

  • Bevan Shields

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