Reform insiders fear links to extreme figures such as Andrew Tate will scare off voters

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Nigel Farage has called Tate an ‘important voice’ for young men and held back from criticising his misogynistic views

Reform insiders are becoming increasingly irritated by the party’s association with Andrew Tate and other extreme online celebrities whose views are too toxic for the mainstream voters Nigel Farage needs to win over.

Insiders have revealed that as Reform prepare for power they are trying to end their association with more controversial figures on the right such as Tate, whose extreme and misogynistic content could taint the party’s credibility.

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Hacked hospitals, hidden spyware: Iran conflict shows how digital fight is ingrained in warfare – AP News

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  1. Hacked hospitals, hidden spyware: Iran conflict shows how digital fight is ingrained in warfare  AP News
  2. How the Middle East conflict reshapes the global cybersecurity landscape  The World Economic Forum
  3. Iran Wiped 50 Israeli Firms’ Data, Hacked Cameras, Official Says  Bloomberg.com
  4. Ex-White House officer: Iran likely to step up cyberattacks on US  The Jerusalem Post
  5. FBI Warns: Iran Cyber Actors Using Telegram to Push Malware  The National Law Review
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How Pakistan Wooed Trump and Styled Itself as a Peace Broker in Iran Conflict – WSJ

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  1. How Pakistan Wooed Trump and Styled Itself as a Peace Broker in Iran Conflict  WSJ
  2. Iran War Live Updates: Israel Strikes Tehran as Regional Diplomats Gather in Pakistan for Talks  The New York Times
  3. Pakistan holds talks with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt on Iran war  The Hill
  4. Israeli strikes and US troop buildup put Pakistan’s peacemaker role under pressure  The Guardian
  5. Live updates: Iran warns the US against a ground invasion as regional powers meet in Pakistan  AP News
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‘Entirely wiped out’ crops, buildings destroyed and weeks of recovery as cyclone damage assessed

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Critical Western Australia agriculture region counting cost of brutal cyclone as flooding risk persists for low-lying communities

An agricultural region that supplies about 60% of Western Australia’s fresh winter produce is assessing damage as authorities continue work on Sunday to restore power to a popular tourist town hit hard by Cyclone Narelle.

The food-bowl region near Carnarvon, about 900km north of Perth, provides 80% of of the state’s bananas. Meanwhile, flooding risk remains in the state’s low-lying communities.

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The ripple effect of the Iran war on struggling U.S. farmers: “It couldn’t have come at a worst time” – CBS News

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  1. The ripple effect of the Iran war on struggling U.S. farmers: "It couldn't have come at a worst time"  CBS News
  2. Global Food Supply Faces a Dangerous Bottleneck as Iran War Persists  The New York Times
  3. California farmers were already struggling. Then came the Iran war  Los Angeles Times
  4. Norfolk fertiliser company chairman warns of 'inflation disaster'  BBC
  5. Fertilizer prices bring more pain for American farmers amid war in Iran | CNN Business  CNN
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Lack of specialist staff hinders support for Send children, teacher survey finds

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National Education Union poll finds 89% feel class sizes in England are too big to be ‘properly inclusive’

Oversized classes and inadequate staffing levels are hindering teachers’ capacity to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send), according to a large survey of state school teachers in England.

Nine out of 10 (89%) of the 10,000 teachers who took part in the poll by the National Education Union (NEU), before its annual conference in Brighton which starts on Monday, said class sizes were too big to be “properly inclusive”.

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Houthi forces enter Iran conflict with missile attacks on Israeli military sites

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Escalation represents dangerous spread of war and brings threat of even more damage to the global economy

The US-Israeli war with Iran has expanded with the entry of Houthi forces in Yemen, representing a dangerous spread of the conflict and bringing with it the threat of more damage to the global economy.

Pakistan has said it would host a meeting of Middle Eastern powers on Monday in an effort to find a regional approach to ending the conflict. But the talks, which bring together the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, did not appear to include any of the warring parties, casting further doubt on persistent US claims of diplomatic progress.

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No Kings protests: millions rally in cities around the world against Trump and his administration – as it happened

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In the year since Donald Trump retook office, the number of protests in the US outpaced those at the same point in his first administration, according to data from the Crowd Counting Consortium, an open-source project collaboration between Harvard University’s Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut, reported Lex McMenamin and Andrew Witherspoon.

There were more than 10,700 protests in 2025, a 133% increase from the 4,588 recorded in 2017, the first year of Trump’s first term. According to the data, an overwhelming majority of US counties – including 42% that voted for Trump – have had at least one protest since he was re-inaugurated last year.

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Israeli strikes hit two Gaza police checkpoints, killing six, medics say – Reuters

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  1. Israeli strikes hit two Gaza police checkpoints, killing six, medics say  Reuters
  2. Israeli airstrike said to kill two Palestinian brothers close to Yellow Line  The Times of Israel
  3. Israel kills Palestinian girl and police officers in Gaza bombing  Middle East Eye
  4. APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza  Bluefield Daily Telegraph
  5. Israeli army kills 6 Palestinians in attack on Gaza police  The New Arab
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