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Prince Harry tells BBC he wants ‘reconciliation’ with Royal Family
The Duke of Sussex has told the BBC he “would love a reconciliation” with the Royal Family, in an emotional interview in which he said he was “devastated” at losing a legal challenge over his security in the UK.
Prince Harry said the King “won’t speak to me because of this security stuff”, but that he did not want to fight any more and did “not know how much longer my father has”.
The prince spoke to BBC News in California after losing an appeal over the levels of security he and his family are entitled to while in the UK.
Buckingham Palace said: “All of these issues have been examined repeatedly and meticulously by the courts, with the same conclusion reached on each occasion.”
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Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’
Germany’s Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as right-wing extremist, after sharp criticism from the White House.
US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”.
In an unusual move, the foreign office directly replied to Rubio on X, writing: “We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.”
The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD’s “prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent” goes against Germany’s “free democratic order”.
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Unparalleled’ snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times
The blood of a US man who deliberately injected himself with snake venom for nearly two decades has led to an “unparalleled” antivenom, say scientists.
Antibodies found in Tim Friede’s blood have been shown to protect against fatal doses from a wide range of species in animal tests.
Current therapies have to match the specific species of venomous snake anyone has been bitten by.
But Mr Friede’s 18-year mission could be a significant step in finding a universal antivenom against all snakebites – which kill up to 14,000 people a year and leave three times as many needing amputations or facing permanent disability.
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How ordinary Poles are preparing for a Russian invasion
aAt a military training ground near the city of Wroclaw, ordinary Poles are lining up, waiting to be handed guns and taught how to shoot. “Once the round is loaded, the weapon is ready to fire,” barks the instructor, a Polish soldier, his face smeared with camouflage paint.
Young and old, men and women, parents and children, they’ve all come here for one reason: to learn how to survive an armed attack.
As well as a turn on the shooting range, this Saturday morning programme, called “Train with the Army”, also teaches civilians hand-to-hand combat, first aid and how to put on a gas mask.
“The times are dangerous now, we need to be ready,” says the co-ordinator of the project, Captain Adam Sielicki. “We have a military threat from Russia, and we are preparing for this.”
Capt Sielicki says the programme is oversubscribed, and the Polish government now has plans to expand it so that every adult male in the country receives training. Poland, which shares borders with both Russia and Ukraine, says it will spend almost 5% of GDP on defence this year, the highest in Nato.
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How Canada’s Conservatives threw away a 27-point lead to lose again
Conservatives in Canada are trading blame for Monday night’s election loss, showing that Pierre Poilievre will need to heal divisions within the movement as he fights to stay on as leader.
As a clear Liberal win was emerging on election night, Conservative candidates and their supporters had one question: What the heck just happened?
The party had lost a remarkable 27-point lead in opinion polls and failed to win an election for the fourth time in a row.
And while it gained seats and earned almost 42% of the popular vote – its highest share since the party was founded in 2003 – its leader Poilievre was voted out of the seat he had held for the past 20 years.
“Nobody’s happy about that,” Shakir Chambers, a Conservative strategist and vice-president of Ontario-based consultancy firm the Oyster Group, told the BBC.
The party is now trying to work out how it will move forward.
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How will Australia choose its next prime minister?
Australia’s 2025 election began with a false start.
Everyone was poised and ready to go when a cyclone blew the government’s preferred date – for April 12 – off course.
Instead, Albanese settled for a May 3 polling date with the firing gun finally fired in late March.
There have been announcements about health, vows to cut fuel tax and proposals from each side to fix the country’s housing crisis – but as the campaign dragged on, both leaders struggled to compete for Australia’s attention.
They had to contend with Donald Trump and his sweeping tariffs scheme for headlines, weave their campaigns around Easter, suspend them briefly to mark the Pope’s death, only to revive them ahead of a long weekend most Australians would not have spent thinking about politics.
“It has been hard to cut through… but the major parties have lost the trust of the voters which has amplified their problems of communications,” says John Warhurst, an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University’s School of Politics.
“The government has been timid and the opposition has been shambolic.”
So now, after five weeks of campaigning, Australia’s 18 million citizens are facing a choice between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his rival Peter Dutton, both of whom may need to form the next government by securing the support of independent MPs or minor parties.
Here’s everything you need to know about Australia’s 2025 vote.
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‘I saved my ID card and my dog’: Israel expands demolitions of West Bank refugee homes
On the night Israeli forces entered Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and began ordering its 20,000 Palestinian residents to leave their homes, 66-year-old Jumaa Zawayda said he would refuse.
“My family all left but I told them I had to stay, if Israeli forces come to raid our house I want to be there to stop it being damaged.”
What followed was three days of fear, with the constant sound of gunfire, explosions and drones flying through the neighbourhood, and issuing of orders that Jumaa couldn’t make out amid the noise. Then water and electricity was cut off, his phone ran out of battery and Jumaa felt he could no longer stay.
Now, three months later, Jumaa is standing on a hill in Jenin city, looking out over the ghost town of the refugee camp to which he and the other residents are still prevented from returning by the Israeli military.
He’s trying to see if his home is one of the many destroyed by the Israeli forces during their operations against Palestinian armed groups that were present in the camp. The sound of ongoing explosions can be heard below.
“Some people have told me they think our building was demolished, but we don’t know for certain,” says Jumaa, struggling to express himself through his emotion.
The father of nine, who used to work in construction, stayed for three months in a school-turned-shelter for the camp’s displaced residents. He has now moved into accommodation for university students that he shares with his brother.
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