Wednesday evening news briefing: Hamas leader’s sons killed in Israeli airstrike
Good evening. Three sons of the leader of Hamas have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, relatives and official Hamas media said.
Elsewhere, Angela Rayner has been accused of hypocrisy after it emerged she demanded a Tory candidate publish their tax details, while refusing to publish her own.
Hamas leader’s three sons killed in Israeli airstrike
Ismail Haniyeh’s sons Hazem, Ameer and Mohammed were killed with family members in the strike near the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Ismail Haniyeh, who now lives in exile in Qatar, is originally from Shati. The deaths were confirmed by Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV station as well as Haniyeh family members on social media.
Rayner branded ‘hypocrite’ for demanding Tory candidate publish tax details
Labour’s deputy leader wrote to the Conservative chairman during a by-election in 2021 to ask her to publish Jill Mortimer’s tax return. This is despite the fact that she has so far refused to publish her own tax return or the advice that she received over the sale of her Stockport council house in 2015.
Cameron warns US politicians against ‘appeasement’ of Putin’s Russia
Lord Cameron has warned against the “appeasement” of Vladimir Putin and Russia as he stepped up calls for the US to release billions of dollars of new military aid for Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary said a stalled US funding package could make the “decisive difference in getting Ukraine back on the front foot”.
Evening Briefing: Today’s essential headlines
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Crime | Bulgarians pocket £50m from taxpayer in Britain’s biggest benefits fraud
Pret | App in chaos after subscription crackdown leaves customers threatening to quit
Pictured: Second massive rockfall in 48 hours on Jurassic Coast poses danger to holidaymakers
Thousands of tons of rock broke away from the 140ft cliff at Burton Bradstock in Dorset on Tuesday afternoon.
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Feature of the day
Why Mohammed bin Salman has been forced to rein in his dreams of a mirror city
Plans for a gleaming skyscraper utopia in the Saudi desert have lost their shine.
Business news: Tesco profits surge as inflation falls ‘substantially’
Tesco has hailed a “substantial” drop in inflation for millions of shoppers as Britain’s biggest supermarket revealed profits almost tripled last year.
Live markets news: US inflation shock derails rate cut hopes
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