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UK needs new EU trade deal, not scraps from the White House

For Keir Starmer, all roads lead back to Brussels, a toxic subject for many Britons but an economic necessity for a country looking to grow

Ukraine and European leaders tell Putin to agree to 30-day ceasefire or face ‘massive’ sanctions

Trump backs European call for Ukraine-Russia truce to begin on Monday

A numbers game: Why are there so few cross-Border romances?

Could relative lack of north-south relationships reflect the separate development of society in the two jurisdictions?

Trump basks in ‘end of the beginning’ of new US-UK trade arrangement

Framework will open UK market up to US meat products, including poultry

As much as I want to roll my eyes at Prince Harry’s complaining, it’s clear he’s really miserable

The prince is arguing with the Home Office and the royal family about the level of security they will provide him

Northern Ireland needs to prepare to educate, or prepare to fail

The North must create more university places if it is to close the productivity gap with Republic and with Britain

VE Day: Britain takes a break from its troubles to celebrate 80th anniversary

Parades and military fly-past in central London as capital is festooned for traditional British pomp and ceremony

Tributes paid to ‘much-loved’ boy killed in Gateshead industrial estate fire

Fourteen children have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Layton Carr

UK police arrest seven Iranian nationals in counter-terrorism operations

Men arrested as part of two separate investigations

Police arrest 14 children in England after boy dies in fire

Blaze broke out in the Bill Quay area of Gateshead, northeast England

VE Day: Victory in Europe, angst in Britain

Britain will celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day at a time when its national identity is being roiled by immigration rows

Russell Brand granted bail after appearing in court over rape and sexual assault charges

Brand’s charges, which he denies, relate to four separate women more than two decades ago

Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against Houthis tests his vow to ‘stop wars’

The US is conducting its largest bombardment since the war on Isis – without a clear endgame

Sixteen EU states seeking budget exemption so they can boost defence spending

Germany and Poland among those seeking leeway on bloc’s rules limiting deficits

Kneecap videos to be investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police

Pogues, Fontaines DC and Lankum among Irish artists defending Kneecap against ‘political repression’

Kneecap Cornwall gig cancelled, as British government warns Glastonbury organisers to ‘think carefully’ about proceeding with band

Families of murdered MPs reject band’s ‘half an apology’

Work abroad can help boost your Irish state pension

How foreign social insurance contributions are factored into your Irish State pension calculation depends on where you worked

John FitzGerald: Irish unification would hit South harder than 2008 crash

Republic’s prosperity may make a united Ireland look attractive to many in the North but but the cost would be very high for southerners

Remains of Roman gladiator attacked by a lion in combat shows ‘brutality of spectacle’, Irish scientists find

Remains found in York show brutality of spectacles staged far beyond the heart of the Roman empire 

There is no ‘right’ to subvert women’s freedom to have their own events and spaces

UK ruling on meaning of ‘woman’ is reassuring for those alarmed by claims that gender is, somehow, entirely separate from sex and is a social, psychological construct

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