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    The decision comes after a number of Cambridge students travelling there were either interrogated or deported by Israeli security. The Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been occupied by the Israeli state since the Six Day War of 1967. Five students, four female and one male, faced difficulties when landing at Ben-Gurion Airport, in Tel-Aviv, throughout the 2016/17 academic year. They are required as part of their course of study to spend eight months in a country where their chosen discipline is the first language. Due to the instability of many Middle Eastern states, the choices available to Arabic students are relatively limited, with the majority opting for Egypt and Jordan. Most travelling to study in Palestine undertake an Arabic languag...

    Labour will join forces with Tory rebels in an attempt to force Theresa May into giving MPs a veto on the final Brexit deal, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The shadow Brexit secretary demanded six changes to the paused repeal bill, formally known as the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, including Parliament being given final approval of the exit agreement. Sir Keir said the Government has unexpectedly withheld the legislation from the House of Commons for two weeks running because it fears defeat on at least 13 amendments at the hands of Tory rebels. Labour will join forces with Tory rebels in an attempt to force Theresa May into giving MPs a veto on the final Brexit deal He said it was clear that ministers cannot proceed with the Bill as it stands and threatened to work with ...

    Theresa May today signalled she is ready to pay billions of pounds more in a Brexit divorce bill to secure a December deal to begin trade talks. In a choreographed finish to the EU summit, the other 27 leaders took less than two minutes to reach a decision to start preparations for moving negotiations onto trade. Sources confirmed to the Standard that at a dinner yesterday Mrs May told them that her Florence speech last month, offering at least £18 billion, was not the final word. Cabinet ministers think that the final bill could be another £20 billion higher. An agreement before Christmas would delight the City, which today warned firms will have no choice but to consider moving jobs abroad if the stalemate were allowed to drift on to next year. But it will be fiercely re...

    A damning report has accused one of the UK’s biggest abortion providers of paying its staff bonuses for persuading women to go through with a termination. The allegations concerning the Maidstone branch of the Marie Stopes International clinic emerged in an inspection report by the Care Quality Commission, the official health service watchdog. The clinic said it is categorically untrue that staff bonuses are linked to the numbers who proceed with abortions but the report found a cattle market culture where staff felt encouraged to ensure women went through with abortions because it was linked to their performance bonus. There are 70 Marie Stopes clinics across the UK, where private terminations cost between £546 and £2040 including a consultation, depending on how advanced...

    Dawn Davies, 37, threatened to hurt the boy and report him to police if he told anyone A paedophile mother has been jailed for 15 years after sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy on camera. Sick footage of Dawn Davies, 37, molesting the youngster was sold on a market stall, Manchester Crown Court heard. The traumatised youngster was subjected to a campaign of ‘corruption and depravity’ after being lured to Davies’ Salford flat. Dawn Davies has been jailed for 15 years after she sexually abused an 11-year-old schoolboy. On a string of occasions the mother-of-three violently assaulted the boy - and would threaten to ‘hurt’ him and falsely report him to police if he complained. The court heard the incidents occurred between January 2012 and April 2014 and that one was witnesse...

    Theresa May admitted Brexit negotiations have hit “difficulty” as she urged EU leaders to clear the way for a deal she can sell to British voters. The Prime Minister made the concession for the first time at a working dinner with the heads of the remaining 27 EU states in Brussels. She said that before her key speech in Florence two weeks ago she had recognised the difficulty the process was in. I took stock, listened to what the people in the UK were saying, and what my friends and partners in Europe were saying, and I made a step forward, she said. Mrs May told leaders they face a clear and urgent imperative to give new impetus to stalled negotiations if they are to get an outcome which is acceptable to both the British public and their own people. The EU27 will declare ...