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Ed Miliband is taking up the UK's seat on the board of the World Bank – saying that international development and the climate crisis are "central" to government policy. At such a critical moment in US ...

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A man has been charged with murder over the death of a man in Clapham in the early hours of Saturday morning. Javed Khan, 22, ...