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Rasha Mohamed The UK is selling arms to Saudi while pretending to care about Yemen

Similarly, the US sold a record amount of arms to Saudi Arabia under Obama’s administration, with sales set to continue under Trump. Earlier this month the State Department approved a resumption in the $300m sale of US-made precision-guided missiles, a deal blocked late in Obama’s administration due to concerns over civilian casualties

Tim Farron Corbyn won't provide an opposition to Brexit so I'm taking control

In discussions Nick Clegg and I have had with EU prime ministers, it is clear that if the Prime Minister was big enough to admit now that she simply hadn’t appreciated how fiendishly complex Brexit would be, and that it had all been a horrible mistake, but that she needed a deal on immigration to satisfy the hard right wing of her party, she would get such a deal

Could Citizen Smith make a political comeback in the 21st Century?

Idealistic left-winger Wolfie was a product of his time. In fact, television hadn't seen the like of Citizen Smith before, and nothing’s touched it since. David Barnett would love to think we are still arguing politics over the breakfast table but doubts that's the case

Marine life returns to Cornish coast after Torrey Canyon oil spill

Exactly 50 years ago today, the SS Torrey Canyon crashed into rocks off the Cornish coast, spilling more than 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the English Channel. David Barnett looks back at the first major oil spill in British and European waters – and what we’ve learned since 

St Patrick's Day 2017: Ireland looks to a united European future

For Peter Millar, growing up in County Down during the Troubles, St Patrick's Day was an anomaly. Today, he looks back at the island's blood-soaked past, sees the South reborn through EU membership, and salutes the growing calls in the North for a referendum to finally unite Ireland

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Police hunt for potential second suspect in Westminster terror attack

Sturgeon has the better of the argument over the Scottish referendum

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World news in pictures

World news in pictures

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    A man drinks water directly pumped from the Nile river in Juba, South Sudan, to be distributed to local residents for drinking consumption

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    A Nepalese woman carries a metal container locally known as 'gagri' containing fresh water during the early morning one day before World Water Day in Bhakatpur, Nepal

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    World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources

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    Filipino fishermen arrange a fishing net next to a sewage pipe at a fishing village in the town of Bacoor, Cavite province, Philippines

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    High-rise buildings are partly covered by heavy fog at Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour

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    Libyan fishermen rescue migrants from a sinking dinghy off the Libyan coastal town of Zawiyah, east of the capital, as they attempted to cross from the Mediterranean to Europe

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    Migrants wait to be rescued from a sinking dingey off the Libyan coastal town of Zawiyah, east of the capital

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    Lebanese activists from the Civilian motionless, and from various parties wave national flags during a protest against new high taxes in front of the Lebanese government palace in Beirut , Lebanon

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    People march to protest the regional Catalan government's push to break away from the rest of Spain, in Barcelona, Spain

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    An activist lays half-naked with fake blood in a cage during a protest for animal rights, against the suffering and murdering of animals and against animal testing in Athens, Greece

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    Passengers wait at Orly airport southern terminal after a shooting incident near Paris, France

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    Wearing Coyote masks and business suits and waving signs against Canada Goose and their use of fur, PETA members gather outside the New York Stock Exchange

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    View of the Tocqueville high school after a shooting has taken place injuring at least eight people, in Grasse, southern France

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    Suspects with their hands tied in plastic straps walk past residents during a raid by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) at an informal settlers' area inside a public cemetery in Manila

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    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center, over Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral skyline in Florida

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    French Police officers secure the scene near the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Paris, after a letter bomb exploded in the premises

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    A man poses as crying firebrand anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during a small demonstration outside parliament in The Hague, Netherlands

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    Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington

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    A four-month-old Syrian baby receives treatment at a make-shift hospital following reported air strikes in the rebel-held district of Barzeh, on the north-eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus

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    Miguel Angel Munoz faces a 25-year prison sentence for the alleged murder in 2015 of the US tourist Denise Pikka Thiem, who was hiking the Santiago pilgrim trail

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    Malaysian censors have reportedly cut out a 'gay moment' in the Disney film 'Beauty and the Beast' before agreeing to its release in the Muslim-majority nation

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    Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama sits on his ceremonial chair during a religious talk at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India

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    Members of the Iraqi forces prepare to fly a drone armed with grenades in the fight against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul

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    A member of the Iraqi forces carries two grenades carrying feathers, which are to be fired from a drone in the fight against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul

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    Members of the Iraqi forces advance towards the Old City in western Mosul, during an offensive to retake the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters

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    US President Donald J. Trump holds up a note and drawing depicting him that was created by the child of Greg Knox of Ohio, during a meeting on healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC

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    Relatives hold up placards with pictures of victims as they gather in commemoration on the first anniversary of the March 13 terror attack at the former site of the bombing in central Ankara

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England's night ends in defeat but not without promise

Germany 1 England 0: The night belonged to someone else, but Gareth Southgate can take positives from his first night as the national team's permanent manager

Duckett ready to put fluffed Test bow behind him as he bids for recall

Exclusive: Blocking out for a draw isn’t something the free-scoring Duckett is readily associated with and he is, unsurprisingly, determined to ensure that his Test career isn’t over

Editorial A strike at the heart of our democracy

Hatred drives terrorism, but increasingly it is becoming political currency. This latest horror must not be permitted to justify further rhetorical excesses

Michael Shannon is the frontrunner to play Cable in Deadpool 2

The film is scheduled to begin production in June

Creeper stream Eternity, In Your Arms exclusively with The Independent

The Southampton horror punk band stream their debut album 24 hours before official release, exclusively with The Independent and we sit down for a chat with frontman Will Gould

Jessica Brown Findlay on Harlots and moving on from Downton Abbey

The actress plays Charlotte, an 18th-century courtesan in ITV's new costume drama 'Harlots' and no longer wants to be known as 'Downton Abbey's' Lady Sybil

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman, reviewed by Caroline Lucas

Bergman's new bestselling book, which proposes new ideas for creating a better society, has tapped into a void in politics, in which nobody is painting a picture of the kind of world we want to live in

The best clothing shops for real women

From Asos to River Island and smaller London brands, the fashion industry has listened to real women: we've seen curvy shapes in campaigns – now brands have embraced the need for flattering pieces for every size

Raymond Blanc on food trucks, Instagram and diets

Master-chef talks to The Independent about what we can all do to become better cooks

Interior design on a budget: the best cheap but chic interiors brands

No money left? It's still possible to find stylish gems, even by designers, without the price tags.

Teenage pregnancy rates hit all-time low

The top strain on relationships in the UK revealed

Ed Sheeran buys Italian vineyard hideaway in time for summer

UK homes could see energy bills increase by up to £445 per year

Chilling 4chan post appears to predict terror attack

The post included specific reference to the location of the attack

Windows 10 updates: How to test new features before everyone else

Insider Program gives access to latest operating system builds as soon as they’re available, but there's an element of risk