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The makeshift tent camp where displaced Palestinians are staying, in the Muwasi area (Fatima Shbair/AP)

Israel orders evacuation of area designated as humanitarian zone in Gaza

Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Alex Brandon/AP)

Netanyahu meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and offered optimism on Gaza ceasefire

A vehicle drives past the spreading River Fire (August Frank/Lewiston Tribune via AP)

Air tanker pilot killed as US wildfires spread

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reacts following an assassination attempt. (AP Photo/Gene J Puskar, File)

Trump struck by bullet during assassination attempt, FBI says

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What the papers say (PA)

What the papers say – July 27

Academics said that they have found that a common bacteria can ‘melt’ some cancers (Alamy/PA)

Common mouth bacteria found to ‘melt’ certain cancers in ‘surprising’ discovery

Flames leap above fire vehicles (Noah Berger/AP)

California’s largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US west

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is facing criticism after he claimed there would be no austerity under Labour. (Jane Barlow/PA)

Sarwar’s no austerity under Labour pledge coming back to bite him, SNP warns

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Narcis Titianu, one of the four men who died in a collision on the A436 (Gloucestershire Police/PA)

Families pay tribute to four men killed after their car crashed into a tree

Celine Dion (Ian West/PA)

Celine Dion makes return to public performance at Olympics opening ceremony

EuroMillions tickets (Victoria Jones/PA)

UK ticket-holder wins £24 million EuroMillions jackpot

The Park Fire burns along Highway 32 in the Forest Ranch community of Butte County, California (Noah Berger/AP)

Man arrested over California fire sparked by burning car pushed into gully

Flowers are left at the scene in Napier Road, East Ham, London (Rosie Shead/PA)

Three children who died in house fire are ‘missed beyond measure’, parents say

Commander Julian Bennett (PA)

Dismissal of police commander for failure to provide drugs test overturned

Lady Gaga has said performing at the Olympics is an honour (John Walton/PA)

Lady Gaga: Performance at Olympics opening ceremony was ‘supreme honour’

(l to r) Michelle O’Neill, Angela Rayner, Fleur Anderson and Emma Little-Pengelly at Hillsborough Castle (Kelvin Boyes/PA)

O’Neill and Little-Pengelly hold ‘constructive’ meeting with Rayner

Lady Gaga rehearsing along the Seine ahead of the opening ceremony (John Walton/PA)

Lady Gaga sings in French during performance at Paris Olympics opening ceremony

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Court artist sketch of Hongchi Xiao appearing at Winchester Crown Court (Elizabeth Cook/PA)

Alternative healer found guilty of manslaughter of diabetic woman at workshop

Ysanne Churchman played Grace Archer in the 1950s (PA)

Family of Ysanne Churchman pay tribute to ‘warm and friendly’ Archers star

A woman cries as hundreds of people gather at the site of a mudslide in the Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, southern Ethiopia, (Isayas Churga/Gofa Zone Government Communication Affairs Department via AP)

Ethiopia declares three days of mourning as toll of mudslide victims increases

Ted Baker could disappear from British high streets as the struggling fashion chain plans to shut all its stores within weeks (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Ted Baker preparing to shut all UK stores within weeks

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Firefighters at the scene of a house fire in Dagenham (Lucy North/PA)

Around 100 firefighters tackle double house blaze in east London

Former minister for finance Michael McGrath during the announcement at Government Buildings, Dublin that he is to be nominated as Ireland’s next European Commissioner (Gareth Chaney/PA)

Irish premier doubles down on nomination for Michael McGrath as EU Commissioner

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Green party co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay (Ian West/PA)

Green leader urges MPs to ‘move beyond’ comments made about pylon stance

The waxwork figure of Sinead O’Connor, which is being pulled by Dublin’s wax museum (Wax Museum Dublin/PA)

‘We have to do better’: Dublin wax museum pulls Sinead O’Connor figure

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Prison employee Kelsey Calvert, 28, arriving at Teesside Crown Court, Middlesbrough (Owen Humphreys/PA)

Prison employee admits ‘inappropriate relationship’ with inmate

John Mayall has died at the age of 90 (Ian West/PA)

Sir Paul McCartney remembers John Mayall as ‘mentor’ and ‘great’ blues pioneer

Poverty numbers are measured in several different ways (Nicholas T Ansell/PA)

Fact check: The number of Scottish children in poverty rose by some measurements

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Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry said there is a ‘culture of hate’ within her party (Jane Barlow/PA)

SNP will become party of opposition unless ‘culture of hate’ tackled – Cherry

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Olympics fans are searching for alternate routes to reach Paris for the Opening Ceremony (David Davies/PA)

Olympics travel disruption: How else can I get to Paris?

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A diver from the Polish Baltictech team inspects wreckage (Marek Cacaj/Baltictech/AP)

Sunken 19th century ship found with Champagne cargo off Swedish coast

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Sam Rushworth told the Commons he grew up without a grandmother as a result of infected blood (Infected Blood Inquiry/PA)

MP who lost grandmother in infected blood scandal calls for ‘culture change’

A Stand Up To Racism demonstration in Manchester after a police officer was suspended after a video which appeared to show a man being kicked as he lay on the floor (James Speakman/PA)

Family of man kicked by police officer want to see ‘calm prevail’

This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in

El Chapo’s son and Sinaloa cartel leader arrested by US authorities

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds reiterated the Government’s ‘deep and heartfelt’ apology to the victims of the infected blood scandal (Jeff Moore/PA)

Infected blood victims’ families can apply for £100k compensation from October

US Vice President Kamala Harris (Leon Neal/AP)

Kamala Harris tells Benjamin Netanyahu ‘it is time’ to end the war in Gaza

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Gracehill Moravian Church in Co Antrim has been awarded Unesco World Heritage Site (DCMS/PA)

Gracehill honoured with Unesco World Heritage Site status

People watcing the sunrise at Cullercoats Bay, North Tyneside on what became the UK’s hottest day on record (Owen Humphreys/PA)

UN chief warns of harms from ‘crippling heat’ amid record temperatures

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The cameras are part of the permanent collection of the National Science and Media Museum, in Bradford (University of Bradford/PA)

Cottingley Fairies cameras first to undergo state-of-the-art scanning

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Jasper Dunsmore with his father Peter (Peter Dunsmore/PA)

Boy, five, to complete Three Peaks Challenge with father for Prostate Cancer UK

Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has been challenged over requests to media organisations to hand over images from public order situations (Brian Lawless/PA)

Garda commissioner challenged over requests to media to hand over riot images

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Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump (Alex Brandon/AP)

Netanyahu will meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago, mending a years-long rift

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Harvey Weinstein in Manhattan criminal court (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Harvey Weinstein in hospital with Covid-19 and pneumonia

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Mel Stride is expected to join the race to be the next Conservative leader (PA)

Mel Stride expected to join race to be next Tory leader

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What the papers say (PA)

What the papers say – July 26

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Drivers are being warned to expect a ‘weekend of woe’ for congestion as millions of families embark on getaway journeys as many schools in England and Wales broke up for summer this week (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Drivers warned over ‘weekend of woe’ amid summer getaway congestion fears

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Flowers are left at the scene in Napier Road, East Ham (Rosie Shead/PA)

Three children who died in house fire are ‘missed beyond measure’, parents say

A closed section of the M25 (Yui Mok/PA)

High Court order preventing M25 protests extended

Kennie Carter was fatally stabbed near his home (Family handout/PA)

Four teenagers sentenced for killing 16-year-old schoolboy out of revenge

Justin Timberlake’s lawyer is seeking to get the drink-drive charge against the star thrown out (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Timberlake ‘not intoxicated’ and drink-drive charge should be dismissed – lawyer

Tommy Robinson (centre), whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, leads a protest march through London to Parliament Square where speeches will take place and a film will be shown. Groups from across the UK linked to football disorder are expected to

Around 1,000 police deployed amid Tommy Robinson protest and counter-march

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Alternative healer Hongchi Xiao was previously prosecuted over the death of a six-year-old diabetic boy in Australia after he instructed the youngster’s parents to stop giving him his insulin medication, his trial was told (Crown Prosecution

Second manslaughter conviction for healer after six-year-old diabetic boy dies

The UK’s base rate has been held at 5.25% since August last year (Aaron Chown/PA)

Bank of England’s interest rate decision on a knife-edge, economists say

Barack Obama with Kamala Harris (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Barack and Michelle Obama give endorsement for Kamala Harris’s White House bid

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