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Ukraine has claimed responsibility for an e-scooter bomb that killed a top Russian general in Moscow on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, and his assistant were killed by an explosive hidden inside the electric transport device outside Kiril

Royal Mail has been cleared to be taken into foreign ownership for the first time in its 508-year history. Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky was given the green light by ministers to buy Royal Mail’s parent company International Distributions Services in a £3.6 billion deal, likely to be signed early next year. What w

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Transport for London has announced fare increases for Tube travellers next year at more than double the rate of inflation. Mayor Sadiq Khan confirmed the cost of travelling on the Underground, London Overground and Elizabeth line would increase at double the rate of inflation - but bus fares remain frozen, stay tuned f

Host Evgeny Lebedev meets Dr. John Krystal, professor of neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss Ketamine, what it is, and how it can solve a mental health epidemic.   This is a special preview taken from our sister podcast, Brave New World. To hear the interview in full just search: Brave New World Eve

Thousands of farmers converged on Westminster as tractors made a slow drive through central London on Wednesday afternoon in the second protest against Labour’s inheritance tax reforms. Farmers travelled from across the country amid anger about the plans against the so-called ‘tractor tax’ announced in last month’s Bud