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By my reckoning, yesterday will be remembered as perhaps the most difficult of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership yet, with even close allies telling me they are not sure where it will end.His admission at Prime Minister’s Questions that he knew of the friendship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him as US ambassador hardened the sentiment of many a Labour MP who was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Insiders tell me that changed when Starmer told the Commons that security vetting had confirmed the continued friendship between Mandelson and Epstein after the financier…

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MUMBAI: A 21-year-old student, Himani Tapriya, suffered burns on her arm, neck and stomach after dozens of gas-filled balloons exploded inside a building lift at Amol Tower in Goregaon (West) on Monday night, police said.The Goregaon police registered a case of negligence against the owner of the shop, T K Jaiswal, after his employee was sent to deliver the balloons to the residential building. The delivery boy, Raju Kumar Mahato (32), who was carrying the balloons, also suffered burn injuries in the incident.Mumbai: IIT Student Death, Expressway Chaos After Tanker Jam, Firing At Rohit Shetty’s ResidencePolice said the incident occurred…

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Sir Keir Starmer will be forced to publish files related to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US after MPs passed a binding motion mandating the move.The Conservative Party used an arcane motion known as a “humble address” to force the government to publish the documents amid outrage over revelations about the scale of Lord Mandelson’s relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Although the government signalled on Tuesday that it would publish most documents after Labour MPs said they would not oppose the Tory motion, No 10 initially sought to amend it to prevent the publication of…

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