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UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out tax rises as she said she will make the "necessary choices" in her upcoming Budget.

She said "the world has thrown even more challenges our way" in the last 12 months and her Budget will be one of growth and fairness.

Reeves is expected to announce tax rises on 26 November - Labour had pledged not to hike income tax, VAT or National Insurance in its general election manifesto.

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UK police are investigating whether a man accused of stabbing 10 people on a train is linked to an attack on a 14-year-old boy and to two reports of a knifeman at a barbers' shop.

Cambridgeshire Police said it was reviewing the incidents following the knife attack on the London-bound LNER train after it passed through Peterborough on Saturday.

On Friday, the teenager was stabbed in Peterborough city centre and a man was later reported to be at a barbers' shop carrying a knife in Fletton.

Anthony Williams, 32, of no fixed abode, was charged with 10 counts of attempted murder relating to the train stabbing and a count of attempted murder in connection with an attack in London on Saturday.

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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84.

He died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Monday night, his family said.

Cheney was a key architect of President George W Bush's 'War on Terror' following the 11 September attacks in 2001, and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honour, love, kindness, and fly fishing," his family said as they paid tribute.

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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been sworn in for a second term amid tight security, following an election marred by violent protests and rejected by the opposition as a sham.

Samia was declared the winner on Saturday with 98% of the vote - but she faced little opposition with key rival candidates either imprisoned or barred from running.

International observers have raised concerns about the transparency of the election and its violent aftermath, with hundreds of people reportedly killed.

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Prince William has arrived in Brazil for his first official visit, where he will host his annual Earthshot Prize competition.

Whilst he's there, he will deliver a speech at the COP climate conference.

The prize, created by the prince five years ago, awards £1m every year to five projects for their environmental innovations.

There have been almost 2,500 nominees this year from 72 countries - this year's winners will be chosen by Prince William and his Earthshot Prize Council which includes the actor Cate Blanchett and Jordan's Queen Rania.

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Jamaican music superstar Sean Paul has said the scale of the effort required to help people in the country is "overwhelming" after Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of the island last week.

Fellow musician Shaggy has also been co-ordinating aid efforts on the island, bringing essentials to locals via small convoys.

Asked how he felt about what had happened, he said: "Devastated. I don't think I can unsee what I've seen.”

Winds of up to 185mph (295 km/h) caused at least 28 deaths. Paul and his family were in the capital Kingston, while areas further west suffered the greatest damage.

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Today, Kemi Badenoch joins Newscast to mark 1 year since she became the leader of the UK Conservative Party and leader of the opposition.

What has she made of her first year? Has she had to re think her approach to PMQs? Is Reform an existential threat to her party? And, will she stay on as leader regardless of the results in May’s local elections in the UK?

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US President Donald Trump says it's down to Democrats to reopen the US government as the shutdown enters its 34th day.

In an interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes programme, the President described Democrats as "crazed lunatics" and offered no plans to fill the gaps between them and the Republicans on issues such as healthcare costs.

Republicans and Democrats could not agree to pass a bill funding government services past 1 October, when the previous federal budget expired.

In the US system, Congress must agree a spending plan to send to the president to be signed into law.

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A 32-year-old man has been remanded in custody, charged with 10 counts of attempted murder after multiple people were stabbed on a UK train.

Anthony Williams was arrested after the attack on an LNER train from Doncaster to London King's Cross, which stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

He was also charged with possessing a bladed article and one count of actual bodily harm in connection to an alleged assault on a police officer in custody.

Mr Williams is also accused of carrying out an earlier knife attack on another train in east London at about 00:45 on Saturday morning.

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Israel has confirmed the identities of three deceased hostages whose bodies it received from Hamas via the Red Cross in Gaza on Sunday.

Forensic tests showed the remains were those of Israeli soldiers Col Asaf Hamami, Capt Omer Neutra and Staff Sgt Oz Daniel, the prime minister's office said.

Under the first phase of the US-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel that started more than three weeks ago, Hamas agreed to return all 20 living and 28 dead hostages it was holding.

But Israel has accused Hamas of deliberately delaying the recovery of the dead hostages' bodies, while Hamas has insisted it is struggling to find them under rubble.

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