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Tom Watling

Tom Watling is a General Reporter for The Independent focusing on the war in Ukraine, as well as other global news. He has previously worked as a world news reporter for the Daily Express and Mail+

<p>People enjoy the sunshine on the beach in Blackpool, north west England</p>
Weather

Britons to bask in sunny weather as temperatures soar to 26C

<p>Displaced Palestinian children take refuge in Al-Mawasi refugee camp in southwestern Gaza, near the city of Rafah </p>
LiveMiddle East

75% of child patients near Rafah ‘safe zone’ have blast injuries

<p>Authorities originally thought 70 dogs were on the loose but there weren’t </p>
East Asia

South Korean town rattled by wrong alert over ‘70 dogs’ on loose

<p>Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

What weapons does the US send to Israel and what have they suspended?

<p>A bartender wearing an England football shirt pours a pint at a pub </p>
Home News

Pubs can stay open for longer during Euro 2024 - on one condition

<p>A man pulls water containers as he walks past destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza </p>
Middle East

Inside the Gaza ceasefire proposal rejected by Israel

<p>Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky arriving to greet NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg prior to their talks in Kyiv last month </p>
Europe

Inside Russia’s dozens of attempts to kill Volodymyr Zelensky

<p>Arif Keles, a third-generation barbecue snack bar owner poses next to the doner kebab meat skewer in Berlin </p>
Europe

Calls for a price cap on soaring kebab costs in Germany

<p>A Russian tank fires at Ukrainian positions on the front line earlier this year, in an image provided by the Russian defence ministry </p>
Europe

Russia pushing ‘at all costs’ to grab territory in Ukraine

<p>A man has been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin</p>
LiveCrime

Hainault sword attack: Stabbed ‘hero’ thanks people who saved his life

<p>People hold placards and wave Palestinian flags as they take part in demonstration in support to Palestinian people at University College London (UCL) main entrance</p>
Home News

Students join pro-Palestinian encampment at London university

<p>French President Emmanuel Macron claimed Brexit had ‘impoverished’ Britain </p>
Europe

Macron claims Brexit has ‘impoverished’ the UK

<p>Police outside the Birley Academy in Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Dominic Lipinski/PA).</p>
Crime

Teenager, 17, charged after three injured in secondary school attack

Crime

Teenager, 17, charged after three injured in secondary school attack

<p>Police outside the Birley Academy in Sheffield, South Yorkshire (Dominic Lipinski/PA).</p>
<p>A Ukrainian tank of the 17th Tank Brigade fires at Russian positions in Chasiv Yar, the site of fierce battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region</p>
Europe

Kyiv’s forces facing big Russian push on eastern front, military says

<p>Cornwall is one of the most visisted areas in the UK for holidaymakers </p>
News & Advice

Cornwall tourism chief warns holidaymakers could be taxed

<p>A police officer apprehends the attacker outside a property in Hainault </p>
Crime

CCTV captures moment sword attack suspect arrested after boy killed

<p>Sophie visited the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv during her visit to Ukraine to show solidarity with the women, men and children impacted by the war </p>
Europe

Sophie becomes first royal to visit Ukraine since war

<p>Sophie visited the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv during her visit to Ukraine to show solidarity with the women, men and children impacted by the war </p>
Europe

Sophie becomes first royal to visit Ukraine since war

<p>Rishi Sunak told ITV that the UK needed to stop ‘medicalising the everyday challenges and anxieties of life'</p>
UK Politics

Rishi Sunak defends crackdown on disability benefits

<p>Millions face being stripped of their benefits in a government crackdown on ‘sick note culture’ </p>
Home News

New benefits crackdown as disabled people may be offered vouchers

<p>French actor Gerard Depardieu</p>
Europe

Gerard Depardieu questioned by police over sexual assault allegations

<p>British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fact-checked over claims cuts to NI will leave tax payers £900 better off </p>
Home News

Rishi Sunak fact-checked over claim tax cuts will save workers £900

<p>Migrants react as a French police officer stands by ready to puncture the smuggler’s boat to prevent migrants from embarking in an attempt to cross the English Channel</p>
Home News

Ireland tells Sunak ‘stop sending us your migrants’ amid Rwanda row

<p>Londoners enjoy the sunshine in Battersea Park as the weather is set to get warmer </p>
Weather

Met Office reveals when cold snap will end as temperatures to hit 20C

<p>Police officers by a forensic tent at Kersal Dale, near Salford, Greater Manchester, where a major investigation has been launched</p>
Crime

New remains discovered after torso found at nature reserve

<p>Dr Dan Poulter said he could no longer look his NHS colleagues in the eye and remain a Tory MP </p>
UK Politics

Former Tory minister defects to Labour over NHS crisis

<p>Londoners enjoy the sunshine in Battersea Park as the weather is set to get warmer </p>
Weather

Met Office reveals when cold snap will end as temperatures to hit 20C

<p>Police officers by a forensic tent at Kersal Dale, near Salford, Greater Manchester, where a major investigation has been launched</p>
Crime

New remains discovered after torso found at nature reserve

<p>Dr Dan Poulter said he could no longer look his NHS colleagues in the eye and remain a Tory MP </p>
UK Politics

Former Tory minister defects to Labour over NHS crisis

<p>Rishi Sunak talks with workers during a visit to the Airbus factory in Stevenage </p>
UK Politics

Sunak claims Rwanda plan is working, despite no flights taking off

UK Politics

Sunak claims Rwanda plan is working, despite no flights taking off

<p>Rishi Sunak talks with workers during a visit to the Airbus factory in Stevenage </p>
<p>The tourist from Poland is seen standing too close to the walrus </p>
Europe

Tourist fined £900 for disturbing walrus in Norway

Home News

Bomb squad called to town centre after civilian donates grenade

<p>King Charles III is known for having a healthy diet and exercising regularly </p>
Royal Family News

Inside King Charles’ rigid diet and strict exercise routine

<p>Emmanuel Macron taking the EU to task at the Sorbonne University in Paris</p>
Europe

Europe is ‘too slow and lacks ambition’ says Macron

<p>Emmanuel Macron taking the EU to task at the Sorbonne University in Paris</p>
Europe

Europe is ‘too slow and lacks ambition’ says Macron

<p>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of France, Emmanuel Macron</p>
UK Politics

Macron criticises Sunak’s Rwanda plan as politics of ‘cynicism’

<p>Palestinian youths search the rubble of a building hit in overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Israel ‘moving ahead’ with Rafah attack despite US plea

<p>Protesters riot in Nanterre, west of Paris, on June 28, 2023, a day after the killing of 17-year-old boy</p>
Europe

French cities introduce curfew to curb youth violence

<p>This image shows the Moulin Rouge cabaret mill without the blades and part of the missing sign</p>
Europe

Moulin Rouge windmill blades break off and fall into street

<p>Four people related to Holocaust survivors, and one direct victims of the Holocaust, stand at a pro-Palestine march in support of the demonstration </p>
Home News

Holocaust survivor’ descendants defend Palestine marches amid Met row

<p>Stef Jones founded XO Bikes, and its parent charity Onwards & Upwards, after visiting HMP Brixton, where he says the ‘penny dropped’ </p>
Home News

Inside the charity fighting against rising reoffending rates

<p>Missiles are carried on a truck during an Army Day parade at a military base in northern Tehran (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)</p>
Middle East

Iran makes first nuclear threat over possible Israeli attack

<p>Ukrainian emergency service rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike in Chernihiv</p>
Europe

At least 17 killed in Russian strike on northern Ukraine

<p>Iran Mideast Tensions</p>
Middle East

What sanctions could Iran face after attack on Israel?

<p>Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh has been nicknamed the strictest teacher in the UK </p>
Home News

Muslim student loses bid to overturn prayer ban at London school

Home News

Unemployment rate hits six-month high amid fears of a stalling economy

Home News

Unemployment rate hits six-month high amid fears of a stalling economy

<p>The woman was pronounced dead at May Banks Infant School </p>
Home News

Woman dies outside primary school as medics called to support pupils

Middle East

PM doubles down on support for Israel – but urges restraint

<p>O.J. Simpson, wearing the blood stained gloves found by Los Angeles Police and entered into evidence in Simpson's murder trial</p>
LiveAmericas

OJ Simpson made all visitors, including family, sign NDAs

<p>Israeli Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel</p>
Middle East

Mapped: How Iran’s attack on Israel was stopped

<p>Israeli Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel</p>
Middle East

Mapped: How Iran’s attack on Israel was stopped

<p>The Iranian embassy in Damascus after the airstrike earlier this month</p>
Middle East

US says threat of attack by Iran and Israel ‘real and credible’

<p>Sailors wave from the stern of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales as it returns to Portsmouth Naval Base following a three-month deployment to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States</p>
Home News

Royal Navy recruits no longer required to swim to encourage applicants

<p>The ONS released new figures on Friday </p>
Home News

UK takes step away from recession as economy grows for second month

<p>Newly recruited soldiers shout slogans as they celebrate the end of their training at a military base close to Kyiv, Ukraine</p>
Europe

Ukraine passes controversial mobilisation bill to boost troop numbers

<p>Israeli soldiers prepare their equipment and armoured personnel carriers before entering the Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Israel warns Iran against retaliation for Syria strike

<p>Truong My Lan, centre, chair of Van Thinh Phat Holdings, sits during her trial at in Ho Chi Minh City</p>
Southeast Asia

Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27bn fraud case

<p>Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she sewed ‘freedom dresses’ for her young daughter Gabriella when she was imprisoned in Tehran</p>
Middle East

Jailed Zaghari-Ratcliffe sewed ‘freedom dresses’ for her daughter

<p>President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wrap up a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Washington</p>
US politics

Biden confirms support to Israel amid Iran threats

<p>Vladimir Kara-Murza has spoken out against Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine </p>
Europe

Mother of jailed Putin critic says time running out to save him

<p>Vladimir Kara-Murza inside a Moscow court shortly after his arrest </p>
Europe

Inside Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza’s Russian jail ordeal

<p>Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza sits on a bench inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing at the Basmanny court in Moscow on October 10, 2022</p>
Europe

Who is Vladimir Kara-Murza? The new face of Russia’s anti-Putin group

Europe

Who is Vladimir Kara-Murza? The new face of Russia’s anti-Putin group

<p>Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza sits on a bench inside a defendants’ cage during a hearing at the Basmanny court in Moscow on October 10, 2022</p>
<p>A FAB warhead above occupied Ukraine earlier this month, carried by a fighter jet </p>
Europe

The Russian glide bombs changing the face of the war in Ukraine

<p>Rescuers evacuate residents from the flooded part of the city of Orsk, in Russia’s Orenburg region</p>
Europe

Russian floods: Thousands evacuated after burst dam

<p>The UN warned the activity over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant could risk causing a ‘major nuclear accident’ </p>
Europe

UN warns of ‘reckless’ Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant drone attacks

<p>Josh Menkens (left), with father Troy Menkens</p>
Europe

Brit charged with homicide after festival attendee fatally stabbed

<p>Josh Menkens (left), with father Troy Menkens</p>
Europe

Brit charged with homicide after festival attendee fatally stabbed

<p>An explosion erupts from an apartment building after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol, Ukraine</p>
Europe

Ukraine military chief’s chilling warning to the West about Russia

<p>Railway workers at the scene of a freight train derailment in West Ealing</p>
News & Advice

Heathrow Express and Elizabeth Line disrupted after train derailment

<p>People look on as work is carried out on a partially-collapsed building following the earthquake </p>
East Asia

Taiwan rushes to rescue 18 trapped as 400 aftershocks rock island

<p>Juan Vicente Perez died this week at the age of 114</p>
Americas

World’s oldest man dies two months before 115th birthday

<p>Russian soldiers secure an area at near the Crocus City Hall concert venue on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, March 23, 2024</p>
Europe

US warned concert hall was target weeks before Moscow attack

<p> In an aerial view, cargo ship Dali is seen after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge</p>
Americas

Baltimore bridge collapse sparks trade disruption as port shut

<p>Ukrainian political leader Kira Rudik says Kyiv’s Western allies must transfer Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine win the war </p>
Europe

Ukraine’s opposition leader: We must use Putin’s money against him

<p>Linda McGarry (L) with her son George Gilbey (C) and her husband Peter McGarry (R) on Gogglebox </p>
Home News

George Gilbey’s devastated mum breaks silence over son’s tragic death

<p>The cargo ship Jennifer, carrying food bound for Gaza, sets sail from Larnaca on Saturday as part of a second maritime aid convoy</p>
Middle East

Second aid ship heads for Gaza with food for starving Palestinians

<p>A man is detained by the Special Intervention Service of the Dutch National Police Corps outside a cafe in the centre of Ede</p>
Europe

Suspect arrested after hostage drama and bomb threat in nightclub

<p>A man (C) is detained by the Special Intervention Service (DSI) of the Dutch National Police Corps outside a cafe in the center of Ede</p>
LiveEurope

Gunman arrested after ‘threatening to detonate bomb’ in nightclub

<p>Galloway’s words were quickly picked up by the Russian government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta which cited him as an expert discussing the attack </p>
UK Politics

Galloway accuses UK of involvement in Moscow terror attack

<p>Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk said Ukraine had targeted ‘very many’ traitors </p>
Europe

Ukraine spy chief details assassinations of Russia collaborators

<p>Weather agencies predicted huge waves on the southern Mauritius coast </p>
Americas

Father dies after being swept away in storm while trying to save son

<p>The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the ship Konstantin Olshansky, seized by Russians in Crimea in 2014</p>
Europe

Kyiv strikes warship stolen by Putin’s forces during Crimea occupation

<p>The suspect, clockwise from top left: Murodali Rachabalizoda, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Fayzov and Shamsidi Fariduni </p>
Europe

Video shows suspect in Moscow concert attack ‘being force-fed own ear’

<p>Weather agencies predicted huge waves on the southern Mauritius coast </p>
Americas

Father dies after being swept away in storm while trying to save son

<p>The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the ship Konstantin Olshansky, seized by Russians in Crimea in 2014</p>
Europe

Kyiv strikes warship stolen by Putin’s forces during Crimea occupation

<p>The suspect, clockwise from top left: Murodali Rachabalizoda, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Fayzov and Shamsidi Fariduni </p>
Europe

Video shows suspect in Moscow concert attack ‘being force-fed own ear’

<p>A man identified as Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall shooting on Friday, sits in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow</p>
Europe

Moscow attack: Everything we know so far about the terror suspects

<p>Ukrainian first responders walk in the rubble of a building in the Pecherskyi district, after a Russian air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine</p>
Europe

Russia launches missile attack on Kyiv for third time in five days

<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have issued a statement of support to the Princess of Wales </p>
Home News

Prince Harry and Meghan issue statement on Kate’s cancer diagnosis

<p>Eight people were on board the Northern train when it derailed after driving over a sinkhole beneath the tracks </p>
Home News

Train derailed by sinkhole in Cumbria leaving rail line blocked

Home News

King Charles ‘so proud’ of Kate for her courage after cancer diagnosis

<p>In this photo provided by Telegram Channel of Ukraine’s prime minister Denys Shmyhal, smoke and fire rise over the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant after Russian attack</p>
Europe

Russia stages largest air strike of war on Ukraine’s energy facilities

<p>The Princess of Wales delivers a statement on her cancer diagnosis</p>
Home News

Kate Middleton cancer diagnosis: Video statement in full

Crime

London house set on fire in possible antisemitic hate crime

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