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Lawyers and supporters celebrate following the ruling (Kyodo News/AP)

Policy against same-sex marriage unconstitutional, Japanese court rules

Mike Kerr (left) and Ben Thatcher of Royal Blood performing (Ben Birchall/PA)

Royal Blood frontman comes under fire over attitude at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend

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Rishi Sunak said the Government is committed to ‘candour and transparency’ but refused to say if the documents will be handed over (PA)

Deadline delayed for handing over Boris Johnson messages to Covid inquiry

Oscar Burrow, six, who has summited 12 of the highest mountains in the UK to raise funds for Derian House Children’s Hospice (Matt Burrow/PA)

Boy, six, climbs 12 UK mountains ‘to help poorly children go on holiday’

Rishi Sunak said that the Government was launching a fresh crackdown on vaping among children and young people (Nick Ansell/PA)

Ministers to crack down on vape advertising ‘targeted at children’

A Swedish businesswoman worth about £250 million should hand her estranged husband more than £6.5 million following the breakdown of their six-year marriage, a judge has ruled (PA)

Wealthy businesswoman ‘should pay estranged husband more than £6.5 million’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference in Downing Street, London, after the Government unveiled plans for new laws to curb Channel crossings as part of the Illegal Migration Bill. New legislation will be introduced which means asylum

UN refugee agency calls for reform of UK’s ‘flawed’ asylum system

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Homeless tents outside a shop (Yui Mok/PA)

Homeless charity workers to strike in dispute over pay

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Jordanian men dance and sing during the concert in Amman (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Thousands attend free concert in Jordan ahead of royal wedding

Designer Nicoleta Ogledean showing the eye patch can control characters in the games (University of Southampton/PA)

Mobile phone app created to help children overcome lazy eye

Broadcaster ITV has seen its shares hold firm (Ian West/PA)

ITV shares shrug off Phillip Schofield scandal

Holly Willoughby should follow Phillip Schofield “out the door” of This Morning, Eamonn Holmes has said (PA)

Holly Willoughby should follow Phillip Schofield out the door – Eamonn Holmes

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KFOR soldiers and Kosovo police guard a municipal building (Dejan Simicevic/AP)

30 peacekeepers injured in clashes with ethnic Serbs in Kosovo

Left to right, Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Eamonn Holmes alleges ‘total cover-up’ at ITV over Phillip Schofield affair

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A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-16 spaceship lifts off (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

China launches new crew for orbiting space station

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Shoppers wearing face masks observe social distancing as they queued for a shop in east London during the pandemic (Victoria Jones/PA)

Covid lab leak should not be ruled out, says Chinese scientist

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What the papers say

What the papers say – May 30

Ministers are planning a crackdown on waste – by getting people to cut down on what they put in the recycling bins (Yui Mok/PA)

Government looks to tidy up guidance on recycling

The mother of a 10-year-old boy who died after being mauled by a dog has called for a change in the law, saying ‘enough is enough’ (Family handout/PA)

‘Enough is enough’ – Mother of dog attack victim calls for change in the law

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Police Scotland will not follow the Metropolitan Police’s decision to only attend life-threatening mental health callouts (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Police Scotland will not ‘step away’ from mental health calls – senior officer

An apartment building which was reportedly damaged by a Ukrainian drone in Moscow (AP)

Russia says Ukraine drones damage Moscow buildings in pre-dawn attack

Asda chair Stuart Rose (PA)

Retail boss Stuart Rose warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of food price caps

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Jake Hill, right, in the dock at Truro Magistrates’ Court (Elizabeth Cook/PA)

Man denies stabbing rugby player to death outside Cornwall nightclub

(Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Police used spit hood and handcuffs on ‘distressed’ 91-year-old woman

Food prices continued to soar in the year to May (Aaron Chown/PA)

Food inflation slows in May after April record, survey suggests

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Professor Kathleen Stock (Victoria Jones/PA)

Sunak defends Kathleen Stock talk at Oxford ahead of planned protests

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The census shows the Irish population has passed 5 million for the first time since the Great Famine (Brian Lawless/PA)

Ireland’s population tops 5 million for the first time since 1840s

Ineta Dzinguviene, 38, admitted the culpable homicide of her baby in 2010 after her murder conviction was quashed due to her mental state at the time of the crime (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Woman admits killing baby with cling film after wrongful murder conviction

The bus skidded off a bridge (Channi Anand/AP)

At least 10 dead as bus carrying Hindu pilgrims falls into gorge

The Government’s response to a long-running inquiry into child sex abuse has been branded “weak” and “apparently disingenuous” – with ministers accused of failing to understand the need for action (PA)

Government response weak and at times disingenuous – abuse inquiry chairwoman

Reverend Richard Coles has said after departing the BBC that he ‘felt rather hurtled towards the exit’ (Ian West/PA)

Reverend Richard Coles on BBC: ‘I felt rather hurtled towards the exit’

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Unredacted messages and diaries of the former prime minister are at the centre of a legal row between the Cabinet Office and Covid inquiry (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Covid inquiry legal battle looms over Johnson WhatsApp requests

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A new working group is set to consider artist remuneration and streaming (PA)

New industry working group to consider pay issues over music streaming

Part of a building which was reportedly damaged by Ukrainian drone in Moscow (AP)

Buildings damaged in drone attack, Moscow mayor claims

An individual, organisation or company can buy carbon offsets as a way to fund decarbonisation projects and technology (David Jones/PA)

Cost of carbon offsetting could double by 2030 – report

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Hospitality bosses have warned that pubs and restaurants need support amid surges in energy bills (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Pubs and restaurants plead for Government action on energy as bills soar 81%

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Findings suggest a lack of confidence in the Glasgow climate pledge, researchers say (PA)

Keeping 1.5C alive ‘bottom of desired outcomes for global businesses at Cop28’

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Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will visit Estonia and Norway this week (PA)

Cleverly set for Estonia stop-off before Nato gathering

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More than 8000 nursery and early education staff have been ill as a result of mental health in the last five years, the Scottish Conservatives claim. (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Over 8,000 nursery staff absent due to mental health issues, figures show

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Paul Whitehouse, Lee Mack and Steve Coogan, during a Save Windermere – Stop the Sewage campaign event in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria (Danny Lawson/PA)

Comedians back campaign against Lake Windermere sewage pollution

Lisa Nandy, Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Peter Byrne/PA)

Land value reforms among Labour plans to tackle housing crisis

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is more popular than his party among some millennials, according to an Onward report (PA)

Tories need to win over ‘shy capitalist’ millennials, says new report

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A man leads donkeys pulling water barrels in Khartoum, Sudan (Marwan Ali/AAP/PA)

Sudan army and rival force agree to extend ceasefire

Producer Martin Frizell, Phillip Schofield, Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes (Ian West/PA)

Eamonn Holmes accuses former colleague Phillip Schofield of ‘toxicity’

Ukrainian Police officers inspecting a fragment of the rocket after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Russia strikes Kyiv in daylight after series of nighttime barrages

Mohsen Al Awadhi, director of UAE Space Missions Department, right, and Hoor AlMaazmi UAE, space science researcher, take part at a press conference revealing the latest news about the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

UAE announces mission to asteroid belt to seek clues to life’s origins

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Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has written to health and social care services to say police will no longer attend after August 31 unless there is a threat to life (PA)

More time needed to fill gap left if Met cuts mental health response – RCP chief

Low-flavanol diet linked to age-related memory loss (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Diet low in flavanols may drive age-related memory loss, scientists claim

A Kosovar police car burns in Zvecan (AP)

Peacekeeping troops hurt as ethnic Serbs clash with police in Kosovo

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The dormitory of a secondary school following the fire (Guyana’s Department of Public Information via AP/PA)

Girl, 15, charged as adult with 19 counts of murder in Guyana school fire

People wait to view the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster (Charlie Riedel/AP)

Nun whose body shows little decay since death draws hundreds to rural Missouri

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Phillip Schofield (Suzan Moore/PA)

Phillip Schofield defends This Morning amid affair furore and ‘toxicity’ claims

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Stormzy said in a magazine interview that “the greatest music on Earth” is coming out of Africa (Ian West/PA)

Stormzy: ‘The greatest music on Earth is coming out of Africa’

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People walk among headstones as they visit Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day (Alex Brandon/AP)

Biden marks Memorial Day nearly two years after ending America’s longest war

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