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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party says that if it wins power, it will appoint a “COVID corruption commissioner” to try and...

says that if it wins power, it will appoint a “COVID corruption commissioner” to try and recoup some of the billions lost to fraud and waste during the pandemic.

A multi-year public inquiry is examining Britain’s handling of the pandemic, which left more than 200,000 people in the country dead.The party is running 15 or more points ahead of the governing Conservatives in multiple opinion polls, as Britain endures a sluggish economy and a cost-of-living crisis driven by the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and economic disruption following the U.K.’s exit from the European Union.Conservatives, who have been in power since 2010.

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Disturbing video shows a 25-year-old woman begging Hamas fighters not to kill her as she's taken hostage and driven into Gaza on a motorbike "I am here to fight for my constituents and I'm here to ensure that America is not on a path to financial ruin," Gaetz told NBC News on Sunday.ReutersDonald Trump blamed President Joe Biden for Hamas’ attack on Israel on Saturday, claiming the long-simmering Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted into new violence because Biden is perceived as “weak.”“It was a big attack with a lot of dead people all over the place,” Trump told an audience at a Waterloo, Iowa rally.

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