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About one in 10 of 10,506 scheduled stops were cancelled between January and November 2024, according to National Rail figures collected by train data website On Time Trains.

This contributed to the north-west of England being the region with the highest rate of cancelled railway stops across Britain at 6.5%, with 611,047 cancellations.

The government said it was committed to delivering the biggest overhaul of the railways in a generation, bringing services back into public ownership to reinvest in them.

Meher, 22, a recent graduate from Bolton, has experienced regular cancellations at Manchester Victoria.

She said as a student in Preston, she had probably missed hundreds of hours of university because of train cancellations.

“I think most of the time, we were more stressed about our trains than our work,” she said. “It was mostly at evening time when we were heading back, so we were coming home later than expected and missing quite a bit of mosque.”

Meher said cancelled trains had meant travelling home in the dark more often, adding: “If it’s darker, then it’s much worse and you’re alone as well. It does impact your safety.”

Lord Mandelson is expected to be named as the UK’s next ambassador to the US.

The Labour grandee, who served in multiple ministerial roles under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before taking up a life peerage in the Lords, was considered to be one of the frontrunners for the position.

He will replace Dame Karen Pierce, whose term in Washington DC is due to end in early 2025.

An architect of New Labour, Lord Mandelson was seen as a key adviser to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the run-up to the 2024 election.

During that election, he was among the hosts of the How To Win An Election podcast for the Times, while also serving as a trustee of the Design Museum and chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University.

His name was linked to the chancellorship of the University of Oxford, where he once studied, but it ultimately went to former Conservative leader Lord William Hague.

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices hope that President-elect Donald Trump will pick up his work to normalize ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel, acknowledging a historic deal will not happen under Joe Biden’s administration.

Blinken until recently was still voicing hope at reaching an agreement, which he had dangled as an incentive for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to show moderation in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

“The work that we’ve done on putting in place the elements of that deal, including what we and Saudi Arabia would do together, what they would do with Israel, all of that is now there,” Blinken says in an interview

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An Israeli soldier visiting Sri Lanka had to flee the country after he was identified by a pro-Palestinian organization, Channel 12 reports.

Yesterday, the Hind Rajab Foundation posted a picture of the soldier, Gal Ferenbook, and said that it had appealed to Sri Lankan authorities, the International Criminal Court, and Interpol, demanding his arrest over the killing of a civilian in Gaza.

According to the organization, Ferenbook posted a video on his Instagram account on August 9 showing what it claims is a dead Palestinian civilian. Ferenbook laughs as another soldier calls him “the Terminator.”

Ferenbook received an urgent call from Israeli authorities telling him to leave Colombo before he was arrested.

Other similar incidents have taken place abroad, according to the report, including in Cyprus.

“The IDF does everything it can and uses all available means to protect its servicemembers at home and abroad,” says the IDF.

An IDF drone strike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem earlier today killed a senior terror operative who the Shin Bet says was being financed by Iran, alongside three other Palestinian gunmen.

According to the Shin Bet, the target of the strike was Tariq al-Doush, who is identified as one of the commanders of a terror network in Tulkarem.

The Shin Bet says that al-Doush worked to recruit operatives in the past year to carry out attacks, who would be armed with Iranian financing via operatives in Lebanon.

The operatives in Lebanon who were in contact with al-Doush are members of the Makdah family, who the Shin Bet has accused in the past of working with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to advance terror attacks in the West Bank.

The network that al-Doush headed was involved in several shooting attacks against IDF troops, checkpoints, and Israeli towns near the West Bank security barrier, the agency says.

The Shin Bet says the network planned to carry out attacks in Israel as well.

The head of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claims Israeli airstrikes at the Hodeida port and in the rebel-held capital Sana’a killed nine civilians.

“The Israeli enemy targeted ports in Hodeida and power stations in Sana’a, and the Israeli aggression resulted in the martyrdom of nine civilian martyrs,” Abdul Malik al-Huthi says in a lengthy speech broadcast by the rebels’ Al-Masira TV.

The preplanned IDF operation coincided with the Houthis firing a missile that hit a school in central Israel early this morning.

Israeli military sources said the strikes were aimed at paralyzing all three ports used by the Houthis on the coast of the country. It was the third time Israel has struck Yemen in response to Houthi attacks, including a July strike after a drone killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.

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