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Iraqi forces claim defeat of Islamic kingdom in Falluja
Iraqi forces recaptured the last district held through Islamic state militants within the town of Falluja on Sunday and the overall commanding the operation declared the warfare over after nearly 5 weeks of preventing. Iraqi forces reached the centre of Falluja o June 18 but militants remained holed up in some components of the town west of Baghdad, including in Read More
Sunday trading change ‘dead’ after Commons defeat for Cameron
Number 10 has conceded that its plans to relax Sunday trading laws are dead in the water, after David Cameron suffered his first House of Commons defeat since the election at the hands of his own Conservative MPs. The government’s attempt to let shops trade for longer than six hours each Sunday was voted down after 26 Tory backbenchers teamed Read More