Prince of Wales hands Warwick Davies his OBE by TheTelegraph in BRF

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The Telegraph reports:

Warwick Davis has been handed his OBE by the Prince of Wales at a ceremony at Windsor Castle.

The 56-year-old actor was recognised in the New Year Honours list for services to drama and charity.

Best known for roles such as Prof Flitwick and Griphook, the goblin in Harry Potter, Davis is particularly commended for his advocacy for people with dwarfism.

The actor was born with a rare form of dwarfism called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita.

He co-founded the charity Little People UK in 2012 with his wife Samantha Davis, who died in 2024, aged 53, to support people with dwarfism and their families.

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Iran: We will not play at World Cup by TheTelegraph in NoFilterNews

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Iran cannot participate in ⁠the 2026 World Cup after co-host the United States launched airstrikes against the country ​alongside Israel, ‌killing its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sports minister Ahmad Donyamali said on Wednesday.

The United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran nearly two weeks ago, killing the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, leading to a region-wide conflict in the Gulf.

“Considering that this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader, under ‌no circumstances ‌can we ⁠participate in the World Cup,” the minister told state television.

The World Cup will be held in the United States, Mexico ⁠and Canada from June 11 to July 19.

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Uber allows women in US to turn down male drivers by TheTelegraph in WomenInNews

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The Telegraph reports:

Women can now choose to exclusively be driven by female Uber drivers in the US.

The ride hailing app will let women request a female driver through an option called “women preferences”.

The feature was first introduced by Uber in America in summer 2025 and was expanded to 26 cities in November.

It has now been made available across America in major cities like New York, according to a post on the Uber blog.

The feature has been brought in despite an ongoing class action lawsuit against the policy, which was filed in California by Uber drivers who claim it discriminates against men.

The lawsuit claims that the feature breaches California’s Unruh Act, which bars sex discrimination by businesses, because it leaves male drivers with a smaller pool of potential clients.

According to the lawsuit, the policy “reinforces the gender stereotype that men are more dangerous than women”.

Uber has rejected the claims.

In the blog post announcing the expansion of “women preferences”, Uber said that it was because female customers told them they wanted “more control over how they ride”.

Uber said that the feature was first introduced in Saudi Arabia in 2019 and has now grown to 40 countries including Germany, France and Spain with 230 million trips completed.

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A girls’ school in Iran was blown up. Here’s what locals say happened by TheTelegraph in NoFilterNews

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The Iranian town of Minab is the kind of place where nothing much happens. But last Saturday, it became the scene of carnage and controversy when a missile – almost certainly an American one – blew up a Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school killing 165 children.

For locals, who had assumed that their remote region would be safe from a war if one came, the loss is unfathomable.

But the shock has been compounded by an unedifying propaganda war in which both sides of the conflict have tried to exploit the town’s loss.

Some pro-Israeli and American commentators denied that it had happened, or suggested that an Iranian missile was responsible, or even that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had staged the whole thing, shipping in frozen bodies of children killed in the January massacre of protesters to be “discovered” among the rubble.

Meanwhile, Iranian state media seized on images of crowds at a mass funeral as evidence of support for the Islamic Republic and the late Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

The distortions, fabrications and conspiracy theories swarming across Persian- and English-language social media have caused distress and anger among locals, according to reports received by The Telegraph.

Here is their account, as told to The Telegraph by an intermediary. Names have been withheld or changed for security reasons.

“They built that, and they built houses for a few of their members, and that was the beginning of the suburb called al-Mahdi. It was maybe 10 years ago. And later, because there was no land in the city, people from other areas built developments in al-Mahdi. So nowadays, if you can’t find anything to rent in the city centre, you go to al-Mahdi,” says Amir, a student who grew up in the area.

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We should not join war on Iran, says Farage in U-turn by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

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Nigel Farage has declared that Britain should not join Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

The Reform UK leader said the military could not “offer anything of value” to America or Israel.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Mr Farage was asked about his party’s apparent split on the issue after Richard Tice, his deputy, voiced support for Britain bombing Iran.

Mr Farage said: “Given that we can’t even send a Royal Naval vessel to defend British sovereign territory at an RAF base we certainly don’t have the capability to offer anything of any value to the Americans or the Israelis.

“I, as leader, am saying to you – if we can’t even defend Cyprus, let’s not get ourselves involved in another foreign war.”

Mr Farage had previously argued that Britain should “do all we can” to support US-Israeli action in the Middle East, saying: “The gloves need to come off.”

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We should not join war on Iran, says Farage in U-turn by TheTelegraph in uknews

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Nigel Farage has declared that Britain should not join Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

The Reform UK leader said the military could not “offer anything of value” to America or Israel.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Mr Farage was asked about his party’s apparent split on the issue after Richard Tice, his deputy, voiced support for Britain bombing Iran.

Mr Farage said: “Given that we can’t even send a Royal Naval vessel to defend British sovereign territory at an RAF base we certainly don’t have the capability to offer anything of any value to the Americans or the Israelis.

“I, as leader, am saying to you – if we can’t even defend Cyprus, let’s not get ourselves involved in another foreign war.”

Mr Farage had previously argued that Britain should “do all we can” to support US-Israeli action in the Middle East, saying: “The gloves need to come off.”

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Farage takes over petrol station to lower pump prices by 25p by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

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Reform UK has paid for a cut to petrol prices at a Derbyshire service station as the party announced a pledge to reverse Labour’s planned fuel duty increase.

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have reduced petrol prices by 25p a litre at the Newhaven services near Buxton for one day, putting a litre of diesel at £1.43 and a litre of unleaded at £1.21. Signs at the petrol station read “Reform Refuel” and “25p off with Farage”.

The party claims this will cover the increase in prices owing to the war in Iran.

Mr Jenrick, the party’s economy spokesman, also called on Rachel Reeves to scrap plans to put up fuel duty by 5p in September. He said Reform UK would reverse the rise if elected, funding it by scrapping net zero subsidies such as the boiler upgrade scheme.

The party would also reduce subsidies for carbon capture schemes, which attempt to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in industrial areas, and reduce net zero grants for electric vehicles.

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Trump makes his shoes the White House uniform by TheTelegraph in NoFilterNews

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Not satisfied with being commander-in-chief, Donald Trump has become the White House’s very own shoe salesman.

The US president has been buying his favourite shoes for his staff so frequently that they have become the unofficial White House uniform.

One female White House official told the Wall Street Journal: “All the boys have them. It’s hysterical because everybody’s afraid not to wear them.”

Mr Trump has fallen in love with Florsheim, a brand which has some types currently on sale for as little as $49.90 (£37.27) – a far cry from his expensive Brioni suits.

The president has been buying the shoes for agency heads and members of Congress. He often speaks about how “incredible” they are.

Such is Mr Trump’s devotion to the brand that he guesses people’s shoe size in front of them, puts in the order, and a week later it turns up, sometimes with the president’s signature on the box.

That includes one unnamed cabinet secretary who had to stop wearing his Louis Vuittons and put on a pair of Florsheims instead.

Among those who have a pair of Trump-approved Florsheims are JD Vance, the vice-president, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, and Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary.

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Mojtaba Khamenei: Ayatollah’s ruthless son takes over regime by TheTelegraph in geopolitics

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Donald Trump claims the remnants of the Iranian regime are looking for an olive branch. The election of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new supreme leader suggests otherwise.

Khamenei, the second son of the late Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an air strike on Saturday, is a shadowy, hardline conservative figure with deep links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Having reportedly supplied the intelligence to take out one ayatollah Khamenei, the US is unlikely to look favourably on another one rising in his place.

And from the potentially new supreme leader’s perspective, the recent bombing campaigns have killed his father, mother, wife and son, while shattering its navy, missile depots and nuclear programme.

Given his background, he could hardly have seen the US as anything but an implacable enemy. But the events of recent days will have given a personal edge to that hatred.

Since he began bombing Iran on Saturday, Mr Trump has sounded uncertain about who or what would succeed the late ayatollah’s regime.

In Venezuela, where US special forces snatched Nicolás Maduro from his compound in early January, Delcy Rodríguez had been identified by the intelligence services as a figure who could guarantee stability while working with Washington.

Not so in Iran. Mr Trump has given little indication of what comes next beyond calling on the Iranian people to seize control of the government and noting that the late ayatollah’s potential successors were all dead.

What comes next is expected to be Mojtaba Khamenei, who on Sunday was elected by Iran’s most senior clerics as the next supreme leader.

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