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The vote is a two-horse race between Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali, who is standing for the Labour Party, and Green Party leader Zack Polanski [Getty] Voters in London are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in a by-election in former Prime Minister Kier Starmer's constituency of Holborn and St Pancras. The vote is essentially a two-horse race between Camden Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali, who is standing for the Labour Party, and Green Party leader Zack Polanski.

Israeli forces have killed at least 69 people in southern Syria since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, a rights monitor has found, saying that the killings come amid a rise in ground incursions, detentions, raids on homes and checkpoints being installed. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) told The New Arab that the deaths and attacks were part of a pattern of assaults and operations carried out by the Israeli army in the south.

The consulate works to develop Palestinian institutions and support Palestinians living under Israel's occupation [Getty] Israel's upcoming closure of the British consulate in Jerusalem will be "disruptive," but "not the end of the story" for the UK's work in Palestine, Sir Vincent Fean, former British Consul General in Jerusalem, told The New Arab.