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Portrait of the Week: the war on smoking, Trump’s trial and O.J.’s death

issue 20 April 2024

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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that British fighter jets had shot down ‘a number of drones’ fired at Israel from Iran. Additional RAF jets were deployed over Iraq and Syria, where Britain was already taking part in Operation Shader against the Islamic State group. Some people decided not to attend the annual Downing Street Eid party in protest at the government’s support for Israel; the Prime Minister was not there because he was making a statement to the House on Iran’s attack. A Muslim pupil at the Michaela School in Wembley, whose head teacher is Katharine Birbalsingh, failed at the High Court in challenging its ban on prayer rituals.

More than 250 survivors of the Manchester Arena bomb attack in 2017 planned to take legal action against MI5; a public inquiry found that MI5 had missed a chance to prevent the bombing.

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