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The Rolling Stones have announced a tour through North America next year off the back of their new album.

After the legendary rock band released Hackney Diamonds in October, they announced they will be playing on the other side of the Atlantic from 28 April to 17 July in 2024.

The tour will kick off in the US, at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, and wrap up at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

Stops for The Rolling Stones also include the New Orleans Jazz Fest in Louisiana and Glendale’s State Farm Stadium in Arizona.

Canadians will also be able to see the veteran rockers play at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia.

A fan presale for tickets starts on 29 November, while general onsale tickets go live on 1 December.

At the end of last month, The Rolling Stones topped the album charts for the 14th time with Hackney Diamonds.

It marked their first collection of new material in 18 years, after 2005’s A Bigger Bang.

It was also the first album for Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards without drummer Charlie Watts, who died in 2021.

Counting reissues, greatest hits and live albums, the band now stands alongside Robbie Williams with a total of 14 number-one albums – just behind The Beatles with 16.

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Speaking ahead of the albums release at an event in Hackney, hosted by comedian Jimmy Fallon, Sir Mick shared his excitement about the record.

“I don’t want to be big-headed but we wouldn’t have put this album out if we hadn’t really liked it,” he told the audience.

“We said we had to make a record we really love ourselves. We are quite pleased with it, we are not big-headed about it, but we hope you all like it.”

A British woman is among three people who have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a far-right politician in Spain earlier this month.

Alejandro Vidal-Quadras, who co-founded the Vox party, was shot in the face in the affluent Salamanca area of Madrid on 9 November.

The 78-year-old, who also used to lead Spain’s centre-right People’s Party in Catalonia, remains in hospital.

A Spanish man and his British partner were arrested in the city of Lanjaron in southern Spain, according to local media.

A man detained in Fuengirola, also a Spaniard, was arrested in connection with a motorbike used in the shooting.

EFE and other media outlets said none of the three was suspected of having fired the shot that hit Mr Vidal-Quadras.

The shooting is being treated as a possible terrorist attack.

Earlier this month, police said that Mr Vidal-Quadras had raised the possibility he was targeted because of his ties with Iran’s political opposition.

Investigators were exploring a potential Iranian link but so far have no found evidence of one, police said.

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Mr Vidal-Quadras has been aligned for decades with the Iranian opposition in exile.

In January, Iran’s foreign ministry imposed sanctions on him and others with ties to the exiled opposition group known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, accusing them of “supporting terrorism and terrorist groups”.

Mr Vidal-Quadras was an important member of Spain’s conservative Popular Party and a European Parliament member before he helped found Vox.

He has not been active in politics for several years but maintained a public role as a media commentator and columnist.

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The motion calling for the closure of the embassy passed with 248 votes in favour and 91 votes against.

South Africa’s Parliament has voted in favour of a motion calling for the closure of Israel’s embassy in Pretoria amid soaring tensions between the two countries over the Israeli assault on Gaza.

The motion is largely symbolic as it will be will be up to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government whether to implement it.

The motion calling for the closure of the embassy passed on Tuesday with 248 votes in favour and 91 votes against.

The motion introduced by the leftwing opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was backed by the ruling African National Congress and opposed by members of the centrist, white-majority Democratic Alliance (DA) which is largely pro-Israel.

Ramaphosa has previously said his country believes Israel is committing war crimes and genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, where thousands of Palestinians have been killed.

The vote comes after Israel announced it was recalling its ambassador Eli Belotserkovsky from Pretoria “for consultations”.

The African country has not had an ambassador in Israel since 2018.

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The first images have emerged of 41 men trapped for a tenth day under a collapsed road in India.

It showed some dozen men in construction hats grouped around the blocked tunnel as they communicated with rescuers on the ground with walkie-talkies.

The video was taken by a snakelike medical endoscopy camera fed through a newly installed pipe used for sending food to the workers.

It was the first time in more than a week that the men received hot food, made up of rice and lentils, sent through the six-inch tube.

Until now, the workers have survived off dry food sent through an even narrower pipe, while oxygen continues to be supplied through a separate one.

Despite reports of some workers falling ill last week, authorities confirmed the group was safe, having also received water, medicine and access to light.

A psychiatrist sent to the site by the state government reported they had been “sleeping well” and advised them to occupy themselves with light yoga and regular conversations.

A landslide on Sunday caused a portion of the 4.5km tunnel in Uttarkashi, northern India, to collapse about 200m from the entrance.

Uttarkashi is about 160 miles (260km) northeast of Delhi, close to the Himalayas.

A huge rescue operation was launched but it was hampered when one of the drills digging towards the men was damaged.

The machine’s high-intensity vibrations caused more debris to fall as the rescue efforts were briefly postponed, to the dismay of family members who hoped to see their relatives.

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Rescue teams will need to clear 103m of rubble to reach the men – nearly double the distance as the original rescue attempt.

There is hope to get a “breakthrough in the next 30 to 40 hours” according to Mahmood Ahmed, the head of the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) responsible for building the tunnel.

Its construction is part of a flagship federal government project connecting various Hindu pilgrimage sites.

The trapped men are low-wage workers, most from poor states in the north and east of India.

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