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Joe Biden will urge Liz Truss to work with the EU to find a negotiated outcome to solve post-Brexit tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol, the White House has said.

The US president and the prime minister will hold a delayed meeting in New York today as the Truss attends the UN summit. She declined to discuss the protocol with President Macron of France during a meeting yesterday and No 10 did not say if she will bring it up with Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president.

Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, made it clear that Biden will discuss it “in some detail” with Truss.

Sullivan told reporters that the president “will encourage the UK and the European Union to work out an effective outcome that ensures there is no threat to the fundamental principles of the Good Friday Agreement”.

The prime minister is pressing ahead with her controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which the EU and other critics say will breach international law. Some are predicting that she could unilaterally trigger Article 16 of the protocol, to override parts of the agreement brokered as part of the Brexit divorce deal

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Liz Truss met Olena Zelenska in New York

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Liz Truss met Olena Zelenska, the wife of the Ukrainian president, and Denys Shmyhal, the prime minister, as they toured an exhibition entitled “Russian Warcrimes” at the Ukrainian Institute of America on Tuesday evening. They briefly crossed paths with Brigitte Macron, the French first lady, as she arrived for her own tour.

The exhibition includes more than 20 large format photographs showing civilians killed or injured. “These are the type of crimes we thought had been consigned to history,” Truss said.

The two met as Russia signalled that it would annex swathes of Ukraine by holding referendums in the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya regions.

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King Charles returns to Scotland as Royal Family grieve Queen in private - STV News

The new King has returned to Scotland as the Royal Family begins a period of private mourning following the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

Charles travelled by plane from RAF Northolt on Tuesday morning and arrived at Aberdeen Airport in the early afternoon.

He is understood to be accompanied by the Queen Consort, Camilla.

On Monday night, Queen Elizabeth was buried alongside her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle.

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The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II arrives outside of St George’s chapel inside Windsor castle on September 19, 2022. Getty Images

It followed a day of ceremonies and processions marking the funeral of the late monarch watched by millions around the world and attended by thousands of dignitaries, world leaders, public representatives, friends and family.

It is the first time the King has returned to Scotland following a procession in which the Queen’s coffin was taken from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh during Operation Unicorn last week.

On the evening of Monday, September 12, King Charles III, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex took their places at the four sides of the oak coffin for a silent vigil.

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King Charles III and his siblings returned to St Giles’ Cathedral on Monday, September 12, for a vigil held beside the Queen’s Coffin. STV News

Charles then travelled to London before visiting Northern Ireland and Wales.

The Queen’s committal service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor on Monday afternoon marked the end of the ten days of public mourning for the late monarch.

The Queen’s coffin was interred with the Grenadier Guards’ Queen’s Company Camp Colour, a smaller version of the Royal Standard of the Regiment, which the King placed on her coffin at the end of the committal service.

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At 9pm on Monday, the official website of the Royal Family confirmed that a private burial took place in The King George VI Memorial Chapel this evening, conducted by the Dean of Windsor.

“The Queen was buried together with the Duke of Edinburgh, at The King George VI Memorial Chapel,” the statement said.

The Royal Family has announced that members will observe a further seven days of private mourning and will not undertake any duties during this time.

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King Charles flies back to Scotland on private jet after Queen's funeral - Daily Record

King Charles has flown back to Scotland to mourn the Queen after she was laid to rest alongside her beloved husband Prince Philip.

The Royal Family will continue mourning for another week and will perform no public duties scheduled for seven days, following the Queen's funeral on Monday.

The sovereign has left RAF Northolt on the private jet with the Queen Consort Camilla is by his side, reports the Mirror.

He is due to land in Aberdeen this lunchtime, it has been claimed. The King's escorts removed their helmets and bowed while he boarded the plane with his wife, MailOnline report.

While in Scotland, he is expected to visit Balmoral, where the Queen died 12 days ago. It is understood he may also spend a period of time at Birkhall, his Scottish home on the Balmoral estate. He inherited from the Queen Mother following her death in 2002.

His return comes after the royals last night published an unseen picture of Her Majesty happily hiking in Balmoral.

The royal family released this never-before-seen picture of the Queen, from 1971, shortly after the private burial service.

The picture, showing the late monarch in her beloved Scottish residence in 1971, came after a difficult day for the family and country as they said goodbye to the monarch for the last time at a service in Westminster, before another in Windsor.

Alongside the image was a quote paraphrased from William Shakespeare's Hamlet which King Charles had ended his first public address to the nation with, 24 hours after his beloved mother's death.

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Liz Truss admits UK-US trade deal could be years away with no 'negotiations taking place' - Sky News

The much-vaunted post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and US could be years away, Liz Truss admitted as she landed in the US before her first official bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden.

The prime minister, en route to the United Nations General Assembly, told reporters on Tuesday: "There aren't currently any negotiations taking place with the US and I don't have an expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term."

Ms Truss, a former foreign and trade secretary, said her priority with international allies was to "collectively deal with Russia aggression".

Her focus for trade deals had moved eastwards, she said, citing her desire for a trade deal with India. Her predecessor, Boris Johnson, pledged in June to secure one by the end of the year.

Ms Truss also wants a deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The third target is to achieve UK accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) grouping of nations that takes in Australia, Canada and Japan and is one of the world's biggest trading blocs.

"Those are our trade priorities," she said.

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Her remarks come after the White House warned this month that any attempt to undo the Northern Ireland Protocol, which governs trade rules between the EU, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, could hurt chances of a bilateral trade agreement.

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Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said there is "no formal linkage" between the two issues but also said any effort to undo the Northern Ireland Protocol "would not create a conducive environment, and that's basically where we are with the dialogue".

President Biden made similar remarks a year ago when he said in the Oval Office - with Mr Johnson, who was the prime minister at the time, sitting next to him - that while the issues of a US-UK trade deal and the Northern Ireland Protocol were "separate", he felt "very strongly" that he did not want a change to the Irish accords resulting in a closed border.

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The UK and EU remain in dispute over the trading arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with the UK insisting physical checks on farm produce and other goods are removed.

The UK has also insisted it will act unilaterally if a solution cannot be found and has drawn up legislation to enable the UK to tear up part of the protocol.

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The bill was tabled by Ms Truss this summer and is expected to reach the Lords in mid-October, and threatens to further escalate tensions between the EU and potentially the US as well.

Mr Johnson and his government had championed a US trade deal as a big Brexit bonus, while President Trump insisted in 2017 the UK was "at the front of the queue".

But Mr Johnson was forced to admit in 2021 that the US has "a lot of fish to fry" and that a trade deal might not be secured by the 2024 general election. "The Americans do negotiate very hard," he said.

Ms Truss now appears to have mothballed a free trade deal with Britain's closest ally and the world's biggest economy and wants to use her trip to the UN to focus on Ukraine and collectively tackling Russia aggression.

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Queen Elizabeth's funeral: For one day, the nation stood still - BBC

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It was a day when people stood still - on the streets and in their homes - to witness Queen Elizabeth II's final journey.

Royals and world leaders were inside Westminster Abbey. But outside there were many more, ordinary mourners lining the streets of central London. And further beyond - in living rooms and parks, in pubs, cinemas and town squares - the British public marked the first state funeral for nearly six decades in millions of individual ways.

In Doncaster, Alistair Mitchell brought afternoon tea and sandwiches for his mother, who had not been able to make the journey to London. At the Curzon cinema in Sheffield, there were no pre-show trailers, or the sound of rustling popcorn - just an audience dressed mostly in black as they watched the ceremony. Blackpool's illuminations were switched off.

At 06:32 BST, the final mourner filed past the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall as her four-and-a-half-day lying-in-state drew to a close. The Queue had come to end. But overnight, Monday's crowd was already gathering. At Horse Guards Parade, it was 10-people deep before 08:30. By 09:10, viewing areas for the procession route were full.

At The Mall, the Rowlassons - Kyre, 23, his mum Beveley, 41, and granddad Fred, 72 - had secured a front-row spot, after setting off from Birmingham the previous day. All three had spent the night on the ground in their sleeping bags. Had they slept? "Not a wink," says Kyre.

And then, at 10:44, the Queen's coffin began its short journey to Westminster Abbey.

As she went to switch on her television, Liz Perry, 59, was struck by the silence outside her living room, in Derby. It was, Liz thought, as if a blanket had been draped over the entire street - clearly, all her neighbours were tuning in too.

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At St Anne's Church, in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, Sue Lalor had taken her seat in a pew. A screen above the altar was showing the service. Sue could have watched at home but that would have meant doing so alone. "This was a moment I wanted to share with other people," she said.

Not everyone in the country has been as caught up in the emotion of recent days but some 250 miles (400km) away in Harwich, Essex, landlord Nick May agreed with Sue. His first instinct had been to close his pub, The Alma, out of respect, but his staff persuaded him to stay open.

"This is a group moment of grief," Nick said. Gathered in the bar were about 35 people from around the coastal town. Several were veterans. Others, said Nick, had lost parents or grandparents and saw the Queen as a reminder of times past.

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Waiting for the service to begin, Andrew Smith stood in Birmingham's Centenary Square and felt goosebumps rising on his arm. He and his wife Margaret, from Barnwell, Northamptonshire, were in the city to celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary.

Margaret's mind was on 1953, when she had been taken to watch the Queen's coronation at her nan's house and later to a street party. "She's like our grandmother, she's always been there," Margaret said, visibly emotional.

At 11:00, the funeral was under way. The Very Rev David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster, spoke of the Queen's "unswerving commitment to a high calling over so many years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth".

Meanwhile, in Manchester's Cathedral Gardens, rain was falling. Rebecca Watson, 38, thought of those who had filed through the streets of London over the weekend to witness the Queen's lying-in-state and resolved to stay where she was. "If people have been in a queue for 14 hours I think we can cope with this," she said.

As she watched in a park in Hastings, Jo Musson, 62, who had set off on holiday from her home in Worcestershire in her campervan before the Queen's death, worried that she had not packed any black clothes.

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Inside Westminster Abbey, the congregation began to sing The Lord Is My Shepherd. More than 300 miles away in Belfast, Simon Freedman, 51, from Coleraine, County Londonderry, thought of his mother, Olive. It had been her favourite hymn, but when she died of Covid in 2020 at the age of 79, the family had been unable to hold a service in which they could sing it. "I knew when that hymn came on I'd shed a tear."

Ahead of the two minutes' silence, everyone in the Royal British Legion, in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, stood, bowed their heads, and sang along to the national anthem.

Afterwards, a lone bagpiper played a lament. For Emma Parsons-Reid, 55, watching at home in Ely, Cardiff, with family and neighbours, it was at this point that the Queen's death struck home. "For the first time, it felt real," she said.

On The Mall, many spectators had watched the service on their phones. As the Queen's coffin made its way towards them, spectators stood on tiptoes, with children lifted on to shoulders, as the crowd collectively craned its necks for a final glimpse.

Then, as the procession passed, they fell silent.

In Windsor, a committal service would be held at St George's Chapel - where the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, were married in 2018 and where the Queen's late husband Prince Philip's funeral was also held.

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Dianne Turner, 62, didn't intend to go to Windsor's Long Walk to watch the funeral procession. She had wanted to be in the crowds in central London when she had set off from Somerset but there were problems with the trains so she went to Windsor instead.

As she watched the committal service on the screens at Windsor, she wept. "I think I got so emotional because my mum loved the Queen and this would have meant a lot to her." Dianne had never met the Queen, but - like so many others - felt as though she had.

By the time the state hearse slowly passed Dianne, taking Queen Elizabeth II towards her final resting place, businesses had already begun to reopen. Life was returning to normality.

But not entirely as before. People had paused and thought about what was gone.

Reporting by Oli Constable, Simon Hare, Gavin Bevis, Marie Jackson, Duncan Leatherdale, Maisie Olah, Margaret Ryan, Rozina Sini, Peter Walker and Laurence Cawley.

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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral: Monarch and Prince Philip reunited in final Windsor resting place — follow latest - The Times

Queen Elizabeth II has been reunited with her beloved husband, father, mother and sister in a private and intimate ceremony at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

After 70 years as sovereign and 96 years at the heart of British society, she finally slipped from public view at 4.50pm as her coffin was lowered via a lift beneath the chapel’s chequered floor. It descended into the large royal vault where Prince Philip was laid to rest in April last year.

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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral: Monarch lowered into royal vault at Windsor — follow latest - The Times

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has been lowered into the royal vault after a service of committal at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. This has concluded the public portion of ceremonies for the day, with a private burial due to take place at 7.30pm.

The Queen will be laid to rest in the George VI Memorial Chapel with her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh. She will be next to her father, mother and sister.

His Majesty the King, the Queen Consort and the rest of the royal family joined hundreds of employees of the late Queen as her soul was committed to God, and her crown, sceptre and orb were removed from the coffin.

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