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• Airstrike on mosque near Aleppo in Syria 'kills 42'

  17-03-2017 06:34 via uk.news.yahoo.com
  
  Warplanes struck a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jina, in northwest Syria, killing at least 42 people and wounding dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said on Thursday.The jets struck the village, southwest of Atarib near Aleppo, as the mosque was full of worshippers at evening prayer, said the Observatory, which monitors the Syrian war via a network of contacts across the country.The US military said it carried out an air strike on Thursda
  
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• NBA finals Game 3: Boston Celtics v Dallas Mavericks – live

  13-06-2024 02:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Email Beau with your thoughts on this evening’s gameLatest score from 8.30pm ET tip-off in DallasKristaps Porzingis ruled out of game with injuryNever tell me the odds …As far as I can tell, the Mavericks are slight favorites tonight at home. The spread is either 1.5 points or 2.5 points or 3.5 points, the Mavericks are even money or -145 to win, the Celtics are -120 but the moneyline says they’re +125. Continue reading...
  
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• Starmer promises ‘long-term strategy’ in business-friendly Labour manifesto

  13-06-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour puts economic policy and wealth creation at heart of pitch to win over former Conservative votersKeir Starmer will put economic growth and wealth creation at the heart of Labour’s offer to voters as he launches a business-friendly manifesto targeted at former Conservative voters.The Labour leader will launch his election manifesto in Greater Manchester on Thursday, promising to emphasise economic stability in a deliberate contrast to the Conservatives’ more policy-heavy offeri
  
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• Russia accused of ‘deliberate’ starvation tactics in Mariupol in submission to ICC

  13-06-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawyers say strategy of denying food and services to people in Ukrainian city during siege could amount to war crimeRussia engaged in a “deliberate pattern” of starvation tactics during the 85-day siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in early 2022, which amounted to a war crime, according to a fresh analysis submitted to the international criminal court.The conclusion is at the heart of a dossier in the process of being submitted to the ICC in The Hague by the lawyers Global Right
  
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• Euro 2024 team guides part 21: Czech Republic

  13-06-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Jaroslav Silhavy’s abrupt departure gave Ivan Hasek limited preparation but the Tomas Soucek-led Czechs will be dangerousThis article is part of the Guardian’s Euro 2024 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 24 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 14 June. Continue reading...
  
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• Deadly cancer treatment delays now ‘routine’ in NHS, say damning reports

  13-06-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Studies sound alarm at state of cancer care with hundreds of thousands waiting months to start essential treatmentHundreds of thousands of people are being forced to wait months to start essential cancer treatment, with deadly delays now “routine” and even children struck by the disease denied vital support, according to a series of damning reports.Health chiefs, charities and doctors have sounded the alarm over the state of cancer care in the UK as three separate studies painted a s
  
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• FA funds police unit to catch those who abuse England players on social media

  12-06-2024 23:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Unit will pay for prosecutions of online abusers‘We are doing things differently,’ says Mark BullinghamThe Football Association has funded a special unit within the British police to help them prosecute anyone who abuses England’s players on social media. The governing body has long been committed to passing on the evidence of such instances to the authorities and there has sadly been too much of it.But as England prepare for their opening Euro 2024 tie against Serbia on Sunday
  
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• England succession plan in place if Southgate leaves, insists FA chief

  12-06-2024 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  FA insists it has not spoken to potential successors‘We will evaluate everything after the tournament’The Football Association’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, has insisted the organisation has a succession plan in place for the possible departure of Gareth Southgate after Euro 2024.Bullingham gave little away on the detail, preferring to reinforce Southgate’s line about the only focus being on success here in Germany, where England get under way against Serbia on Sund
  
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• In the challenger v the gaffer election event, the audience was the winner

  12-06-2024 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Sunak’s interview about going without Sky TV as a child was the perfect warm-up act but Keir Starmer got a few laughs too Well, there’s good news for Sacha Baron Cohen: The Brothers Grimsby is no longer the most excruciating thing set in Grimsby. Asked to name something that might endear him to the public, the exhausted-looking prime minister basically spent a long time gibbering “I like sweets.” As someone famously deprived of a Sky subscription as a child, Rishi Sunak w
  
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• Keely Hodgkinson fights through illness to strike European 800m gold

  12-06-2024 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Briton holds off Gajanova to retain title Women’s 4x100m team win gold for BritainKeely Hodgkinson’s throat felt like sandpaper, her head was thumping, and her sniffles were worsening by the hour. And, as she lay in her bed before the European 800m final, one question went through her head. Can I run?It was a decision she left to the wire. But after a warm-up that involved loading up on First Defence, Aspirin, paracetamol and vitamin C, the brilliant 22-year-old decided to roll the d
  
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• Sandy Hook survivors call for gun control as they graduate high school

  12-06-2024 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Newtown students declare ‘time for change’ more than 11 years after one of the deadliest US school shootingsStudents who survived one of the deadliest school mass shootings in US history are graduating high school on Wednesday, as many call for more action on gun control.Emotions were running high at Newtown high school in Connecticut on Wednesday, more than 11 years after a former student entered Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 with guns and killed small children, teachers and
  
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• US Golf Association ‘serious’ about letting more LIV rebels into US Open

  12-06-2024 21:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Only 12 LIV players in 156-man field at Pinehurst World No 1 Scheffler playing down status as favouriteThe United States Golf Association unveiled plans on Wednesday to discuss pathways for golfers signed with the rebel LIV Golf series into the US Open, acknowledging the permanence of the sport’s “new world order”.Jon Rahm’s injury withdrawal on Tuesday left only a dozen LIV players in the 156-man field for the season’s third major at Pinehurst No 2 with four c
  
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• Kuwait building fire kills at least 49 Indian workers

  12-06-2024 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 50 people also injured in fire, which broke out in a six-storey building housing foreign workersAt least 49 people, all Indian nationals, have been killed in a fire which swept through a building housing foreign workers in Kuwait.More than 50 others were injured in the blaze, which broke out in the six-storey building south of Kuwait City at dawn on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Jeff Bezos once saved the Washington Post. Now he needs to do it again | Margaret Sullivan

  12-06-2024 20:55 via theguardian.com
  
  The paper’s reinvention, with the appointment of Will Lewis as publisher, is a mess – but there’s still time to turn things aroundGet Margaret Sullivan’s latest columns delivered straight to your inboxWhat’s the point of owning the Washington Post if it’s no longer the Washington Post? By that, I mean the iconic US newspaper whose storied reputation is based on holding powerful people and institutions accountable, all for the sake of democracy? The paper that
  
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• Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize

  12-06-2024 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The £8m award goes to system that could herald ‘sea change’ in antibiotic use by identifying correct treatment for urinary tract infections within 45 minutesAn £8m prize for a breakthrough in the fight against superbugs has been awarded, after a decade-long search for a winner, to a test that can identify how to treat a urinary tract infection in 45 minutes.The test could herald a “sea change” in antibiotic use, the judges said as they announced the winner of
  
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• Federal Reserve holds interest rates at two-decade high as it waits for inflation to cool

  12-06-2024 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Instead of cutting rates, central bank keeps them between 5.25% and 5.5%, where they have been for nearly a yearThe Federal Reserve held interest rates at a two-decade high on Wednesday, as it awaits more signs of inflation cooling.Officials at the US central bank expect to cut rates just once this year, according to projections released on Wednesday after their latest two-day meeting. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘All eyes are on her’: Italy’s far-right chameleon, Giorgia Meloni, prepares to host the G7

  12-06-2024 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  The Italian leader, hardline at home and moderate abroad, is in a powerful position after the European electionsWhen Giorgia Meloni met Joe Biden at the White House in March, he played Ray Charles’s Georgia on My Mind as she entered the room. “We have each other’s backs,” he later told reporters, before planting a tender kiss on her forehead as the meeting wrapped up.The cosy get-together was the clearest sign yet that the Italian prime minister, a chameleon of a communic
  
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• Magic mushrooms helped a Navajo woman deal with trauma. Now she wants to help others

  12-06-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Marlena Robbins believes psilocybin could help treat mental health and addiction issues among Native AmericansEven though therapy helped Marlena Robbins better understand her intergenerational trauma, she wanted to delve deeper into her healing practice. In 2019, on the recommendation of her partner, Robbins sat at her home altar with a dose of psychedelic mushrooms. Drawing upon her Diné, or Navajo, heritage, she said a prayer and asked the mushrooms for guidance. The experience changed
  
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• Euro 2024 viewers will see how ‘snickometer’ technology can aid decisions

  12-06-2024 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Technology will assist with handballs and offsidesMicrochip fitted in ball was a success at Qatar 2022Fans watching Euro 2024 on television will benefit from an equivalent of cricket’s “snickometer” for the first time this summer, potentially offering greater clarity around handball and offside decisions.“Connected ball” technology, which fits match balls with a motion-sensing microchip that can track every touch at a rate of 500 times a second, will be used in Germ
  
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• Hunter Biden conviction could boost father against Trump, experts suggest

  12-06-2024 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysts say guilty verdict undermines Trump’s claim that a weaponised justice department is unfairly pursuing himHunter Biden’s conviction on gun-ownership charges may have handed his father, Joe, a boost in the forthcoming presidential election, analysts say, because it undermines the image of a president weaponising the US justice system to pursue Donald Trump.Trump, the former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has pushed that line relentlessly to explain his con
  
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• The Guardian view on Europe’s imperilled green deal: time to outflank the radical right | Editorial

  12-06-2024 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The burden of transition on economically insecure voters must be eased via a more ambitious fiscal approach by governmentsFollowing the European parliament elections of 2019, the newly elected president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, told MEPs: “If there is one area where the world needs our leadership, it is on protecting our climate … We do not have a moment to waste. The faster Europe moves, the greater the advantage will be for our citizens, our competitivenes
  
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• The Guardian view on water privatisation: end an experiment that has failed | Editorial

  12-06-2024 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour should take lessons from the Netherlands, where public sector firms are funded by a state-owned bankThe private sector provision of water services in England is an oddity in the world: 90% of countries run state-owned operations. Even in Europe, it is the only country to have sold its water resources – including pipes, reservoirs, boreholes and treatment plants – to private owners, now mostly a collection of sovereign wealth, infrastructure and pension funds. The decision to p
  
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• Hezbollah fires big salvo of rockets at Israel after senior commander killed

  12-06-2024 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Attack in apparent retaliation for killing of Taleb Abdallah, Lebanese group’s most senior official to die in hostilitiesThe Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has launched its biggest salvo of rockets at Israel since the war in Gaza began in retaliation for the killing of a senior field commander, bringing the two sides closer to all-out conflict.An Israeli airstrike on the village of Jouaiya in southern Lebanon late on Tuesday night killed three Hezbollah operatives as well as Taleb Abdal
  
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• G7 leaders head to Italy for summit as Ukraine and Russia top the agenda

  12-06-2024 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  US wants show of strength with planned sanctions for helping Russia, but group will also discuss migration, Middle East and AIA dramatic expansion of entities exposed to US sanctions for helping the Russian economy and an EU-led $50bn loan to ease the financial burden on Ukraine will be at the centre of discussions at a summit of the leaders of wealthy G7 nations in Puglia, Italy, starting on Thursday.The leaders, facing unprecedented challenges from discontented electorates, will be under heigh
  
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• Body of TV presenter Michael Mosley to be repatriated by the weekend

  12-06-2024 19:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The result of tests to determine the cause of death could take months, but an autopsy has ruled out any criminal actionThe body of Dr Michael Mosley is likely to be released to his family and repatriated by the weekend, forensic pathologists have said.But tests revealing the precise cause of his death could take months because of a lack of certified laboratories to conduct advanced analysis. Continue reading...
  
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• Les Républicains leader vows to stay on despite revolt over Le Pen alliance plans

  12-06-2024 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Éric Ciotti was thought to have locked party’s headquarters, where colleagues were to meet in bid to oust himÉric Ciotti, the leader of France’s mainstream rightwing party, Les Républicains, has vowed he will stay in his job despite key members of his party voting unanimously to oust him over his proposed alliance with the far right.Ciotti was believed to have been holed up in his office on Wednesday after locking members out of his party’s Paris headquarte
  
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• Elon Musk sued by SpaceX engineers claiming they were illegally fired

  12-06-2024 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Musk ordered firings after engineers raised concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination, lawsuit saysSpaceX and its chief executive, Elon Musk, were sued on Wednesday by eight engineers who say they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against women, their lawyers have said.The eight engineers include four women and four men and claim that Musk, who owns the rocket-maker, the electric carmaker Tesla and the social media plat
  
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• Hazlewood raises prospect of run-rate shenanigans but England’s task clear

  12-06-2024 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  England face Oman on Thursday with their T20 World Cup future at stake while Australia have stirred the potEngland can do little more than strive to beat Oman and Namibia, beat them well, and hope Australia then do them a serious favour against ­Scotland. But after Josh Hazlewood entertained the notion of Australia potentially manipulating that match to eliminate the defending ­champions – something that could risk up to a two‑match ban for their captain, Mitch Marsh, if prov
  
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• Bear shreds seats then dozes off after breaking into Canadian woman’s car

  12-06-2024 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Black bear apparently opened the vehicle by lifting door handle with its mouth, after breaking into same car last yearAfter a string of vehicle break-ins in a north Canadian town, local residents have identified the culprit: a black bear with a taste for upholstery foam.Awoken by a noise near midnight on 11 June, Kayla Seward, who lives in the Ontario township of Larder Lake, went outside to investigate – and found the sleepy black bear locked inside her car. Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s childhood struggle – cartoon

  12-06-2024 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
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