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• Spanish politics is changing drastically as radical left-wing groups take control and enforce siestas

  18-07-2015 23:59
  
  Across Spain, the times they are a-changin’. Two months ago, new local and municipal governments were elected, bringing into office left-wing administrations in some of country’s largest cities – and, with them, some eye-popping legislation.
  
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• Teachers and health workers will be legally required to report FGM under new law

  18-07-2015 23:57
  
  Teachers and health workers will be legally required to report cases of female genital mutilation, under plans being launched by the Government this week.
  
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• £400m revamp of MPs’ offices is a year behind schedule, could delay £7.1bn Houses of Parliament restoration

  18-07-2015 23:57
  
  A £400m project to revamp MPs’ offices is at least a year behind schedule – and could delay the larger £7.1bn structural rescue of the Houses of Parliament.
  
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• How Tim Farron fought against the odds to become leader of the Liberal Democrats

  18-07-2015 23:56
  
  Tim Farron’s successful Liberal Democrat leadership campaign was codenamed “From Langley Park to Memphis”, the title of the third album by 1980s pop band Prefab Sprout.
  
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• Government to take firmer stance on Muslims who fail to denounce jihadis

  18-07-2015 23:56
  
  The Government is set to take a firmer stance against Muslims who fail to oppose Islamist extremism.
  
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• US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to arrive in Israel Sunday - Haaretz

  18-07-2015 23:55 via haaretz.com
  
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  US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to arrive in Israel Sunday
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  The Pentagon described Carter's visit as a continued search for solutions to some of the critical security challenges facing Israel, including Iran and terrorist attacks. By Gili Cohen | Jul. 19, 2015 | 12:36 AM ...
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• Palace considers legal action over leaked Queen Nazi salute film

  18-07-2015 23:47
  
  Buckingham Palace is considering taking legal action over leaked footage that shows the Queen as a child performing a Nazi salute with her family.
  
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• Summer holiday events: 28 fantastic days out to keep the kids entertained

  18-07-2015 23:42
  
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• The Queen's 'Nazi Salute' film leak triggers Royal inquiry

  18-07-2015 23:33
  
  The Royal Household has launched an investigation into how film of the Queen as a child, performing what appears to be a Nazi salute, has been published in a national newspaper.
  
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• Senior military officers are failing to refer assault and sexual offences to police, report warns

  18-07-2015 23:33
  
  Senior military officers are failing to refer crimes such as assault and sexual offences to the Royal Military Police (RMP), and a culture of closing ranks to protect suspects is a serious concern, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabularies (HMIC) has warned.
  
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• David Cameron showed 'little understanding of Scotland before the referendum and even less since' according to SNP's Angus Robertson

  18-07-2015 23:32
  David Cameron is “doing everything in his power” to make the Commons even less popular in Scotland than before last year’s independence referendum, according to the SNP Westminster leader, Angus Robertson.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: 'What the Tories are trying to do is diminish the NHS to a service of last resort'

  18-07-2015 23:28
  
  The man labelled a “bearded socialist voter-repellent” by a Tory broadsheet last week found no shortage of friends at a Labour leadership hustings in Brighton. Jeremy Corbyn’s vision of a “decent, cohesive society” and his views on education, the BBC and the real villains behind the 2008 recession were met with rapturous applause.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour MPs are plotting a coup against the potential leader if he is elected

  18-07-2015 23:28
  
  Labour MPs are plotting to mount a coup against Jeremy Corbyn before Christmas, if he wins the leadership in September.
  
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• Saudis Cast Net for ISIS Sympathizers - New York Times

  18-07-2015 23:24 via nytimes.com
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  Saudis Cast Net for ISIS Sympathizers
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  BEIRUT, Lebanon — The security forces in Saudi Arabia have carried out a nationwide dragnet in recent months that resulted in the arrest of more than 400 people believed to be connected to the Islamic State jihadist group, the Saudi Interior Ministry ...
  Saudi Arabia says arrests 431 Islamic State suspects, thwarts bombingsFinancial Express
  Saudi Arabia arrests 431 with alleged ISIS tiesCNN
  Saudi breaks up IS network, arrests 431 member
  
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• A Los Angeles art museum is turning classic works into memes and sharing them on Snapchat for youngsters to view

  18-07-2015 23:20
  What do you see when you look at Three Young Musicians, a group portrait by the French artist Antoine Le Nain in 1630? Are you struck by the rich colours, the fine brushwork – or by the fact that the three men might be a 17th-century version of Hanson, the sibling pop group from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who recorded “MMMBop”, one of the most annoying hits of the 1990s?
  
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• Sir John Chilcot and members of his Iraq inquiry panel have shared more than £1.5m in fees since 2009

  18-07-2015 23:06
  
  Mounting anger over the sums of money paid to Sir John Chilcot and his committee have prompted calls for the Government to stop any further payments, amid demands by politicians for publication of the Iraq inquiry’s report without further delay.
  
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• Bill Granger recipes: Our chef brings excitement back to pasta with punchy, fresh flavours

  18-07-2015 23:04
  
  You often hear people guiltily admit that pasta is their go-to family meal when they haven't had time to shop or plan for anything else. But why be so apologetic? Think about it; Italian families eat pasta practically every day (if not every day) and we all love the Italian way with food. So why are we so hard on ourselves?
  
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• Gary Lineker: Private schools are 'entirely selfish' if they don't open fields to state-educated children

  18-07-2015 23:03
  
  Private schools would be being “entirely selfish” if they didn’t make their playing fields and sporting facilities available to state-educated children and to grassroots organisations, Gary Lineker said, before a crucial vote in Parliament on the issue.
  
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• Trial of Chad's former dictator Hissène Habré: A turning point for African justice

  18-07-2015 22:29
  
  On a long, dark night in 1988, in a stinking prison cell in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, a man lay desperately ill, close to death.
  
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• Met Police to face racism probe after secret online Facebook page filled with abusive comments discovered

  18-07-2015 22:01
  
  Britain’s largest police force has launched an investigation into allegations that its officers used a “secret” Facebook group to air racist views about ethnic minorities. 
  
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• US prisons: President Obama's lasting legacy will be penal reform

  18-07-2015 22:00
  
  Did anyone say “lame duck”? This was supposed to be when Barack Obama hit rock bottom, in the final stages of his second term, with the Republicans in complete control of Congress, attention switching to the next battle for the White House in 2016, and a President reduced to virtual irrelevancy. The perfect season, in short, for limping waterfowl.
  
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• Tim Farron: Is it all over for this classical liberal wing of the Lib Dems?

  18-07-2015 22:00
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• Queen Nazi salute footage: She has earnt her privacy

  18-07-2015 22:00
  
  The footage of the Queen as a child in 1933 giving a Nazi salute should have stayed unseen. This newspaper would not have published it. Naturally there is huge interest in the footage, but public interest is not the same as being in the public interest, and The Sun’s attempt to defend publication fails to meet that test.
  
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• Only Iraq's clerics can win against Isis

  18-07-2015 22:00
  Ispent last week in Karbala and Najaf, the Shia holy cities south-west of Baghdad, which I have always found to be among the wonders of the world. There is something entrancing and even magical about the sight of their golden domes and minarets rising above the roofs of the houses around them. I first saw the Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf from the outside in 1977, but I was with a Baathist official who did not dare open the great wooden doors leading to the outer courtyard.
  
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• Labour leadership race: Most party members and supporters are horrified by the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn winning

  18-07-2015 22:00
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is not going to win the Labour leadership election. The Labour Party may be losing its mind, but it is not so far gone that, having lost two elections, it would vote to make sure it loses a third.
  
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• How I would save the BBC: Two writers have their say on the future of the corporation

  18-07-2015 22:00
  
  Fiona Sturges; Radio critic of The Independent
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Would the Troika keep lending if the country had a sub-prime mortgage?

  18-07-2015 22:00
  
   
  
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• Banning jargon? Er, inexecutable Prime Minister

  18-07-2015 22:00
  
  There is a wonderful moment in Born in Exile (1892), George Gissing’s great late-Victorian novel of religious doubt and social advancement, when the hero, Godwin Peak, comes across a man with whom, some years before, he went to college in a Midlands town. Naturally, in the interval their paths have diverged – Peak is an embittered, class-conscious free-thinker; the Rev Bruno Chilvers, as he is now styled, a fashionable and ambitious clergyman. Even more of a distinction, though, is offered
  
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• The top 7 landmark buildings on England's coast

  18-07-2015 21:53
  
  Everyone has their own memories of the seaside. It could be a family walk along the pier, sticky rock and candyfloss, sunburnt faces and the smell of suntan lotion, or the thrill of your first roller-coaster ride.
  
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• Greece debt crisis news: Alexis Tsipras shows his Machiavellian streak in a purge of Syriza rebels

  18-07-2015 21:47
  
  Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has shown no mercy in axing left-wing cabinet colleagues in order to implement the austerity measures that saw a quarter of his MPs desert him and violence flare in the streets of Athens.
  
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• The Open 2015: Another round? Ill wind drives fans to 19th hole to the local pubs' delight

  18-07-2015 21:46
  
  When golf is run by old people obsessed with ties and blazers, in the world's most exclusive retirement home in St Andrews, nobody should be surprised that there was a problem with wind at The Open.
  
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• Greek banks to reopen on Monday, cash restrictions remain - Hindustan Times

  18-07-2015 21:45 via hindustantimes.com
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  Greek banks to reopen on Monday, cash restrictions remain
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  Greek banks are reopening on Monday after a forced 3-week closure but restrictions on cash withdrawals will remain. In a decree on Saturday, the Greek government kept the daily cash withdrawal limit at 60 euros ($65) but added a weekly limit. For ...
  Greece debt crisis news: Alexis Tsipras shows his Machiavellian streak in a ...The Independent
  Greek banks to reopen after 3-week closureNew York Daily Ne
  
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• John Stones to Chelsea: Jose Mourinho - We will keep trying to sign Everton defender

  18-07-2015 21:09
  
  Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Chelsea will make another bid for the Everton defender John Stones. Having had an offer of £20m rejected, they are expected to go back in this week with £26m.
  
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• Ashes 2015: England must bat next two days to avoid Second Test defeat to Australia

  18-07-2015 20:42
  
  England declined to go quietly. On a sultry day and on a pitch that  remained benign, they at last  ensured Australia had to put in some hard toil, though that is of minimal comfort. The feeling persisted that the damage had already been self- inflicted, that any resistance was  futile and that this series will be tied at 1-1 some time in the next two days.
  
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• Tributes paid to F1 driver Bianchi

  18-07-2015 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drivers pay tribute to Jules Bianchi after the French driver dies following severe head injuries in a crash nine months ago.
  
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• Donald Trump criticises Vietnam vet John McCain: 'I like people who weren't captured'

  18-07-2015 20:36
  
  Presidential candidate Donald Trump is under fire after criticising John McCain’s time as a prisoner in the Vietnam War.
  
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• Knife found after 'road-rage' murder

  18-07-2015 20:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A knife is recovered and a car found by detectives investigating the murder of a driver, 79, after a crash in West Sussex.
  
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• Tributes to 'wit and charm' of road stabbing victim Donald Lock

  18-07-2015 20:22
  
  The family of a great-grandfather killed shortly after he was given the all-clear from cancer have paid tribute to his "wisdom, wit and charm".
  
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• Blast rescuers focus on 'two areas'

  18-07-2015 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rescuers searching for four people missing after an explosion devastated a mill focus on two locations identified by sniffer dogs.
  
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• Thom Yorke show confirmed at Latitude festival

  18-07-2015 20:15
  
  Latitude organisers have confirmed Thom Yorke will play an intimate gig on the festival's 10th anniversary.
  
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• 'Stressed' vicar found hanged in woodland

  18-07-2015 20:15
  
  A vicar found dead in woodland near his home is believed to have killed himself.
  
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• Australia tighten grip on England

  18-07-2015 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia close day three of the second Test at Lord's 362 ahead of England at 108-0 in their second innings.
  
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• Britons home after China detention

  18-07-2015 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three Britons have flown home after being arrested by police in China with other members of their tour group, the UK embassy in Beijing has said.
  
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• Sniffer dogs pinpoint two areas in search for workers after Cheshire mill blast

  18-07-2015 19:46
  
  Rescuers looking for four mill workers feared dead in an explosion are focusing on two areas identified in the wreckage by sniffer dogs, fire chiefs said.
  
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• M6 Stretch Reopens After Lorry Fire Melts Road

  18-07-2015 19:30
  
  The Central Motorway Police Group said the M6 would be closed southbound from junction 13 Stafford South to junction 12 Cannock to allow the road to be resurfaced. At 9am there were delays of around 40 minutes reported between junctions 14 and 13.
  
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• One Direction are to blame for Manchester United having to play on a poor pitch, claims brave Louis van Gaal as he takes on Directioners

  18-07-2015 19:28
  Louis van Gaal has done what you simply don’t do – he's blamed One Direction for something.
  
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• Sam Mendes rules out directing James Bond films after SPECTRE as he plans ... - Mirror.co.uk

  18-07-2015 19:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Sam Mendes rules out directing James Bond films after SPECTRE as he plans ...
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  Director Sam Mendes has revealed he won't be directing any more Bond movies after the upcoming Spectre, which opens on October 26th. Mendes, 49, whose only previous 007 film was Skyfall in 2012, said he plans to return to theatre work. In an interview ...
  New James Bond movie Spectre set for London premiereIrish Independent
  Next James Bond film, 'Spectre' to release on Octobe
  
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• Flood clean-up as gales delay Open

  18-07-2015 19:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A clean-up is under way after heavy rains flooded parts of Scotland, while gales have hit The Open golf at St Andrews.
  
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• Spider bite kills children's charity director working in Mexico

  18-07-2015 19:18
  
  Alison Lane, a 54-year-old charity director originally from Conwy in North Wales, has died after being bitten by a dangerous spider while working in Puebla, Mexico.
  
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• Family pay tribute to 'road rage' stabbing victim Donald Lock

  18-07-2015 19:17
  
  The family of a great-grandfather killed shortly after he was given the all-clear from cancer have paid tribute to his "wisdom", "wit" and "charm".
  
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