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• Serena Williams gives Ilie Nastase a serve over "racist and sexist" comments but Romanian remains unapologetic - Mirror.co.uk

  24-04-2017 23:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Serena Williams gives Ilie Nastase a serve over "racist and sexist" comments but Romanian remains unapologetic
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  Serena Williams has laid into Ilie Nastase publicly, claiming the Romanian's comments about her pregnancy and her fellow players were racist and sexist. The behaviour of the Romanian Fed Cup team captain this week has seen him fall foul of tennis ...
  Exclusive: Ilie Nastase accused of earlier case of sexism by Belgian Fed Cup captain Dominique MonamiTeleg
  
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• This Liberal Democrat election event looked almost like something from the American campaign trail

  24-04-2017 23:40
  
  Tim Farron was out campaigning in Vauxhall.
  
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• French elections: Wall Street joins European relief rally - BBC News

  24-04-2017 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  French elections: Wall Street joins European relief rally
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  A European stock market rally sparked by the French presidential election spread to Wall Street on Monday. All three main US share markets jumped more than 1%, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index closing at a record high. Europe's main markets jumped at ...
  Meet the man who could become France's youngest presidentLos Angeles Times
  Old-guard rallies around newcomer Macron for French runoffDaily Mail
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• Elton John in intensive care hospital battle after contracting 'potentially deadly' rare infection - Mirror.co.uk

  24-04-2017 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  Elton John in intensive care hospital battle after contracting 'potentially deadly' rare infection
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  Sir Elton John cheated death after contracting a “rare and potentially deadly” bacterial infection which saw him spend two nights in intensive care. The singer, who recently turned 70, became “violently ill” during a flight back to the UK following a ...
  Elton John cancels shows after being hospitalised due to 'rare infection'Irish Independent
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• Spain's Iberia to press unions for new layoff plan in June

  24-04-2017 23:12
  
  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Spanish airline Iberia could open a new early retirement programme for 1,000 workers by June, depending on the outcome of prior talks with unions, Chief Executive Officer Luis Gallego said on Monday. Iberia, which is owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group SA , is not considering adding capacity in Brazil at the moment, even as the country's outlook seems more promising, Gallego told Reuters on the sidelines of an event in São Paulo. (Reporting by Brad Hay
  
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• School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says

  24-04-2017 23:01
  
  The report said more than 1 million children who receive free school meals during term time, and 2 million more with working parents still in poverty are at risk of hunger over the summer.Up to 3 million children risk going hungry during the school holidays, leaving them vulnerable to malnutrition and undermining their education and life chances, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has warned.Its report cited evidence of children existing on holiday diets of crisps, hungry youngsters unable to
  
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• Children's holiday hunger a 'major social evil'

  24-04-2017 23:01
  Allowing British children to go hungry in the school holidays is a "major social evil" that needs urgent Government action, a group of MPs has concluded.In a report laying bare the "horror of hunger" the MPs estimated three million children in the UK are at risk of going hungry during the holidays and called on the Government to make £100,000 grants available to councils to solve the problem.
  
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• Labour vows to rip up and rethink Brexit white paper

  24-04-2017 22:25
  
  Labour has said it would scrap the Brexit white paper and replace it with new negotiating priorities with the emphasis on keeping the benefits of the single market and customs union.Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, will set out the plans alongside a pledge to unilaterally guarantee existing rights for all EU nationals as part of the party’s election manifesto, hastily being put together following the snap election announcement last week.In a speech in Westminster on Tuesday, the
  
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• UK welcomes U.S. sanctions on those said linked to Syrian chemical weapons

  24-04-2017 22:07
  
  Britain welcomed U.S. sanctions against individuals alleged to be connected to the use of chemical weapons in Syria on Monday, saying they were a clear signal "that actions have consequences".Foreign minister Boris Johnson said Britain would support efforts to hold those responsible for chemical attacks to account and would push for a political settlement to end the conflict in Syria, after the United States blacklisted 271 employees of a Syrian government agency.
  
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• Remain campaigners urge voters to unseat Brexit-backing MPs

  24-04-2017 22:00
  
  Lord Mandelson says candidates should reject hard Brexit.Voters are being urged to unseat prominent Brexit-supporting MPs such as Iain Duncan Smith, Theresa Villiers and Kate Hoey by the successor organisation to Britain’s pro-EU remain campaign.Open Britain has drawn up an “attack list” of 20 seats, held mostly by Conservative MPs, where constituents voted to stay in the EU but their representatives are Brexit supporters.
  
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• General Election 2017: Tories lie low while opponents squabble

  24-04-2017 22:00
  
  According to her official spokesman, Theresa May was "working in No. 10" while Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon and Tim Farron hit the road.Mr Corbyn got into a tangle on defence, the SNP appeared rattled by the Scottish Tories, Mr Farron got cross about gay sex and UKIP's soap opera descended further into farce.While the PM stayed in Downing Street, the latest polls got even better for the Conservatives.
  
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• Analysis: Labour's given Tories 'ammunition' to criticise

  24-04-2017 22:00
  
  Sky's Darren McCaffrey reports on the 'confusion' over Labour's stance on Trident.
  
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• Read Barack Obama's First Public Remarks Since Leaving Office - TIME

  24-04-2017 21:42 via time.com
  
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  Former president Barack Obama made his first public appearance since leaving office on Monday, hosting a discussion at the University of Chicago with students from across the city. He said the work he did in Chicago as a community organizer laid the ...
  Ex-President Barack Obama to hold first public event since leaving office, in Chicago on MondayChicago Tribune
  Vacation's Over: Obama Returns to Public Life Next WeekNe
  
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• Yew Tree heads: Stunning 20 year project from an Edinburgh gardener

  24-04-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Yew Tree heads depict an Easter Island Moai statue, a Central American Olmec and a Corinthian warrior of ancient Greece.
  
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• Ukip leader Paul Nuttall hints he will not stand in election - The Guardian

  24-04-2017 21:19 via theguardian.com
  
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  Ukip leader Paul Nuttall hints he will not stand in election
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  Ukip leader Paul Nuttall before holding a press conference on Monday. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian. Paul Nuttall. Ukip leader Paul Nuttall hints he will not stand in election. Arron Banks and Suzanne Evans decline to fight for seats as party ...and more »
  
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• Briton jailed in Iran is 'out of legal options'

  24-04-2017 21:10
  
  Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of a British-Iranian woman who is imprisoned in Tehran, says they have reached "the end of the road legally" after losing a final appeal over her conviction.
  
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• Stomach-churning images of 'fatberg' clogging toilets in Cheltenham

  24-04-2017 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THESE are the stomach-churning images of a huge lump of fat found under a posh town - which is so big it is blocking people's toilets.
  
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• Tim Farron continues to dodge gay marriage question as Lib Dems notch up 100,000 members

  24-04-2017 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Tim Farron has yet again refused to reveal whether he supports gay marriage as his party celebrated notching up 100,000 members in the weeks leading up to the General Election, after targeting Labour’s most prominent Brexit backers.
  
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• Does this move mean that Ireland is closer to legalising abortion?

  24-04-2017 20:04
  
  A Citizens’ Assembly has voted to relax the country’s strict laws.
  
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• UKIP: Burka ban part of integration agenda

  24-04-2017 19:55
  
  UKIP's deputy leader says the party's proposed burka ban is part of an 'integration agenda'.
  
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• Car enthusiast jailed for trying to smuggle £2million of Class A drugs inside his VW Polo

  24-04-2017 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CLASSIC car fan has been jailed after he tried to smuggle £2million of Class A drugs into Britain hidden in the panels of his VW Polo.
  
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• Devastated wife of Mike Samwell returns home to murder scene where carjackers killed him

  24-04-2017 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE DEVASTATED wife of Mike Samwell who was run over by his own car and killed by carjackers returned home today.
  
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• Former UKIP donor Arron Banks says he won't run as MP for Clacton

  24-04-2017 19:52
  Former UKIP donor Arron Banks is withdrawing his candidacy to be Clacton's next MP.In a statement, the millionaire businessman said he would instead throw his support behind UKIP candidate Jeff Bray.When the General Election was called, Mr Banks had announced his intention to challenge incumbent Douglas Carswell, who had left the Eurosceptic party in order to become an independent.
  
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• The case for an anti-Tory electoral alliance | Letters

  24-04-2017 19:34
  
  Unless progressives unite ‘the Tories will walk over all of us’, says Christopher Clayton.Martin Robbins’ acerbic attack on progressive alliances (Tactical voting to beat the Tories: does the maths equal a coalition?, theguardian.com, 20 April) is both misinformed and misleading.For a start, he assumes that any alliances would be the only tactic used to beat the Conservatives when that’s clearly absurd.
  
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• Welsh family paid £600 to stay in London Airbnb flat that didn’t exist 

  24-04-2017 19:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A CARDIFF family paid almost £600 to stay in a London flat - only to discover the property didn't exist. 
  
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• BREXIT SHOCKER: Irish High Court may declare Article 50 REVERSIBLE in landmark court case

  24-04-2017 19:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IRELAND’S High Court is to consider if it has the legal authority to hear a case brought by campaigners who want Brexit declared legally reversible.
  
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• Sturgeon claims May called snap election because of fears over expenses

  24-04-2017 19:16
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has claimed that Theresa May called the snap election in part because she feared that numerous Tory MPs would be prosecuted for fraud over their election expenses.Speaking at the Scottish TUC conference in Aviemore, Sturgeon implied the Conservatives may have “bought” the last election, referring to a police investigation into the party’s election expenses in the 2015 campaign.Departing from her published script, Sturgeon said the prime minister called the surpr
  
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• Irish court to consider Brexit reversibility case on May 31

  24-04-2017 19:08
  
  By Padraic HalpinDUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's High Court will consider next month whether it can hear a case from a British plaintiff seeking to decide if Britain's divorce from the European Union can be reversed.Judge Peter Kelly set a hearing for May 31 to decide whether an Irish court can hear a case against Brexit that campaigners hope will ultimately be referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for a definitive ruling.If it accepts the case, an Irish court could refer it to the ECJ in
  
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• Ukip integration policy launch descends into full integrated fiasco | John Crace

  24-04-2017 19:05
  
  Paul Nuttall is ushered into a room as he is pursued by journalists after Ukip’s integration policy launch.“Are you coming out, Mr Nuttall?” a dozen reporters shouted.The Ukip leader was going nowhere, having barricaded himself into a room at the central London hotel where he had just launched his party’s election policy on integration.
  
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• Len McCluskey’s gunslinger politics don’t suit all Unite members | Letters

  24-04-2017 19:00
  
  Unite leader Len McCluskey, centre, at a demonstration against NHS cuts, London, 4 March 2017.It was sold to us as an administrative confederation to connect with the “missing millions”.For, despite our diverse political allegiances and social backgrounds, we have all been subsumed into a retro-socialist convention where our scarce resources are diverted in the vain hope of securing a leftwing Labour government.
  
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• Corbyn has 'work to do' to show voters he can be PM, says Welsh Labour leader

  24-04-2017 18:57
  
  Labour’s first minister in Wales has warned that Jeremy Corbyn has “work to do” if he is to win over voters and ensure the party retains the dominance it has enjoyed there for almost a century.Carwyn Jones added that the party has “a mountain to climb” at a time when the Conservatives are buoyed by polling suggesting they could gain 10 parliamentary seats.
  
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• A lesson for Labour in Emmanuel Macron’s first-round success | Letters

  24-04-2017 18:56
  
  ‘When facing nationalism from Marine Le Pen, [Emmanuel Macron] has not, as some have done in Britain, shied away from patriotism but actively taken up his role as the representative of ­patriots against nationalists,’ writes Gabriel Osborne.Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the first round of the French presidential election, and his likely triumph in the second, is good news for progressive politics across the globe.
  
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• French prosecutors open formal probe into PSA Group diesel emissions

  24-04-2017 18:51
  
  French prosecutors have opened a formal investigation into suspected diesel emissions test-cheating by PSA Group , the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars, a judicial source said on Monday.The company is being investigated for alleged consumer fraud offences, the source said.In February, Paris-based PSA became the fourth carmaker to be referred to prosecutors by France's DGCCRF consumer fraud watchdog over suspected diesel test manipulation in the wake of the Volkswagen"dieselgate" scandal.
  
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• May's Conservatives on track for historic election win in Wales - poll

  24-04-2017 18:48
  
  British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives are on track to win the majority of parliamentary seats in Wales for the first time in more than 100 years, according to a YouGov poll published on Monday.The poll of 1,029 people for ITV and Cardiff University, carried out April 19-21 after May announced an early election would be held on June 8, projected the Conservatives would win 21 of the 40 seats in Wales, with Labour second on 15.
  
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• Zac Goldsmith in bid to win back Richmond Park seat from Sarah Olney

  24-04-2017 18:38
  
  Former MP Zac Goldsmith is set to put himself forward as the Conservative candidate for the seat he lost less than six months ago, Sky News understands.The local Conservative association will pick their candidate in Richmond Park later this week, it is understood.Mr Goldsmith lost the seat to Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney in December.
  
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• Pregnant Ferne McCann's ex-boyfriend in court over acid attack

  24-04-2017 18:18
  The father of reality TV star Ferne McCann's unborn child has appeared in court charged over an acid attack in an east London nightclub.Arthur Collins is charged with 14 counts of grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent against four men and 10 women, and one count of throwing an acidic liquid with intent to do GBH to multiple people.Collins, 24, wearing a green jacket over a grey hooded top and walking with crutches, spoke only to confirm his name and address when he appeared at Thames Magistrate
  
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• UK election cuts time for Brexit talks, key EU lawmaker says

  24-04-2017 18:10
  
  By Francesco GuarascioBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The snap general election called by British Prime Minister Theresa May will reduce the already limited time available to negotiate a Brexit deal, an influential EU lawmaker said on Monday.Britain has only two years from March 29 to get a wide-ranging divorce settlement and the June 8 election will take a chunk of time away, said Danuta Hubner who chairs the constitutional affairs committee at the European Parliament which has the power to veto any final
  
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• This is why Paul Nuttall locked himself in a room after the Ukip integration policy event

  24-04-2017 18:04
  
  An ingenious technique for avoiding unwanted questions.
  
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• Private schools can help social mobility | Letters

  24-04-2017 17:57
  I was interested to read Tim Lott’s article, delightfully direct in its title (Why I want to see all private schools abolished, 21 April). Although I am actually head of one of those vilified institutions, the piece contained several points with which I would concur, not least an implicit belief in meritocracy as the way forward. However, the part of his argument with which I take most issue is the suggestion that private schools hinder social mobility.
  
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• Corbyn tells Scotland: Vote Labour to keep 'vicious' Tories out

  24-04-2017 17:54
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has said the SNP is "obsessed" with independence and only his party can keep the Tories out of power.The Labour leader urged Scottish voters to help him stop the "vicious Tory party" by voting Labour, saying the party was the only opposition which could form a Government - not the SNP.Labour was all but wiped out in Scotland in 2015, losing 40 of its 41 seats, and recent opinion polls show it struggling in third place on 13% with the Conservatives on 33% and the SNP on 44%.
  
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• Goldsmith: By-election 'wasn't a political calculation'

  24-04-2017 17:40
  
  Zac Goldsmith saw his 23,015 majority in Richmond Park wiped out by Lib Dem challenger Sarah Olney who
  finished 1,872 votes ahead of him. This is Mr Goldsmith speaking after his defeat
  
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• 'Jelly legs'

  24-04-2017 17:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why do some runners experience "jelly legs" at the end of a marathon?
  
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• UK Conservatives pledge energy price cap, hitting utility shares

  24-04-2017 17:13
  
  By Kate Holton and Alistair SmoutLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Conservative Party said it would cap domestic energy prices if it retained power in an election in June, targeting an industry it accuses of not working properly and sending shares in the leading providers down sharply.Shares in British energy suppliers Centrica and SSE fell as much as 5 percent, and were last down around 3 percent, after ministers said the Conservative's election manifesto would include pledges on controlling
  
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• 'There may be a bloodbath' Brussels commissioner warns of UK trade deal with US

  24-04-2017 17:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITAIN is facing a "bloodbath" over a proposed trade deal with the US, an EU commissioner has warned.
  
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• 'Road-rage' cop fined for head-butting woman while wearing crash helmet

  24-04-2017 16:59
  A police sergeant found guilty of head-butting a woman in a "road-rage" attack while wearing a motorcycle helmet has been fined £828.David Sanderson was off-duty when he approached two women in their Ford Fiesta, believing they had been using a mobile phone while driving on 6 June last year.Gaynor Byng, prosecuting, told the court the phone was being used hands-free, and described Sanderson, 45, revving his motorcycle engine behind, them at the Asda petrol station in Chandler's Ford, Hamps
  
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• UK government plans to publish draft air quality plan by June 30

  24-04-2017 16:58
  The British government intends to publish a draft copy of its report on tackling air pollution by the end of June, ahead of publication of a final report in September, environment minister Andrea Leadsom said on Monday.The British government had until 1500 GMT on Monday to come up with a plan to improve air quality and meet nitrogen dioxide limits set by the EU after London's High Court ruled a calculation of future vehicle emissions was too optimistic.Earlier on Monday Prime Minister Theresa Ma
  
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• Feet of strength - how one runner helped another over the line

  24-04-2017 16:55
  
  Just 200 metres from the end of the 26.2-mile course, David Wyeth began to stumble and had to be held up by passing runner Matthew Rees.
  
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• Corbyn: We will offer hope to working people

  24-04-2017 16:55
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his election campaign in Scotland - promising to raise the minimum wage.
  
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• Health trust apologises for families' distress over stored organs

  24-04-2017 16:43
  
  South Tyneside NHS trust said it was reviewing the circumstances around the storage of the samples.A health trust has apologised to the relatives of dead people whose tissue and organs were stored without their families’ knowledge.Police have contacted 39 families after a 2015 audit at South Tyneside district hospital in South Shields found samples taken following unexplained deaths had been kept “longer than necessary”.
  
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• What should UK politicians say at the end of speeches? Twitter's come up with some hilarious suggestions

  24-04-2017 16:31
  
  US politicians finish speeches with “God bless America”, the French often end with “Long live the Republic, long live France” – what do we have?
  
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