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• Harvard rescinds admissions offers over offensive memes on Facebook – report

  05-06-2017 23:58
  
  At least 10 students have lost their offers of admission over ‘obscene memes’ posted on Facebook.At least 10 students lost their chance to attend Harvard College after posting “obscene memes” to a private Facebook chat, the main Harvard student newspaper reported.The memes were shared as part of a private Facebook chat where admitted students in the class of 2021 shared edgy jokes as part of a “just-because-we-got-into-Harvard-doesn’t-mean-we-can’t-have-
  
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• Hundreds gather to pay respects to victims of London Bridge attack

  05-06-2017 23:46
  
  Hundreds of people gathered in the shadow of London’s City Hall on Monday afternoon to pay their respects to the victims of Saturday’s attack at London Bridge and Borough Market.People travelled from across the capital and from cities including Leeds and Manchester to attend the vigil in Potters Fields park, many clutching bunches of flowers, and stood in a hushed silence.Khan said: “We are here in remembrance for the innocent lives lost and the people injured in the barbaric a
  
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• Britain faces ‘different level’ of terror threat after London Bridge attacks

  05-06-2017 23:40
  
  Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick and the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, visit the scene near London Bridge of Saturday’s terrorist attack.Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, said the changes could cover police, MI5, communities, technology companies, the law and other policies.Rowley outlined his blueprint as police admitted that Khuram Shazad Butt, the London Bridge attacker pictured in a football shirt with a hoax suicide bomb belt, had been investiga
  
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• Meet the policeman who danced at One Love Manchester show 'to make people smile'

  05-06-2017 23:36
  
  The 50-year-old said he was proud to have been involved in the impromptu moment.
  
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• Tory winter fuel allowance cut puts 4,000 lives at risk, claims Labour

  05-06-2017 23:30
  
  Labour cited research saying that half of the almost 10,000 decrease in so-called ‘excess winter deaths’ between 2000 and 2012 was due to the introduction of the winter fuel allowance.The Conservatives’ policy of means testing the winter fuel allowance for pensioners could contribute to almost 4,000 extra deaths this winter, Labour has said.Theresa May said removing the annual payment of up to £300 a year from all but the poorest pensioners would release funds that could
  
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• London mayor Sadiq Khan: You do not commit these disgusting acts in my name

  05-06-2017 23:19
  
  He condemned the ‘perverse ideology’ of London Bridge attackers.
  
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• Thousands of children's operations cancelled each year, NHS figures show

  05-06-2017 23:00
  
  Thousands of operations on children are being cancelled each year, often because NHS hospitals do not have enough beds, staff or equipment.Procedures to repair broken bones, remove rotten teeth or insert grommets are among the 46,211 operations that have been cancelled over the last four years, NHS figures show.A total of 12,349 surgeries on children and young people were cancelled during 2016-17 alone, in the latest sign that under-pressure hospitals are struggling to give patients timely care.
  
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• Last leg

  05-06-2017 22:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John Curtice , professor of politics, on the crucial statistics to consider ahead of 8 June.
  
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• Ex-Premier League star Cheick Tiote dies after collapsing in training

  05-06-2017 22:28
  Former Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote has died at the age of 30 after collapsing during a training session in China.Ivory Coast international Tiote moved to China in February to play for second division side Beijing Enterprises and he was training with his club when he collapsed.Tiote arrived at Newcastle in 2010 from FC Twente and played seven seasons for the club, the first six of those in the Premier League.
  
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• 'We all feel the pain' - Londoners gather to mourn attack victims

  05-06-2017 22:25
  By Jonathan CoffeyLONDON (Reuters) - Londoners held a vigil to mourn the victims of the London Bridge attack on Monday and vowed not to be divided by extremist tactics, with the British capital's mayor Sadiq Khan saying that the militants were bound to fail.Thousands gathered on the banks of the River Thames to pay their respects, a few hundred yards away from where three militants rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing revellers on Saturday night, killing seven."I wanted to co
  
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• Anti-terror officer loses 'classified' documents after car robbery

  05-06-2017 22:24
  A senior counter-terrorism officer has had police documents and personal items stolen after his unmarked car was robbed.West Midlands Police have launched an investigation after the documents, which the Birmingham Mail reported to be "confidential and highly classified", were taken on 15 May.West Midlands Police spokesman Craig Hughes said: "An investigation has been launched after items were stolen from a West Midlands Police officer's unmarked car.
  
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• Sky poll: Most Britons want police to be armed

  05-06-2017 22:17
  The vast majority of Britons support routinely arming police officers in the UK, a Sky Data poll reveals.Some 72% of the public say police officers should be routinely armed, while 20% think the police should not carry guns as a matter of routine.Excluding those who answered "neither" or "don't know", 78% support arming police and 22% oppose.
  
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• Trump renews criticism of London Mayor Khan over attack

  05-06-2017 22:15
  
  By Estelle ShirbonLONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump once again criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday over his response to a deadly attack on the city, while the British public and politicians lauded the mayor for his handling of the aftermath.Trump accused Khan of making a "pathetic excuse" over his statement urging Londoners not to be alarmed by the presence of additional police on the streets in response to the attack.Three jihadis drove a van into pedestrians on London Bri
  
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• Trump accuses London mayor of giving 'pathetic excuse' after terror attack

  05-06-2017 22:01
  
  Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Sadiq Khan in the wake of Saturday's terror attack in central London.The US President accused the capital's mayor of giving a "pathetic excuse" for how he reassured Londoners afterseven people were killedon London Bridge and in Borough Market.Mr Trump had written: "Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement.
  
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• Second London attack victim named as James McMullan

  05-06-2017 22:01
  
  The family of London resident James McMullan, 32, believe he is among the seven killed in Saturday's terror attack.Mr McMullan was last seen outside the Barrowboy & Banker pub on the south side of London Bridge on Saturday night.The family of Mr McMullan, who lived in Hackney, east London, have been told by police his bank card was found on one of those killed during the atrocity.
  
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• Two London Bridge attackers named as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane

  05-06-2017 22:00
  
  Scotland Yard has named two of the terrorists involved in the London Bridge attack as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.The announcement is a sign the investigation has reached a stage where the police can be confident of revealing hitherto secret details.In a statement, Scotland Yard confirmed Butt was known to police and MI5 - but added there was no intelligence to suggest an attack was being planned.
  
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• British Airways orders independent investigation over IT shutdown

  05-06-2017 21:50
  
  British Airways has commissioned an independent investigation into the computer shutdown that left 75,000 passengers stranded over the bank holiday weekend, the head of its parent company has said.Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group (IAG), also set out further details about how the catastrophic outage is thought to occurred and reiterated an apology to those affected.Hundreds of flights were cancelled after a shutdown of BA's data centre knocked out its systems, and rep
  
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• Motorway services station reopens after police incident - roads authority

  05-06-2017 21:46
  LONDON (Reuters) - A motorway services station outside London has reopened following a police incident, Britain's major roads authority Highways England said on Monday. Police had earlier said on Twitter that they were dealing with an incident there, without elaborating. (Reporting by Andy Bruce; Editing by Alistair Smout)
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn appears to row back on his call for Theresa May to quit over police cuts

  05-06-2017 21:45
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has appeared to back calls for Theresa May to resign over the police cuts - before appearing to row back.Earlier, Mr Corbyn appeared to back the calls for her stand down over the cuts, but the Labour leader later claimed he was simply "articulating what is deep anger amongst those people that have seen 20,000 police officers lose their jobs".In a question and answer session on the campaign trail on Monday, Mrs May repeatedly refused to say she was wrong to cut police numbers while
  
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• Widow denies Russian tycoon Alexander Perepilichnyy was poisoned

  05-06-2017 21:41
  Speaking at an inquest into the death of Alexander Perepilichnyy, Tatiana Perepilichnaya said her businessman husband had never feared for his life.Mr Perepilichnyy, 44, collapsed and died while out jogging near his home in Weybridge, Surrey, in November 2012.Mr Perepilichnyy had been helping a specialist investment firm uncover a $230m (£150m) Russian money-laundering operation.
  
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• Police and MI5 face further scrutiny after third attack since March

  05-06-2017 21:40
  
  The scene of the Westminster attack in March, which MI5 is still investigating.The security services are facing their worst crisis since the 2005 London bombing, with the increased frequency of attacks placing enormous pressure on the police and the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5.Questions are being raised about why the police and MI5 failed to prevent three attacks in quick succession.
  
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• Canadians carry out acts of kindness to honor victim of London Bridge attack

  05-06-2017 20:43
  
  Promises to carry out acts of kindness have come pouring in as people around the world pay tribute to the Canadian woman – described as a “bright light” and a “beautiful soul” – who was killed in the London Bridge attack.Christine Archibald, 30, originally from Castlegar, British Columbia, was among the seven people killed in Saturday night’s attack.The social worker had recently moved to the Netherlands, where her fiancée Tyler Ferguson was worki
  
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• A Sky News special on the London terror attack

  05-06-2017 20:40
  
  A Sky News special on the London terror attack
  
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• London terror attacker Khuram Butt filmed in TV documentary

  05-06-2017 20:30
  
  One of the London terror attackers, named as Khuram Butt, had been filmed for Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door
  
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• Corbyn on whether May should resign

  05-06-2017 20:10
  
  Jeremy Corbyn says he does not think Theresa May should quit over police cuts just hours after suggesting she should resign.
  
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• Vote to save the NHS from further privatisation | Letters

  05-06-2017 20:06
  
  ‘If the Conservatives get back in power, we may not have free, universal healthcare in five years’ time,’ write 31 health workers.In his book In Place of Fear (1952) Nye Bevan said “the British Health Service … has now become part of the texture of our national life.
  
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• Conservatives’ fake news ads are an assault on democracy | Letters

  05-06-2017 20:06
  
  The Tory party has been accused by Labour of using fake news ads on Facebook to attack Jeremy Corbyn, seen here at a campaign event in Blyth, north-east England, on 5 June.Of course I knew that the Tories twist the truth at every opportunity, but I had naively supposed that nowadays they preferred to leave the outright dishonesty to their friends the press barons.
  
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• Police name two London attackers, say one investigated before

  05-06-2017 20:00
  
  One of the three attackers who killed seven people near London Bridge on Saturday night was previously investigated by British security services but had not been viewed as a serious threat, British police said on Monday.Khuram Shazad Butt, aged 27, was a British citizen born in Pakistan, who was already known to police and Britain's domestic spy agency MI5, London's police force said.The second attacker was named as 30-year-old Rachid Redouane, who police said claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan,
  
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• France says two citizens missing since London attack

  05-06-2017 20:00
  Two French citizens have been missing since Saturday night's attack in London, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday during a visit to the French embassy in the British capital.Le Drian confirmed that one French citizen died in the attack and said eight French had been injured, four of whom are in a serious condition.Le Drian said cooperation between France and Britain on security issues was strong and would not suffer from Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
  
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• A political prospectus for tackling the root causes of terrorism | Letters

  05-06-2017 19:57
  
  Dr Myriam François (Making this about British values will stigmatise Muslims, 5 June) trots out the familiar line that UK military involvement in the Middle East prompts “violent blowback on home soil”.• In the name of (a version of) Islam, terrorists maim and murder hundreds of innocent people in Britain and France and thousands of innocent Muslims in the Middle East.
  
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• London police say unattended object incident was false alarm

  05-06-2017 19:51
  An unattended object which forced the closure of a street in central London on Monday was a false alarm, police said.Members of the public posted pictures on Twitter of a police cordon at Jermyn Street, and said nearby offices and businesses had been evacuated.Police said they were investigating an unattended object on nearby Babmaes Street.
  
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• Second London attacker was chef who lived in Dublin, say sources

  05-06-2017 19:36
  
  Rachid Redouane does not appear to have come to authorities’ notice before the attack on Saturday night.The second London Bridge attacker was a Moroccan-Libyan pastry chef who had until recently been living in Dublin, according to Irish police sources.Rachid Redouane is thought to have settled in the Irish capital about five years ago but does not appear to have come to the authorities’ notice before Saturday night’s terror attack.
  
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• London attacker lived in Ireland but was not on watch list - Irish PM

  05-06-2017 19:25
  One of three attackers shot dead during an assault that killed seven people in London on Saturday lived in Ireland for a time but did not attract the attention of law-enforcement authorities, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Monday.An Irish identification card was found on the body of one of the three attackers, a Moroccan national in his late 20s who lived in Ireland with his British wife, state broadcaster RTE reported on Monday citing police sources.RTE said his wife has been arrested
  
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• British police name two of the London Bridge attackers

  05-06-2017 19:23
  British police on Monday named two of the three men who attacked London Bridge.The following is the statement from the Metropolitan Police and from Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley."The Met’s Counter Terrorism Command has released the names and photographs of two men shot dead by police following the terrorist attack on London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday, 3 June.
  
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• Why Banksy's election promise to voters is a legal grey area

  05-06-2017 19:21
  
  He’s offering a limited edition artwork to anyone who votes against the Tories.
  
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• London attacker Khuram Butt filmed in TV documentary

  05-06-2017 19:20
  
  One of the London terror attackers, named as Khuram Butt, had been filmed for Channel 4 documentary The Jihadis Next Door
  
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• Borough Market: the foodie haven that represents London's openness to the world

  05-06-2017 19:20
  
  Londoners know Borough as a reliable destination for breakfast, lunch or a boozy night out.Richard Angell was halfway through his dinner at Arabica Bar & Kitchen as Saturday night’s terror attack in Borough Market began to unfold.Locked in the restaurant with fellow diners and later evacuated by police, Angell witnessed snippets of the incident, in which seven people were killed and another 48 injured.
  
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• Maybot malfunctions under pressure over disappearing police | John Crace

  05-06-2017 19:16
  
  Theresa May speaking at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall. Photograph: Hannah Mckay/Reuters
  
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• British Airways commissions independent study of IT outage

  05-06-2017 19:14
  
  British Airways has commissioned an independent study to look into last month's shutdown of its data centre, which knocked out its systems and stranded 75,000 people over a bank holiday weekend, its parent company's CEO said on Monday."We have commissioned an independent company to conduct a full investigation," International Consolidated Airlines Group SA Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh told journalists at an annual airline industry meeting in Mexico.
  
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• Rude Britannia - Mysterious effigy of May says 'up yours' to Europe

  05-06-2017 19:03
  
  A giant scaffold bearing the image of Prime Minister Theresa May appeared on the cliffs of Dover on Monday, complete with a Union Flag skirt and a rude hand gesture indicating to the rest of Europe that it should go away.The iconic row of white cliffs along Britain's south coast is the closest British landmark to continental Europe and the first sign of England that many sea-faring visitors see.
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: leaders shed some light on their EU positions

  05-06-2017 18:42
  
  The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, takes part in the BBC’s Question Time election programme.Welcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing, a summary of developments as the UK scrambles towards the EU door marked “exit”.
  
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• 'It’s a solemn atmosphere': London Bridge reopens after terror attack

  05-06-2017 18:39
  
  Workmen lay flowers near London Bridge following Saturday’s terrorist attack.As commuters streamed out of the newly reopened London Bridge railway station and over the bridge on Monday, some looked warily at the police cordon and vans.Others paused by the floral tributes left at the bridge’s south end where a van had ploughed into pedestrians on Saturday night.
  
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• Everything you need to know about the campaign trail today

  05-06-2017 18:35
  
  Here are some of the day’s top highlights ahead of the General Election on Thursday.
  
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• Manchester attack victim Eilidh MacLeod buried on her home island

  05-06-2017 18:34
  An Ariana Grande song has played at the funeral of Manchester attack victim Eilidh MacLeod, who has been taken to her home on a remote Scottish island.The 14-year-old was one of the 22 people killed on 22 May in the bombing at a Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.Eilidh's friend Laura MacIntyre was seriously injured in the bombing and remains in hospital.
  
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• London victims speechless with shock, some had throats slit from behind

  05-06-2017 18:30
  
  By Georgina ProdhanLONDON (Reuters) - People had their throats slashed from behind and endured violence so horrific they were left unable to speak in Saturday night's murderous rampage by three jihadis in the heart of London, according to accounts still emerging two days later.The attackers first rammed a van into pedestrians at high speed on London Bridge, before running into narrow streets buzzing with nightlife in the Borough Market area and stabbing people indiscriminately with long knives."
  
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• BrewDog is offering free beer to anyone who votes in the General Election

  05-06-2017 18:30
  
  The craft brewery wants to encourage voter turnout this week.
  
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• Wallace And Gromit star Peter Sallis dies aged 96

  05-06-2017 18:28
  Peter Sallis, who was the voice of Wallace in the beloved clay animation Wallace And Gromit, has died aged 96.The actor also starred in the long-running sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine, playing Norman Clegg between 1973 and 2010.Sallis died peacefully with his family by his side on 2 June, his agents announced.
  
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• Election jitters and consumer squeeze hit UK services

  05-06-2017 18:24
  
  By David MillikenLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's services sector grew less than expected and car sales dropped last month, as businesses and consumers put off big decisions before this week's national election, dampening expectations of a strong rebound from a weak first quarter.British economic growth slowed to just 0.2 percent in the first three months of this year - the weakest among the world's top advanced economies - as the cost of the pound's fall following last year's Brexit vote caught up
  
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• Second London terror victim named as James McMullan

  05-06-2017 18:21
  
  The family of London resident James McMullan, 32, believe he is among the seven killed in Saturday's terror attack.Mr McMullan was last seen outside the Barrowboy & Banker pub on the south side of London Bridge on Saturday night.The family of Mr McMullan, who lived in Hackney, east London, have been told by police his bank card was found on one of those killed during the atrocity.
  
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• Manchester attack victim Eilidh MacLeod buried at her home island

  05-06-2017 18:21
  An Ariana Grande song has played at the funeral of Manchester attack victim Eilidh MacLeod, who has been taken to her home on a remote Scottish island.The 14-year-old was one of the 22 people killed on 22 May in the bombing at a Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.Eilidh's friend Laura MacIntyre was seriously injured in the bombing and remains in hospital.
  
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