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• Russia protests: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced - BBC News

  12-06-2017 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Russia protests: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny sentenced
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  Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 30 days' administrative arrest for repeatedly violating the law on staging rallies. He was detained at his home in Moscow earlier on Monday, ahead of anti-corruption demonstrations in Russia.
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• Sebastian Vettel issues statement of intent with Canadian GP recovery | Giles Richards

  12-06-2017 23:51
  
  German’s high-risk style yields benefits; Force India have bout of indecision; Fernando Alonso engine failure brings McLaren divorce from Honda closerThat Sebastian Vettel does not want to lose points to Lewis Hamilton is a given, what was impressive at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was just how committed he is to the task. Damage to the front wing on lap one was a major setback, coming back to finish fourth was a huge recovery and the manner he achieved it was a statement of intent. Havin
  
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• Another appeals court rejects Donald Trump's travel ban - The Economist (blog)

  12-06-2017 23:49 via economist.com
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  Another appeals court rejects Donald Trump's travel ban
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  “EVEN for the president”, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said on June 12th, immigration policy “is not a one-person show”. By a 3-0 vote, the court refused to lift a Hawaii judge's stay on Donald Trump's revised order banning travel from six mostly ...and more »
  
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• Britain and France vow to stamp out 'evil' online extremism

  12-06-2017 23:39
  Theresa May will launch a joint campaign between the UK and France to punish tech giants that fail to remove extremist and criminal content.Online radicalisation will be a top priority during the Prime Minister's visit to Paris on Tuesday, in which she will hold talks with new President Emmanuel Macron.Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been criticised for failing to remove unacceptable content.
  
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• Beyond Good & Evil 2 still exists and is looking superb in first trailer - Metro

  12-06-2017 23:32 via metro.co.uk
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  Beyond Good & Evil 2 still exists and is looking superb in first trailer
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  Ubisoft did the unexpected and confirmed the ongoing existence of Beyond Good & Evil 2, by debuting a new stunning cinematic trailer. Games Inbox: EA's conference, Mass Effect: Andromeda and the return of gaming animals. While previous rumours ...
  Beyond Good and Evil 2's big changes point to a perfectly authentic sequel, and a profoundly grown-up one at thatGamesRadar
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• May and Macron plan joint crackdown on online terror

  12-06-2017 23:30
  
  British PM and French president to tackle radicalisation with fines for tech companies that do not take action
  Theresa May will attempt to reassert control over the political agenda by agreeing a new counter-terror strategy with the French president, vowing to fine tech companies such as Facebook and Google if they do not step up efforts to combat online radicalisation.The prime minister and Emmanuel Macron will launch a joint campaign on Tuesday to tackle online radicalisation, a personal prior
  
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• Gareth Southgate wants no let-up in England games in quest to improve

  12-06-2017 23:30
  
  • England play France in Paris, having lost to Germany and drawn with Spain
  • Manager says the way to learn and get stronger is to play the bestIt was at the end of a long question-and-answer session in the early-afternoon sunshine of Croissy-sur-Seine, the affluent town west of Paris where England are preparing for their final assignment of the season, that someone asked Gareth Southgate if he was ever tempted to find easier opposition.On Tuesday night it is the Stade de France to mee
  
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• Pakistan squeak past Sri Lanka and into semis after exciting, eccentric Cardiff match - Telegraph.co.uk

  12-06-2017 23:23 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Pakistan squeak past Sri Lanka and into semis after exciting, eccentric Cardiff match
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  It was a gripping match which saw Pakistan through to the first semi-final of the Champions Trophy, to be played against England on this same ground. But the standard of batting of both sides was at times almost as low as that of the fielding, which ...
  Champions Trophy 2017: Pakistan edge past Sri Lanka in gripping fashion to set up last-four meeting with EnglandThe Independent
  
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• Police officer who shot Philando Castile 'did what he had to do', lawyer claims

  12-06-2017 23:01
  
  Jury deliberates in manslaughter trial of Minnesota officer Jeronimo Yanez, who killed Castile seconds after the black motorist said he had a gunA Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist seconds after the man informed him he was carrying a gun “did what he had to do” in a thoroughly justified use of force, a defense attorney argued Monday. Hours earlier, prosecutors said the officer, Jeronimo Yanez, had never seen the gun and had plenty of options short of shooting
  
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• Theresa May buys time with apology to Tory MPs over election ‘mess’

  12-06-2017 23:00
  
  Beleaguered PM is ‘contrite and genuine’ in crunch meeting with 1922 Committee, promising to build consensus on Brexit
  A contrite Theresa May bought herself time with Conservatives MPs by apologising for failing to secure an overall majority while cabinet sources indicated that the prime minister would pursue a more conciliatory approach on Brexit to shore up her leadership.May addressed a packed session of her party’s backbench 1922 Committee on Tuesday with what was described
  
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• Jo Cox: Great Get Together memorial events unite fierce rivals

  12-06-2017 23:00
  
  Politics, journalism and broadcasting rivals in message of unity as events take place across UK in memory of murdered MPFierce rivals from the worlds of politics, journalism and broadcasting are uniting, for a few days at least, in support of this weekend’s Great Get Together events in memory of Jo Cox MP, who was murdered by a far-right fanatic a year ago.On Tuesday, the Sun and the Mirror will publish the same editorial for the first time in their history in support of the message of nat
  
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• Jo Cox asked the tough questions – so should we | Katharine Viner and Chris Evans

  12-06-2017 23:00
  
  A year after the MP’s death, the Guardian and the Telegraph join to support the Great Get TogetherOne year ago, an act of terrible violence robbed the nation of a passionate and principled woman. MP Jo Cox represented some of the best aspects of our political tradition, and her proclamation in her maiden speech to parliament – that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us – has profoundly touched many since her death.Jo&rsquo
  
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• Fearless recap: episode one – sex, lies and Syrian refugees

  12-06-2017 23:00
  
  The new crime thriller from the Homeland creator has murder, corruption, cover-ups and a crusading human rights lawyer at its heart. Yes, it’s the Helen McCrory show … and it’s all the better for itITV has been making heroic attempts to try something different with its dramas of late. Some results have been very successful (Unforgotten) and some less so (Marcella). On the basis of this intriguing yet occasionally infuriating opener, I’d say Fearless falls somewhere betwe
  
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• Trump urged to cut Bears Ears monument to 'smallest area' possible

  12-06-2017 22:22
  
  Interior secretary Ryan Zinke urges president to shrink 1.3m-acre national monument as administration continues push against federal public landsRyan Zinke, the US interior secretary, has recommended to Donald Trump that Bears Ears national monument in Utah be reduced in size to the “smallest area compatible” with its conservation. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump analytics firm Cambridge Analytica denies helping Leave.EU campaign

  12-06-2017 22:14
  The chief executive of Cambridge Analytica (CA), the controversial data analytics firm which worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has denied his company helped the Leave.EU campaign, saying it had been the subject of politically motivated attacks.Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) into the use of personal data by political parties, along with other companies.Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Alexander Nix said that
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn urged to reappoint existing shadow cabinet

  12-06-2017 21:33
  
  Jeremy Corbyn appearing on the Andrew Marr Show, where he said he was clear that Brexit would mean an end to single market membership.Jeremy Corbyn was urged to reappoint the existing members of his shadow cabinet by an influential backbencher, rather than reach out to several other high-profile MPs who had previously been critical of his leadership.Clive Efford, the chair of the Tribune Group, which numbered more than 75 MPs before the election, praised the shadow cabinet for sticking by the La
  
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• Pakistan’s confidence is high for England semi-final, says Sarfraz Ahmed

  12-06-2017 21:28
  
  • Captain’s unbeaten 61 leads his side to Champions Trophy last four
  • ‘We must play positively against world-class England,’ says SarfrazEngland’s Champions Trophy semi-final opponents on Wednesday will be Pakistan, who contrived a harum-scarum victory against Sri Lanka in Cardiff.They won by three wickets when chasing a modest target of 237 but they needed an unbroken 75-run eighth‑wicket partnership – aided by dropped catches by the Sri Lankans &n
  
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• Under-20 World Cup has put galaxy of stars on road to global superstardom | Devarshi Lodhia

  12-06-2017 21:23
  
  England’s Dominic Solanke joins Lionel Messi and Sergio Agüero in elite group by winning tournament golden ball, but it is no guarantee of a great careerAn Argentina side boasting a midfield trio of Juan Román Riquelme, Esteban Cambiasso and Pablo Aimar and a defence featuring Walter Samuel won their second consecutive Under-20 World Cup, using José Peckerman’s floating 3-5-2 formation to devastating effect in Malaysia. Argentina’s top scorer, Bernado Romeo,
  
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• The Maybot is rebooted as strong and humble. Stumble for short | John Crace

  12-06-2017 21:19
  
  How unfortunate that the Supreme Leader didn’t decide to ‘listen and govern’ before the election rather than after itThe corridor outside committee room 14 was almost full by 4.15pm. With journalists. It was 20 or so minutes later that the first Tory MPs and peers started to arrive for the meeting of the 1922 Committee. Among the first to arrive were Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan, eager to get a front-row seat for the Maybot’s humiliation. Morgan looked particularly bright
  
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• This is Corbyn’s moment: he’s rescued Britain from the chains of austerity | Polly Toynbee

  12-06-2017 21:10
  
  The Labour leader is a man remade. To a remarkable degree, his respectability and plausibility as prime minster is establishedNothing succeeds like success. Jeremy Corbyn looks like a new man, beaming with confidence, benevolence and forgiveness to erstwhile doubters, exuding a new father-of-the-nation air of authority, calmly awaiting his imminent elevation to power. When I met him on Sunday he clasped my hand and, with a twinkle and a wink, thanked me for things I had written.Indeed, I ha
  
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• Four 2017 General Election myths debunked

  12-06-2017 21:01
  
  There have been some bogus claims circulating on social media.
  
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• Gun owners could help fight terror attack, says police commissioner

  12-06-2017 20:57
  
  Comments by Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner Alison Hernandez are rejected by senior officerA police commissioner has caused alarm among rank and file officers by suggesting that members of the public who own guns could help defend rural areas against terror attacks. Alison Hernandez, the Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner, said she was interested in having a conversation with the chief constable about whether ordinary people with gun licences could assist in a terr
  
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• Rafael Nadal reveals freewheeling philosophy motivates him for Wimbledon

  12-06-2017 20:54
  
  Spaniard won his 10th French Open playing with a rare freedom and later explained his approach to life: ‘I do things as they come’Rafael Nadal made an observation in Paris about his philosophy on life that sounded innocuous enough to dip below the radar of those who were correctly more concerned with the history he had just created but it describes perfectly why he is playing some of the best tennis of his career.His words reveal, too, that the 31-year-old Spaniard, who has suffered
  
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• Putin critic Alexei Navalny jailed after calling for Moscow protests

  12-06-2017 20:50
  
  Anti-corruption campaigner imprisoned for 30 days after calling on protesters to gatecrash a Russia Day event
  More than 1,000 protesters were detained across Russia on Monday after the opposition leader Alexei Navalny raised the stakes in his battle with the Kremlin by calling on Muscovites to gatecrash a historical re-enactment fair being held on the Russian capital’s central street.As the president, Vladimir Putin, spoke of national unity at a ceremony in the Kremlin, a few hundred metre
  
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• Bosses are right: political uncertainty will damage the economy | Nils Pratley

  12-06-2017 20:50
  
  Predictions of gloom after the Brexit vote didn’t materialise – but this time we face an income squeeze and an EU ticking clock“It is hard to overstate what a dramatic impact the current political uncertainty has on business leaders, and the consequences could – if not addressed immediately – be disastrous for the UK economy,” says Stephen Martin, director general of the Institute of Directors, pointing to a poll of members that showed 57% were quite or very p
  
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• Celebrity rich list 2017: Taylor Swift falls to 49th place as Diddy takes top spot

  12-06-2017 20:41
  
  Rapper and entrepreneur Sean Combs reached top of Forbes list with $130mBeyoncé moved into second spot with $105m for best-selling LemonadeTaylor Swift will have to shake it off. The pop star has fallen from No 1 to 49th place on Forbes’ annual global celebrity rich list for 2017 after her earnings dropped $126m in a year. Swift led the top 100 list in 2016 with takings of $170m thanks to her successful world tour, which raked in a quarter of a billion dollars and saw her travel the
  
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• Martin Rowson on the delayed Queen’s speech – cartoon

  12-06-2017 20:24
  
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• Labour mustn’t wait. It should unite to make the most of Tory disarray | Letters

  12-06-2017 20:24
  
  Jackie Ashley’s suggestion that Jeremy Corbyn is “an accidental leader” is one compelling reason why he has managed to attract so much support – getting to No 10 was not part of a meticulously planned personal career path, like many who lead or have led the main parties (Labour rebels, the war is over.Now the key task is to build the strongest possible opposition to a Tory party whose disunity has been exposed to public scrutiny.• As John Harris points out (Opinion,
  
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• Flag from Scottish castle to be fired into space

  12-06-2017 20:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN American flag found in an attic at a Highland castle will be blasted into space.
  
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• Conservatives aren’t up to the Brexit challenge | Letters

  12-06-2017 20:22
  
  The two-year Brexit negotiating clock is fast ticking away (EU threatens a year-long delay in Brexit talks, 12 June).Border controls, technical training and welfare reform need to be seen as part of the domestic reforms that accompany the negotiations for exiting the European Union.The Department for Work and Pensions then needs to revolutionise its welfare reform programme so that claimants are ready to take up these specialised apprenticeship courses, thereby leading to well-paid jobs.
  
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• Watch: Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shore in Texas

  12-06-2017 20:21
  
  Something fishy is going on in Texas…
  
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• The Scottish Tories have yet to say what they stand for | Letters

  12-06-2017 20:18
  
  Truly we live in interesting times! For example, who would have thought even six months ago that the Conservatives would gain an additional 12 MPs in Scotland, and thereby give a rightwing government a chance to hang on by making “an arrangement” with the DUP – Scottish Conservatives are not especially known for being on the right wing of their party.The campaign made no mention of Brexit, nor anything connected with the party manifesto published by Theresa May’s national
  
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• How Corbyn unites the generational divide | Letters

  12-06-2017 20:14
  
  • Don’t encourage simplistic analysis of the voter age groups supporting Labour (Young people saw a chance, and we took it, 12 June).The number of people joining Labour after the failure in 2015 helped make it the largest political party in Europe, but they were not all youngsters.
  
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• How Corbyn bridges the generational divide | Letters

  12-06-2017 20:14
  
  • Don’t encourage simplistic analysis of the voter age groups supporting Labour (Young people saw a chance, and we took it, 12 June).The number of people joining Labour after the failure in 2015 helped make it the largest political party in Europe, but they were not all youngsters.
  
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• Never mind May’s special advisers, what about her cabinet? | Letters

  12-06-2017 20:11
  
  The Tory cabinet pre-election. ‘Why did cabinet ministers meekly accept Theresa May’s kitchen cabinet decision-making?’ Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
  
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• A deal with the DUP will be painful for Theresa May, and put peace at risk | Peter Hain

  12-06-2017 20:11
  
  Will the government be able to say no to the unionists? In Northern Ireland it must be seen to act in good faith, as I learned in bringing together Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinnessIn Northern Ireland, the government must always be seen to act in good faith. I learned this personally when trying to bring together bitter old enemies, the Democratic Unionist party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, who at the time had never exchanged a word, let alone negotiated wit
  
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• Canoeing sexual assault allegations leave UK Sport facing up to a crisis | Martha Kelner

  12-06-2017 20:09
  
  Cycling’s bullying culture has already rocked the government organisation, which may now find itself with even more questions to answerThe debate over whether medals have been prized over morals in Olympic sport has been escalated by the revelation that talented young women training with a view to sporting glory now allege they were sexually abused in pursuit of their dream.British Canoeing and the police are currently investigating the claims. These were sportswomen who put their trust in
  
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• Theresa May to go? Step up Sam Allardyce | Brief letters

  12-06-2017 20:08
  
  Could Big Sam be the one to save the Tories from being relegated from government?Perhaps the most appropriate analogy would be that of a two-leg football match in which the Tories have secured a narrow victory, but Labour have scored a couple of away goals, making them favourites for victory in the return fixture later in the year.Perhaps the government should consider replacing Theresa May with Sam Allardyce to avoid relegation?
  
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• The Guardian view on the French elections: Macron’s quiet revolution of the centre | Editorial

  12-06-2017 20:03
  
  France has given its new president an impressive extra mandate. The contrast with the political chaos in Britain is painfulFortunate car drivers may be familiar with the “green wave”, in which a sequence of traffic lights are coordinated so that each conveniently turns to “go” just as the vehicle approaches. To judge by the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron seems to have invented the green wave’s political equivalent.In
  
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• World Cup win offers England Under-20s players no guarantees at clubs | Andy Hunter

  12-06-2017 20:01
  
  Members of Paul Simpson’s victorious side will still have to work hard to earn regular places in their Premier League teamsIt rains on a ticker-tape parade to remind England’s Under-20s that it will be easier to conquer the world than the obstacles that litter their path to regular Premier League football but they can take comfort from the roots of their triumph in South Korea. Sunday’s World Cup success, England’s best return on the international stage since 1966, repaid
  
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• 'This is fiction!' Soft Brexit is 'UTTERLY MEANINGLESS', blasts political analyst

  12-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SOFT BREXIT would be “utterly meaningless” for the United Kingdom, according to a leading political analyst.
  
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• England Under-20s World Cup win offers players hope but no guarantees at clubs | Andy Hunter

  12-06-2017 20:01
  
  Paul Simpson’s side won the Under-20s World Cup but they will have to work even harder to earn regular places in their Premier League teamsIt rains on a ticker-tape parade to remind England’s Under-20s that it will be easier to conquer the world than the obstacles that litter their path to regular Premier League football, but they can take comfort from the roots of their triumph in South Korea. Sunday’s World Cup success, England’s best return on the international stage s
  
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• Pakistan see off Sri Lanka to set up Champions Trophy semi-final with England

  12-06-2017 19:59
  
  • Sri Lanka 236; Pakistan 237-7
  • Pakistan won by three wicketsThere have been higher-quality games of cricket in this tournament but none yet with such a taut finish. Beyond the dropped catches (there were plenty of those) and the overthrows and the wanton strokes there was at the end of Cardiff’s sunniest day so far the wonderful tension that knock-out cricket can generate.At the end of it all Pakistan scraped to a victory that should have been so much more straightforward. The
  
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• The Guardian view on online politics: bring the ads into the light | Editorial

  12-06-2017 19:58
  
  Facebook makes it easy to target very small sections of the electorate. The rest of us should be able to see these messagesElection campaigns should be fought in the open. Voters should freely make up their minds on the basis of arguments openly presented. This is a principle fundamental to the workings of democracy; but some forms of online advertising threaten to subvert it. In particular, micro-targeted advertising where the message is only seen by a carefully selected audience makes it too e
  
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• Mark Wood enjoying making the difference for England in Champions Trophy

  12-06-2017 19:56
  
  • Fit and fired-up Durham paceman has propelled hosts to semi-finals
  • England call up five uncapped players for South Africa Twenty20 seriesMark Wood is revelling in his role as Eoin Morgan’s bubble-wrapped strike bowler and heads into Wednesday’s semi-final in Cardiff with chest puffed out from the faith that his captain is showing in him.England’s near peril-free passage to the knockout stages of the Champions Trophy, one that sees the management mulling over just
  
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• Trump as Julius Caesar: anger over play misses Shakespeare's point, says scholar

  12-06-2017 19:54
  
  Corporate sponsors have pulled funding amid controversy over an assassination scene – but the play argues against violence, says Stephen GreenblattWhen a blond Julius Caesar bounded on stage this weekend with a red tie and a svelte wife with a Slovenian accent, the New York audience laughed.They laughed at Caesar’s punchy rhetoric and big hand gestures and susceptibility to flattery. They giggled at Calpurnia’s mincing gait and slinky, Melania-inspired wardrobe, and at Octavius
  
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• Another appeals court upholds block on Trump's revised travel ban

  12-06-2017 19:49
  
  Ninth circuit said president violated immigration law by discriminating against people based on nationality and he failed to show entry would hurt US interestsAnother federal appeals court has upheld a decision blocking Donald Trump’s revised travel ban.The ruling on Monday from a unanimous three-judge panel of the ninth US circuit court of appeals deals the administration another legal defeat as the supreme court considers a separate case on the issue. Continue reading...
  
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• Sectarian issues largely off agenda in DUP-Tory negotiations – sources

  12-06-2017 19:43
  
  Arlene Foster is due to meet Theresa May in London on Tuesday.The bulk of the Democratic Unionists’ demands in talks aimed at shoring up a Conservative government will be socioeconomic, with sectarian issues such as Orange parades and how to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles largely off the agenda, party sources told the Guardian.The DUP’s negotiating team will not be including demands regarding marching disputes such as Drumcree in their “shopping list&rdqu
  
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• Trump is scared Brits will be mean to him? Classic strongman fragility | Moustafa Bayoumi

  12-06-2017 19:41
  
  Trump told Theresa May he won’t go to the UK if there are large protests. Like the autocrats and dictators he is pals with, he’s running away from dissent, tooTrump’s state visit to Britain put on holdDonald Trump is reportedly delaying an official state visit to London because the British people will be mean to him. According to an advisor to UK Prime Minister Theresa May, Trump recently told May in a phone call that he does not want to the visit Britain if large-sca
  
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• Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by three wickets to reach semi-finals – as it happened

  12-06-2017 19:41
  
  Pakistan eventually won a remarkable see-saw game against Sri Lanka by three wickets, to reach the semi-finals where they will play England 6.41pm BST An extraordinary victory for Pakistan in the end. Mickey Arthur is elated on the balcony, as he should be. Pumped by India in the opener, his side are through to the final four. And make no mistake, they were cooked here at 162-for-7. But then, the twist: a stand of 75 for the eighth wicket, which never came.They were helped along the way by Sri L
  
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