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• EU citizens to register in post-Brexit UK residency scheme - Guardian

  20-06-2017 23:57
  
  The UK government will start a registration process to gauge the interest of European Union citizens in British residency as the country leaves the EU, The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday.The legal status and rights of EU nationals is one of the thornier issues within the morass of Britain's exit from the bloc, which started with talks between negotiators in Brussels on Monday.There are around three million EU citizens living in the UK and the newspaper said they would be invited to regis
  
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• Queen's Speech: PM has no majority as DUP deal remains elusive

  20-06-2017 23:41
  
  The Queen will set out the Government's two-year blueprint for Brexit in Parliament tomorrow - despite talks to build a parliamentary majority appearing to falter.Left eight seats short of a majority after the election, the Conservatives started talks on forging a 'confidence and supply' deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which has 10 MPs.The party is urging the Government to give "greater focus" to negotiations, with a warning that it "can't be taken for granted".
  
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• May launches plan for government, promising to listen to Brexit concerns

  20-06-2017 23:40
  
  By William JamesLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will begin the delicate task of running a minority government on Wednesday by setting out a softer tone on Brexit as Queen Elizabeth formally opens parliament.The so-called Queen's Speech, prepared by ministers and read out by the monarch, will spell out the policies May's government intends to pursue over the next two years.It comes at a time of unprecedented political flux with May yet to secure a deal to prop up her government afte
  
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• May says will consult widely on Brexit, but Britain will leave EU

  20-06-2017 23:37
  
  British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday that her government was committed to leaving the European Union and would listen to others' views while delivering a Brexit that commanded "maximum public support"."While this will be a Government that consults and listens, we are clear that we are going to see Brexit through, working with Parliament, business, the devolved administrations and others to ensure a smooth and orderly withdrawal."Earlier, finance minister Philip Hammond sought to so
  
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• Theresa May under pressure as DUP says: ‘Show some respect’

  20-06-2017 23:30
  
  DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds (centre) and fellow MPs Jeffrey Donaldson and Emma Little-Pengelly emerge from talks at No 10 Downing Street.Theresa May will press ahead with a Brexit-dominated Queen’s speech shorn of a series of controversial social policies after failing to complete “confidence and supply” negotiations with the Democratic Unionist party.The Conservative leader will become the first prime minister in decades to lay out a legislative programme without a guarantee
  
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• Here's why you won't be seeing the usual pomp and ceremony at the State Opening of Parliament this year

  20-06-2017 23:17
  
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• Ryan O'Callaghan, former New England Patriots lineman, comes out as gay

  20-06-2017 23:04 via theguardian.com
  
  O’Callaghan also played for Kansas City Chiefs during NFL careerSays he planned to kill himself before finding support among Chiefs staffThe former New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Ryan O’Callaghan has come out as gay.The 33-year-old, who retired in 2011, told his story to Outsports in an interview published on Tuesday. O’Callaghan says he grew up in a conservative town and realized he was gay as a teenager. He described how his career, through high
  
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• Royal Ascot day two preview: Highland Reel set to boost Aidan O’Brien | Chris Cook

  20-06-2017 23:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Highland Reel can claim the Prince of Wales’s Stakes on his favoured fast ground and give Aidan O’Brien a boost after Godolphin dominated day oneGodolphin’s sandbagging of the Aidan O’Brien runners became the story of day one and the rival teams face off again in today’s Prince of Wales’s Stakes.There is a slight concern about the general form of the Irishman’s yard but Highland Reel (4.20) could kill off such chatter on the fast ground he loves so much.
  
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• Man buns and cornrows: Barbie's boyfriend Ken gets a makeover

  20-06-2017 22:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Barbie’s arm candy Ken gets new hairstyles, a range of body types, a fresh wardrobe and skin tones for different ethnicitiesMan buns, cornrows or bleached blond hair? Barbie’s longtime boyfriend, Ken, is getting a makeover with new hair styles, a range of body types, a hip wardrobe and skin tones for every ethnicity.The toymaker Mattel on Tuesday announced 15 new Ken dolls, featuring seven skin tones, nine hairstyles and three body styles, including a more muscular “broad&rdquo
  
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• Daniel Day-Lewis announces retirement from acting

  20-06-2017 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The Oscar-winning actor’s spokeswoman has confirmed that his next film, reuniting with There Will Be Blood director Paul Thomas Anderson, will be his lastDaniel Day-Lewis is to retire from acting, according to his spokeswoman. Related: How we made: My Beautiful LaundretteContinue reading...
  
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• Can the Tories get back to the future? Not under Theresa May | Rafael Behr

  20-06-2017 21:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The party can’t keep relying on older voters, but someone capable of winning young hearts – in England at least – has yet to emergeJust as trauma is said to turn hair grey overnight, the election has abruptly aged the Conservative party. Theresa May and her ministers are not physically altered, but their whole enterprise feels more decrepit than it did just a month ago.This partly reflects exposure of the Tories’ extraordinary reliance on older voters.
  
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• Chelsea Manning leaks had no strategic impact on US war efforts, Pentagon finds

  20-06-2017 21:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Uploading of more than 700,000 files to WikiLeaks had no significant strategic effect, analysis finds, putting into context the severe punishment she received
  The publication of hundreds of thousands of secret US documents leaked by the Aarmy soldier Chelsea Manning in 2010 had no strategic impact on the American war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, a newly released Pentagon analysis concluded.The main finding of the Department of Defense report, written a year after the breach, was that Manning
  
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• Andy Murray suffers ‘big blow’ to Wimbledon hopes in Queen’s exit

  20-06-2017 21:35 via theguardian.com
  
  • Murray: ‘If I play like that, I certainly won’t win Wimbledon’
  • World No1 beaten in first round by lucky loser Jordan ThompsonAndy Murray, as candid in defeat as he is humble in victory, admitted he has little chance of retaining his Wimbledon title next month, if he plays the way he did in losing to world No90 Jordan Thompson in the first round of the Aegon Championships. The five-times Queen’s Club champion admitted the shock defeat was “a big blow&rd
  
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• Steve Bell on Philip Hammond’s Mansion House speech – cartoon

  20-06-2017 21:32 via theguardian.com
  
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• Brussels Central Station 'Terror Attack' Foiled As Soldiers Shoot Man After Explosion

  20-06-2017 21:31
  
  Belgian authorities said they foiled a “terror attack” Tuesday when soldiers shot and killed a suspect after a small explosion at a busy Brussels train station that continued a week of attacks in the capitals of Europe.
  
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• County Championship roundup: Ballance struggles to hold Yorkshire together

  20-06-2017 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  • Samit Patel and James Pattinson puts Notts on top at Trent Bridge
  • Ravi Bopara makes first Championship ton since 2014 for EssexGary Ballance made runs, of course he did, but his was a lone hand, and Yorkshire are in deep trouble at Lord’s, where they have lost their last three games in remarkable fashion. Closing nine down and 260 behind, a remarkable effort is required to avoid a fourth loss.Throughout Middlesex’s first innings of 446, the nagging sense was that a litt
  
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• Venezuela poised for new violence after security forces fatally shoot protester, 17

  20-06-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Fabian Urbina is first person to be killed by security forces during unrest
  Supreme court announces charges against chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz Related: Venezuela's chief prosecutor becomes hate figure for Maduro supporters Venezuelans are bracing for a further escalation of violence after a 17-year-old protester was shot dead by the national guard, and the supreme court announced charges against the country’s attorney general – one of the most senior officials to speak
  
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• Uber adds tipping to its app after longstanding complaints from drivers

  20-06-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  After years of refusing to let passengers tip through the app, Uber added tipping in three US cities after embattled CEO Travis Kalanick took a leave of absenceUber is adding tipping to its platform, addressing a longstanding complaint of drivers with a new feature rolled out one week after embattled CEO Travis Kalanick announced an indefinite leave of absence. The ride-hailing corporation launched tipping in Seattle, Minneapolis and Houston on Tuesday, with plans for an expansion to all US driv
  
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• The Guardian view on the fall of Raqqa: the deadliest phase | Editorial

  20-06-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  The noose is tightening around Islamic State at a time when the Middle East is in tumult. Miscalculations or accidental incidents could easily spark a wider conflagration, whose spiralling effect no one could then controlThe rush to Raqqa, Islamic State’s capital on the banks of the Euphrates in Syria, marks the beginning of a new and perilous phase in one of the world’s most dangerous battle zones. The capture of the capital of Isis’s self-declared caliphate would be part
  
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• Painting of nursing mother wins BP Portrait Award 2017

  20-06-2017 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Artist Benjamin Sullivan’s portrait of his wife and baby daughter takes £30,000 National Portrait Gallery top prizeA painting of a weary but happy mother feeding her eight-month-old daughter has won this year’s BP Portrait Award, netting its artist – the subject’s husband – the £30,000 top prize.Judges at the National Portrait Gallery were moved by Benjamin Sullivan’s work Breech!, whose title hints at the trauma of baby Edith’s birth. It was
  
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• Barclays and former bosses face prosecution

  20-06-2017 21:15
  
  The four men are the only senior bankers to be charged in Britain for alleged crimes during the financial crisis.
  
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• The Guardian view on Philip Hammond’s Brexit speech: practical policy, impractical politics | Editorial

  20-06-2017 21:14 via theguardian.com
  
  There was much in the chancellor’s rescheduled Mansion House speech that fits with what Britain needs. But his party remains its own worst enemy over BrexitIn the general election campaign it was never clear in detail what the Conservative party’s Brexit policy really was. But it was clear who was in charge of it: Theresa May. Today, two weeks after the voters shattered the prime minister’s authority, the policy is even more unclear than it was before – but now no one can
  
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• Terror attack victim 'spent last moments happy'

  20-06-2017 21:10
  
  Adam Lawler, who was with Olivia Campbell-Hardy on the night of the Manchester Arena bombing, says he will never lose the "great memories" he has of the 15-year-old.
  
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• 'Possessive, controlling' man 'killed two ex-girlfriends five years apart', court hears

  20-06-2017 21:00
  The deaths of Susan Nicholson and Caroline Devlin had been recorded as being caused by accidental or natural causes, but prosecutors now believe the two women were "unlawfully killed" by Robert Trigg.Ms Nicholson's body was found on a sofa she had slept on with Trigg in Worthing, West Sussex, in April 2011.At the time, Trigg said she died after he accidentally rolled on to her in his sleep.
  
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• Cressida Dick calls for more money for the Met after terrorist attacks

  20-06-2017 20:58
  
  Cressida Dick joins members of the public close to Finsbury Park mosque after a van attack.The Metropolitan police commissioner has warned that her force is financially stretched and that she needs more money to “do the job” of policing the capital in the aftermath of the Westminster, London Bridge and Finsbury Park terrorist attacks.Cressida Dick said she was in talks with the Home Office and the mayor about funding, while a string of other chief constables joined her in warning abo
  
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• Soros says Britain nearing tipping point, may reverse Brexit

  20-06-2017 20:43
  
  By Guy FaulconbridgeLONDON (Reuters) - George Soros, the billionaire who earned fame by betting against the pound in 1992, said Britain was approaching a tipping point that would see the economy slow to such an extent that Brexit might even be reversed.Soros used Quantum Fund in 1992 to bet successfully that sterling was over-valued against the Deutsche Mark, forcing then-Prime Minister John Major to pull the pound out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM).Soros, who was born in Hungary
  
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• Manchester United manager José Mourinho denies tax fraud in Spain

  20-06-2017 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Prosecutors file €3.3m claim relating to time at Real Madrid as it emerges Cristiano Ronaldo to testify in own tax case on 31 JulyJosé Mourinho has denied accusations of tax evasion made by authorities in Spain. Spanish prosecutors filed a claim against the Manchester United manager that he defrauded the tax authorities of €3.3m (£2.9m) while he managed Real Madrid.In a statement released on Tuesday, a prosecutor in Madrid said the Portuguese manager had committed two coun
  
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• Grenfell Tower: ‘They are still checking who was there and who survived’

  20-06-2017 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Amina Mohamed escaped the eighth floor with her nephew. Almost a week on, she finally feels relief organisations are taking residents’ concerns seriouslyIn the six days since the Grenfell Tower fire, Amina Mohamed, a resident who escaped from the eighth floor, has spent one night in a hotel in Earl’s Court, one night in a very dirty bed and breakfast in Kilburn and three nights in another hotel in Hammersmith.Exhausted and traumatised by her escape from the disaster, she remains unsu
  
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• Six bizarre moments we won’t let Sean Spicer forget – video report

  20-06-2017 20:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Sean Spicer is said to be looking for another role in the Trump administration following an uneven tenure as press secretary. Since taking the position, Spicer has clashed with journalists over the Trump inauguration and even reportedly hidden in bushes outside the White House, leading to widespread ridicule ranging from Melissa McCarthy’s SNL impression to garden decorations Sean Spicer said to be seeking a new role away from press briefings
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• Andy Murray crashes out of Aegon Championships to lucky loser Thompson

  20-06-2017 20:36 via theguardian.com
  
  • World No1 beaten 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 by Australian world No90
  • ‘I didn’t create loads of chances, really. I didn’t return particularly well’Andy Murray looked some way removed from the greatest champion this tournament has ever had when the late substitute Jordan Thompson dumped the world No1 out of the Aegon Championships in the first round on another sweltering day of upsets, mishaps and drama.The 23-year-old Australian, ranked 90 in the world and drafted in as
  
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• May's talks to stay in power with Northern Irish DUP not going as expected - DUP sources

  20-06-2017 20:34
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May's talks on securing the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to prop up her minority government are not going as expected, sources in the DUP said on Tuesday.A snap election intended to strengthen her hand instead left her short of an outright majority and needing the DUP's support.Talks between the two parties, who are largely aligned on domestic issues and Brexit, have dragged on for nearly two weeks, fuelling deep political uncertainty as Br
  
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• Closure of UK’s largest gas storage site ‘could mean volatile prices’

  20-06-2017 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Shuttering of Rough facility off Yorkshire coast by British Gas owner Centrica will increase dependence on imports, say criticsThe closure of the UK’s largest gas storage plant has prompted warnings that the country faces more volatile winter gas prices and is becoming too dependent on energy imports.British Gas’s owner, Centrica, said it was permanently closing the Rough facility off the Yorkshire coast because it had become unsafe and uneconomic to reopen the facility, which had be
  
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• Rightwing extremists involved in nearly a third of terror referrals

  20-06-2017 20:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Figures suggest danger posed by the extreme right – whether individuals or more organised groups – is growingAlmost one-third of all referrals to an anti-extremism programme are for people feared to have extreme rightwing views that could turn into violence, figures show.Tuesday’s figures, published after a van attack on Monday outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, north London, echo claims by Muslims who say the danger posed by the extreme right – whether individuals inspir
  
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• Finsbury Park terrorist attack: seriously injured now out of critical care

  20-06-2017 20:27
  
  Makram Ali, 51, who had collapsed before the attack, died at the scene.Many of the injured had rushed to help Ali.Mohamed Maslah, 51 said his nephew Hamdi al-Faiq was on the phone to the emergency services about Ali when he was caught up in the attack.
  
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• Can the Labour party build a new united front on the left? | Letters

  20-06-2017 20:25
  
  Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas take part in the BBC Election Debate.Writing of Ed Miliband’s revision of party membership rules as “his greatest error” is not just old news, it’s fake news too (Labour members built networks.Now Corbyn must too, 19 June), which Zoe Williams rightly recognises as negative commentary, repudiated by Jeremy Corbyn’s actual performance through – and out the ot
  
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• The EU must reform to deserve our support | Letter

  20-06-2017 20:24
  
  A homeless man sleeps on the street outside the Bank of Greece. Photograph: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
  
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• Bomber Christine Connor jailed for targeting police in Belfast attack

  20-06-2017 20:23
  A woman who posed as a model to entrap a man into participating in a plot to kill police officers in a bomb attack has been jailed for 16 years.Christine Connor used a fake online profile to indoctrinate Stuart Downes with her views, a judge said.Using a fictitious name and a picture of Swedish model Sanne Alexandra Andersson, Connor persuaded Downes to purchase explosives and ship them to Belfast.
  
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• Why did Kensington and Chelsea council’s emergency planning stall? | Letters

  20-06-2017 20:22
  
  Volunteers organise boxes of donations near Grenfell tower in west London after a fire engulfed the 24-storey building.It is good news that the government, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and its neighbours have finally got some grip on the help needed by Grenfell Tower’s victims (Report, 20 June).
  
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• Family of suspect in attack on London Muslims say they are devastated

  20-06-2017 20:19
  By Michael HoldenLONDON (Reuters) - The family of a man suspected of driving a rented van into Muslim worshippers after they left prayers at a north London mosque said they are devastated at the "madness" of the attack.The vehicle swerved into the group of worshippers, mainly of North and West African origin, after they left prayers in Monday's early hours at the Muslim Welfare House and the nearby Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, one of the biggest in Britain.Police said Muslims were clear
  
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• Councils rush to reassure tower residents after Grenfell fire

  20-06-2017 20:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities announce new safety measures and checks on building materials after the disaster in which at least 79 people diedHounslow council in west London is conducting urgent testing on the aluminium cladding of multiple high-rise tower blocks in the borough following the Grenfell Tower disaster.
  With councils across Britain scrambling to reassure residents that their homes are safe or announcing reviews, Hounslow council has written to residents of Clements Court, a 13-storey block containin
  
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• Formula One Group puts the boot into its predecessor, Bernie Ecclestone

  20-06-2017 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
  • F1 chief executive Chase Carey cites ‘short-term, deal of the day focus’
  • Key people will all be in place by August, says CareyChase Carey, the chief executive of the Formula One Group, the new owner of the sport, has explicitly criticised the previous administration of Formula One, managed by Bernie Ecclestone on behalf of CVC Capital.Carey was speaking at the FIA sport conference being held this week in Geneva and made it clear his organisation was addressing the short
  
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• It's not just Amazon coming for Whole Foods – Silicon Valley is eating the world

  20-06-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The online retailer’s $14bn purchase of the organic grocer is its latest step towards global domination. Are we heading for a United States of Amazon?Amazon is eating the world, one industry at a time. Last Friday, the gargantuan retailer paid $13.7bn (£10.7bn) to buy Whole Foods Market in the US, an acquisition that threw the global grocery business into a fit of nerves. After the deal was announced, Amazon’s stock price rose by more than the price it is paying for Whole Foods
  
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• Reverend Jesse Jackson at Cannes Lions: 'Everybody has some genius'

  20-06-2017 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  The civil rights activist spoke at the festival of creativity, discussing the importance of better communication in encouraging diversityCannes Lions is no stranger to high-profile speakers, but even among the usual slew of big-name guests, Reverend Jesse Jackson’s name stands out. The civil rights activist, politician and minister has been an advocate for social justice for over 50 years, and took the stage at Cannes to discuss the state of the world and his work as founder of the Rainbow
  
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• SFO has clear public interest in pursuing Barclays case | Nils Pratley

  20-06-2017 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  The financial crisis may feel a long time ago, but the Serious Fraud Office is duty bound to investigate alleged criminalityOne idea doing the rounds in the City needs to be knocked on the head. It is the notion that the Serious Fraud Office should have let whatever sleeping dogs there might be lie in the Barclays case.This argument holds that, whatever went on with the bank and Qatar in 2008, the UK Treasury avoided having to fund another expensive banking bailout, to sit alongside those at Roy
  
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• Real Madrid’s mixed messages put the ball back in Cristiano Ronaldo’s court | Sid Lowe

  20-06-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Florentino Pérez has said that his club are not contemplating Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure but one day they will have to, and his equivocal tone suggests they are keeping their options open this summer“That’s not something I am contemplating.” The phrase was repeated often but that did not make it any more true. On Monday night Real Madrid’s president, Florentino Pérez, insisted he was not even thinking about a series of scenarios that he certainly is
  
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• ‘Deadlier than terrorism’ – the right’s fatal obsession with red tape

  20-06-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From deaths caused by the financial crash to unsafe buildings such as Grenfell Tower, an ideological commitment to deregulation costs lives. So how did the idea that we are being ‘strangled’ by petty rules become so pervasive?Everyone loves to hate “red tape”. The EU rules and regulations that supposedly restrict Britain’s freedom were the primary theme of the non-racist wing of the leave campaign during the referendum. Brexit, we continue to be told by its champion
  
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• Cage director pleads not guilty to terror offence over privacy issue

  20-06-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Muhammad Rabbani refused to give police passcode to mobile phone at Heathrow because of confidentiality in torture caseThe international director of the campaign group Cage has pleaded not guilty to a terror offence after refusing to give police the passcode to his mobile phone at Heathrow airport last year.Muhammad Rabbani, who was arrested in November 2016 and charged last month, was carrying information from a survivor of torture on his device that he did not have permission to hand over, the
  
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• Hundreds attend funeral of Manchester Arena victim Olivia Campbell-Hardy

  20-06-2017 19:59
  A service of "hope and love" has been held in remembrance of Olivia Campbell-Hardy, who was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing.The 15-year-old was among 22 people who died in the terror attack last month.Hundreds of people lined the streets to see her funeral procession, which included riders on scooters decorated with balloons and flags.
  
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• Portugal’s prime minister calls on emergency services to explain wildfire response

  20-06-2017 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 64 people have been killed, 47 of whom died on one road as they fled flames in their carsPortugal’s prime minister has called on the emergency services to explain their response to the country’s worst wildfire as public anger mounts over the tragedy. At least 64 people have been killed and more than 150 injured.On Tuesday, António Costa asked the head of the National Republican Guard why officers had not closed off the road where many of the victims burned to death as
  
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• Ben & Jerry's is asking you to email your MEP to help refugees

  20-06-2017 19:48
  
  The campaign was launched on World Refugee Day.
  
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