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• Aldi pulls Dutch eggs in Germany as scare widens

  04-08-2017 22:35
  Farmers throw eggs at a poultry farm in Onstwedde, Netherlands, on August 3, 2017 after the Dutch Food and Welfare Authority (NVWA) highlighted the contamination of eggs by fipronil, a toxic insecticide ...
  
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• Sunderland v Derby County: Championship – live!

  04-08-2017 22:28 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the season opener at the Stadium of LightLive scores: check in on tonight’s other live gamesEmail [email protected]. Tweet @benfisherj9.28pm BST83 min: Forsyth allows Honeyman to slip inside him and the Sunderland youngster ploughs into the box, with the Derby left-back scared off making a rash challenge. Honeyman drills in a low ball but Derby are off the hook. 9.27pm BST82 min: Andre Wisdom has just taken about 30 seconds to take a throw-in. He’s having, er, s
  
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• World Athletics Championships 2017: Mo Farah goes for 10,000m gold – live!

  04-08-2017 22:27 via theguardian.com
  Live updates from the opening night at London StadiumEmail Simon or tweet @Simon_BurntonOur comprehensive guide to the championshipsUsain Bolt: the fastest man who has ever lived 9.27pm BSTGeoffrey Kamworor leads the field after 2000m, with Farah about seventh from last, not bothered, running his own race.Gwaaan @Mo_Farah#London20179.25pm BST@Simon_Burnton As great as Bolt may be, athletics can't be saved by overhyping the 100m. When'll people realize other distances also matter?I agree with thi
  
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• Kenyan opposition raided as election approaches

  04-08-2017 22:23 via theguardian.com
  Police enter offices of opposition leader Raila Odinga’s alliance four days before national pollPolice have raided the offices of Kenya’s opposition alliance, an opposition spokesman said, four days before a national election.Dennis Onyango, a spokesman for veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, said the purpose of the raid on Friday evening was unclear. Continue reading...
  
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• Biggest earthquake in 30 years hits western Scottish Highlands

  04-08-2017 22:02 via theguardian.com
  Magnitude 3.8 tremor in Moidart area is felt widely across west of Scotland
  The largest earthquake to be felt in the west Highlands of Scotland in more than 30 years was recorded on Friday.
  The British Geological Survey (BGS) recorded the magnitude 3.8 tremor in the Moidart area just before 3.45pm. It was the biggest earthquake in the region since a magnitude 4.1 quake near Oban in September 1986, officials said. Continue reading...
  
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• IK Kim leads Women’s British Open but Georgia Hall stays in the hunt

  04-08-2017 21:38 via theguardian.com
  • Hall posts second-round 67 at Kingsbarns to share second place
  • First-round leader Michelle Wie falls seven shots off the paceGeorgia Hall will put thoughts of a Solheim Cup debut to one side as she concentrates on becoming the first English winner of the Women’s British Open since 2004.Hall carded a second round of 67 at Kingsbarns to share second place alongside world No2 Lexi Thompson, two shots behind South Korea’s IK Kim. Continue reading...
  
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• Despacito becomes most-viewed video in YouTube history

  04-08-2017 21:30 via theguardian.com
  With nearly 3bn views in seven months, the song surpassed Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again after breaking record for most streamed song everThe music video for smash hit single Despacito, from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has become the most-watched YouTube video ever, surpassing Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again. Related: Costa del pop: how Despacito is breaking down music's language barrierContinue reading...
  
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• Charlie Gard Medic Condemns 'Soap Opera' That Led To Great Ormond Street Hospital Abuse

  04-08-2017 21:20
  A clinician who treated Charlie Gard has said the baby’s last days were turned into a “soap opera” with him being kept alive for people such as Donald Trump and the Pope.
  
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• Briton hopes talks will trigger wife's release from prison in Iran

  04-08-2017 21:20
  Alistair Burt will hold talks with senior Iranian politicians and is set to raise the cases of dual national detainees including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kamal Foroughi.Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five year jail term in the capital for allegedly plotting to topple the country's government - a charge she has repeatedly denied.Mr Ratcliffe said he hoped the politician "raises her case as much as possible, presses the Iranian government that this situation cannot continue, and that she's
  
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• Irish PM Varadkar urges Stormont parties to return to powersharing as Brexit looms

  04-08-2017 21:17
  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has called for political parties in Northern Ireland to form a powersharing government as "time is running out" to get the best outcome in Brexit negotiations.Speaking on his first visit to Belfast since taking office, Mr Varadkar said "every single aspect of life in Northern Ireland could be affected by Brexit", which is "the challenge of this generation".The Irish Prime Minister noted that the EU would meet in October to decide whether sufficient progress had
  
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• Martin Shkreli found guilty of fraud by jury in New York

  04-08-2017 20:56 via theguardian.com
  The 34-year-old pharmaceutical entrepreneur found guilty on three of eight federal charges that he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge fundsMartin Shkreli, the hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical entrepreneur once dubbed “the most hated man in America” has been found guilty on three of eight federal charges that he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge funds.The jury of seven women and five men reached their verdict on the fifth day of deliberations after a month
  
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• Deja vu for Keaton Jennings as Haseeb Hameed waits in the wings | Ali Martin

  04-08-2017 20:43 via theguardian.com
  Selectors see the 20-year-old Hameed as the long-term solution as partner to Alastair Cook as the Durham opener comes up short again for EnglandThe timing may have been purely coincidental but as Keaton Jennings trudged back to the dressing room stairs at Old Trafford on Friday with 17 to his name, and Haseeb Hameed began a net session with the England coaches, it was hard not to ponder whether the pair will be trading places come the first Test with West Indies in a fortnight’s time.Jenni
  
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• People who carry out ‘life-changing’ acid attacks face life sentences

  04-08-2017 20:41 via theguardian.com
  Criminals caught with acid to receive same sentence as those caught with a knife, says director of public prosecutions as number of attacks growsCriminals caught with acid can expect to receive the same prison sentences as those convicted of carrying a knife, according to new judicial guidelines that have come into effect.Life sentences could be handed down to those who carry out “life-changing” acid attacks, even if they miss their target or fail to inflict serious harm on their vic
  
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• Game of Thrones episode leaked online after HBO suffers week of chaos

  04-08-2017 20:32 via theguardian.com
  Low-quality version of latest episode leaks in separate security breach from hack that has been self-described as ‘the greatest leak’ of the digital eraThe cable network HBO capped off several weeks of controversy and misfortune with further bad news on Friday when it emerged that the next episode of its star series, Game of Thrones, due to air on Sunday, had leaked on the internet that morning. Related: Game of Thrones is in jeopardy as HBO is target of major hackContinue reading...
  
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• England fail to capitalise on starts and lose Ben Stokes late in the day

  04-08-2017 20:27 via theguardian.com
  • Fourth Test, day one: England 260-6 v South Africa
  • Stokes top scores with 58 but falls to Rabada just before stumpsWith substantial rather than decisive contributions from the old guard – Alastair Cook, Joe Root and Ben Stokes (yes, he can just about be included in this category now) – England tiptoed towards a serviceable total in the final Test of the series, but no more than that. This trio scored 46, 52 and 58 respectively as England finished an absorbing day on 260
  
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• Venezuela crisis: loyalist assembly inaugurated amid Vatican criticism

  04-08-2017 20:19 via theguardian.com
  Nicolás Maduro installs body despite condemnation from dozens of countries, as opposition plans new protest: ‘We will take the streets to fight for freedom’The threat of confrontation mounted in Venezuela as president Nicolás Maduro, installed a controversial new assembly despite overwhelming international condemnation and a planned opposition protest. Related: The problem for Venezuelans: Maduro’s opposition would provide no relief | Oscar Guardiola-RiveraContinu
  
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• Icarus review – Netflix doping scandal doc is flawed but fascinating

  04-08-2017 20:04 via theguardian.com
  Filmmaker Bryan Fogel stumbles upon state-sponsored doping in a sometimes clunky, but unquestionably revelatory documentaryFew film-makers have stumbled upon documentary gold in quite as fortuitous a fashion as Bryan Fogel, the man behind this revelatory account of Russia’s state-sponsored doping program. Primarily a playwright (he wrote an off-Broadway comedy called Jewtopia), Fogel is also a keen amateur cyclist and, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal, set out to prove just how e
  
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• You must include gay venue on site of Joiners Arms, planners tell developers

  04-08-2017 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Inclusion of gay pub a condition of planning permission for the first time as London fights loss of LGBT venues Gay bars in London are closing down at such an “alarming” rate that the redevelopment of the Joiners Arms, an east London pub that counted Alexander McQueen, Rufus Wainwright and Wolfgang Tillmans among its regulars, will only get the go-ahead if it includes an LGBT club venue – and the mayor’s office will send an inspector to make sure it is gay enough.Tower Ha
  
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• Neymar: how the record-breaking €222m move to PSG unfolded

  04-08-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  After three weeks of rumours, negotiations, brainstorming and arguments the Brazilian finally arrived in Paris from BarcelonaSometimes, life is as simple as a phone call. In Neymar and PSG’s case, it was indeed a phone call that made the biggest transfer in football history possible. After three weeks of negotiations, brainstormings, discussions and arguments, the Parisians welcomed the Brazilian superstar on Friday. And like every transfer, the inside story is the most fascinating aspect.
  
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• Editing embryo DNA is an exciting landmark, but in reality will benefit few

  04-08-2017 19:52 via theguardian.com
  Even if legal barriers were lifted, the conditions genome editing would help are rare, and our understanding of genes is still too poor for it to be widely usedIt is hard to overstate the importance of the moment. For billions of years, life on Earth has been shaped, slowly and incrementally, by dumb evolution. But in research this week, scientists showed how that might change. With advanced genetic engineering tools, a US-Korean team mended dangerous heart disease mutations in human embryos for
  
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• Martin Rowson on Donald Trump’s Russia links – cartoon

  04-08-2017 19:50 via theguardian.com
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• Fake news is bad. But fake history is even worse | Natalie Nougayrède

  04-08-2017 19:48 via theguardian.com
  From Turkey to China, strongmen rewrite the past to suit their ends. But democracies are not immune to this revisionismOn 22 July, the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán stood before university students and delivered a speech titled “Will Europe belong to Europeans?” It contained rambling passages about how a “Soros plan” was in place to bring in “hundreds of thousands of migrants every year – if possible, a million – to the territory of the Eu
  
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• 'Talk out of their arses': sexist critics butt of the joke in Edinburgh show

  04-08-2017 19:44 via theguardian.com
  Wild Bore was born out of conversations about absurd, sexist and ignorant ways three comedians, as female performers, were described by reviewersThere is one unwritten rule of theatre: do not read your reviews let alone respond to your critics. But the Edinburgh fringe is where the rules are to be broken and three female performers have decided that this year, when it comes to the critics, they are fighting back. Continue reading...
  
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• Gabriella and Layla have some tips for dealing with hot weather.

  04-08-2017 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Gabriella and Layla have some tips for dealing with hot weather.
  
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• Grenfell Tower: local people should be on inquiry panel, bishop says

  04-08-2017 19:36 via theguardian.com
  Bishop of Kensington says inquiry chair should set up panel to represent local community as consultation period closes
  A panel of people drawn from the local community should be appointed to advise the chair of the Grenfell Tower inquiry, according to the bishop whose diocese covers the building where the deadly inferno took place.The bishop of Kensington said that judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick should establish a panel that would “represent the local community and win their confidence”
  
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• Mental health: 'It is hoped Government will listen'

  04-08-2017 19:35
  A suicidal teenage girl's solicitor says he hopes senior officials will listen after a judge issued a scathing assessment of current care provision.
  
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• Ten years on, we’re getting into another debt crisis | Deborah Orr

  04-08-2017 19:31 via theguardian.com
  The early signs of the 2007 credit crunch are back. With wages stalled and prices rising, more and more are turning to loans and plastic cards to make ends meetWe are 10 years on from the start of the financial crisis, and unsecured consumer debt has reached more than £200bn for the first time since 2008. It’s up 10%, year on year. The best that can be said of the matter, as compared to the pre-crash debt boom, is that at least there are worries about it.The Bank of England and the c
  
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• Air passengers face delays due to strikes and tighter border controls

  04-08-2017 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Holidaymakers advised to allow extra travel time after introduction of tighter checks on non-Schengen passportsHolidaymakers could face long delays as a result of industrial action at some Spanish airports and tighter border controls across Europe on one of the busiest weekends of the year.Airlines have advised passengers to allow extra time and prepare for long delays, while one travel organisation said the elderly and young should take special precautions. Continue reading...
  
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• With political will, we could easily solve our transport problems | Letters

  04-08-2017 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Readers share their thoughts on electricity generation, cars, cycling, trains and garden citiesGeorge Monbiot makes some useful points in his article bemoaning the influence of the lobbying power of the motor industry (We must break the car’s chokehold on Britain, 2 August). He proposes a modal transport shift to more coach travel and investment in nuclear power plants to power our electric cars. He ignores completely, as usual, the solar option with smaller electric cars and electric bike
  
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• Ken Livingstone: putting the record straight on Venezuela | Letters

  04-08-2017 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Ken Livingstone and Keith Flett respond to a recent Guardian piece about the current troubles in VenezuelaI’m very disappointed at the reporting of my comments regarding the situation in Venezuela (Report, 4 August). I have not said that Hugo Chávez should have killed anyone and nor would I ever advocate it. I even dispelled this accusation in the very interview that is being extensively quoted. The point I was making is that, contrary to some misrepresentations, Hugo Chávez
  
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• Fentanyl concern may demonise a vital drug | Letters

  04-08-2017 19:22 via theguardian.com
  Dozens of UK drug deaths have been linked to the opioid fentanyl, but, when used legally, it can be a useful weapon in the fight against acute pain, say Margaret Gibbs and Conrad HodgkinsonPlease be mindful of your potential to frighten people unnecessarily (Report, 1 August). Fentanyl is indeed between 100 and 150 times as potent as morphine but when used in the microgram doses available in commercial products it is as safe as any other strong opioid for the management of severe pain whether po
  
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• Treatment of Phil is a bitter pill to swallow for some | Brief letters

  04-08-2017 19:21
  Can anyone think of a privatised service that has saved money and improved service for the general public?• In today’s Britain, where stones are thrown through the windows of Greek and German doctors (The EU nationals fleeing from Britain, 29 July), it is reassuring to know that there is at least one European immigrant, of German-Greek descent, whom the nation has taken to its heart (Prince Philip bows out, 2 August).• Two forerunners of the scientists surely deserve mention in t
  
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• Arts funding: £700m needed to bridge north-south divide, study finds

  04-08-2017 19:12 via theguardian.com
  IPPR North report reveals sum required to give northern England the same Arts Council funds as those granted to London The arts in northern England should be allocated almost £700m to receive an equal level of funding as London, according to a thinktank. The analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research North revealed the scale of the funding gap between northern cities and the capital. Continue reading...
  
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• Suicidal Teen Whose Case Prompted Judge Sir James Munby To Warn Of 'Blood On Our Hands', Now Has Care Placement

  04-08-2017 19:10
  A suicidal teen, whose lack of care prompted a High Court judge to condemn the shortage of treatment for mentally unwell children, now has a “safe and appropriate” place to be treated.
  
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• Cowes Week sailing extravaganza spawns a renting boom in Isle of Wight

  04-08-2017 18:58 via theguardian.com
  Super rich sailors are spending more money renting houses for regatta than local people pay in rent for the entire yearWhen a house that normally rents for £500 a week can find a tenant willing to pay £16,000 for a nine-day let, it is a sure sign that there is big money in town.The town is Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, and the money arrives with the annual Cowes Week sailing extravaganza. Sailors, socialites and the super-wealthy descended on the island this week for the 191-year-old
  
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• NHS finds bed for teenager at risk of suicide

  04-08-2017 18:50 via theguardian.com
  Girl, 17, to be placed in undisclosed low secure unit after senior judge warned country would have ‘blood on our hands’ if she were not moved for treatment
  The NHS has found a hospital to look after the suicidal 17-year-old girl whose plight led a judge to warn that the country would have “blood on our hands” if a bed could not be located. Dr Mike Prentice, NHS England’s medical director for its north of England region, said: “Following extensive assessments,
  
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• 'Safe care setting' found for suicidal teen after judge's warning

  04-08-2017 18:50
  A suicidal teenager will get an "appropriate care setting" after a judge said he felt "shame" a place had not been found for her.The most senior family court judge in England and Wales, Sir James Munby, said he felt "shame and embarrassment" after finding there were no suitable places available for the girl when she is released from a secure unit later this month.The case "should make us all feel ashamed", Sir James said in a ruling.
  
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• Hats off to craft skills – before they disappear for good

  04-08-2017 18:41 via theguardian.com
  Heritage Craft Association campaign says traditional artisanship is in danger of extinction without supportIt is a craft that requires imagination, concentration and precision. And, when you are about to plunge a chisel into a wonderfully smooth piece of lime wood, a degree of boldness. Owen Morse-Brown, whose workshop is tucked away on a light industrial estate in Wiltshire, is one of the last British artisans blessed with the skills to create wooden hat blocks – moulds for headwear rangi
  
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• Mark Sampson remains inscrutable after England’s heartbreak at Euro 2017 | Louise Taylor

  04-08-2017 18:34 via theguardian.com
  Semi-final defeat by Holland has raised questions about manager’s approach and the old failing of ball retention proved key once moreOn the stroke of 8am, a uniformed attendant parked his van alongside the FanZone and surveyed a grisly scene. After pausing momentarily, he began painstakingly clearing the mini-mountain of litter scarring a usually serene patch of grass, bisecting a pleasant square.Bit by bit the polystyrene cartons, beer cans, cigarette ends and empty pizza boxes scarring t
  
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• Melting glaciers in Swiss Alps could reveal hundreds of mummified corpses

  04-08-2017 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Frozen bodies of couple who vanished 75 years ago among those uncovered recently as global warming forces ice to retreatSwiss police say hundreds of bodies of mountaineers who have gone missing in the Alps in the past century could emerge in coming years as global warming forces the country’s glaciers to retreat.Alpine authorities have registered a significant increase in the number of human remains discovered last month, with the body of a man missing for 30 years the most recent to be un
  
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• Arsenal owner Kroenke bans trophy-hunting bloodsports from TV channel

  04-08-2017 18:33 via theguardian.com
  Club’s majority shareholder criticised for big-game hunting content on TV app‘Stan Kroenke has directed us to remove all content related to those animals’Stan Kroenke, the owner of Arsenal, has ordered his new TV streaming service to stop showing big-game hunting.Kroenke has been heavily criticised after the UK launch of MyOutdoorTV, which is run by Outdoor Sportsman Group (OSG), part of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, because it shows videos of hunters with dead animals. Con
  
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• Police officers cleared of misconduct after filming nude sunbathers

  04-08-2017 18:27
  By Emma RumneyLONDON (Reuters) - Four British police officers who filmed from a helicopter nude sunbathers, naturists and a couple having sex were cleared of charges of misconduct in public office at a crown court on Friday.South Yorkshire Police officers Matthew Lucas, 42, and Lee Walls, 47, and pilots Matthew Loosemore, 45, and Malcolm Reeves, 64, were cleared of all charges.
  
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• Worker doused with petrol chases axe-wielding suspect away

  04-08-2017 18:21
  A man armed with an axe poured petrol over a supermarket worker during a "brazen" attempted robbery at a store in Greater Manchester.The suspect entered a branch of Asda in Leigh shortly before 10.45pm on 28 July.Greater Manchester Police said the worker then chased him out of the store.
  
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• British government flies rainbow gay rights flag over Northern Ireland office

  04-08-2017 18:21
  The British government on Friday ordered a rainbow gay rights flag to be flown above its main office in Belfast - Stormont House - to coincide with the largest gay pride festival in Northern Ireland, the only British region where gay marriage is illegal.Gay marriage has been repeatedly blocked in Northern Ireland by the powerful Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
  
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• Fairtrade only really benefits supermarkets. A rethink is needed | Ndongo Samba Sylla

  04-08-2017 18:20 via theguardian.com
  The movement has honourable intentions, but offers too few benefits to producers of the global south. It’s time to enhance an outdated modelIn response to the growing demand of citizens in developed countries for quality consumption, the proliferation of “ethical labels” is simply staggering. For some, the purchase and consumption of goods has become a political act. News that Green & Black’s new chocolate bar will be neither organic nor Fairtrade-certified – in
  
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• Jeff Sessions bows to Trump pressure and launches crackdown on leakers

  04-08-2017 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Attorney general says DoJ has ‘tripled the number of active leak investigations’Trump had criticised ‘weak’ Sessions for failing to deal with intelligence leaksThe US justice department has “tripled the number of active leak investigations” and devoted new FBI resources to cracking down on leakers, Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, said in a press conference on Friday, promising also that the department was reviewing its approach to subpoenaing journalists.
  
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• Late-night hosts on Trump's week: 'He tends to retreat into alternate reality'

  04-08-2017 18:12 via theguardian.com
  Comics, including Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah, discussed a report that Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in the Russia investigationLate-night hosts on Thursday discussed another damning news cycle for the Trump administration, including the Wall Street Journal report that special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in the ongoing Russia investigation and the release of leaked transcripts from the president’s phone calls with the Mexican president and
  
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• Irish taoiseach urges Northern Ireland to back staying in single market

  04-08-2017 18:12 via theguardian.com
  Leo Varadkar tells unionists in Belfast it will be easier to protect union with Britain if UK keeps close relationship with EUIreland’s prime minister has told unionists in Northern Ireland that it will be easier to protect the union they support with Britain if the UK stays in the European single market.The taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, said that rather than pressing the EU for special status for Northern Ireland post-Brexit, it would be better if the entire UK remained inside a customs union
  
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• The Book of Miracles: 16th-century apocalyptic visions – in pictures

  04-08-2017 18:09 via theguardian.com
  Rediscovered a few years ago, an illustrated manuscript from 1550s Augsburg, Germany, shows awe-inspiring tales of the Old Testament, the Book of Revelation and contemporary events. Taschen’s new edition adds historical contextContinue reading...
  
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• Breaking through

  04-08-2017 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  London's Identity School of Acting wants to shake up the industry and challenge the decision makers.
  
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