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• Alex Hales’ efforts not enough as England lose to West Indies in T20

  16-09-2017 23:46 via theguardian.com
  • Only T20: West Indies 176-9; England 155
  • Hales top scores with 43 but England fall 21 runs shortThere could not possibly be another extraordinary climax approaching the incredible. Could there? Indeed there could not. The winners, however, were the same.Defying a cold, dank autumnal night of the kind most of their team had never experienced let alone played cricket in and almost refusing to continue, West Indies defeated England by 21 runs in the solitary Twenty20 between the sides
  
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• Chelsea’s Antonio Conte content to ignore the outside noise

  16-09-2017 23:35 via theguardian.com
  The Italian has shrugged off a difficult summer and an opening-day defeat and his side are firing on all cylinders againWhen Antonio Conte said that a manager’s job is difficult, for a brief moment it felt necessary to make sure that the Italian was not bending the truth, given how easy he has made everything look at Chelsea. Yet even he is unable to ignore modern football’s cut-throat reality, especially after a week that began with Crystal Palace landing another blow in the war on
  
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• Britain faces rebuke over refusal to back more than 100 UN human rights targets

  16-09-2017 23:09
  The UK government has chosen not to support UN recommendations on abortion rights in Northern Ireland.Britain is heading for a confrontation this week at the UN human rights council over its failure to support more than 100 recommendations on subjects ranging from the rights of children to the international law on abortion.David Isaac, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), will attend the UN’s universal periodic review (UPR) of the UK’s human rights record in Gene
  
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• Meet the latest recruit to the UK flood defence team: the beaver

  16-09-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Villagers in the Forest of Dean back plans to release a beaver family to protect their homes by damming waterwaysBeavers could be put to work building dams to stop a village from flooding in the Forest of Dean, in what would be the first such scheme on government land.The Forestry Commission has been an enthusiastic advocate for the release of a family of beavers into a large fenced area surrounding Greathough brook above the village of Lydbrook, on land owned by the commission. Continue reading
  
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• A mile and a world apart, Juggalos and Trump fans descend on Washington

  16-09-2017 22:44 via theguardian.com
  Hundreds of fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse came to protest the FBI labeling them a gang - while on the other side of the Reflecting Pool, turnout was lower than expected at a rally to support the presidentThe genteel air of Washington DC’s national mall was disrupted by people in face paint and people keen to make America great again on Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of Juggalos – fans of the horrorcore rap group Insane Clown Posse – gathered to protest the FBI’s
  
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• Boris Johnson ought to be fired, furious Tories tell May

  16-09-2017 22:37
  Senior Conservatives have denounced Theresa May as “too weak” to unite her cabinet and run an effective government after she refused to sack her foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for breaking ranks over Brexit.Johnson infuriated Tory MPs on both sides of the European debate when he spelt out his own personal vision of a hard Brexit in a newspaper article, only days before May is expected to outline possible areas for compromise with Brussels in a speech in Florence.Writing in the Dai
  
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• M5 crash: Four dead in Gloucestershire

  16-09-2017 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  The injured remain in a life-threatening condition after a lorry hit at least two other vehicles, police say.
  
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• Police watchdog calls for Met officer in custody death inquiry to be suspended

  16-09-2017 22:15 via theguardian.com
  The Met’s failure to suspend officer despite advice from IPCC comes at time of growing concern over deaths after contact with policeThe Independent Police Complaints Commission has formally recommended to Scotland Yard that the officer who restrained Rashan Charles, whose death sparked protests in east London, should be suspended, the Observer has learned. Related: Rashan Charles death: Met officer investigated for gross misconductContinue reading...
  
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• Couple's home searched by terror police

  16-09-2017 22:10
  The well-respected pair were given MBEs in 2010 for their work with child refugees, as police investigate Friday's Tube bombing.
  
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• ‘You have one minute to get out’ police tell Sunbury residents

  16-09-2017 22:00
  A forensic investigator enters a house in Sunbury-on-Thames raided by police on Saturday in the hunt for the Parsons Green bomber.The residents of Cavendish Road in Sunbury-on-Thames had suspected something was up, long before the police ordered them to evacuate their homes on Saturday afternoon.Since Friday a large number of officers had been seen on the quiet Surrey street of terraced ex-council houses and many had linked the police presence to Friday’s tube attack at Parsons Green.
  
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• Attackers united by youth and driven by a search for meaning

  16-09-2017 22:00
  Salman Abedi was aged 22 when he carried out the Manchester Arena attack.Divided by geography, ideology and method, the majority of terror attackers and their radicalised networks nevertheless usually have one thing in common – their age.From far-right attackers such as Dylann Roof, who had recently turned 21 when he killed nine people in a Charleston attack, to Islamist militants such as the Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi, aged 22 when he blew himself up outside a concert and killed
  
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• Four dead after crash on M5 in Gloucestershire involving lorry and several vehicles

  16-09-2017 21:49
  Police say at least four people have died after a crash involving several vehicles and a lorry on the M5 in south Gloucestershire.Pictures from the scene showed a truck on an embankment, with the rear of the lorry sticking up in the air.It was surrounded by emergency vehicles at the scene.
  
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• Hurricane Irma leaves UK’s Caribbean tax havens relying on volunteers

  16-09-2017 21:48 via theguardian.com
  Vulnerable ‘wealthy’ islands are struggling to restore sanitationand power and say they need more aidHeavy rainfall, mosquito infestations and flooding are bringing fresh misery to beleaguered survivors of Hurricane Irma, a week on from the storm which brought devastation to the Caribbean last week.But while the British government continues to face criticism for what some see as a slow reaction to the plight of its overseas territories, a volunteer-led response is now under way in lo
  
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• Police search Surrey house as teenager held over tube bomb

  16-09-2017 21:46
  An 18-year-old man is being questioned by counterterrorism officers after being arrested in Dover in the wake of the Parsons Green bomb attack in west London.Police described the arrest as “significant” after seizing the man in the port area of Dover at 7.50am before taking him from Kent to a south London police station.It was the first breakthrough in the huge investigation to track down the individual or network behind the attack on a London tube train.
  
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• British police arrest London bomb suspect at Dover border point

  16-09-2017 21:43
  By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested an 18-year-old man in the departure lounge of the port of Dover on Saturday in what they said was a "very significant" step in the hunt for whoever planted a bomb on a London commuter train that injured 30 people a day earlier.Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of "critical" late on Friday, meaning another attack may be imminent, and deployed soldiers and armed police to strategic locations such as nuclear power p
  
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• Lib Dem conference: Cable urges 'exit from Brexit' vote

  16-09-2017 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The Lib Dem leader tells conference a second vote should be held when the outcome of talks is known.
  
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• Parsons Green: Armed police search house over Tube bombing

  16-09-2017 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  A man, 18, is arrested at Dover port on suspicion of a terror offence before armed officers search a house in Surrey.
  
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• Pep Guardiola: ‘We are doing many things now that we didn’t do last season’

  16-09-2017 21:07 via theguardian.com
  • Manchester City ‘have good balance, good players and good spirit’
  • Guardiola describes hat-trick star Sergio Agüero as ‘a legend’ after 6-0 winPep Guardiola believes Manchester City are much better than last season after watching his team thrash Watford 6-0 and go top of the Premier League. Guardiola said greater familiarity with his methods, plus lavish player recruitment in the summer, make him confident City will not dip as they did last season. &ldqu
  
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• Wayne Rooney deserves a Ronaldo-style welcome at Old Trafford | Daniel Taylor

  16-09-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  The Everton striker did alienate Manchester United fans at times but while other greats of the club have their sins forgiven quickly, his seem to lingerIt is strange in football, an industry where the super-rich often give the impression that money is how they keep the score, how even the most financially endowed clubs can be guilty sometimes of blurring their priorities when it comes to saving a few quid behind the scenes.In happier times at Manchester United, when Sir Alex Ferguson and his tea
  
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• Tottenham suffer more Wembley frustration after Swansea hold firm

  16-09-2017 20:44 via theguardian.com
  The intense frustration for Tottenham is that, however anybody dresses it up, this was such a step backwards. Their disposal of Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, effected so clinically, was supposed to have shaken off all that talk of a Wembley jinx; it certainly looked the perfect platform for a routine evening against Swansea City, but once again they laboured at their temporary home and the familiar doubts returned as quickly as they had evaporated.A dogged Swansea were worthy of their point de
  
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• Parsons Green bombing: Foster couple's home in Surrey searched by terror police

  16-09-2017 20:43
  A home in Surrey searched by anti-terror police investigating the Parsons Green bombing is owned by an elderly foster couple honoured for their work with child refugees.The property is registered to Ronald Jones, 88, and his 71-year-old wife Penelope, who were awarded MBEs in the 2009 New Year's Honours List for services to children and families.The search at the well-respected couple's house in Cavendish Road in Sunbury-on-Thames follows the "very significant arrest" of an 18-year-old in Dover.
  
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• Police recover number of items after Dover terror arrest

  16-09-2017 20:42
  Police say a number of items have been recovered at the port of Dover following the arrest of a teenager over the Parsons Green bombing.Thirty people were injured during London's Friday morning rush hour when an improvised explosive device detonated on a Tube train.Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said that officers had to partially evacuate the port of Dover after arresting an 18-year-old in the departure area.
  
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• Envoy welcomes Russian idea for UN troops in eastern Ukraine

  16-09-2017 20:31 via theguardian.com
  Suggestion by Putin offers more options for resolving conflict in the region, says Kurt VolkerRussia’s apparent backing for the possible deployment of UN peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine gives negotiators more ideas with which to seek a resolution to the separatist conflict, the US envoy to the Ukraine peace talks has said.The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, last week floated the idea of deploying UN troops to eastern Ukraine in a call with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, suggestin
  
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• Harry Redknapp sacked by Birmingham City after 13 games

  16-09-2017 20:18 via theguardian.com
  • Birmingham have won two out of 10 games in all competitions
  • Redknapp, 70, dismissed after 3-1 home defeat to PrestonBirmingham City sacked Harry Redknapp on Saturday evening after a 3-1 home defeat to Preston North End left the Championship club second-bottom of the table. It was Birmingham’s sixth straight defeat in all competitions and they have won one game since the start of the season. It was the former Tottenham manager’s 13th game in charge.The 70-year-old Redkna
  
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• Max Tegmark: ‘Machines taking control doesn’t have to be a bad thing’

  16-09-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The artificial intelligence expert’s new book, Life 3.0, urges us to act now to decide our future, rather than risk it being decided for usAfew years ago the cosmologist Max Tegmark found himself weeping outside the Science Museum in South Kensington. He’d just visited an exhibition that represented the growth in human knowledge, everything from Charles Babbage’s difference engine to a replica of Apollo 11. What moved him to tears wasn’t the spectacle of these iconic tech
  
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• Harry Redknapp: Birmingham City sack manager after poor run

  16-09-2017 19:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Birmingham City sack manager Harry Redknapp following six straight defeats in all competitions.
  
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• Residents evacuated in Tube terror inquiry

  16-09-2017 19:40
  Forensic officers are searching a home in Surrey as police continue to investigate the train bombing that left 30 people injured.
  
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• Iraqi leader warns Kurds over independence referendum violence

  16-09-2017 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Haider al-Abadi prepared to intervene militarily if Iraq’s population is ‘threatened by the use of force outside the law’The Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, says he is prepared to intervene militarily if the Kurdish region’s planned independence referendum results in violence.In an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday, Al-Abadi said if the Iraqi population was “threatened by the use of force outside the law, then we will intervene militarily”
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn is being driven by the ‘left-behind’ middle class | Nick Cohen

  16-09-2017 19:15 via theguardian.com
  The Labour leader has been clever in exploiting a disaffected element of the electorateAnyone who knows the far left will have snorted when they heard that it was banning the most successful Labour politicians in England from addressing the Labour party conference. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Andy Burnham, his counterpart in Manchester, may have won actual elections on moderate platforms. No matter. They must step aside so that “ordinary” party members can speak in their pla
  
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• Gill Meller’s kitchen: ‘Every time I’d steal a wooden spoon, as a memento’ | A cook’s kitchen

  16-09-2017 19:14 via theguardian.com
  Hand-crafted knives, an oft‑signed table and pilfered wooden spoons are prized by the chef and food writer Gill MellerWe bought this old summer house about three years ago and made it big enough for our family. South-facing, it looks out over Lyme Bay – you get beautiful views in the summer and in the winter amazing storms coming in off the sea. I built the kitchen myself, with the help of some friends, out of floorboards and roofing timbers left over from building the house. Our wor
  
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• Roy Hodgson fears more pain ahead for Palace after disappointing homecoming

  16-09-2017 19:05 via theguardian.com
  • ‘Anxiety there for all to see’ in 1-0 loss to Southampton, says Hodgson
  • New Eagles manager aiming to stop players ‘digging themselves into a grave’
  Roy Hodgson described defeat in his first match as Crystal Palace manager as a painful experience and said his principal task is to prevent his players “digging themselves into a grave”. Palace find themselves rooted to the bottom of the Premier League on the back of no wins and no goals in the o
  
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• Banksy donates funds from anti-arms artwork sale

  16-09-2017 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  A protest piece by the anonymous street artist sold for more than £200,000.
  
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• Paulinho scores late as Barcelona beat Getafe despite Dembélé injury

  16-09-2017 18:43 via theguardian.com
  Barcelona snatched a late 2-1 win at Getafe, with Paulinho’s strike sending them three points clear at the top of La Liga overnight, but lost Ousmane Dembélé to a hamstring injury on his first league start.Paulinho’s signing was widely criticised by supporters but he drove into the area and fired home to preserve Barcelona’s 100% record in the league. Gaku Shibasaki had scored a magnificent volley to put Getafe ahead in the 40th minute but another substitute, Deni
  
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• Jürgen Klopp says ‘fortune was not wearing Liverpool shirt’ in Burnley draw

  16-09-2017 18:21 via theguardian.com
  There was a roll-call of former title-winners and mosaics around the ground to mark the 125th anniversary of Liverpool’s first ever game, against Rotherham Town, but there was precious little in the present to celebrate for Jürgen Klopp. “Fortune was not wearing a Liverpool shirt today,” their manager said. Fortune did not fashion a stalemate with Burnley either.Sean Dyche’s team have clearly learned the lessons of a painful campaign on the road last season, when the
  
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• Jamaal Lascelles heads Newcastle United to win over Stoke City

  16-09-2017 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Punctuated by bouts of driving rain and permeated by a distinctly autumnal chill, it was hardly the ideal afternoon for a convalescent to be outdoors but nonetheless it seemed to do Rafael Benítez a power of good.A fortnight after undergoing surgery to clear infection from the site of an old hernia repair, Newcastle United’s manager walked gingerly into the dugout but departed with a spring in his step. Continue reading...
  
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• M5 Crash At Gloucestershire Leaves At Least Four Dead

  16-09-2017 18:20
  At least four people have died after a crash involving several vehicles, including a lorry, on the M5 motorway in south Gloucestershire.
  
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• Anti-terror police tell Sunbury residents to 'get out' as property is searched

  16-09-2017 18:18
  Residents were told they had just a minute to leave their homes as armed officers searched a property in the wake of the Tube terror blast.The ongoing operation in Sunbury, Surrey, follows the arrest of an 18-year-old man in Dover on Saturday morning in connection with the Parsons Green bombing on Friday.An address in Cavendish Road is currently being searched after officers began evacuating homes at around 1.40pm.
  
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• Leicester stop the rot as Ben Youngs’ double sinks sloppy Gloucester

  16-09-2017 18:14 via theguardian.com
  • Leicester 24-10 Gloucester
  • Tigers score three early tries for first Premiership win of the seasonLeicester avoided the indignity of losing their three opening matches in the Premiership for the first time, but a contest between two heavyweights of the English game, who are scrambling to retrieve their reputations, showed how far back they have fallen. A match that was light, frothy and helter-skelter was decided in the opening quarter, when Leicester, armed with plentiful penalties
  
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• Jamie Vardy penalty secures Leicester City a draw at Huddersfield Town

  16-09-2017 18:12 via theguardian.com
  Laurent Depoitre scored on his full Premier League debut as Huddersfield and Leicester City fought out a 1-1 draw at the John Smith’s Stadium.Depoitre, a £3.5m summer signing from Porto, broke the deadlock 40 seconds into the second half before Jamie Vardy brought the visitors level four minutes later from the penalty spot. Continue reading...
  
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• Property searched after Parsons Green bombing

  16-09-2017 18:10
  Police investigating the Parsons Green bombing are carrying out an armed operation in Surrey.Officers are searching a residential property in Cavendish Road in Sunbury-on-Thames.Mojgan Jamali, 33, who lives in Cavendish Road, said she was given "one minute" by police to pack her bags, grab her children and leave her home.
  
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• Four killed in M5 crash in south Gloucestershire

  16-09-2017 18:10 via theguardian.com
  Avon and Somerset police say a number of vehicles, including a lorry, were involved in the accidentFour people have died in a crash involving several vehicles, including a lorry, on the M5 motorway in south Gloucestershire, Avon and Somerset police said.The force said the collision happened between junction 16 near Almondsbury and junction 14 near Falfield. Continue reading...
  
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• Vettel storms to pole at F1 Singapore GP and piles pressure on sluggish Hamilton

  16-09-2017 18:09 via theguardian.com
  • Vettel over half a second quicker than fifth-placed title rival Hamilton
  • Verstappen second, Ricciardo third and Raikkonen fourth fastest at Marina BayThe bright lights illuminating the Marina Bay circuit in Singapore for qualifying could not have shed a harsher glare on the contrast in emotion between this season’s two Formula One world championship protagonists, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton.Vettel, rightly euphoric after a blistering lap helped him take pole, knows wh
  
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• Parsons Green bombing: police arrest man and raid Surrey house

  16-09-2017 18:09
  Forensics investigators enter a property being searched in Sunbury, Surrey.Police hunting the London tube bomber have arrested an 18-year-old man in Dover and raided an address in Surrey as investigators raced to thwart a second attack.Police and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, hailed the arrest under section 41 of the Terrorism Act as very significant.
  
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• Boris Johnson insists he is 'all behind' May over Brexit

  16-09-2017 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The foreign secretary insists he backs Theresa May after setting out his own vision for post-EU Britain.
  
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• At least four killed in motorway crash - police

  16-09-2017 17:55
  LONDON (Reuters) - At least four people died when several vehicles including a lorry crashed on one of Britain's main motorways on Saturday, police said. The collision took place around 2:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) in south Gloucestershire, prompting the motorway to be shut in both directions. "Sadly, at least four people have died," Avon and Somerset Police said in a statement. Major crashes involving multiple fatalities are relatively uncommon in Britain but eight people died in August when two lorrie
  
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• Police arrest man at Dover port, search house in London bomb manhunt

  16-09-2017 17:54
  By Kate HoltonLONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested an 18-year-old man in the port of Dover and raided a house in a small town outside London on Saturday as they hunted for whoever planted a bomb on a commuter train that injured 30 people a day earlier.Prime Minister Theresa May put Britain on the highest security level of "critical" late on Friday, meaning another attack may be imminent, and deployed soldiers and armed police to strategic locations such as nuclear plants and defence sites.
  
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• British journalist died from drowning after 'crocodile attack'

  16-09-2017 17:49
  A British journalist believed to have been attacked by a crocodile in Sri Lanka died of drowning, a post-mortem examination has revealed.Paul McClean, 24, who worked for the Financial Times, was found on Friday in a coastal village lagoon a day after he went missing.According to reports, Mr McClean was holidaying in Sri Lanka with friends and authorities believe he was dragged away by a crocodile after he stepped into the lagoon about 220 miles east of the capital Colombo.
  
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• Protests over Army Troubles prosecutions

  16-09-2017 17:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The prosecution of ex-soldiers for killings during the Troubles sparks protest and counter-protests.
  
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• Rudd: Tube bomb was 'serious device'

  16-09-2017 17:20
  Home Secretary Amber Rudd says it was too early to say if the Parsons Green bomber had been known to authorities.
  
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• Is it wrong to call Trump a white supremacist? | Ameer Hasan Loggins

  16-09-2017 17:18 via theguardian.com
  When ESPN’s Jemele Hill tweeted that the president was a white supremacist, she created a storm that reached all the way to the White House. But was she wrong?On Monday evening ESPN’s Jemele Hill broke the internet, as they say, when she tweeted: “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.” This didn’t go down too well in Washington DC. The White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said this was a “firea
  
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