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• 'Jeremy Corbyn has exceeded expectations': Sadiq Khan talks to Katharine Viner – video

  24-09-2017 23:57 via theguardian.com
  Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner asks Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, about housing in the capital, Brexit and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Khan’s verdict on Corbyn is: ‘Good manifesto, energising Labour supporters who’d left our fold, bringing them back, energise a new generation of Labour voters … huge progress made by Jeremy in the space of two years’ Continue reading...
  
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• Labour to pledge help for millions trapped by credit card debt

  24-09-2017 23:11
  John McDonnell appears on ITV’s Peston On Sunday in Brighton.The shadow chancellor is planning new rules on credit card interest.People trapped in a spiral of credit card debt would be protected by a cap on their interest payments under a Labour government, John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, will say on Monday.
  
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• Cap credit card debt charges, says UK opposition Labour Party

  24-09-2017 23:07
  By William JamesBRIGHTON, England (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party will say on Monday it wants to impose a cap on interest payments on consumer credit card debt, warning that levels of personal indebtedness were a threat to the economy.The leftist Labour Party will announce the policy in full on Monday, when finance spokesman John McDonnell addresses the annual party conference in the southern seaside town of Brighton, setting out his plan for the economy if Labour wrestles power fr
  
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• Labour Promises To Cap Credit Card Fees For Three Million People 'Trapped' By Debt

  24-09-2017 23:01
  The Labour Party has pledged to cap credit card fees for three million people in dire financial straits to ensure no-one pays back more than twice what they borrowed.
  
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• Labour conference: Delegates block meaningful vote on Brexit

  24-09-2017 22:38
  Jeremy Corbyn has avoided a potentially embarrassing row over Brexit, after delegates at the Labour conference blocked a meaningful vote on the issue.Local Labour parties put Brexit fifth - behind the NHS, housing, social care and rail services.An email from left-wing campaign group Momentum seen by Sky News urged its supporters not to back Brexit in the composite motion ballot, calling it a "potentially time-consuming cul-de-sac".
  
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• Labour MPs accuse Corbyn of ducking discussion about Brexit

  24-09-2017 21:43
  Jeremy Corbyn was spared a row over Brexit after the subject was excluded from a series of conference debates.Jeremy Corbyn avoided an embarrassing row on Sunday over Labour’s position on the single market and free movement after party members voted to exclude Brexit from a series of debates at the party’s annual conference.Campaigners were hoping to debate the idea of Labour fighting to keep Britain in the single market permanently and continue free movement, which polls suggest enj
  
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• Taking the knee: how NFL players protested during national anthem in every game – in pictures

  24-09-2017 21:29 via theguardian.com
  After the president said those kneeling to highlight issues of racial justice should be fired, players across the league showed defiance in different ways Continue reading...
  
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• Labour delegates block meaningful vote on Brexit at conference

  24-09-2017 20:51
  Jeremy Corbyn has avoided a potentially embarrassing row over Brexit, after delegates at the Labour conference blocked a meaningful vote on the issue.Local Labour parties put Brexit fifth - behind the NHS, housing, social care and rail services.An email from left-wing campaign group Momentum seen by Sky News urged its supporters not to back Brexit in the composite motion ballot, calling it a "potentially time-consuming cul-de-sac".
  
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• Forget for the many, not the few. Labour's new slogan is 'no screw-ups'

  24-09-2017 20:51
  At the 2016 party conference in Liverpool, everyone was grim-faced, with Momentum and Labour centrists barely on spitting terms with one another, yet still seemingly locked in a mutual death spiral.Overnight, Labour went from being a party on the margins to being not just a credible opposition, but a possible government in waiting.Despair turned to hope and the 2017 Labour party conference in Brighton became more of a party than a conference.
  
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• Heidi Alexander 'gobsmacked' at Brexit vote veto

  24-09-2017 20:50
  Labour MP Heidi Alexander has said she is "gobsmacked" that delegates at the party's autumn conference vetoed any policy-binding votes on Brexit.
  
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• Davis dismissive of Johnson's influence on May's Florence speech

  24-09-2017 20:46
  David Davis, Philip Hammond and Boris Johnson (left to right) listen to May give her Brexit speech in Florence on Friday.Boris Johnson’s personal blueprint for leaving the EU had no influence on the prime minister’s flagship speech in Florence, David Davis, the Brexit secretary, has said.Davis dismissed the idea that Johnson had changed the government’s thinking on Brexit after allies of the foreign secretary briefed several newspapers that his 4,000-word Telegraph article stop
  
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• Prince Harry was taken on a ride by a five-year-old and it was all kinds of cute

  24-09-2017 20:42
  Daimy Gommers was tasked with showing the Prince around at the Invictus Games in Toronto.
  
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• Corrie's Mum hoping to jog someone's memory

  24-09-2017 20:00
  A year on from the disappearance of RAF airman, Corrie McKeague, his mother is retracing her son's steps.
  
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• Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures

  24-09-2017 19:52 via theguardian.com
  When archaeologists found a tunnel under Mexico’s ‘birthplace of the gods’, they could only dream of the riches they would discover. Now its wonders – from jewel-eyed figures to necklaces of human teeth – are being revealed to the worldIn 2003, a tunnel was discovered beneath the Feathered Serpent pyramid in the ruins of Teotihuacan, the ancient city in Mexico. Undisturbed for 1,800 years, the sealed-off passage was found to contain thousands of extraordinary treasu
  
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• Unpalatable truths about laboratory-grown food | Letters

  24-09-2017 19:46 via theguardian.com
  Synthetic meat and fish can’t, on their own, provide an answer to climate change, argues Iain Climie, while David Ridge envisages technical problems in taking the technology out of the lab, and onto people’s platesSynthetic meat and fish (Is ‘Frankenfish’ the start of a food revolution?, G2, 21 September) could have huge benefits – although there are cheaper and simpler ways to improve food supplies, including better livestock practices, conservation plus caref
  
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• Labour delegates veto vote on Brexit at Labour conference

  24-09-2017 19:14
  Jeremy Corbyn has avoided a potentially embarrassing row over Brexit, after delegates at the Labour conference vetoed a vote on the issue.
  
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• TV's Front Row is a pulped and processed version of radio's. Why?

  24-09-2017 19:05 via theguardian.com
  This low-interest, no-risk reboot of Radio 4’s long-running culture strand is yet another reminder of how terminally timid BBC TV always is with the artsFront Row, on Radio 4, is reliable, it is competent, it is always there, just after the news and the Archers. Its presenters are interested in their subjects, and good journalists. It knows what it is; it feels comfortable in its skin. I would care if it got taken off air. One can see, then, after the demise of BBC television’s The C
  
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• Violence has no place in transgender debate | Letters

  24-09-2017 19:04 via theguardian.com
  Women gathered to discuss the law on gender identity should not come under physical attack, say Linda Bellos, Lucy Masoud and othersSpeakers’ Corner in London was where suffragettes met to debate the laws and rights of the day. This was the intention for women who congregated there on 13 September to be directed to a meeting to discuss the impact of proposed legislation on gender identity.The venue could not be advertised because the original one, a community meeting space, had been intimi
  
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• Momentum building in Brighton as grassroots group goes mainstream

  24-09-2017 19:04
  Once seen by many in Labour as a rival event, within 12 months, it has become part of the mainstream.Activists are here to celebrate, but also to be at the heart of the Labour party.Speaking to a crowd of 300 people on Sunday afternoon, the Norwich South MP, Clive Lewis, said: “The World Transformed feels like home.
  
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• Charles Bradley obituary

  24-09-2017 18:48 via theguardian.com
  American soul singer and songwriter who found fame late in lifeFame came late to the soul singer Charles Bradley, who has died of cancer aged 68. He did not record his first single until 2002, and made his debut album only in 2011. Nonetheless he seized his opportunity, and in the last years of his life was able to build a devoted audience while basking in belated critical acclaim.“If I’d gotten that break when I was 25, the world wouldn’t have known what to do with me,”
  
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• Climbers on cannabis rescued from England's highest mountain Scafell Pike

  24-09-2017 18:39
  Four climbers had to be rescued from England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike, when they got stranded after taking cannabis.Cumbria Police said officers were rendered speechless after the group called in to report they were unable to walk down the mountain, in the Lake District, "due to cannabis use"."Persons phoning Cumbria Police because they are stuck on a mountain, after taking cannabis," Cumbria Police posted on social media.
  
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• Dolce & Gabbana show off brand's heritage at third Milan show

  24-09-2017 18:34 via theguardian.com
  Collection, called Queen of Hearts, mixes 90s black corsets and Italian resort style with witty touchesSunday afternoon in Milan hosted Dolce & Gabbana’s spring/summer 2018 show. But this wasn’t the first show for the brand during the city’s fashion week – it was the third.A pop-up show happened at the city’s La Rinascente department store on Thursday and at 10pm on Saturday night there was a “secret show” for its wealthy clientele. The cast included
  
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• German Elections: Far-Right AfD Set To Gain First Seats With Third Place Finish

  24-09-2017 18:12
  The radical right-wing party AfD looks set to enter the German parliament for the first time after an exit poll signalled it will finish in third place in the country’s  national election.
  
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• Sorry moderates: It's Jeremy Corbyn's party now

  24-09-2017 17:49
  In 2016, as I travelled up to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, there was no doubt that this was a party on the verge of a civil war.Reeling from Brexit, a second leadership contest in 12 months, an unprecedented motion of no confidence in which 85% of Labour MPs said all in all, they'd rather anyone else were leader but him, there was no pretending any more.When Jeremy Corbyn became leader, many on the right of the party consoled themselves in thinking it would be a temporary interlude
  
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• Police have thwarted seven attacks since March - London mayor

  24-09-2017 17:43
  London Mayor Sadiq Khan said police had thwarted seven attacks by militants since March this year, describing the increase in the number as a shift rather than a spike.Speaking at the annual conference of his opposition Labour Party, Khan also said the police needed more spending to help them counter such attacks and that Internet companies must do more to crackdown on extremist content.Earlier this month, the head of the city's police force said six militant plots had been foiled over the last
  
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• Nigel Farage to support controversial judge Roy Moore in Alabama election

  24-09-2017 17:43
  Nigel Farage will speak in Fairhope, Alabama on Monday night, in support of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.The Guardian has learned that the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) will join former White House advisor Steve Bannon and Duck Dynasty TV star Phil Robertson at an election eve rally.
  
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• Man saves bus from plunging into ravine in Austrian Alps - The Sun Daily

  24-09-2017 17:35 via thesundaily.my
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  Man saves bus from plunging into ravine in Austrian Alps
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  Schwaz is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative centre of the Schwaz district. Schwaz is located in the lower Inn valley. — Wikipedia / Google Maps. VIENNA: The quick reflexes of a French tourist saved a coach carrying 22 ...and more »
  
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• Hit-and-run leaves new mum fighting for life four days after giving birth

  24-09-2017 17:33
  The 28-year-old is in a critical condition in hospital after the hit-and-run accident on the A34 in the Great Barr area of Birmingham at around six'o'clock on Saturday evening.Detective Sergeant Paul Hughes of West Midlands Police said: "This investigation is in its early stages and we are trying to establish exactly what happened.
  
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• Labour can’t afford to get emotional over Brexit | Zoe Williams

  24-09-2017 17:30 via theguardian.com
  An open letter asking Corbyn to cleave to the single market lends a with-us-or-against-us emotional charge to what should be a purely practical issueThirty Labour MPs, together with trades unionists, MEPs and mayors, signed an open letter on the eve of party conference, asking – begging? – Jeremy Corbyn to make Labour the party of the single market and the customs union. There were ideas in there that should appeal to the Labour leader – workers’ rights rather than curbs
  
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• John Jack obituary

  24-09-2017 17:28 via theguardian.com
  Tireless producer, promoter and enabler of British jazzJazz is often a noisy music, but some of the most quietly diffident people make it happen. John Jack, who has died aged 84, was one of British jazz’s most influential backroom visionaries. A fascinating source of oral jazz history, as well as a producer, promoter and enabler, John was appositely dubbed “the Zelig of British music” by his friend Mike Gavin for the nous that seemed unerringly to put him in the right place at
  
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• Who are the 36 BAME people among the UK's 1,000 most powerful?

  24-09-2017 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Only a tiny handful of top leaders from the worlds of politics, media, finance and more are minority ethnic. This is who they areAn analysis conducted by the Guardian and Operation Black Vote has established that of the 1,049 most powerful people in Britain, just 36 are from ethnic minorities – and only seven of those are women.Who are they? Continue reading...
  
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• Trump Steps Up NFL Criticism As Players Protest During London Game

  24-09-2017 16:44
  Donald Trump has stepped up his criticism of National Football League (NFL) players who protest during the pre-game national anthem, calling on fans to consider boycotting teams which don’t discipline them.
  
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• Labour MPs in Brexit clash at conference

  24-09-2017 16:35
  Despite claims of a truce over Brexit, Labour MPs have clashed over the UK's exit from Europe at the party's conference.
  
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• Burnham hits out at Labour snub for the North

  24-09-2017 16:31
  Andy Burnham has hit out at Labour’s ban on him speaking at the party’s conference in Brighton, claiming it’s a snub for the North of England.Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour high command had attempted to exclude both Mr Burnham, mayor of Great Manchester, and London's mayor Sadiq Khan.It was claimed that Mr Corbyn imposed the ban in revenge for the two mayors - Labour's two most senior elected politicians - criticising his leadership.
  
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• Parsons Green Suspect’s Foster Parents 'Shell-Shocked' By Ordeal, Says Son

  24-09-2017 16:23
  The elderly foster parents of the prime suspect in the Parsons Green terror attack have been left “shell-shocked” by the ordeal, their son has said.
  
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• For Love or Money review – Northern Broadsides strike comedy gold

  24-09-2017 16:20 via theguardian.com
  Viaduct, HalifaxBlake Morrison transposes a corrupt, covetous 18th-century Paris to 1920s Yorkshire in a lively satire directed by and starring Barrie RutterNorthern Broadsides have made a habit of giving European classics a Yorkshire setting. So it seems fitting that Barrie Rutter’s farewell, at least on home soil, to the company he founded should be a version by Blake Morrison of Alain-René Lesage’s Turcaret. Related: Angels and demons: the unmissable theatre, comedy and dan
  
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• ECB's Weidmann says should be no veto on nationality of Draghi's successor

  24-09-2017 16:01
  Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann, touted as a possible successor to European Central Bank President Mario Draghi when his termexpires in 2019, said on Sunday there should be no veto on the ECB's next boss based on nationality.In an interview broadcast by Italian state television RAI, the German central banker was asked about comments by former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta, who recently said it would be a "disaster" if Weidmann took Draghi's job.
  
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• This guy used the US Flag Code to rip into Trump’s comments about athletes ‘disrespecting the flag’

  24-09-2017 15:55
  Twitter user HennyWise laid it all out.
  
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• 'Nationwide public effort' needed to clear plastic pollution

  24-09-2017 15:55
  The warning comes from waterways charity Thames 21, which has launched a national campaign asking people to organise their own litter picks on local rivers throughout October.Around 50 volunteers collected rubbish from the banks of the River Thames on Sunday morning as the Great River Rescue got under way.Food related packaging makes up 65% of litter found in the Thames, while plastic bottles and their lids, and cotton bud sticks each account for 10%.
  
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• Missing airman's mum retraces last moments

  24-09-2017 15:45
  A year on from the disappearance of RAF airman, Corrie McKeague, his mother is retracing her son's steps.
  
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• Mother of missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague retraces his final steps

  24-09-2017 15:39
  The mother of missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague is retracing her son's steps one year on from the night he disappeared.Corrie was last seen on CCTV holding a fast food container as he walked through the centre of Bury St Edmunds after a night out, before falling asleep in a shop doorway.Detectives believed Corrie may have been taken away in a rubbish truck after falling into a bin but police ended a five-month search of a landfill site in July after no evidence of his body was found.
  
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• Grenfell Tower disaster: Diane Abbott demands takeover of Kensington and Chelsea Council

  24-09-2017 15:21
  Diane Abbotthas called for commissioners to be sent in to take over and run Kensington council, blasting the Tories "shameful" response to the Grenfell fire.The shadow home secretary used a fiery speech at Labour's autumn conference in Brighton to blame deregulation and privatisation for the devastating blaze that left around 80 people confirmed dead."The Tory-controlled Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea treated the residents of Grenfell like second-class citizens," Ms Abbott declared.
  
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• Best photos of the day: Marni in Milan and skinny-dipping at sunrise

  24-09-2017 15:12 via theguardian.com
  Our picture editors bring you highlights from around the world, including models at Milan fashion week and skinny-dippers in NorthumberlandContinue reading...
  
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• Rio Ferdinand: I told kids mum was going to the stars

  24-09-2017 15:10
  Rio Ferdinand told his children their mother was "going to go up into the stars" in the days before she passed away.The former Manchester United and England captain has given an emotional account in a new book of his wife Rebecca's passing in 2015 after being diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time, aged just 34.In Thinking Out Loud - Love, Grief And Being Mum And Dad, Ferdinand, 38, wrote that his three children stared at him "wide-eyed, dumbstruck" as he told them about their mother's i
  
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• Labour party conference is too London-centric, says Andy Burnham

  24-09-2017 15:10
  Andy Burnham said the problem was institutional and longstanding in Labour, not a criticism of Jeremy Corbyn.The Labour party conference is too “London-centric” to give a strong voice to people in the north of England, the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has said.Burnham, one of Labour’s most senior elected politicians, spoke out after he and other northern regional leaders were denied slots to speak to members in the main hall.
  
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• Kelly Macdonald: ‘People were still drunk on the Trainspotting set’

  24-09-2017 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The actor, 41, on cowboy boots, childbearing, self-sufficiency and being bullied at school for not swearingWhen I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the Trainspotting audition. “Destined” is a bit of a poncy word for it, but I do think I was headed in that direction.Swearing never came naturally to me. I got bullied in school for it. I was pinned up against the girls’ cloakroom wall while everyone chanted at me to swear. All I co
  
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• Uber could stay on the road if it changes, says Labour

  24-09-2017 14:55
  Uber could stay on the road if it met the "reasonable" demands set out by Transport for London, senior Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott has said.Speaking to Sky News, the shadow home secretary backed the decision not to renew the taxi-hailing company's licence in London."But Uber could, even at this late stage, improve its levels of vetting of its drivers.
  
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• Abbott: Uber should meet Tfl demands

  24-09-2017 14:40
  Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott says Uber could return to the roads of London if they meet the demands of Tfl.
  
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• 'Major injuries' after gas explosion

  24-09-2017 14:30
  Two people have been injured after a gas explosion ripped through a Blackpool guest house burying them under rubble.
  
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• Unbelievable review: Katy Tur's Trump tale relives an utterly insane campaign

  24-09-2017 14:15 via theguardian.com
  NBC reporter writes with the bravery and wit she showed as Trump and his fans attacked her. She also exposes the worrying decline of broadcast news itself Towards the end of last year’s election, NBC correspondent Katy Tur and her colleagues played a game no other presidential contest had inspired: name a campaign headline too crazy to be real. Related: Devil's Bargain review: Steve Bannon and the making of President Joe PesciContinue reading...
  
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