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• ‘How can four people just vanish?’: Odd tales emerge in Nannup case

  09-12-2017 23:52 via theguardian.com
  Inquest into mysterious missing person case features talk of a doomsday cult leader, identify theft and a suicide pactCathy McDougall freezes every time she hears that police have found a body.Every unidentified woman, every unknown child could be her daughter Chantelle, or her six-year-old granddaughter Leela, who went missing 10 years ago from the tiny timber town of Nannup, 200km south of Perth. Continue reading...
  
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• José Mourinho warns derby referee of Manchester City’s ‘tactical fouls’

  09-12-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  • United manager claims rivals resort to illegal methods to halt counter attacks
  • ‘Then it is up to the referee to analyse and to make a decision’José Mourinho has accused Manchester City of regularly committing “tactical fouls” in order to stop opposition teams counterattacking them and called on Michael Oliver, the referee in charge of Sunday’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford, to be alert to the tactic. In textbook style, Mourinho has gone on th
  
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• Jack Wilshere: ‘I have six months left, sometimes I wonder what will happen’

  09-12-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  The midfielder is pushing hard for a return to the Arsenal first team but questions remain over whether Arsène Wenger will offer him a new contractJack Wilshere has opened up about how he worries about the future during down time. The Arsenal midfielder, in impressive form since his return from a cracked fibula in his left leg, is coming towards the end of his contract and is still waiting to start talks with Arsène Wenger about what lies ahead. “Sometimes when I’m at h
  
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• California governor scans wildfire damage and blasts Trump for Paris climate pullout

  09-12-2017 23:21 via theguardian.com
  Jerry Brown says president’s decision could lead to more devastating eventsFirefighters continue to battle fires that have torched hundreds of homesCalifornia governor Jerry Brown on Saturday saw for himself the “existential consequences” of huge and deadly wildfires in the state.Related: 'It was an inferno': southern Californians left dumbstruck by week of wildfire hellContinue reading...
  
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• Wasps plan for if Danny Cipriani calls time on England with French move

  09-12-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  • Fly-half undecided about signing new contract
  • Dai Young admits club cannot compete with likely offers from the Top 14Wasps expect to know after Christmas whether Danny Cipriani will sign a new contract but last season’s Premiership finalists are not sitting idle waiting for the fly-half to make up his mind. Related: Danny Cipriani’s hopes of England recall ended by knee ligament tearContinue reading...
  
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• Mako Vunipola fighting fit for Saracens’ Champions Cup rematch with Clermont

  09-12-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Extra conditioning at behest of Eddie Jones has given loosehead prop a keener edge as he prepares to meet the French side his team beat in last year’s finalMako Vunipola vividly recalls the moment Saracens finally broke Clermont’s resistance in May to ensure they would be keeping hold of the Champions Cup for another year. It was the 72nd minute, when Alex Goode scored the try that put Saracens out of reach and Vunipola remembers it so clearly because he was running on fumes –
  
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• Atlanta man dies and thousands lose power as snowfall hits US south

  09-12-2017 22:58 via theguardian.com
  Man electrocuted by downed power line in region unused to such weatherNWS says storm expected to move into mid-Atlantic and north-east statesOne man died in Atlanta on Friday night as a winter storm shrouded the south in snow, prompting power outages, cancelled flights and travel disruption in a region unused to such weather.Related: 'It was an inferno': southern Californians left dumbstruck by week of wildfire hellContinue reading...
  
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• 'An untimely visit': Trump avoids protest at Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

  09-12-2017 22:55 via theguardian.com
  The president flew in to Jackson, took a tour, spoke briefly, hid from the public, and left. Many celebrating a historic state project said that was just as wellMississippi faced a complicated task in proving that it could properly interpret its past in the first state-funded civil rights museum in the US.By all accounts, the state has risen to the occasion. Black and white visitors who were given advance previews of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, including many who were involve
  
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• Police must get to bottom of false stories about Crystal Palace fans | Daniel Taylor

  09-12-2017 22:50 via theguardian.com
  The origin of the mysterious misinformation about knuckle-dusters and knives being found at the game at Brighton needs to be tracked downThere is an old episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which Larry David is sitting in traffic when the lights change to green and the car in front does not move. The only issue is that it happens to be a police car and, in those circumstances, what is the etiquette? Who beeps a police car? Larry, is the answer. “No one’s above the beep,” he
  
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• Global powers lobby to stop special Brexit deal for UK

  09-12-2017 22:30
  Theresa May’s headaches are only just beginning.Theresa May’s hopes of securing a unique post-Brexit trade deal with the EU were under threat on Saturday night as Brussels said it was coming under international pressure to deny Britain special treatment.After a week that saw May reach a deal with the EU that will allow Brexit talks to move forward on to future trade relations, EU officials insisted a bespoke deal more favourable to the UK than other non-EU nations was out of the ques
  
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• Palestinians to reject meeting with Trump as anger over Jerusalem rises

  09-12-2017 22:24 via theguardian.com
  As the Gaza death toll mounts, France and Turkey want the US president to change his mind over recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is expected to reject an invitation to meet Donald Trump in Washington, amid a strong emerging consensus among key advisers that there are “no conditions” for dialogue following the US president’s formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.The issue of how best to respond to Tru
  
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• Met Office Issues Weather Alerts As Snow Could 'Cut Off' Some Areas

  09-12-2017 22:12
  Further weather warnings are in place for snow around the UK, with the Met Office warning that some people could be “cut off” by the drifts.
  
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• 'Get naked if you like': the Australian working holiday from hell

  09-12-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Two young English backpackers thought a gap year picking fruit in Australia would be the experience of a lifetimeThe young female backpackers tensed as they heard the farmer’s footsteps behind them. They were standing in a line at a conveyer belt in a large farm shed, as the freshly picked garlic bulbs slid by. Their job was to shake the dirt from them and wipe them clean.I felt objectified, like he knew he could do whatever he wanted to us Continue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson begins Iran talks over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  09-12-2017 21:41 via theguardian.com
  Imprisonment of British-Iranian mother is crucial issue facing foreign secretary as he meets counterpart in TehranBoris Johnson made a “frank and constructive” start to his sensitive first trip to Tehran, where he will meet President Hassan Rouhani as he lobbies for the release of a jailed British-Iranian.The foreign secretary’s visit comes as concerns grow about US president Donald Trump’s hostility to the landmark nuclear deal with Tehran, and deepening regional tension
  
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• Human rights commission to launch its own Grenfell fire inquiry

  09-12-2017 21:30 via theguardian.com
  Dramatic intervention will examine whether government and local council failed in duty to protect life and provide safe housing Britain’s human rights watchdog is to launch an inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that will examine whether the government and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea failed in their duties to protect life and provide safe housing.The dramatic intervention by the independent Equality and Human Rights Commission, which has the potential to draw damning concl
  
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• Iraq Declares Victory Over Islamic State But Theresa May Warns Fight Isn't Over

  09-12-2017 21:23
  Iraq’s prime minister has declared victory in the fight against the so-called Islamic State - but Theresa May has warned the extremist group is “not yet defeated”.
  
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• Ayoze Pérez’s own goal gives Leicester City victory at Newcastle United

  09-12-2017 20:44 via theguardian.com
  There were moments when Newcastle United showcased commendable resilience and resolve but Ayoze Pérez’s agonising late own goal means they have now collected only one point from their last seven games.As Claude Puel’s quietly effective “velvet” Leicester revolution continued with a third straight win and the home side’s 125th birthday party was ruined, Rafa Benítez had every right to look worried. Newcastle’s manager knows that simply holding the
  
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• Starving Polar Bear Captured On Camera In Heartbreaking Footage

  09-12-2017 20:00
  Heartbreaking footage has emerged of an emaciated polar bear in Canada’s Arctic.
  
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• England’s history at the Waca suggests the Doctor may blow them away | Vic Marks

  09-12-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Joe Root’s side must contend with England’s dreadful history at the Waca in next week’s third Test – it is hard to imagine them letting in the wind of changeAll this talk of 5-0 is not very helpful. But it is understandable. In two of the past three Ashes tours England have been whitewashed. Once the Aussie juggernaut is on a roll there can be no stopping it, especially since the refuge of a draw has just about disappeared from Test cricket.It now behoves England to forge
  
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• Argentina deports British journalist ahead of WTO conference

  09-12-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Sally Burch included on list of 63 journalists and NGO officials banned from December meeting over ‘security concerns’A British journalist has been deported from Argentina after the government included her in a list of 63 people who are prohibited from attending the World Trade Organisation ministerial conference, which takes place in Buenos Aires on 10-13 December.At the capital’s Ezeiza international airport, shortly before being placed by authorities on a flight back to Ecua
  
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• Abuse of power: football’s culturally accepted contempt for its own referees

  09-12-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The shocking verbal abuse suffered by match officials at all levels of football is a stain on the game and stamping it out must be made a priorityPathetic. Cheat. Joke. These are some of the more “PG” things I’ve been called over the past month while refereeing football. I give up my Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings along with hordes of other qualified referees to ensure that the thousands of football games taking place across the country can go ahead.I qualified as a fo
  
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• Harry Kane strikes twice as Tottenham brush aside hapless Stoke City

  09-12-2017 19:59 via theguardian.com
  Mark Hughes said he “didn’t see that second half coming”. What was worse, his players didn’t see it as it happened. Tottenham raced away to turn a first-half advantage into a full-time supremacy here and, in the process, cast further doubt on Hughes’s tenure as Stoke manager.The statistics from Saturday’s game were as follows: Ryan Shawcross’s own goal gave Spurs a first-half lead for only the second time in the Premier League at Wembley; Harry Kane scor
  
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• What would it it take for Labour’s moderates to revolt? | Nick Cohen

  09-12-2017 19:40 via theguardian.com
  It is not too late to prevent Jeremy Corbyn and his team coming to powerLabour’s new leaders and Labour’s new members appear utterly incompatible. On the one hand, we have stone-hearted Leninists, who proved they were no better than establishment apologists for Saudi Arabia when they endorsed the most vicious men and movements on Earth. On the other, idealists who just want peace, love and understanding. (Or, failing that, a well-funded NHS, an end to food banks and a Palestinian sta
  
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• Egypt announces discovery of 3,500-year-old tombs in Luxor

  09-12-2017 19:15 via theguardian.com
  Country hopes find will boost tourism industry, which has been suffering since 2011 uprisingEgypt has announced the discovery of two small tombs in the southern city of Luxor dating back about 3,500 years, a find the government hopes will help revive the country’s ailing tourism sector.The tombs, located on the west bank of the Nile in a cemetery for noblemen and top officials, are the latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs spanning different dynasties of ancient Egyp
  
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• Boris Johnson holds 'frank' talks for release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  09-12-2017 19:11
  Boris Johnson has held “frank” talks with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran regarding Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman who has been imprisoned there for nearly two years.The foreign secretary, who landed in the Iranian capital on Saturday morning, had a two-hour meeting with Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, about a number of issues including his “grave concerns” for Zaghari-Ratcliffe.A British Foreign Office spokesman said a range of bil
  
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• Trump attacks 'vicious, fake news CNN' after correction to WikiLeaks email story

  09-12-2017 19:07 via theguardian.com
  Network corrected exclusive story involving Trump and hacked documentsTrump: ‘Their slogan should be CNN – the least trusted name in news’ Donald Trump on Saturday fired more shots in his offensive against CNN, after the network was forced to correct an exclusive report that had seemed to implicate his administration in a scandal involving the release of leaked documents.Related: CNN forced to climb down over Trump-WikiLeaks email reportContinue reading...
  
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• Bath denied by Toulon in Champions Cup as Anthony Belleau bags late try

  09-12-2017 18:42 via theguardian.com
  • Toulon 24-20 Bath
  • French side come from behind to go three points clear in Pool 5Moments win matches. As the Toulon line beckoned for Kahn Fotuali’i eight minutes from the end, the Bath scrum-half had the choice of going for the try that would probably have won the match or passing, with a line of players outside him forming an overlap on the left.The Samoan, with his side three points ahead, decided to leave the glory to someone else, but the moment’s hesitation his di
  
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• Boris Johnson to meet Iran's president on Sunday - UK Foreign Office

  09-12-2017 18:41
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson is expected to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday to discuss bilateral and regional issues, a UK Foreign Office official said on Saturday.
  
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• Scott Arfield gives Burnley win over Watford after Marvin Zeegelaar red card

  09-12-2017 18:19 via theguardian.com
  If revenge is a dish best served cold, a snowy Turf Moor was an ideal location. Sean Dyche began a managerial career of underappreciated overachievement in charge of Watford against Burnley. Dismissed after taking Watford to 11th in the Championship, victory for his current employers against his former club means that Burnley are one point off a Champions League place. It is a league table to savour in this corner of Lancashire.“From a fan point of view, it is fantastic to see that,”
  
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• Christian Benteke misses late penalty as Crystal Palace and Bournemouth draw

  09-12-2017 18:13 via theguardian.com
  Crystal Palace may come to rue this as the moment their bid for Premier League survival stalled. The game was deep into stoppage time at the end when Charlie Daniels was penalised for tripping Wilfried Zaha, the referee awarding his second spot-kick of the game, with Christian Benteke wresting the ball from his team-mates and placing it on the spot while Bournemouth players protested the original decision. The striker, Palace’s record signing, was without a goal since May. He clearly sense
  
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• Huddersfield leapfrog Brighton thanks to Steve Mounié’s return to form

  09-12-2017 18:12 via theguardian.com
  Huddersfield manager, David Wagner, said he had been expecting a big performance from Steve Mounié after the striker’s double sank Brighton 2-0 at the John Smith’s Stadium.Mounié, the club record signing who was back in the starting lineup after recently returning to full fitness following injury, grabbed his first goal since the opening day of the season early on. He then headed a second just before half-time to help the Terriers halt a four-game losing run. Victory li
  
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• UK faces more snow over the course of the weekend

  09-12-2017 18:11 via theguardian.com
  Weather warnings issued as temperatures plummet with up to 20cm of snow expected in some parts of ScotlandPeople living in areas already blanketed with snow should brace themselves for more and avoid travel where possible, forecasters have said.Between 10cm and 20cm of snow is possible for some locations and an amber warning has been issued for large swaths of the UK on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Foreign Secretary arrives in Iran ahead of Briton's court hearing

  09-12-2017 18:00
  Foreign Secretary arrives in Iran ahead of Briton's court hearing
  
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• Johnson in 'two hours of frank talks' with Iran

  09-12-2017 17:57
  Boris Johnson "spoke frankly" with his Iranian counterpart during a two-hour meeting in Tehran, the Foreign Office has said.During what his department described as "two hours of frank talks", the UK's Foreign Secretary expressed his "grave concerns" over jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.Mr Johnson began the talks by expressing his condolences for a powerful earthquake which killed more than 400 people in November.
  
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• Two teenagers die after 'taking MDMA' in Plymouth nightclub

  09-12-2017 17:23
  Two teenagers have died after taking what they thought was MDMA at a nightclub in Plymouth, police have said.The two, both aged 19, were part of a larger group all understood to have taken the substance, and were found unconscious in Pryzm at around 1.40am on Saturday.Detective Inspector Julie Scoles said: "It is currently believed that the two men who died were part of a larger group who had taken what they thought to have been MDMA.
  
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• Metropolitan Police Appeal For Information After Man Subjected To 50-Hour Kidnap Ordeal

  09-12-2017 17:18
  A man was subjected to a 50 hour kidnap ordeal, during which he was physically abused, stripped naked, tied up and threatened with knives and a gun.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Boris Johnson Tells Iranians Of 'Grave Concerns' Over Imprisoned British Woman

  09-12-2017 16:54
  Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is expressing “grave concerns” over jailed British mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as he visits Iran this weekend.
  
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• Ben Duckett dropped from England squad for pouring beer over Jimmy Anderson

  09-12-2017 16:53
  England cricketer Ben Duckett has been dropped from the latest tour game for pouring beer over a senior player's head, reported to be Jimmy Anderson.The 23-year-old England Lions squad member was meant to be opening batsman for the senior Ashes team against a Cricket Australia XI on Saturday.Lions and senior team members were out in a bar in Perth on Thursday evening after having a midnight curfew lifted that day.
  
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• Armed gang kidnap and beat man in 'vicious and prolonged' two-day ordeal

  09-12-2017 16:51
  A man was stripped naked, tied up and beaten by an armed gang in a 50-hour hostage ordeal.Police have released images of three men wanted in connection with the "vicious and prolonged attack" on the 24-year-old in Croydon, south London.A gang of armed men were waiting inside the property in Thornton Heath and subjected the victim to an "extended bout of physical abuse and humiliation" over more than two days, Scotland Yard said.
  
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• Johnson in Iran talks to lobby for jailed aid worker

  09-12-2017 16:04
  British foreign minister Boris Johnson held talks on Saturday with his Iranian counterpart and other officials, during a visit to Iran where he is expected to seek the release of jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.The visit is only the third by a British foreign minister to Iran in the last 14 years, and takes place against a complex backdrop of historical, regional and bilateral tensions.In a meeting with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Johnson called for expandi
  
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• Stephen Hawking Joins Doctors Bringing Legal Action Against Jeremy Hunt

  09-12-2017 15:54
  Stephen Hawking is joining a group of doctors to bring legal action against Jeremy Hunt over the NHS privatisation The renowned professor said in a Facebook post that he would be joining Dr Colin Hutchinson, Professor Allyson Pollock, Professor Sue Richards and Dr Graham Winyard to bring the action against the health secretary regarding the introduction of accountable care organisations (ACOs).
  
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• Health watchdog gives Four Seasons 48 hours to fix debt crisis

  09-12-2017 15:49
  Health watchdogs have handed Britain's biggest care-home operator a 48-hour deadline to resolve a £26m interest payment that has become a focal point for doubts about the company's future.Sky News has learnt that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told Four Seasons Healthcare Group and its biggest creditor, the investment firm H/2 Capital Partners, to come to an agreement over the debt repayment by Monday evening.Sources said this weekend that negotiations between Four Seasons, which op
  
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• Demand for folic acid to be added to British flour to help childbearing age women

  09-12-2017 15:45
  Folic acid should become a compulsory ingredient in flour as women of childbearing age are deficient in the essential nutrient, the Scottish and Welsh governments have said.Senior officials in the two countries have written a joint letter to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt after figures showed about four out of five women of childbearing age in Scotland and Wales need more folic acid, also known as vitamin B9.Food Standards Scotland (FSS) found there is strong evidence that flour fortification coul
  
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• Congressman Steve King Condemned For Saying 'Diversity' Makes America Worse

  09-12-2017 15:17
  An American congressman has has sparked outrage by condemning “diversity”.
  
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• Fox and Disney: is Rupert Murdoch in retreat - or planning his next move?

  09-12-2017 14:19
  It was long assumed that Rupert Murdoch would hand 21st Century Fox to one of his sons, Lachlan and James.After more than 50 years of deal-making to build one of the world’s biggest media companies, Rupert Murdoch looks to be on the retreat.Cornered by the Fangs – as the tech giants Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google are known – the ageing executive appears to have decided that its time to cash in and give up on a long-held ambition to hand his huge empire on to his children.
  
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• Victim: 'It's been a struggle since I’ve been out'

  09-12-2017 14:10
  A man who says his life has been destroyed by an horrific acid attack has called for better mental health support for victims.
  
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• From Oslo and Brisbane to Manchester and Merseyside: the north-west derbies go global

  09-12-2017 14:02
  It is, as Dag Langerød says, “a massive day” – Manchester United versus Manchester City, with Liverpool against Everton as an aperitif.Two derbies, major events in a footballing calendar, have fallen on the same day, throwing an unusually intense spotlight on the north-west of England.This corner of the British Isles has the Lake District, Antony Gormley’s statues in the sea and, in Coronation Street, perhaps the most famous soap opera in the world.
  
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• Man injured in acid attack says victims need better mental support

  09-12-2017 13:36
  A man who says his life has been destroyed by an horrific acid attack has called for better mental health support for victims.Jameel Muhktar, 37, says he is still in "severe pain" nearly six months after a corrosive liquid was thrown at him and has suffered a nervous breakdown.Mr Muhktar told Sky News: "I feel like it's destroyed my life.
  
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• Boris Johnson arrives in Iran to discuss release of Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  09-12-2017 13:22
  Boris Johnson has arrived in Tehran, where he is expected to lobby for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman who has been imprisoned there for nearly two years.The foreign secretary landed in the Iranian capital on Saturday morning, where he will meet his counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to discuss his “grave concerns” for Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual-nationals.Johnson will also meet Iran’’s president, Hassan Rouhani, Ali Shamkhani, the
  
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• Johnson leaving 'no stone unturned' in efforts to secure release of British National

  09-12-2017 12:50
  Boris Johnson has spoken ahead of his meeting with the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to respond to questions about his 'incompetence' in dealing with Iran.
  
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