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• Windsor ready for Meghan and Harry's big day

  12-05-2018 23:45
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• 'Now Know Ye' - Queen gives formal consent to royal wedding

  12-05-2018 23:44
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth has given her formal consent to the marriage of her grandson Harry to American actress Meghan Markle in a historic document made of vellum that is decorated with symbols representing the lives of the couple.Reading "Now know ye", the hand-written Instrument of Consent carries the Queen's signature, "Elizabeth R" and is sealed with the Great Seal of the Realm which is attached to the foot of the document by woven cords.Prince Harry, the sixth in line to the thrown, and M
  
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  12-05-2018 23:25
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• Stage invader grabs mic during UK Eurovision performance

  12-05-2018 23:23
  The UK's Eurovision hopeful SuRie was interrupted by a stage invader during her performance at the grand final in Lisbon.The man reportedly shouted about "Nazis of the UK media" as the singer performed her track Storm at the annual event.
  
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• Serial killer Dennis Nilsen dies in prison

  12-05-2018 23:22
  Serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who killed at least 12 men between 1978 and 1983, has died in prison.The 72-year-old from Aberdeenshire was convicted of the murders in 1983 and was imprisoned at HMP Full Sutton maximum security prison in Yorkshire.A former civil servant, Nilsen died in prison on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Justice.
  
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• Eurovision song contest 2018 – live!

  12-05-2018 23:03 via theguardian.com
  Follow all the action from Lisbon with us as the 63rd edition of the world’s biggest musical entertainment show takes placeMan invades stage and grabs mic during UK Eurovision song 10.03pm BST The crowd are going absolutely bonkers for this, both in the stadium and in the press room. All together now, FUEGO (drink).10.03pm BST Eleni is an Albanian-Greek goddess in a catsuit held together by a million flaming sequins and a note from her gynaecologist. If nothing else, this will mobilise the
  
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• Serial killer Dennis Nilsen dies in prison aged 72

  12-05-2018 22:55 via theguardian.com
  Strangler of 12 young men at two London addresses had been behind bars for past 35 yearsSerial killer Dennis Nilsen has died in prison, the Ministry of Justice hassaid on Saturday. He was 72.Nilsen was convicted of six murders and two attempted murders at the Old Bailey in 1983.Continue reading...
  
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• Man invades stage and grabs mic during UK Eurovision song

  12-05-2018 22:46 via theguardian.com
  Singer SuRie carries on after invader shouts ‘Nazis of the UK media, we demand freedom’Eurovision 2018 live
  A stage invader has stormed the stage in the middle of UK singer SuRie’s Eurovision performance in Lisbon. Related: Eurovision song contest 2018 – live!Continue reading...
  
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• Stage invasion at Eurovision song contest

  12-05-2018 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  It is thought the stage invader also stormed January's National Television Awards and The Voice.
  
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• Dennis Nilsen, Who Killed At Least 12 Men Between 1978 And 1983, Dies In Prison

  12-05-2018 22:39
  Serial killer Dennis Nilsen has died in prison, the Ministry of Justice said
  
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• ‘We’re waiting for answers’: Facebook, Brexit and 40 questions

  12-05-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  MPs’ frustrations grow as new evidence in America reopens the issue of Kremlin influenceMike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, was the second executive Facebook offered up to answer questions from parliament’s select committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).He took his place in the hot seat in the wake of the first attendee, Simon Milner, Facebook’s (now ex-) head of policy for Europe, who answered a series of questions about Cambridge Analyti
  
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• Aid sector urged to crack down on war zone child abusers

  12-05-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  National Crime Agency warns of sex offenders travelling to conflict zones to exploit vulnerable childrenSex offenders and paedophiles are travelling to the world’s conflict zones to prey on vulnerable children, the National Crime Agency has warned.Robert Jones, deputy director of the NCA’s child exploitation and online protection command, said offenders were exploiting the chaos of war and areas hit by natural disaster. He urged the aid sector to help make it as difficult as possible
  
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• Paris: knifeman kills at least one before being shot dead by police

  12-05-2018 22:29 via theguardian.com
  Police confirm assailant armed with knife was shot after attacking several peopleAn assailant armed with a knife killed at least one person and injured four more in Paris in an attack on Saturday night before being shot dead by police, a police source said.More details to follow ... Continue reading...
  
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• Hawaii volcano spatters lava from new fissure near geothermal energy plant

  12-05-2018 22:14 via theguardian.com
  Workers remove 50,000 gallons of pentane gas from plantGeologists warn volcano could shoot large boulders from craterA new lava fissure has opened up on Hawaii’s Big Island, in the vicinity of a geothermal energy plant. The US Geological Survey said minor lava spatter erupted from the new fissure on Saturday morning, bringing the total of fissures to 16.Related: Hawaii's evacuees on why they live under a volcano: it's affordableContinue reading...
  
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• Paris Stabbing: Man Shot Dead After Bystanders Attacked With Knife

  12-05-2018 22:12
  A man has been shot dead by police in Paris after attacking bystanders with a
  
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• Paris Knife Attack: Man Shot Dead After Stabbing Bystanders

  12-05-2018 22:12
  A man killed a passer-by in a knife attack in the heart of Paris before being
  
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• Revealed: the overseas anti-abortion activists using Facebook to target Irish voters

  12-05-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  The social media giant has disclosed that many sites targeting voters are managed outside IrelandFacebook users had an accidental glimpse of the international scope of campaigning in Ireland’s historic abortion referendum – set for 25 May – which has intensified concern about foreign influence on the vote.For a brief period last Friday, a new tool designed to boost transparency around elections enabled users to see the real-life location of people who were managing Facebook cam
  
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• ‘Our most profound moral issue’: Guernsey’s assisted dying vote

  12-05-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  The island’s parliament could this week make it the first place in the British Isles to legalise euthanasiaFlags and bunting fluttered over Guernsey last week as the island celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its liberation from five years of Nazi occupation – a period of privation, curfews and summary executions.In the capital, St Peter Port, crowds were cheerfully winning and losing money on crown and anchor, an 18th-century dice game still popular in the Channel Islands. Celebrator
  
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• Campaigners slam £1m incentive to store nuclear waste

  12-05-2018 21:59 via theguardian.com
  Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as ‘completely inadequate’MPs from both major parties have attacked the government’s latest incentive to entice communities into volunteering to host Britain’s first deep underground store for nuclear waste as “completely inadequate”.Ministers have offered up to £1m per community for areas that constructively engage in offering to take part in the scheme, and a furth
  
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• Birdies galore as Tiger Woods shows signs of former glories with a 65

  12-05-2018 21:55 via theguardian.com
  • Former world No 1 on a roll at Players Championship
  • Woods: ‘Eventually I was going to put all the pieces together’Tiger Woods relished this Sawgrass Saturday just as much as those desperate for the 14-times major winner to approach anything like his former self. Maybe all parties needed it; until now, fevered hype around the American amid his latest return from back surgery had not been endorsed by results. Actions will always speak louder than the upbeat words consiste
  
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• One million students join calls for vote on Brexit deal

  12-05-2018 21:30 via theguardian.com
  Protests ‘will dwarf action over tuition fees’ as May and Corbyn face mounting pressureStudent organisations representing almost a million young people studying at UK universities and colleges are today joining forces to demand a referendum on any final Brexit deal, amid growing fears that leaving the EU will have a disastrous effect on their future prospects.Predicting a young people’s revolt over the coming months, student unions – representing 980,000 students at 60 of
  
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• Gareth Southgate will be playing Russian roulette if he picks Wilshere | Daniel Taylor

  12-05-2018 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Jack Wilshere will always have a devoted fan club but injuries have sabotaged his career and only Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s knee ligaments are keeping him in the World Cup pictureCan anyone remember those days when the common assumption about Gareth Southgate was that he was too gentlemanly, too afraid of upsetting people and, ultimately, too damn nice to succeed in an industry where all the people at the top occasionally have to use their elbows?That nonsense stopped being trotted out onc
  
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• Complex rules for universal credit see one in five claims fail

  12-05-2018 21:00
  New data reveals that one in five claims for universal credit are being turned down for failing to comply with the application process.Fears are emerging over the complexity of the government’s new welfare system after data revealed that one in five applicants is being turned down because they are failing to comply with the application process.Ministers have already been forced to slow down the rollout of universal credit and to ensure that claimants receive their payments sooner after con
  
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• R Kelly: Apple Music stops promoting singer on featured playlists

  12-05-2018 20:49 via theguardian.com
  Streaming service still carries Kelly’s songs in libraryR Kelly faces longstanding allegations of mistreating womenApple’s music-streaming service has followed Spotify in ceasing the promotion of music by R Kelly on some featured playlists. Like Spotify, Apple Music, which has 40 million subscribers, still carries an extensive selection of Kelly’s songs in its library. Related: R Kelly and XXXTentacion rail against their removal from Spotify playlistsContinue reading...
  
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• Ascot violence overshadows Hayley Turner’s Victoria Cup victory

  12-05-2018 20:19 via theguardian.com
  • Fighting again breaks out at one of Britain’s premier racetracks
  • Turner guides Ripp Orf to a 20-1 success in Ascot’s Victoria CupFor the second consecutive Saturday, fighting broke out at one of Britain’s premier racetracks. An Ascot official confirmed that two groups of men had engaged in a fight inside the main grandstand after the final race. The incident, which was also flagged up on social media by onlookers, followed a week after a 50-person fight at Goodwoo
  
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• North Korea invites world to watch closure of nuclear test site

  12-05-2018 20:08 via theguardian.com
  Western reporters among those allowed to visit remote mountain location before Trump summitNorth Korea plans to officially dismantle its nuclear test site later this month at a ceremony attended by foreign media that will pave the way for leader Kim Jong-un’s summit with the US president, Donald Trump.
  State authorities will put the site out of operation by using explosives to collapse the tunnels used for testing between 23 and 25 May, the foreign ministry said in a statement on the offic
  
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• Ireland make flying start in historic first Test before Pakistan fight back

  12-05-2018 20:03 via theguardian.com
  • Pakistan 268-6 v Ireland• Two wickets each for Murtagh, Rankin, ThompsonSoon after 10am, the Irish players gathered together on the outfield while the chair of selectors, Andrew White, set down a scruffy cardboard box full of handsome new caps. He handed them out one by one, the first to captain William Porterfield, then the rest in alphabetical order, Andy Balbirnie, Ed Joyce, Tyrone Kane, Tim Murtagh, Kevin and Niall O’Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson and Ga
  
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• Sexton and Nacewa kick Leinster to Champions Cup glory against Racing 92

  12-05-2018 19:52 via theguardian.com
  • Leinster 15-12 Racing 92
  • Isa Nacewa penalty decides nail-biter with two minutes leftIrish rugby’s remarkable year shows absolutely no sign of ending. By no stretch of the imagination was this a classic final but it is impossible to deny the scale of Leinster’s achievement in becoming only the second team in history to win four European Cups. Given Ireland’s Six Nations grand slam and potentially a Pro14 title as well, the 2017-18 season has been a rhapsody in gree
  
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• North Korea To Hold 'Ceremony' To Dismantle Nuclear Test Site Later This Month

  12-05-2018 19:41
  North Korea has said it will hold a "ceremony" for the dismantlement of its
  
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• Liberals still ignore the grievances of the ‘left behind’ | Nick Cohen

  12-05-2018 19:30 via theguardian.com
  To turn the tide of rightwing populism, its opponents must offer a vision rooted in realityBrendan Behan described critics as being like eunuchs in a harem. “They know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.” If liberals are not careful, the same will be said of them. They know how Trump, Brexit and Orbán won. They see how the world has gone wrong every day. But they are unable to say what they’d do ab
  
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• Silent star’s 1913 film celebrating suffragettes goes on show in London

  12-05-2018 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Danish actor Asta Nielsen battled powerful men to become an early superstar famous across EuropeShe was the embodiment of the freedom that suffragettes fought for. Asta Nielsen battled against convention, scandal and powerful men to become the original international film star – a siren of the silent movie.Her extraordinary life is being rediscovered through one of her movies, The Suffragette – the only surviving example of a film that supported the women who campaigned for the right
  
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• Michael Chabon: ‘Parent properly and you’re doing yourself out of a job’

  12-05-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The Pulitzer prize-winner on combining writing with raising kids, his freakozoid tendencies and the authors he returns toMichael Chabon is one of America’s best-loved writers, the author of nine novels, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (which won the Pulitzer prize), Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Moonglow. In 2009, he published Manhood for Amateurs, a series of reflections on his early years as a father. Now, with Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces, 54
  
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• Life down an Arsène Wenger YouTube rabbit hole at three in the morning

  12-05-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  As the Arsenal manager takes his leave, writers for Arseblog tell Donald McRae, a fellow Gooner, about what it feels like to be losing such a key part of their lives after 22 yearsArsène Wenger’s head fell off and rolled across the glass table before plunging on to my living room floor. Last week, an hour after Arsenal had lost to Atlético Madrid, to ruin the fleeting dream of Wenger’s final match as manager being in the Europa League final, I had lifted up the old bobb
  
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• Judy Murray: ‘I've got a photo of Andy in his high chair with a bowl of custard over his head’

  12-05-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The tennis coach on why her sons’ first matches were over the kitchen table, and the dangers of eating cake at WimbledonI’ve got a great photo of Andy sitting in his high chair at my kitchen table, with a bowl of custard tipped over his head. When the kids were young I’d work on that table – that was my office, where spreadsheets were laid out. The first games of tennis Jamie and Andy played were on that table. They put cereal boxes across the middle as a net.My mum fed m
  
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• If you think pineapple on pizza is a crime, try ‘salumi marmalade’

  12-05-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  We might be a nation divided over the pros and cons of a Hawaiian pizza, but other toppings are also beyond the paleWhen I began thinking about this column, I hoped to take a deep, scholarly dive into the realm of the Hawaiian pizza, the abomination/delicacy (delete as applicable) that, according to recent research by YouGov, now divides the nation more than any other foodstuff.But in the end, this proved to be impossible. No book I own has any advice at all on the matter of whether pineapple ca
  
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• Jaded Iraqis trudge to polls as PM battles anti-Isis heroes

  12-05-2018 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Iranian-backed opposition and US favourite Haider al-Abadi fail to inspire votersUnder grey skies, along empty streets, Iraqis trickled to the polls on Saturday unconvinced that the leaders on offer can finally stabilise a country exhausted by war and dysfunction.Before the voting, Iraq’s fourth national election since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein had been hailed as its most instructive yet, a time when a long elusive calm could finally take root, now that the Islamic St
  
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• Book clinic: what constitutes ‘well read’?

  12-05-2018 18:59 via theguardian.com
  No two people’s lists are the same, but the Anglo-American greats and the ancient Greeks and Romans are all required readingSince it is seen as a great accolade for a person to be thought “well read”, I wonder what the minimum requirement might be to be considered thus?
  David Handley, YorkshireRobert McCrum, author and former literary editor of the Observer
  In 1618, two years after Shakespeare’s death, a well-read adult could easily load all the books they had collec
  
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• Naomi Campbell: 'Princess Diana would have loved Meghan Markle'

  12-05-2018 18:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Supermodel Naomi Campbell says the US actress's marriage to Prince Harry will "show the world about race".
  
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• Stevie Wonder calls out Kanye West 'foolishness' for calling slavery a choice

  12-05-2018 18:46 via theguardian.com
  Veteran musician compares West’s remarks to Holocaust denial‘The truth is the truth and a lie is a lie’Opinion: Kanye’s infantile views have worrying echoes of alt-rightStevie Wonder has called out Kanye West for saying slavery is a choice, calling the idea “foolishness” and likening it to Holocaust denial.Related: Kanye West on slavery: 'For 400 years? That sounds like a choice'Continue reading...
  
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• Michael Bloomberg calls 'epidemic of dishonesty' bigger threat than terrorism

  12-05-2018 18:42 via theguardian.com
  Ex-New York mayor: democracy at risk from ‘endless barrage of lies’Bloomberg does not name Trump in Houston university speechAmericans are facing an “epidemic of dishonesty” in Washington that is more dangerous than terrorism or communism, according to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Related: ‘John McCain is not fighting a losing battle’: a senator defends his legacyContinue reading...
  
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• Cate Blanchett and Kristen Stewart join silent women's protest on Cannes red carpet

  12-05-2018 18:31 via theguardian.com
  Ava DuVernay, Jane Fonda and Salma Hayek also present at event, which saw 82 women stand in silence to highlight the lack of female directors at the festivalEighty two women working in the film industry, including Cate Blanchett, Ava DuVernay and Jane Fonda have taken to the Cannes red carpet in silent protest at the lack of female directors at the festival.The group, which also featured Kristen Stewart, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and Salma Hayek, walked in silence along the red carpet
  
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• Corbyn joins London workers' march for better pay

  12-05-2018 18:26
  British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn joined thousands of workers marching through central London on Saturday to demand a "new deal" on working conditions and an end to what the organisers called the worst pay squeeze in modern history.The Trades Union Congress used the march to call for a higher minimum wage, improved job security and investment in public services as it released research saying that wages were still worth less in real terms than before the financial crisis."This demonstration
  
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• TUC rally demands 'new deal' for workers and public services

  12-05-2018 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Government must change course or face strikes, unions say at London’s biggest march in yearsThe government faced calls for a major change of direction on public services, pay and jobs on Saturday as tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand a “new deal”.Jeremy Corbyn won huge applause from the crowds in Hyde Park when he pledged that the next Labour government would create a ministry to guarantee workers’ rights. Continue reading...
  
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• TUC rally demands 'new deal' for workers and public services

  12-05-2018 18:21
  The government faced calls for a major change of direction on public services, pay and jobs on Saturday as tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand a “new deal”.Jeremy Corbyn won huge applause from the crowds in Hyde Park when he pledged that the next Labour government would create a ministry to guarantee workers’ rights.The Labour leader accused the Conservatives of cutting public spending while protecting those who dodge taxes.
  
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• Premier League 2017-18 fans’ verdicts part one: Arsenal to Liverpool

  12-05-2018 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Featuring: Le Gaffer’s send-off, Roy Hodgson’s Palace resurrection, a Wagner statue, and Pedro as Harley Quinn
  • Part 2: Manchester City to West HamPre-season prediction 6th; Current position: 6th Continue reading...
  
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• Vintage cookbook jackets by Edward Bawden – in pictures

  12-05-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  During his wide-ranging career English artist Edward Bawden (1903-1989) worked as a war artist, created tube station murals, and even designed the masthead used by the Observer from 1939-1989. Now his book cover designs are being celebrated in a new volume entitled Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Book Jackets of Edward Bawden (Mainstone Press, £35).
  Bawden used linocuts to create the covers of Ambrose Heath’s Good Food series, published in the 1930s, which, says James Russell, the b
  
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• For Brexit Tories, the hard border is too hard a question

  12-05-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The customs union issue – and the fall in foreign investment to the UK – is consuming ever larger amounts of the party’s energyRemain voters must wish someone had considered the Irish border question before they voted on 23 June 2016.It probably would not have changed the outcome. The referendum, as the pollsters remind us, was a cultural phenomenon linked more closely to people’s attitudes to immigration and sovereignty than to economic success – a situation that p
  
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• Mars Helicopter: Why NASA Is Sending A Helicopter To The Red Planet

  12-05-2018 17:59
  NASA has announced it will send a small helicopter to Mars as part of the US
  
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• The Spy Gone North review – timely Korean spy thriller proves a real nail-biter

  12-05-2018 17:57 via theguardian.com
  Yoon Jong-bin shows how the sausage of diplomacy is made in this gripping, if sometimes gratuitous, 90s-set tale of North and South Korea espionageJust last month, the leaders of North and South Korea made an historic step forward in peninsular relations, on both literal and figurative grounds. For the first time since the conclusion of the Korean war in 1953, a Supreme Leader , Kim Jong-un, set foot on Southern lands, meeting with President Moon Jae-in for a pledge to jointly work towards compl
  
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