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• After the bomb: Manchester families mark anniversary

  21-05-2018 23:56
  As Manchester marks the first of many painful anniversaries, some say their lives feel frozen in time."We're still stuck there - 22 May. I'm still stuck there," says Lisa Rutherford.Ms Rutherford's 17-year-old daughter Chloe went with her childhood sweetheart Liam Curry to see Ariana Grande perform.
  
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• Boris Johnson: Labour refusing to face reality over Venezuela regime

  21-05-2018 23:30
  Nicolás Maduro holds the political constitution after he was declared winner of Venezuela’s presidential election on Sunday, a poll rejected as invalid by his rivals.Boris Johnson, the UK foreign secretary, has sought to turn the crisis in Venezuela to the Conservatives’ political advantage, accusing the Labour leadership of a “refusal to face reality” over the nature of the regime in Caracas.Nicolás Maduro, who has overseen rocketing unemployment and hyperi
  
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• Boris Johnson hints at tougher action against Russian oligarchs

  21-05-2018 23:30
  Boris Johnson has hinted that the UK could seek to take tougher action against Russian oligarchs in the wake of the poisoning of the former spy Sergei Skripal, saying he is looking closely at the approach taken by the Trump administration.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shaken after being told she 'will be convicted' on new charge

  21-05-2018 23:14
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 39, was taken to a court on Saturday morning and informed by a judge she was likely to be found guilty of spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime, the Free Nazanin campaign said.Speaking to Sky News, her husband Richard Ratcliffe said his wife was "shaken" and she has spoken to the British ambassador, urging Rob Macaire to protest to Iranian authorities and also visit her in prison.Mr Ratcliffe, who met Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in March, said he had been
  
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• Italy's Populists Move Closer to Power, With Little-Known Pick for Prime Minister - New York Times

  21-05-2018 23:12 via nytimes.com
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  Italy's Populists Move Closer to Power, With Little-Known Pick for Prime Minister
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  ROME — In a significant step toward forming an anti-establishment government in the European Union's fourth largest economy, the leaders of Italy's populist parties asked the country's president on Monday to accept a little-known law professor as ...
  Who is Giuseppe Conte, Italy's prime minister designate?Financial Times
  Italian president hesitates as novice put forward as premi
  
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• Grenfell Tower: BBC doorsteps man that managed building

  21-05-2018 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Panorama's Richard Bilton doorsteps the man that managed Grenfell Tower, Robert Black.
  
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• Ken Livingstone to quit Labour amid anti-Semitism row

  21-05-2018 22:56 via bbc.co.uk
  The ex-London mayor, suspended over anti-Semitism claims, says he is "sorry for offence he caused".
  
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• Arsenal to appoint Unai Emery as manager after turning down Mikel Arteta - Telegraph.co.uk

  21-05-2018 22:45 via telegraph.co.uk
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  Arsenal to appoint Unai Emery as manager after turning down Mikel Arteta
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  Arsenal are preparing to unveil Unai Emery as Arsene Wenger's successor after backing away from the gamble of giving former captain Mikel Arteta his first managerial job. In an extraordinary twist yesterday, Emery's experience with Sevilla and Paris St ...
  Arsenal are playing it safe appointing Unai Emery - they weren't brave enough to go for Mikel ArtetaMirror.co.uk
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• 'Red Ken' was thorn in the side of Margaret Thatcher and New Labour - Belfast Telegraph

  21-05-2018 22:32 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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  'Red Ken' was thorn in the side of Margaret Thatcher and New Labour
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  For more than four decades Ken Livingstone has been a figurehead of the Labour left – and something of a hate figure for much of the rest of the political establishment. In his heyday, “Red Ken” was a thorn in the side both of Margaret Thatcher's ...
  Ken Livingstone's political star burns out shrouded in controversyThe Guardian
  Ken Livingstone resigns from Labour PartyJewish
  
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• Russian 'dirty money' flowing through London damages UK - MPs

  21-05-2018 22:30
  LONDON (Reuters) - "Dirty" Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions is undermining the government's efforts to take a tougher stance against Moscow's "aggressive foreign policy", UK lawmakers said on Monday.London remains the Western capital of choice for Russian officials and oligarchs who flaunt their wealth across Europe's most luxurious destinations.
  
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• Re-elected, Venezuela's Maduro faces wide criticism, US sanctions - Reuters UK

  21-05-2018 22:02 via uk.reuters.com
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  Re-elected, Venezuela's Maduro faces wide criticism, US sanctions
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  CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Critics at home and abroad on Monday denounced the vote that re-elected Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro as a farce cementing autocracy and the U.S. government imposed new sanctions on the ...
  Venezuela election: Fourteen ambassadors recalled after Maduro winBBC News
  The US is hitting Venezuela with more sanctions to stop 'smash-and-grab' behaviorBusiness Ins
  
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• Ken Livingstone's political star burns out shrouded in controversy

  21-05-2018 22:00
  Ken Livingstone has resigned from the Labour party.Ken Livingstone was the man who twice captured the top job in London government, once defying Tony Blair to win as an independent candidate and become mayor in 2000 – two decades after a post-election coup catapulted to him to the leadership of the Greater London council in 1981.Livingstone’s long final act began in April 2016, when Labour was convulsed by its first row about antisemitism in the party.
  
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• Islington stabbing: Man knifed to death in 'horrifying' attack on Upper Street - Evening Standard

  21-05-2018 21:55 via standard.co.uk
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  Islington stabbing: Man knifed to death in 'horrifying' attack on Upper Street
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  A man has been stabbed to death on a busy street in broad daylight in north London. The victim, who has not yet been named, was found suffering from stab wounds on Upper Street, Islington, at around 6.30pm on Monday. Police and paramedics rushed to ...
  Islington stabbing: Man found dead outside Town Hall in north LondonThe Independentall 18 news articles »
  
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• Stopping boy's treatment with medicinal cannabis 'could kill him'

  21-05-2018 21:49
  A 12-year-old boy, given a UK-first prescription last year for medicinal cannabis oil which has helped with his epilepsy, may not be able to get another prescription in this country.Billy Caldwell, from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, has intractable epilepsy, a condition that causes him to have seizures that cannot be treated.Billy's doctor Brendan O'Hare has been told not to repeat the medication and the current supply is due to run in just over two weeks' time.
  
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• Royal Wedding photos: first official pictures of Duke and Duchess of Sussex released

  21-05-2018 21:49
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in the newly issued official photographs of the royal wedding. Photograph: Alexi Lubomirski/PA
  
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• Royal Wedding 2018: Harry and Meghan release official photos

  21-05-2018 21:42 via bbc.co.uk
  The whole bridal party join the newly-weds in three official photographs from their big day.
  
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• RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018: In pictures

  21-05-2018 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Pictures from the launch of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
  
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• 'Extraordinary moment': Stars' royal wedding snaps revealed

  21-05-2018 21:28
  Friends of Prince Harry and his new bride Meghan have been sharing their photos of the big day in Windsor.Quantico actress Priyanka Chopra was among the stars posting images from Saturday including of their outfits and the groups they were in.Chopra wrote: "Every once in a while there is a moment when time stands still.. that happened today..
  
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• May: customs backstop to only apply in 'very limited' circumstances

  21-05-2018 21:25
  Theresa May has said that her backstop plan to keep Britain aligned to the customs union beyond 2020 would only apply in a “very limited” set of circumstances as Brexiters ratcheted up pressure on her over the future customs relationship.The prime minister said nobody wanted the UK to resort to the option despite persuading her “war cabinet” to sign up to new proposals last week, marking rare progress on Brexit after weeks of deadlock.
  
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• Bercow admits using word 'stupid' as he tries to defuse Leadsom row

  21-05-2018 21:01
  Leadsom has not complained to the parliamentary standards commissioner about the Speaker’s alleged comments.The House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has sought to defuse a row with the government by admitting he muttered the word “stupid” during a disagreement with the leader of the house, Andrea Leadsom, but denied insulting her personally.In the chamber last Wednesday Bercow was accused of having said in an aside that Leadsom was a “stupid woman”, and swearing b
  
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• Meghan Markle's nephew warned by police after taking knife to London club - Sky News

  21-05-2018 20:43
  Meghan Markle's nephew was let off with a warning after bringing a knife to a south London club as he celebrated her marriage to Britain's Prince Harry, Sky News reported on Monday.British media identified one of the men as Tyler Dooley, 25, the son of Meghan's half-brother Thomas Markle jr. British police declined to confirm the men's identities.
  
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• Ambitious bids were sought for failed British rail line, MPs told

  21-05-2018 20:28
  Britain's Department for Transport (DfT) encouraged "ambitious" bidding on revenue projections for the failed East Coast main line contract, a rail expert told MPs on Monday.Last week the British government said it planned to renationalise the route between London and Edinburgh, scrapping a contract with Stagecoachand Virgin, prompting a committee to hold the post-mortem to find out what went wrong.Problems with the bidding process were partly to blame for the demise of the contract, rail expert
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire relatives give emotional tributes

  21-05-2018 20:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Relatives of those killed in the Grenfell fire give emotional tributes to their loved ones.
  
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• Grenfell inquiry opens to emotional testimony from survivors - The Guardian

  21-05-2018 20:15 via theguardian.com
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  Grenfell inquiry opens to emotional testimony from survivors
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  A series of highly charged and emotional tributes to those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire launched a long-awaited public inquiry into the disaster as its chair, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, pledged that survivors' testimony would be treated as “integral ...
  Tears shed as families relive unimaginable horror of Grenfell fire on first day of inquiryMetro
  Emotions run high as Grenfell blaze inquiry beginsFinanc
  
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• Russian activity in City of London faces further scrutiny by MPs

  21-05-2018 20:11
  Oleg Deripaska has said he will resign from his company’s board in a bid to get US sanctions on his company removed.A second select committee of MPs is expected to examine how Russian companies use the City of London after the foreign affairs committee singled out the corporate law firm Linklaters for its role in advising on last year’s flotation of Oleg Deripaska’s En+.
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's official wedding photographs: Everyone pictured in the stunning group images - Evening Standard

  21-05-2018 20:10 via standard.co.uk
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  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's official wedding photographs: Everyone pictured in the stunning group images
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  Stunning group photographs of the royal family on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding day were revealed to the public today. The new Duke and Duchess of Sussex were captured surrounded by their closest family in one beautiful image. In another ...
  Meghan Markle's sister pleads for her to reunite troubled family and jet shamed dad over for Buck
  
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• Fred the labrador takes nine ducklings 'under his paw'

  21-05-2018 20:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The ducklings were found waddling around the grounds of a castle.
  
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• Part of M20 to be used as lorry park to counter Brexit jams at Channel

  21-05-2018 20:02
  A contraflow system would operate between junctions eight and nine southbound to allow traffic to continue in both directions.A stretch of the M20 in Kent will be used as a temporary lorry park should Brexit result in queues forming at Channel ports, under the latest government contingency plans.A contraflow system, named Operation Brock, would operate between junctions eight and nine southbound to allow traffic to continue in both directions on reduced lanes, while thousands of lorries are held
  
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• Former London mayor Livingstone quits Labour over antisemitism accusations

  21-05-2018 19:45
  Former London mayor Ken Livingstone resigned from the Labour Party on Monday, saying that a row over anti-Semitism allegations against him had become a distraction for the party's leadership.Livingstone, the mayor of London from 2000 and 2008, was suspended from Labour after he said in April 2016 that Hitler had supported Zionism.Last year Labour extended that suspension, but party leader Jeremy Corbyn has faced accusations that he has been too soft on anti-Semitism in the party.
  
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• GCSEs are failing stress test as students suffer

  21-05-2018 19:43
  ‘There is no justifiable reason to subject 16-year-old pupils to numerous stressful examinations, other than the government’s obsession with league tables and accountability,’ says Susan Newton.Sally Weale’s article (‘My lunchtimes are filled with crying children’, 17 May) sheds some light on what people my age go through.Many people I know suffer from depression and anxiety, we lose sleep, we don’t want to wake up in the mornings and we are afraid to wa
  
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• Barack and Michelle Obama to make films for Netflix

  21-05-2018 19:32
  Former US president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama said they were excited to ‘partner’ with the streaming giant.Barack and Michelle Obama have signed a deal with Netflix to produce films and documentaries for the TV streaming giant.The former US president and first lady will develop ideas for potential shows on service including “scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries and features”.
  
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• Leveson 2: government to be taken to court over cancelled inquiry

  21-05-2018 19:26
  The culture secretary, Matt Hancock, announced this year that he would cancel the second part of the public inquiry.Press regulation campaigners have been given the go-ahead to take the government to court over its decision to cancel the second part of the Leveson inquiry into the activities of the media.The culture secretary, Matt Hancock, announced this year that he would cancel the second part of the public inquiry, established after the 2011 phone hacking scandal, on the basis that the media
  
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• Ken Livingstone: It's better for Labour if I resign

  21-05-2018 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The former mayor of London said he did not want to be a distraction to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.
  
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• New plan to avoid cross-Channel congestion revealed

  21-05-2018 19:01
  The Government plans to section off the entire southbound carriageway of a 13-mile stretch of the M20 in Kent to hold around 2,000 lorries in the event of severe cross-Channel congestion.The plan, codenamed "Operation Brock", was announced formally to Parliament on Monday and is to be delivered in time for Brexit Day next year.It followed the likely loss of a judicial review into the Government's favoured permanent successor to "Operation Stack".
  
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• Likely cause of childhood leukaemia discovered in prevention breakthrough

  21-05-2018 19:00
  A leading scientist has identified the likely cause of childhood leukaemia – and said most cases could be prevented.Professor Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research said a combination of a genetic mutation while babies are still in the womb, followed by an infection with an unknown bacteria or virus, is the most likely cause of the blood cancer.Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common type of childhood cancer, with 500 cases diagnosed in the UK each year.
  
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• John Bercow confesses to 'stupid' remark but stops short of apologising to senior minister - The Independent

  21-05-2018 18:54 via independent.co.uk
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  John Bercow confesses to 'stupid' remark but stops short of apologising to senior minister
  The Independent
  John Bercow has admitted using the word “stupid” in a row over a senior government minister but stopped short of apologising, insisting his comments were focused on the government's handling of business. The under-fire speaker said he had not been ...
  Bercow admits calling Andrea Leadsom 'stupid'Spectator.co.uk (blog)all 17 news articles »
  
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• AI may well be the future but the Maybot gives it a bad name

  21-05-2018 18:53
  Theresa May had woken up desperate to talk about something other than how her government was failing to deal with Brexit.The irony may have been lost on the prime minister but it wasn’t lost on any of the handful of people who had made the mistake of coming to listen to her.Ever since it became clear to the entire country that the prime minister was a series of faultily programmed algorithms who was unable to manage even basic commands, public confidence in AI has plummeted.
  
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• RAF to 'protect and defend' UK space assets

  21-05-2018 18:50
  This technology is vital to military operations too - fighter jets, helicopters, missiles, communications all depend on it.Without it, or if it was compromised in a cyber attack, the British armed forces would be pretty much useless."We are now treating space as a key operational domain," Gavin Williamson an industry audience in London.
  
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• Brexit must benefit Scotland to avoid 'complacency' over independence

  21-05-2018 18:43
  Ruth Davidson speaks at the conference, organised by the Policy Exchange thinktank.Ministers should make sure Brexit properly benefits Scotland amid potential complacency over the possibility of another independence referendum, the Conservative leader in the country, Ruth Davidson, has argued.In a speech in London following Nicola Sturgeon’s comments on Sunday in which she vowed to “restart a debate” on independence, Davidson said it was important to restore the emotional bonds
  
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• 'Inquiry should have been held six months ago'

  21-05-2018 18:40
  Family member of Grenfell victim says she is glad the people who died in the tragedy are being 'humanised'.
  
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• Tribute to stillborn baby as Grenfell Tower fire inquiry opens

  21-05-2018 18:37
  Relatives of those who died in the Grenfell Tower blaze have described their heartbreak during the first day of the inquiry into the catastrophe.Chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the inquiry will hear from relatives or friends of every one of those killed as a result of the fire, with their words entered in as evidence.As he opened the hearing, Mr Moore-Bick reminded those gathered that the tributes were an integral part of the inquiry and would serve as a reminder of why it is being conducted.
  
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• Top executives at India's fraud-hit PNB misled central bank, police allege

  21-05-2018 18:29
  Senior executives at India's Punjab National Bankmisled the central bank in late 2016 over the lender's handling of the financial messaging system and credit guarantees that were at the centre of a more than $2 billion (1.5 billion pound) fraud, Indian police alleged in a charge sheet filed in court.PNB, India's second-largest state-run bank, said earlier this year that two jewellery groups headed by Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi had defrauded it of about $2.2 billion by raising credit f
  
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• Meghan's nephew Tyler Dooley warned by police over nightclub knife

  21-05-2018 18:25
  Meghan Markle's nephew has been let off by police after taking a knife into a London nightclub hours after her wedding to Prince Harry.Tyler Dooley, 25, allegedly fled from security guards after handing in the four-inch lock-knife, but was later confronted by officers at his hotel nearby.Mr Dooley is the son of Thomas Markle Jr, Meghan's half-brother, who is divorced from his mother Tracey.
  
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• European shares rise on easing trade worries; Italy stocks slide

  21-05-2018 18:13
  European shares rose on Monday as easing trade war worries lifted the dollar, supporting exporters, while Italian stocks came under renewed pressure as markets awaited developments in the creation of a new government."The feel-good factor from the trade war truce bolstered risk sentiment and a weaker pound delivered the usual shot of adrenalin for the blue chips," said Neil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com.The dollar hit a fresh five-month high on relief that U.S. Treasury Secretary S
  
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• Network Rail names aviation regulator head as new CEO

  21-05-2018 18:07
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Network Rail named Andrew Haines as its new chief executive on Monday, bringing in the current head of the country's aviation regulator to lead the state-owned rail infrastructure company.
  
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• Manchester Arena bomb: Survivors form choir

  21-05-2018 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  A group of survivors from the Manchester attack have formed a choir to help them cope with the trauma.
  
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• Russian 'dirty money' flowing through London damages UK - lawmakers

  21-05-2018 17:50
  LONDON (Reuters) - "Dirty" Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions undermines the government's efforts to take a tougher stance against Moscow's "aggressive foreign policy", UK lawmakers said on Monday.London remains the Western capital of choice for Russian officials and oligarchs who flaunt their wealth across Europe's most luxurious destinations.
  
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• Royal profiles give up little-known nuggets

  21-05-2018 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  As the Duchess of Sussex is welcomed into the Royal Family, we spotted these facts in their profiles.
  
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• Nothing is more satisfying than watching Stretch Armstrong crushed by a hydraulic press

  21-05-2018 17:25
  The video is sort of peaceful.
  
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• US threatens 'strongest' sanctions on Iran, seeks sweeping change - Reuters UK

  21-05-2018 17:13 via uk.reuters.com
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  US threatens 'strongest' sanctions on Iran, seeks sweeping change
  Reuters UK
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday threatened to impose the “strongest sanctions in history” against Iran if it did not accept a sweeping series of U.S. demands, including effectively giving up its nuclear ambitions ...
  Boris Johnson takes aim at Trump saying President WON'T be able to cut new nukes deal with IranThe Sun
  Mike Pompeo warns Iran to stop nuclear enrichme
  
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