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• The climate crisis explained in 10 charts

  19-09-2019 23:29
  From the rise and rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to possible solutionsGlobal climate strike: Greta Thunberg and students march to protest climate change – live updatesThe level of CO2 has been rising since the industrial revolution and is now at its highest for about 4 million years. The rate of the rise is even more striking – the fastest for 66m years – with scientists saying we are in “uncharted territory”. Continue reading...
  
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• How will Justin Trudeau's blackface photos affect Canada's election?

  19-09-2019 23:01
  Incident has landed the prime minister in hot water as his Liberal party fights to secure another term in a tightly contested electionCanadians have long been aware that Justin Trudeau likes to dress up.His tendency to appropriate dress and customs from other cultures has prompted gentle mockery from rival politicians and the media: on a trip to India last year, he was photographed in a kurta on numerous occasions. He has Indigenous art tattooed his shoulder. He wears Ramadan socks and dances to
  
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• Exclusive: Jean-Claude Juncker says Brexit 'will happen' - Sky News

  19-09-2019 22:16 via news.google.com
  Exclusive: Jean-Claude Juncker says Brexit 'will happen'  Sky NewsCorbyn has made UK a 'laughing stock!' BBC QT audience member rages at Labour peer  ExpressSterling gains as Juncker comments fuel hopes for Brexit deal  Financial TimesFriday morning news briefing: 'We can do a deal', says Jean-Claude Juncker  The TelegraphLaura Kuenssberg: BBC journalist ridicules Luxembourg PM's defence of Boris attack  Express.co.ukView full coverage on Google
  
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• Supreme court hears masterly prorogation defence: don't sweat it

  19-09-2019 21:52
  Lord Keen’s experience with honest criminals proves poor training for working with narcissists and sociopaths. I’m sticking my neck out here: I’m guessing that telling the supreme court in advance that you might just ignore its decision if you lose and go ahead and prorogue parliament a second time isn’t necessarily the best way of endearing yourself to the 11 judges. Shove your verdict where the sun don’t shine. Whatevs. But I’m not the prime minister. Spare
  
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• What Happens If Boris Johnson Gets A Brexit Deal?

  19-09-2019 21:18
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• Blooming butterfly catches Kate’s eye in royal gardening competition

  19-09-2019 21:13
  Twelve-year-old Jessica's winning creation will now appear in the Duchess of Cambridge's 'Back to Nature' garden at RHS Wisley.
  
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• Sir Paul McCartney weighs in on Brexit debate

  19-09-2019 21:11
  The former Beatle admitted he did not vote in the 2016 referendum.
  
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• Supreme court hears masterly prorogation defence: don't sweat it

  19-09-2019 20:42
  Lord Keen’s experience with honest criminals proves poor training for working with narcissists and sociopaths. I’m sticking my neck out here: I’m guessing that telling the supreme court in advance that you might just ignore its decision if you lose and go ahead and prorogue parliament a second time isn’t necessarily the best way of endearing yourself to the 11 judges. Shove your verdict where the sun don’t shine. Whatevs. But I’m not the prime minister. Spare
  
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• Rise of the far right: a disturbing mix of hateful ideologies

  19-09-2019 20:40
  Police confront supporters of the EDL. Ideals of cultural nationalism inspired in part the actions of Darren Osborne, who drove a van into worshippers outside Finsbury Park mosque. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty ImagesOn Thursday, senior counter-terror police officers provided a rare insight into the threat from extreme-right terrorism as they see it, revealing the scale of the problem and some of the motives behind its rise.Their assessment of the threat reveals a disturbing mix of hateful i
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says he is daunted but ‘determined’ by prospect of being PM

  19-09-2019 20:31
  The Labour leader is preparing to unveil a raft of proposals at the party’s annual conference.
  
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• Royal Mail Group admits breaking competition law that left customers paying higher prices

  19-09-2019 20:07
  The Royal Mail Group has admitted a breach of competition law that led to an investigation by Ofcom.The delivery giant acknowledged "being part of an illegal anti-competitive agreement" for more than four years with SaleGroup, a re-seller of Royal Mail's business parcel delivery services, that left customers paying higher prices.Last year, Royal Mail Group informed the Competition and Markets Authority that its Parcelforce division had an agreement with the smaller firm in which they would not o
  
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• 'I don't have erotic relation to backstop'

  19-09-2019 20:03
  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker tells Sky's Sophy Ridge that a Brexit deal can happen.
  
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• We can have a Brexit deal, Jean-Claude Juncker insists

  19-09-2019 20:02
  The European Commission president said his meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Luxembourg on Monday was 'rather positive'.
  
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• Superbug hotspots emerging in farms across globe – study

  19-09-2019 20:00
  Global outbreak of antibiotic-resistant superbugs linked to overconsumption of meat. Hotspots of antibiotic-resistant superbugs are springing up in farms around the world, the direct result of our overconsumption of meat, with potentially disastrous consequences for human health, a study has found. Areas in north-east India, north-east China and the Red River delta in Vietnam were identified as hotspots in Asia, with areas as widely separated as Mexico and Johannesburg also affected. But the hot
  
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• Cameron admission ‘damaging for Queen’

  19-09-2019 19:59
  The revelation is an 'awkward and embarrassing' incident for the former prime minister, the monarch and those advising her, an academic said.
  
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• The Guardian view on the school climate strike: protests that matter | Editorial

  19-09-2019 19:57
  The youth climate movement has created a new sense of urgency. Adults, including politicians, must now focus on plotting a safer courseClimate strike: global climate change protest as Greta Thunberg and students march – live updatesThis Friday’s school strike, which adults around the world have been asked to join, is the largest mobilisation yet attempted by the youth climate movement launched last year by the Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg. As such, it is an event of international
  
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• Jean-Claude Juncker Says Brexit Deal Is Possible And Hints At Dropping Irish Backstop

  19-09-2019 19:57
  Jean-Claude Juncker has said a Brexit deal is possible as he suggested thecontroversial Irish 'backstop' could be dropped and replaced withalternatives
  
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• Judges urged to back MPs' recall if they rule against prorogation

  19-09-2019 19:36
  Final arguments at supreme court raise question of who has power to bring parliament back. Parliament should be allowed to reassemble next week, the supreme court has been urged, as the legal battle over Boris Johnson’s five-week suspension threatened to escalate into a constitutional crisis over who has authority to recall MPs and peers. At the end of the third and final day of an emergency hearing over the lawfulness of the prime minister’s advice to the Queen to suspend debates, t
  
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• People's Vote tells Labour MPs not to back a Johnson Brexit deal

  19-09-2019 19:28
  MPs warned they will be blamed for NHS privatisation and job losses under any Johnson deal. The People’s Vote campaign has issued a warning to Labour MPs tempted to vote for any Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson that they would be held responsible for a rightwing assault on Britain’s public services and economy. The campaign circulated a dossier warning that a Johnson deal would lead to a “bonfire of rights”, as it emerged that two Labour MPs, Stephen Kinnock and Caroli
  
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• Summer set for last hurrah as Britons to bask in 26C heat this weekend

  19-09-2019 19:26
  Parts of the UK can look forward to glorious sunshine with the temperature hitting 26C on Saturday.
  
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• Court rules for Irish government in historic climate case

  19-09-2019 19:22
  They also argued that plan fell far short of the steps required by the Paris Agreement on climate change.
  
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• Boris Johnson admits he repeatedly crashes drones after testing Army device

  19-09-2019 19:05
  He was meeting with troops to observe how military spending by the Government was being implemented in the British Army.
  
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• For the Record: David Cameron's memoir is honest but still wrong

  19-09-2019 19:01
  The former prime minister gives a truthful account of errors – but unknowingly makes a few more. For the Record by David Cameron, William Collins, £25 A spectre haunts this book – the spectre of Europe. Just as the 700 pages of Tony Blair’s autobiography could not escape the shadow of Iraq, so the 700 pages of David Cameron’s memoir are destined to be read through a single lens: Brexit. For all its detailed accounts of coalition talks with Nick Clegg or anxious Syri
  
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• Murder-accused tells court how death of pet Rottweiler ended relationship

  19-09-2019 19:00
  Laureline Garcia-Bertaux’s body was found in a shallow grave in her garden in London in March.
  
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• Police officer's 1977 murder linked to loyalist terrorist gang

  19-09-2019 18:58
  Inquest told it will receive files on gang that included members of British security forces. The unsolved murder of a Catholic policeman shot dead in Northern Ireland more than 40 years ago has been linked to a loyalist paramilitary group responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Troubles. At the preliminary hearing of a legacy inquest into the 1977 killing of Sgt Joseph Campbell in Belfast on Thursday, a solicitor representing the Police Ombudsman told Justice Siobhan Keegan she would
  
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• Catholic policeman's 1977 murder linked to UVF

  19-09-2019 18:58
  Solicitor tells preliminary hearing into Joseph Campbell’s death that sensitive material will be disclosed. The unsolved murder of a Catholic policeman shot dead in Northern Ireland more than 40 years ago has been linked to a loyalist paramilitary group responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Troubles. At the preliminary hearing of a legacy inquest into the 1977 killing of Sgt Joseph Campbell in Belfast on Thursday, a solicitor representing the Police Ombudsman told Justice Sio
  
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• Donald Trump And The Whistleblower – The Latest White House Scandal Explained For Brits

  19-09-2019 18:37
  Donald Trump has once again called reports that he has done something a littledodgy "fake news", as another row erupts in Washington over the president'sbehaviour
  
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• Boris Johnson awaits historic ruling over prorogation of Parliament

  19-09-2019 18:35
  The Supreme Court in London has been asked to determine whether the prorogation move was unlawful.
  
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• Irish premier reveals plans to ‘try to get deal’ at summit meeting with PM

  19-09-2019 18:29
  Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar will both be attending the upcoming UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
  
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• Alleged conman claimed Lottery jackpot with aid of Camelot employee, court told

  19-09-2019 18:19
  The 'genuine' winning ticket, which was bought in Worcester, has never been discovered.
  
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• Denisovans: Face of long-lost human relative unveiled - BBC News

  19-09-2019 18:13 via news.google.com
  Denisovans: Face of long-lost human relative unveiled  BBC NewsFace of ancient human cousin from little-known species that died out 50,000 years ago revealed  The SunScientists reconstruct face of ancient human relative using fossils  Daily SabahPrehistoric human girl who died 40,000 years ago pictured for first time  Daily StarScientists Piece Together A Skeleton Sketch Of An Ancient Human Relative Using DNA  Mashable IndiaView full coverage on
  
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• Banksy’s climate protest mural preserved by London council

  19-09-2019 18:13
  The famed graffiti artist's work appeared in Westminster after demonstrations by Extinction Rebellion.
  
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• Student who made guns with 3D printer jailed

  19-09-2019 17:57
  Tendai Muswere's case is thought to have been a legal first in the UK.
  
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• Premier League footballer jumped from hotel window amid blackmail bid, jury told

  19-09-2019 17:50
  The player, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was filmed in a hotel room with a woman he met on social media.
  
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• Far-Right Extremism Is Britain's Fastest Growing Terror Threat, Police Say

  19-09-2019 17:50
  Far-right extremism is the fastest growing terror threat in Britain, policehave said
  
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• Concerns raised over prosecution of trafficked British children

  19-09-2019 17:46
  Children’s commissioner to talk with CPS about cases of young victims being charged rather protected. The children’s commissioner is raising concerns with the Crown Prosecution Service about young victims of human trafficking being prosecuted rather than protected, following a Guardian investigation. Anne Longfield said she would be speaking with the CPS about young British victims of human trafficking being charged and prosecuted contrary to guidelines. The Guardian’s findings
  
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• Woman, 81, who fought off mugger says attacker ‘picked wrong one’

  19-09-2019 17:28
  Retired welder and machinist Doreen Jones was targeted while collecting her pension at an ATM.
  
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• Bank warns of ‘entrenched’ Brexit uncertainty as interest rates held

  19-09-2019 17:21
  The Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to leave rates unchanged, in the last such meeting before the UK is due to leave the EU on October 31.
  
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• Britain’s newest aircraft carrier squeezes out of dockyard for maiden voyage

  19-09-2019 17:00
  HMS Prince of Wales will now begin nine weeks of sea trials before heading into Portsmouth Naval base.
  
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• Here's What Happened On The Final Day Of The Supreme Court Prorogation Hearing

  19-09-2019 16:54
  Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of days, you haveprobably noticed that some *serious* drama has been going down in the SupremeCourt
  
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• Bishop was aware of allegations against monk, inquiry hears

  19-09-2019 16:52
  Bishop of Aberdeen Hugh Gilbert was asked about convicted abuser Richard White, with whom he was photographed at a celebration in 1997.
  
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• Charges dropped against man accused of PC Andrew Harper murder

  19-09-2019 16:50
  PC Andrew Harper died on 15 August. Photograph: Thames Valley Police/PAA 20-year-old man accused of killing the police officer Andrew Harper has seen the murder charge against him dropped after spending a month in custody.Prosecutors said they were no longer pursing the case against Jed Foster, from Burghfield, in Berkshire, who was arrested within an hour of Harper’s death on 15 August and charged four days later.On Wednesday, three teenagers were charged with Harper’s murder. Henry
  
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• Parliament may remain suspended even if Prime Minister loses Supreme Court case

  19-09-2019 16:48
  Judges are considering appeals arising out of two separate challenges to the five-week prorogation of Parliament, which produced different results.
  
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• Supreme Court to rule on suspension of Parliament: What you need to know

  19-09-2019 16:44
  Over three days a landmark legal battle has been fought over Boris Johnson's decision to ask the Queen to suspend Parliament.
  
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• Charges dropped against man accused of murdering Pc Andrew Harper

  19-09-2019 16:44
  Jed Foster will be released after being told there was no realistic prospect of conviction
  
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• Man 'Conspired With Lottery Employee To Fake His Way To £2.5m Jackpot'

  19-09-2019 16:33
  An alleged conman conspired with a Camelot employee to fake his way to amultimillion-pound National Lottery win more than a decade ago, a court hasheard
  
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• Rugby World Cup: fans give their previews and predictions

  19-09-2019 16:29
  South Africa are confident. Scotland are hard to predict. Wales have high hopes. And Uruguay just want to win a gameWe hope to win it, but is that realistic? We will be competitive and we will trouble top teams, may even upset one if it all comes magically together. We have a decent draw if we can beat Wales. If we top our pool, we play France or Argentina in the quarter-finals and will be too strong for them. That gives us a semi-final, most probably against South Africa or New Zealand, maybe I
  
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• Amazon vows to meet goals of Paris climate agreement by 2040

  19-09-2019 16:27
  Amazon.com Inc is due to sign a pledge to meet the goals of the Paris Climate agreement by 2040 and be net carbon neutral, 10 years ahead of schedule, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos said on Thursday.Bezos is announcing a number of actions at a press conference in Washington, including a pledge to be net carbon neutral by 2040.The Trump administration said in June 2017 it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord.
  
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• Parliament apologises for photographing rough sleepers

  19-09-2019 16:25
  Contractor took photos of homeless people as they slept near palace of Westminster. Parliament has apologised to a group of rough sleepers who bed down close to the palace of Westminster after taking individual photos of them without their permission while they slept. About 20 people sleep rough in and around the tunnels connecting parliament to Westminster tube station. They woke last Friday to find a cleaning contractor employed by the parliamentary estate taking photographs of them. One man,
  
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• Met Police Places Restrictions On Climate Strike In London

  19-09-2019 16:19
  The Met Police has placed restrictions on part of what is being billed as theworld's largest climate strike on Friday
  
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