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• Second man charged over house party murders

  25-10-2019 23:35
  Earl Bevans, 22, was charged with two counts of murder over the attack at a party in the Emerson Valley estate.
  
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• Meghan considered good for Royal Family by over half the country, says survey

  25-10-2019 23:30
  However, some 39% in a survey for Tatler magazine thought she was hypocritical on environmental issues.
  
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• Major disruption at London Euston after services axed during rush hour

  25-10-2019 22:26
  Network Rail warned of 'serious disruption' for passengers until the end of service on Friday.
  
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• Major disruption at Euston station after rush-hour services cancelled - The Guardian

  25-10-2019 21:17 via news.google.com
  Major disruption at Euston station after rush-hour services cancelled  The GuardianView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Foster blames Varadkar for setting precedent over violent resistance

  25-10-2019 21:17
  The DUP leader was addressing fears around possible loyalist disorder if Brexit creates economic barriers.
  
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• Fourth arrest over 39 migrants found dead in lorry as man detained at airport

  25-10-2019 21:10
  It comes as one apparent victim sent desperate texts to her parents saying she was suffocating.
  
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• Major disruption at London Euston after boy falls from bridge

  25-10-2019 21:01
  Network Rail warned of 'serious disruption' for passengers until the end of service on Friday.
  
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• Vietnamese families seek news of missing relatives after lorry tragedy

  25-10-2019 20:24
  Deputy chief constable Pippa Mills appealed to anyone with information to come forward. Photograph: Yui Mok/PADistraught Vietnamese families were seeking information about their missing loved ones last night amid growing fears that some of the 39 people who died in a refrigerated lorry in Essex were from the country.Text messages from one woman, 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My, to her mother matched the time of the tragedy and said: “I’m dying because I can’t breathe”. She ha
  
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• Essex lorry deaths: Vietnamese families seek news of missing relatives - The Guardian

  25-10-2019 20:24 via news.google.com
  Essex lorry deaths: Vietnamese families seek news of missing relatives  The Guardian20 Vietnamese migrants feared by families to be among the 39 found dead in lorry  The TelegraphMajority of 39 UK truck victims likely from Vietnam - priest  Yahoo News UKU.K. Police Arrest Fourth Person in Connection to Truck Deaths  Bloomberg TicTocVietnamese may be among UK truck dead  New Straits TimesView full coverage on Google News
  
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• MPs plan to defy Boris Johnson by forcing Brexit votes

  25-10-2019 20:21
  Supporters of a second referendum may try to seize control of timetable next week. Rebel MPs are exploring ways to seize control of the agenda from Boris Johnson by allowing parliament to debate and vote on Brexit legislation and a second referendum possibly as soon as next week. Several MPs told the Guardian this was a plan under consideration if Johnson persisted with his insistence that his withdrawal agreement bill was “paused” until MPs agree to an election on 12 December. Under
  
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• Trafficked Vietnamese and the lure of UK nail bars and cannabis farms

  25-10-2019 20:12
  Anti-slavery groups have been warning for years of rise in young Vietnamese being smuggled into UK. What might make a young Vietnamese woman leave her home and family to make a dangerous trip across the world in search of a new life in the UK? Most likely, trafficking experts say, it was the promise of work in one of Britain’s proliferating high street nail bars. Reports that a young Vietnamese woman was one of the 39 people who died this week in a refrigerated trailer have not been confir
  
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• Impeachment inquiry: subpoenas issued for Trump officials who refused to testify – live

  25-10-2019 20:08
  House panels leading inquiry request documents and testimony from budget pair, while Bolton ‘in talks about possible deposition’Sign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 7.08pm BST While speaking to reporters before leaving for South Carolina, Trump criticized the diplomat who testified in the impeachment inquiry earlier this week and defended his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.The president said Bill Taylor, the acting US ambassador to Ukraine who said he was told that
  
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• Southampton v Leicester City: Premier League – live!

  25-10-2019 20:03
  Follow all the action from St Mary’s StadiumWeekend football countdown – as it happenedEmail Michael or tweet him with your thoughts on the game 7.03pm BST Southampton: Gunn, Bednarek, Yoshida, Vestergaard, Valery, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Bertrand, Ward-Prowse, Redmond, Ings.
  Subs: McCarthy, Stephens, Long, Adams, Armstrong, Boufal, Danso.
  Leicester: Schmeichel, Ricardo Pereira, Evans, Soyuncu, Chilwell, Ndidi, Perez, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.
  Subs: Justin, Morgan, Gray, Albrighto
  
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• Farage right to say no-deal Brexit is best way to diverge from Europe – Blair

  25-10-2019 20:02
  But the former Labour prime minister warned leaving without a deal would come with a 'huge amount of economic problems'.
  
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• Tyson Fury on his WWE debut with Braun Strowman, fame, and why he will not fight Conor McGregor - The Independent

  25-10-2019 19:56 via news.google.com
  Tyson Fury on his WWE debut with Braun Strowman, fame, and why he will not fight Conor McGregor  The IndependentTyson Fury expects farewell fight in 2020 after WWE and Deontay Wilder fixtures  BBC NewsTyson Fury may make WrestleMania 36 appearance after WWE Crown Jewel clash - EXCLUSIVE  ExpressTyson Fury's bizarre suit mocked by Good Morning Britain hosts and viewers  Birmingham LiveTyson Fury heaps praise on WWE boss Vince McMahon ahead of match at Crown
  
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• Harry Dunn death: family launches three separate legal actions

  25-10-2019 19:55
  Family says efforts to persuade Anne Sacoolas to return to UK have reached ‘end of the road’ The family of Harry Dunn, the teenager killed in a motorcycle crash, are launching three separate legal actions against the Foreign Office, Northamptonshire police and Anne Sacoolas, the American wife of a US intelligence officer who has admitted to driving on the wrong side of the road before the collision.Tim Dunn, the father of Harry, said that after consultation with their lawyers the fam
  
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• Modern Warfare Ground War mode release: When you can play the missing mode, number of Ground War maps explained - Eurogamer.net

  25-10-2019 19:50 via news.google.com
  Modern Warfare Ground War mode release: When you can play the missing mode, number of Ground War maps explained  Eurogamer.netCall of Duty: Modern Warfare performance: how well does the ray tracing run?  TechRadarCall of Duty Modern Warfare update 1.04 Patch notes add Ground War to PS4, Xbox, PC  Daily StarHow To Be A Pro Call of Duty Player, According To An Esports Gamer  esquire.comCall Of Duty: Modern Warfare Review In Progress - Pay The Price &nbs
  
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• Brian May: Queen won't play Glastonbury without badger cull apology

  25-10-2019 19:45
  Guitarist rules out 50th anniversary headline slot because of rift with festival founderBrian May has said Queen will not play Glastonbury next year after clashing with the festival’s founder over the controversial badger cull.The 72-year-old guitarist and animal rights campaigner rubbished claims that his band had been booked to headline Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary event next year. Continue reading...
  
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• California wildfires: planes deployed to fight flames north of Los Angeles – live

  25-10-2019 19:43
  Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as dry, windy conditions fuel fires across the stateCalifornia wildfires: tens of thousands ordered to evacuate 6.42pm BST That’s the most optimistic lens the LA County Fire Department can put on the Tick wildfire raging now, which began in Tick Canyon (such a pretty name) and has spread “aggressively” in the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles in the last 24 hours. #TickFire *Operational Update* Friday October 23, 2019@LA
  
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• Russian agent Maria Butina released from US prison but will be deported

  25-10-2019 19:39
  Butina, 31, freed early from 18-month sentence for good behaviorRussian conspired with conservatives to infiltrate gun lobbyThe convicted Russian agent Maria Butina was released from a Florida prison on Friday after serving most of her 18-month sentence for conspiring to influence US conservative activists and infiltrate a powerful gun rights group, and taken into custody by immigration officials to be deported to her native country.Butina, 31, had been scheduled for release from the low
  
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• Essex lorry deaths investigation gathers pace with fourth arrest

  25-10-2019 19:39
  Second man from Northern Ireland detained at Stansted airport over 39 deaths
  Detectives investigating the deaths of 39 people found inside a lorry in Essex have made a fourth arrest.A 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland was arrested at Stansted airport on Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and on suspicion of manslaughter after the bodies of 31 men and eight women were discovered in a refrigerated trailer in Grays early on Wednesday morning, Essex police said. Continue reading
  
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• Pope apologises for theft of Amazon statue from Rome church

  25-10-2019 19:35
  Incident at end of Francis’s Amazon synod blamed on conservatives and ‘racists’Pope Francis has apologised to Amazonian bishops and tribal leaders after thieves stole indigenous statues from a church close to the Vatican and tossed them into the River Tiber in a show of conservative opposition to the first Latin American pope.Speaking as “the bishop of Rome”, Francis dismissed allegations that the wooden statues of naked pregnant women were pagan symbols and said th
  
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• Martin Rowson on Boris Johnson's push for an election – cartoon

  25-10-2019 19:33
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• The Guardian view on General Franco’s exhumation: a Spanish lesson in memory | Editorial

  25-10-2019 19:30
  Eighty years after the civil war, Spain has faced up to the delicate but necessary task of ending its official veneration of the country’s fascist leaderBriefly, fog threatened to disrupt General Francisco Franco’s final, unscheduled journey . Then the sky cleared and a helicopter was able to carry the dictator’s coffin away from the Valley of the Fallen, Europe’s most unloved war memorial. After 16 months of wrangling over Franco’s exhumation, the ceremonies of dep
  
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• No-deal Brexit contingency plan implemented on Kent roads

  25-10-2019 19:19
  Operation Brock to cause major disruption around M20 despite likelihood of extension from EU. The government is pressing ahead with its no-deal Brexit contingency plans to avert lorry gridlock in Kent even though Boris Johnson has in effect accepted the UK will not crash out of the EU next week. Contraflow systems and partial motorway closures will be implemented this weekend to ensure Operation Brock can begin at 6am on Monday, the day parliament votes on whether to hold a snap general election
  
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• Elijah Cummings remembered as ‘fierce champion of truth’ at funeral

  25-10-2019 19:16
  Politicians including Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi mourned the late congressman and civil rights leader in Baltimore Congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings was remembered on Friday as a “fierce champion of truth, justice and kindness” at a funeral that brought Washington politicians and ordinary people alike to the Baltimore church where he worshipped for nearly four decades.“It is no coincidence – is it? – that Elijah Cummings shared a name with an Ol
  
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• QuickQuid owner collapses into administration

  25-10-2019 19:14
  Almost 1m customers face financial uncertainty as UK’s biggest payday lender closesThe UK’s biggest payday lender has collapsed into administration, leaving more than a million customers facing financial uncertainty.CashEuroNet UK, which operates the QuickQuid and On Stride brands, has stopped lending after Grant Thornton, the accountancy firm, was appointed as its administrator. The business failed a year after its rival Wonga collapsed following a surge in customer compensation cla
  
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• Essex Lorry Deaths: Fourth Person Arrested Over 39 People Found Dead In Essex

  25-10-2019 19:07
  Detectives investigating the deaths of 39 migrants found inside a lorry inEssex have made a fourth arrest, detaining a man at Stansted Airport
  
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• Arlene Foster ‘will weather any criticism in energy scheme inquiry report’

  25-10-2019 19:03
  The DUP leader has seen the Renewable Heat Incentive inquiry's findings in respect of her role in the controversy.
  
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• US and China ‘close to finalising’ parts of interim trade deal - Financial Times

  25-10-2019 19:01 via news.google.com
  US and China ‘close to finalising’ parts of interim trade deal  Financial TimesUS and China 'close to finalising' parts of phase-one trade pact  Aljazeera.comUS, China "Close To Finalising" Part Of 'Phase 1' Trade Deal  NDTV NewsChina says it will buy $20 billion of US farm products in year one of a partial trade deal  Business InsiderThe S&P 500 falls short of new record high as the US reports trade deal progress with China  CNNV
  
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• Foster says DUP in talks with NI’s attorney general on abortion legal challenge

  25-10-2019 19:00
  Their bid to fast-track a private members' bill to halt abortion reform failed after outgoing speaker Robin Newton prevented it from being considered.
  
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• Arlene Foster: DUP has no regrets about backing Brexit

  25-10-2019 18:59
  The DUP leader said her party had yet to decide whether to back the Prime Minister's call for a general election.
  
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• Former Nazi camp guard admits seeing people being led into gas chamber

  25-10-2019 18:55
  Bruno Dey, 93, currently on trial, says screaming and banging followed but was not aware prisoners were being gassedA 93-year-old former guard at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp has testified at his trial that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door.Bruno Dey, a former SS private, went on trial on 17 October at the Hamburg state court where he stands accused of having been an accessory to the murder of 5,230 people w
  
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• Irish musicians tell of anger at being called 'minor gangsters' by Rory Stewart

  25-10-2019 18:46
  Hare Squead rappers accuse politician of racism and ‘trying to take advantage of black boys’Rory Stewart declared his desire to walk through every borough of London with a spring in his step and every hope that it would bring a personal, man-of-the-people feel to his bid to become the capital’s mayor.On Friday, it appeared to be not quite working out that way: two men who Stewart had cheerfully described as “minor gangsters” revealed themselves to be Irish musicians
  
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• The question for Labour: why are you sticking with Jeremy Corbyn? | Jonathan Freedland

  25-10-2019 18:30
  The party leader is polling so badly that we risk a hard Brexit and five more years of Boris Johnson. It’s time to change courseIn all this talk of early elections, of dates and delays, there is one common if, for some, uncomfortable premise. It is the constant factor in the calculus run by all the political parties and by the warring factions within them. Put simply, it is the fact that vast swathes of the electorate are unprecedentedly hostile to the idea of making Jeremy Corbyn their pr
  
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• You talkin' to me?: how TV narration got personal

  25-10-2019 18:28
  While voiceovers once addressed audiences en masse, Mr Robot and Fleabag are among a wave of shows revelling in ripping down the fourth wall The TV voiceover is a trope that is as old as TV itself. It has been a staple of mystery shows, comedies and even heavyweight dramas. Whether voiceover or to-camera narration, it has helped viewers navigate tricksy plots, or simply revealed a character’s internal state to the audience. Dexter, for instance, would not have worked without the voiceover
  
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• If the government goes on strike, it will be worth it for the LOLs

  25-10-2019 18:28
  Ken Clark: ‘Boris is useless, isn’t he?’ Theresa May: ‘I know, isn’t it marvellous?’ Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK parliament handout/EPA MondayThe only thing any of us can be certain about is that we will die. Most of us – myself included – only manage to cope with this knowledge by burying it deep into our subconscious and living each day as if we and those we love are immortal. I’m much less of a hypochondriac than I was 20 years ago and I
  
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• Essex lorry deaths: Concerns ‘snakehead’ smuggling gangs could be behind 39 found dead in trailer - The Independent

  25-10-2019 18:27 via news.google.com
  Essex lorry deaths: Concerns ‘snakehead’ smuggling gangs could be behind 39 found dead in trailer  The IndependentView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Twitter co-founder invests in AI project to create ‘new type of media’

  25-10-2019 18:17
  AI Foundation co-founder and chief executive Lars Buttler also spoke at the One Young World summit.
  
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• Raymond Leppard obituary

  25-10-2019 18:17
  Conductor whose vivid realisations of operas by Monteverdi and Cavalli brought them new audiencesThe conductor and harpsichordist Raymond Leppard, who has died aged 92, did much to attract audiences to Italian baroque opera. Captivated by the dramatic potential and emotive power of the stage works of Claudio Monteverdi and dismayed by the unavailability of suitable performing editions, he persuaded Glyndebourne, the opera house in East Sussex, to present Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione
  
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• Boris Johnson Told Jeremy Corbyn To 'Man Up' And People Said The PM Should 'Grow Up'

  25-10-2019 18:11
  Boris Johnson has been branded a "pubescent nincompoop" who should "grow up"after he told Jeremy Corbyn to "man up" and back a snap election
  
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• Bad weather, postal delays and lack of polling staff pose election risks

  25-10-2019 18:07
  A caravan polling station at Lochbuie on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianBoris Johnson’s call for a general election in December is both a political and logistical gamble. Here are some potential challenges that organisers of a pre-Christmas election could face. Winter weatherA carefully choreographed mid-December campaign could be wrecked by gales, heavy snow, ice and floods, ruining travel plans and leaving candidates grounded.With
  
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• Suspects urged to hand themselves in as man faces court over house party deaths

  25-10-2019 17:57
  Dominic Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice, both 17, died from knife injuries after they were attacked at a house party in Milton Keynes.
  
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• Vietnamese woman feared among 39 dead migrants

  25-10-2019 17:52
  A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.
  
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• On a London high street, Brexit fatigue sets in

  25-10-2019 17:50
  For Bill Elliott, who has sold flowers on the streets of London since he was 13, the promise of Brexit is fading.A no-deal Brexit, under which Britain would leave the European Union without a transition deal to soften the economic shock, might cause short-term disruption to the capital's wholesale flower markets."Sometimes I think we should just have a clean break and see how things lie in five years' time with our economy," Elliott said.
  
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• Jadon Sancho holds all the cards as Dortmund look to cash in on his promise | Barney Ronay

  25-10-2019 17:47
  The most promising of England’s teenage footballers is Dortmund’s next dividend but the money game needs to be played right and there have been some problems“Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.” Good news, then, for Jadon Sancho, who seems at every step of his footballing life to have skipped the age of promise and gone straight on to the role of luminous, fully realised talent.The kind of promise Cyril Connolly’s famous dictum had in mind was f
  
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• Felicity Huffman released early from 14-day prison sentence – report

  25-10-2019 17:46
  Actor released three days early from her brief stint after pleading guilty in the college admissions scandal, a prison official said
  The actor Felicity Huffman has been released three days early from her 14-day prison sentence, according to a report.A prison official told NBC News that the Desperate Housewives star was let out after just 11 days as it is normal policy for inmates who are set to be released on weekends. The Oscar-nominated actor had been serving time for her role in the Operation
  
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• Duckenfield's lack of emotion may be due to PTSD, Hillsborough jury told

  25-10-2019 17:43
  Jurors urged not to draw adverse inference against suspect for his lack of emotion The jury in the trial of the former South Yorkshire police officer who was in command at Hillsborough when 96 people were killed in a crush has been told not to draw an “adverse inference against him” for showing no emotion.David Duckenfield’s “resilient, passive and expressionless external presentation” does not indicate his state of mind, the jury was told, and there may be a &ldquo
  
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• Duckenfield's lack of emotion may be due to PTSD, Hillsborough jury told

  25-10-2019 17:43
  Jurors urged not to draw adverse inference against suspect for his lack of emotion. The jury in the trial of the former South Yorkshire police officer who was in command at Hillsborough when 96 people were killed in a crush has been told not to draw an “adverse inference against him” for showing no emotion. David Duckenfield’s “resilient, passive and expressionless external presentation” does not indicate his state of mind, the jury was told, and there may be a &ldq
  
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• Making technology work for homecare

  25-10-2019 17:40
  ‘Social care is around 20 years behind health when it comes to making use of freely available technology,’ says Ben Maruthappu. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PADavid Brindle is absolutely right that most homecare agencies are at breaking point (Society, 23 October). Reform is long overdue. The trend towards people wanting to receive care in their own homes is one the country needs to embrace. We need to build the system around this choice, and currently we are failing.High staff turnover a
  
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