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• Tyson Fury: from the lowest of lows to the top of the world

  23-02-2020 23:33 via theguardian.com
  
  The new heavyweight boxing champion had to overcome addictions to alcohol and cocaine, weight gain and depression before he even set foot in the ringFor Tyson Fury it was the sweetest of redemption songs. Moments after regaining the heavyweight title in the early hours of Sunday in Las Vegas, he began serenading the 16,000-strong crowd at the MGM Grand with a boisterous two-minute rendition of Don McLean’s American Pie, beaming from ear to ear as they joined in.It was a highly unorthodox c
  
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• 'We were all a little bit punk': Haring, Basquiat and the art that defined 80s New York

  23-02-2020 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  New York critic and curator Carlo McCormick picks the 10 pieces that cemented the radical legacy of a game-changing art sceneNew York curator and cultural critic Carlo McCormick is proud and serene as he describes the National Gallery of Victoria’s blockbuster 2020 exhibition, Crossing Lines, as a “celebration”. He’s also quick to note that this is not just a celebration of the men whose names are on the door.“Keith [Haring] and Jean-Michel [Basquiat] are really cip
  
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• Chelsea's Antonio Rüdiger says racism won after abuse goes unpunished

  23-02-2020 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Germany defender was booed during win over Tottenham‘If you boo me because of that then you are poor people’Antonio Rüdiger has said racism won when no one was punished for allegedly racially abusing him at Tottenham in December and the Chelsea defender has hit out at the Spurs fans who booed him at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, calling them “poor people”. Related: Chelsea’s Frank Lampard furious after VAR admits error over Lo Celso stampContinue reading...
  
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• Last Tango in Halifax review – a brilliant, bittersweet Sunday comfort

  23-02-2020 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While there are trying times for late-in-life lovebirds Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi, Sally Wainwright’s family drama remains as warm and familiar as a reunion with old friendsWhen it comes to writing about family, nobody does it better than Sally Wainwright. It has been eight years since Last Tango in Halifax (BBC One) began, and just over three since we caught up with Alan, Celia, Gillian and Caroline. The reunited octogenarians are still married, but now they are arguing over a new kitche
  
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• France's Paul Willemse thankful knock-on effects were not too severe

  23-02-2020 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The lock’s infringement could have been punished by a penalty try and a yellow card had it been judged deliberatePaul Willemse, France’s try-scoring lock, has confessed he was on tenterhooks as the officials deliberated over his knock-on in Cardiff. Wales were chasing the lead when Willemse knocked the ball on as he tackled Ken Owens, with Josh Adams free outside him.It was one of several key moments in an exhilarating contest. Had the knock-on been deemed deliberate a penalty try an
  
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• Aubameyang future at Arsenal more certain, says Mikel Arteta

  23-02-2020 21:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Aubameyang scores twice in 3-2 win over Everton‘Hopefully he feels part of what we are building’Mikel Arteta believes the in-form Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is leaning towards staying at Arsenal after playing a significant role in the team’s uplift.Aubameyang scored twice in Sunday’s 3-2 win over Everton, which lifted Arsenal within three points of sixth-placed Tottenham and brought up 10 games unbeaten. The club captain has scored six times in nine appearances since Artet
  
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• ADDS PARS 15-21 Saharan sandstorm leaves British holidaymakers stranded at airports

  23-02-2020 21:07
  
  Flights from Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, North and South Tenerife Airports have been grounded for the foreseeable future due to the weather.
  
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• Bullish Manu Tuilagi leads charge for England with a lot left in the tank

  23-02-2020 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The centre’s barnstorming performance helps soften up Ireland as Eddie Jones’s ornery, outsize team give a glimpse of what they are capable of at their bestIt had been six months to the very day since England last played at Twickenham, in a World Cup warm-up against Ireland, and that was a handsome victory too, even prettier than this one. Since then, they’ve been halfway around the world and back again, one step away from the top of it, too, when they lost to South Africa in t
  
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• Mike Dean lays cards on table to give Peter Crouch a referee's insight | Barry Glendenning

  23-02-2020 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Official has attracted the ire of supporters but shows his human side on former striker’s podcast, as he nears final whistleA man who seems so laid back he could probably serve as a draught excluder at the gates of Winterfell Castle, it spoke volumes that after a senior career spanning 19 years, it wasn’t until seven months into Peter Crouch’s retirement from professional football that the scales blinding him from the truth about referees finally fell from his eyes. A recent co
  
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• Doctor Who recap: series 38, episode nine – Ascension of the Cybermen

  23-02-2020 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From spaceships to Cybermen, there’s plenty of fun to be had as the finale begins. But be warned – change is coming and there may well be some casualtiesSpaceships! I had a pang of excitement at the first of this two-part finale. It had only just struck me that every adventure so far this year has been Earthbound (Orphan 55 turned out to be Earth too, remember). And while that has been mainly fine, it’s a fizzing, refreshing rush to witness an epic space opera on the grandest s
  
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• Julian Assange was ‘harassed’ by cell search, father claims

  23-02-2020 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  John Shipton says his son’s Belmarsh room was targeted on eve of extradition hearingJulian Assange’s father has claimed his son was “harassed” by a prison cell search the day before his extradition hearing was planned to begin.John Shipton visited the WikiLeaks founder at Belmarsh prison in south-east London for two hours on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Sweet-as-pie performance earns Tyson Fury respect as world's best | Kevin Mitchell

  23-02-2020 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The Gypsy King’s next fight could be against Anthony Joshua with promoters keen to agree 50-50 split of the moneyAs Dorothy Parker almost said: “If all the British heavyweights in history were laid out end to end, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.” And they laughed when Tyson Fury said he was going to destroy Deontay Wilder. They’re not laughing now – as Bob Monkhouse almost said.In less than 20 minutes in front of a stunned audience at the MGM Grand in L
  
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• 'National disgrace': tackle regional health inequality, PM to be told

  23-02-2020 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: call for action from shadow health secretary marks 10 years since landmark review The shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has urged the government to tackle the “national disgrace” of regional health inequalities across England.In a speech marking the 10th anniversary of the landmark Marmot review into health inequalities in England, he will say ministers should address the crisis in the budget as part of Boris Johnson’s stated intention to “level up&rd
  
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• 'National disgrace': tackle regional health inequality, PM to be told

  23-02-2020 20:28
  
  'National disgrace': tackle regional health inequality, PM to be told. Exclusive: call for action from shadow health secretary marks 10 years since landmark review
  
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• 'National disgrace': tackle regional health inequality, PM to be told

  23-02-2020 20:28
  
  'National disgrace': tackle regional health inequality, PM to be toldExclusive: call for action from shadow health secretary marks 10 years since landmark review
  
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• Ben Jennings on Boris Johnson's next vanity project – cartoon

  23-02-2020 20:15 via theguardian.com
  
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• Snow and further flooding predicted as another week begins with storms

  23-02-2020 20:09
  
  The forecast came as Environment Secretary George Eustice defended Prime Minister Boris Johnson for defying calls to visit flood-stricken areas.
  
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• The Guardian view on Iran’s elections: a closing door | Editorial

  23-02-2020 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  The victory of hardliners in the parliamentary contest was engineered. But Donald Trump’s choices have destroyed faith in the promises of moderatesIran’s election on Friday was a blow to moderates, a disappointment for conservative rulers and bad news for the region too. The result was largely ordained before anyone could cast a ballot. Hardliners appear to have swept the parliamentary contest – taking all 30 seats in Tehran – because the authorities ensured that they wou
  
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• Pinocchio review - wooden-puppet fairytale goes back to the sweet-sour original

  23-02-2020 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Director and co-writer Matteo Garrone embraces the grotesqueness and sentimentality of Collodi’s 1883 storyThere is something rich and strange and generous in Matteo Garrone’s new live-action version of the Pinocchio story, for which the director and his co-screenwriter Massimo Ceccherini have gone back to the original 1883 children’s tale by Carlo Collodi. They have given us a story which combines sentimentality and grotesqueness in a very startling way. It often looks like a
  
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• Will Dominic Cummings’ reign bring the shadowy world of spads into the light? | James Butler

  23-02-2020 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Not since Alastair Campbell has a special adviser exerted power so publicly. But the influence of these political appointees is overdue for scrutiny“You can be a successful poisoner, or you can be a famous poisoner. But you can’t be both.” That was Frank Dobson’s verdict on Alastair Campbell, whose tenure as a special adviser to Tony Blair still shapes how “spads” are thought of today. Not since the New Labour nomenklatura has a spad attracted as much attentio
  
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• The dead sea: Tasmania's underwater forests disappearing in our lifetime

  23-02-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The sea along the Tasmanian east coast is a global heating hotspot -- temperatures there have risen at nearly four times the global average. One man has watched entire sea forests disappear in his lifetime Continue reading...
  
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• Afghanistan: Trump ready to sign peace deal with Taliban if truce holds

  23-02-2020 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘They want to make a deal. We want to make a deal’US and the Taliban announced truce earlier this monthDonald Trump said on Sunday he is ready to sign a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan if a temporary truce holds in America’s longest war. “Time to come home,” he said. “They want to stop. You know, they’ve been fighting a long time. They’re tough people. We’re tough people. But after 19 years, that’s a long time.”Continue
  
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• Saharan sandstorm leaves British holidaymakers stranded at airports

  23-02-2020 19:44
  
  Flights from Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, North and South Tenerife Airports have been grounded for the foreseeable future due to the weather.
  
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• Starmer commits to shadow cabinet posts for Long-Bailey and Nandy

  23-02-2020 19:43
  
  Starmer commits to shadow cabinet posts for Long-Bailey and Nandy. Labour leadership frontrunner said he would ‘happily serve them’ in turn should he lose
  
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• Merkel's CDU suffers worst ever result in Hamburg elections

  23-02-2020 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Chancellor’s party slumped to third while far-right AfD scraped back in despite Hanau attackVoters handed German chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) their worst ever result in Hamburg on Sunday, punishing them for flirting with the far right in an eastern state and descending into a messy leadership battle.Preliminary results also showed the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) just scraping into the state parliament, only four days after a racist gunman killed 11
  
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• Keir Starmer commits to offering Nandy and Long-Bailey shadow cabinet jobs

  23-02-2020 19:43
  
  Keir Starmer commits to offering Nandy and Long-Bailey shadow cabinet jobs. Labour leadership frontrunner says he would ‘happily serve them’ in turn should he lose
  
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• Police Search River Clyde As Belongings Of Missing Glasgow Woman Found

  23-02-2020 19:39
  
  Emily Hope, 22, was reported missing after leaving the Mango nightclub in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  
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• Chancellor will send Treasury staff to the north of England

  23-02-2020 19:35
  
  Chancellor will send Treasury staff to the north of EnglandRishi Sunak’s plan directly mirrors a pledge from Labour’s 2019 election manifesto
  
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• The Assistant review - #MeToo drama offers unsettling study of day-to-day abuse

  23-02-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Film about assistant to a New York film mogul details how stress, humiliation and bullying become the enablers for abuse by powerful men Kitty Green’s The Assistant is a claustrophobic, intimately unsettling movie about the assistant to an arrogant and abusive New York based film mogul; it can claim to be the first drama which addresses the #MeToo issue, and therefore very contemporary – although appearing on the face of it to be set before the #MeToo movement took off, and before th
  
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• Major search launched for man on Ben Nevis

  23-02-2020 19:25
  
  Tomas Gafrik was last heard from on Thursday morning.
  
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• Tories ignored expert flood advice and courted austerity. Behold the results | Simon Wren-Lewis

  23-02-2020 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  The Pitt review predicted the current crisis in 2008. Why did Conservative governments refuse to listen?It has become an almost annual event. Heavy rain leads to widespread flooding, and people claim that we didn’t see it coming. Except we did. In 2007 the UK experienced a series of floods and the government commissioned a report from Michael Pitt, which stated: “The scale of the problem is, as we know, likely to get worse. We are not sure whether last summer’s events were a di
  
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• Iranian chess referee who fled to UK could face arrest if she returns

  23-02-2020 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Shohreh Bayat warned after images circulated appearing to show her without a headscarf at Shanghai tournamentA chess referee from Iran has fled to the UK after being warned that she could be arrested for being in breach of Iran’s strict dress codes during an international tournament in China.Shohreh Bayat, 32, has sought asylum in Britain after a photograph of her at the women’s world chess championships in Shanghai last month was circulated on social media. It appeared to show her w
  
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• AI offers new hope in defeating superbugs - Financial Times

  23-02-2020 19:00 via news.google.com
  AI offers new hope in defeating superbugs  Financial TimesAI Algorithm Discovers Powerful Bacteria-Killing Antibiotic  DIGIT.FYINovel antibiotic compound revealed through artificial intelligence screening  Drug Target ReviewAI system discovers powerful new antibiotic to tackle superbugs  New AtlasUS researchers use AI to develop powerful new antibiotic - The Jakarta Post  Jakarta PostView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• BBC takes Eurovision choice from public in bid to improve record

  23-02-2020 18:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Music label BMG’s choice for 2020 contest will be revealed on Thursday morningThe BBC has decided against allowing viewers to choose the UK’s entry to this year’s Eurovision song contest, following the poor performance of the British public’s recent choices.Instead, Eurovision presenter Graham Norton will unveil Britain’s representative on Thursday, with the singer and song having been selected by record label BMG without public consultation. The unveiling of the en
  
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• Julian Assange ‘harassed’ by prison cell search ahead of hearing, says father

  23-02-2020 18:55
  
  Assange is awaiting the start of a full extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday.
  
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• Nine dead in Turkey after quake hits rural Iran border region

  23-02-2020 18:45
  
  Nine people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday (February 23) when an earthquake struck the southeastern Turkish province of VanAerial footage revealed damage to a village hit by the magnitude 5.7 quake near the border with Iran. Turkey's health ministry said three of those killed were children and 37 people were injured.The tremor caused more than 1,000 buildings to collapse with damage some 90 km to the west in the Turkish city of Vanand to the east in dozens of villages in IranIranian st
  
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• Bruno Fernandes vows to get United into Champions League

  23-02-2020 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  £46m signing scores a penalty in 3-0 winOle Gunnar Solskjær: ‘He is a mix of Scholes and Veron’Bruno Fernandes vowed to help Manchester United “conquer” the race for a Champions League place following his impressive display in Sunday’s 3-0 victory over Watford at Old Trafford.The midfielder scored his first goal for the club – a 42nd-minute penalty – and also created second-half strikes for Anthony Martial, whose finish particularly impressed
  
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• Four people in the North West test positive for Coronavirus - Lancashire Post

  23-02-2020 18:34 via news.google.com
  Four people in the North West test positive for Coronavirus  Lancashire PostFour Britons evacuated from cruise ship treated for coronavirus  Al Jazeera EnglishCoronavirus risks becoming PANDEMIC as opportunity to contain virus 'closing very quickly'  Express.co.ukCoronavirus: Anger over new UK patients who were cleared to fly  Sky NewsCoronavirus: Cruise ship passengers flown home from Japan test positive as coronavirus spreads in Europe  The Tim
  
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• MI5 rejects claims that officials withhold intelligence from Priti Patel

  23-02-2020 18:28
  
  MI5 rejects claims that officials withhold intelligence from Priti PatelInformed security source says Sunday Times report quoting unnamed officials is untrue
  
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• Raf Simons joins Prada as co-creative director

  23-02-2020 18:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Belgian designer will work alongside Miuccia Prada, with first joint collection due in SeptemberPrada has always been a brand that dictates the rest of fashion. That tradition was stepped up in Milan on Sunday with a groundbreaking announcement at the brand’s headquarters. Designer Raf Simons is to work alongside Miuccia Prada. The two will be co-creative directors.They are two of the most influential designers in fashion, which makes this an unprecedented alpha alliance – the fashio
  
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• Grenfell public inquiry delayed again over evidence concerns

  23-02-2020 18:18
  
  Grenfell public inquiry delayed again over evidence concerns. Firms demand assurances their testimony will not be used against them in a criminal case
  
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• New Orleans: two people killed by Mardi Gras floats in one week

  23-02-2020 18:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Man appears to fall underneath large tandem float on SaturdayWoman, 58, was run over and killed on WednesdayA man was hit and killed by a Mardi Gras float in New Orleans on Saturday evening, the second such death in a week.The individual, who was not immediately named, was killed at around 7pm after he appeared to fall underneath a large tandem float during the Krewe of Endymion parade near the city centre. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit boost: Why UK will be ‘best country in the world for science’ after leaving EU

  23-02-2020 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BORIS JOHNSON'S top Brexit negotiator David Frost declared the Government intends to make the UK the "best country in the world for science" after it leaves the EU in a speech this week.
  
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• World is approaching coronavirus tipping point, experts say

  23-02-2020 18:13 via theguardian.com
  
  78,000 cases confirmed, as Italy and Iran scramble to contain major outbreaksThe world is fast approaching a tipping point in the spread of the coronavirus, according to experts, who warn that the disease is outpacing efforts to contain it, after major outbreaks forced Italy and Iran to introduce stringent internal travel restrictions and South Korea’s president placed the country on red alert.Some of the countries most affected by the virus are scrambling to halt its progress two days aft
  
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• Maritime mission: women can captain superyachts, says new campaign

  23-02-2020 18:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Top women sailors launch drive to help schoolgirls choose careers that take them to the helm of the sailing industryJenny Matthews and Natasha Ambrose are embarking on an unusual world tour: encouraging schoolgirls to consider careers as superyacht captains.Matthews and Ambrose, who are both first officers on superyachts, a role that includes helming the vessels, said they decided to launch a scheme dedicated to encouraging women into the top ranks after discovering that more than 95% of yacht c
  
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• Immigration and how we value low-paid work

  23-02-2020 18:09
  
  Immigration and how we value low-paid work. Given the jobs are vital and the vacancies are high, Jill Wallis cannot understand why social care work is so poorly paid, and frequently referred to as “low-skilled”. Plus letters from Harvey Sanders, Frank Land and Dena Darling
  
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• A rich seam of funding for charities

  23-02-2020 18:09
  
  A rich seam of funding for charities. We shouldn’t attack the richest in society who give away their money, says John Low
  
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• Five ways to improve flexibility

  23-02-2020 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Try tai chi, pilates or yoga to boost strength, eat enough protein, and dissolve tension in a warm bath. And give it time – make it part of your lifeYoga, pilates, tai chi and stretching are all recommended for improving flexibility by the NHS. While pilates and yoga concentrate on building strength and flexibility, yoga is generally regarded as having a deeper focus on increasing the range of joint motion. “Within the physical movements, there are lots of opportunities to elongate t
  
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• Auschwitz Memorial criticises Amazon for Hunters show and antisemitic books

  23-02-2020 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime show stars Al Pacino as head of band of Nazi huntersMemorial wants books by Nazi Julius Streicher removedThe Auschwitz Memorial criticised Amazon on Sunday, for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its TV series Hunters and for selling books of Nazi propaganda. Related: Outcry after MSNBC host compares Sanders’ Nevada win to Nazi invasionContinue reading...
  
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• Tibetan objects made of human remains to go on show at British Museum

  23-02-2020 17:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Curator hopes inclusion of such sensitive items from Tantric Buddhism will demystify them Objects made from human remains, often labelled in the west as examples of witchcraft or necromancy, are to go on display for the first time at the British Museum with the hope they will finally be seen in their true light.The museum is to display Tibetan objects, which include a drum made from the tops of two skulls; a trumpet made from a hollowed out thighbone; a ritual cup made from a skull and an apron
  
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