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• Queen Wears Gloves At Buckingham Palace Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

  03-03-2020 23:37
  
  The monarch usually greets recipients bare-handed.
  
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• Duke of Cambridge jokes about unwittingly ‘spreading’ coronavirus

  03-03-2020 23:34
  
  William talked about the infection as he chatted to emergency workers at a reception hosted by Britain's Ambassador to Ireland.
  
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• Kane and Rashford could play at Euro 2020, says Gareth Southgate

  03-03-2020 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Both England strikers currently out injuredManager backs Jordan Pickford after Everton errorGareth Southgate is optimistic about the possibility of Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford being fit for Euro 2020 and has left the door open for Phil Foden as he anticipated another competitive year of international football.Southgate was in Amsterdam for the Nations League draw, the Uefa competition that gives England the chance to lay the ghosts of 2016 after they were drawn against Iceland, as well as Den
  
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• US prosecutors accuse Honduran president of taking drug money

  03-03-2020 23:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Juan Orlando Hernández allegedly took $25,000 in 2013 in exchange for protecting trafficker from law enforcementUS prosecutors have said that the president of Honduras met a drug trafficker in around 2013 and took $25,000 in exchange for protecting the trafficker from law enforcement.The US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York issued a statement referring to President Juan Orlando Hernández only as a “high-ranking Honduran official” or as &ldquo
  
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• UK charity launches floating library to bring books to children in Philippines

  03-03-2020 23:23
  
  As many as 30 children at a time will be able to use the library's facilities.
  
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• Louis Vuitton's clash of styles wraps up Paris Fashion Week

  03-03-2020 23:08
  
  Plunged into darkness, the audience inside the Louvre's Court Carree gasped as the curtain rose to reveal a terraced backdrop with hundreds of singers dressed in period costumes from the 15th century to the 1950s.The first models strutted down the catwalk in buffed-up petticoats and voluminous, multicoloured jackets, in a collection designer Nicolas Ghesquiere called "Collisions of Time".In front of an audience that included the A-list actresses Léa Seydoux, Alicia Vikander and Florence P
  
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• Miguel Almirón's first-half double eases Newcastle through at West Brom

  03-03-2020 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Newcastle are on their way to Wembley as far as their admirable away support is concerned. A double strike from the normally innocuous Miguel Almirón helped put them into the last eight, just a game away from a trip to London, and though there are still some big teams left the near 50% of respondees who told a Newcastle Chronicle survey they wouldn’t mind being relegated if they could go down as FA Cup winners are one step nearer to their wish. Related: Ross Barkley inspires Chelsea
  
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• Ross Barkley inspires Chelsea against Liverpool to reach FA Cup last eight

  03-03-2020 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  If Chelsea needed this, then Ross Barkley certainly did. And the boyhood Evertonian could hardly have chosen better opponents to punish. The midfielder’s Chelsea career since his move from Goodison Park in January 2018 can be best described as stop-start.Nobody doubts Barkley’s ability when it is his day. It is just that those days have been too scarce. Everything came together for him in a performance of touch and influence and the goal he scored to smooth Chelsea’s passage in
  
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• Sirius Minerals to be sold after shareholder rebellion fails

  03-03-2020 22:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Following the £405m sale the UK’s first major deep mine in 40 years now likely to go aheadSirius Minerals, the company building a £4bn mine under the North York Moors, is to be sold for £405m after a rebellion by irate small investors against the cut-price deal failed.Following a fractious shareholder meeting, at which security guards were drafted in to monitor “credible threats” against directors, investors ultimately voted narrowly in favour of a sale to glo
  
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• Jobs secured as rescue deal agreed for Yorkshire-based Sirius Minerals

  03-03-2020 22:42
  
  The firm's chairman Russell Scrimshaw said the outcome was a positive one for the local area and wider region.
  
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• Nashville tornadoes: at least 25 people killed and hundreds homeless

  03-03-2020 22:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Fire crews and police comb through tornado’s wreckageTorn walls and roofs, snapped power lines and downed treesTornadoes ripped across Tennessee as people slept early Tuesday, shredding at least 140 buildings and killing at least 25 people. Authorities described painstaking efforts to find survivors in piles of rubble and wrecked basements as the death toll climbed.A Tennessee emergency management agency spokeswoman raised the death toll on Tuesday morning, after police and fire crews spen
  
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• F1 cannot race if a team is denied entry due to virus, says Brawn

  03-03-2020 22:33
  
  SHOWS: SILVERSTONE, ENGLAND, UK (MARCH 3, 2020) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMULA ONE MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR MOTORSPORT ROSS BRAWN SAYING:"We're doing everything we can to make sure.If a team is prevented from entering a country we can't have a race. Not a Formula One world championship race, anyway, because that would be unfair. Obviously if a team makes its own choice not to go to a race, that's their decision.But where a team is prevented from going to a race because of a
  
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• Terrawatch: Is a seismic spectacle brewing in Iceland?

  03-03-2020 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Reykjanes peninsula is being peppered with earthquakes, suggesting magma is accumulatingIcelandic volcanoes have only to twitch and they find themselves plastered with instruments. Right now activity in the Reykjanes peninsula, a lesser known volcanic region in the south-west, is causing excitement. Situated near the town of Grindavík and the popular Blue Lagoon, and only 9 miles (15km) from Iceland’s international airport, it is an area that has not seen an eruption for 800 years (
  
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• Trump reportedly tells Taliban official ‘you are a tough people’ in first phone call

  03-03-2020 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Call with official whom Trump mistakenly called ‘leader of the Taliban’ is first direct exchange between a US president and insurgent leadership since 2001Donald Trump has spoken by telephone to a senior Taliban official at a time when a row over prisoner exchanges and a fresh outbreak of violence jeopardised a historic US-Taliban peace agreement signed on Saturday.The conversation between Trump and the head of the Taliban’s political office, Abdul Ghani Baradar, was the first
  
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• Second case of coronavirus in Ireland

  03-03-2020 22:22
  
  It involves a female from the east of the country and is associated with travel from northern Italy.
  
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• Murder inquiries could be hit if coronavirus reduces police numbers

  03-03-2020 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Up to one-fifth of UK workforce could be off sick at peak of epidemic, government warnsCoronavirus: latest updatesPolice investigations into some homicides would be halted and 999 response times extended under contingency plans to help forces cope with a severe coronavirus outbreak, the Guardian has learned.As the number of confirmed UK cases reached 51, the government warned that up to a fifth of the workforce could be off sick during the peak of a potential epidemic. A raft of measures would b
  
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• Thousands of intensive care patients to be tested for Covid-19

  03-03-2020 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  NHS bosses in England ramp up efforts to detect virus amid fears it is circulating in ICUsCoronavirus: latest updatesThousands of patients in intensive care will be tested for signs of the coronavirus amid fears that it is circulating among units treating people who are seriously ill in hospital. Related: Coronavirus latest: at a glanceContinue reading...
  
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• Priti Patel 'Regrets' Resignation Of Top Civil Servant Amid Bullying Claims

  03-03-2020 22:05
  
  Home secretary makes call for unity after accusations from the most senior official at the Home Office.
  
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• Dominic Cummings fostering culture of bullying, says Labour

  03-03-2020 21:47
  
  Dominic Cummings fostering culture of bullying, says Labour. Details resurface of 2013 payoff to senior civil servant allegedly intimidated by Cummings
  
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• Top civil servant begins legal case against Priti Patel and Home Office

  03-03-2020 21:40
  
  Top civil servant begins legal case against Priti Patel and Home OfficeHome secretary may have to give evidence under oath if case comes to tribunal
  
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• Keir Starmer challenged to publish all campaign donations

  03-03-2020 21:30
  
  Keir Starmer challenged to publish all campaign donationsRebecca Long-Bailey supporter Jon Trickett claims any further delay is anti-democratic’
  
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• Ninth person with coronavirus dies in Washington state as New York sees second case

  03-03-2020 21:23 via theguardian.com
  
  CDC confirms 60 positive or presumed-positive cases nationwideMan in his 50s becomes New York’s second confirmed caseLive updates: 51 cases confirmed in UK as plans set outTensions over how to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government’s ability to ramp up testing fast enough to deal with the crisis.All of the deaths have occurred in Washington state, and most were
  
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• SNP to readmit MP after anti-Semitism probe, reports say

  03-03-2020 21:22
  
  Neale Hanvey was dropped by the party during the general election campaign in November.
  
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• Leeds goalkeeper Kiko Casilla was banned for using N-word, confirms FA

  03-03-2020 21:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Spaniard aimed racial slur at Charlton’s Jonathan LekoFA independent panel satisfied with evidence of incidentAn independent Football Association regulatory commission suspended Kiko Casilla for eight games after being satisfied the Leeds goalkeeper called Charlton’s loanee striker Jonathan Leko “a fucking nigger” during a game at the Valley in September last year.Casilla maintains his innocence and has been supported by Leeds, who have questioned the FA’s decision
  
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• The Last Quiz Night on Earth review – audience competes as apocalypse beckons

  03-03-2020 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hope Mill theatre, Manchester
  An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth in Alison Carr’s new play, where everyone takes part in a pub quizThe local boozer might not be a bad place to wait for the impending apocalypse. At least, that’s the premise of Alison Carr’s new play, in which the end is nigh but the beer is still flowing.As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth, the punters of the Four Horsemen (get it?) are brandishing their pens for one final quiz night. Or rather, we are. In B
  
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• Steve Bell on Boris Johnson's coronavirus 'battle plan' – cartoon

  03-03-2020 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
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• In Pictures: Cheers – William and Kate begin Ireland visit

  03-03-2020 20:57
  
  They met Irish President Michael D Higgins and laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance.
  
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• Boris fails to convince with sanitised take on coronavirus | John Crace

  03-03-2020 20:52 via theguardian.com
  
  PM sought to calm nation but it soon became clear his emergency plan was remarkably thinAnd… breathe. Though not too deeply. And certainly not all over anybody else. After more than six weeks of mooching around No 10 hoping the pangolins would deal with the coronavirus on their own, Boris Johnson finally broke off from his sabbatical to ease widespread concerns about a global pandemic with an emergency press conference. Don’t panic! Don’t panic!There were no face masks or brea
  
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• Boris fails to convince with sanitised take on coronavirus

  03-03-2020 20:52
  
  Boris fails to convince with sanitised take on coronavirusPM sought to calm nation but it soon became clear his emergency plan was remarkably thin
  
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• Nicolas Portal, Team Ineos sporting director, dies of heart attack

  03-03-2020 20:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The Frenchman, 40, died at home in AndorraPortal suffered cardiac arrhythmia during career
  Chris Froome has led the tributes to Nicolas Portal after the sporting director at Team Ineos died on Tuesrday aged just 40.Portal, a former cyclist who rode for Team Sky at the end of his career before the Frenchman remained with them after retiring in 2011, was part of the backroom team which has helped Froome to win all four of his Tour de France titles. Continue reading...
  
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• Kim Jong-un sister condemns 'frightened dog' South Korea in first public statement

  03-03-2020 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Kim Yo-jong likens South Korea to ‘frightened dog barking’ after Seoul protested against Pyongyang’s live-fire military frillThe sister of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has condemned South Korea as a “frightened dog barking” after Seoul protested against a live-fire military exercise by the North.Kim Yo-jong’s comments – her first known official statement – came after Seoul’s security ministers expressed “strong concern&rdquo
  
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• Ukraine detains priest who used preaching missions to traffic arms

  03-03-2020 20:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Cleric sold weaponry including grenade launcher brought from country’s conflict-hit eastAuthorities in Ukraine have detained a priest who used missions to the country’s conflict-ridden east to traffic arms, including a grenade launcher and hand grenades.The cleric was detained several months ago in north-western Ukraine, but his detention was only made public after further police investigations, the Ukraine security services (SBU) said. “It is a very delicate topic,” said
  
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• US Federal Reserve’s interest rate cut leaves markets in a dither | Nils Pratley

  03-03-2020 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  The coronavirus seems to have spooked the US central bank and Wall Street doesn’t know which way to turnFinancial markets, having demanded a rate cut to fight a coronavirus-provoked economic downturn, didn’t know which way to turn when the US Federal Reserve obliged with a half-point reduction. Wall Street’s whoosh lasted an hour, and the next direction for stock markets is anybody’s guess.Confusion is understandable at two levels. First, one could say it’s legitima
  
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• Detectives expected to question woman about stabbing in which child died

  03-03-2020 20:12
  
  Fiona Magowan, aged in her thirties, also sustained serious injuries.
  
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• 'Now we don’t have to be afraid': Syrian family who made it to safety in Turkey

  03-03-2020 20:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Turkish border with Syria remains closed to most but some have escaped horrors of Idlib In a video shot by her father, three-year-old Salwa listens intently to the rumble of military hardware in the distance. “Is it a plane or a shell?” he asks as they sit together on the sofa. “Shell!” she shouts, giggling hysterically when it explodes.Turning the sounds of airstrikes and shelling into a game is how Abdullah Mohammed, 32, protected his daughter from the trauma of Syria&r
  
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• Stormont leaders set to scale back US trip to focus on coronavirus response

  03-03-2020 20:03
  
  The move comes as officials warn that routine hospital appointments may be postponed if Covid-19 infects large numbers.
  
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• Countess of Wessex to promote women’s rights during trip to South Sudan

  03-03-2020 20:03
  
  She will meet survivors of gender-based violence to learn about the impact of the recent conflict.
  
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• Boris Johnson urged to speak out against climate deniers

  03-03-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As EU sets out its first ever climate law, critics fear UK may delay or water down green measuresBoris Johnson should publicly declare climate deniers as wrong in order to secure the UK’s standing in vital UN climate talks this year, campaigners have urged, as climate deniers with links to the Tory party prepare for a new battle.As the UK leaves the EU, and its emphatic environmental commitments including the European green deal, those who want to see less action on the climate crisis are
  
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• Iran triples stockpile of enriched uranium in breach of nuclear deal

  03-03-2020 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Watchdog says country may also be storing material at three undeclared sitesIran has nearly tripled its stockpile of enriched uranium since November in violation of its deal with world powers and is refusing to answer questions about three possible undeclared nuclear sites, the UN atomic watchdog agency has said.The International Atomic Energy Agency made the statement in a confidential report distributed to member countries that was seen by the Associated Press.Continue reading...
  
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• Women in labour being refused epidurals, official inquiry finds

  03-03-2020 19:56
  
  Women in labour being refused epidurals, official inquiry findsExclusive: minister to remind NHS trusts to follow official guidance on pain relief during childbirth
  
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• Priti Patel expresses ‘regret’ at resignation of Home Office mandarin

  03-03-2020 19:37
  
  The Home Secretary urged staff in the department to come together as 'one team' after she was accused of bullying subordinates.
  
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• The Guardian view on the UK’s coronavirus plan: sensible, but belated | Editorial

  03-03-2020 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  A measured response is appropriate. But important questions remain about our ability to tackle Covid-19As Covid-19 has spread, to more than 70 countries already, people are learning not only about the new coronavirus, but about their governments’ ability to respond to it. In many countries, from China to South Korea and Iran, anger at the shortcomings is widely held and deeply felt. With a low but fast-growing tally of 51 cases in the UK, the British government, none too soon, has publishe
  
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• Brutal reality of Conservative rule

  03-03-2020 19:36
  
  Brutal reality of Conservative ruleAlan Healey on age-old problems between the civil service and government, and Alan Coombe on how the humanities can help us cope with an inhuman Tory administration
  
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• Addiction psychiatry can reduce homelessness – and yet it’s at risk

  03-03-2020 19:35
  
  Addiction psychiatry can reduce homelessness – and yet it’s at risk. Without urgent government funding and an increase in the number of doctors specialising in addictions, the numbers of people sleeping on the streets will only rise, writes Dr Jenny Drife
  
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• Bringing together a divided nation

  03-03-2020 19:34
  
  Bringing together a divided nation. British democracy desperately needs a review, and it needs to be one in which citizens themselves can engage and be heard, writes Graham Allen. Plus Tony Leather says the government needs to listen to the ‘colonies’ within the UK
  
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• Trans Woman Announces Resignation From The Guardian In Packed Staff Meeting Amid Transphobia Row

  03-03-2020 19:32
  
  The woman is the third trans person in months to walk out of the newspaper – this time over a controversial column by Suzanne Moore.
  
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• Victims of the Windrush scandal have little time for complaints about bullying at the Home Office | Amelia Gentleman

  03-03-2020 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Philip Rutman presided over the hostile environment. Yet he chooses this moment to make a principled standThere is something troubling about the resignation statement Sir Philip Rutnam made to camera last Saturday. The mournful, three-minute speech was delivered in the rain, a disembodied arm holding an umbrella above his head. “I have been the target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign,” he announced, looking as visibly distressed as it is possible for a career civil ser
  
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• Watching Russian immersive film 'felt like rape', says journalist

  03-03-2020 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Lifelike scenes of violence in Soviet-influenced experimental movie raises ethical concernsTatiana Shorokhova, a film critic from St Petersburg, has admitted to feeling sick and “physically afraid” while watching DAU. Natasha, a controversial film by Ilya Khrzhanovsky produced from a years-long experiment on an immersive set built as a replica of a Soviet-era research institute. In fact, she likened the experience to rape.It was not just the graphic scenes of violence against the tit
  
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• Puppy stolen during armed robbery

  03-03-2020 19:27
  
  The Metropolitan Police said that the victim chased the car.
  
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• Four lessons the Spanish flu can teach us about coronavirus

  03-03-2020 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Up to 100 million people died in 1918-19 in the world’s deadliest pandemic. What can we learn?
  Spanish flu is estimated to have killed between 50 million and 100 million people when it swept the globe in 1918-19 – more than double the number killed in the first world war. Two-thirds of its victims died in a three-month period and most were aged 18-49. So what lessons has the world’s deadliest pandemic taught us? Continue reading...
  
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