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• Rooney, Shearer & Fabregas on England's pressing problem

  21-06-2024 23:54 via bbc.com
  
  Watch as BBC pundits Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Cesc Fabregas analyse England's problems with pressing against Denmark at Euro 2024.
  
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• England have 'put too much pressure on ourselves'

  21-06-2024 23:49 via bbc.com
  
  Declan Rice says England have “put too much pressure on ourselves” after the 1-1 draw with Denmark in their second group game at Euro 2024.
  
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• Tories and Labour pressed on two-child benefit cap in BBC Wales debate

  21-06-2024 23:39 via bbc.com
  
  Plaid Cymru and Welsh Lib Dems urge next UK government to scrap the limit, during live TV debate.
  
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• Balkans hit by blackouts as heatwave persists

  21-06-2024 23:36 via bbc.com
  
  Albania, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro suffer simultaneous power cuts as the region swelters in a heatwave.
  
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• 38 dogs were close to drowning on a Mississippi lake. But some fishermen had quite a catch

  21-06-2024 23:02
  
  A trio of fishermen have saved almost 40 dogs that were close to drowning on a Mississippi lake
  
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• ‘Hawaii Five-0’ fan favorite and former UFC fighter Taylor Wily dies at 56

  21-06-2024 22:46
  
  Taylor Wily, an actor known for his roles on “Hawaii Five-0” and “Magnum P
  
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• Over 1,000 Muslim worshippers die of heat exhaustion during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia: report

  21-06-2024 22:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Over 1,000 individuals perished in the sweltering heat of Saudi Arabia this year during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, according to reports.The lethal temperatures reaching as high as 125 degrees were compounded by tens of thousands of unregistered pilgrims stressing the Saudi infrastructure.Approximately 1,081 worshipers from 10 different countries have reportedly died in the heat, according to a tally published by Agence France-Presse.MUSLIM PILGRIMS COMPLETE THIS YEAR'S HAJJ AS DEADLY TRIPLE-DIG
  
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• UK's richest family convicted of exploiting servants

  21-06-2024 22:25 via bbc.com
  
  Four Hinduja family members were given prison sentences ranging from four to four-and-a-half years.
  
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• Heatwaves forecast for parts of the UK next week after ‘greyer start to weekend’

  21-06-2024 22:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Met Office says central and southern England should reach mid-20s but weather will turn unsettled from WednesdayHeatwaves may hit parts of the UK next week after a grey start to the weekend, forecasters have said.A “greyer start to the weekend” is forecast on Saturday with further showers and warm temperatures in the south and east of England before a “mainly nice day” for most areas of the UK on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• American Airlines CEO hopes to ‘rebuild trust’ after Black passengers wrongly removed

  21-06-2024 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Airline to create advisory group, work with NAACP and update policies for customer-discrimination claimsAmerican Airlines’ CEO Robert Isom has said the airline – the world’s largest – will implement new measures, including an advisory group, after eight Black passengers were wrongly removed from a Phoenix to New York flight after a complaint about body odor.The removal caused outrage, and three of the passengers involved in the January incident – who were not seated
  
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• FAA investigating after Southwest plane flies 525ft above Oklahoma town

  21-06-2024 22:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Boeing 737 from Las Vegas to Oklahoma City dipped above Yukon nine miles from airport, sounding like ‘wall of wind’The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines fight after it flew several hundred feet above a neighborhood in Yukon, Oklahoma.Shortly after 12am on Wednesday, Southwest flight 4069 – a Boeing 737 from Las Vegas – was approximately nine miles away from Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World airport when it dipped to approximately
  
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• Biden says supreme court preserved ‘critical protections’ for domestic violence survivors – as it happened

  21-06-2024 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the US supreme court, you can read our full report:US supreme court upholds ban on domestic abusers possessing gunsThe supreme court’s chief justice John Roberts wrote the opinion in United States v Rahimi, which upheld a law that bans domestic abusers from carrying guns.“An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment,” Rob
  
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• Welsh leaders face off in TV debate after Nigel Farage is grilled by BBC – as it happened

  21-06-2024 21:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Politicians take part in debate on BBC One Cymru; Reform leader tells Nick Robinson that Ukraine war was ‘provoked’ by westNick Robinson’s next question to Nigel Farage is the one that has generated those headlines about him accusing Nato and the EU of provoking Russia to invade Ukraine.Nick Robinson opens the interview with Nigel Farage with a question about Reform UK guaranteeing a large victory for Labour by dragging voters away from the Conservatives. He cites polling figur
  
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• Police consider reopening inquiry into TV sex therapist Michael Lousada

  21-06-2024 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Met says officers will meet woman who alleged Lousada raped her during session and who won damages in civil caseScotland Yard is considering reopening a criminal investigation into the television sex therapist Michael Lousada, after a civil court found in favour of a former client who alleged he had raped her during a session.Ella Janneh was awarded £217,000 in damages, with further damages to be decided, at the high court in London on Wednesday, after Mr Justice Baker found that the alleg
  
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• UK government weighs action against Russian hackers over NHS records theft

  21-06-2024 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  National Crime Agency may take retaliatory measures after Qilin gang steals data covering 300m patient interactionsThe government is considering striking back against Russian hackers who have stolen records covering 300m patient interactions with the NHS, including the results of blood tests for HIV and cancer, the Guardian can reveal.The National Crime Agency (NCA) is weighing up the possibility of taking retaliatory action against Qilin, the Russian-based ransomware gang who put into the publi
  
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• Apple delays launch of AI-powered features in Europe, blaming EU rules

  21-06-2024 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Apple says competition rules that require functionality with rival products would compromise privacy and securityApple will delay launching three new artificial intelligence features in Europe because European Union competition rules require the company ensure that rival products and services can function with its devices. The features will launch in the fall in the US but will not arrive in Europe until 2025.The company said on Friday three features – Phone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sha
  
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• Nigel Farage claims Russia was provoked into Ukraine war

  21-06-2024 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Farage, who has long been accused of being a Putin apologist, tells BBC Moscow was given excuse by EU and Nato eastern expansionNigel Farage has said the EU and Nato “provoked” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by expanding eastwards, as the Reform UK leader was challenged over a series of policies and beliefs in a sometimes combative TV interview.Speaking to BBC’s Panorama on Friday evening, Farage also said Brexit would have benefited the UK economically if he had been runni
  
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• Posthumous LGBT Award for Strictly dancer

  21-06-2024 20:07 via bbc.com
  
  Robin Windsor will be honoured with a special award by his former dance partner Lisa Riley.
  
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• Five men face prison time for illegal streaming service Jetflicks

  21-06-2024 20:02 via theguardian.com
  
  FBI investigation found site amassed a catalogue larger than all the big streaming platforms combinedFive men face prison time after getting busted for operating Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal streaming services in the US.An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Information’s Washington DC field office found the site hosted hundreds of thousands of reproduced television show episodes and movies, including those from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and Vudu – amassing a catalogue
  
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• Families want party pledges on 'terror attack' laws

  21-06-2024 19:57 via bbc.com
  
  Survivors and relatives of those killed urge commitments on venue security and caring for victims.
  
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• Mould could have caused death of Mansfield council tenant, coroner rules

  21-06-2024 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Jane Bennett, 52, died of lung disease after multiple complaints to local authority about state of her bungalowExposure to toxic mould could have been a factor in the death of a Mansfield woman who made multiple complaints to her local council about the condition of her home before she died, a coroner has ruled.“Fun and bubbly” Jane Bennett, 52, died of lung disease on 8 June 2023 during her fourth hospital admission in a month for breathlessness and a cough, which Bennett thought wa
  
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• 'No justice' as soldier who beat woman avoids jail

  21-06-2024 19:26 via bbc.com
  
  Cathal Crotty was given a fully suspended sentence after beating a woman in a random street attack.
  
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• Olaf Scholz: giving young voters hope is best way to win them back from far right

  21-06-2024 19:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Speaking at a summit in Berlin, the German chancellor said it was necessary to address young people’s anxietiesThe best way to win back young voters from the far right is to give them hope, security and respect so that everyone “from an untrained Amazon worker” to “Elon Musk’s son” can live without fear of the future, the German chancellor has said.After young people voted for the far right in large numbers at the recent European parliamentary election, Olaf S
  
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• Sabrina Carpenter takes top two spots in UK singles chart

  21-06-2024 19:21 via bbc.com
  
  Please Please Please has overtaken Carpenter's own hit, Espresso, to reach number one on the UK charts.
  
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• Focus on ravines as search for British tourist Jay Slater continues in Tenerife

  21-06-2024 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Friends of 19-year-old bricklayer voice frustration but rescue workers say they have not yet given up Above a lush and rugged valley in Tenerife’s Rural De Teno national park, a police officer from Spain’s civil guard surveys the landscape with binoculars.A few hundred yards below, members of the Canary’s civil defence force in orange hi-vis jackets are searching further into the valley close to where the British tourist Jay Slater disappeared five days ago. Continue reading...
  
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• British billionaire Hindujas sentenced to jail in Swiss exploitation case

  21-06-2024 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Prosecutors claimed four members of family underpaid staff and gave them little freedom to leave Geneva mansionA Swiss court has handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.The Hindujas, who were not present in court, were acquitted of human trafficking but convicted of other charges on Friday in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune is estimated at £37bn. Continue reading...
  
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• Boeing expected to escape charges for violating 2021 crash settlement – report

  21-06-2024 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  DoJ will reportedly offer deferred prosecution agreement requiring federal monitor oversee safety improvementsThe US justice department is expected to allow the planemaker Boeing to escape criminal prosecution for violating the terms of a 2021 settlement related to the fatal 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.The department plans to offer Boeing a deferred prosecution agreement, which requires the company to install a federal monitor to oversee safety improve
  
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• Second Canadian scientist alleges brain illness investigation was shut down

  21-06-2024 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Prof Samuel Weiss said in leaked email that government halted efforts to tackle mystery illnessA senior Canadian federal scientist has alleged that the government shut down an investigation into a mystery brain illness in New Brunswick that he believes may have affected 350 people.He is the second federal scientist to accuse the government of deliberately halting the investigation and to say that the caseload is higher than the government has acknowledged. Continue reading...
  
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• Family of taekwondo instructors fights off sexual assault attempt

  21-06-2024 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The black-belt ‘group of good Samaritans’ rescued an employee at a Texas cellphone store ‘just in time’A family of taekwondo instructors fought off a man who was sexually assaulting a woman next to their dojo in Texas and detained him until sheriff’s deputies could arrive to arrest him, according to authorities.In a statement issued on Thursday, the sheriff of Harris county – which encompasses Houston – thanked Han An, his wife, Hong An, and their three
  
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• Starmer says he would not let SNP hold new independence referendum or lift veto on gender recognition bill – as it happened

  21-06-2024 18:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader says he would refuse to participate in negotiations for another independence referendum if he is elected PMNigel Farage interviewed by Nick Robinson on Panorama election special – liveSign up to our Election Edition daily newsletterSpeaking of Nigel Farage: the Reform UK leader has praised the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the emasculated and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school” in online interviews
  
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• Russia 'open to dialogue' with US: Kremlin

  21-06-2024 18:49 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia sees a pressing need for security talks with the United States but they must be "comprehensive" and include the subject of Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday."It is impossible to rip out any individual segments from the general complex of accumulated problems, and we will not do this," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked if Moscow was ready to talk to Washington about nuclear risks."So we are open to dialogue, but to a broad comprehensive dialogue that covers all dimensions,
  
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• ‘They’re trying to divide us’: Muslims in France voice fears over rise of far right

  21-06-2024 18:48 via theguardian.com
  
  People in Lyon say country at dangerous juncture in snap elections after National Rally’s EU parliamentary gainsThey marched through the narrow streets of Lyon’s medieval old town, about three dozen of them, emboldened after the French far-right gains in the European elections. Masks covering their faces, they wound past the hidden passageways that provided cover for the resistance during the second world war, chanting: “We are fucking Nazis”and “Islam out of Europe
  
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• Labour far ahead of Tories in election donations

  21-06-2024 18:47 via bbc.com
  
  Labour raised nearly £4.4m in the second week of the campaign, way ahead of the Tories' £292,500.
  
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• Youth in Hawaii took on the state government over climate change. A historic settlement has emerged

  21-06-2024 18:46
  
  Thirteen children and teens in Hawaii took the state government to court over the threat posed by climate change
  
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• Electioncast: Laura Kuenssberg and Adam Fleming answer your questions

  21-06-2024 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adam and Laura answer your election questions
  
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• ‘All day you hear bombs’: on Israel’s northern border as war with Hezbollah looms

  21-06-2024 18:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Doctors prepare underground hospital units, people flee their homes and in rural kibbutz tension hangs in the airBeneath the 800-bed Galilee medical centre in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, treatment is being conducted in an underground complex beneath the hospital.About 7km from the border with Lebanon, a frontier visible from the hospital’s car park and already under threat from Hezbollah’s missiles and explosive drones, the doctors are aware that in the event of an escalat
  
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• One man’s desperate search for wife as more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die in extreme heat

  21-06-2024 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Hoda Nagib and her husband had walked 20km in the baking sun in Saudi Arabia while on Mecca pilgrimageHoda Nagib and her husband had walked 20km in the baking sun in Saudi Arabia when she told him that she needed to rest. The couple, who are in their 60s, had just scaled Mount Arafat, along with thousands of other white-robed pilgrims on the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, where temperatures as high as 51.8C have been recorded in the shade in recent days.Nagib’s husba
  
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• 2 years after pushing back Russia, Kharkiv faces barrage of attacks

  21-06-2024 18:00
  
  Two years after Ukraine pushed back Russian forces, Kharkiv is facing a barrage of attacks.
  
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• Supreme Court says domestic abusers can be temporarily disarmed

  21-06-2024 17:39
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal ban on firearms for domestic violence offenders.
  
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• Boston set for parade to salute Celtics' record 18th NBA championship

  21-06-2024 17:33
  
  The Celtics entered the season vowing to turn recent their heartbreaks into happiness
  
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• Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

  21-06-2024 17:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Group allegedly demanding Afghan participation in Doha meeting this month be limited to men and that women’s rights be excluded from the agendaExcluding Afghan women from an upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan would be a “betrayal” of women and girls in the country, say human rights groups and former politicians.The Taliban are reportedly demanding that no Afghan women be allowed to participate in the UN meeting in Doha starting 30 June, set up to discuss the international co
  
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• American tourist sentenced for bringing ammo to Turks and Caicos

  21-06-2024 17:20
  
  Ryan Watson, an American charged with bringing ammunition to Turks and Caicos who has remained there since his arrest in April, was sentenced on Friday.
  
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• Former Hong Kong residents embrace UK politics amid lingering Beijing fears

  21-06-2024 17:13 via foxnews.com
  
  For Richard Wong, 25, who moved to Britain from Hong Kong two years ago, it "feels strange" taking part in a free election, exercising exactly those rights that he once fought for, knowing that his friends back home no longer can."Back in Hong Kong we tried so hard to get democracy and then lost it. And I moved here, and we are actually practicing democracy, but in a very different context," said Wong, who has been knocking on doors as a volunteer for an opposition Labour party candidate in next
  
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• UK PM Sunak 'incredibly angry' over allegations of illegal bets on election date by Conservatives

  21-06-2024 17:08 via foxnews.com
  
  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Thursday that anyone involved in using inside information to bet on the date of Britain’s July 4 national election should be expelled from his Conservative Party.Sunak said on the BBC that he was "incredibly angry, incredibly angry" to learn of allegations that Conservative politicians bet on the election date, and that they "should face the full force of the law" if they were found to have broken the law."It's right that they are being investigated
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: EU to open enlargement talks with Ukraine and Moldova next week – as it happened

  21-06-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Countries in the 27-nation bloc formally approve the launch of accession negotiations on TuesdayA member of Russia’s lower house of parliament said law enforcement authorities need to do more to protect civilians from ex-convicts who have returned home from fighting in Ukraine.Nina Ostanina, a Communist Party deputy who has been sanctioned by Western countries over Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, told the gazeta.ru newspaper in an interview that violent crimes involving decommissi
  
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• Confusion reigns about the Coalition’s nuclear proposal. Here’s how the rhetoric has shifted

  21-06-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We unpack the questions that remain about the Coalition’s plan – and the contradictions in their messagingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe opposition leader, Peter Dutton, claims his nuclear power plan would underpin local economies and energy security for “another 80, up to 100 years” – but the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, claims the Coalition’s long-awaited idea has “fallen apart within 24 hours”.Q
  
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• Coalition would not copy Morrison government’s approach to China diplomacy, says Simon Birmingham

  21-06-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Shadow foreign minister says blasting Beijing in public had negative consequences and a future government would do things differentlyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe shadow foreign minister, Simon Birmingham, has suggested the Morrison government’s megaphone diplomacy with China was counterproductive and a future Coalition government would approach the relationship differently.In an interview for Guardian Australia’s Australian Politics pod
  
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• 'Heartbroken' Tierney ruled out for rest of Euro 2024

  21-06-2024 16:39 via bbc.com
  
  Scotland defender Kieran Tierney is left "heartbroken" after being ruled out of Euro 2024 with the hamstring injury picked up against Switzerland.
  
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• China silent as Russia and North Korea forge new defense pact, raising regional power shift concerns

  21-06-2024 16:34 via foxnews.com
  
  With no obvious options, China appears to be keeping its distance as Russia and North Korea move closer to each other with a new defense pact that could tilt the balance of power among the three authoritarian states.Experts say China's leaders are likely fretting over potential loss of influence over North Korea after its leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the deal this week, and how that could increase instability on the Korean Peninsula. But Beijing may also be stru
  
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• Death toll linked to methanol-laced liquor illegally brewed in India rises to 47

  21-06-2024 16:33 via foxnews.com
  
  The death toll from the latest case of tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 47, with over 100 people still in hospital, a government official said on Friday.Since Wednesday more than 150 people, suffering from vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhea, have needed treatment after drinking methanol-mixed liquor made in the Kallakurichi district, about 150 miles from the state capital Chennai.On Friday morning, 118 people were still being treated in hospitals in the
  
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