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July 19, 2020
Teenager follows in footsteps of sisters by gaining first class degree

A teenager who started his degree at the age of 16 has completed a family hat-trick by graduating with first class honours.

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July 19, 2020
Linkin Park issue cease and desist over use of song in pro-Trump video

Linkin Park has said it has issued a cease and desist order after the band's music appeared in a video supporting Donald Trump.

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July 19, 2020
Linkin Park issue cease and desist over use of song in pro-Trump video

Linkin Park has said it has issued a cease and desist order after the band's music appeared in a video supporting Donald Trump.

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July 19, 2020
Brazil President who tested positive for coronavirus says restrictions kill economy

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that lockdown measures used to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus "kill" and have "suffocated" the country's economy.

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July 19, 2020
Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower defaced three times in seven days

A Black Lives Matter mural painted on the street outside Trump Tower in New York City has been defaced with paint three times in less than a week.

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July 19, 2020
China blasts dam to release floodwaters as death toll rises

Authorities in central China have blasted a dam to release surging waters behind it amid widespread flooding across the country that has claimed scores of lives.

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July 19, 2020
EU leaders extend summit as they haggle over budget and virus

European Union leaders have extended their summit by an extra day in the hope they are finally closing in on a deal for an unprecedented 1.85 trillion euro (£1.68 trillion)...

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July 19, 2020
Worldwide death toll from coronavirus passes 600,000

Global deaths from Covid-19 have surpassed 600,000 as the US, South Africa and Australia struggle to hold down rising rates of the infection.

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July 19, 2020
Black Lives Matter mural defaced three times in seven days

A Black Lives Matter mural painted on the street outside Trump Tower in New York City has been defaced with paint three times in less than a week.

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July 19, 2020
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson excluded from Princess Beatrice’s wedding pictures

It was, by any measure, a royal wedding like no other.

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July 19, 2020
As some throw caution to the wind, Italians fear a second virus wave

Last Saturday at around midnight, the lungolago - the lakeside walkway in our Lazio village - was jammed with day trippers and visitors.

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July 19, 2020
Covid causes €80m M&A pause at Grant Thornton

Around €80m worth of merger and acquisition activity was paused at the onset of Covid-19 within the corporate finance group at Grant Thornton, a professional services firm, in Ireland.

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July 19, 2020
Has next pandemic already started?

Imagine you are a smoker who drives for a living. Every day you throw burning cigarette butts from the car. It's happened many thousands of times without incident. The smouldering...

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July 19, 2020
Identity of Ghislaine’s husband still a secret

In the middle of a dramatic court hearing, the revelation by prosecutors that Ghislaine Maxwell was married went almost unnoticed.

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July 19, 2020
Obituary: Zindzi Mandela

Zindzi Mandela, who has died aged 59, was the younger of Nelson Mandela's two daughters by his second wife, Winnie; trained for war while her father was imprisoned on Robben...

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July 19, 2020
Parents of the royal bride excluded from pictures of the big day

It was, by any measure, a royal wedding like no other.

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July 19, 2020
Tokyo’s long-suffering commuters embrace comforts of home-working

Not long ago, Yuta Kawano rose early every morning to join millions of Tokyo commuters squeezed on to packed trains as he travelled to work - before repeating the ritual...

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July 18, 2020
France, Germany & Italy threaten ‘sanctions’ against countries that interfere in Libya

Paris, Berlin and Rome have urged foreign powers to respect the UN Security Council arms embargo on Libya or face repercussions, in a joint statement issued by the EU leaders....

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July 18, 2020
Pirates attack tanker off the coast of Benin, ‘kidnapping 13 Russian & Ukrainian sailors’ 

The chemical tanker Curacao Trader was attacked by pirates on Friday, some 210 miles (around 338km) off the coast of Benin, in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, the vessel's Greek...

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July 18, 2020
Four German soldiers probed for links to Turkey’s shadowy ultranationalist Grey Wolves group – media

The German army's counterintelligence service, MAD, is investigating four suspected followers of the Grey Wolves, a far-right, pan-Turkist youth organization the members of which were allegedly trained for urban guerilla...

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July 18, 2020
Russian & Azerbaijani defense ministers talk on the phone amid Baku’s tensions with Armenia

Russia's defense minister Sergey Shoigu and his Azeri counterpart Zakir Hasanov have discussed the situation in the Southern Caucasus during a phone call, Russia's Ministry of Defense has said. The...

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July 18, 2020
Teacher ‘inundated with support’ as he delivers free school meals on foot

Teacher Zane Powles said he was “inundated with support” as he hand-delivered 7,500 free school meals to his students in Grimsby.

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July 18, 2020
Charity launches virtual walk along historic route for 175th anniversary

Scots are being asked to measure their walks and plot them against a historic route to mark the 175th anniversary of the ScotWays charity.

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July 18, 2020
‘Deeply disturbing’ – UK police officer suspended over ‘knee on neck’ video

A Metropolitan Police officer has been suspended and another placed on restricted duties after a video appeared to show one of them kneeling on a man's neck.

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July 18, 2020
Mass protests rock city in Russia’s far east after governor’s arrest

Mass rallies rocked the city of Khabarovsk, in the far east of Russia, on Saturday, as tens of thousands took to the streets in protest against the arrest of the...

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July 18, 2020
South Africa poised to join countries most affected by coronavirus

South Africa was poised on Saturday to join the top five countries most affected by coronavirus, while breathtaking numbers around the world were a reminder a return to normal life...

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July 18, 2020
South Africa poised to join countries most affected by coronavirus

South Africa was poised on Saturday to join the top five countries most affected by coronavirus, while breathtaking numbers around the world were a reminder a return to normal life...

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July 18, 2020
South Africa poised to join countries most affected by coronavirus

South Africa was poised on Saturday to join the top five countries most affected by coronavirus, while breathtaking numbers around the world were a reminder a return to normal life...

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July 18, 2020
Arson inquiry launched as French firefighters battle blaze in Nantes cathedral

An arson inquiry has been launched after a fire broke out in the Gothic cathedral of the western French city of Nantes, shattering stained glass windows and sending black smoke...

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July 18, 2020
Leeds street named after football ‘professor’ Marcelo Bielsa

A street has been named Marcelo Bielsa Way in honour of the manager who has returned Leeds United to the Premier League after a 16-year absence.

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July 18, 2020
‘One of the greatest heroes of American history’ – civil rights icon John Lewis dies, aged 80

Civil rights hero John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanise opposition to racial segregation, has died aged 80.

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July 18, 2020
Floods kill 14 in China as water peaks at Three Gorges Dam

At least 14 people have died in the latest round of seasonal rains and flooding in southern China, as soldiers and workers built makeshift barriers with sandbags and rocks to...

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July 18, 2020
Knighthood from the Queen ‘something very special’, says Captain Sir Tom Moore

Newly knighted Captain Sir Tom Moore has said being presented with the honour by the Queen was “something very special”.

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July 18, 2020
French firefighters battle blaze in Nantes cathedral

A fire broke out Saturday in the Gothic cathedral of the western French city of Nantes, shattering stained glass windows and sending black smoke spewing from between its towers as...

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July 18, 2020
Arson inquiry launched as French firefighters battle blaze in Nantes cathedral

An arson inquiry has been launched after a fire broke out in the Gothic cathedral of the western French city of Nantes, shattering stained glass windows and sending black smoke...

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July 18, 2020
US students told autumn school return unlikely

Millions more children in the US learned on Friday that they are unlikely to return to classrooms full time in autumn because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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July 18, 2020
Civil rights icon John Lewis dies aged 80

Civil rights hero John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanise opposition to racial segregation, has died aged 80.

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July 18, 2020
Campaigner accuses newspaper of using MeToo to depict Johnny Depp as a ‘wife beater’

AN ACTRESS and MeToo campaigner has told a court that Johnny Depp was known in Hollywood to be the victim of his wife's violence.

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July 18, 2020
‘No one needs to die from Covid-19 any more,’ claims American doctor

Dr Joseph Varon has never seen so many patients in his intensive care unit.

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July 18, 2020
Meghan Markle: ‘I supported my dad’

The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle laid bare her financial dealings with her estranged father in the latest round of court documents, as she blames the deterioration of their "very...

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