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Watered-down G20 statement on Ukraine is sign of India’s growing influence
Joe Biden’s need to nurture alliances to contain China sees Ukraine perceptibly slipping down list of prioritiesIt took exhausted Indian diplomats 200 hours of non-stop negotiations, 300 bilateral meetings and 15 drafts, but in the end the G20 countries reached a... #press
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‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank
Exclusive: Create Streets proposes building on Britain’s ‘road belt’ rather than its green belt amid housing crisisNeedlessly wide roads should be torn up and replaced with boulevards of new housing, a thinktank led by the UK government’s most senior urbanism... #press
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Are people in the UK more or less honest now than they were 50 years ago?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsAre people in the UK more or less honest now than they were 50 years ago? Peter ScrimshawPost... #press
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Canada cause upset to leave USA without medal at Basketball World Cup again
Canadians secure 127-118 overtime victory in ManilaAmericans finish fourth after missing medal in 2019Mikal Bridges pulled off an overtime-forcing miracle. It wasn’t enough to keep the US from heading home from the World Cup empty-handed.Dillon Brooks scored 39... #press
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Daniel Khalife charged over Wandsworth prison escape
Khalife, 21, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on MondayDaniel Khalife, 21, has been charged with escaping custody at HMP Wandsworth, the Metropolitan police said.Khalife, 21, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Monday. Continue reading... #press
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Wicked Little Letters review – foul-mouthed farce wastes Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley
The Lost Daughter co-stars reunite for an embarrassingly unfunny misfire, starring as neighbours at war over obscene lettersThere’s something equally impressive and depressing about the squandered potential of misfiring period comedy Wicked Little Letters, a joyless waste... #press
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One Life review – Anthony Hopkins moves in stirring second world war drama
The two-time Oscar winner makes a convincing play for a third statuette in the powerful story of Nicholas Winton who saved Jewish children before the war begunIt seems strange that an actor of Anthony Hopkins’ prestige and acclaim would need a comeback so late in his career but for a few years, the Oscar-winner... #press
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Manchester United give Antony leave of absence to address allegations against him
Winger denies all allegations made against himBrazilian was dropped from national team squadManchester United winger Antony has been allowed a leave of absence in order to address allegations made against him of violence towards three women.The 23-year-old was... #press
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Harry Kane: ‘I need to be in the Champions League fighting for titles’
Penalty miss against France has not dulled the England captain’s desire – and he is full of ambition after Bayern Munich moveOne of the striking things about Harry Kane’s missed penalty against France at last year’s World Cup is that he nailed the one he took earlier in the... #press
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The Architect review – Stephen Lawrence tribute is a deeply moving ride
Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, LondonSet aboard a double-decker as it journeys through London and back and forth in time, this is a poignant but uplifting immersive theatre piece about race, the city, and the legacy of the Black teen murdered at a bus... #press
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Pensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth falls
Drop from £7.53 in every £100 to £3.98 in 10 years comes as property drives intergenerational divideCampaigners have sounded the alarm about a potential increase in pensioner poverty in Britain over the coming decades after it emerged that the share of wealth held by... #press
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Covid’s back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away | Frances Ryan
The government’s policy is to pretend we’re getting ‘back to normal’. The result is millions of us live in fear of losing our livesIt is 1.35pm and I’m having to explain coronavirus transmission to a nurse. I am due an appointment at 2.30, and I’ve been... #press
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Some MPs came close to suicide, says ex-Tory minister Rory Stewart
Former leadership contender says life of politician puts ‘almost unsustainable’ strain on mental healthSome fellow MPs came very close to killing themselves when he was in the Commons, the former Conservative minister Rory Stewart has said, saying the life of a politician placed an... #press
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A Life on the Farm review – delightful documentary about an English eccentric
A Somerset farmer’s home videos are a gift for director Oscar Harding, serving as a moving and surreal portrait of one man’s quiet rural existenceThe found-footage connoisseurs assembled in this documentary all agree:... #press
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Post-Brexit shift in immigration may mean higher wages and more self-sufficient UK economy | Larry Elliott
Sunak faces headache over India trade deal as upheaval continues in handling overseas labourImmigration played a key role in the UK’s decision in 2016 to leave the EU. Opinion polls showed strong... #press
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Ohio’s working class felt deserted by Democrats. Can Biden win them back?
The state voted twice for Trump but although many in the party admit they got things wrong not everyone agrees on whatDavid Cox is trying to persuade his members that Joe Biden has done more for working-class Americans than any US president in his decades as a construction worker and union organiser in... #press
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‘My life in flat shares’: one woman’s rental journey
Like so many people, Daniella Isaacs has spent years moving from one rented property to another. It’s anxiety inducing, but it has also fostered a rich sense of kinship among her resilient cohabitersI’m sitting in a sea of badly packed moving boxes with a painful bout of shingles and a... #press
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TikTok food tourists leave a bitter taste in Amsterdam
Shop owners and residents are not taking kindly to ‘flash crowds’ who come to pose and eat fast food in the city’s quaint tangle of streets such as De 9 StraatjesIt is 3.30pm on a Friday and 28-year-old German Lisa Wulff is in a half-hour queue for bubble tea and “toasts” at Amsterdam’s Chun cafe.“I’ve seen... #press
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What, a school revamp once every 440 years isn’t enough? | David Mitchell
Rishi Sunak is evading his duty of care after slashing millions from the budget for repairing schools when he was chancellorThe government has had a busy week trying to deal with the school buildings crisis. This hasn’t involved doing anything about all the dangerous school buildings... #press
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How misusing words can even change their dictionary definitions | Elisabeth Ribbans
Coruscating was originally a sparkling synonym, but now we understand that it’s something more scathingGrayson Perry’s “coruscating repartee”, a silky head of hair used to “coruscating effect”, and a “coruscating verdict” expected from the privileges committee.... #press
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