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Meetings on Tiananmen Square massacre and Hong Kong crisis were taken down because Communist government complained
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Biden says biggest fear is that Trump will ‘try to steal the election’ with Democratic challenger leading president in opinion polls
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City council says memorial to Captain John Hamilton comes down after Māori elder calls him a ‘murderer’ and threatens to remove by force
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Newspaper’s front page ‘irresponsible and dangerous’, says MSP, with others joining criticism
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Home Office measures that caused Windrush scandal potentially breached equality law, says EHRC
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The fashion industry makes huge profits from the exploitation of black and brown women. Now is the time to call it out
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The Black Lives Matter actions have given renewed impetus to the campaign against injustices in the Indonesian province
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thrasher
Opinion & analysis
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As a Tongan-Australian, I am horrified that Lilley’s racist brownface character was allowed on Australian screens for so long
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There are now two million confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the United States
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Few imperial icons, including Churchill, are safe from the need to reappraise Britain’s past
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Experts suspect – but there is no proof – that those who have developed antibodies will have immunity. The implications could be wide-ranging
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The top US military general, Mark Milley, has said it was a mistake to join Donald Trump in a highly criticised photo op during George Floyd protests in Washington
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While the charge against Russia has been levelled on many occasions, this is the first time the European commission has publicly named China as a source of disinformation
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The prime minister said from midnight on Saturday, single parents or people living alone will be allowed to combine with one other household
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The Imperial College academic whose research prompted Boris Johnson to introduce the lockdown has said the death toll could have been halved if it had been introduced a week earlier
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Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, described the pain of watching the video of his brother's murder during his opening remarks at a House judiciary committee hearing on police brutality
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Science editor Ian Sample explains how vaccines work, runs through some of the main obstacles to creating one for coronavirus and preparing it for public use, and tells us which scenario he thinks is most realistic in the next 18 months
Spike Lee 'Race relations today are a direct response to having a black president'