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Monday
21 June 2021
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Two women allege Left Bank Pictures acted to protect accused colleague and minimise severity of his behaviour -
England’s Ben Chilwell and Mason Mount are isolating after “interaction” with the Scotland midfielder Billy Gilmour, who has tested positive for Covid-19
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Former aide says in Substack Q&A that No 10 is now ‘just a branch of the entertainment industry’ -
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Minute-by-minute report: The teams meet in Copenhagen with both sides still hoping to join Belgium and advance. Join John Ashdown
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Coronavirus
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Kremlin blames new cases on reluctance to take up vaccine; Indonesia reports 14,536 new cases, taking it past 2m -
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Mario Draghi tells Berlin press conference he will ‘try to stop’ the tournament final from being held in London
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Spotlight
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In the 1980s, there was an attempt to rename the block after Robert Mugabe, but now it will simply be Park View House. It reflects changes being made across the country
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4 out of 5 stars.
Leeds Lieder festival finale A beautifully voiced inquiry into gender
4 out of 5 stars.Carolyn Sampson and Roderick Williams tackled songs usually allotted to their opposite sexes, while Shakespearean shapeshifter Rosalind poetically inspired a Hannah Kendall premiere -
The economic damage from Covid will make Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak’s decisions even harder
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Comfort eating
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Grace Dent invites celebrity guests to lift the lid on the comfort foods that have seen them through their lives
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Boris Johnson wants to ‘build, build, build’ but he needs house prices to keep rising, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee -
In her public campaign for the NHS England top job, Harding is using 170,000 crucial workers as political pawns, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff -
Do we need to go to offices? Work 9 to 5? At this unique moment in history, employers can rethink everything, says researcher Alexia Cambon
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Minute-by-minute report: Belgium are already through but a victory for Finland would guarantee their own progress. Join Will Unwin -
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Austria qualified for the knockout stages of Euro 2020 after Christoph Baumgartner’s goal gave them a 1-0 win over Ukraine in Group C
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Spaniard inspired by former champions’ tales of bouncing back from disaster to win first major two weeks after Covid infection
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Tottenham are to reject an opening bid for Harry Kane worth at least £100m from Manchester City, who are open to a players-plus-money deal -
Manxman has been named in Deceuninck-QuickStep’s eight-man squad for the race which begins on Saturday
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Talks between Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock called off as calls grow for plan to tackle crisis -
Mayor unveils plans to charge high-polluting vehicles, but campaigners angered by private car exemption
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Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester has ‘entrenched acceptance of racist attitudes’, claim artists -
UK business leaders voice concerns over creation of two-tier workforce and harm to city centre economies -
Ten years since the Arab spring rocked Egypt and removed its president, the country is still detaining human rights workers and locking up political prisoners
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Premier is first in country’s history to be ousted by opposition MPs and has a week to decide next move -
Message comes ahead of major UN meeting of foreign ministers in Berlin on Wednesday
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Princess, who was seized after fleeing the sheikhdom in 2018, has appeared in several social media posts recently -
Approaching milestone of 150 million Americans vaccinated but Biden falls short of target to send 80m doses abroad -
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Proposals would allow common plastics to be used despite valid concerns about possible harms, scientists say -
Financial aid ‘critical’ to help developing countries limit fossil fuels – and make Cop26 a success, says UN -
Sir David King hopes to emulate success of British Covid advisory body by issuing monthly reports on environmental crisis
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At a Tribeca film festival event, the director and his star Robert De Niro discussed the legacy of the greatest boxing movie ever made -
The Last Week Tonight host digs into a government program whose lack of oversight has left many risking their homes -
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Unearth review Fracking finds something nasty under the cornfield
2 out of 5 stars.When hard-pressed farmers do a deal with the energy industry, full-on eco terror ensues, undoing this movie’s careful groundwork
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Patrick, 59, and Richard, 50, met at a dinner party that Patrick had tried to skip. Years later, when Patrick’s kidneys began to fail, Richard donated one of his -
A fragrant Greek salad of small, orzo-like pasta, baked feta and tomatoes, all liberally laced with fresh herbs
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Pixel Buds A-Series review Google’s cheaper but good earbuds
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Young players excluded from matches because of their religious dress find a way to play on and encourage other hijab-wearing women into the sport -
Residents and politicians say lockdown, deprivation and social division played a part in recent riot -
UK ufologists are worlds apart on the importance of a hotly anticipated US intelligence release
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More than 12 years have passed since xenophobic violence swept through South Africa’s townships, leaving more than 60 people dead. Photojournalists James Oatway and Alon Skuy document the unrest in a new book, [BR]OTHER
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The pandemic has laid waste to independent cinemas across the UK, with releases delayed and audiences vanishing. Now lockdown is over, here are 11 classic venues that are worth your support -
A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms from China to Colombia -
David Hurn’s photograph captures the last hurrah of a decade of freedom -
A new book highlights the statues, murals and plaques that celebrate Black history, culture and art in the capital.
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