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Former president Laurent Gbagbo was returning to Ivory Coast on Thursday for the first time in nearly a decade, after he was cleared of crimes against humanity and his once-bitter rival welcomed him back in the name of reconciliation.
A gay imam, a trans priest and a lesbian rabbi are set to teach UK school kids about diversity and faith as part of School Diversity Week.
A California company says details of the wrecked plane appear to match the missing 1965 aircraft
Genevieve Spark had just completed a stressful school run with her three children and had parked her car outside the Matalan store in Halton, Leeds.
O'Connor may have played the future king but it has not given him an increased interest in the Royal Family.
French forces in Mali have captured a man they describe as a "high-ranking fighter of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara". Dadi Ould Chouaib, also known as Abou Dardar, was arrested on 11 June in the "tri-border" region between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. Dadi Ould Chouaib was carrying "an automatic weapon, a night vision telescope, a combat vest, a telephone and a radio", but surrendered without resistance.He was located during a helicopter sweep as part of a joint mission between troops
The agreement was announced on Tuesday following a meeting between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.
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People said the star looked thin and ill after she shared a picture of herself sunbathing.
World number three Rafael Nadal on Thursday pulled out of Wimbledon and the Olympic Games citing a need to protect his body in order to prolong his career. The 35-year-old last played at the French Open in Paris where he was beaten in four gruelling sets by the eventual champion Novak Djokovic.In the immediate of the defeat on 11 June, Nadal hinted he might reconsider his schedule.On social media, he explained there was not enough time for him to recover for the start of Wimbledon on 28 June fol
'I think we need to be braced for the fact that the coming winter may well be quite a difficult one.'
MPs have approved the extension of coronavirus restrictions in England until July 19, after Boris Johnson faced pressure from members of his own party over the delay. The Prime Minister was spared a defeat as Labour backed plans for a four-week delay to the end of lockdown measures, aimed at buying more time for the vaccine programme.
A sizeable majority of MLAs and MPs voted against Edwin Poots’ decision to reconstitute the powersharing Executive with Sinn Fein.
Neil said he resented "even the thought that a channel of which I was chairman would peddle hate."
A home quarantine rule for travellers to the UK "just doesn't work", a top epidemiologist advising the government has warned. Professor Neil Ferguson, part of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), suggested that anything other than the tough border restrictions imposed by countries such as Australia and New Zealand was "window dressing". The government has been facing calls to scrap its "amber list" of countries, from which people returning to the UK have to quarantine for 10 days at home.
In one sense, today was an unquestionable win for Dominic Cummings by securing advertising money can't buy. Boris Johnson's former top aide's new paid-for blog - which costs £10 a month or £100 a year to subscribe to - was discussed in Parliament, had the opposition running towards TV cameras and was plastered across every news website and TV channel today. This was because he used it to publish screenshots of inflammatory WhatsApp messages between him and the Prime Minister guaranteed to excite and tantalise.
The UK has reported 11,007 new COVID cases and a further 19 deaths in the latest 24-hour period. The figures compare with 9,055 cases and nine deaths reported yesterday, and 7,393 and seven fatalities this time last week. Today's number of new infections is the highest reported since 19 February when 12,027 cases were recorded.
The data has been published by the Office for National Statistics, based on a sample of adults who received a jab up to May 31.
The royal family attended the sporting and social event for the third day in a row.
The star's husband spent more than a year in hospital after getting the coronavirus.
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