Boycott threatened over Shell's sponsorship of Science Museum carbon capture exhibition

Climate activists say they'll call for people to boycott a new exhibition at London's Science Museum if the oil company Shell isn't dropped as a major sponsor.

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    Boris Johnson is expected to agree to the delay of lockdown easing in England and, according to a new poll, just over half of the UK public is backing the move. The lifting of the last remaining coronavirus restrictions had been planned for 21 June under the government's road map. Dr Raghib Ali, a government adviser on COVID-19, told Trevor Phillips On Sunday that a delay to lifting lockdown is "inevitable", and he "expects" the prime minister to say that "a delay is needed to make sure that we don't get to the situation again where the NHS is unable to provide care to all its patients".

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  • Afghan IS group claims deadly sticky bomb attacks in Kabul

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  • Covid restrictions ease across Europe as infection rates fall

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  • ‘Offensive’: Dominic Raab blasts EU after Macron ‘enrages Boris’

    The French President reportedly told the PM that Northern Ireland was not a full part of Britain

  • AstraZeneca shots should be halted for over-60s - EMA official

    MILAN (Reuters) -Countries should avoid giving the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to people over 60 in addition to younger age groups, the head of the EU drug regulator's COVID-19 task force was quoted on Sunday as saying, amid fears over rare blood clotting and as alternative vaccines become available. The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) position is that the AstraZeneca shot is safe and can be used for all age groups over 18. "In a pandemic context, our position was and is that the risk-benefit ratio remains favourable for all age groups," COVID-19 task force chief Marco Cavaleri told the Italian newspaper La Stampa.

  • Josh Widdicombe mocks Laurence Fox over England players stance

    Josh Widdicombe mocks Laurence Fox over England players stance

  • Putin calls Trump ‘talented individual’ and laughs when asked if he’s a killer

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  • Canada's Trudeau called for concerted G7 approach to China - source

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led a Group of Seven discussion of China on Saturday and called on leaders to come up with a unified approach to the challenges posed by the People's Republic, a source said. G7 leaders - who together control about $40 trillion in economic clout - reached broad alignment on building a concerted approach to China, the source with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. "Trudeau's message today was that we really need to work to build a consensus on a unified approach to the challenges that China presents all of us," the source said.

  • Scottish rapist who fled to California and faked his own death is jailed after US Marshals track him down

    Many considered him dead but was brought home to face justice for his many crimes

  • Boris Johnson’s son Wilfred steals the show at G7 beach event

    Boris Johnson’s son Wilfred stole the show at a beach barbecue for G7 world leaders. The youngster was introduced to prime ministers and presidents by his mother Carrie Johnson at the event in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, on Saturday evening. Wilfred, who was wearing a white shirt and blue shorts, was pictured waddling towards his proud mother.

  • Fears over Iranian gunboats 'delivering missiles' to Venezuela

    Concern is mounting over two ships from the Iranian Navy thought to be carrying a cargo of missiles and speeding across the Atlantic Ocean toward Venezuela. The ships were mid-ocean on Saturday, after reportedly departing from the port of Bandar Abbas in early May. It marks the first time that the Iranian military has sent vessels to round the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Atlantic. Satellite images show the larger of the two ships, the Makran, a forward supply vessel, carrying small, fast att

  • Joe Biden's meeting with the Queen at Windsor Castle will be 'huge honour' for US president

    US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will meet the Queen at Windsor Castle later. The couple will receive a guard of honour and tea during the visit, which comes after they last met during the G7 summit in Cornwall. The Queen will greet the Bidens inside the castle grounds, where a guard of honour formed of The Queen's Company First Battalion Grenadier Guards will give a royal salute, and the US national anthem will be played.

  • Universities regulator says academics should 'leave their personal political views at home'

    The head of the universities watchdog today declares that academics should "leave their personal political views at home” as he accuses Oxford dons protesting over a Cecil Rhodes statue of prioritising "high-flown rhetoric" over students' education. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, Lord Wharton, who chairs the Office for Students, says that more than 150 academics threatening to boycott teaching at Oriel College were setting a "deeply concerning precedent". The former Conservative MP says many p

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  • Johnson’s riding high, Starmer’s in the ditch… but how much longer will it last?

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  • Letters: Voters will not forgive this feared delay to the restoration of liberties

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  • Simon McCoy: Comparisons between GB News and Fox News are unfortunate

    The former BBC anchor will host an afternoon show on the channel.

  • G7 summit: World leaders discuss COVID origins - as WHO keeps Wuhan lab leak theory 'open'

    G7 leaders have discussed the origins of the coronavirus outbreak as the World Health Organisation confirmed all hypotheses continue to be considered - including the Wuhan lab leak theory. At their summit in Cornwall on Saturday, G7 leaders were joined by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director general, during their talks on the COVID crisis and efforts to avoid future pandemics. The WHO chief set the world's leading democracies the challenge of vaccinating 70% of the global population against COVID by the time of the G7's next summit in Germany next year.