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  • EntertainmentThe Guardian

    Lost Johnny Cash songs from 1993 to be released as a new album

    The country star’s son co-produces Songwriter, worked up from demos with a group of former bandmates and guests including Vince Gill and Dan Auerbach backing Cash’s vocals

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Couple attacked in Cape Town crime hotspot sues ‘negligent’ Google

    Google has said it cannot be held responsible for not diverting drivers away from crime hotspots after being sued by holidaymakers who were mugged and badly hurt while following its maps app.

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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    French navy lets packed migrant boat cross Channel despite five deaths onboard

    The French Navy allowed a dinghy packed with migrants to continue across the Channel to Britain despite the deaths of five people onboard including a seven-year-old girl.

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  • NewsEvening Standard

    Israel bombs Gaza in 'heaviest shelling in weeks' as UN condemns civilian deaths

    Health authorities claim 32 killed in bombing in areas where Israeli troops have pulled out

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    Premier League entering Trumpian post-truth era – led by Nottingham Forest’s social media tirades

    During Brian Clough’s famous head-to-head with John Motson in 1979, the great sage of Nottingham Forest offered a passionate defence of officials and the difficulties they faced. “The standard you feel should be coming from referees is absolutely incredible,” he chided. “I’ve worked in your industry a little as a layman. And I looked at one of your screens 24 times and I still couldn’t get it right.”

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  • NewsReuters

    EU Parliament approves ban of products made with forced labour

    The European Parliament approved rules on Tuesday to ban in the EU the sale, import and export of goods made using forced labour. The move was driven by EU lawmakers concerned about human rights in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The United States enacted a similar law in 2021 to safeguard its market from products potentially tainted by human rights abuses in Xinjiang, where the U.S. government says China is committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims.

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  • OpinionThe Telegraph

    Shogun, review: historical epic shows others how it’s done with a finale of grace and guile

    The original 1980 Shōgun mini-series was a romping epic featuring gratuitous beheadings and a hunky Richard Chamberlain wandering around looking confused. Disney+’s new adaptation of James Clavell’s best-selling chronicle of dynastic rivalry in 17th-century Japan is far more sparing in its use of violence. The only ones likely to be stumbling around perplexed, meanwhile, are viewers who failed to give this dense but ultimately gripping historical drama the necessary attention.

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