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Saudi Arabia’s hidden war
The Saudis have now destroyed the last building in the heart of a Shia town in the east – the centre of growing unrest which the authorities are blaming on ‘terrorist’ groups. Meanwhile dozens of people have died in the clashes and thousands are being displaced as their homes are razed to the ground.
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Ska Vengers: the Delhi based music band challenging mainstream ideas
The Ska Vengers, the Delhi based band who mix ska with dub, punk, jazz and rap. They talk about their music and the politics of modern India, from challenging the mainstream to love for humanity.
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Barcelona eyewitness: ‘Everybody just ran in the other direction’
Aamer Anwar, the rector of Glasgow University, was on holiday in Las Rambles when the attack happened.
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Update on Barcelona terror attack
Further updates on the terror attack in Barcelona.
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Donald Trump criticises the removal of confederate statues
The president has waded back into the debate about America’s confederate past yet again – with a series of tweets declaring the “history and culture of our great country is being ripped apart.”
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The face of Hong Kong pro-democracy protests jailed
20-year-old Joshua Wong has been jailed along with two other student leaders for their roles in huge pro-democracy protests almost three years ago. On Twitter Wong said they would never give up fighting for democracy, declaring: “You can lock up our bodies, but not our minds!”
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Robert Mugabe flies to South Africa after his wife is accused of assaulting woman
Zimbabwe’s president has flown to Johannesberg after his wife Grace Mugabe was accused of assaulting a young woman in a hotel. Grace Mugabe attempted to leave the country, trying to claim diplomatic immunity.
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Jeremy Corbyn: ‘We are not going down the road of naming entire communities’
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said it’s wrong to blame an entire community after one of his shadow cabinet team resigned over an article she wrote for The Sun. Sarah Champion stepped down after writing that Britain had a problem with “British Pakistani men raping and exploiting young girls”.
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Jo Johnson: ‘It’s wrong to think of student debt as a straightforward debt’
Many students go on to university and leave burdened with tens of thousands of pounds in debt. Minister for Universities Jo Johnson discusses after the last Tory manifesto author Nick Timothy claimed student fees had created an unsustainable and pointless ponzi scheme.
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A Levels: Boys overtake girls for the first time in 17 years
After drastic changes to the way exams are assessed, boys have overtaken girls in achieving top A and A* grades for the first time in 17 years.
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Barcelona eyewitness: ‘My first thought was, this was a terrorist attack’
Susan McLean was on holiday in Barcelona with her husband and was just 100 metres away when the van hit pedestrians.
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Van drives into pedestrians in Barcelona terror attack
Police are investigating a terror attack after a van drove at speed into a crowd of pedestrians in one of Barcelona’s busiest tourist areas.
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Channel 4 News headlines, Thur 17 Aug 2017
Including the latest from Barcelona, where a van has hit a crowd of pedestrians in the city centre. Plus: Robert Mugabe flies to South Africa, where his wife is accused of assault.
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FactCheck Q&A: Are A-levels what they used to be?
Thousands of students have just received their A-level results and discovered whether they are off to university. But with so many students getting good grades and going to university, is the whole experience worth the same as it once was? FactCheck looked into the details.
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Kathryn Bigelow: ‘The pervasiveness of racism in US has to stop’
A time when America was riven by racial violence, when civic abuse of the black community boiled over into riots, when the army was deployed to a city where the fires of rebellion burned in the streets. Not today, but Detroit in 1967. Fifty years later the Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has made a new…
