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Critics accuse President Trump of abusing the law as he grants clemency to former advisor Roger Stone
Critics have accused President Trump of abusing the rule of law – after he commuted the sentence of his friend Roger Stone just days before he was due to serve a three and a half year term in jail.
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’He did protect the President and now the President is protecting him’ – former Central Intelligence Agency officer Evan McMullin
We spoke to Evan McMullin – a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer who ran as an independent during the 2016 United States presidential election.
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Steve Coogan warns if the government don’t help comedy venues, ‘We’ll find ourselves in ten years time with nothing to laugh at’
A new campaign has been launched to protect the future of live comedy – after research showed more than three quarters of venues fear they’ll be forced to close down within the next year.
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Series 5, Episode 11: Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is a world-renowned German film director, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director.
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Former world cup winner Jack Charlton has died aged 85
The world of football has lost one of the greats: just one of the tributes to Jack Charlton – who’s died at the age of 85.
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Outdoor pools and theatres reopen in England
More of England’s lockdown measures are being eased this weekend – allowing open air pools and theatres to reopen.
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Black and Asian doctors more likely to face discrimination when raising concerns about PPE shortages, a new survey has shown
Since the early days of the pandemic, doctors from minority ethnic backgrounds have said they were being disproportionately affected by shortages of PPE.
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Mother talks about her son’s rapid descent into far-right extremism
We’ve been speaking to the mother of one young man about the horrors of watching her child’s rapid descent into extremism.
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‘I wasn’t a threat to anyone, I wasn’t a danger to anyone’ – Independent’s Andrew Buncombe
The Independent newspaper’s chief US Correspondent Andrew Buncombe has reported from numerous trouble spots around the world in his 30-year career.
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‘People of colour will find solace by making their solace and protecting themselves’ – actor Wendell Pierce on Black Lives Matter
Wendell Pierce has been speaking to us about the future of theatres, black lives matter and racial injustice in America.
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‘There is no question the US-China relationship is the central relationship of our time’: former US Under Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman
Joining Matt is Professor Wendy Sherman who served as President Obama’s Under Secretary of State and advises the Joe Biden campaign.
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‘The US will need to come to terms with the reality of a China which may be larger and more impactful’ – Victor Gao
Some theorists have called it Thucydides Trap after the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta – the idea being that a declining power and a rising power will always end up at war, even if they try to avoid it.
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Depp libel court case told of star’s drug and and drink-fuelled lifestyle
The last few days in the High Court provides details of Johnny Depp’s drug and drink-fuelled lifestyle and the collapse of his marriage.
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Johnson hints at compulsory face masks in shops in England
Boris Johnson has just floated the idea of making shoppers in England cover their faces, which became compulsory in Scotland today.
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UK opts out of EU vaccine scheme
Today the government opted out of a vaccine scheme that would see all EU member states bargain with manufacturers together.
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We could see a million deaths from Covid-19 ‘or even worse’ by the end of summer, says WHO’s Dr Margaret Harris
Margaret Harris is from the World Health Organisation.
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US governor’s ‘wear masks indoors’ order angers some on civil liberties grounds
In the United States the virus continues to surge with more than three million confirmed cases and a series of record-setting numbers of daily infections there.
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Poor forced to collect Covid corpses for work in Peru
Peru now has the fifth highest number of cases worldwide despite having a population of only 30 million, with poverty and crowded food markets blamed for fuelling the spread of the virus.
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FactCheck: questions remain over Zac Goldsmith’s taxpayer-funded letter to constituents
The Conservative minister told the Parliamentary watchdog he had “never made use of this facility before”.
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British Sculptor Anish Kapoor unveils new exhibition of outdoor sculptures
In March before the lockdown the celebrated British sculptor Anish Kapoor was about to open a huge exhibition in the grounds of an 18th-century country house in East Anglia.
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Neo-Nazis ‘exploiting the pandemic’ to spread propaganda, says anti-extremism tsar
Extremists have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to “breed hate” through dangerous conspiracy theories, according to a new report from the Commission for Countering Extremism, which advises the government.
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Poland’s presidential election to be close run-off after divisive campaign
Delayed once due to coronavirus, Poland’s presidential election is back on this weekend.
