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Hello, democracy fans! I spent the day in Liz Truss’ former constituency in an attempt to explain to an American audience what on earth just happened:
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Either YouTube's automated captions are struggling with Mark Drakeford reading the bible in Welsh or his address has taken a surrealist improvisational turn.
#RodeoGaddafi
#foiegrasGhanaians
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China just slapped sanctions on 28 Trump-era officials including Pompeo, Navarro, Bolton & Bannon, accusing them of "a series of crazy moves" driven by "selfish political interests and prejudice and hatred against China". All banned from entering or doing business with China.
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No soft-balling for Ivanka Trump at
#w20
panel. Straight off she's asked if she represents the American people, her father or her business
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It’s the ‘this house runs on love, laughter and prosecco’ font
NEW Here’s the new Brexit 50p coin. Just one of two that have left the Royal Mint. Millions are available to spend in shops on Friday. Brexit is really happening folks.
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- Nazi-linked group Vitezi Rend told us they were 'proud' Gorka wore their medal
- Three people said Gorka was a known member of Vitezi Rend
Deep dive alert: We went to Hungary and spoke with people who knew Trump aide Sebastian Gorka when he lived there
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SCOOP: Senior British doctors have warned that 250 ventilators the UK bought from China risk causing "significant patient harm, including death," if they are used in hospitals to treat coronavirus patients, according to a letter seen by
@NBCNews
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Deep dive alert: We went to Hungary and spoke with people who knew Trump aide Sebastian Gorka when he lived there
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Almost 30,000 people have voted to name a new $290m polar research ship 'Boaty McBoatface'
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Proper watch-through-your-hands stuff on ITV - Evra’s sexist patronising surprise that Eni Aluko - a woman! - knows quite a lot about football 😱 someone have a word.
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Who ever said the internet has killed off the art of writing a good headline?
http://t.co/hFI2saAOT0
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@ccAndrewBaker
If you're interested we dug into what's going on with this store and Oxford Street as a whole:
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I spent a week in Morecambe to try to understand the real, human impact of the cost-of-living crisis. We all know about the dire statistics around deprivation and poverty. But to see it so raw and up close was deeply affecting. 📷
@SusannahPhotog
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Keith Martin, 55, made this sign after receiving a terminal diagnosis for bladder cancer last year. “Worst case scenario, this will kill me, but Trump’s policies will kill lots of people,” he said.
#trumpukvisit
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Serum Institute of India CEO tells Telegraph it was never stipulated when the much-publicized 10m doses would be delivered to the UK.
UK has been at the front of the vaccine queue so far. Now learning what it's like for others who have been waiting...
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Just arrived at Trafalgar Square where
#TrumpUKVisit
protest kicks off in about an hour. Weather: grey but dry (so far). Crowds: sparse but it’s early days yet. This 16ft statue of Trump tweeting on the toilet is blasting out soundbites “no collusion” & “I’m a very stable genius”
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Full story:
Did Russia interfere in US election?
Putin: “Reagan once…said ‘Read my lips—no’”
(Was Bush…& someone should tell Putin what happened next)
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George Clooney's scooter collided with a car or a pick-up truck in Sardinia this morning. He was taken to Hospital Saint John Paul II in Olbia but wasn't seriously injured and has already been discharged, hospital worker tells
@Lavanga
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#BoatyMcBoatface
update: No one at the National Environment Research Council is free to speak to me bcos they're all in a "crisis meeting"
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🚨Homepage takeover🚨
How America Gave Up
And how we fight back
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'THE END OF THE WORLD (as we know it)' -
@DerSPIEGEL
just dropped its Trump-as-asteroid post-election front page
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who has some experience in geopolitics, warns "it all looks as if the world is preparing for war"
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@Ankaman616
Prime Rooney vibes, just powering through and emerging with the ball having bobbled it off several shins.
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Autopsy released on Korkki sisters' death in
#Seychelles
— but toxicology report may hold answer of how they died
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UK health watchdog just recommended <30s should be offered alternative to AZ-Oxford vaccine if possible. This chart at the presser sums up why: Risk of blood clots is *tiny*. But it may be fractionally higher than the also-tiny risk of ICU for <30s when covid infections are low.
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After a major incident is declared in London, Met Police covid lead Matt Twist says that "officers are still dealing with a small selfish minority who think the rules don’t apply to them by holding house parties, large warehouse raves or other gatherings"
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Looted and abandoned: Rio's Olympic venues, six months on
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Jeremy Corbyn tells Trafalgar Square rally:
“We are asserting our right to demonstrate, our right to free speech and our right to want a world that’s not driven by misogyny racism and hate.”
#trumpprotests
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Full statement here from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which landed literally minutes after Biden was sworn in:
China just slapped sanctions on 28 Trump-era officials including Pompeo, Navarro, Bolton & Bannon, accusing them of "a series of crazy moves" driven by "selfish political interests and prejudice and hatred against China". All banned from entering or doing business with China.
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I spoke with German women unhappy meritocratic Merkel is dealing with Ivanka, who they said was a child of nepotism
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To those responding to this by criticizing China only, encourage them to read the story. Drs said issue w ventilators was twofold: serious concerns re quality, but also it was completely the wrong thing for what they needed. Raises serious Qs abt the UK govt procurement process.
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Each day on welsh twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it
Is it really necessary to instruct pilots flying to Cardiff to ensure that a Covid announcement is made in Welsh as well as English and one other language?
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The officer who chased & shot David Sweat is a 21-year veteran & father of 2 teenage daughters
http://t.co/yzuBy2BYVy
http://t.co/oKCZlr7DN3
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Someone on the BBC just said "no other monarch in the history of the universe..."
It is 9.24am, day 1
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Henrik Ölander-Hjalmarsson, the expert who made this model that's being widely cited this morning, tells me that today's damage "looks much worse than the scenario I modeled because of higher water levels in the reservoir." He calls it "a massive disaster."
Pulling from
@Cornubot
's article from last year-
"A 4 – 5 m wave will hit the Antonovsky bridge east of Kherson city after 19 hours... Most of Kherson City will not flood, but the harbour and the docklands will be flooded."
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The doctors said that the ventilator's oxygen supply was "variable and unreliable" and that its build quality was "basic." Its fabric case could not be cleaned properly — essential when fighting a highly infectious virus — & it arrived with a "non-E.U." oxygen connection hose. 4/
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Crucially, it was the wrong type of machine altogether: one that had been designed for use inside an ambulance rather than beside a hospital bed, according to the letter. Doctors said they had to jury-rig a makeshift stand for the device out of a hospital trolley. 5/
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Two Americans — a service member and a civilian — have been killed in an attack near a base in Kabul
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About to chat with
@WillieGeist
on Weekend
@TODAYshow
about our in-depth report on the world of Macedonian fake news
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Earlier this month, the UK announced a major win with the delivery of 300 ventilators from China. "I'd like to thank the Chinese government for their support in securing that capacity," Michael Gove, said earlier that day. But nine days later came a dire warning from doctors. 2/
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And on that point it's worth adding that the DHSC declined to answer a list of my questions on procurement: how and why this model was chosen, and were front-line doctors consulted beforehand?
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A resident of
#Marshfield
#Massachusetts
, just sent me these photos of flooding outside his house. Big storm surge.
http://t.co/uXzIPu7ftM
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"We believe that if used, significant patient harm, including death, is likely," according to the April 13 letter. "We look forward to the withdrawal & replacement of these ventilators with devices better able to provide intensive care ventilation for our patients." 6/
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A letter on behalf of senior clinicians and medical managers in and around Birmingham said that 250 ventilators that they had received, the Shangrila 510 model made by Beijing Aeonmed Co. Ltd., one of China's major ventilator manufacturers, were potentially deadly. 3/
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Here's my full report on Ivanka Trump facing tough Qs in Berlin & being met with boos & hisses mentioning her dad:
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Read the full story here: 10/
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US ambassador's broken cover with a tweet saying it's "increasingly difficult to wake up overseas to news from home"
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Video sent to me by eyewitness Marcus Singh showing the person who heckled Prince Andrew being dragged to the ground by members of the public. I spoke with the heckler after his arrest, wouldn’t tell me his name but said he was 22 and a maths grad from Glasgow.
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@MrHarryCole
I just read out your tweet in the newsroom and it prompted quite the queasy groan.
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The Department of Health and Social Care said in an email to NBC News that it was aware of doctors' concerns and has raised them with the manufacturer. Despite repeated attempts we have not been able to reach Beijing Aeonmed for comment. 7/
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@TheMERL
went to my parents' house in Wales over new year and found this unit in their kitchen.
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Why is the world so obsessed w the US election? For many abroad there is a continued emotional investment in America's founding mythos: a flawed work-in-progress that nonetheless has the potential to fulfill its aspirations of democracy liberty & equality
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I spoke with women around Berlin about their feelings on Trump family envoy Ivanka meeting meritocratic Merkel
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The ventilator mentioned in the letter, the Shangrila 510, is described by manufacturer Beijing Aeonmed as a "solid as a rock ... emergency transport ventilator" that was the first device in China to get a "CE marking" & used at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. 8/
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But the British letter warns that "there is no confidence that this device should be used to transfer critical care patients within or between hospitals due to the unreliability of oxygen and ventilation delivery [and] lack of adequate safety alarms" 9/
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The pilot then asked passengers to raise their hands if they wanted to go to Dusseldorf.
Everyone raised their hands.
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Oh to be an AstraZeneca comms person. Repeatedly pelted with allegations over transparency, efficacy & safety - but ultimately without much evidence to suggest it’s anything other than one of the most successful, cheap, abundant vaccines, developed & approved in record time.
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We're repeatedly told this new variant is more transmissible but rarely what that actually means for our behaviour. Eg - many people always mask-up in public indoor spaces, but rarely on outdoor walks, where contact with others is either brief or distant. But should they, now?
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“It is very important to segregate Putin’s regime and supporters from people who live in Russia. We’ve never wanted this to happen, and we’re strongly against it. But unfortunately they’re doing everything to shut us up"
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Counterterrorism forces rescue a 16-year-old Swedish girl from ISIS near Mosul, Kurdish officials say
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WHO regional director for Europe Dr Hans Kluge: "In vaccination campaigns it is common to signal adverse events ... At this point in time, however, the benefits of the Astra Zeneca vaccine far outweigh its risks – and its use should continue, to save lives"
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"We are ready for war. We know that some day it will come" My week in Latvia asking people about Trump & Putin:
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EXCLUSIVE: A scramble, a PR coup, then a warning: Senior British doctors warn that 250 ventilators the UK bought from China risk causing "significant patient harm, including death," if used on coronavirus patients in hospitals:
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@MundialMag
🇧🇷 - impossible to narrow
🇦🇷 - down to just five
🇨🇴 - South Americans
🇨🇱 - from a history of legends
🇺🇾 - Alvaro Recoba (c)
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US family flies to Seychelles for answers after sisters are found dead in luxury hotel room with "no marks on them"
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"There is no one holed up in any bar in the center of Barcelona. We arrested a man and are treating him as a terrorist attacker."
No hay nadie atrincherado en ningún bar del centro de
#Barcelona
. Hay un hombre detenido y lo tratamos como atentado terorista
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@utdarena
Especially considering (what were then considered!) the relative wilderness years 03-06, two 3rd placed finishes which were at that point considered unconscionable, sense of Jose dominance etc...
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Whitty's speed limit analogy doesn't work does it? If it's icy on the motorways, Highways England would set temporary speed limits on the over-carriageway gantry displays, not just politely ask people to slow down.
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@DougieStew
So much to unpack here. Can you give a summary? Were the bagel and the fight between the two women connected?
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Britain in 2022 is a place where, for millions of people, everything feels like it’s broken — and is about to get worse this winter.
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Why Trump withdrawing support from Ukraine would allow Putin to step in, with possibly "catastrophic" consequences
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I spent this morning speaking with Mancunians about the acts of kindness & solidarity that have helped them through.
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One of those stories that’s hardly a secret but still striking when someone like dd actually voices it.
Veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby has accused the BBC of being too scared to criticise the Royal Family. During a talk he also shed light on the Palace’s long list of restrictions for TV coverage of the funeral, including not showing Beatrice and Eugenie.
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Shout out to the most epidemiologically relaxed person in London, not only eating a Pizza Express pizza on the tube but using the seat as his personal table.
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"If this club ceased to exist, it would be awful for the community ... It would be another part of London that is having the community ripped out of it, which is happening all over the city" —
My report on Dulwich Hamlet for
@NBCNews
Pic
@SusannahPhotog
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.
@banicvlada
& I hung out with a Macedonian teen making $$$ from fake news. He revealed some fascinating details.
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Second march has started now and making its way down Regent Street to Piccadilly.
#TrumpProtests
#trumpvisituk
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@rhiannonlucyc
People who think London and its 8m people are unfriendly come twice a year and go to Oxford St and Madame Tussauds.
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So what you're suggesting is a curriculum of training & tests covering newsgathering, media law & politics, all taught to a recognized industry standard & perhaps even accredited by a regulatory body of sorts, maybe some kind of national council for the training of journalists?
How about a new entrance exam introduced for Britain's national media? If you don't know the difference between anecdote and data, you are barred from working as a journalist. It would certainly rid my timeline of very tedious people and improve the quality of the media.
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A
@kehinde_andrews
quote I couldn't fit into this piece, on when we choose to discuss racism:
"Let's say England won. Would that make all the racism that went before OK? The people booing the knee would suddenly have said, 'Great we won!' But that wouldn't have been progress."
When Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho missed their penalties for England in the Euro 2020 soccer final, many fans sensed a grim inevitability about what was about to happen next.
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@MundialMag
Alvaro Recoba at Inter in 97. Totally overshadowing Ronaldo, also making his debut, Recoba came off the bench to score the equaliser - a ProEvo thunderbastard from 35yds - & then the winner - a free kick from similar range, stroked into the far top corner on the keeper's side.
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Blind, deaf, 110-year-old refugee arrives in Germany after fleeing home 2,900-miles away in Afghanistan, family says
http://t.co/u4z0HGFbrr
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If Georgia’s Gwinnett County has an air of hiraeth about it, it was named after founding father Button Gwinnett, who had a Welsh dad, the Rev. Samuel Gwinnett, and whose family name was originally Gwynedd, derived from the Welsh county. 🏴
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@Sarah_Woolley
How many submissions do you reckon it would take to pay for one week of nursery? Genuinely asking.
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Mick Fanning pays tribute to his "warrior" pal Julian Wilson, who paddled *toward* the shark
http://t.co/zmWgxPR02b
http://t.co/6zovA3R4hQ
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