sentence: my parliamentary colleague Joan Ryan received similar treatment because she resolutely stood up to antisemitism.

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in my case, the censure motion criticised me for disagreeing with Jeremy Corbyn.


sentence: on the importance of a responsible economic policy, on national security, on Europe, ironically similar issues on which Jeremy disagreed with previous leaders.

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the notice for the Nottingham East Labour meeting on Friday stated that "we want the meetings to be inclusive and productive."


sentence: for most of my eight years as the local Labour MP, the Friday night GC meetings have been exactly that.

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sadly today, it is not the tone of many meetings and the promise of "kinder, gentler" politics has long been forgotten if, indeed, it ever began.


sentence: it has become increasingly apparent that differing views are not tolerated in the Labour party and every opinion is judged on whether it is acceptable to the party leadership.

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sentence: this started shortly after Jeremy became leader, as colleagues with whom I had previously thought I shared a similar political outlook began expecting me to do a U-turn and take positions I would never have otherwise agreed with - whether on national security or the EU single market.


sentence: whenever I speak publicly - and it doesn't really matter what I say - there follows a tirade of abuse on social media calling for deselection, denouncing the politics of the centre, telling me I should not be in the Labour party.


sentence: and that is not just my experience.

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sentence: indeed, I know I am more fortunate than some of my colleagues as the comments directed at me tend to be political.

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sentence: I am in awe of the professionalism and determination of those colleagues who face a torrent of sexist or racist abuse every day but never shy away.

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sentence: one of the most disappointing aspects of this era of politics is how levels of abuse have become normalised.

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sentence: Jeremy Corbyn claimed last week that the Labour party should foster a culture of tolerance.

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sentence: the reality is we are no longer that broad church and with every "no-confidence" motion or change of selection rules the party becomes narrower.

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sentence: I have had lots of advice over the past two years urging me to keep my head down, not to be so vocal and then I would "be all right."

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but that is not what I came into politics to do.


sentence: ever since I joined Labour 32 years ago as a school pupil, provoked by the Thatcher government's neglect that had left my comprehensive school classroom literally falling down, I've sought to champion better public services for those who need them most - whether as a local councillor or government minister.

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sentence: I have never hidden my politics, including at the last election.

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sentence: no one in Nottingham East could have been in any way confused about my policy positions and areas of disagreement with the current leadership.

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sentence: to those who promoted the motion on Friday, all I would say is that when the country is ploughing towards a Brexit that will hurt households, businesses and our public services, I do not understand the desire to waste time and energy on my loyalty to the Labour party leader.

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sentence: but really the one message I have is not to Nottingham Momentum, it is to my constituents, whether Labour members or not: I am proud to serve you and I promise that no amount of deselection threats or political expediency will deter me from acting in what I believe are the best interests of you all.

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Chris Leslie is MP for Nottingham East


Ayr 38 - 17 Melrose: unbeaten Ayr go top


sentence: two late tries may have skewed the final result somewhat, but there is no doubt Ayr deserved to triumph in this wonderfully-entertaining Tennent's Premiership match of the day.

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sentence: they now top the table, the only unbeaten side of the ten.

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sentence: in the end, it was their superior defence, as much as their better chance-taking, which carried the home side and coach Peter Murchie had every right to be pleased.

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sentence: "we've been tested over our games this far, and we're still unbeaten, so I have to be happy," he said.

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sentence: Robyn Christie of Melrose said: "credit to Ayr, they took their chances better than we did."

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sentence: grant Anderson's 14th minute try, converted by Frazier Climo, put Ayr in front, but, a yellow card for Scotland cap Rory Hughes, released for the game by Warriors, allowed Melrose to make numbers tell and Jason Baggot grabbed an unconverted try.

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Climo stretched the Ayr lead with a penalty, before, right on half-time, he scored then converted a solo try to make it 17-5 to Ayr at the break.


sentence: but Melrose began the second half well and Patrick Anderson's try, converted by Baggot, reduced the leeway to five points.

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there was then a lengthy hold-up for a serious injury to Ruaridh Knott, who was stretchered off, and from the restart, Ayr surged further ahead through a Stafford McDowall try, converted by Climo.


sentence: Ayr acting captain Blair Macpherson was then yellow-carded, and again, Melrose made the extra man pay with an unconverted Bruce Colvine try, at the end of a spell of fierce pressure.

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sentence: the home side came back, however, and when Struan Hutchinson was yellow-carded for tackling Climo without the ball, from the penalty line-out, Macpherson touched down at the back of the advancing Ayr maul.

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Climo converted, as he did again almost from the restart, after Kyle Rowe gathered David Armstrong's box kick and sent flanker Gregor Henry away for the home side's fifth try.


still Game star looks set for new career in restaurant industry


sentence: still Game star Ford Kieran looks set to move into the hospitality industry after it was discovered he's been named as the director of a licensed restaurants company.

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sentence: the 56-year-old plays Jack Jarvis on the popular BBC show, which he writes and co-stars with long-time comedy partner Greg Hemphill.

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the duo have announced that the upcoming ninth series will be the final one in the show's run, and it appears Kiernan is planning for life after Craiglang.


according to official record listings, he is the director of Adriftmorn Limited.


sentence: the actor declined to comment on the story, though a Scottish Sun source hinted that Kiernan was looking to get involved in Glasgow's "thriving restaurant trade."

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sentence: 'the sea is ours': landlocked Bolivia hopes court will reopen path to Pacific

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sailors patrol a rigging-clad naval headquarters in La Paz.


public buildings fly an ocean-blue flag.


sentence: naval bases from Lake Titicaca to the Amazon are daubed with the motto: "the sea is ours by right.

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to recover it is a duty. "


sentence: throughout landlocked Bolivia, the memory of a coastline lost to Chile in a bloody 19th-century resource conflict is still vivid - as is the yearning to sail the Pacific Ocean once more.

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sentence: those hopes are perhaps at their highest in decades, as Bolivia awaits a ruling by the international court of justice on 1 October after five years of deliberations.

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sentence: "Bolivia has the momentum, a spirit of unity and serenity, and is of course expecting with a positive view the outcome," said Roberto Calzadilla, a Bolivian diplomat.

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sentence: many Bolivians will watch the ICJ ruling on big screens across the country, hopeful that the tribunal in The Hague will find in favour of Bolivia's claim that - after decades of fitful talks - Chile is obliged to negotiate granting Bolivia a sovereign outlet to the sea.

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sentence: Evo Morales, Bolivia's charismatic indigenous president - who faces a controversial battle for re-election next year - also has plenty riding on Monday's ruling.

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"we are very close to returning to the Pacific Ocean," he vowed in late August.


sentence: but some analysts believe that the court is unlikely to decide in Bolivia's favour - and that little would change if it did.


sentence: the Netherlands-based UN body has no power to award Chilean territory, and has stipulated that it will not determine the outcome of possible talks.

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sentence: that the ICJ's ruling comes only six months after the final arguments were heard indicates the case "wasn't complicated," said Paz Zárate, a Chilean expert in international law.

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sentence: and far from furthering Bolivia's cause, the past four years may have set it back.


"the issue of access to the sea has been hijacked by the current Bolivian administration," said Zárate.


Morales's belligerent rhetoric has sapped any residual Chilean goodwill, she suggested.


Bolivia and Chile will at some point continue to talk, but it will be extremely difficult to hold discussions after this.


sentence: the two countries have not exchanged ambassadors since 1962.

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sentence: former president Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, Bolivia's representative at The Hague, rejected the idea that the court's decision-making was unusually speedy.

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sentence: Monday will bring Bolivia "an extraordinary opportunity to open a new era of relations with Chile" and a chance to "put an end to 139 years of disagreements with mutual benefits," he said.

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sentence: Calzadilla also denied that Morales - still one of Latin America's most popular presidents - was using the maritime issue as a political crutch.

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sentence: "Bolivia will never give up its right to have access to the Pacific Ocean," he added.

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sentence: "the ruling is an opportunity to see that we need to overcome the past."

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sentence: North Korea says nuclear disarmament won't come unless it can trust US

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sentence: North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho says his nation will never disarm its nuclear weapons first if it can't trust Washington.

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RI was speaking Saturday at the United Nations General Assembly.


sentence: he called on the United States to follow through on promises made during a summit in Singapore between the rivals' leaders.

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sentence: his comments come as US. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems to be on the verge of restarting deadlocked nuclear diplomacy more than three months after the Singapore with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

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sentence: RI says it's a "pipe dream" that continued sanctions and U.S. objection to a declaration ending the Korean War will ever bring the North to its knees.

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Washington is wary of agreeing to the declaration without Pyongyang first making significant disarmament moves.


sentence: both Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump want a second summit.


sentence: but there is widespread skepticism that Pyongyang is serious about renouncing an arsenal that the country likely sees as the only way to guarantee its safety.

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sentence: Pompeo is planning to visit Pyongyang next month to prepare for a second Kim-Trump summit.

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Paris fashion shows reveal latest line in massive headwear on it's way to a High Street near you


if you want to upsize your hat collection or completely block out the sun then look no further.


sentence: designers Valentino and Thom Browne unveiled an array of wacky oversized head gear for their SS19 collection on the runway which dazzled the style set at Paris Fashion Week.

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sentence: highly impractical hats have swept Instagram this summer and these designers have sent their eye-popping creations down the catwalk.

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sentence: the stand out piece by Valentino was an over-the-top beige hat adorned with a feather-like wide brim that swamped the models heads.

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sentence: other over-sized accessories included bejeweled watermelons, a wizard hat and even a pineapple - but they are not designed to keep your head warm.

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sentence: Thom Browne also revealed a selection of bizarre masks- and just in time for Halloween.

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sentence: many of the colourful masks had sewn up lips and resembled more like Hannibal Lecter than haute couture.

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sentence: one creation resembled scuba diving gear complete with snorkel and goggles, while another looked like a melted ice cream cone.

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sentence: and if you continue the huge fashion statement- you are in luck.

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style watchers predict that the enormous bonnets could be making their way to high streets near you.


sentence: the out-sized hats come hot on the heels of 'La Bomba', the straw hat with a two-foot wide brim that's been seen on everyone from Rihanna to Emily Ratajkowski.


the cult label behind the highly impractical hat that was splashed across social media sent another big creation down the catwalk - a straw beach bag almost as big as the swimsuit-clad model toting it.


the burnt orange raffia bag, trimmed with raffia fringing and topped with a white leather handle, was the stand out piece in Jacquemus' La Riviera SS19 collection at Paris Fashion Week.


sentence: celebrity stylist Luke Armitage told FEMAIL: 'I'm expecting to see large hats and beach bags arrive on the high street for next summer - as the designer has made such a huge impact it would be hard to ignore the demand for the oversized accessories.'

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John Edward: languages skills essential for global citizens


sentence: Scotland's independent schools maintain a track record of academic excellence, and this has continued in 2018 with another set of outstanding exam results, which is only strengthened by individual and collective success in sports, art, music and other community endeavours.

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sentence: with upwards of 30,000 pupils across Scotland, these schools, represented by The Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS), strive to deliver the best level of service to their pupils and parents.

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sentence: independent schools aim to prepare their pupils for further and higher education, their chosen career and their place as global citizens.

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sentence: as an education sector that can design and implement a bespoke school curriculum, we are seeing modern languages continue as a popular and desired subject of choice within schools.

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sentence: Nelson Mandela said: "if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.

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sentence: if you talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart. "

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sentence: this is a powerful reminder that we can't just rely on English when wanting to build relationships and trust with people from other countries.

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sentence: from this year's recent exam results, we can see that languages are topping the league tables with the highest pass rates within independent schools.

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sentence: a total of 68 per cent of pupils who studied foreign languages achieved a Higher grade A.

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sentence: the data, collected from SCIS's 74 member schools, showed that 72 per cent of students achieved a Higher grade A in Mandarin, while 72 per cent of those studying German, 69 per cent of those studying French and 63 per cent studying Spanish also achieved an A.

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sentence: this demonstrates that independent schools in Scotland are supporting foreign languages as vital skills that children and young people will undoubtedly require in the future.

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sentence: languages now, as a subject choice, are being held in the same regard as STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in independent school curriculums and elsewhere.

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sentence: a survey by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in 2014 found that of reasons employers gave for struggling to fill vacancies, 17 per cent were attributed to a languages skills shortage.

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therefore more and more, language skills are becoming imperative in order to prepare young people for their future careers.


sentence: with more prospective job opportunities requiring languages, these skills are essential in a globalised world.


sentence: regardless of the career someone chooses, if they've learned a second language, they'll have a real advantage in the future having a life-long skill such as this.

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sentence: being able to communicate directly with people from foreign countries will automatically put a multilingual person ahead of the competition.

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sentence: according to a YouGov poll of more than 4,000 UK adults in 2013, 75 per cent were unable to speak a foreign language well enough to hold a conversation and with French being the only language spoken by a double-digit percentage, 15 per cent.

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sentence: this is why putting the investment into language teaching now is important for today's children.


sentence: having multiple languages, particularly those of developing economies, will equip children with a better chance of finding meaningful employment.

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sentence: within Scotland, each school will differ in the languages they teach.


sentence: a number of schools will focus on the more classic modern languages, whereas others will teach languages that are deemed to be most important for the UK when looking ahead to 2020, such as Mandarin or Japanese.

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sentence: whatever your child's interest, there will always be a number of languages to choose from within independent schools, with teaching staff who are specialists in this area.

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sentence: Scottish independent schools are dedicated to providing a learning environment that will prepare children and arm them with the skills required to succeed, whatever the future holds.


sentence: it can't be denied at this time, in a global business environment, that languages continue to be vitally important to the country's future, so this must be mirrored in education.

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sentence: indeed, modern languages should really be considered "international communication skills."


sentence: independent schools will continue to offer this choice, diversity and excellence for Scotland's young people.

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il faut bien le faire.


John Edward is Director of the Scottish Council of Independent Schools


LeBron to make Lakers debut Sunday in San Diego


sentence: the wait is nearly over for fans looking to see LeBron James make his first start for the Los Angeles Lakers.

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sentence: Lakers coach Luke Walton has announced that James will play in Sunday's preseason opener against the Denver Nuggets in San Diego.

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sentence: but just how many minutes he'll play has yet to be determined.

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sentence: "it will be more than one and less than 48," said Walton on the Lakers "official website.

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sentence: Lakers reporter Mike Trudell tweeted that James will likely play limited minutes.


sentence: following practice earlier this week, James was asked about his plans for the Lakers "six-game preseason schedule.

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sentence: "I don't need preseason games at this stage of my career to get ready," he said.

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Trump's West Virginia Rally Time, YouTube Channel


President Donald Trump begins a flurry of campaign rallies tonight in Wheeling, West Virginia.


sentence: it's Trump's first of five scheduled rallies in the next week, including stops in friendly places including Tennessee and Mississippi.


with the confirmation vote on hold for his pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, Trump is aiming to build support for upcoming mid-term elections since Republicans are at risk of losing control of Congress when votes are cast on Nov.


what time is Trump's West Virginia rally tonight and how do you watch online?


Trump's Wheeling, West Virginia rally is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET tonight, Saturday, September 29, 2018.


you can watch Trump's West Virginia rally online below via live stream on YouTube.


sentence: Trump is likely to address this week's hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, which became tense over sexual misconduct allegations with an anticipated Senate confirmation vote on hold for up to a week while the FBI investigates.

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sentence: but the primary aim of this flurry of rallies is helping Republicans facing touch November elections gain some momentum.

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sentence: thus, President Trump's campaign said these five rallies in the next week are aimed at "energizing volunteers and supporters as Republicans try to protect and expand the majorities they hold in the Senate and House of Representatives," according to Reuters.

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sentence: "control of Congress is so critical for his agenda that the president will travel to as many states as possible as we head into the busy campaign season," a Trump campaign spokesman who declined to be named told Reuters.

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scheduled for Wesbanco Arena in Wheeling, tonight's rally could bring supporters from "Ohio and Pennsylvania and draw coverage from the Pittsburgh media," according to the West Virginia Metro News.


sentence: Saturday will be the second time in the past month that Trump has visited West Virginia, the state he won by more than 40 percentage points in 2016.

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sentence: Trump is trying to help West Virginia Republican Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey, who is trailing in the polls.

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sentence: "it's not a good sign for Morrisey that the president has to come to try to give him a boost in the polls," said Simon Haeder, a political scientist at West Virginia University, according to Reuters.

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sentence: Ryder Cup 2018: team USA show stomach for fight to keep hopes alive heading into Sunday singles

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after three one-sided sessions, Saturday afternoon's foursomes might just have been what this Ryder Cup needed.


sentence: the swinging pendulum of momentum is a completely invented sporting concept but one that players truly believe in, and never more so than at competitions like these.

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so where would they say the momentum is now?


sentence: "they had a six-point lead and now it's four, so we are carrying that as a little bit of momentum I guess," said Jordan Spieth as he strolled off for the day.

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sentence: Europe have the advantage, of course, four points ahead with twelve more in play.

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sentence: the Americans, as Spieth says, feel they have a little wind in their sails though and they have plenty to be encouraged by, not least the form of Spieth and Justin Thomas who played together all day and each boast three points from four.

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sentence: Spieth has been lethal from tee to green and is leading by example.

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those guttural screams of celebration got louder as his round went on, sinking a crucial putt to take match four all-square when he and Thomas had been two down after two.


his putt that won them the match on 15 was met with a similar scream, the sort that tells you he believes that the American team is not out of this.


"you've really just got to dig deep and worry about your own match," Spieth said.


sentence: it is all each of these players has left now.


18 holes to make a mark.


sentence: the only players with more points than Spieth and Thomas over the past two days are Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood, the indisputable story of the Ryder Cup.

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Europe's odd but adorable couple are four from four and can do no wrong.


sentence: "Moliwood" were the only pair not to shoot a bogey on Saturday afternoon, but they also avoided bogeys on Saturday morning, Friday afternoon and the back nine on Friday morning.

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sentence: that run, and the way their energy seems to flow both to and from this boisterous crowd cements that they are the players to beat on Sunday, and there would be no more popular player to seal a potential European victory as the sun sets over Le Golf National than Fleetwood or Molinari.

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preferably both simultaneously on different holes.


talk of European glory remains premature, though.


sentence: Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson made short work of Sergio Garcia, the morning's fourballs hero, when he was paired with Alex Noren.

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a bogey and two doubles on the front nine dug the Spaniard and the Swede into a hole they never got close to climbing out of.


on Sunday, though, there is nobody to help you out of your hole.


sentence: the fourballs and foursomes are so fascinating to watch up close because of the interactions between pairings, the advice they give, the advice they don't and the way that a strategy can change in an instant.

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sentence: Europe have played better as a team thus far and take a significant lead into the final day but this foursomes session also showed that Team USA has the stomach for the fight that some, especially Stateside, had been doubting.

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Europe take 10-6 lead into Ryder Cup final day


sentence: Europe will take a healthy advantage into the final day of the Ryder Cup after emerging from Saturday's fourballs and foursomes matches with a 10-6 lead over the United States.

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sentence: inspired duo Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari led the charge with two victories over a struggling Tiger Woods to take their tally so far at Le Golf National to four points.

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sentence: Thomas Bjorn's European side, bidding to retain the trophy they lost at Hazeltine two years ago, dominated a misfiring American side in the morning fourballs, taking the series 3-1.

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the U.S. offered more resistance in the foursomes, winning two matches, but they could not eat into the deficit.


sentence: Jim Furyk's side need eight points from Sunday's 12 singles matches to retain the trophy.

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sentence: Fleetwood is the first European rookie to win four points in a row while he and Molinari, dubbed "Molliwood" after a sensational weekend are only the second pair to win four points from their opening four matches in Ryder Cup history.

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sentence: having crushed Woods and Patrick Reed in the fourballs they then gelled superbly to beat a deflated Woods and American rookie Bryson Dechambeau by an even more emphatic 5 & 4.


woods, who dragged himself through two matches on Saturday, showed occasional bursts of brilliance but he has now lost 19 of his 29 matches in fourballs and foursomes and seven in a row.


sentence: Justin Rose, rested for the morning fourballs, returned to partner Henrik Stenson in the foursomes to a 2 & 1 defeat of Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka - ranked one and three in the world.

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Europe did not have it al their own way though on a pleasant, breezy day south west of Paris.


sentence: three-times major winner Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas set the benchmark for the Americans with two points on Saturday.


sentence: they earned a gritty 2 & 1 win over Spain's Jon Rahm and Ian Poulter in the fourballs and returned later to beat Poulter and Rory McIlroy 4 & 3 in the foursomes having lost the opening two holes.

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sentence: only twice in Ryder Cup history has a team come back from a four-point deficit going into the singles, although as holders Furyk's side need only draw to retain the trophy.

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sentence: after being second-best for two days, however, a Sunday counter-attack looks as though it will be beyond them.

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North Korea says' no way 'will disarm unilaterally without trust


sentence: North Korea's foreign minister told the United Nations on Saturday continued sanctions were deepening its mistrust in the United States and there was no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally under such circumstances.

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sentence: RI Yong Ho told the world body's annual General Assembly that North Korea had taken "significant goodwill measures" in the past year, such as stopping nuclear and missiles tests, dismantling the nuclear test site, and pledging not to proliferate nuclear weapons and nuclear technology.

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"however, we do not see any corresponding response from the U.S.," he said.


sentence: "without any trust in the U.S. there will be no confidence in our national security and under such circumstances there is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves first."

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sentence: while Ri reprised familiar North Korean complaints about Washington's resistance to a "phased" approach to denuclearization under which North Korea would be rewarded as it took gradual steps, his statement appeared significant in that it did not reject unilateral denuclearization out of hand as Pyongyang has done in the past.

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sentence: RI referred to a joint statement issued by Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump at a first ever summit between a serving U.S. president and a North Korean leader in Singapore on June 12, when Kim pledged to work toward "denuclearization of the Korean peninsula" while Trump promised guarantees of North Korea's security.

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sentence: North Korea has been seeking a formal end to the 1950-53 Korea War, but the United States has said Pyongyang must give up its nuclear weapons first.

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Washington has also resisted calls to relax tough international sanctions on North Korea.


sentence: "the U.S. insists on the" denuclearization-first "and increases the level of pressure by sanctions to achieve their purpose in a coercive manner, and even objecting to the" declaration of the end of war, "" Ri said.

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sentence: "the perception that sanctions can bring us on our knees is a pipe dream of the people who are ignorant about us.

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sentence: but the problem is that the continued sanctions are deepening our mistrust. "

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sentence: RI made no mention of plans for a second summit between Kim and Trump that the U.S. leader highlighted at the United Nations earlier in the week.

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sentence: the minister instead highlighted three meetings between Kim and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in in the past five months and added: "if the party to this issue of denuclearization were South Korea and not the U.S., the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula would not have come to such a deadlock."

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sentence: even so, the tone of Ri's speech was dramatically different from last year, when he told the U.N. General Assembly that targeting the U.S. mainland with North Korea's rockets was inevitable after "Mr Evil President" Trump called Kim a "rocket man" on a suicide mission.

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sentence: this year at the United Nations, Trump, who last year threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea, heaped praise on Kim for his courage in taking steps to disarm, but said much work still had to be done and sanctions must remain in place until North Korea denuclearizes.

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sentence: on Wednesday, Trump said he did not have a time frame for this, saying "If it takes two years, three years or five months - doesn't matter."

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sentence: China and Russia argue that the U.N. Security Council should reward Pyongyang for steps taken.


however, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that: "enforcement of Security Council sanctions must continue vigorously and without fail until we realize the fully, final, verified denuclearization."


sentence: the Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

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sentence: Pompeo met Ri on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly and said afterwards that he would visit Pyongyang again next month to prepare for a second summit.

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sentence: Pompeo has visited North Korea three times already this year, but his last trip did not go well.


sentence: he left Pyongyang in July saying that progress had been made, only for North Korea within hours to denounce him for making "gangster-like demands."

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sentence: North Korea pledged in a meeting with Moon this month to dismantle a missile site and also a nuclear complex if the United States took "corresponding measures."


sentence: he said Kim had told him the "corresponding measures" he was seeking were security guarantees Trump pledged in Singapore and moves toward normalization of relations with Washington.

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sentence: Harvard students take course in getting enough rest

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sentence: a new course at Harvard University this year has got all its undergraduates getting more sleep in a bid to combat the growing macho culture of studying through caffeine-fuelled 'all-nighters.'


sentence: an academic found students at the world's number one university are often clueless when it comes to the very basics about how to look after themselves.

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sentence: Charles Czeisler, professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School and a specialist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, designed the course, which he believes is the first of its kind in the US.

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sentence: he was inspired to start the course after giving a talk on the impact sleep deprivation had on learning.


sentence: 'at the end of it one girl came up to me and said: 'why am I only being told this now, in my senior year?'

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she said no one had ever told her about the importance of sleep - which surprised me, 'he told The Telegraph.


sentence: the course, rolled out for the first time this year, explains to students the essentials of how good sleep habits help academic and athletic performance, as well as improve their general wellbeing.

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sentence: Paul barreira, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the university's health services, said the university decided to introduce the course after finding students were seriously sleep deprived during the week.

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sentence: the hour long course involves a series of interactive tasks.


sentence: in one section there is an image of a dorm room, where students click on coffee cups, curtains, trainers and books to be told about the effects of caffeine and light and how athletic performance is impacted by sleep deficiency, and the importance of a bedtime routine.

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sentence: in another section, participants are told how long-term sleep deprivation can increase risks of heart attacks, stroke, depression and cancer.

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sentence: a map of the campus, with interactive icons, then encourages participants to think about their daily routine.

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sentence: 'We know it won't change students' behaviour instantly.

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sentence: but we believe they have a right to know - just as you have a right to know the health effects of choosing to smoke cigarettes, 'Prof Czeisler added.

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sentence: the culture of pride in 'pulling an all-nighter' still exists, he said, adding that modern technology and ever-increasing pressure on students meant sleep deprivation was a growing problem.

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sentence: ensuring you have enough sleep, of a good quality, should be a student's' secret weapon 'to combat stress, exhaustion and anxiety, he said - even to avoid putting on weight, as sleep deprivation puts the brain into starvation mode, making them constantly hungry.

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sentence: Raymond So, a 19-year-old Californian studying chemical and physical biology, helped Professor Czeisler design the course, having taken one of his classes last year during his first year at Harvard.

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sentence: he said the course had opened his eyes and inspired him to push for a campus-wide course.

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sentence: the next step, he hopes, it to ask all postgraduate students to complete a similar study programme before joining the competitive institution.

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sentence: prof Czeisler recommended that students should consider setting an alarm for when to go to bed, as well as for when to wake, and be aware of the harmful effects of 'blue light' emitted by electronic screens and LED lighting, which can throw your circadian rhythm out of kilter, leading to problems falling asleep.

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Livingston 1 - 0 Rangers: menga goal downs Gerrard's men


sentence: Rangers suffered another bout of away-day blues as Dolly menga's strike consigned Steven Gerrard's disjointed side to a 1-0 defeat at Livingston.

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sentence: the Ibrox side were looking to record their first win on the road since February's 4-1 triumph at St Johnstone, but Gary Holt's team inflicted just Gerrard's second defeat in 18 games as manager to leave his side eight points adrift of runaway Ladbrokes Premiership leaders Hearts.

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sentence: menga struck seven minutes before half-time and a Rangers line-up short on inspiration never looked like levelling.

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while Rangers now drop down to sixth spot, Livingston climb to third and only behind Hibernian on goal difference.


sentence: and there could be further trouble in store for Rangers after linesman Calum Spence had to be treated for a head wound after an object was apparently thrown from the away end.

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sentence: Gerrard made eight changes to the side which swept past Ayr into the Betfred Cup semi-finals.

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sentence: Holt, on the other hand, went with the same livi 11 which took a point off Hearts last week and he would have been delighted with the way his well-drilled outfit suffocated their opponents at every turn.

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Rangers may have dominated possession but Livingston did more with the ball they had.


sentence: they should have scored just two minutes in when menga's first-time lay-off sent Scott Pittman through on Allan McGregor's goal but the midfielder tugged his big chance wide.


sentence: a deep Keaghan Jacobs free-kick then found skipper Craig Halkett but his defensive partner Alan Lithgow could only stab wide at the back post.

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Rangers did grab control but there looked to be more hope than belief about their play in the final third.


Alfredo Morelos certainly felt he should have had a penalty on the quarter-hour mark as he and Steven Lawless collided but referee Steven Thomson waved away the Colombian's appeals.


sentence: Rangers managed just two first-half shots on target but former Ibrox goalkeeper Liam Kelly was barely troubled by Lassana Coulibaly's header and a tame Ovie Ejaria strike.

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sentence: while livi's 34th-minute opener may have been against the run of play, no one can deny they deserved it for their graft alone.

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again Rangers failed to deal with a deep Jacobs set-piece.


sentence: Scott Arfield did not react as Declan Gallagher slotted the ball to Scott Robinson, who kept his cool to pick out menga for a simple finish.

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sentence: Gerrard acted at the break as he swapped Coulibaly for Ryan Kent and the switch almost provided an immediate impact as the winger slotted in Morelos but the impressive Kelly raced from his line to block.

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sentence: but Livingston continued to suck the visitors into playing exactly the type of game they enjoy, with Lithgow and Halkett sweeping up long ball after long ball.

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Holt's side could have stretched their lead in the final stages but McGregor stood up well to deny Jacobs before Lithgow headed wide from the corner.


sentence: Rangers substitute Glenn Middleton had another late claim for a penalty as he tangled with Jacobs but again Thomson looked away.

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sentence: almanac: the inventor of the Geiger Counter

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sentence: and now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and counting... the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was born in Germany.

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sentence: Geiger developed a method for detecting and measuring radioactivity, an invention that eventually led to the device known as the Geiger Counter.

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sentence: a mainstay of science ever since, the Geiger Counter became a pop culture mainstay as well, as in the 1950 movie "Bells of Coronado," starring those seemingly unlikely cowpoke scientists Roy Rogers and Dale Evans:

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man: "what in the world is that?"


sentence: Rogers: "it's a Geiger Counter, used to locate radioactive minerals, such as uranium.

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when you put these earphones on, you can actually hear the effects of the atoms given off by the radioactivity in the minerals. "


Evans: "say, it sure is popping now!"


sentence: "Hans" Geiger died in 1945, just a few days short of his 63rd birthday.

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sentence: but the invention that bears his name lives on.

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sentence: new cancer vaccine can teach the immune system to 'see' rogue cells

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sentence: new cancer vaccine can teach the immune system to 'see' rogue cells and kill them


sentence: vaccine teaches immune system to recognise rogue cells as part of treatment

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sentence: method involves extracting immune cells from a patient, altering them in lab

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sentence: they can then 'see' a protein common to many cancers and then reinjected

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sentence: a trial vaccine is showing promising results in patients with a range of cancers.

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sentence: one woman treated with the vaccine, which teaches the immune system to recognise rogue cells, saw her ovarian cancer disappear for more than 18 months.

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sentence: the method involves extracting immune cells from a patient, altering them in the laboratory so they can "see" a protein common to many cancers called HER2, and then reinjecting the cells.

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sentence: Professor Jay Berzofsky, of the US National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, said: "our results suggest that we have a very promising vaccine."


sentence: HER2 "drives the growth of several types of cancer," including breast, ovarian, lung and colorectal cancers, Prof Berzofsky explained.

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sentence: a similar approach of taking immune cells out of patients and "teaching" them how to target cancer cells has worked in treating a type of leukaemia.

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Kanye West embarked on a Pro-Trump diatribe, Wearing a Maga Hat, After his SNL Appearance.


it Didn't Go Well


Kanye West was booed in the studio during a Saturday Night Live after a rambling performance in which he praised U.S. President Donald Trump and said he would run for office in 2020.


sentence: after performing his third song of the night, called Ghost Town in which he was wearing a Make America Great cap, he went on a rant against the Democrats and reiterated his support for Trump.

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sentence: "so many times I talk to a white person and they say:" how could you like Trump, he's racist? "

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sentence: well, if I was concerned about racism I would've moved out of America a long time ago, "he said.

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SNL started the show with a skit starring Matt Damon in which the Hollywood star made fun of Brett Kavanaugh's testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee on sexual assault claims made by Christine Blasey Ford.


sentence: although it was not broadcast, the footage of West's rant was uploaded to social media by comedian Chris Rock.

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it is unclear if Rock was trying to mock West with the posting.


sentence: also, West had complained to the audience that he had got a hard time backstage about his head wear.

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"they bullied me backstage.


they said, 'don't go out there with that hat on.'


they bullied me!


sentence: and then they say I'm in a sunken place, "he said, according to the Washington Examiner.

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sentence: West went on: "you wanna see the sunken place?" saying that he would "put my superman cape on, because this means you can't tell me what to do. you want the world to move forward?


sentence: try love. "

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sentence: his comments drew boos at least twice from the audience and SNL cast members appeared to be embarrassed, Variety reported, with one person there telling the publication: "the entire studio fell dead silent."

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sentence: West had been brought in as a late replacement for singer Ariana Grande, whose former boyfriend, the rapper Mac Miller had died a few days ago.

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sentence: West puzzled many with a performance of the song I Love it, dressed as a Perrier Bottle.

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sentence: West got backing from head of conservative group TPUSA, Candace Turner who tweeted: "to one of the most courageous spirits: thank YOU FOR STANDING UP TO THE MOB."

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but talk show host Karen Hunter tweeted that West was simply "being who he is and that's absolutely wonderful."


sentence: "but I chose NOT to reward someone (by purchasing his music or clothing or supporting his" art ") who I believe is embracing and spewing ideology that is harmful to my community.

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he is free.


so are we, "she added.


sentence: before the show, the rapper announced on Twitter that he had changed his name, saying that he was now "the being formally known as Kanye West."

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sentence: he is not the first artist to change their name and follows in the footsteps of Diddy, also known as Puff Daddy, Puffy and P Diddy.

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sentence: fellow rapper, Snoop Dogg has had the name Snoop Lion and of course the late music legend Prince, changed his name to a symbol and then the artist previously known as Prince.

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sentence: attempted murder charge over Belfast restaurant stabbing

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sentence: a 45-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed in a restaurant in east Belfast on Friday.

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sentence: the incident happened in Ballyhackamore, police said.

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sentence: the defendant is expected to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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the charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.


game of Thrones star Kit Harington hits out at toxic masculinity


sentence: kit Harington is known for his sword-swinging role as Jon Snow in HBO's violent medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones.

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sentence: but the actor, 31, has hit out at the stereotype of the macho hero, saying such roles on screen mean young boys often feel like they have to be tough to be respected.

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sentence: speaking to The Sunday Times Culture, Kit said he believes' something's gone wrong 'and questioned how to tackle the problem of toxic masculinity in the # MeToo era.

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kit, who recently married his Game of Thrones co-star Rose Leslie, also 31, admitted he feels' quite strongly 'about addressing the issue.


sentence: 'i feel personally, quite strongly, at the moment - where have we gone wrong with masculinity?, 'he said.

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sentence: 'What have we been teaching men when they're growing up, in terms of the problem we see now? '

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sentence: kit believes television may be partly responsible for the rise in toxic masculinity thanks to its very masculine characters.

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he continued: 'what's innate and what's taught?


sentence: what is taught on TV, and in the streets, that makes young boys feel they have to be this certain side of being a man?

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sentence: I think that's really one of the big questions in our time - how do we change that?

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sentence: because clearly something has gone wrong for young men. '


sentence: in the interview he also admitted that he wouldn't be doing any Game of Thrones prequels or sequels when the series comes to an end next summer, saying he is' done with battlefields and horses'.

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from November Kit will star in a revival of Sam Shepard's True West which is the story of a film producer and his brother, who is a robber.


sentence: the actor recently revealed that he considers meeting his wife Rose to be the best thing to come out of Game of Thrones.

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sentence: 'i met my wife in this show, so in that way it gave me my future family, and my life from here on in, 'he said.

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rose played Ygritte, the love interest of Kit's character Jon Snow, in the Emmy award-winning fantasy series.


the couple married in June 2018 on the grounds of Leslie's family estate in Scotland.


HIV / Aids: China reports 14% surge in new cases


China has announced a 14% jump in the number of its citizens who are living with HIV and Aids.


sentence: more than 820,000 people are affected in the country, health officials say.

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sentence: about 40,000 new cases were reported in the second quarter of 2018 alone.

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sentence: the vast majority of new cases were transmitted through sex, marking a change from the past.

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traditionally, HIV spread rapidly through some parts of China as a result of infected blood transfusions.


sentence: but the number of people contracting HIV in this way had been reduced to almost zero, Chinese health officials said at a conference in Yunnan province.

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sentence: year-on-year, however, the number of those living with HIV and Aids in China has risen by 100,000 people.


HIV transmission through sex is an acute issue in China's LGBT community.


sentence: homosexuality was decriminalised in China in 1997, but discrimination against LGBT people is said to be rife.

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sentence: because of the country's conservative values, studies have estimated that 70-90% of men who have sex with men will eventually marry women.

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sentence: many of the transmissions of the diseases come from inadequate sexual protections in these relationships.

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sentence: since 2003, China's government has promised universal access to HIV medication as part of an effort to tackle the issue.

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sentence: Maxine Waters denies staffer leaked GOP senators' data, blasts' dangerous lies' and 'conspiracy theories'

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sentence: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters on Saturday denounced allegations that a member of her staff had posted the personal information of three Republican U.S. senators onto the lawmakers' Wikipedia pages.

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sentence: the Los Angeles Democrat asserted that the claims were being pedaled by "ultra-right wing" pundits and websites.

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sentence: "lies, lies, and more despicable lies," Waters said in a statement on Twitter.


the released information reportedly included the home addresses and phone numbers for U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch, both of Utah.


sentence: the information appeared online Thursday, posted by an unknown person on Capitol Hill during a Senate panel's hearing on the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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the leak came sometime after the three senators had questioned Kavanaugh.


sentence: conservative sites such as Gateway pundit and RedState reported that the IP address that identifies the source of the posts was associated with Waters "office and released the information of a member of Waters' staff, the Hill reported.

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sentence: "this unfounded allegation is completely false and an absolute lie," Waters continued.

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sentence: "the member of my staff - whose identity, personal information, and safety have been compromised as a result of these fraudulent and false allegations - was in no way responsible for the leak of this information.

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sentence: this unfounded allegation is completely false and an absolute lie. "

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waters' statement quickly drew criticism online, including from former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.


"this denial is angry," Fleischer wrote.


"this suggests she doesn't have the temperment to be a Member of Congress.


when someone is accused of something they didn't do, they must not be angry.


they must not be defiant.


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they must be calm and serene. "


sentence: Fleischer was appearing to compare Waters' reaction to the Democrats' criticism of Judge Kavanaugh, who was accused by critics of seeming too angry during Thursday's hearing.

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sentence: Omar Navarro, a Republican candidate running to unseat Waters in the midterm elections, also voiced his thoughts on Twitter.

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"big if true," he tweeted.


sentence: in her statement, Waters said her office had alerted "the appropriate authorities and law enforcement entities of these fraudulent claims.

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"we will ensure that the perpetrators will be revealed," she continued, "and that they will be held legally liable for all of their actions that are destructible and dangerous to any and all members of my staff."


sentence: Johnny English Strikes Again review - underpowered Rowan Atkinson spy spoof

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sentence: it's traditional now to look for Brexit significances in any new film with a British slant and that does seem applicable to this revival of the Johnny English action-comedy spoof franchise - which started back in 2003 with Johnny English and spluttered back to life in 2011 with Johnny English Reborn.

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sentence: will tongue-in-cheek self-satire on the subject of how obviously rubbish we are be the nation's new export opportunity?

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sentence: at any rate, the pop-eyed, rubber-faced incompetent Johnny English has had his licence to cock things up renewed for the second time - that name of his signalling more than anything else that he is a broad comic creation designed for non-English-speaking cinemagoing territories.

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sentence: he is of course the daft secret agent who despite his bizarre pretensions to smoothie glamour has got a little bit of Clouseau, a dash of Mr Bean and a dollop of that chap contributing a single note to the Chariots of Fire theme tune at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

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sentence: he's also originally based on the traveller and international man of mystery Atkinson once played in the now forgotten Barclaycard TV ads, leaving chaos in his wake.

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sentence: there are one or two nice moments in this latest JE outing.

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sentence: I loved Johnny English approaching a helicopter while dressed in a medieval suit of armour and the rotor blades briefly clanging against his helmet.

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sentence: Atkinson's gift for physical comedy is on display, but the humour feels pretty underpowered and weirdly superfluous, especially as the "serious" film brands like 007 and Mission Impossible themselves now confidently offer comedy as an ingredient.

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sentence: the humour feels as if it is pitched at kids rather than adults, and for me Johnny English's wacky misadventures aren't as inventive and focused as Atkinson's silent-movie gags in the persona of Bean.

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sentence: the perennially topical premise now is that Great Britain is in serious trouble.

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sentence: a cyber-hacker has infiltrated Britain's super-secret web network of spies, revealing the identities of all Britain's agents in the field, to the dismay of the agent on duty - a regrettably small role for Kevin Eldon.

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sentence: it's the last straw for a prime minister who is a pompous and embattled figure, already suffering a complete meltdown of political unpopularity: Emma Thompson does her very best with this quasi-Teresa-May character but there's nothing much in the script to work with.

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sentence: her intelligence advisers inform her that as every single active spy has been compromised, she will have to bring someone out of retirement.

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sentence: and that means bumbling Johnny English himself, now employed as a schoolmaster in some posh establishment, but giving off-the-record lessons in how to be an undercover operative: some nice gags here, as English offers a School of Rock-type academy of spying.

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sentence: English is whisked back to Whitehall for an emergency briefing and reunited with his former long-suffering sidekick Bough, played again by Ben Miller.

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sentence: bough is now a married man, hitched to a submarine commander, a jolly-hockey-sticks role in which Vicki Pepperdine is a bit wasted.

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sentence: so the Batman and Robin of getting things terribly wrong on Her Majesty's Secret Service are back in action, encountering Olga Kurylenko's beautiful femme fatale Ophelia Bulletova.

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sentence: meanwhile, the prime minister is falling dangerously under the spell of the charismatic tech billionaire who claims he can solve Britain's computer woes: the sinister Jason Volta, played by Jake Lacy.

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sentence: English and Bough begin their odyssey of farcical high-jinks: disguised as waiters, they set fire to a flash French restaurant; they create mayhem smuggling themselves aboard Volta's luxury yacht; and English triggers pure anarchy as he attempts to use a Virtual Reality headset to familiarise himself with the interior of Volta's house.

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sentence: all the stops are certainly pulled out for that last sequence, but as amiable and boisterous as it is, there's quite a bit of kids' TV about the whole thing.

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pretty moderate stuff.


sentence: and as with the other Johnny English films I couldn't help thinking: can't the British film industry give Rowan Atkinson a role that really does justice to his talent?

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sentence: labour denies it is devising a plan for Britons to work a four day week but be paid for five days

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sentence: Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is to consider a radical plan which will see Britons working a four day week - but getting paid for five.


sentence: the party reportedly wants company bosses to pass on savings made through the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution to workers by giving them an extra day off.

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sentence: it would see employees enjoy a three-day weekend - but still take home the same pay.

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sentence: sources said the idea would 'fit' with the party's economic agenda and plans to tilt the country in favour of workers.

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sentence: shifting to a four-day week has been endorsed by the Trades Union Congress as a way for workers to take advantage of the changing economy.

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sentence: a senior Labour Party source told The Sunday Times: 'a policy review is expected to be announced before the end of the year.

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sentence: 'it won't happen overnight but a four-day working week is an aspiration that fits in with the party's approach to rebalancing the economy in favour of the worker as well as the party's overall industrial strategy. '

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sentence: the Labour Party would not be the first to endorse such an idea, with the Green Party pledging a four-day working week during its 2017 general election campaign.

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the aspiration is currently not being endorsed by the Labour Party as a whole, however.


sentence: a Labour Party spokesman said: 'a four-day working week is not party policy and it is not being considered by the party.'

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sentence: shadow Chancellor John McDonnell used last week's Labour conference to flesh out his vision for a socialist revolution in the economy.


sentence: Mr McDonnell said he was determined to claw back power from 'faceless directors' and 'profiteers' at utility firms.

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sentence: the shadow chancellor's plans also mean current shareholders in water companies may not get back their entire stake as a Labour government could make 'deductions' on the grounds of perceived wrongdoing.

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sentence: he also confirmed plans to put workers on company boards and create Inclusive Ownership Funds to hand 10 per cent of private-sector firms' equity to employees, who stand to pocket annual dividends of up to £500.

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Lindsey Graham, John Kennedy tell "60 Minutes" whether the FBI's investigation of Kavanaugh could change their minds


sentence: the FBI investigation into accusations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh has delayed a final vote on his nomination to the Supreme Court by at least a week, and raises the question of whether the bureau's findings could sway any Republican senators into pulling their support.

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sentence: in an interview airing Sunday, "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley asked Republicans Sens. John Kennedy and Lindsey Graham whether the FBI could unearth anything that would lead them to change their minds.

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Kennedy appeared more open than his colleague from South Carolina.


"I mean, of course," said Kennedy.


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sentence: I called him after this happened, that allegation came out, said, 'Did you do it?'

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he was resolute, determined, unequivocal. "


sentence: Graham's vote, however, appears set in stone.

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"my mind's made up about Brett Kavanaugh and it would take a dynamite accusation," he said.


"Dr. Ford, I don't know what happened, but I know this: Brett denied it vigorously," Graham added, referring to Christine Blasey Ford.


"and everybody she names couldn't verify it.


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I don't see anything new changing. "


what is the Global Citizen Festival and Has it Done Anything to Decrease Poverty?


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sentence: now in its seventh year, the Global Citizen Festival will see tens of thousands of people flock to Central Park's Great Lawn to not only enjoy acts such as Janet Jackson, Cardi B and Shawn Mendes, but also to raise awareness for the event's true goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

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sentence: the Global Citizen Festival, which stated in 2012, is an extension of the Global Poverty Project, an international advocacy group hoping to end poverty by increasing the number of people actively fighting against it.

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sentence: in order to receive a free ticket for the event (unless you were willing to pay for a VIP ticket), concertgoers had to complete a series of tasks, or "actions" such volunteering, emailing a world leader, making a phone call or any other meaningful ways to help raise awareness of their goal of ending poverty.

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sentence: but just how successful has Global Citizen been with 12 years left to achieve its goal?


sentence: is the idea of rewarding people with a free concert a genuine way to persuade people to demand a call for action, or just another case of so-called "clicktivism" - people feeling like they are making a true difference by signing an online petition or sending a tweet?

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sentence: since 2011, Global Citizen says it has recorded more than 19 million "actions" from its supporters, pushing for a host of different goals.


sentence: it says that these actions have helped spur world leaders to announce commitments and policies equating to more than $37 billion that is set to affect the lives of more than 2.25 billion people by 2030.

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sentence: in early 2018, the group cited 390 commitments and announcements stemming from its actions, at least $10 billion of which have already been disbursed or fundraised.

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sentence: the group estimates the secured funds have so far made a direct impact on nearly 649 million people across the world.


sentence: some of the key commitments include The Power of Nutrition, a U.K. based partnership of investors and implementers committed to "helping children grow to their full potential," promising to provide Rwanda with $35 million to help end malnutrition in the county after receiving more than 4,700 tweets from Global Citizens.

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sentence: "with support from the UK government, donors, national governments, and Global Citizens just like you, we can make the social injustice of undernutrition a footnote in history," The Power of Nutrition ambassador Tracey Ullman told the crowd during a live concert in London in April 2018.

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sentence: the group also said that after more than 5,000 actions were taken calling on the U.K. improve nutrition for mothers and children, the government announced funding for a project, the Power of Nutrition, that will reach 5 million women and children with nutrition interventions.

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sentence: in response to one of the FAQs on its website asking "what makes you think we can end extreme poverty?"

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sentence: global citizen replied: "it'll be a long and hard path - sometimes we will fall and fail.

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sentence: but, like the great civil rights and anti-apartheid movements before us, we will succeed, because we are more powerful together.

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Janet Jackson, the Weeknd, Shawn Mendes, Cardi B, Janelle Monáe are among some of the acts performing at this year's event in New York, which will be hosted by Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman.


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sentence: Washington can "if necessary" resort to its Navy to prevent Russian energy hitting the markets, including in the Middle East, US Internal Secretary Ryan Zinke has revealed, as cited by Washington Examiner.

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sentence: Zinke alleged that Russia's engagement in Syria - notably, where it is operating at the invitation of the legitimate government - is a pretext to explore new energy markets.

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sentence: "I believe the reason they are in the Middle East is they want to broker energy just like they do in eastern Europe, the southern belly of Europe," he has reportedly said.

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and, according to to the official, there are ways and means to tackle it.


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sentence: Zinke was addressing the attendees of the event hosted by the Consumer Energy Alliance, a non-profit group which styles itself as the "voice of the energy consumer" in the US.

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sentence: he went to compare Washington's approaches to dealing with Russia and Iran, noting that they are effectively the same.

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sentence: "the economic option on Iran and Russia is, more or less, leveraging and replacing fuels," he said, while referring to Russia as a "one trick pony" with an economy dependent on fossil fuels.

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sentence: the statements come as Trump administration has been on a mission to boost the export of its liquefied natural gas to Europe, replacing Russia, the far cheaper option for European consumers.

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for that effect, the Trump administration officials, including US President Donald Trump himself, try to persuade Germany to pull out of the "inappropriate" Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which according to Trump, made Berlin Moscow's "captive."


sentence: Moscow has repeatedly stressed that the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is set to double the existing pipeline capacity to 110 billion cubic meters, is a purely economic project.

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sentence: the Kremlin argues that Washington's fervent opposition to the project is simply driven by economic reasons and is an example of unfair competition.

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sentence: "I believe we share the view that energy cannot be a tool to exercise pressure and that consumers should be able to choose the suppliers," Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak said following a meeting with US Energy Secretary Rick Perry in Moscow in September.

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sentence: the US stance has drawn backlash from Germany, which has reaffirmed its commitment to the project.

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Germany's leading organization for industry, the Federation of German Industries (BDI), has called on the US to stay away from the EU energy policy and the bilateral agreements between Berlin and Moscow.


sentence: "I have a big problem when a third state interferes in our energy supply," Dieter Kempf, head of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) said following a recent meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Elizabeth Warren Will Take "Hard Look" At Running For President in 2020, Massachusetts Senator Says


Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Saturday she would take a "hard look" at running for president following the midterm elections.


during a town hall in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Warren confirmed she'd consider running.


sentence: "it's time for women to go to Washington and fix our broken government and that includes a woman at the top," she said, according to The Hill.

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"after November 6, I will take a hard look at running for president."


Warren weighed in on President Donald Trump during the town hall, saying he was "taking this county in the wrong direction.


sentence: "I am worried down to my bones about what Donald Trump is doing to our democracy," she said.

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sentence: Warren has been outspoken in her criticism of Trump and his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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in a tweet on Friday, Warren said "of course we need an FBI investigation before voting."


sentence: a poll released on Thursday, however, showed a majority of Warren's own constituents do not think she should run in 2020.

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sentence: fifty-eight percent of "likely" Massachusetts voters said the senator should not run, according to the Suffolk University Political Research Center / Boston Globe poll.

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sentence: thirty-two percent supported such a run.


sentence: the poll showed more support for a run by former Governor Deval Patrick, with 38 percent supporting a potential run and 48 percent against it.

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other high profile Democratic names discussed in regard to a potential 2020 run include former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.


Biden said he would decide officially by January, the Associated Press reported.


Sarah Palin cites Track Palin's PTSD at Donald Trump rally


sentence: track Palin, 26, spent a year in Iraq after enlisting on Sept.

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sentence: he was arrested and charged in a domestic violence incident on Monday night

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sentence: "what my own son is going through, what he is going through coming back, I can relate to other families who feel ramifications of PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with," she told the audience at a rally for Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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sentence: Palin called his arrest "the elephant in the room" and said of her son and other war veterans, "they come back a bit different, they come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen, and every other member of the military, has given to the country."

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sentence: he was arrested on Monday in Wasilla, Alaska, and charged with domestic violence assault on a female, interfering with a report of domestic violence and possession of a weapon while intoxicated, according to Dan Bennett, a spokesman for the Wasilla Police Department.

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sentence: 18 states, D.C. support challenge to new asylum policy

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sentence: eighteen states and the District of Columbia are supporting a legal challenge to a new U.S. policy that denies asylum to victims fleeing gang or domestic violence.

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representatives from the 18 states and the district filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday in Washington to support an asylum-seeker challenging the policy, NBC News reported.


sentence: the full name of the plaintiff in the Grace v. Sessions suit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed in August against the federal policy has not been revealed.

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sentence: she said her partner "and his violent gang member sons," abused her but U.S. officials denied her request for asylum July 20.

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she was detained in Texas.


sentence: the states' attorneys supporting Grace described El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, which produce a large number of applicants for U.S. asylum, as nations facing pervasive problems with gangs and domestic violence.

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sentence: the new U.S. asylum policy reversed a 2014 decision by the Board of Immigrant Appeals that allowed undocumented immigrants fleeing domestic violence to apply for asylum.

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sentence: district of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement Friday that the new policy "ignores decades of state, federal, and international law."

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sentence: "Federal law requires that all asylum claims be adjudicated on the particular facts and circumstances of the claim, and such a bar violates that principle," the friend-of-the court brief said.

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sentence: attorneys further argued in the brief that the policy denying immigrants entry hurts the U.S. economy, saying they are more likely to become entrepreneurs and "supply necessary labor."

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sentence: attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered immigration judges to no longer grant asylum to victims fleeing domestic abuse and gang violence in June.

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sentence: "asylum is available for those who leave their home country because of persecution or fear on account of race, religion, nationality, or membership in a particular social group or political opinion," Sessions said in his June 11 announcement of the policy.

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sentence: asylum was never meant to alleviate all problems -- even all serious problems -- that people face every day all over the world.

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desperate rescue efforts in Palu as death toll doubles in race to find survivors


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sentence: "it feels very tense," said 35-year-old mother Risa Kusuma, comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in the gutted city of Palu.

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sentence: residents were seen returning to their destroyed homes, picking through waterlogged belongings, trying to salvage anything they could find.

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sentence: hundreds of people were injured and hospitals, damaged by the magnitude 7.5 quake, were overwhelmed.

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sentence: I was squeezed into the ruins of the wall, I think, "Haris told Associated Press, adding that his family was in town for a wedding.

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sentence: "I heard my wife cry for help, but then silence.

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I hope they are safe. "


sentence: U.S. ambassador accuses China of 'bullying' with 'propaganda ads'

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sentence: a week after an official Chinese newspaper ran a four-page ad in a U.S. daily touting the mutual benefits of U.S.-China trade, the U.S. ambassador to China accused Beijing of using the American press to spread propaganda.

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sentence: U.S. President Donald Trump last Wednesday referred to the China Daily's paid supplement in the Des Moines Register - the state of Iowa's biggest selling newspaper - after accusing China of seeking to meddle in the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections, a charge China denies.

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sentence: Trump's accusation that Beijing was trying to meddle in U.S. elections marked what U.S. officials told Reuters was a new phase in an escalating campaign by Washington to put pressure on China.

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sentence: while it is normal for foreign governments to place advertisements to promote trade, Beijing and Washington are currently locked in an escalating trade war that has seen them level rounds of tariffs on each other's imports.

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