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Pakistan and India Inch Toward Military Conflict, 2 Indian Warplanes Downed, Pilots Captured

Pakistan shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured their pilots, its military said, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals to a level unseen in 20 years.   

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Facebook Bans Tommy Robinson for Sounding the Alarm About Radical Islam

Facebook has banned conservative political activist Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defense League, for his repeated criticism of Islam and the mainstream media.

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Trump in Vietnam to Meet North Korea's Kim, Push to End Regime's Nukes

President Trump arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam today for his second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. While Kim still needs to make major concessions on nuclear weapons, the president believes progress can come as the two build a relationship.

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Venezuela's Maduro Defies All, Detains Foreign Journalist, Says US Wants Country's Oil

On Monday Venezuela's dictator Nicholas Maduro said the US will go to war for his country's oil and he detained an international journalist after he showed Maduro footage of Venezuelan children searching for food in a garbage truck.

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Most Senior Catholic Charged With Child Sex Abuse Convicted

The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy’s credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.

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‘Don’t Take My Bible Away!’ Shocking Arrest of Peaceful Street Preacher Caught on Video

A street preacher has been arrested in London, sparking outrage online. In a video of the incident posted to Twitter, officers can be seen forcefully asking the African man to stop, before arresting him on a rather baffling charge of “breaching the peace.”

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'I Know that God Is with Us': Despite Border Bloodshed, Desperate Venezuelans Say US Gov't Gives Them Hope

Tear gas and gunfire stopped a humanitarian convoy from entering Venezuela this weekend. Hundreds were left wounded and several are dead after forces loyal to dictator Nicolás Maduro opened fire, raising fears the political standoff is veering into open conflict.

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Christians Deliver Refugee Babies in the Desert as Syrians Flee Last ISIS Stronghold

Syrian families are fleeing in a mass exodus from the last strip of land under ISIS control.

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US Religious Freedom Envoy: Pakistan Has ‘Desire to Change’

Pakistan has “a desire to change” its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries that infringe on religious freedoms, a U.S. special envoy said Sunday on a tour of a Mideast long riven by faith.

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Pope Vows to End Abuse Cover-Ups but Victims Disappointed

Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with “the wrath of God” felt by the faithful, end the cover-ups by their superiors and prioritize the victims of this “brazen, aggressive and destructive evil.” But his failure to offer a concrete action plan to hold bishops accountable when they failed to protect their flocks from predators disappointed survivors, who had expected more from the first-ever global Catholic summit of its kind.

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‘Now I’d Die for Jesus’: Muslim Man Plotted to Kill Christian Cousin Before Christ Appeared in Dream

A Muslim Egyptian man who planned to murder his Christian cousin has revealed his story of miraculous conversion.

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Does Jesus’ Skin Color Really Matter?

The skin color of Jesus has been a wildly popular and equally controversial subject for centuries. Especially relevant today with faith-based entertainment on the rise, we’re exposed to countless depictions of Jesus. You’ll seldom find a casting lacking a controversy firestorm behind it.

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'End of the Spear' Missionary's Daughter Shares Stunning, Never-Before-Seen Love Letters Between Her Parents

Many are familiar with the story of Christian missionary Jim Elliot from the popular book, “Through the Gates of Splendor” or its 2005 film adaptation, “End of the Spear,” which chronicled the evangelist’s final and fatal mission to reach a remote Ecuadorian tribe for Christ.

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Billy Graham’s Grandson Breaks Down the Best ‘Proof of God’

Evangelist Will Graham comes from a well-known family line of famous preachers. His grandfather, the late Rev. Billy Graham, and his dad, Franklin Graham, have both made a monumental impact across the globe. Will Graham is following in their footsteps as he preaches, teaches and carries on the family legacy of spreading the Christian gospel.

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Nun to Vatican Abuse Summit: “This Storm Will Not Pass By”

A prominent Nigerian nun blasted the culture of silence that has long kept clergy sexual abuse hidden in the Catholic Church, telling a Vatican summit Saturday that transparency and an admission of mistakes were needed to restore trust.

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‘Momo’ Challenge Strikes Again After Mother Says Young Son Ordered to Plunge Knife Into His Neck

The horrific “Momo” challenge, which first made headlines last fall, is spreading once again. This time, in Europe.

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As Venezuela Standoff Turns Deadly, VP Pence Heads South to Step Up Pressure on Maduro

In the latest tragic development in Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, one person is dead and several others injured after the military opened fire on civilians who were trying to keep open part of the nation's southern border with Brazil in hopes of receiving desperately needed aid supplies.

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Christian Student's Kidney Slashed in Half by Angry Muslim Classmates

A Christian Pakistani student was recently stabbed by Muslim classmates. Haroon Ifan, a student at Government Mohammadi School in Karachi, was first targeted on Feb. 15 when a Muslim student stole and damaged his notebook. Two days later, Haroon was attacked by Majid and other Muslim students on his way to buy food. Persecution.org reports Haroon was stabbed in the stomach, causing damage to his kidney. 

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Trump says he walked away from deal with North Korea over sanctions

The US president says talks ended without an agreement after North Korea asked for full sanctions relief.

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Gangs: 27,000 children in England say they are members - report

A major report says gangs are using "chilling levels of violence" to keep child members compliant.

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Semi-identical twins 'identified for only the second time'

The boy and girl are identical on their mother's side but share only a proportion of their father's DNA.

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Michael Cohen: Five things he said about Donald Trump

From hacked emails to hush money, the explosive things Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress.

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More than 100 firefighters battle Birmingham tyre centre fire

Residents have been told to keep their windows and doors shut due to a tyre plant fire in Birmingham.

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Jeremy Corbyn: Labour will support Brexit referendum

But the Labour leader says he will continue to push for other options, after Commons Brexit votes.

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Bank customers hit by dozens of IT shutdowns

Customers suffer regular operational and security incidents, BBC analysis of new data reveals.

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India demands Pakistan release pilot as Kashmir crisis intensifies

Tensions rise over a fighter pilot being held following an exchange of fire over disputed Kashmir.

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Manchester Pride: Ariane Grande responds to backlash

The US singer responds to concerns about a straight artist headlining the LGBT event in Manchester.

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Mike Hall: UK endurance cyclist's death in Australia 'avoidable'

Mike Hall died almost instantly when he was hit by a car during a race in Australia in 2017.

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Online gambling: Labour promises tougher limits

Limits on how much gamblers can stake online would be introduced under Labour, Tom Watson says.

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Prince William and Kate visit Empire bar during NI trip

The couple ended their first day of their visit at a party to celebrate young people who have made a difference to NI.

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The Papers: Trump 'lies' and footballers' mental health

The US president makes many front pages while footballers' mental health dominates the tabloids.

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News Daily: Trump and Kim talks end, and thousands of children in gangs

Your morning briefing for 28 February 2019.

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What President Bush's dog Sully did next

The former service dog of the late President George HW Bush has a new job with the US Navy.

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Booker Prize finds new funder in billionaire Sir Michael Moritz

Venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz steps in after the literary award's previous sponsor withdrew.

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UK Antarctic meteorite hunt bags large haul

The first British-led expedition to gather space rocks in the Antarctic returns with 36 objects.

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What is BritBox?

The new streaming service is set to arrive in the UK, but what is it?

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Norwich City: Marco Stiepermann cleans Daniel Farke's car

Midfielder Marco Stiepermann took the chance to avoid a £50 fine by spinning a wheel of chance.

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Diabulimia: NHS cash to treat type 1 diabetes eating disorder

Zohra says treatment for the type 1 diabetes eating disorder has saved her life.

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The 'caravans of love' visiting Spain's empty villages

For the men who remain to farm the land in emptying Spanish villages it can be hard to meet women. The 'caravans of women' are one solution.

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Do we know how many children are in gangs?

A report today suggests 27,000 children are members of gangs, but how accurate is that figure?

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Will Birmingham's boom benefit all?

Not since the 1960s has Birmingham experienced so much redevelopment - but will the boom benefit everyone?

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The hairdressers spotting signs of abuse

Hairdressers and beauticians are being trained on the signs of domestic abuse, after one fatal case.

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'How learning a foreign language changed my life'

Native English speakers on how their lives have been shaped by learning a second language.

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The phone-makers bringing buttons back

Several phones at MWC are sporting physical keyboards rather than relying on touchscreens.

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Why are there UK wildfires in February?

What is causing the multiple February wildfires and is this the new normal?

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Will the BBC and ITV's BritBox be a hit or a flop?

The BBC and ITV-run service has been more than a decade in the making. Is it too little, too late?

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Buttler and Gayle smash breathtaking centuries as England edge Windies in thriller

Chris Gayle hits a superb 162 as West Indies fall agonisingly short of a famous one-day victory against a Jos Buttler-inspired England.

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Trump says Kim wanted all sanctions lifted at Vietnam summit – live

How violent American vigilantes at the border led to Trump’s wall

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire. By Greg Grandin

No myth in American history has been more powerful, more invoked by more presidents, than that of pioneers advancing across the frontier – a word that in the United States came to mean less a place than a state of mind, an imagined gateway into the future. No writer is more associated with the idea of the frontier than Frederick Jackson Turner, who, in the late 1800s, argued that the expansion of settlement across a frontier of “free land” created a uniquely American form of political equality, a vibrant, forward-looking individualism. Onward, and then onward again. There were lulls, doubts, dissents and counter-movements. But the expansionist imperative has remained constant, in one version or another, for centuries. As Woodrow Wilson, who before he was president was a colleague of Turner, said: “A frontier people always in our van, is, so far, the central and determining fact of our national history. There was no thought,” Wilson said, “of drawing back.”

So far. The poetry stopped on 16 June 2015, when Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign by standing Turner on his head. “I will build a great wall,” Trump said.

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US in virtual tie with Russia on global confidence, poll finds

Gallup poll measuring opinion in 133 countries and areas in 2018 found 31% approved of US leadership and 30% for Russia

Global confidence in US leadership is so low that the country is now in a virtual tie with Russia for worldwide approval.

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Trans troops say transitions made them stronger in first congressional testimony

Pentagon officials defend Trump administration push to ban transgender troops as Democrats condemn ‘self-defeating’ effort

Transgender troops testifying for the first time to Congress on Wednesday said transitioning to another sex made them stronger, while Pentagon officials defended the Trump administration’s desire to bar people like them from enlisting in the future.

Army Capt Alivia Stehlik, an infantry officer and graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, and Ranger School, told lawmakers she became a more “effective soldier” after she transitioned from male to female in 2017.

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'Officially an island’: rains leave California towns accessible only by boat

City of Guerneville flooded as river forecast to hit highest level in 25 years, officials say

Two communities in Northern California’s wine country were accessible only by boat after a relentless downpour caused a river to overflow.

The small city of Guerneville north of San Francisco “is officially an island”, with the overflowing Russian river forecast to hit its highest level in about 25 years, the Sonoma county sheriff’s office said in a statement.

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Michael Cohen: key takeaways from the former Trump lawyer's testimony

He implied the president knew more about Russian links during the 2016 presidential race than he has admitted

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Michael Cohen told the committee he had been with Donald Trump when key events in the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election were discussed. His testimony implied that the US president was far more deeply informed about Russian links during the 2016 presidential race than he has so far admitted.

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Michael Cohen: if Trump loses in 2020 'there will never be a peaceful transition of power' – as it happened

Michael Cohen accuses 'racist, conman' Trump of criminal conspiracy

In dramatic testimony, Cohen claims Trump committed crimes to cover up affair and had prior knowledge of Wikileaks release

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Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen accused the president in explosive public testimony before Congress of knowing in advance about key events under investigation in the Russia inquiry and of committing criminal conspiracy in the coverup of an extramarital affair.

In a day of high drama before the House oversight committee, Cohen delivered a string of bombshells that could spawn fresh investigations by Congress and the FBI. Testifying on Wednesday, he labelled the US president a “racist” and “conman”, produced signed checks that he said were proof of a fraudulently disguised conspiracy to silence a former adult film actor, and gave what he claimed were eyewitness accounts that implied Trump had prior knowledge of crucial Russia links.

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Michael Cohen: Trump knew about Don Jr's meeting with Russians – video

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen reveals he believes the president authorised the notorious meeting between members of his campaign team and Russian agents at Trump Tower to acquire 'dirt' on presidential opponent Hillary Clinton

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas from purging voter rolls

Ruling comes after secretary of state’s office flagged almost 100,000 voters who it claimed required a citizenship review

A federal judge has blocked election officials in Texas from checking the citizenship of registered voters and potentially purging them from electoral rolls in a temporary order that marks a significant victory for civil rights activists.

Related: ‘We should be outraged’: Alabama congresswoman tackles voter suppression

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Loyalty to Trump cost Michael Cohen everything. Republicans pay heed | Richard Wolffe

Trump’s Republicans need to ask themselves: how long are they planning to protect the unprotectable?

Donald Trump has done some strange things to the Republican party. Gone is their disgust at Stalinist tyrants from North Korea. Vanished is their outrage at deficit spending. Evaporated is their horror at a president who ignores Congress and the constitution.

But those bizarre twists are nothing compared to the screwball comedy that was the House oversight committee on Tuesday, as its Republicans grilled Trump’s former fixer, henchman and bagman, Michael Cohen.

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Jobs guarantees are more popular than Ivanka Trump thinks | Bhaskar Sunkara

The Trump administration doesn’t understand the needs of ordinary people. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does

It’s no surprise that Ivanka Trump, who grew up in lavish wealth, is out of touch with ordinary Americans. We were reminded of this fact when she was asked by Fox News host Steve Hilton about leftwing Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal and its proposed jobs guarantee. Her reply was baffling: “I don’t think most Americans in their heart want to be given something,” she said, adding: “I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years, people want to work for what they get, so I think this idea of a guaranteed minimum is not something most people want. They want the ability to be able to secure a job.”

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Anand Giridharadas: 'What wealthy people do is rig the discourse'

The author of Winners Take All assesses the relationship between philanthropy and antiracism in an era of growing wealth among elite changemakers

On the same day that Anand Giridharadas announced that he would be joining Time as an editor at large, I had the opportunity to talk with him about antiracism and America. A political analyst for MSNBC and author of the 2018 bestselling book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Giridharadas assesses the relationship between philanthropy and antiracism in an era of growing wealth among elite changemakers. Our wide-ranging conversation meandered from Malcolm X and Cedric Robinson’s idea of racial capitalism to “ruling-class dance moves”.

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Was the media biased against the Covington students? | Michael Massing

Conservatives accuse media organizations of trafficking in stereotypes that Trump supporters are bigots. Is there any merit to that claim?

Two recent incidents have strengthened conservatives’ belief that liberal journalists are implacably opposed to Donald Trump and his supporters: the 18 January encounter between a group of Kentucky students and a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and the claims by Jussie Smollett that he had been attacked by hoodlums shouting racist and anti-gay slurs. In both cases, conservatives say, journalists – based on flimsy evidence – trafficked in stereotypes that Trump supporters are vulgar bigots.

Is there any merit to these claims? Of the two cases, Smollett’s seems less revealing. If it is true (as the Chicago police now say) that he orchestrated the attack on himself, it can only be considered the twisted product of a warped mind. The initial reports about the incident were so troubling that even President Trump condemned it as “horrible”. Journalists – relying on police sources and quickly correcting the story as it unfolded – performed more or less responsibly.

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The left needs to get radical on big tech – moderate solutions won't cut it | Evgeny Morozov

Radical democratic transformation seeks to empower those that have been excluded from the leading roles in the digital economy

To note that the “techlash” – our rude and abrupt awakening to the mammoth powers of technology companies – is gaining force by the month is to state the obvious. Amazon’s sudden departure from New York City, where it was planning to open a second headquarters, attests to the rapidly changing political climate. The New Yorkers, apparently, have no desire to spend nearly $3bn in subsidies in order to lure Amazon – a company that, on making $11.2bn in profits in 2018, has paid no tax and even managed to book $129m in tax rebates.

Ignored in most accounts of the growing anti-Silicon Valley sentiment is the incongruence of the political and ideological forces behind the techlash. To paraphrase a Russian classic: while all the happy apologists of big tech are alike, all its critics are unhappy in their own way. These critics, united by their hatred of the digital giants, do make short-term tactical alliances; such arrangements, however, cannot hold in the long term.

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It’s not enough to defend democracy – now is the time to advance it | Nathan Schneider

If democracy is to recapture the world’s imagination, it will have to show it can deliver a better way of life than the autocrats

Every time the president of the United States declares the free press an enemy or calls to congratulate a newly elected strongman, it comes as a reminder of what we already knew: democracy is in retreat, in the US and around the world. An apologist for military dictatorship now leads Brazil. China’s premier no longer has to worry about term limits. Hungary, Turkey and the Philippines have opted for authoritarians. Surveys suggest that people around the world, including the young, have declining faith in democracy as a sensible way to govern.

Democracy’s champions, meanwhile, are rushing to the barricades in defense. The new leadership of the House of Representatives has made this session’s HR 1 bill a tome that, when all is said and done, at best catches the country up to best practices internationally. Others are going to court to defend old norms, like presidents disclosing their tax returns. They fly to places where ballot access is under attack and watch for irregularities. These are all noble-enough causes, but they don’t do sufficient justice to the fact of how poorly the institutions being defended have come to serve us.

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USA 2-2 Japan: SheBelieves Cup – as it happened

Johnny Manziel released by Montreal Alouettes and barred from CFL

• Team does not give specific reasons for Manziel’s departure
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Johnny Manziel’s time in the Canadian Football League is over. The CFL terminated the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner’s contract with the Montreal Alouettes on Wednesday. The league also informed the eight other teams that it wouldn’t register a contract for Manziel if any tried to sign him.

The league said Manziel had violated an agreement that made him eligible to play in the CFL. “We advised Montreal that Johnny had violated one of the conditions we had set for him to be in our league. And Montreal announced his release today,” CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie said. “We didn’t release the terms of those conditions then and we’re not going to do that now. “

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Quebec hockey league apologizes after racist taunts force black player from ice

• Jonathan Diaby left ice during second period due to racial abuse
• Video footage shows fans hurling abuse at Diaby in penalty box
• Diaby’s father and girlfriend were harassed by fans in the stands

A Canadian semi-pro hockey league has apologized to a black player who left the ice in the middle of a game because he and his family in the stands were subjected to racist abuse from spectators.

Jonathan Diaby, a 24-year-old defenseman for Marquis de Jonquière of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH), an independent league based in Quebec, said the abuse began after he received a penalty during the first period of Saturday’s game against Pétroliers du Nord in Saint-Jérôme, about 60km northwest of Montreal.

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MLS 2019 predictions: A new champion and a record-breaking Zlatan Ibrahimovic

The new season kicks off this weekend. Our panel of writers deliver their verdicts on the MVP, MLS Cup champions and white shirts

Seeing FC Cincinnati be the biggest thing to hit the city since WKRP went off the air. And it’ll be fun to see the midwest steal the hipster northwest’s thunder for a year. BD

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House passes first major gun control legislation in nearly quarter of a century

Members of Congress approved measure requiring federal background checks for all firearms sales by vote of 240-190

Gun control campaigners celebrated a precious win on Wednesday when the US House of Representatives passed its first major legislation on the issue in nearly a quarter of a century.

Related: ‘A Parkland every five days’: project tells stories of the children lost to gun violence

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The key excerpts from Cohen's testimony on the 'truth about Trump'

The US president’s former lawyer labels him an unpatriotic ‘liar’, a ‘cheat’ and a ‘racist’ who was part of a criminal scheme

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Donald Trump, is a “conman”, a “racist” and “liar” who knew about the WikiLeaks trove of hacked Clinton campaign emails before they were released and lied about negotiating a real estate project in Russia during his presidential campaign, his former lawyer Michael Cohen has alleged in testimony to Congress.

The explosive opening statement, which Cohen says is “the truth about Mr Trump” was delivered to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday morning.

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North Carolina political operative charged in election fraud scandal

Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr was arrested after grand jury indictments alleging illegal possession of absentee ballots

A political operative at the center of a ballot fraud scandal in North Carolina was arrested on Wednesday on criminal charges over activities in the 2016 elections and the Republican primary in 2018.

The Wake county district attorney, Lorrin Freeman, announced that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr was arrested after grand jury indictments alleging illegal possession of absentee ballots and obstruction of justice.

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Chicago to elect its first black female mayor as candidates head to runoff

Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle garnered the most votes, but neither received the more than 50% needed to avoid 2 April runoff

A former federal prosecutor and a county board leader will face each other in a runoff for the mayorship of Chicago this spring – in a contest that will result in the city being led by its first black female mayor.

The two women topped a large field of candidates in Tuesday’s election that included a member of the Daley family that has dominated the city’s politics for much of the last six decades.

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What Michael Cohen’s Testimony Will Tell Us About Trump’s Business, Bluster, and Wealth

Adam Davidson writes about Michael Cohen’s planned testimony before the House about Donald Trump’s business practices.

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Watch the Highlights: Michael Cohen’s Testimony Brings Trump World’s Psychodrama to Congress

Eric Lach writes about the opening statement that the Trump lawyer Michael Cohen plans to make during his testimony before Congress.

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Seventeen E-mails Telling You That You Have Unsubscribed from Our E-mail List

Nate Dern writes a humorous series of e-mails from a company in the wake of a request to unsubscribe.

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Patient Shoots Doctor at Florida Veterans Affairs Hospital, Officials Say

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On Politics: Michael Cohen Testifies

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Buoying Trump’s ‘Inflated’ Wealth: $4 Billion in ‘Brand Value,’ Cohen Says

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Cohen’s Testimony Is a Test for Both Parties in the Year Ahead

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White Man Who Shot Black Men After Hurricane Katrina Dies Days After Sentencing

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Quotation of the Day: Confessed Liar Meets With Ardent Partisans to Set the Record Straight

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Tampa Bay and Calgary Keep Streaks Alive by Beating Rangers and Devils

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Warriors Host Survivors of the Parkland School Shooting

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Corrections: February 28, 2019

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North Korea leader Kim says ready to denuclearize

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday he would not be in Vietnam meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump if he was not prepared to pursue the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

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Rights group says China arrests at least three labour activists

At least three prominent labour activists in China have been formally arrested on public order charges, a Hong Kong-based labour rights organisation said, the latest step by Chinese authorities in a rolling crackdown on civil society.

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Canada's Trudeau disputes ex-minister's charge she was pressured on SNC-Lavalin

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, rejecting an opposition call for his resignation, disputed allegations on Wednesday by his former justice minister that government officials inappropriately pressured her to help a major company avoid a corruption trial.

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Venezuela's Guaido to visit Brazil in bid to keep pressure on Maduro

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was due to arrive in Brazil on Wednesday night to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a tour of several nations to ratchet up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down.

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Trump adviser Kushner meets Turkey's Erdogan on Israel-Palestinian peace plan

White House adviser Jared Kushner discussed his Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, and the two also discussed increasing U.S.-Turkish cooperation and ways to boost economic conditions in the region.

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Trump, Kim resume talks in Vietnam on second day of summit

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday began talks on the second day of their second summit after both sides expressed hope for progress on a U.S. demand for North Korea's complete denuclearization.

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Nicaragua releases 100 prisoners, national dialogue starts

The Nicaraguan government on Wednesday released 100 people the opposition considers political prisoners, just as government and opposition leaders restarted talks aimed at ending a national crisis.

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‘Wrestle’ Review: On the Mat, Fighting for a Future

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Pakistan says it downed 2 Indian warplanes, took pilot

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President Trump lands in Vietnam for 2nd summit with Kim Jong Un

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Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, team detained in Venezuela, network says

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Trump says US citizen who was held hostage in Yemen for 18 months has been freed

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'Green Book' wins best picture Oscar

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Pakistan-India: Pakistan 'shoots down two Indian jets' over Kashmir

Pakistan says the Indian planes were inside its airspace in Kashmir and one pilot has been arrested.

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Saddleworth Moor fire: Crews tackle huge blaze

One witness describes the scene of the fire on Saddleworth Moor as "apocalyptic".

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Labour anti-Semitism: MP says party is 'too apologetic'

Corbyn ally Chris Williamson is criticised for saying the party "has given too much ground" on the issue.

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Brexit: May tells MPs 'do your duty' ahead of fresh votes

The PM appeals for help to end the impasse as MPs prepare to vote on what they want to happen next.

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BBC and ITV in talks over Netflix rival

ITV says talks over a Netflix rival are in a "concluding phase" at it reports a 13% rise in 2018 profits.

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Abortion in Northern Ireland: Derry Girls join protest

Women march to Parliament to represent those forced to fly to England and Wales for treatment.

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Wonga causing damage 'from beyond the grave'

Thousands of customers seeking compensation from the collapsed lender are being cast aside, MPs say.

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M&S and Ocado in £750m home delivery deal

The deal will give M&S a home delivery food service for the first time.

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George Pell: Cardinal's bail revoked after sexual abuse conviction

The ex-Vatican treasurer has been ordered into custody after being convicted of child sexual abuse.

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Exclusive pictures of final Islamic State group bastion

Several hundred fighters from the Islamic State group are holed up in Baghuz.

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Rail passengers face another difficult year, warn MPs

More timetable changes are planned for May - a year after similar updates caused major disruption.

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Newspaper headlines: May's Brexit delay vote and February's hot weather

The shift in the PM's stance makes most front pages, along with images of Britain soaking up the sun.

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News Daily: Labour MP in anti-Semitism row, and language learning decline

Your morning briefing for 27 February 2019.

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Can knife crime be stopped before it starts?

Ros Griffiths, who works with boys at risk of exclusion from school, says knife crime is caused by inequality and lack of opportunity.

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Hedgehogs to swimsuits: How a warm winter affects us all

As the UK soaks up the sun, hedgehogs are coming out of hibernation and sales of summer clothes are up.

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The seamstress who sews with her feet

Egyptian seamstress Baraka Shenouda was born without forearms and sews with her feet.

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Shark feeding frenzy wins underwater photo award

Winning photos from the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition

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Oscars 2019: Red carpet rejection for BBC reporter

How many times can a BBC reporter get rejected before bagging an interview?

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Organ donation law: How Keira's heart saved Max

The parents of Keira, and Max - the boy who received her heart - tell the story behind the organ donation legislation named after them.

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Chinese broadcaster censors Rami Malek Oscars speech

Mango TV changes "gay man" to "special group" in translating best actor Rami Malek's acceptance speech.

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Alan Partridge returns to BBC with five-star reviews. A-ha!

This Time is hailed as a "magnificent return" for Steve Coogan's much-loved comedy character.

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Could barristers earn more working in McDonald's?

Barristers are considering going on strike over pay, but how does their pay compare?

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Autism-anorexia link 'must be acted on'

One in five women presenting to UK clinics with anorexia may also have autism, research suggests.

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Trump-Kim summit: What North Korea can learn from Vietnam's women

The two countries have things in common, and where Vietnam has blossomed, North Korea could follow.

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UK weather: Is hot February down to climate change?

Why have we gone from Beast from the East in 2018 to a weirdly warm February in 2019?

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Eritrean Press: Reporting on Africa's most secretive state

A mystery man who reports news from one of the most repressive countries in the world gives his first interview.

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Why is this tech show full of men?

Women make up less than a quarter of delegates at the annual technology fair in Barcelona.

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French frustrations with Macron boil over in angry debates

Protests have taken place for 15 weeks in Paris, but much of the discontent can be found in small towns.

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'I don't reject you, I reject the cutting'

Twelve-year-old Rosie has to either run away from her family or submit herself to female genital mutilation.

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The Challenge to Republicans in the House Vote to Terminate Trump’s Emergency

Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about a House vote to terminate the emergency declaration that Donald Trump has made at the southern border, and the thirteen congressional Republicans who broke with the President’s decision.

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How Civilian Firms Fact-Check North Korea’s Denuclearization Efforts

Doug Bock Clark writes about civilian firms that are fact-checking a denuclearization process that the Trump Administration alleges is under way in North Korea.

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Democrats and Republicans Debate the Legitimacy of Trump’s Border Crisis

Osita Nwanevu reports on the congressional debate between Democrats and Republicans over Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border, including remarks by Representative Norma Torres, of California.

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Mort Gerberg on Fifty Years of Cartooning

Emma Allen speaks with Mort Gerberg, the cartoonist and a contributor to the magazine since 1965, who is the subject of a New York Historical Society retrospective, “Mort Gerberg Cartoons: A New Yorker’s Perspective.”

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When Life (Your C.S.A.) Gives You . . .

Pia Mileaf-Patel humorously illustrates ways to make the best of whatever fruits and vegetables the local C.S.A. doles out.

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How Bernie Sanders and the 2020 Candidates Are Approaching Trump Supporters

Eric Lach writes about Bernie Sanders, who has made a distinction between Donald Trump and his supporters, and about how Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Cory Booker talk about Trump on the campaign trail.

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 26th

Brendan Loper’s Daily Cartoon wants Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong Un to send other dictators a message.

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Why the Life-Insurance Industry Wants to Creep on Your Instagram

Nathan Heller reports on life-insurance carriers using information from social-media posts to set premiums for their customers.

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Fashion Tips for Tired Women

Langan Kingsley provides humorous fashion advice for women who are tired and just don’t know if they can do it anymore.

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The P.G. & E. Bankruptcy and the Coming Climate-Related Business Failures

Sheelah Kolhatkar on the California-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy because of costs related to wildfires and how climate change may deal other companies similar fates.

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Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Starlet Apartments”

Deborah Treisman hosts the author Jonathan Lethem, who reads his short story “The Starlet Apartments,” from the March 4, 2019, issue of The New Yorker.

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An Oscars-Night Diary

Michael Schulman recaps his night at the 2019 Oscars ceremony, and at the Vanity Fair after-party.

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Who Killed Jean McConville?

The New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe solves the most notorious murder of the Troubles.

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May Days

Jeffrey Toobin writes about the former acting director of the F.B.I. Andrew McCabe’s countdown to the Mueller report.

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Should the Oscars Survive?

Anthony Lane recaps the 2019 Academy Awards, and laments the omission of Stanley Donen from the in-memoriam montage.

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N.Y.C. Tourist Photos I’ve Appeared in Through the Years

Siobhán Gallagher illustrates a humorous series of photobombs of tourists’ pictures in New York City.

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Will Trump Give Away Too Much to North Korea—and Get Too Little?

Robin Wright writes about the upcoming meeting in Hanoi between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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David Runciman on Brexit and the Crisis in Britain’s Labour Party

Isaac Chotiner interviews David Runciman, the author of “How Democracy Ends,” about why seven members of the Labour Party resigned over concerns about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

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Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 25th

Kim Warp’s Daily Cartoon recaps the Oscars.

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“A Death in the Gunj,” a Horror Movie About Violent Masculinity

Sheena Raza Faisal recommends the director Konkona Sen Sharma’s début film, now streaming on Amazon, about patriarchy and misogyny.

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A Lawsuit by a Campaign Worker Is the Latest Challenge to Trump’s Nondisclosure Agreements

Ronan Farrow writes about a lawsuit brought against Donald Trump by Alva Johnson, a worker on his Presidential campaign.

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Congratulations on Your New Debt

Shouts & Murmurs by Kate Sidley: You’ve just given birth to a healthy baby. This is an exciting, exhausting, and overwhelming time. So here’s the bill.

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Stephen Sondheim and Lynn Nottage Revivals Time-Travel Through Artists’ Lives

For the aspiring theatricals in “Merrily We Roll Along” and “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” success comes at a price, Sarah Larson writes.

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Jasper Johns and the Question of Meaning

The painter is a riddler, especially when his themes are blatant, Peter Schjeldahl writes.

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How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized

The great Enlightenment impresario Denis Diderot was once a pornographer, pamphleteer, and prisoner, Adam Gopnik writes. 

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Is the Strand a Landmark?

Days after Amazon’s retreat from Queens, the owner of the famed independent bookstore fights an effort to declare her building a landmark, Micah Hauser writes.

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The Mail

Letters respond to Joan Acocella’s analysis of New York City Ballet’s sexual-harassment reckoning and Ian Frazier’s piece on Rachael Van Horn.

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Slide Show: New Yorker Cartoons March 4, 2019

New cartoons from the magazine.

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The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future

After a national disaster, a British doctor began collecting foreboding visions. Soon, they closed in on him, Sam Knight writes.

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Sarah Cooper’s Non-Threatening Leadership Skills for Women!

The Google designer turned comedian offers satirical advice on surviving the corporate world, Sheila Marikar writes.

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Trump faces rebuke from former top officials over 'national emergency' – as it happened

Pound hits 21-month high as Brexit delay looms - as it happened

Monsanto: judge threatens to 'shut down' cancer patient's lawyer

Judge in Roundup maker’s first federal trial had banned discussion of the company’s alleged manipulation of science

Monsanto is facing its first federal trial over allegations that its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, but a US judge has blocked attorneys from discussing the corporation’s alleged manipulation of science.

In an extraordinary move in a packed San Francisco courtroom on Monday, US judge Vince Chhabria threatened to sanction and “shut down” a cancer patient’s attorney for violating his ban on talking about Monsanto’s influence on government regulators and cancer research.

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Rising level of corporate debt a risk to global economy – OECD

Companies around world need to repay or refinance as much as $4tn over next three years

The global economy faces escalating risks from rising levels of corporate debt, with companies around the world needing to repay or refinance as much as $4tn (£3.1tn) over the next three years, according to the OECD.

Sounding the alarm over the scale of the debt mountain built up over the past decade since the last financial crisis, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that global company borrowing has ballooned to reach $13tn by the end of last year – more than double the level before the 2008 crash.

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Analysts urge caution over hopes for US-China trade solution

Despite Donald Trump saying deal ‘could happen fairly soon’, analysts warn against over-optimism

Trade tensions between the US and China could rapidly rekindle despite rising hopes of a deal, analysts have warned, after Donald Trump promised to pause the launch of higher import tariffs on Chinese goods.

The US president announced late on Sunday that he would delay raising tariffs on as much as $200bn (£153bn) of Chinese goods from 10% to 25% after progress was made in talks between Washington and Beijing, averting the imposition of the higher rate from 1 March.

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Nord Stream 2 Russian gas pipeline likely to go ahead after EU deal

Concerns had been raised over project increasing German reliance on Russian energy

Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, called it a mistake, while the US president, Donald Trump, has branded it very inappropriate and a “very bad thing for Nato”.

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline to take Russian gas to Germany is arguably Europe’s most controversial energy project, drawing opposition from Ukraine, which it will bypass, and uniting the US, eastern EU states and the European commission, which fears it will undermine the bloc’s ‘energy union’ plans.

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Trump says Kim 'wants to do something great'; Morgan Stanley says North Korea could attract $9 billion per year

0540 GMT: TRUMP SEES AWESOME POTENTIAL FOR "MY FRIEND KIM"

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Nigeria's Buhari wins second term as president

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term at the helm of Africa's largest economy and top oil producer, the electoral commission chairman said on Wednesday, following an election marred by delays, logistical glitches and violence.

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Pakistan says it shot down Indian jets, carried out airstrikes in Kashmir

Pakistan carried out airstrikes and shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, Pakistani officials said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting leading powers to urge both sides to show restraint.

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