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Firefighters make slow progress with California blazes
PA Media

Ofqual threatened with legal action
The Independent

UK coronavirus LIVE: Death toll rises by 18 as holidaymakers in Croatia scramble back to beat quarantine

Holidaymakers have scrambled back to the UK from Croatia to avoid a two-week quarantine. Croatia, as well as Austria and Trinidad and Tobago, are now on the UK's "red list" after a spike in coronavirus cases. It comes as tougher measures for areas of Greater Manchester and Lancashire came into force, with people advised not to socialise with anyone outside their household, and funerals and weddings limited to 20 people. Meanwhile, the number of...
Evening Standard

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Greater Manchester police sends message to the victims of the Manchester bombings
Mirror

How the two flags of Belarus became symbols of confrontation

For the past two weeks, Minsk has been a red and white city. On Saturday afternoon, in the latest in a long series of protests against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime, more than 2,000 women gathered outside a central market, again displaying the familiar colour scheme. Some wore white dresses with red belts, a few brought white dogs with red ribbons tied on them, and many waved the white-red historical Belarusian flag that has become the symbol of...
The Guardian

World's 'oldest man' dies four months after his 116th birthday
Daily Mail

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Opposition leader has message for military
Sky News

How does coronavirus spread at a concert? Germans do a test
PA Media

Double hurricane threat as Tropical Storms Laura and Marco advance towards US Gulf Coast

Two tropical storms are advancing across the Caribbean posing potentially historic threats to the US Gulf Coast, with both projected to reach the coast at or close to hurricane force. The current projected track for Tropical Storms Laura and Marco by the US National Hurricane Center puts both storms together in the Gulf on Tuesday, with Marco set to hit near the Texas-Louisiana border and Laura set to make landfall a little less than a day...
The Independent

New 'restrictions causing confusion'
Evening Standard

Piers Morgan tipped to replace Simon Cowell on BGT despite nasty feud with David Williams
Mirror

Return of schools: Starmer warns PM

Plans to get all children back to school in early September are now at “serious risk” because of government incompetence and the chaos caused by the exams fiasco, the Labour leader Keir Starmer has warned.                                     v
The Guardian

Trumps floats sending the law to polls, but lacks the power

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to send law enforcement to polling places for the upcoming presidential election, part of a growing pattern of rhetoric in which he has suggested that he wants to make it harder for Americans to vote. And much like the idea he floated a few weeks ago about delaying the election entirely, it's not exactly up to him. The effort also could be viewed as a means to intimidate minority voters,...
Associated Press

Nationwide building society calls on customers to respect its staff after spike in abuse in branches
This Is Money

Irish PM, Deputy PM call on EU trade chief Hogan to quit
Reuters

Mexico nears somber coronavirus milestone even as signs of hope emerge
Reuters

Dozens of WWII veterans to gather in Hawaii amid pandemic

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Several dozen aging U.S. veterans, including some who were in Tokyo Bay as swarms of warplanes buzzed overhead and nations converged to end World War II, will gather on a battleship in Pearl Harbor next month to mark the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender, even if it means the vulnerable group may be risking their lives again amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 75th anniversary was meant to be a blockbuster event,...
Associated Press

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File photo of a demonstrator holding a 'She Can't Breathe' poster depicting the Earth at a demonstration in Athens, Greece.
France 24

Earth Overshoot Day slightly later this year due to Covid-19 pandemic

Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday, according to researchers who said the grim milestone is slightly later than last year after the pandemic slowed runaway overconsumption. So-called Earth Overshoot Day -- the date when humanity has used all the biological resources that Earth can renew annually -- has crept steadily earlier since the 1970s, according to the Global...
France 24

With Covid comes the perfect opportunity to shift the economy away from fossil fuel

Whenever confronted with a tragedy in your life, one of the hardest aspects to deal with is that life goes on – work continues, other events occur, bills need to be paid, the world keeps on turning. It can actually be a struggle to realise that even though you are feeling dreadful, other problems and tasks remain to be addressed. So it is with the Covid-19 pandemic. The world’s economy has been struck by an utterly tragic event that has wrecked...
The Guardian

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