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The Miami tower collapse: a tragedy in slow motion
Speed Read ‘The search for answers is not moving nearly fast enough’
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Who will be the next Duke of Edinburgh?
Speed Read Prince Charles reportedly reluctant to hand over his father’s title to youngest sibling
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Bank holidays and boycotts: are MPs trying to jinx England?
Speed Read Declaring a bank holiday would be ‘tempting fate’, says Boris Johnson
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South Africa’s landmark ruling: how the courts stood up to Jacob Zuma
Speed Read Last week the former president was jailed for 15 months for contempt of court - a first in the country’s history
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The ‘heat dome’: blistering temperatures in the Pacific Northwest should act as a wake-up call
Speed Read People are used to hearing of record-high temperatures in desert states such as Nevada or Arizona, but not in verdant Washington and Oregon
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The end of free speech? Hong Kong loses its Apple
Speed Read The lively, pro-democracy Apple Daily tabloid is the latest victim of the harsh ‘national security’ law imposed on the territory by Beijing
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Critical race theory: America’s latest cultural battleground
Speed Read Conservatives say it’s a toxic theory poisoning the minds of schoolchildren - others say the whole story is a cynical distraction
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How 100,000 ‘lost children’ disappeared from UK school system
Speed Read Experts warn that vulnerable pupils may be recruited by gangs after failing to return to education post-lockdown
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‘Riding high in May, shot down in June’: the DUP implosion explained
Speed Read The rule of Edwin Poots is now history, after only 21 days, following a revolt by the Democratic Unionist Party’s Assembly members and MPs
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Weightlifting: Olympic Games set for transgender first
Speed Read New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will make history at Tokyo 2020
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Children’s social care system a ‘Jenga tower held together by Sellotape’
Speed Read State intervention too often focused on ‘assessment and investigation’ and not support
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Emmanuel Macron’s assault: a slap in the face for French democracy?
Speed Read Last week, a protester grabbed the French president by his arm with one hand and slapped him in the face with the other
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Stonewall: a champion or a bully?
Speed Read Britain’s largest LGBT charity is in deep trouble because of its stance on gender identity
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Sedat Peker: the mob boss targeting Turkey’s political elite
Speed Read A flamboyant, Tony Soprano-esque figure, he has been spilling the beans on figures in Turkey’s ruling AKP
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