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Liverpool vs Man Utd: Premier League – teams, start, lineups
Liverpool face fierce rivals Manchester United in our featured live Premier League commentary stream on Sunday.
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Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion pay package for Musk faces investor push back
The electric carmaker had unveiled chief Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion compensation plan in September.
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A right-wing run-off: What to know about Bolivia’s presidential election
After an historic defeat for the long-dominant political left, two candidates have promised a new pro-market direction.
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Trump confirms ‘submarine’ attack in Caribbean, amid reports of survivors
The US president also indicated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered concessions in a bid to lower tensions.
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Britain’s Prince Andrew gives up royal title amid Epstein allegations
Prince Andrew’s reputation has suffered in recent years, mainly due to his ties to US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Zelenskyy congratulates Trump on Gaza, asks for help ending Russia’s war
During a White House visit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s confident they can end Russia’s war.
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Is there enough international political will to probe war crimes in Gaza?
The UN says peace without justice is not sustainable.
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Gaza’s Sayed al-Hashim mosque reopens after two years
For the first time in two years, people in Gaza gathered at the centuries-old Sayed al-Hashim mosque in Gaza City.
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Are 16-year-olds too young to vote?
We look at 16-year-olds who are set to be given the right to vote in the UK.
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Georgian police raid homes of former officials including ex-prime minister
Authorities in Georgia have been clamping down on figures accused of trying to overthrow the government.
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‘We fear for my father’s life’: Marwan Barghouti’s son to Al Jazeera
The son of imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti says his family fears for their father’s life.
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Gaza aid deliveries still face Israeli roadblocks a week into ceasefire
As calls for border crossings to reopen grow, Israeli attacks on Palestinians kill and wound several despite truce.
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On Ukraine’s Reconstruction
As the war in Ukraine nears its fourth year, uncertainty is growing over the future of international support. Meanwhile, mounting pressure on Russia’s economy and an increase in high-tech, drone-centric warfare continue to bolster Ukraine’s defense. Experts from Ukraine and Europe discuss international financial initiatives to support Ukraine’s reconstruction and revitalize its infrastructure and economy in the aftermath of Russia’s military aggression.
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- This report lays out strategies for rebuilding Ukraine, reintegrating workers, and growing the country’s economy post-war.
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Host: Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Senior Fellow, Center for Geoeconomic Studies at CFR
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Guests: Nadia Calviño, President, European Investment Bank
Sergii Marchenko, Minister of Finance, Ukraine
Odile Renaud-Basso, President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Madagascar’s Randrianirina promises ‘profound change’
Madagascar coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina promised that the country is heading towards a transformation.
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Will Madagascar’s coup overshadow its Gen Z revolution?
Madagascar’s Gen Z declared victory after the president fled, but will they have a say in the country’s future?
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Portugal’s parliament approves far-right party’s bill to ban face veils
If bill is signed into law, Portugal would join several European countries which already have full or partial bans.
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The six problems a Gaza ceasefire has brought Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu has been accused of exploiting the Gaza war for his own gains, and an end to it could cause him problems.
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Johnson & Hancock awarded Nobel prize for work on ‘not following the science’
The thorny question of whether or not the UK government was really following the science has been solved by this year’s Nobel Laureates.
Johnson and Hancock’s valuable research over the last 18 months hypothesised what would happen if senior members of a government told everyone they were following the science but, in fact, were ‘not following the science at all.’
A spokesperson for the Nobel medicine Committee said the UK team’s ‘doing the exact opposite’ research project allowed us to make sense for the first time the government thinking behind such policies as:
– The ‘delay in taking any action whatsoever’ strategy
– The ‘not stopping flights coming to the UK from Wuhan until the day before the Chinese locked down the city; strategy
– The ‘Boris Johnson still shaking hands despite warnings from the Spi-behavioural group’ strategy
– The ‘let’s go for herd immunity’ strategy
– The ‘don’t bother with facemasks’ strategy
– The ‘we’re not listening to the WHO’ strategy
– The ;send PPE to China even though we might need it’ strategy
– The ‘abandoning the idea of a circuit-break lockdown’ strategy
– The ‘let massive sporting events with massive crowds go ahead’ strategy
The spokesperson also praised the Johnson & Hancock team for investigating what caused some cabinet ministers such as Rishi Sunak to go completely rogue, although they didn’t have time to come to any firm conclusions. He set up his EAT OUT TO HELP OUT strategy without asking any scientists or any advice whatsoever.
‘This is understandable as it would have detracted from the already excellent hypothesis that the team had on their main subject’, said the spokseperson. ‘However, they’ve not ruled out further explorations into the ‘I’m a minister, I’ll do what I f*cking well want if it means getting the cash tills of business ringing,’ strategy.’
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Fears for life expectancy in Scotland triggered by Scottish Widows getting so much younger
Population forecasters are tinkling in their tighty whities. The clearest indication yet that life expectancy in Scotland is plummeting has sent shockwaves through the back of a fag packet totter community.
Experts in looking at women and assessing their relative ages examined Scottish Widows adverts over the past few decades and have declared that they are definitely getting younger. Professor Iain James explained, ‘We went back all of the way to the the 1980s and had a stab at guessing the ages of each Scottish Widow smirking knowingly in her black hooded cape.
‘What we found was shocking. Firstly, there was not one wrinkly old Scottish Widow with missing teeth in her 70s. There was one who might have been in her late forties, but her skin was as smooth as a plump haggis and her perfect white teeth glistened in the Glasgow rain.
‘But I’m afraid it gets much sexier. You can see that every few years each one is replaced with a younger model: Early forties; then late thirties; and by the 2010s she is early thirties, tops.
‘In the latest Scottish Widows advert she looks about 23. That can’t mean anything else other than the men they were married to are dying much, much younger than we had previously dared consider.
‘At these rates, we estimate the population of Scotland will be -17 in 2041.’
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