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The European Union insisted on Friday that Britain not change trading rules in Northern Ireland on its own and said it would continue legal action against unilateral British action in the province for as long as necessary. European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic hosted UK negotiator David Frost for talks on Thursday evening and said that only agreements by joint bodies established by the Brexit divorce deal could provide stability in Northern Ireland. The British-ruled province is in the EU single market for goods to ensure an open border with EU member Ireland and so requires checks on goods coming from other parts of the United Kingdom.
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BLM activist arrested for anti-Asian hate crime in Seattle
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Lawyer of police officer who shot Adam Toledo says it’s ‘disheartening’ no one has asked how officer is doing
Police union president called the officer’s actions “heroic”
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AOC ignores Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incessant Twitter pleas for a public ‘head to head’
MTG says a debate ‘would be informative for the American People’ with her degree in business administration and AOC’s degree in economics
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America facing vaccine passport ‘mess’, experts warn
‘I think it’s going to be a tidal wave that’s going to be very difficult to stop’
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Babies dying from Covid in Brazil as ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ hits country
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Biden news: Pence undergoes pacemaker operation as Sanders pays Trump rare compliment on Afghanistan
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Ted Cruz refuses to wear mask at Capitol: ‘Virtually everyone is vaccinated’
CDC recommends vaccinated people continue wearing ‘a mask’
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QAnon Candidates Are Winning Local Elections. Can They Be Stopped?
Since Trump’s defeat, the QAnon movement has quietly entered a different, and arguably more dangerous, phase
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Awkwafina Buys Bel Air Mansion for $3.5 Million
The Crazy Rich Asians star’s new West Coast home is a boxy, modern four-bedroom
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FedEx shooting: Everything we know so far about incident at Indianapolis warehouse
Parcel firm ‘shocked and saddened’ after shooting spree at facility, with police investigating
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Eight cadets at West Point expelled for cheating, over 50 set back a year
West Point finalized discipline against cadets caught cheating in largest scandal since 1970s.
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Global officials urge rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccines, money to help end pandemic
Top U.N., financial and vaccine officials on Thursday urged rich countries to donate excess COVID-19 vaccine doses to a program supplying lower income countries in a bid to end the pandemic and get the global economy back on track. At an event organised by the Gavi Vaccine Alliance to boost support for the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative, the officials appealed for another $2 billion by June for the programme, which aims to buy up to 1.8 billion doses in 2021. COVAX has shipped more than 38 million vaccine doses to 111 countries in seven weeks, most of them AstraZeneca's shot.
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Antony Blinken makes surprise stop in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal
Blinken seeks to assure senior Afghan politicians the U.S. remains committed to the country despite a plan to withdraw troops by Sept. 11.
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Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong's rebel mogul and pro-democracy voice
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Country music ‘moving in right direction’ with inclusivity, Keith Urban says
Keith Urban will co-host the ACM Awards with Mickey Guyton, the first Black woman to host the award show.
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Biden news: Russia expels 10 US diplomats as White House calls Adam Toledo shooting ‘chilling’
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Ted Cruz among six Republicans to vote down bill to end anti-Asian hate crimes
The lawmakers voted with a majority of 92 against 6 in the Senate
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Scottish Tories propose reopening of decades-old train lines to boost economy
Rail routes that have been closed for decades would be resurrected under Tory proposals to boost Scotland’s transport network. Under the plan, set to be included in the party manifesto, reviews would be launched into lines that were shut under the Beeching cuts of the 1960s and reopened if it was found doing so would make economic sense. The line between Perth and Edinburgh would be one of those that could be rejuvenated under the plan with the Buchan to Formartine line, in the north east, another contender. It follows the reopening of the Borders railway, which closed in 1969 and reopened in 2015, and has been widely seen as a success. The infrastructure plan would also see upgrades to Scotland’s road network, including the dualling of the A1 and expansion of the M8. "We would review closed rail lines and stations and reopen those which would support local growth,” Mr Ross said. “"Many iconic railways were shut down during the Beeching cuts of the 1960s - we would review which should be reopened.
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Adam Toledo shooting – latest: Further protests expected today as AOC says prosecutor lied about about killing
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