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Sicilian offers Elon Musk chance to buy a slice of Scala dei Turchi cliff
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Sicily’s famed cascading limestone cliff may not be the obvious choice for the next takeover bid by the world’s richest man, but one Italian man is hoping for such an eventuality. Part of the island’s Turkish Steps is...
British Base jumper dies after cliff jump in south of France
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A British Base jumper has died after his parachute failed to open in time during a cliff jump while on holiday with friends in the south of France. The 34-year-old man succumbed to his injuries at Grenoble university ...
The US supreme court is helping consolidate white political power in America
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Tuesday’s US supreme court decision, Merrill v Milligan, which upheld Alabama’s racially gerrymandered congressional map, is reminiscent of the holding in the supreme court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision: “That a Black ma...
When will Democrats do their job and protect Black people’s right to vote?
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Voting rights are under assault by Republican state lawmakers, clearly afraid of the power of the Black electorate and empowered by the gutting of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. The federal response, or lack the...
UK business confidence ‘falls off a cliff’, as fuel crisis enters second week – business live
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Copertura continua delle ultime notizie economiche e finanziarie, and the UK’s supply chain crisis
Fears furlough ‘cliff edge’ at Liberty Steel could puts jobs at risk
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Ministers and unions fear that Liberty Steel faces a “cliff edge”, risking thousands of jobs when the UK’s furlough scheme ends next month, unless owner Sanjeev Gupta can secure a new source of financing after months...
Ben Roberts-Smith: first Afghan witness tells court he saw ‘a big soldier’ kick his uncle off a cliff
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“A big soldier”, an Australian SAS trooper, kicked a handcuffed Afghan villager down a steep embankment, before the man’s body was later seen being dragged into an orchard, a court has heard in a pivotal day of eviden...
UK charities warn of cliff edge as ministers stall on housing funds
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Housing campaigners are warning that a widely praised initiative to get people off the streets in the long term faces “catastrophic disruption” if the chancellor Rishi Sunak does not renew funding. Charities including...
‘Menu of neglect’: preventative care hits cliff as US health resources diverted to fight Covid
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Health resources diverted to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have caused a major drop in critical preventative care including childhood vaccinations and lead screenings, sexually transmitted disease testing and substance ...
Jurassic Coast cliff collapses in biggest UK rockfall for 60 anni
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A huge section of a cliff on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset has collapsed on to a beach below and into the sea in the biggest UK rockfall in 60 anni. The rockfall happened just west of the south coast seaside town of W...
Science finally admits that it’s a myth that we fall off a fertility cliff at 35
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Good news, ladies! We’ve officially been granted two more years of useful life. According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the reproductive years for women in the United St...
‘A beacon of change’: new film to celebrate life of ceramicist Clarice Cliff
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She was born into a working-class Staffordshire family in 1899 and was sent to work in the potteries aged just 13 before going on to become one of the country’s most influential ceramicists. Now Clarice Cliff has insp...
Our sex life has fallen off a cliff and I can’t cope with the constant rejection
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I have been with my partner for about 15 anni. We met through work in our mid-20s; al tempo, she was engaged to another man. Her relationship ended and we became a couple. Things were great to begin with, the thri...
‘Falling off a cliff’: pandemic crippling world’s most fragile states, trova il rapporto
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Thousands could starve in the world’s most fragile states as the pandemic comes on top of existing crises, warns a new report today which found aid workers are deeply pessimistic about the coming year. The survey of a...