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GSK teams with King’s College to use AI to fight cancer
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The pharmaceuticals firm GSK has struck a five-year partnership with King’s College London to use artificial intelligence to develop personalised treatments for cancer by investigating the role played by genetics in t...
How Democrats could actually pass their new voting rights bill
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Happy Thursday, My inbox quickly filled up with statements of support Tuesday morning after Democrats unveiled the latest iteration of a federal bill that would drastically expand voting rights. The bill, the Freedom...
The Guardian view on benefit cuts: the fight against poverty is on
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The government appears hellbent on inflicting immeasurable hardship. Ignoring warnings, pleas and recommendations from charities, thinktanks, opposition parties and six former Conservative welfare secretaries, Rishi S...
Northern Idaho’s anti-government streak hinders fight against Covid
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Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of anti-government activism that has confounded attempts to battle a Covid-19 outbreak overwhelming hospitals in the deeply conservative region. A deadly 1992 standoff with fe...
USA fight back in Honduras to revive World Cup qualifying campaign
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Antonee Robinson and Ricardo Pepi scored their first international goals after a half-time change in formation, Brenden Aaronson and Sebastian Lletget added late goals and the United States revived its World Cup quali...
Londoners fight to save Newham City Farm from closure threat
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East London residents are fighting to save one of the oldest city farms in the capital after Newham council recommended its closure. The cows, horses, goats, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs and even a kookaburra at Newham...
Family of woman killed in cage fight express ‘mismatch’ concerns
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The family of a mixed martial arts enthusiast who died after a blow to the head in a cage fight have expressed concern that she was “mismatched” with an opponent bigger and more muscular than her. Saeideh Aletaha, a 2...
Kidnapped, raped and wed against their will: Kyrgyz women’s fight against a brutal tradition
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Aisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt in the village of At-Bashy, not far from the Torugart crossing into China. “It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday. I had a paper bag full o...
Greenham Common at 40: We came to fight war, and stayed for the feminism
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In September 1981, 32 women, four men and several children marched from Cardiff to Berkshire to protest over nuclear weapons being sited at RAF Greenham Common. The following year, the founders declared the camp “wome...
Conor Gallagher at the double as Crystal Palace fight back to thwart West Ham
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This was a reality check for West Ham. Their brief spell at the top of the Premier League is over, brought to an end by a fine comeback from Crystal Palace. It was a frayed performance from West Ham and although they ...
Lewis Hamilton expects even tougher Max Verstappen title fight as F1 resumes
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Lewis Hamilton expects the challenge from his world championship rival Max Verstappen and Red Bull to be even stronger as Formula One enters the second half of the season. Before the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, Hami...
Sex Pistols win legal fight against Johnny Rotten over songs
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Two former Sex Pistols have won a high court battle with the former frontman Johnny Rotten over the use of the punk band’s songs in a forthcoming television series. The group’s former drummer Paul Cook and guitarist S...
The Olympics steamrolled Tokyo activists. Now LA residents are bracing for a fight
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A few hours after the Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron at the fairly downbeat Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony, a group of about 50 people crammed the backyard of a Los Angeles bookstore to celebra...
‘I can’t work’: the mothers left to fight alone for their children’s mental health care
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Cassandra Leese should have been at the front of the queue when the NHS called on former staff to return to help fight the nascent Covid pandemic in March 2020. As an ITU-trained nurse, she was exactly the sort of exp...
UK can’t fight climate crisis with austerity, warns expert
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Imposing “premature austerity” again will undermine the fight against climate change and stop poorer households going green, one of the world’s leading climate economists has warned the government, amid claims that th...
Australia urged to embrace stronger 2030 climate targets in ‘crucial’ fight ahead of Glasgow summit
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A senior European diplomat says he “absolutely” hopes Australia and other developed countries embrace stronger 2030 climate targets, describing the coming decade as “crucial” in the fight against global heating. With ...