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Boeing hopes third time the charm for Starliner test flight
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Boeing’s crew capsule rocketed into orbit Thursday on a repeat test flight without astronauts, after years of being grounded by flaws that could have doomed the spacecraft. Only a test dummy was aboard. If the capsule...
Image of Victory review – study of Arab-Israeli conflict from all angles hopes to heal
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‘A story can be a weapon,” a character says with metatextual significance at one point in this historical, fact-based drama about the early days of the Arab-Israeli conflict, set in 1948. But Israeli director Avi Nesh...
Harry Kane’s penalty sinks Burnley and boosts Tottenham’s top-four hopes
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Any win, even the scrappiest or most fortunate, was enough for Tottenham here. To prove that point, the roar after a tense four minutes of added time had concluded was similar to the noise that greeted the end of the ...
Former Police Scotland officer hopes ‘torturous’ tribunal win will help women
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A former armed response officer awarded nearly £1m by Police Scotland over victimisation said the past few years had been “torturous” and no amount of compensation could make up for the pain experienced. Rhona Malone ...
Hopes for EU ban on Russian oil despite Hungary comparing plan to ‘nuclear bomb’
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France has said a deal on a proposed EU ban on Russian oil could be struck this week, despite opposition from the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who has compared the plans to an atomic bomb. The French presid...
European roundup: Atlético beat Real Madrid to boost Champions League hopes
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A first-half penalty by Yannick Carrasco earned Atlético Madrid a 1-0 victory in a fiery derby against Real Madrid on Sunday, as the hosts tightened their grip on a place in next season’s Champions League. Atleetico, ...
Tottenham’s resistance puts major dent in Liverpool’s title hopes
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Rarely have a team reached the Premier League summit in May accompanied by such ruefulness. Jürgen Klopp thumped his chest with pride in front of the Kop, as though reinforcing the message that Liverpool will never gi...
Wild draw shows how Conte’s Spurs can derail Liverpool quadruple hopes
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It was the worst of times. And it was also the worst of times. It is easy – and also probably best – to forget the most recent spike of Premier League Covid chaos, a febrile few weeks of Omicron-mayhem either side of ...
Hopes rise for Covid vaccine patent waiver after key countries agree on proposal
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The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) most powerful members said on Tuesday that they had agreed on a proposed waiver on intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines in the hopes of speeding up rollouts worldwide...
Joel Embiid out indefinitely with orbital fracture in huge blow to 76ers’ title hopes
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Joel Embiid feared this would be the case. Turns out, he was right. The Philadelphia 76ers announced Friday night that Embiid – the NBA scoring champion and an MVP finalist – has a right orbital fracture and a mild co...
Britain’s Tesla hopes for big things from ‘microfactories’
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The last year has been tricky for electric vehicle startups. After a burst of investment mania in which companies raised billions on the mere promise of battery propulsion, valuations have come back down to earth. One...
Brighton’s Leandro Trossard strikes late to dent Tottenham’s top-four hopes
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Baked by Easter sun and seemingly overburdened by expectation, Tottenham reverted to fallible type. For the second time in a week, Brighton damaged a north London’s club’s top-four challenge, with Leandro Trossard’s l...
Burnley’s survival hopes dented after rare win for fellow strugglers Norwich
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Goals from Pierre Lees-Melou and Teemu Pukki helped reinvigorate Norwich’s slim survival hopes with a 2-0 home win over fellow strugglers Burnley. The Canaries were 10 points from safety before kick-off, but Lees-Melo...
Brighton and Mwepu stun Arsenal to damage Champions League hopes
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Champions League football had been firmly in Arsenal’s grasp but they face an almighty battle to secure it now. The league table shows they remain well in the fight but, should they tail off, it will not be hard to id...
Gordon strikes against Manchester United to boost Everton survival hopes
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It will not rank as the finest goal of Anthony Gordon’s career but it could prove the most important. The boyhood Evertonian brought his club a precious victory in their increasingly fraught attempt to avoid relegatio...
Exiled Yemen president steps aside as truce raises hopes of end to war
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Yemen’s exiled president has stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce....