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Officials frustrate Juventus as Inter keep title defence ambitions on track
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The Derby d’Italia was only 34 minutes old, but already we had seen blood, sweat and tears – and that was just Manuel Locatelli. The game had barely begun when Lautaro Martínez’s high boot caught the Juventus midfield...
Partygate: Sue Gray kept in dark as first fines issued to No 10 officials
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Sue Gray is being kept in the dark about which Downing Street parties have attracted fines, as officials began to receive £50 penalties for attending illegal lockdown gatherings, following the Metropolitan police inve...
First Downing Street officials receive £50 lockdown party fines
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Officials have begun to receive emails giving out £50 fines for attending Downing Street parties, according to sources. After the Metropolitan police said on Monday that they were issuing 20 penalty notices, emails ha...
Afghanistan aid pledges could fall far short of target, officials fear
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Western officials fear a UN pledging conference this Thursday aimed at raising more than $4.4bn (£3.34bn) aid for Afghanistan is likely to fall well short of its target. One UN official admitted he feared the Taliban’...
San Francisco officials issue alert about fentanyl-laced cocaine after overdoses
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San Francisco’s health authorities have issued a warning about fentanyl-laced cocaine after several overdoses occurred this month. Op Donderdag, the San Francisco department of public health issued a health alert that ...
Human rights officials call for Pegasus spyware ban at El Salvador hearing
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Senior human rights officials have repeated calls for a ban on the powerful Israeli spyware Pegasus until safeguards are in place to protect civilians from illegal hacking by governments. Calls for a moratorium on the...
NSW education officials unmoved on return of masks in schools despite surging Covid infections
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The New South Wales education department says it is not planning to reintroduce masks in schools ahead of the general community, despite Covid case numbers spiralling in children and educators admitting learning is su...
Rockets fired towards US consulate in northern Iraq city of Erbil: officials
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Soveel as 12 ballistic missiles have struck the Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital Erbil, with some reports suggesting several hit the US consulate building. A US official said the missiles were launched from n...
Two children among at least 21 killed in Sumy airstrikes, sê amptenare
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Ten minste 21 people including two children were killed by Russian bombing in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy overnight, the regional prosecutor’s office has said. The office said the victims had been killed in...
US officials fly to Venezuela for talks in apparent bid to further isolate Russia
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Senior US officials have flown to Venezuela for rare talks with Nicolás Maduro’s government in an apparent bid to prise the South American country away from its Russian backers after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukrai...
Novak Djokovic likely to be allowed to play in Italian Open, say officials
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Novak Djokovic could be allowed to enter this year’s Italian Open despite the men’s world No 1 being unvaccinated, according to officials in Italy. The country’s cabinet undersecretary for sports, Valentina Vezzali, s ...
Maduro ally informed US about bribing Venezuelan officials, court filing claims
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A businessman who was a close ally of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, was secretly signed up by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a cooperating source in 2018 and provided agents with information about ...
Dutch officials drop case against Rijksmuseum over ‘racist’ word
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The director of the Rijksmuseum said he was “happy” as Dutch prosecutors announced they would not proceed with an investigation into complaints over a newly opened exhibition on Indonesian independence, the first of i...
Arkansas officials praise doctor accused of giving inmates ivermectin without consent
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An Arkansas doctor accused of prescribing ivermectin to inmates in his state without their consent has been praised by local officials for a “job well done” despite widespread outrage at his actions. In Januarie, the A...
Chinese officials arrested for concealing true scale of flood death toll
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Officials in a Chinese province deliberately underreported or concealed 139 deaths from last year’s devastating flood disaster, the country’s central government has said, amid arrests of some of those involved. Record...