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Penny Wong: China and Australia take ‘first steps towards stabilising relationship’
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Penny Wong, Australia’s foreign affairs minister, says Canberra and Beijing have taken the “first step towards stabilising the relationship” after the first face-to-face meeting between the two countries’ foreign mini...
US tourist throws scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps, causing €25,000 damage
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An American tourist has caused €25,000 (£21,000) worth of damage after hurling her electric scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps. The incident was filmed by a passerby in the early hours of Friday. Police later caught up...
Sheryl Sandberg steps down as chief operating officer of Facebook parent company Meta
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Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and its parent company Meta, has announced she will step down from her role, ending 14 years in the job that made her one of the most powerful figures in the te...
Sunak says he can’t help the cost of living crisis. What about these five simple steps?
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Rishi Sunak has claimed there’s nothing he can do about the external global circumstances driving the cost of living crisis, but he’s dodged the real question: how can he best respond, and avoid an escalating crisis a...
Biden names Karine Jean-Pierre press secretary as Jen Psaki steps down
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Joe Biden has named his new press secretary, after it was announced that Jen Psaki will leave the administration, expected to become a TV host at MSNBC. Karine Jean-Pierre, currently the principal deputy press secreta...
Just Eat senior executive steps down amid misconduct investigation
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Just Eat Takeaway is facing boardroom turmoil after a senior executive stepped down amid an investigation by the courier group into a formal complaint regarding misconduct at a company event. The board of Just Eat sai...
White, male field likely in search for new Met head as frontrunner steps aside
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A frontrunner to be the next Metropolitan police commissioner has said she will not apply, leaving a former top cop turned thriller-writer as one of the favourites for the role. Lynne Owens was the previous director g...
Anne Robinson steps down as Countdown host
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Anne Robinson is stepping down as the host of Countdown after a year, and said she hopes her stint helped TV bosses realise that not all women her age are “in care homes playing bingo”. Robinson, 77, last year became ...
Tim Westwood steps down from radio show after sexual misconduct allegations
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The DJ Tim Westwood has “stepped down from his show” on Capital Xtra until further notice, following allegations of sexual misconduct made about him by multiple women. The day after the former BBC Radio 1 DJ was accus...
Belgian foreign minister steps down to support husband after brain cancer diagnosis
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Belgium’s foreign minister, Sophie Wilmès, announced on Thursday she was temporarily stepping down to support her husband who has been diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer. Wilmès, 47, who has been in her post si...
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....
‘I would not be free to express my opinion’: Philip Pullman steps down as Society of Authors president
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Philip Pullman has stepped down as president of the Society of Authors (SoA) after comments he made about Kate Clanchy’s controversial memoir, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me. In a letter sent to the SoA’s ...
What steps should Britain take to avert war in Ukraine?
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Thank you Simon Tisdall (The long, bloody history of proxy wars should be a warning to Johnson in Ukraine, 20 February). Boris Johnson’s perennial boosterism is never truthful and I hope this particular mad idea never...
Havertz steps up as Lukaku feels the chill at Chelsea – Football Weekly
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Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Jonathan Fadugba and Ewan Murray after another midweek round of Champions League fixtures How to listen to podcasts...
Hillsong founder Brian Houston steps down as leader of church
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Hillsong founder Brian Houston has announced he is stepping down as leader of the church as he defends criminal charges that allege he covered up his father’s child sexual abuse. In a statement made on Sunday, Houston...
America must take steps now to avoid a slide into authoritarianism
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It has not been a good start to 2022 for American democracy. MLK Day came and went, and even though Democratic leaders, including President Biden, are finally pushing hard to pass federal legislation that would protec...