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BBCTom Felton: Harry Potter star collapses during celebrity golf match
The actor, 34, is carried off a golf course after collapsing during a celebrity match in the US.
BBCEarliest definitive evidence of people in Americas
Scientists have found evidence that humans reached the Americas earlier than previously thought.
BBCLittle Boots says Abba's new live band is 'badass cool'
The pop star is joining Abba's live band next year, after crowd-funding her sparkling new album.
Associated PressSeguin, Bishop among recovering Stars back on ice in camp
Tyler Seguin figures he is at a point in his career when he will never be fully healthy again. The Dallas Stars 29-year-old forward is about as close as he can get to that after missing all but three games last season during his rehab and recovery from hip surgery. When the Stars opened training camp Thursday, exactly one year to the day after they were playing Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final for the pandemic-interrupted 2020 season, Seguin wasn't the only Stars player back from injury.
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Polish protesters warn that health care crisis is looming
When a priest arrives at a hospital in Chorzow to perform the last rites, nurse Mariusz Strug can see the fear in dying patients' eyes. Exhausted from working in such an understaffed system, he is among a group of health care workers who have come to Warsaw from across Poland for an around-the-clock protest outside the prime minister’s office that has gone on for nearly two weeks. After a year and a half of the pandemic, and with Poland on the cusp of a fourth surge of COVID-19 infections, nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers and other health care workers have come to urge Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and other authorities to make deep reforms to the health care system, arguing that it is in danger of collapse.
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George Floyd murder: Derek Chauvin appeals against conviction
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin says there were issues with the jury at his trial.
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LEADING OFF: Key showdown at Fenway, Cards on 12G streak
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole starts the opener of a crucial three-game series at Fenway Park with the Red Sox two games ahead of New York for the top AL wild card. Boston has won seven straight to build a small cushion over the Yankees and Blue Jays. With New York closing the season against AL East foes Boston, Toronto and Tampa Bay, Cole said Wednesday he is drawing inspiration down the stretch from a story he had been told recently about ancient warriors honing their warfare skills against elite fighters from neighboring cities to stay sharp.
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Drive for Britain! UK scrambles for truckers amid supply woe
In Britain, this is the season of shortages: Milkshakes were off the menu for weeks at McDonald's, chicken has been in short supply at KFC, some gas stations have run out of fuel and there are gaps on supermarket shelves. The problems have several causes, but one stands out: There just aren’t enough truck drivers. The U.K. is short tens of thousands of drivers, as factors including Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic converge to create a supply-chain crunch.
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BP closes some sites due to lorry driver shortage
The oil firm said only "a handful" of sites are affected by the fuel supply issues.
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Britain says: we'll do whatever it takes to resolve trucker shortage
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Friday vowed to do whatever it takes to resolve a trucker shortage that has forced oil giant BP to close some petrol stations and strained supermarket supply chains to breaking point. BP temporarily closed some of its 1,200 UK petrol stations due to a lack of both unleaded and diesel grades, which it blamed on driver shortages. "We'll move heaven and earth to do whatever we can to make sure that shortages are alleviated with HGV drivers," Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told Sky News.
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Japan approaching end of COVID-19 emergency in most areas - health minister
Japan's COVID-19 infection situation is improving such that emergency conditions could soon be lifted in most parts of the country, the health minister said on Friday. Hospitalisation rates and patient bed availability will factor into whether the state of emergency prevailing over Tokyo and much of the country can be lifted at the end of this month, Health Minister Norihisa Tamura told reporters. The infectious Delta variant sparked a fifth wave of COVID-19 in Japan that drove infections to record levels last month.
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Evergrande: Investors in the dark over $83m bond payment
Financial markets have been rocked this week by concerns over the firm's more than $300bn of debt.
- BBC
Ministers prepare for worst in gas price crisis
Business minister Paul Scully says the government needs to plan for a lengthy spell of high gas prices.
- Associated Press
Jailbreak shines light on mass incarceration of Palestinians
The cinematic escape of six prisoners who tunneled out of an Israeli penitentiary earlier this month shone a light on Israel's mass incarceration of Palestinians, one of the many bitter fruits of the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have passed through a military justice system designed for a temporary occupation that is now well into its sixth decade. Nearly every Palestinian has a loved one who has been locked up in that system at some point, and imprisonment is widely seen as one of the most painful aspects of life under Israeli rule.
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Petrol station closures spark lorry driver row
Some forecourts closed on Thursday amid a driver shortage that has caused havoc with supply chains.
- Reuters
Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and head south
Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico's frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over the treatment meted out to the beleaguered migrants. Up to 14,000 mostly Haitians were camped just north of the Rio Grande river this month as they attempted to enter the United States, but hundreds retreated to Mexico after U.S. officials began sending planes of people back to Haiti.
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India salon fined $271,000 for 'botching' model's haircut
The court said the model suffered a huge loss due to the wrong haircut.
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Name drop: Cleveland set to say goodbye to Indians for good
The Cleveland Indians are about to become history. On Monday, one of the American League's charter members will play its final home game of 2021, and also its last at Progressive Field as the Indians, the team’s name since 1915, when “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was the starting right fielder on opening day. Much more than the makeup of a rainout against the Kansa City Royals, the home finale will signify the end of one era and beginning of a new chapter for the team, which will be called the Cleveland Guardians next season.
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Underdog Euros have Yanks where they where they want 'em
Europe’s perennial Ryder Cup underdogs have the Americans exactly where they want them. Europe boasts the world’s No. 1-ranked player in Spaniard Jon Rahm; the U.S. squad has eight of the remaining nine. According to golf’s most reliable metric — strokes gained — Yanks top the list in driving (Bryson DeChambeau), approach play (Collin Morikawa), sand saves (Brooks Koepka) and scrambling (Patrick Cantlay).
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R. Kelly lawyer compares him to Martin Luther King
The defence makes its final arguments in the singer's sex-abuse trial.