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Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington
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Spanish hotel chain ceases operations in Cuba under pressure from Washington

Meliá group says Donald Trump’s sanctions make it ‘impossible’ to keep any of its 34 sites openA Spanish hotel chain is to cease all operations in Cuba at the end of the week due to “major difficulties” in doing business on the island under growing pressure from Washington.The latest US sanctions ma...

Agence France-Presse
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Abandoned monkey found in laundry bag on London bus
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Abandoned monkey found in laundry bag on London bus

Animal welfare charities say marmoset could be ‘first of many’ since new law on primate licenses and microchippingA “stressed and dehydrated” monkey has been found in a laundry bag on a London bus in what animal welfare charities warn could be the “first of many” abandonments now owners must obtain...

Rachel Hall
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The Queensland government promised to put victims first. Instead it buried a report from domestic violence survivors
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The Queensland government promised to put victims first. Instead it buried a report from domestic violence survivors

Exclusive: Report from LNP-convened panel heavily criticises police responses to family violence and calls for civilian oversightGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Queensland government has buried the findings of its own working group of domestic violence victim-survivors...

Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent
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Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say
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Milky Way flipped in collision with dwarf galaxy 10bn years ago, astronomers say

Durham University researchers find cataclysmic direct hit with Gaia Sausage sent Milky Way into its current positionAstronomers have found evidence that the Milky Way was flipped on its side following a direct hit from a wayward galaxy long before the solar system was born.The cataclysmic collision...

Ian Sample Science editor
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Zendaya faces backlash for wearing ancient Iranian jewellery at Odyssey event
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Zendaya faces backlash for wearing ancient Iranian jewellery at Odyssey event

Film star promotes Christopher Nolan film epic wearing gold artefacts dating back almost 3,000 yearsThe Odyssey is a story about a Greek king’s long journey home. But a pair of earrings worn on the new film adaptation’s press tour – and their long separation from their homeland – is sparking controv...

Ellie Violet Bramley
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US identifies soldier killed destroying downed Iranian drone in Iraq
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US identifies soldier killed destroying downed Iranian drone in Iraq

Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton died during a controlled detonation at Erbil airbase as US-Iran war toll reaches 17The US military has identified an army soldier killed recently during a “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone in Iraq as Sgt Michael Emmanuel Swinton, of Fayetteville, North Ca...

Richard Luscombe
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Thames Water joins hosepipe ban as England and Wales approach drought status
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Thames Water joins hosepipe ban as England and Wales approach drought status

About 23 million people across country affected by water-saving measures with ‘prolonged dry weather’ in eight areasHow can I water my garden in a hosepipe ban and will there be drought this summer?Thames Water investors offer ‘golden share’ in bid to head off nationalisationAbout 23 million people...

Damien Gayle
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Andy Burnham shakes up Whitehall with new government department
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Andy Burnham shakes up Whitehall with new government department

Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, led by Louise Haigh, will oversee both No 10 in London and northern equivalent• Andy Burnham’s first Labour cabinet: who’s in and who’s out?Andy Burnham has created a powerful new department taking in parts of the Cabinet Office, Treasury and housing ministry to...

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world
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Trump’s HIV funding cuts having ‘severe and devastating’ impact around the world

The President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief has saved 26m lives globally, but slashing of funds and dismantling of USAID have forced clinics to shut in dozens of countriesNo part of the United States’ anti-HIV programme has escaped unscathed from Donald Trump’s funding cuts, despite pledges from...

Kat Lay, Global health correspondent
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