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Penny Mordaunt joins the Conservative leadership candidacy Commerce Secretary Penny Mordaunt has just announced her candidacy to replace Boris Johnson. Announcing the move on Twitter, Mordaunt said, “Our leadership needs to change. It needs to be a little less about the leader and a lot more about the ship.” Updated at 09.43 BST Key events: …

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Health warnings have been issued about this week’s heat wave, which is expected to bring the hottest day of the year, with prolonged temperatures higher than in the Greek islands, and intensify pressure on supplies of water. Parents were advised to keep their children out of the sun this week, while a water company revealed …

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Canada will return to Germany a repaired Russian turbine it needs for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, despite Ukraine’s objections, as the sanctions regime faced the war-induced energy crisis. Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson said in a statement on Saturday that the government is issuing a “revocable and time-limited permit” to exempt the …

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Rae Morris: “Definitely, I was totally abandoned” BBC

Four more Conservative MPs have joined the Conservative leadership race, expanding the field to eight. Nadhim Zahawi, newly appointed Chancellor Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary and former Health Secretaries Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid announced their bids on Saturday. Earlier in the day, Ben Wallace, who was the favorite of bookmakers to succeed Mr. Johnson, announced …

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to find a lower player than Lisandro Martínez, who has flourished as a center-back in the Premier League. The Ajax defender cult is the subject of a £ 43million bid from Manchester United, but while he is hailed for his skill with the ball and reading the game, it …

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Protesters in Sri Lanka have broken into the prime minister’s private residence and set him on fire, hours after he said he would resign over the country’s deepening economic crisis. Ranil Wickremesinghe announced he would resign on Saturday afternoon after thousands of people stormed the president’s official residence in the capital Colombo in one of …

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“You’ll probably never see anyone just win and play the game as well as a winner as Djokovic. I don’t think anyone will fill those shoes. Once they’re gone, I’m not sure. “It seems to me that if I can ever lift a Grand Slam trophy, like, please don’t pressure me to do another one. …

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Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka have broken into police barricades and stormed the official residence of the president. In one of the largest anti-government marches in the country this year, protesters are demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Thousands descended on the government district of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, shouting slogans …

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Leading diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in a new effort to try to curb or at least manage the rampant hostility that has come to define recent relations between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi were holding talks on the Indonesian …

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