Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Foals are the biggest name on the bill at this year’s Great Escape “This,” warns my colleague, “is a spectacularly bad idea”‘ “There’s no way you’ll cope.” And with that endorsement ringing in my ears (note to self: buy earplugs) I set off in the hope of catching 16 […]
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChinese Vice-Premier Liu He says talks should progress in a “principled” manner President Donald Trump says US-China relations remain “very strong” despite the two countries being embroiled in a trade war. Mr Trump said talks between Washington and Beijing will continue even after a deadline passed on
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Online sports betting in Africa is worth billions of pounds every year. The boom is being fed by faster internet, cheaper phones and a love of the English Premier League. But there is a fear that children are being sucked into a cycle of betting, debt and poverty. In Kenya one government minister called this
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If you’ve had the pleasure of standing in line at airport security recently, you’ve probably noticed the big blue signs warning travelers of new identification requirements coming next year. If you haven’t, you may have no idea that your driver’s license or other state-issued ID could soon become obsolete for air travel. As of Oct.
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Instagram is blocking several anti-vaccine hashtags spreading misinformation across the platform. Company spokeswoman Stephanie Otway confirmed to HuffPost on Friday that the app will block #vaccineskill, adding to its previous bans of #vaccinescauseautism, #vaccinescauseaids and #vaccinesarepoison, which Instagram announced on Thursday. Otway said the measure is meant to combat false information in posts with those hashtags,
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Ronald Acuña Jr. made an auspicious return to the leadoff spot Friday night, driving a career-best 466-foot homer to lift the Atlanta Braves past Arizona. Acuña’s tiebreaking shot off the batter’s eye in center with two outs in the eighth inning helped the Braves end a four-game skid with a 2-1 victory over the Diamondbacks.
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WASHINGTON — Facing withering attacks accusing him of seeking foreign assistance for President Trump’s re-election campaign, Rudolph W. Giuliani announced on Friday night that he had canceled a trip to Kiev in which he planned to push the incoming Ukrainian government to press ahead with investigations that he hoped would benefit Mr. Trump. Mr. Giuliani,
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The tax code is written so that the accumulated capital gains taxes are eventually supposed to be paid. But when an individual owns the real estate, the properties can be held until death. At that point, all of the embedded capital gains are wiped out, so no capital gains tax is owed. The family inherits
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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s plan to battle the nation’s drug addiction problem drew an enthusiastic response Friday in a small West Virginia community waging its own fight against opioid abuse. Warren outlined her idea to tax the wealthiest Americans and deliver sorely needed funding directly to hard-hit communities. The Massachusetts senator is proposing to
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Prakazrel Michel has been charged with making contributions to a presidential campaign A founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees and a Malaysian businessman have been charged with making illegal contributions in the 2012 US presidential election campaign. Low Taek Jho, known as Jho Low, allegedly transferred more than
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