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Naruto live-action movie shares the first good news with big casting announcement
The live-action Naruto film, based on Masashi Kishimoto’s best-selling manga, is moving forward at Lionsgate, with director Destin Daniel Cretton announcing that a worldwide casting search is about to begin. The hunt will seek actors to play the three young shinobi of Team 7 — Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura — marking the first significant development…
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Ukraine’s drone revolution shows Russia is dangerously unprepared. But, so is America
This Fox News opinion piece argues that Ukraine has gained a decisive advantage in its war with Russia through the large-scale use of AI-enabled drones and long-range cruise missiles, which Russia has so far been unable to counter. The author contends that this “drone revolution” has exposed how dangerously unprepared Russia is, and warns that…
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Burnham on brink of No 10 as Morocco exit sparks London disorder
Andy Burnham nears the premiership with 322 Labour nominations amid warnings of an early “Putin test”, while Morocco’s World Cup exit triggered unrest in northwest London and Yorkshire dodged a hosepipe ban.
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Siblings who went into neighbour’s garden and hacked down their 33-foot Leylandiis set to lose childhood home after being handed £209,000 court bill
Three siblings face losing their childhood home after being ordered to pay a £209,000 court bill over a long-running boundary dispute with their neighbours in Nazeing, Essex. Robert McCarthy, 59, and his wife Amanda, 61, had lived in “relative harmony” with Foulla Bowler, 61, and her siblings until a “fence war” erupted in 2018, culminating…
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Loyalists torch ‘sickening and cowardly’ Northern Ireland bonfire with replica mosque on top before police can move it to take it down
Loyalists in the Northern Ireland village of Moygashel, Co Tyrone, have been widely condemned after setting alight a bonfire topped with a cardboard replica of a mosque before police could remove it. The display, which also carried signs reading “Secure our borders” and “End the threat of radical Islam”, was lit a night earlier than…
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France Reaches World Cup Semi-Finals as Violent Unrest Erupts in London
France secured a spot in the World Cup semi-finals with a decisive 2-0 quarter-final victory over Morocco in Boston. The result triggered violent unrest in London, where police forces clashed with football supporters dur
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Swift nest reportedly thrown in skip during house renovations in South Tyneside
Conservationists in South Tyneside fear that swift chicks were thrown into a skip during renovation work on council houses in Jarrow, in apparent breach of laws protecting nesting birds. The Northern Swifts Group was alerted to the destruction of at least one nest on Tuesday, and a single dehydrated swiftlet was rescued from a badly…
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Beggan breaks down where semi-finals will be won and lost
Ahead of two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals at a full Croke Park, Monaghan goalkeeper and BBC Sport NI pundit Rory Beggan has assessed how each tie is likely to be decided. Louth face Mayo on Saturday in the county’s first semi-final since 1957, while Sunday brings a renewal of the Dublin v Kerry rivalry.…
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Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss | Larry Elliott
In this Guardian comment piece, economics writer Larry Elliott argues that Andy Burnham, whom he characterises as Britain’s “prime minister-in-waiting”, is correct in his diagnosis that 40 years of neoliberalism have failed the country, particularly its former industrial heartlands in Scotland, Wales and northern England. Elliott draws a pointed comparison with Liz Truss — both…
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Apollo gatecrashes easyJet sale with surprise £5.7bn takeover offer – business live
The US private equity firm Apollo has agreed a surprise £5.7bn deal to buy the budget airline easyJet, gatecrashing an existing sale process and beating a rival bid from the US private credit group Castlelake. EasyJet’s board has said it is inclined to recommend Apollo’s cash offer of £7.15 per share to shareholders, marking a…