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US government says it got hacked — again
A top Democrat on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.
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Trump planning to visit Irish Open at Doonbeg
United States President Donald Trump says he hopes to visit this year’s Irish Open golf tournament at his Doonbeg resort in county Clare in September.
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China-linked green group training US judges draws fresh heat as foreign ties fuel pressure at home
State Armor urges Congress to investigate the Environmental Law Institute over national security concerns stemming from alleged ties to the Chinese government.
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Labour failed to prepare properly for power, admits Keir Starmer’s former top aide Morgan McSweeney – as he says Government was ‘too gloomy’ about the economy when it took office
Morgan McSweeney, who was the Prime Minister’s chief of staff in Downing Street until February this year, said the party ‘hadn’t done enough to prepare for Government’.
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More than 2,000 Transport For London staff are paid over £100,000 a year – with 65 earning more than the Prime Minister
The number of TfL employees with a six-figure basic salary soared by 15 per cent in the last year, latest data shows. Some 617 earned this hefty sum before bonuses.
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MPs seek to end UK broadcast of Russian ‘soft power’ cartoon Masha and the Bear
Cross-party group writes to ministers of concerns children’s show contains unsubtle ‘propaganda content’UK politics live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesA cartoon for preschoolers depicting the adventures of a small girl and a retired circus bear may seem an unlikely source of parliamentary concern.Yet a cross-party group of MPs has written to ministers urging…
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Variety Toasts French Cinema With Post-Cannes Summer Dinner at Paris’ Laperouse With Thierry Fremaux, Guillaume Canet, Pierre-Antoine Capton, Rebecca Zlotowski and Anamaria Vartolomei
Variety gathered leading figures from the French film industry for its fourth dinner at Lapérouse in Paris, a post-Cannes and summer celebration bringing together Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux, Mediawan boss Pierre-Antoine Capton, MK2 Films co-CEO Nathanaël Karmitz and Pathé Films president Ardavan Safaee, as well as actors and filmmakers Anamaria Vartolomei, Rebecca Zlotowski,…
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Labour’s illegal traveller site explosion: Fury at new record number of caravans on unauthorised sites as ministers are accused of ‘cover-up’
Official figures released today showed that number of caravans illegally parked without planning permission rose by almost a quarter in the year to January.
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Ministers call for better tracking of teenagers at risk of dropping out of work or training in England
Councils and schools urged to do more as figures show there is no information on whereabouts of 32,100 ‘Neets’Business live – latest updatesThe government has urged councils and schools in England to drastically improve the way they identify young people at risk of dropping out of training and work, as it admitted thousands are unaccounted…