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Astonishing cost of asylum: Home Office confirms each claim costs the taxpayer £18,700
The average sum includes the cost of providing accommodation and living costs, as well as the sums spent on processing claims and any legal appeals.
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Mexico fans celebrated a World Cup goal so wildly they triggered spikes on local seismographs
Mexico's packed World Cup crowd at Estadio Azteca reportedly caused an artificial seismic signal when Julian Quiñones scored against Ecuador.
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Alexi Lalas rips referees after Folarin Balogun red card in Team USA win: ‘An absolute joke’
Alexi Lalas called refereeing an 'absolute joke' and compared the Falorin Balogun red card to a Lionel Messi incident against Algeria at the World Cup.
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Marburg Camera Prize: Florian Hoffmeister On Winning The Lifetime Achievement Award For Cinematographers & Reuniting With Edward Berger For ‘The Riders’
Last month, German cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister wrapped on Edward Berger’s latest, The Riders, starring Brad Pitt, and returned to Germany, although not his home base of Berlin, but the small town of Marburg, where he was awarded the Marburg Camera Prize. Established in 2001 and presented by Marburg University, the award recognises and celebrates the…
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Paranoid Putin boosts his personal protection squad to 800 officers amid assassination fears
More than two dozen additional officers will be added to the central apparatus of Russia’s Federal Protective Service (FSO), increasing its strength from 785 to 812.
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Long Wave By Daisy Johnson review – a sublime novel of motherhood and loss
Covering three generations, this tangled story of secrets, childhood, abandonment and care might be her best work yetIn 2018 Daisy Johnson was the youngest writer ever to be shortlisted for the Booker prize, for her debut novel Everything Under, a gender-fluid reimagining of the Oedipus myth involving canal boat communities and their complex family dynamics, plus…
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Korea’s Lotte Cinema-Megabox Merger Collapses as JoongAng Group’s Financial Crisis Deepens
The proposed merger between Lotte Cinema and Megabox, which would have created South Korea’s largest theatrical exhibitor, has officially collapsed after roughly 14 months of negotiations, with the deal ultimately undone by a financial crisis engulfing Megabox’s parent company, JoongAng Group. Lotte Shopping and Contentree JoongAng disclosed Wednesday that the memorandum of understanding governing the…
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Transfer roundup: Everton clinch Hackney signing, Spurs announce Fernandes
‘It was always going to be Everton,’ says HackneySpurs seal £85m deal for Fernandes from West HamEverton have completed the signing of Hayden Hackney from Middlesbrough in a deal that could rise to £25m, while Tottenham have confirmed the signing of Mateus Fernandes from West Ham for £85m.The midfielder Hackney, named player of the year…