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Maria Sharapova and her team were ‘reckless beyond description’ in failing drug test at Australian Open, according to Wada’s first president, Dick Pound
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Live coverage as thousands gather to watch celestial event, with totality across Indonesia and partial eclipse visible in Australia, southeast Asia and Hawaii
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Syria, migration, terrorism: the EU’s leaders seem helpless in the face of these interrelated crises. Yet there is a political solution – and it begins with Turkey
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UKUKBrexit rant by the Queen never happened, says Nick CleggBuckingham Palace insists the Queen is politically neutral in the EU referendum campaign, after a report that she had expressed strongly Eurosceptic views
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EuropeEuropeSlovenia and Croatia ban transit of refugees to other European countriesOnly people who plan to seek asylum immediately upon entry, or those with clear humanitarian needs, will be allowed in, governments say
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From community folk dancing to vibrant art installations, local journalist Aurora Percannella shows us the culture beyond Turin’s Olympic legacy
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Evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear accident remember relatives, friends and colleagues who died – and the abandoned city declared unsafe for 24,000 years
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We joined people around the world to mark IWD2016. Our live blog has finished but you can still share “What does equality mean to you?” on Twitter
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Globally, 225 million women do not get the contraceptives they want. What are your experiences of family planning services? How could they be improved?
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In the artistic canon our female ancestors were rarely seen. International Women’s Day is a reminder that women must follow their creative urges and make up for lost time
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The proposal that Europe will resettle every Syrian that Turkey allows in from Greece is morally and legally complex
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Turkey’s compliance is not a foregone conclusion, and it is unlikely that the Balkans can be sealed off from Greece
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Takeover of opposition newspaper was Erdoğan giving Brussels the finger on eve of summit, and other issues have gone largely unchallenged too
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at a rally in Detroit, Michigan, after it was announced that she had won the party primary in Mississippi
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Republican frontrunner Donald Trump addresses supporters and the media in Jupiter, Florida after winning primaries in Mississippi and Michigan states
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The Better Business Bureau (BBB), a non-profit that evaluates businesses for trustworthiness, has confirmed it received ‘multiple customer complaints’ about Trump University
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Law enforcement in Oregon released video footage from inside a vehicle showing the final moments before militia spokesman LaVoy Finicum was shot and killed on 27 January 2016. The footage was shot by protester Shawna Cox and police say the video demonstrates that the police shooting of Finicum was justified
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The pup got stuck on a small island in the middle of a flooded river
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The fatal shooting of LaVoy Finicum, one of the armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon in January, was ‘justified and necessary’, Malheur County district attorney Dan Norris said Tuesday
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The cub roams around the cars with a broken chain attached to its collar
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EU-Turkey deal could see Syrian refugees back in war zones, says UN
Syria crisis EU and Turkey agree outline of deal for resettlement
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