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“So, the use of it, I appreciate the clarification. That was not the intent.”

In a comparison with Assad, Trump’s press secretary said Nazi leader who gassed millions of Jews ‘didn’t sink’ to using chemical weapons against his own people
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The US defense chiefs have said that Washington’s objectives in Syria are limited to deterring additional chemical weapons attacks by Bashar al-Assad.

Defense secretary brushed off talks of Syria regime change amid contradictory messages from Trump administration and Rex Tillerson’s visit to Russia
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In October we interviewed people in McDowell, a county where Donald Trump was immensely popular in the Republican primaries and which went on to help elect him to the White House. One commenter said at the time, weeks before the election: "I'm not a Trump supporter, I can't stand the man and think he is a racist, bigoted, sexist, entitled, elitist but he told them what they want to hear. Hillary didn't. It's as simple as that."

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"The problems of acid attack victims are unique. They need multiple surgeries, often 10 and above. Their period for rehabilitation could last up to 5-10 years."

New law in India comes into force this week which will recognise survivors as being physically disabled. They will now be entitled to compensation and help to get jobs
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Comparing the Nazi leader with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Spicer told journalists during his regular press briefing at the White House: “We didn’t use chemical weapons in world war two. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”

Lawmakers condemn press secretary, who sought to clarify comparison to Assad, saying Nazi leader who gassed millions did not target ‘own people’
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“Sugar is not a bad molecule per se,” says Stefan Catsicas, the chief technology officer for Nestlé.

Companies like Nestle are tinkering with the shape of sugar molecules to deliver the same sweetness with a lower amount of the unhealthy stuff
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"These letters are set to become one of the only sources of Plath’s voice from the end of her life, apart from her poetry."

The emergence of some of her final letters will cast new light on her violent marriage to Ted Hughes and how it inspired her poetry
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The White House press secretary told reporters that ‘someone as despicable as Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons’ and said Russia must consider if Syria is a ‘country and a regime you want to align yourself with’ during the press briefing on Tuesday. When asked to clarify his remarks, Spicer explained by adding, ‘He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing’ and referred to concentration camps as ‘Holocaust centers’.

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"Air travel is a thicket of regulations and acronyms that, of course, have your safety at heart. But there can be a thin line between guaranteeing your security and dragging a seemingly innocent passenger off an overbooked aircraft."

As a United Airlines passenger discovered recently, carriers have an extraordinary range of powers – including the right to stop you travelling by almost any means
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"Mums, listen up: it’s not that we don’t love you or trust you, we just 1) don’t know how to explain it to you, and 2) don’t have the patience to comfort you about our traumatic experiences. We get that retired life can be boring and you may crave a bit of drama or emotional angst, but we spend a lot of energy keeping our emotions tightly compartmentalised in order to do our jobs – and sometimes just to get through the day."

Humanitarians are flawed individuals just like professionals in every other industry – stop treating us like we’re the embodiment of altruism
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"I thought of all the barbecues I had been to at her place, all the times she’d offered encouragement, watched over me while I was working, and the first day I’d met her, when she’d given me, a stranger, a drink on a hot day.

I sighed. 'Yeah, I guess I would be able to do it. Just $250 each?'"

At 23 Drew Philip won an auction, inadvertently stepped into a community, learned to look out for his neighbors and found Detroit as a mirror of America
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Borussia Dortmund have confirmed their team bus was involved in an explosion ahead of their Champions League quarter-final against Monaco with defender Marc Bartra reported to have been taken to hospital.

Borussia Dortmund have confirmed their team bus has been involved in an explosion ahead of their Champions League quarter-final against Monaco with defender Marc Bartra reported to have been taken to hospital
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"France shows where Europe’s battle lines are drawn. Europe’s centrists are baffled by the rise of the new left and the xenophobic right. These are signs of mass hysteria and delusion, as far as they are concerned. They cannot accept that the old order is broken, and millions of Europeans want a decisive break from it."

The radical left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is surging in the presidential election, challenging far-right xenophobia and the complacency of the centre
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"The furore was followed by perhaps the most half-assed sorry-not-sorry in the history of corporate apologies".

Airlines across the world appear to be engaged in a race to the bottom when it comes to customer experience. Yet America’s airlines are exceptionally awful
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It has been a troubled time for the New York-based agency bearing the Trump name…

The President’s model agency, home to Yasmin Le Bon and Isabella Rosselini, is shutting up shop. But will anyone be sad to see it go?
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"Theresa May has pretended that would-be refugees are on the take. And to justify cutting their support she jabbed ever harder at “bogus” asylum seekers.

It is a political doom loop, and it leads to cabinet ministers whipping up fears about foreigners. It leads to a boy, far from his home, being kicked around a suburban street like a deflated football to within inches of his life by dozens of men."

The politicians lining up to condemn the Croydon attack created the current climate of intolerance
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That was an expensive seat.

Shares plummeted Tuesday, wiping close to $1bn off the holding company’s value, after a man was violently removed from a flight by aviation police
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