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Friday
14 April 2017
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Use of lethal drug blocked in six scheduled executions while seventh spared by top court, thwarting the state’s plan to execute a total of eight men in 11 days
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says the region faced a precarious situation in which conflict could break out at any moment
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Stanford University claims it has made no final decision over use of Trump image after law professor produces emails she argues show ‘censorship’
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Page left consulting firm Eurasia Group in 1998, suggesting Russian sympathies were known for nearly two decades
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Locals describe the moment the 9,800kg bomb was dropped, as critics question the wisdom of deploying the weapon
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Jury finds Hernandez, who is already serving a life sentence for a separate murder, not guilty of killing two men in Massachusetts
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The New Jersey governor spared no criticism of the New York Giants quarterback in a radio appearance on Friday morning
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There were plenty of terrible things that happened this week, but I’d like to focus on one that got too little attention: the San Bernardino shooting
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The shot of Saffiyah Khan calmly staring down an EDL demonstrator in Birmingham became instantly famous. Why are images like these so transfixing?
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Ex-staffers campaign on legacy of Obama’s progressive policies; Steve Bannon ejected from national security council; Pepsi pulls flat protest ad
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When Shana Tolliver asked friends to identify cases, the response spurred calls for change amid tension between African American neighborhoods and police
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President erases Obama-era action to bar states from blocking federal family-planning money to healthcare organizations that perform abortions
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The European parliament alleges that France’s Front National leader and presidential candidate misused funds for party work
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Hannah Bladon, a University of Birmingham student, allegedly killed by Palestinian assailant on light railway
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Joseph Szabo was a frustrated high-school teacher in need of inspiration – so he started photographing his students, and captured all the angst and excitement of being caught between childhood and adulthood
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During the Hindu Lal Kach festival in Dhaka, men and boys cover themselves in body paint and take part in processions through their local neighbourhoods wielding swords to ward off evil and welcome the Bengali new year 1424
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Donald Trump White House will not make logs of visitors available to public