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Charlie Watts says he has accepted the advice of experts and it may “take a while” for him to recover
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The Rolling Stones’ drummer has pulled out of the band’s forthcoming tour following emergency surgery.Charlie Watts, a mainstay of the band on every studio album along with Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, said it “may take a while” for him to fully recover from the medical procedure, which he declined to identify.
 

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Leslie Lawrenson told his loved ones that they needed to be careful but should not be vaccinated. His partner said he had made a terrible mistake
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A British solicitor who refused to have a Covid vaccine died with the virus days after posting a Facebook video saying it was “nothing to be afraid of”. Leslie Lawrenson, 58, said people should “trust your immune system” and that he would rather develop “antibodies in my blood” than have the jab. He also argued in his final post on June 24 that there was no need for lockdowns and that coronavirus was “like the flu”. The Cambridge graduate was found dead in bed at home in Bournemouth, Dorset, on July 2. His partner, Amanda Mitchell, 56, who was admitted to hospital the same day and spent a week on a Covid ward, told the BBC: “Les made a terrible mistake and he’s paid the ultimate price.
 
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has declared its most profitable financial result in eight years, boosted by growth in digital subscriptions, a strong profit at Dow Jones and record subscriber growth at Australian pay TV company, Foxtel.
 

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Hillsong founder Brian Houston has been charged by NSW Police for allegedly concealing historical child sex abuse. Mr Houston, who founded the Pentecostal mega-church, is believed to be overseas in North America. His lawyer in Australia has been served with the charges, police said.
 
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CANBERRA, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Australian PM Scott Morrison said yesterday the government will offer redress payments of A$75,000 to some members of its Indigenous population who were forcibly removed from their families as children. More than 100,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and communities between the early 1900s and about 1970, described by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a "great stain on our nation's soul" during a formal apology to the so-called 'Stolen Generation' in 2008.
 
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A long queue forms to enter the Colosseum on the day Italy brings in tougher Covid restrictions. A ‘green pass’ is now required to access an array of services and leisure activities.
Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters
 
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Larry Page, co-founder of Google and the world’s sixth richest man, has won the right to live in New Zealand after promising to invest millions of dollars in the country. Page, 48, is believed to have a net worth of about $US120 billion (£86 billion), equivalent to half of New Zealand’s gross domestic product. He applied for residency under the country’s Investor Plus scheme in November, the country’s immigration officials said. The category requires applicants to have $NZ10 million (£5 million) to invest in New Zealand over three years.

 
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The American broadcaster said proof of vaccination had been taken on trust, but that might change
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Jeff Zucker, the CNN chief, sent a memo reminding staff that vaccines were mandatory

The American broadcaster CNN has fired three employees who came into work unvaccinated against Covid-19, as corporate America clamps down on vaccine-hesitant employees. Jeff Zucker, the CNN chief, sent a memo yesterday reminding staff members that vaccines were mandatory for the office or outside where they came into contact with other employees. “Let me be clear — we have a zero-tolerance policy on this,” Zucker, chairman of news and sports for WarnerMedia, said.
 
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People take part in an open-air Freedom Dinner organised by Berlin’s Senate on the runway of the former Tegel Airport in Berlin, Germany on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

The tables had been set up in such a way that, when viewed from the air, they displayed the words “Berlin loves you” and a large heart. The aim was to tell the world that Germany was open for visitors.
 
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August 8, 2021: Local residents fight the wildfire in the village of Gouves on Evia (Euboea) island, second largest Greek island. - Hundreds of Greek firefighters fought desperately on August 8 to control wildfires on the island of Evia that have charred vast areas of pine forest, destroyed homes and forced tourists and locals to flee.

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In the lush green fields of Egypt's fertile Delta Valley, farmers and artisans are struggling to make a living as they keep alive the Pharaonic-era tradition of making papyrus. In the 1970s, an art teacher in the village of Al-Qaramus taught farmers the millennia-old techniques for transforming the plant into sought-after paper decorated with ornate drawings and text. Above, Abdel Mobdi Moussalam, 48, carries papyrus reeds collected on his land in the village of al-Qaramous in Sharqiyah province, in Egypt's northern fertile Nile Delta region, northeast of the capital. Photo: AFP

 
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Zhangjiajie, China
A local resident delivers daily necessities to his relative under home quarantine in high-risk area for Covid-19
Photograph: China News Service/Getty Images

 
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Medical workers conduct tests for Covid-19 in Nanjing, the capital of eastern Jiangsu province, where the Delta variant was first recorded in China
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More than 30 local Chinese officials, including a vice-mayor, district heads and health directors, have been fired, demoted, admonished or detained for their “failures” to stop Covid-19 as China battles its worst outbreak since spring last year. More than 900 cases have been identified across the country since late July, the highest number since Beijing declared victory last year in controlling the pandemic.
 
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Shaul, left, Basil, second from right, and Charmagne Goncalves all died a week after catching the virus from one another. Francis lived in Cardiff, away from his family
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A son has spoken of losing three family members to Covid-19 within a week after they refused to get a vaccine. Francis Goncalves, 43, from Cardiff, said he was heartbroken after his brother, mother and father did not get their vaccines because they had been scared by anti-vaccination misinformation. Goncalves said his brother, Shaul, 40, father, Basil, 73, and mother Charmagne, 65, all of whom were based in Portugal, started to feel unwell on July 10, a few days after attending the same family dinner.
 
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Virginia Giuffre claims that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell
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Prince Andrew could be sued in New York this week by Virginia Giuffre after he failed to respond to offers to settle her claims out of court, her lawyers have warned.
 
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A recent image shows 14 year old James Savage as he swims the entire 21.3-mile length of Lake Tahoe from South Lake Tahoe, California to Incline Village, Nevada. He became the youngest person ever to make the swim and complete the coveted Tahoe Triple Crown.
Photograph: Jillian Savage/AP
 
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A man standing in Canada leans across the US border to give a treat to a dog on the US side after Canada opened the border to vaccinated Americans in Blaine, Washington. Reuters/David Ryder
 
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Robert Durst takes the stand and testifies in his murder trial answering questions from defense attorney Dick De Guerin at the Inglewood Courthouse in California. Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/Pool
 
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New York City, 9 August 2021

Angry people descended upon City Hall Park to protest the city’s vaccine mandate with a demonstration they claimed was about “medical freedom.” They argued that the newest COVID-19 mandates, requiring some employees to receive the vaccine as well as gyms, restaurants, and entertainment indoor facilities being required to check for vaccine passports (or cards) by Sept. 13 infringes on their rights. On Aug. 3, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in a press conference a new COVID-19 policy stating, “If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated.” The city has been pushing vaccinated residents to use the NYC COVID Safe App or Excelsior Pass application, or show their vaccination card, as required proof for indoor venues due to the uptick in COVID-19 cases.
 
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Islamabad, Pakistan
The national flag is raised ahead of the country’s 75th Independence Day, on 14 August, which marks the end of British colonial rule
Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange’s partner Stella Morris addresses the media outside Royal Courts of Justice Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has lost a high court battle to prevent the US government expanding the grounds for its appeal against an earlier refusal to allow his extradition to face charges of espionage and hacking government computers.

On Wednesday, judges said the weight given to a misleading report from Assange’s psychiatric expert that was submitted at the original hearing in January could form part of Washington’s full appeal in October.

Sitting in London, Lord Justice Holroyde said he believed it was arguable that Judge Vanessa Baraitser had attached too much weight to the evidence of Prof Michael Kopelman when deciding not to allow the US’s appeal.

The expert had told the court he believed Assange would take his own life if extradited. But he did not include in his report the fact that Assange had fathered two children with his partner while holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London – a fact Assange later used in support of his bail application.
 
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View of the Israeli settlement of Ariel, in the West Bank on July 2, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz has agreed to expand the Palestinian foothold in Area C of the West Bank by about 900 homes, in a step seen as a blow to the right-wing battle to preserve that territory for sovereign Israel.
 
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Three brothers were searching the Wellington coastline for somewhere to dive when they came across a monster squid washed up on a beach. Daniel, Jack and Matthew Aplin were driving along the track near Red Rocks on Wellington's south coast when they spotted it. "My brother said 'what's that over there?' and pointed it out," Daniel Aplin said. "It was right next to the track so we pulled over and we were like: 'It's a big squid'."
 
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