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Premier League to Limit BLM Knee Gesture

English Premier League captains have decided to largely get rid of the BLM gesture of players taking a knee before matches this season after agreeing it had lost its impact through overuse.

Chairman of English football’s anti-racism watchdog Kick It Out Sanjay Bhandari said: “we should be spending more time on why players take a knee rather than whether they take a knee or not.”

Premier League chairman Richard Masters suggested it was "up to the players to decide themselves", such as Crystal Palace’s black forward Wilfried Zaha who stopped taking a knee in February claiming it did nothing to stop the abuse he faced from fans anyway.

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Dead pigs’ organs partially revived – study
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The experiment made pig hearts contract again after being dead for more than an hour

Scientists managed to revive sells and restore some organ function in pigs that had been dead for more than an hour in a groundbreaking experiment which raises the question about where the line between life and death lies.

In a report published in Nature magazine on Wednesday, a group of Yale scientists revealed that they restored blood circulation and cellular activity in such pig organs as heart and brain by pumping a custom-made solution into the dead animals.

The procedure, called OrganEx, saw the bodies injected with a fluid that contained pig blood an...

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China gives update on Taiwan drills
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The People’s Liberation Army has reported firing long-range weapons into the Taiwan Strait

The Chinese military has conducted a long-range live fire exercise in the Taiwan Strait and used precision weapons to strike “specific areas” in the eastern part of the waterway, it said on Thursday.

The war games, reported by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, are part of maneuvers launched in zones surrounding the self-governed Chinese island in reaction to a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week.

The military said the exercises “achieved the expected results”, but offered no further details.

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Media suggests next stop on Pelosi’s Asia trip
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The House speaker could become first high-level US official to visit the heavily fortified border between South and North Korea since Donald Trump

After sparking China’s fury with her visit to Taiwan, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now reportedly plans to visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating South and North Korea on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Earlier in the day, the US politician met with South Korean National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin Pyo and other senior members of parliament as part of her Asian tour, which has so far featured stops in Singapore, Malaysia and Taipei.



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What’s be­hind the re­newed ten­sions be­tween Ser­bia and Koso­vo?
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Eth­nic Serbs in Koso­vo have protest­ed against new iden­ti­ty doc­u­ment and car reg­is­tra­tion plate re­quire­ments.
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In­fo­graph­ic: How big was the Beirut ex­plo­sion?
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It has been two years since a mas­sive ex­plo­sion shook Lebanon’s cap­i­tal, killing 218 peo­ple and in­jur­ing 7,000.
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Three sol­diers killed in re­newed Nagorno-Karabakh fight­ing
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Dead­ly clash­es draw im­me­di­ate calls for de-es­ca­la­tion from world pow­ers as ten­sions sim­mer in wake of 2020 war.
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In­side a 700-year-old ‘groom mar­ket’ in In­dia’s Bi­har state
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Time running out for Archie Battersbee as his parents make legal bid to move him to hospice
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Time is running out for Archie Battersbee, a 12-year-old boy in the United Kingdom, who suffered catastrophic brain damage and is currently on life

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Russia to send Iran's satellite into orbit next week
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Two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran, the two nations have announced that Russia will place an Iranian remote sensing

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US aid worker identifies the house where he lived and al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri was killed
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'An eye in space': Russia launches satellite to snoop on US national security mission. Here's what's happening
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Russia may have launched a "spy satellite" to stalk an American spy satellite.

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Miffed China shelves bilateral meeting with Japan after G7 statement on Taiwan
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Miffed that its One-China policy is not being respected by the world leaders in the aftermath of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan, Chi

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Hotter summer means more female sea turtles in Florida
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The gender gap in Florida is being exacerbated by climate change.

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Bank of England confirms largest interest hike in over 25 years as long recession looms
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The Bank of England said the British economy would begin to shrink in the final quarter of 2022 and contract throughout all of 2023, making it the longest recession since after the global financial crisis

Trial of ex-Manchester United player Ryan Giggs to go ahead on Monday
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Giggs denies using controlling and coercive behaviour against his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020

Woman rescued overnight after fall on Mount Brandon
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The woman who is in her 40s had been on her way down the mountain when she strayed onto a ledge.

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Child in North Dublin foster care not visited for three years, Hiqa report finds
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The inspection report found that there were “at least 63 children overdue a statutory visit at the time of inspection”