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Results from Stage 14 of the 2025 Tour de France
Bicycling
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July 19, 2025
Today's stage climbed into the Pyrenees, hitting the classic Col du Tourmalet climb at the halfway point, finishing with a second Hors Categorie (beyond category) climb, with a Cat 1 and Cat 2 climb in between. Mountain stage, indeed. The big news...
What’s up with Trump auto tariffs?
VoxEU
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Introduction When President Trump announced his new auto tariffs in April 2025, he said they were necessary to protect national security. Foreign-made cars and car parts, he insisted, were a threat, not just to American jobs but also the economic...
World University Games: Indian Shuttlers Beat USA To Book Spot In Quarter-Finals
News18
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July 19, 2025
Last Updated:July 19, 2025, 19:20 IST Indian shuttlers advanced to mixed team quarterfinals at World University Games, defeating USA 3-1. Badminton representative photo (X)The young Indian shuttlers overcame a gritty challenge from the United...
My cancer treatment was an unknown trip to hell that saved my life
Manchester Evening News
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July 27, 2025
I had two choices back in the summer of 2012. One drug would slow down the cancer which had spread from my recently departed left kidney. There was an alternative - a type of immunotherapy called Interleukin 2. I was only 70 percent suitable and I...
Tour de France 2025: Relentless Tadej Pogacar extends lead to more than four minutes
The National News
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Tadej Pogacar powered to victory in an uphill time trial on Stage 13 of the Tour de France on Friday to stretch his lead in the race to more than four minutes. Jonas Vingegard and Remco Evenepoel clung on to their places in the overall top three,...
The underrated European city that's still hot in November that you can now visit for £70
MyLondon
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July 19, 2025
British Airways has just added Rabat, Morocco’s laid-back capital, to its short-haul route map — and you can get there for as little as £70 one-way from London Gatwick. Starting this November, BA Euroflyer will run direct flights twice a week to...
Tourist says popular Greek island is 'dead' this summer – now is time to book
Daily Express
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July 19, 2025
If you're looking for a last-minmute European holiday in the sun, one tourist believes he has the ideal location after highlighting it is full of vacancies.Robert Sherman claims popular Greek islands are "dead" as he offered a glimpse into his...
'I ditched UK for Spain six months ago but found it was 20 years behind'
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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July 19, 2025
A British expat residing in Spain has declared that the European country is "20 years or so behind the UK" when it comes to one thing. In a daring decision six months ago, Mark Danby, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, abandoned the UK to pursue...
Are markets underestimating the August tariff risk?
VoxEU
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Introduction Are Markets Crazy? Or lazy? Or, by contrast, are they just well-informed? How could markets just shrug off President Trump’s July tariff letters that were so aggressive, so MAGA, so strong! Of course, markets do sometimes get it...
OPINION: Politicising Germany's Constitutional Court is a dangerous game
The Local - Germany
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July 18, 2025
Last week, an election of judges to the Constitutional Court was abruptly postponed, creating a fresh political crisis. Brian Melican unpacks the controversy, and explains why the politicisation of Germany's highest court is a serious threat. In...
History’s Hard Lessons and America’s New Resolve
American Greatness
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July 27, 2025
There is never a dull moment in the second, more cheerful reign of Donald Trump. I am writing from London, but was in France last week, picking my way through various battlefields and cemeteries in and around Verdun, Bastogne (think “Easy Company”...
Debate on the democratic mission of higher education
University World News
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LATIN AMERICA-CARIBBEAN Since 1999, the Council of Europe and the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy (IC) have cooperated to further the role of higher education in developing and maintaining...
MOED School of Dance presents Set Apart, a biblical journey of Elijah
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 27, 2025
Features Janelle De Souza 4 Hrs Ago MOED's junior unit at the school's 2024 production Basar at the Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain. - Gabriel Cyrus WHEN the curtains rise on Set Apart, the fifth production of MOED School of Dance, the...
How the far right is politicising the return of the wolf – and again threatening its presence in Europe
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 19, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Book review: The Restless Coast by Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nation.Cymru
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July 13, 2025
The Restless Coast, Roger Morgan-Grenville, Icon Books Jon Gower Here’s a writer who can certainly put down walking boots as tax deductions, because former soldier Roger Morgan-Grenville must get through a good few pairs. His recent volume,...
Swipe left on Darcy: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life and the perils of modern romance
The Oxford Student
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July 27, 2025
With 2025 marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Jane Austen: A Gâché Ma Vie (Jane Austen Wrecked My Life) is one of many recent releases pertaining to the famed writer and social commentator. A French romantic comedy steeped in...
Book review: Shared Origins: a Collaboration between Three Poets by Mike Jenkins, David Annwn, David Lloyd
Nation.Cymru
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July 13, 2025
Shared Origins is published by Seventh Quarry Press Desmond Clifford These three poets were brought together through a shared experience of Aberystwyth in the mid and late 1970s. Mike Jenkins, perhaps the best known of the three and with a long...
Israel claims aid trickling in after widespread condemnation of blockade
The National News
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Israel has said only seven aid packages were dropped from planes to Gaza’s two million people, a population it has been starving for months. The army on Sunday also announced a 10-hour pause in three designated areas of Gaza as deaths from...
Israel’s Foreign Minister Came To India In Disguise In 1977, New Book Reveals
ABP Live
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July 19, 2025
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) Then Israeli foreign minister Moshe Dayan came to India in 1977 on a clandestine visit, in disguise and under a false name, to meet prime minister Morarji Desai and his counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee in a failed attempt...
Man quits UK for Spain but is left fuming after discovering 'biggest culture shock'
The Mirror
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July 19, 2025
A man has claimed Spain is "20 years or so behind the UK" in a specific aspect. Mark Danby from Stockport, Greater Manchester, decided to shake things up and moved to sunny Spain six months ago, making his new home in Manilva, part of Malaga on...