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California GOP Senate leader spoke at huge church event despite being under quarantine

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California Senate Minority Leader Shannon Grove (R) spoke at a Sunday church event that gathered thousands of people in Sacramento, Calif., despite being ordered to quarantine until Thursday.Grov…

Brexit bill criticised as ‘eye-watering’ breach of international law

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Bill would give ministers powers to ‘disapply’ elements of Northern Ireland protocol

Ministers will be given powers to “disapply” elements of the Northern Ireland Brexit arrangements in the internal market bill, in a move that legal experts say is an “eye-watering” breach of international law.

The bill, published on Wednesday, seeks to give powers to ministers to unilaterally decide how to apply the Northern Ireland protocol in relation to checks on goods going from Northern Ireland to Great Britain.

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Public confidence has caused Covid test shortage, Boris Johnson argues

Translation: We did not really prepare or plan well for mass testing and now we cannot give as many tests as are needed or requested.

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PM says people cannot get tests because growing faith in system has increased demand

People being unable to secure Covid tests or being asked to travel hundreds of miles for one are a result of public confidence in the test and trace system and a resulting increase in demand, Boris Johnson has argued at a prime minister’s questions.

With Keir Starmer ignoring the furore over the government’s admission it could break international law in seeking to renege on some of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, the Labour leader instead used all of his questions to focus on what he termed a lack of government competence over testing.

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Sri Lanka Tea Storm Swirls around President Aoun

The presidency said Aoun had written to his Sri Lankan counterpart to thank him for “a gift of Ceylon tea that had been received by the army… and distributed to the families of soldiers in the presidential guard.” W140

President Michel Aoun has come under fire after reports and activists said that tea donated by Sri Lanka for victims of the Beirut blast was distributed instead to families of his presidential guards.

But the press office of the Presidency hit back on Wednesday, noting that an official memo sent by Sri Lanka to Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry had mentioned that “1,675 kilograms of Ceylon tea” were “a donation to His Excellency the President, General Michel Aoun, as a gesture of solidarity and friendship between Sri Lanka and Lebanon.”