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As India Votes, False Posts and Hate Speech Flummox Facebook

With as many as 879 million eligible voters set to cast ballots in the coming weeks, Facebook is struggling to cope with the disinformation and hate speech that is circulating online.

Wiggling buttocks enliven existential hell of Brexit debate

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Semi-naked protest in Commons was no weirder than anything else that goes on there these days

The people finally got to have their say on the government’s Brexit deal. In parliament no less. And what they had to say was that they wanted to take almost all their kit off and protest against climate change instead. Time management. They probably reckoned there was more chance of the world’s politicians agreeing on plans to save the planet than anyone coming up with a Brexit solution that the government was prepared to implement.

Related: Semi-naked climate protesters disrupt Brexit debate

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Italy may scrap vaccine certificates for young children

In name of political freedom we will bring back the Black Plague!

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Move by Five Star and League senators follows intervention by Matteo Salvini

Italy may scrap its requirement for parents to provide proof that their children have been vaccinated before they start nursery.

The senate’s health committee is expected to pass an amendment dropping the obligation next week, sparking further controversy over the populist coalition government’s ambiguous vaccine policy. The measure would then be put to parliament.

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US will run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump closes Mexico border

ha ha ha ha ha

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President says there is a ‘good likelihood’ he will close border this week if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching US

US consumers would run out of avocados in three weeks if Donald Trump makes good on his threat to close down the US–Mexico border.

Trump said on Friday that there was a “very good likelihood” he would close the border this week if Mexico did not stop immigrants from reaching the United States.

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Trump Fed pick was held in contempt for failing to pay ex-wife over $300,000

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Records obtained by Guardian show Stephen Moore reprimanded by judge for not paying alimony, child support and other debts

Stephen Moore, the economics commentator chosen by Donald Trump for a seat on the Federal Reserve board, was found in contempt of court after failing to pay his ex-wife hundreds of thousands of dollars in alimony, child support and other debts.

Related: Trump’s Federal Reserve pick owes $75,000 in taxes, US government alleges

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Boris Johnson and Michael Gove under fire on Vote Leave’s law-breaking

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Conservative grandees asked to account for their role in the Brexit campaign, after group drops its appeal against fine

Conservative leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are facing growing calls to account for illegal behaviour by the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign.

The group has dropped its appeal against the Electoral Commission’s ruling that it broke the law by channelling hundreds of thousands of pounds of donations to an ostensibly independent campaign group, BeLeave.

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