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Brooks Koepka revisits time he made the mistake of smack-talking Michael Jordan

'Air' Jordan is now back on sports fans' lips following the airing of ESPN's docu-series The Last Dance, which focuses on his championship-winning season with the Chicago Bulls in 1997-1998.




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JACI STEPHEN: A few niggles - but I'm so glad I've kept Faith

Now halfway through the second series of Keeping Faith, these are just some of the questions that continue to niggle following the return of the lawyer's missing husband, Evan (Bradley Freegard)




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JACI STEPHEN: Whisper it... but was that final all a bit half-baked?

The Great British Bake Off is a reminder of the pleasures of this simplest of human activities, albeit an often salutary lesson in how hard it is to get right, as the three finalists discovered




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10,000 year old weapons 'factory' is found in Siberia 

The mammoth remains, preserved in permafrost, were found this summer on Kotelny Island, part of the New Siberian archipelago in the Russian Arctic.




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Trump's protocol ambassador forced out amid internal probe

Chief of Protocol Sean Lawler has left his post, following reports of a possible internal probe of allegations of intimidation and harassment.




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May braces for showdown with Putin at G20 summit

Theresa May Vladimir Putin (pictured) will hold face-to-face talks during the gathering in Japan this week over how to stabilise ties between the countries.




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Hand over novichok killers who attacked the Skripals in Salisbury, Theresa May will tell Putin

Theresa May will today tell Vladimir Putin to hand over the two agents who carried out the Salisbury chemical attack on Sergei Skripal, when the leaders meet at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan




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Putin brands treason the 'gravest crime' as he shrugs off Skripal row ahead of May meeting

The Russian President will meet Theresa May at the G20 in Russia today where the Prime Minister will demand he admits to the Novichok attack and hand over the two spies sent to kill Sergei Skripal.




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Theresa May confronts Vladimir Putin over Salisbury attack and tells him to hand over the suspects

Theresa May is holding face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Japan in an attempt to thaw relations between Russia and Britain as she prepares to quit as PM next month.




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Vladimir Putin taunts Britain over the Tory leadership race

Vladimir Putin has taken aim at the race to succeed Theresa May as he questioned how a democratic country could install a new prime minister without a national vote.




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G20 summit 2019: May orders Putin to stop 'destabilising' meddling

Theresa May greeted Vladimir Putin with the frostiest of handshakes as they met in Japan in a meeting which had been soured before it began by the Russian President's attack on Western views.




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I'd stand in front of a gunman trying to shoot Putin because he's a good guy says Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone, 88, also said he thought Putin should be running Europe and that the invasion of Crimea was just to 'bring Russia back together.'




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Daredevil campaigner perches 40 feet above the ground to campaign for better wheelchair access

A campaigner for better facilities for disabled people in Russia has found a heart-stopping way to highlight his cause by posing on a precarious ledge some 40ft above the ground in Samara, Russia.




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Theresa May delivers swipes at Boris Johnson, Trump and Putin

Theresa May said she had 'lived' politics for 50 years, and knew about its potential to 'improve people's lives'. But she said an inability to compromise was poisoning national life.




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Footage shows Russian-built Venezuelan fighter jet 'aggressively shadowing' an American aircraft

U.S. Southern Command tweeted video and images from the incident on Friday. They say the SU-30 Flanker 'aggressively shadowed' a U.S. EP-3 aircraft.




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Oscar winning director Oliver Stone asks Vladimir Putin to be his 22-year-old daughter's godfather

The Platoon director, pictured left with Putin and inset with his daughter, spoke to Putin on June 19 for his latest film about Ukraine.




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From Russia with Love! Putin sinks to new depths as he gives Bond-style mini-submarine a spin

The Russian President used the craft, a C-Explorer 3.11, to explore the Soviet Shchuka-class submarine Shch-308 which sunk in the Baltic Sea in October 1942 after hitting a German mine.




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Trump called Putin and offered to help tackle Siberian wildfires

In a phone call between the leaders, Trump is said to have offered American assistance to help stem the blaze, which has now engulfed in excess of 7 million acres of Siberian woodland.




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Trump said Putin 'appreciated' his offer to help combat massive Siberian forest fires

President Donald Trump said Thursday Vladimir Putin 'appreciated' his offer to help with forest fires raging in Siberia, and that the two men did not discuss Russia's election interference.




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Jon Huntsman quits as ambassador to Russia and will return to Utah

U.S. diplomat Jon Huntsman has resigned as Donald Trump's ambassador to Russia.




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Vladimir Putin 'likely' approved of Salisbury Novichok attack

The Russian president's involvement in the deadly poisoning in Salisbury is understood to have been assessed by British intelligence agencies as well as Scotland Yard.




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Ambulances covered in protective film transport Russians 'who suffered radiation poisoning' in blast

The spike in radiation in Russia yesterday may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin's top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests, according to news reports in the country.




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Putin's 'undetectable' Hunter stealth drone takes to the skies with a manned fighter jet

The Sukhoi-made Okhotsk - meaning Hunter - only made its maiden flight this month and Russia boasts it is 'almost undetectable' to Western enemies.




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Bullock says Ken Cuccinelli heading immigration policy is as bad as Putin in charge of elections

Steve Bullock, 2020 presidential candidate, on Sunday compared Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, to Russian President Vladimir Putin.




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Putin takes swipe at Macron as he says 'yellow vest' protests would NEVER be allowed in Russia 

Vladimir Putin vowed to prevent the emergence of mass protests yesterday speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron in southern France .




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Russian Soyuz rocket with six-foot tall humanoid robo-naut Fedor fails to dock at ISS

Russia's Soyuz rocket with Vladimir Putin's six-foot tall humanoid robot on board has failed to dock at the International Space Stations. The setback has been blamed on issues with docking systems.




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Former Overstock CEO claims Maria Butina offered to arrange a private meeting with Putin

Patrick Byrne, who stepped down last week from the company he founded, made the claim in a lengthy blog post on Tuesday detailing his relationship with Butina.




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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell retracts claim that Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump's bank loans

O'Donnell claimed on the air that a source had told him 'the co-signers of Donald Trump's Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.' Trump's lawyers threatened to sue.




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Kremlin-backed TV network airs note-by-note mashup of Trump praising Putin with 'Señorita' song

'I love it when you call me señorita,' Trump appears to sing, one auto-tuned note at a time, with each word drawn from a different speech. 'I wish I could pretend I didn't need ya.'




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Trump's absence from WWII commemoration stokes fears in Poland of a rising relationship with Putin

Donald Trump's absence from an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the invasion of Poland in WWII is stoking fears that the security alliance between Washington and Warsaw is weaker than the two governments have let on.




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Vladimir Putin casts his ballot in Russian local elections

Putin (pictured today) voted in Moscow elections which have taken on a rare significance after a series of candidates were detained and barred from the ballot, sparking mass protests.




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Donald Trump did NOT blow the cover of CIA's top Russian spy

The CIA pulled a spy with deep access inside the Kremlin out of Russia in 2017 because of leaks, and not because President Donald Trump had compromised the secret agent.




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Russian president Putin meets Nurmagomedov to celebrate victory over American Poirier at UFC 242 

Russian president Vladimir Putin hailed Khabib Nurmagomedov as a 'strong, tough fighter' after the unbeaten MMA fighter retained his UFC lightweight title.




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'Witch' is publicly shamed on TV and forced to confess in bid to wipe out sorcery in Chechnya 

Sekinat Ibragimova was publicly shamed on TV for casting spells on Chechnya locals. Pro-Putin local ruler Ramzan Kadyrov had her detained and had her paraphernalia seized.




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Putin's goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak marries her Konstantin Bogomolov

Russian president Vladimir Putin's goddaughter Ksenia Sobchak, 37, from Saint Petersburg, has wed her TV producer fiance theatre director Konstantin Bogomolov, 44.




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How were low-tech drones able to pierce Saudi Arabian security?

Saudi Arabia saw half of its oil production blown up Saturday when a suspected drone attack damaged its largest oil refinery and an oil field, despite its state-of-the-art air defence systems.




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Shaman on 5,000 mile trek to rid Putin of 'demons' arrested by heavily armed police in Siberia

Alexander 'Sasha' Gabyshev, 60, nicknamed the 'new Rasputin,' in reference to the crazed monk who took a malevolent hold over the last tsar of Russia, was halted in Siberia.




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Emily Thornberry accuses Donald Trump of 'trying to tear freedom apart'

Emily Thornberry today accused Donald Trump of 'trying to tear freedom apart' as she demanded the end of the 'strongman era' of world politics.




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Vladimir Putin backs plan for F1 to race in St Petersburg

EXCLUSIVE BY JONATHAN MCEVOY: Vladimir Putin and Formula One's power brokers are in advanced talks about staging a race in St Petersburg.




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Giuliani suddenly pulls out of paid appearance at Russia-backed conference in Armenia

Rudy Giuliani (left) has pulled out of a scheduled appearance at a Russia-backed trade conference which Vladimir Putin (right) and his top advisor, Sergev Glazyev (center), would also appear at.




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Why Vladimir Putin could allow development of 'designer babies'

Vladimir Putin is the only one who can green-light the use of the controversial gene-editing technology, and will have the ear of his daughter Maria Vorontsova, an endocrinologist.




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Smiling Hassan Rouhani of Iran and a far less impressed Vladimir Putin pose for bizarre selfie

The Iranian president smiled and looked at ease as he sat in front of the Russian premier, who appeared characteristically stern (pictured).




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Greta Thunberg is tipped to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, is tipped for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize just a week after she furiously chastised world leaders for failing to do enough to tackle the climate crisis.




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Greta Thunberg mocks Putin as she changes her Twitter bio to 'kind but poorly informed teenager'

Greta Thunberg, 16, changed her Twitter biography after Vladimir Putin called her 'a poorly informed teenager' who was being 'used by adults' at an energy forum in Moscow on Wednesday.




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Holes in Iranian oil tanker hit by two missiles revealed for first time as Putin visits Saudi Arabia

Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Saudi Arabia today, where he is set to seal oil agreements as well as use his influence to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf following a tanker attack.




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Conor McGregor reveals bottle of whiskey he gave to Vladimir had to be checked for POISON

Conor McGregor (middle and right) has spoken about the bizarre time the bottle of whiskey he gave to Vladimir Putin (left) was removed by his security staff to check for poison.




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Putin's Soviet spy file declassified: Russian president's KGB profile is released to the public

A KGB profile belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been released to the public at an exhibition of declassified documents at the central state archive in St. Petersburg.




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Vladimir Putin says Wikipedia should be banned and replaced with a Russian version

'It's better to replace it with the Great Russian Encyclopedia in electronic form…here it will be in any case, reliable information in a good modern form.' Putin said in Moscow on Tuesday.




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Putin boasts Russia is creating hypersonic and laser weapons 'which other countries do not possess'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted that Russia will continue to expand its weapons development during a meeting with top officials and prosecutors on Wednesday.




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Ex-Labour MPs slam Jeremy Corbyn over Trident comments

Furious former Labour MPs have lashed out at Jeremy Corbyn after he signalled he would be willing to scrap the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent if he becomes prime minister.