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Michael Gove has said two Tories who attended a pandemic-era gathering at which staff were filmed apparently joking about Covid restrictions should not be stripped of the honours they were given by Boris Johnson.The Levelling Up Secretary apologised over the footage of an event at Conservative Party headquarters said to have taken place on December 14 2020 when indoor socialising was banned.

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Back in January, on a dark night of pelting rain, Erica Lopez Bedolla had only minutes to evacuate her family from the impoverished Central Valley town of Planada after a levee broke."It was so quick," she told our Times colleague Jessica Garrison, recalling the speed with which the water rushed into her town and then her home, destroying almost everything and displacing hundreds.

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A camouflage-clad mannequin sat on a table where Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met with officials about recent home invasions in Orange County.The prop was meant to draw attention to claims that Chileans entering the United States through a loophole in the immigration system are donning specialized suits that resemble foliage, hiding near homes and breaking in - typically from a second-story balcony - before making off with cash, jewelry and other high-value goods.

Scrapping single-word gradings for schools would not alleviate the underlying discomfort teachers feel, Ofsted's chief inspector has said, as she came under increasing pressure to reform the system after a headteacher's suicide.Amanda Spielman has announced a series of changes in response to Ruth Perry's death, but has been criticised for not going far enough.

Late one night two months ago, a team of Taliban security officers assembled on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital to prepare for a raid on an Islamic State hide-out.As the zero hour approached, the men fiddled with their automatic rifles while their leader, Habib Rahman Inqayad, scrambled to get the exact location of their target.

Ukraine claimed small advances on Monday in its counteroffensive in the southeast of the country, hunting for a place to drive a wedge through Russian defenses, a key to its hopes for recapturing wide swaths of territory lost to the Russian invasion last year.After a week of fierce combat with infantry, artillery and tanks, across a mostly agricultural landscape, Ukrainian forces, newly armed and trained by Western allies, have retaken seven small villages and settlements, Hannah Malyar, a deputy defense minister, wrote on the messaging platform Telegram, including one that the military said it had captured on Monday.

"The Walking Man," real name Joseph Kromelis, became a beloved symbol of Chicago simply by walking around downtown streets, minding his own business.With his mop of hair, bushy mustache and worn-out but sharp attire, he inspired urban legends about his origins.Eccentric billionaire?Famous musician?

Travel chaos The RATP operator of the Paris metro system apologised on Wednesday after hundreds of passengers on multiple lines were blocked underground in stifling temperatures and at the height of rush hour.Issued on: 15/06/2023 - 19:50 2 min A commuter sits in a carriage at the Gare de l'Est metro station in Paris, on March 7, 2023.

It could be a new world record, although no one involved wants to talk about it.In the south of France, a collaboration among 35 countries has been birthing one of the largest and most ambitious scientific experiments ever conceived: the giant fusion power machine known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).

They expressed concern that a new rule intended to improve air quality - tightening standards on a class of pollutants that include soot and smoke - could have the opposite intended effect by making it harder to conduct prescribed burns, setting the stage for the types of big fires currently raging out of control in Canada.

This comes after the oil giant tacitly admitted that limiting warming requires an "immediate end to fossil fuel growth."Shell, which more than doubled its annual profits last year, said in a press release that it now intends to "achieve cash flow longevity" by keeping oil production stable until 2030 and boosting gas production, even as scientists say a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels is necessary to avert global climate destruction.VIEW press / Contributor / Getty Images Shell announced Wednesday that it is raising payouts to wealthy shareholders and scrapping plans to cut oil production by up to 2% annually, a move that environmental groups said lays bare the futility of relying on fossil fuel corporations to voluntarily curb their climate-destroying activities.

LOS ANGELES - The Chicago White Sox saw environmental concerns firsthand last week in New York.The city was under a haze because of smoke carried down from wildfires burning in Canada."Insane, it was like orange outside," starter Lucas Giolito told the Tribune on Friday.The team's scheduled game on Wednesday against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium was postponed because of what Major League Baseball called "clearly hazardous air quality."

Policymakers also want to evaluate the impact of their actions on the economy so far.The Fed imposed its fastest series of rate increases since the 1980s, but it wants to avoid over-tightening and causing a significant recession.May's inflation data aided the Fed in making today's decision.The Consumer Price Index in May rose just 4% year over year, before seasonal adjustment, compared to a 4.9% increase in April.

The Chicago White Sox saw environmental concerns firsthand last week in New York.The city was under a haze because of smoke carried down from wildfires burning in Canada."Insane, it was like orange outside," starter Lucas Giolito told the Tribune on Friday.The team's scheduled game on Wednesday against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium was postponed because of what Major League Baseball called "clearly hazardous air quality."

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A Connecticut man was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday for two failed car-jacking attempts in Coney Island that left four people, including a toddler, injured.Kahlil Ivey, 26, of Waterbury, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in April and was jailed Monday by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Herbert Moses for the June 18, 2021 incident.