Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 100m with second fastest women's Olympic sprint of all time
On Saturday, Team Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah became the second-fastest woman in history after beating fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to defend her Olympic 100m title.
Thompson-Herah ran 10.61 seconds, a new Olympic record and just 0.12 seconds short of the world record set by the US' Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.
Great Britain's Daryll Neita, who made a surprise entry into the final after Dina Asher-Smith failed in her bid, finished eighth at 11.12 seconds.
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Sicily wildfires: beach resort succumbs to raging blaze
A wildfire in the southern Italian city of Catania destroyed bathing beach facilities on Friday.
Footage shows umbrellas and sunbathing chairs in flames at the Le Capannine lido in Sicily.
Local media reports said that Catania has been battling at least 15 fires, and residents in some areas have been evacuated.
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July 31, 2021
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Team GB win golds in swimming and triathlon mixed relay, bronze in windsurfing | Olympics 2020
Great Britain have won two more golds in swimming and the inaugural triathlon mixed relay, while Emma Wilson took bronze in the women's windsurfing RS:X.
Team GB also set a new world record in the swimming mixed medley relay victory.
Read the latest Olympics 2020 coverage: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/30/tokyo-olympics-2020-live-news-triathlon-golf-swimming-2021/
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July 31, 2021
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Nurses and NHS staff protest Government's proposed 3pc pay rise
Nurses have expressed their "utter dismay" at the Government's proposed 3pc pay increase and described the offer as "a big kick in the teeth".
NHS staff claim they are dealing with a "massive haemorrhage" of workers following the pandemic and said the proposal was insulting.
Hundreds of medical workers, both past and present, took to the streets on Friday and marched to Downing Street in protest of the deal.
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July 30, 2021
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CCTV: Fake Amazon driver jailed for brandishing loaded shotgun on victim's doorstep
A man who posed as an Amazon delivery driver and brandished a loaded shotgun on his victim's doorstep in East Dulwich, London, has been jailed for six years and nine months.
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July 30, 2021
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99 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea
An independent rescue team saved two boats of migrants from the sea over two days.
Sea-Watch is a non-governmental organisation that operates a search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea.
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July 30, 2021
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Death toll in Turkish wildfires rises to four as tourists are evacuated
Turkey's wildfires continue to burn as tourists and locals are evacuated.
More than 60 wildfires broke out in 17 provinces across in Turkey this week.
Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said fires were still blazing in the Mediterranean resort region of Antalya and the Aegean resort province of Mugla.
Authorities have warned that anyone who is found responsible for starting fires will be brought to account.
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July 30, 2021
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‘Arrogant Macron has failed disintegrating France’ | Anne-Elisabeth Moutet interview
With crime flourishing across France, voters have had enough of Macron's empty words. The breakdown in law and order across France could lead to Macron's downfall, argues French journalist Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in this week's Off Script podcast.
Moutet joins Steven Edginton to discuss France's ongoing culture war, the 2022 French Presidential election and the potential threat Macron poses to post-Brexit Britain. Watch the full interview above or listen on your podcast app.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/arrogant-macrons-france-disintegrating-people-crying-boriss/
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July 30, 2021
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Chopper's Politics Podcast: Is it fair for politicians to tell us to be more green?
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Allegra Stratton, the PM's spokesperson for the COP26 climate summit, caused a stir this week by suggesting we shouldn't pre-wash our dishes in order to help the environment. She joins Christopher Hope to discuss other steps we can all be taking to be more green and why in this time of extreme weather events that is so important. Plus she discusses her job that never was as Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, and answers what would have been Chris' killer first question: would you ever lie for the Prime Minister?
Also on the show, Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie on why the Tories seem to be shying away from Thatcherism, and the Telegraph's own Science Editor Sarah Knapton on whether we really will be out of the pandemic by October.
Read: 'What happened to Thatcher’s market reforms?' by Tim Montgomerie here: https://reaction.life/what-happened-to-thatchers-market-reforms/
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July 30, 2021
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Pollution turns Argentina lake bright pink, leaving local environmentalists alarmed
The Corfo Lagoon in Argentina has turned pink due to pollution.
Waste believed to be from nearby fish farms has contaminated the lagoon, leaving scientists concerned that life won't survive in the water.
Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/30/watch-pollution-turns-lake-argentina-bright-pink/
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July 30, 2021
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'It’s crazy, we’ve made history,' BMX gold medallist Beth Shriever tastes glory after crowdfunding
She started out on a second-hand bike, and only made it to Tokyo thanks, in part, to crowdfunding support.
Yet, against all odds, Bethany Shriever, who worked part-time as a teaching assistant to her cover costs, has struck gold in Japan, with her mother hailing the feat as "absolutely amazing".
Her triumph on the BMX despite UK Sport pulling funding came on a morning when Britain's heavily-back team of rowers were sent packing without a single gold medal.
Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/30/riding-second-hand-bike-winning-olympic-gold-bethany-shrievers/
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July 30, 2021
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Grant Shapps: You won't legally need two jabs to return to the office
The Government will not pass legislation forcing people to be fully vaccinated before returning to work, Grant Shapps has said.
Yesterday Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, put the cat amongst the pigeons when he suggested jabs for jobs policies adopted by Netflix, Google and Facebook were "smart", adding: "Whether or not there should be hard and fast legal rules, we would need to look at that carefully."
His comments sparked concern among Conservative backbenchers, with Steve Baker, the Tory MP and deputy chairman of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group, warning "the Government is now encouraging discrimination in relation to vaccinations".
Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/30/boris-johnson-test-trace-quarantine-vaccine-work-home/
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July 30, 2021
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Dina Asher-Smith: How she became the greatest ever British female sprinter | Tokyo 2020
Dina Asher-Smith is one of Team GB’s big hopes of a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
That is despite the form book showing she is not amongst the fastest women over 100m or 200m this year.
“We've seen before that she can perform on the day and that's one of her greatest talents,” says Anna Kessel, The Telegraph Women’s Sports Editor.
As she explains in the video above, Asher-Smith is “able to deal with pressure in a way that others can't - she enjoys that spotlight”.
Watch our profile for more about Asher-Smith’s personality, equally at home on her local track in Bromley as she is on the catwalk in front of Naomi Campbell, and how she used her Telegraph column to challenge assumptions about racism.
Read more about Asher-Smith's events at Tokyo 2020 here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/29/womens-100m-sprint-final-tokyo-olympics-2020-2021-race-time-date/
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July 29, 2021
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Israel to offer third dose of Covid vaccines amid surge in delta variant
Israel is to offer a third booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine to over-60s in a bid to keep the delta variant at bay, becoming the third country to run a live trial of a three-jab vaccination plan.
Israeli officials took the decision after seeing evidence that the first people to be vaccinated against Covid in January were now more susceptible of catching the virus due to fading antibody levels.
Israel follows Hungary and Turkey, which have already announced that they will begin offering a third dose of Covid vaccines to the elderly.
Nachman Ash, the director general of the Israeli health ministry, told healthcare providers to begin offering third doses from the start of next week, according to local media reports.
At the start of 2021, Israel's Covid vaccination programme became the fastest in the world, with the majority of the adult population given two doses within a matter of weeks.
Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/29/israel-offer-third-dose-covid-vaccines-amid-surge-delta-variant/
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July 29, 2021
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Punishing the young with vaccine passports is discriminatory, immoral and authoritarian
Scenes of joy in nightclubs around Britain may soon come to an end as hints of vaccine passports and another lockdown loom over today's youth. With the vulnerable vaccinated, it should remain a personal choice to take the inoculation.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/29/punishing-young-vaccine-passports-discriminatory-immoral-authoritarian/
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July 29, 2021
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Russia's Nauka science module docks with International Space Station after decades of delays
Russia's long-delayed lab module has successfully docked with the International Space Station , eight days after it was launched from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The 22-tonne Nauka module, also called the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, docked with the orbiting outpost after a long journey and a series of manoeuvres.
The launch of Nauka, which is intended to provide more room for scientific experiments and space for the crew, had been repeatedly delayed because of technical problems.
It was initially scheduled to go up in 2007.
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July 29, 2021
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Cyclist jailed for colliding with 72-year-old pedestrian who later died
A cyclist has been jailed after riding through a red light and hitting a pedestrian, leaving him with fatal injuries.
Ermir Loka, 23, was cycling in Bow, east London, on July 3 last year when he struck Peter McCombie.
The 72-year-old was walking home from his job as a human resources administrator just after 5pm when the incident took place.
CCTV footage showed Mr McCombie crossing Bow Road, near the junction with Addington Road, and then stopping on a central island as he waited for a green pedestrian light.
As he crossed, a cyclist passed stationary traffic, narrowly avoiding him, but, moments later, a second cyclist, Loka, went through a red light and crashed into him, the Metropolitan Police said.
Loka came off his bike in the collision, but got up, remounted and rode off.
Loka's trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that he had been travelling at around 15mph when he struck the pensioner.
Mr McCombie suffered injuries including fractures and bruising to his left side, and damage to the right side of his skull after he fell to the ground. He died eight days later, on July 11.
Jurors were told the cyclist abandoned his bike and later admitted to police that he did not stop at the scene.
Prosecutors said Loka, an Albanian national, was "in a panic" over his immigration status, which was not regularised, and he knew police would soon be on the scene.
Loka was convicted of causing bodily harm by wanton/furious driving and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, which will take into account time served while on remand.
He was found not guilty of a second charge of manslaughter.
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July 29, 2021
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Joe Biden blames 'Freudian slip' for confusing Trump with Obama in speech gaffe
President Joe Biden confused former President Obama with Donald Trump during a speech today in Pennsylvania, blaming the mistake on a “Freudian slip”.
“Back in 2009, during the so-called Great Recession, the president asked me to be in charge of managing that piece, then-President Trump,” Biden said.
“Excuse me, Freudian slip, that was the last president. He caused the… anyway, President Obama when I was vice-president.”
A Freudian slip is described as an unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings.
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July 29, 2021
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Turkey wildfires: Several dead and many injured as blaze rages across south of country
Wildfires have ravaged communities across southern Turkey and threatened the popular resort city of Antalya.
A number of people have been reported killed and injured and buildings have been destroyed. Hundreds of firefighters, a plane and 19 helicopters have been sent to tackle the fires.
The fire started in the Manavgat district and spread to other areas following strong winds.
Read the full story here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/29/one-dead-ten-stranded-wildfire-rages-across-southern-turkey/
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July 29, 2021
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Ever Given container ship finally arrives in Netherlands months after getting stuck in Suez Canal
The Ever Given container ship, which blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March, finally arrived in the Dutch port of Rotterdam in the early hours of Thursday.
The ship, which blocked one of the world's busiest waterways, subsequently spent more than three months impounded by the Suez Canal Authority.
The 400-metre vessel loaded with about 18,300 containers took three weeks to make the voyage from Egypt to the Netherlands.
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July 29, 2021
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