Two teams battle over a small leather ball in the heart of Jedburgh A historic sport which dates back centuries has taken to the streets of a town in the Scottish Borders once more. Jedburgh’s annual ba’ game sees the Uppies and the Doonies battle to get a small leather ball to opposite ends of […]
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Tom EspinerBBC News business reporter Watch: Canadian liquor store clears out US alcohol in response to tariffs Canadian provinces pulling US alcohol off store shelves in response to Trump trade policy is “worse than tariffs”, the boss of Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman has said. Several Canadian provinces, including Ontario, which is by far the most
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Five members of a German far-right group have been jailed for plotting to overthrow the government and kidnap its health minister. Four of the group were described as “ringleaders” of a “terrorist organisation” which planned to use violence to trigger civil war-like conditions in Germany. The group had planned to kidnap Health Minister Karl Lauterbach
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Cyclone Alfred is set to bring damaging winds and heavy rain to Australia’s central east coast when it makes landfall as a category 2 storm later this week. It’s the first cyclone to hit the region in since Cyclone Zoe in 1974. Tropical storms are not uncommon in Australia, but typically make landfall further north.
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Vladimir Putin has mocked Emmanuel Macron, warning him that ‘some people forget how Napoleon’s Russian campaign ended,’ after the French President indicated he would be willing to use his country’s nuclear deterrent to protect Europe. France’s Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the Russian Empire in 1812 in a disastrous six-month military campaign that ended in Russian victory and
