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Egypt travel: Flying back into Sharm’s charms



SHARM EL-SHEIKH is back open for business. That's the message coming loud and clear from the Egyptian holiday hotspot, a long-time favourite for Brits in search of a sun-soaked getaway. UK flights resumed to Sharm last month following a five-year hiatus after the tragic events of 2015.




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Partick Thistle 0 - Rangers 2: Josh Windass hits back at Gers fans with goal celebration



JOSH WINDASS silenced his Rangers hecklers – and won the backing of his boss.




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Chelsea open talks with Leicester over Ben Chilwell transfer as left-back eyes London move



Chelsea have entered negotiations with Leicester over Ben Chilwell after the left-back reportedly told his agent he wants a transfer to London.




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Dubai holidays: Hotels could be up to 60 percent cheaper in a bid to lure back tourism



DUBAI hotels are slashing prices by up to 60 percent as part of its wider plans to boost tourism to the country.




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Tottenham tipped to sign Premier League free agent and convert the star into a wing-back



Tottenham have been tipped to sign Ryan Fraser when his contract with Bournemouth ends.




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Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho backed to complete bargain signing



Tottenham will need to be creative in the transfer market this summer.




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Rafael Nadal receives backing from David Ferrer after criticism from Spanish government



Rafael Nadal has been outspoken with his thoughts on how the Spanish government handled the coronavirus pandemic.




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Car insurance customers should get bigger refunds - companies 'need to pay it back now'



CAR INSURANCE companies should work out how much they have saved due to coronavirus and pass over savings based on customer premiums, says experts.




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Germany second wave worry as towns bring BACK coronavirus lockdown after spike in cases



TWO of Germany's local authorities will bring back certain lockdown measures in some areas following an increase in infections after the government's easing of restrictions.




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Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho backed to complete bargain signing



Tottenham will need to be creative in the transfer market this summer.




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Tour de France could end up being a throwback to its dark days due to coronavirus crisis



NEIL SQUIRES COLUMN: Daily Express' Chief Sports Writer expresses his concerns about the coronavirus pandemic's affect on the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation testing programme.




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Sturgeon faces backlash over 'ridiculous' coronavirus plan to shut border with England



A CONSERVATIVE MP has lashed out at Nicola Sturgeon's bizarre coronavirus plan. David Mundell, the Conservative MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale, was enraged by reports Ms Sturgeon is planning to shut Scotland's border to England.




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Mike Tyson comeback slammed by former promoter: Give me a break



Mike Tyson has resumed training and is eyeing a return to the ring.




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Dubai holidays: Hotels could be up to 60 percent cheaper in a bid to lure back tourism



DUBAI hotels are slashing prices by up to 60 percent as part of its wider plans to boost tourism to the country.




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Brexit warning: Full exit, full steam ahead - UK fires back at EU's coronavirus threat



BRITAIN'S full exit from EU rules is going ahead on schedule despite the coronavirus crisis, a Cabinet minister promised last night.




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Canada backs U.S.-led effort for Taiwan at WHO over China's objections

Canada has backed an American-led effort to allow Taiwan to be granted observer status at the World Health Organization because of its early success in containing COVID-19.




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30/04/1975: Vào Nam rồi ra đi, u tôi không về lại quê ngoài Bắc

Ông Bùi Văn Phú nhớ lần thăm quê ở Nam Định và người thân, bạn bè đã hy sinh cho đất nước được hòa bình.




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Voi VN lên tàu Ba Lan ra Bắc rồi đi đâu?

Tàu Kilinski chở 85 nghìn bộ đội Việt Minh tập kết ra Bắc năm 1955 còn mang theo cả voi, khỉ và chim chóc để đưa về vườn thú Ba Lan.




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Virus corona: Trung Quốc muốn giúp Bắc Hàn chống dịch

Chủ tịch Tập Cận Bình bày tỏ lo ngại về dịch virus corona ở nước láng giềng Bắc Hàn và đề nghị giúp đỡ




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Cadbury brings back retro favourites & introduces two new Dairy Milk bars



CADBURY has expanded its offering, with two new Dairy Milk flavours, as well as bringing back a retro favourite. Where can you buy them?




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Richard and MINDY HAMMOND are back in France - will they find their dream home?



I was on another flight, London to France, just a few days after returning from two weeks there, and it wasn’t to retrieve the headphones I lost. In typical Hammond fashion, we made a snap decision to return to France and revisit the house we almost bought last year.




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Spectrum Flashback: KDL TV

John Miner opened the first TV station in Washington County in 1981. Staff members demonstrate the operations at KDL-TV circa 1985.

       




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How Indiana has fought back against past disease outbreaks

Epidemics aren't new. This is how Hoosiers have weathered them in the past.

      




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Butler Insider video: Bulldogs have backcourt for March

It was vintage Kamar Baldwin against Xavier

      




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How a canoe trip started Butler basketball's comeback year

Before any Kamar Baldwin buzzer-beaters, the Butler Bulldogs laid groundwork for a historic season.

      




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A look back at Butler's run at the 2010 NCAA championship

A look back at Butler's run at the 2010 NCAA championship.

      




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'Stranger Things 2': Going back to Hawkins, Ind.

1984's Halloween is looking like one to remember in opening episode of Netflix series 'Stranger Things 2.'

      




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Simon Pagenaud goes back-to-back with his IndyCar iRacing Challenge win at Twin Ring Motegi

Once again, Simon Pagenaud's patient in-race strategy paid dividends during the late chaos for a second consecutive victory in IndyCar's iRacing Challenge.

       




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Tully: I'm taking a cancer break, but I'll be back

It's time for a short break to deal with some cancer issues. But I'll be back.

      




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Plainfield Correctional Facility inmates grow a garden to give back

Plainfield Correctional Facility inmates grow produce in a garden to give to needy.

      




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QB Ben Easters has career-night as Brownsburg bounces back against Fishers

The Kansas commit threw five touchdown passes against a defense that entered the game allowing just 6.5 points per game.

      




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Lloyds: Back in the red?

It's the first results tomorrow for Lloyds new chief executive, Antonio Horta-Orsorio - and I wouldn't be at all surprised if, in the time-honoured fashion of new brooms, he announces substantial losses on ventures that had already gone a bit wrong for his predecessors.

In particular, I would expect him to announce further significant writedowns on £20bn odd of outstanding loans to the troubled Irish economy - after last year's impairment charge of £4.3bn on Irish lending.

Also, he may well make a provision of well over £1bn to cover potential payouts to thousands of purchasers of PPI loan insurance.

This would follow last month's comprehensive defeat in the courts of Britain's leading banks, which had challenged the decision of the regulator, the Financial Services Authority, that they should pay compensation for mis-selling of the credit insurance.

If Lloyds were to incur such a big loss on its past sales of PPI policies, that of course would be seen as a very good thing by those who believe that Lloyds mis-sold to them - because it would imply that Lloyds would be ceasing its legal battle (with the other banks) to avoid making comprehensive restitution.

Anyway, the Irish and PPI debits together could well run to many billions of pounds - which would be enough to put Lloyds into losses overall for the first three months of the year, and possibly for the first six months too.

That would be embarrassing for Lloyds, though not for Mr Horta-Orsorio, who can't be held responsible for decisions made before his time.

Remember that Lloyds made a big thing last year of being back in the black, following its humungous losses in 2008 and 2009 of £6.7bn and £6.3bn respectively.

Anyway, if I'm right, and if Lloyds takes a chunky hit from Ireland and PPI, it would represent a setback to the recovery of a bank 41% owned by taxpayers - but it wouldn't impair the health of the bank in a fundamental way.

That said, it would pose a very particular question for the non-executives of Lloyds - which is why they chose to award a £1.45m bonus to the bank's retiring chief executive, Eric Daniels, earlier this year.




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Trayce Jackson-Davis' return may push IU basketball back to top of Big Ten

What Trayce Jackson-Davis' decision to return to Bloomington for his sophomore season means for Archie Miller and the Hoosiers.

       




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Brady Allen remains one of the most coveted Indiana quarterbacks in Class of 2022

Gibson Southern quarterback Brady Allen remains one of the most coveted Indiana recruits in the Class of 2022

       




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Law on Holcomb's side despite conservative backlash over COVID-19 measures

Failing to abide by governor's order is a misdemeanor, but officials hope they don't need to enforce it.

      




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Exclusive: Trey Hollingsworth clarifies comments that sending Americans back to work is lesser of two evils

Indiana Congressman Trey Hollingsworth says it's a false choice between accepting widespread casualties or reopening the economy.

       




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Every Indianapolis Colts starting quarterback

Mike Pagel to Andrew Luck, and everyone in between -- 24 different quarterbacks have led the Colts. How many can you name?

      




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Doyel and Derek podcast: Colts draft, ESPN-on-Eason crime, NBA coming back — sort of

Gregg got a boxing heavy bag for his birthday, and he's ready to beat up Derek — hey, that's what he said! — on the latest Doyel and Derek Podcast.

       




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Taking a look back at Colts 2017 draft class and it's 'Pro Bowl-caliber' talent

They say it takes three years to evaluate a draft class. How does the Colts 2017 class look three years later?

       




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New Colts quarterback Jacob Eason has spent his entire career under the weight of expectation

Eason, a five-star recruit who was a freshman starter at Georgia before transferring to Washington, is used to the weight of expectation

       




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Is Colts quarterback Philip Rivers a Hall of Famer?

How important are counting stats for quarterbacks? How important is winning in the postseason? Those are the questions about Rivers.

       




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Back from the brink?

The president has cancelled his travel plans and says he expects an answer on whether a government shutdown can be averted by Friday morning, Washington time. He says: "I'm not yet prepared to express wild optimism", but sounded stern about the consequences of failure, particularly damage to a fragile recovery. "For us to go backwards because Washington couldn't get its act together is unacceptable."

He could be simply preparing the way for failure and claiming the moral high ground. But If that was the case I think we would have heard from John Boehner, the Republican leader in the house. They appear to be on the edge of a deal. What to look for next is how enthusiastic or otherwise are the Tea Party about any such agreement. If there are very few moans then the Republican leadership will have pulled off something of a coup.

Both sides looked over the brink and didn't like what they saw. Or rather they couldn't peer through the fog of competing narratives to see what was at the bottom of the abysses. I tend to think that at the start the American people would blame "politicians" in general without bothering to distinguish their party.

Some Democrats think it would be a straight replay of the last shutdown in 1995. Newt Gingrich badly miscalculated, was blamed for the shutdown and was forced to give way. It was seen as a turning point in the Clinton presidency which had been in the doldrums until this victory. Incidentally it had another huge impact. During the shutdown, in an understaffed and quiet White House, one intern was at work and had an opportunity to be alone with the president. Bill met Monica and the presidency was never the same.

That aside, many think this wouldn't be a straight repeat of 95. Bill Walker, who's still close to Newt Gingrich, was an influential deputy chief whip at the time. He told me: "I think in many ways it would be different than 95, because I do get the feeling, when I'm back home in Pennsylvania, that people have come to the conclusion that when a country reaches the point that its debt is equal to its gross national product, that country is in trouble.

"I think the blame is likely to vastly more divided. Clearly, the partisans are going to come down on the side of their party affiliations, so the question is - where do the independents come down?

"And, by every measure, so far the independents have said they are extremely concerned about the situation we're in with regard to debt, so if they come to the conclusion that Republicans have stood on principle, i think the Republicans will get at least a percentage of the independent vote."

Perhaps this is so. But there are huge risks on both sides. Even if a breakdown is averted today, there are many more moments yet to come over budget, debt and deficit. Late night crisis meetings at the White House may become a fixture.




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The White House backtracks on Bin Laden

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The White House has had to correct its facts about the killing of Bin Laden, and for some that has diminished the glow of success that has surrounded all those involved in the operation.

Bin Laden wasn't armed when he was shot. It raises suspicions that this was indeed a deliberate shoot-to-kill operation.

Here are the inaccuracies in the first version. The woman killed was not his wife. No woman was used as a human shield. And he was not armed.

The president's press secretary Jay Carney suggested this was the result of trying to provide a great deal of information in a great deal of haste.

I can largely accept that. There is no mileage in misleading people and then correcting yourself. But the president's assistant national security advisor John Brennan had used the facts he was giving out to add a moral message - this was the sort of man Bin Laden was, cowering behind his wife, using her as a shield. Nice narrative. Not true. In fact, according to Carney this unarmed woman tried to attack the heavily armed Navy Seal. In another circumstance that might even be described as brave.

Jay Carney said that Bin Laden didn't have to have a gun to be resisting. He said there was a great deal of resistance in general and a highly volatile fire fight. The latest version says Bin Laden's wife charged at the US commando and was shot in the leg, but not killed. The two brothers, the couriers and owners of the compound, and a woman were killed on the ground floor of the main building. This version doesn't mention Bin Laden's son, who also died.

By this count only three men, at the most, were armed. I do wonder how much fight they could put up against two helicopters' worth of Navy Seals.

Does any of this matter? Well, getting the fact right is always important. You can't make a judgment without them. We all make mistakes, and journalists hate doing so because it makes people trust us less. For those involved an operation like this, time must go past in a confused and noisy instant, and they aren't taking notes. Confusion is very understandable. But you start to wonder how much the facts are being massaged now, to gloss over the less appealing parts of the operation.

And of course there is the suspicion that the US never wanted to take Bin Laden alive. Here at least many see a trial as inconvenient, awkward - a chance for terrorists to grandstand. Look at all the fuss about the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

In the confusion of a raid it's hard to see how the Seals could be sure that Bin Laden wasn't armed, didn't have his finger on the trigger of a bomb, wasn't about to pull a nasty surprise. If he had his hands in the air shouting "don't shoot" he might have lived, but anything short of that seems to have ensured his death.

I suspect there will be more worry about this in Britain and Europe than in the US. That doesn't mean we are right or wrong. It is a cultural difference. We are less comfortable about frontier justice, less forgiving about even police shooting people who turn out to be unarmed, perhaps less inculcated with the Dirty Harry message that arresting villains is for wimps, and real justice grows from the barrel of a gun. Many in America won't be in the slightest bit bothered that a mass murderer got what was coming to him swiftly, whether he was trying to kill anyone in that instant or not.




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Faith, family and basketball lead Jordache Mavunga back home to UIndy

Faith, family and basketball lead Jordache Mavunga back home to UIndy

       




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IU football: Cornerback Tiawan Mullen stays engaged despite distance

Tiawan Mullen, who will be a sophomore, has been throwing questions at IU football cornerbacks coach Brandon Shelby all spring

       




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Trayce Jackson-Davis' return may push IU basketball back to top of Big Ten

What Trayce Jackson-Davis' decision to return to Bloomington for his sophomore season means for Archie Miller and the Hoosiers.

       




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Back to the office? Here's what Indiana's reopening plan means for office workers

As Indiana moves into a phased reopening during the coronavirus pandemic, the state is encouraging office workers to continue working from home.

       




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Insider: The real Victor Oladipo appears but Pacers' comeback bid falls short vs. Celtics

Boston dominated for most of four quarters but Indiana briefly took the lead in the final minutes behind Victor Oladipo and inspired defensive play.

      




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Insider: If the NBA returns, Pacers could benefit with a healthy backcourt

Malcolm Brogdon is healing and more minutes for JaKarr Sampson could get the Pacers out of the first round of the playoffs

      




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Pacers Myles Turner on his father contracting coronavirus and getting back on the court

Turner: 'It was a rough path for a couple of weeks'