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Hurricane Oscar aftermath to batter Britain with heavy rain and strong winds

11/3/2018, 3:51:25 AM
An intense area of low pressure is to blame for the wet and windy weather, as many enjoy firework displays around the country ✔ Wet and windy weather is ahead this weekend (file photo) (Image: REX/Shutterstock) There are fears that roads could flood (file photo) (Image: Rex) Read More UK weather: Tropical nights and scorching summer days expected due to climate change She said outbreaks of rain would slowly make their way eastwards throughout the day



Severe weather likely on Election Day as a major storm develops in central and eastern U.S.

11/3/2018, 12:51:05 AM
An energetic pattern may deliver Election Day tornadoes as well as other hazards. ✔ In addition, winds will be very gusty over a large area from the south central United States through the Great Lakes as the storm cranks up ✔ The Edmund Fitzgerald famously sank on Nov. 10, 1975, and terms such as the gales of November and November Witch have been popularized owing to storms at this time of year



From camel toe boots to an emoji skirt - these fashion fails are so bad they're almost criminal

11/3/2018, 12:27:24 AM
IT’S doubtful even a dedicated follower of fashion would stoop to these lengths to be in with the in crowd. These pictures reveal what are a whole lot worse than fashion fails – more a whole fashio… ✔ Hopefully the designers of camel toe boots has decided to look for a new career ✔ The person who designed a baseball cap with the slogan touch the children on it may want to reconsider the wording ✔ Or perhaps for a hot night out, ladies, you fancy a dress with emojis all over it ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368



Sajid Javid must get a handle on the Home Office now or he'll end up like Rudd

11/3/2018, 2:40:40 AM
Step up, Sajid SAJID Javid is a potential Prime Minister — but he’s approaching a moment of truth. His Home Office seems more dysfunctional now even than when a large chunk of it was condemned as “… ✔ Step up, Sajid SAJID Javid is a potential Prime Minister but he’s approaching a moment of truth ✔ They must know that Vote Leave, the official cross-party campaign, wanted nothing to do with Banks’ disruptive, self-promoting Leave.EU outfit ✔ Duping DUP THE Government simply cannot afford to betray the DUP’s red lines on Brexit



‘I will stand against you’: Iranian general repels Trump’s GoT-themed attack with own meme

11/3/2018, 12:41:38 AM
The leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, has responded to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that ‘sanctions are coming’ with a Game of Thrones-inspired meme of his own. ✔ HomeWorld News ‘I will stand against you’: Iranian general repels Trump’s GoT-themed attack with own meme Published time: 3 Nov, 2018 00:32 Get short URL © Qassem Soleimani (@soleimany_ir) / Instagram The leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, has responded to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that ‘sanctions are coming’ with a Game of Thrones-inspired meme of his own ✔ ۹۷/۵/۴ A post shared by Ghasem Soleimany|قاسم سلیمانی (@soleimany_ir) on Nov 2, 2018 at 2:14pm PDT Earlier in the day, the US leader tweeted an image of himself with the message borrowed from the HBO fantasy show, based on George R.R



SUE REID: Shale gas bonanzo could turn Blackpool into a boom town

11/3/2018, 2:51:22 AM
SUE REID: Fracking, the controversial process of extracting gas from underground rocks using high-pressure chemicals, is being hailed as a salvation for the resort and a good deal of Lancashire. ✔ The show at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre was a sell-out on Halloween night this week ✔ Those were Blackpool’s heydays before cheap flights to package spots in the Spanish sun took their toll on the once-booming holiday market here ✔ Yet, according to British Geological Survey experts, nobody in Durham reported feeling it



'Why did it fly?' Grief mixes with anger over crashed Lion Air flight

11/3/2018, 3:13:44 AM
Families faces agonising wait, both for the bodies of their lost ones and answers as to why flight JT610 came down ✔ I heard the plane from Bali already had a problem, right ✔ Photograph: Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images As of Friday afternoon 67 body bags had arrived at the hospital from the port, mostly a jumbled mix of body parts ✔ Newly married, last weekend Cici and her husband, Chandra, had been holidaying in Bali and Jakarta before boarding the JT610 flight home to Bangka



‘A political rupture’: far right ready to roll in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

11/3/2018, 2:52:56 AM
Colonel Márcio Tadeu de Lemos sees opportunity to leap into political quagmire ✔ But Lemos claimed the killing could only be halted with a great deal of force and energy ✔ Lemoswas elated conservatism was returning to its place in the Brazilian sun ✔ Put in a military president and leave him to govern! That wasn’t possible, the former police officer grumbled: People always complain that this would be a coup



China needs to hear from its peers it cannot commit ethnic cleansing in Xinjiang | Frances Eve

11/3/2018, 12:17:31 AM
Beijing needs to be held to account. On Tuesday, a UN meeting provides other nations with that chance ✔ It’s no coincidence that China’s crackdown on Xinjiang comes as Xi is promoting his signature trade policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, which relies on Xinjiang as a core land route ✔ Frances Eve is a researcher with the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders



Opinion | Why Aren’t Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?

11/3/2018, 1:05:18 AM
Democrats miss Trump’s political gifts and the real threat he represents. ✔ Opinion The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world ✔ Yes, his administration doesn’t even have an ambassador in Honduras, and if the U.S. has any kind of coherent Central American policy it would be news to me



Leavers fear EU silence and PM's quiet confidence mean Brexit deal is done

11/3/2018, 1:26:09 AM
IT is quiet out there, too quiet in the views of many Brexiteers in government. Their suspicions are raised by the fact that when things go silent in Brussels, that’s when the real negotiating is b… ✔ AP:Associated Press 9 Philip Hammond's Budget did little to deal with school funding -  an issue that cost the Tories at the last election Education is threatening to turn into a major political problem for the Tories ✔ James Forsyth is the political editor of The Spectator



I voted for Brexit, but claims of Russian influence are troubling

11/3/2018, 12:46:55 AM
Let’s imagine that rumours emerged that Labour’s biggest political donor was not what he seemed. And that the real source of the money was none other than Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. ✔ Today I am asking readers to indulge me in a mental experiment ✔ It recently sent agents from the GRU, its military intelligence unit, to carry out a murder on British soil ✔ On Monday the United States will slap aggressive new sanctions on Iran, with the intention of driving oil exports down to zero, paralysing the Iranian economy and bringing about the collapse of the government



The Wild Saga Behind Orson Welles’ Cursed Final Film

11/3/2018, 12:09:36 AM
Four decades ago, no one would have guessed that “The Other Side of The Wind” would ever see the light of day, let alone on Netflix. But here we are. ✔ Throughout the mid-’70s and early ’80s, Welles wrestled over the rights to the original negative in one of the most ridiculously complicated ownership disputes in Hollywood history ✔ People who don’t know pictures are going to say, ’What else did this guy make ✔ Oliver Whitney is a film critic and culture writer living in Brooklyn



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