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As the two greatest rivals in men’s tennis convened at the French Open once more, plenty of factors pointed in favour of Novak Djokovic. While both he and Rafael Nadal had arrived in the clay court season full of uncertainty, only Djokovic had taken notable steps forward since. Nadal, meanwhile, still searched for his best form after his fractured rib. His preparation was complicated with a flareup of his chronic foot injury. His form in Paris was, so far, subpar. But this is Rafael Nadal. At Roland Garros. He is the man who has won 110 times in his home with…

An author is warning that the world’s current response to monkeypox in the form of lockdowns is signaling a road back to lockdowns, which she calls the “conditioning” of Americans toward a socialist society. Cheryl Chumley, the author of “LOCKDOWN: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom” and an opinion editor at The Washington Times, told Epoch TV’s “China Insider” program. According to the author, the current government and media reactions in response to monkeypox parallel a pattern of signals that led to COVID lockdowns. “If you watched as we moved from the coronavirus to the various variants, and now here we are with…

Internazionale are due to hold talks with Romelu Lukaku’s lawyer on Tuesday to explore a possible return to the club for the striker. Lukaku has endured a difficult first season back at Chelsea and would like to go back to Inter but a deal would be complicated given the Premier League club paid £97.5m last August. Inter have not yet held talks with Chelsea regarding a formula that could lead to a transfer, with a loan the only realistic possibility from the Italian club’s perspective. Lukaku’s representatives intend to speak to Chelsea soon to understand how they view his future. Lukaku scored 64 goals…

The UK civil service has paused its flagship graduate scheme for at least a year in order to reduce its number of staff. The scheme, known as the civil service fast stream, will not run in 2023 as it has in previous years. The decision was made at a Cabinet Office board meeting on 19 May, chaired by Stephen Barclay, the prime minister’s chief of staff. The move comes after the government said it wanted to cut 91,000 civil service roles in order to save money. The civil service fast stream is made up of 15 individual schemes, and graduates…

Russia’s Gazprom has cut off gas supplies to Dutch gas trader GasTerra after it had failed to comply with requirements to pay for deliveries in Russian rubles. GasTerra said in a statement on May 30 that it has “decided not to comply with Gazprom’s one-sided payment requirements.” Russian President Vladimir Putin issues a decree in March stating that from now on, Russian gas would have to be paid for in rubles, meaning that nations wanting to purchase gas would have to open both a euro and a ruble account with Gazprombank in Moscow. “GasTerra will not go along with Gazprom’s payment demands,” the partially state-owned company said. “This is because…

The former children’s commissioner for England has called for free school meals to be extended to all families on universal credit, while acknowledging that poverty has not been tackled in this country “well enough”. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Anne Longfield, who is chairing a year-long commission on young lives, said she had supported the extension of free school meals to all families receiving the benefit for “some time”, adding that this was something Marcus Rashford and Henry Dimbleby had also called for. It came as teaching unions have written to the chancellor and education secretary asking for free school…

A senior minister has disputed claims Sue Gray was pressured to water down her report into law-breaking parties across Westminster, saying he is “confident” the investigation had been entirely independent. Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, dismissed suggestions that senior figures in Downing Street pushed for detail about the so-called “Abba party” in Boris Johnson’s flat during lockdown and staff members’ names to be stripped out. The allegations were reported in the Sunday Times, which said Gray was lobbied to alter key passages of her report on the eve of its publication by three people: Steve Barclay, the prime minister’s chief…

The origins of the Windrush scandal lay in 30 years of racist immigration legislation designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to a leaked government report. The stark conclusion was set out in a Home Office commissioned paper that officials have repeatedly tried to suppress over the past year. The 52-page analysis by an unnamed historian, which has been seen by the Guardian, describes how “the British Empire depended on racist ideology in order to function”, and sets out how this affected the laws passed in the postwar period. It concludes that the origins of the “deep-rooted racism of the Windrush…

Mandating COVID-19 vaccines and related passports have had damaging political, legal, and socioeconomic effects; while also destabilizing the integrity of science and public health, according to new research published at the BMJ Global Health, a global online health journal based in London. Several countries have implemented vaccine mandates and passports to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, with some introducing them through the democratic process while others imposing them via emergency declarations, said the May 26 research report titled “The unintended consequences of COVID-19 vaccine policy.” Vaccine passports risk “enshrining discrimination” into law based on the “perceived health status” of individuals, even against those…

For Liverpool, it was a game too far. No 63 of a season in which they have contested every single one that has been open to them was supposed to bring the crowning glory, the moment to define Jürgen Klopp’s era. There have been six trophies under the manager, including two massive ones – the Champions League in 2019 and the Premier League the following season. But to beat Real Madrid in an almost impossibly glamorous showpiece to complete a Cup treble – with the League Cup and FA Cup already in the cabinet – promised a new, more rarefied high. It was…