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In een uitstekende eerste helft zocht Feyenoord lang naar een doelpunt tegen Go Ahead Eagles. Na een halfuur voetballen was het Gjivai Zechiël die zijn ploeg op een 1-0 voorsprong schoot. Even later was ook Ayase Ueda trefzeker, waardoor de Rotterdammers de rust in gingen met een 2-0 voorsprong.

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• Jonathan Wilson: Community Shield offers insight

“So, the thing that never went away is back,” writes Krishnamoorthy V. “I’ve never taken the Community Shield as a serious contest. But if Jonathan Wilson writes 2000 words about it, I should sit up and take notice.”

Bruno Guimaraes, Christos Tzolis and Elliot Anderson all start for their new clubs. Cristhian Mosquera replaces the injured William Saliba in the centre of Arsenal’s defence. Phil Foden is included in the City XI and Jack Grealish is on the bench after returning from his season on loan at Everton.

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UK has refused resettlement application despite ‘years of loyal service’ that have resulted in ‘constant fear’ of reprisals

A man has received threats from the Taliban after his work for the Afghan police was revealed by a Ministry of Defence leak and the UK refused his application for resettlement.

Hamid* worked for the Afghan national police special unit and received certificates for his work signed by senior British figures praising his “dedication, unparalleled service and leadership”. His details were also included in an accidental 2022 leak by an MoD official that identified 18,700 Afghans who had worked with or for the British government.

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There are more than 70,000 hysteroscopies every year in England alone. The NHS calls them ‘low complexity’ – yet a shocking number of patients complain of inadequate pain relief and medical staff who refuse to take them seriously

In February this year, Beth Harris sat in the day surgery waiting room of her local hospital and tried to steady her nerves.

She was there for a hysteroscopy, in this case to remove a fibroid. A thin surgical instrument with a lens, a light, a blade and an irrigation system for pumping saline solution would be inserted through her vagina and cervix, into her womb. The saline solution would widen the womb and the fibroid would be shaved away. Her hospital had advised taking paracetamol or ibuprofen an hour before the appointment, which Harris had done. However, the appointment was for 1pm, and by 4pm, she was still waiting in her hospital gown, surrounded by other patients.

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In Leeds Civic Hall, I watched 20 new citizens pledge their allegiance to King Charles and his heirs. But it wasn’t patriotism that brought tears to my eyes

I haven’t felt great about asking my husband to become British. There was the idiotic Life in the UK test that every applicant has to pass; the cost; the faff; and the uncertainty, which still hasn’t ended. I found out his application had been accepted when he came into the kitchen in June with a face like thunder. “But that’s brilliant! You’ll never need to know how many Scottish ski resorts there are again!” I said, puzzled. He explained that, because we’re going on holiday before he can get a British passport to go with his French one, he’ll be in an immigration grey area that could mean he gets refused re-entry. He should, theoretically, be OK, but it’s confusing.

Why would he even want to come back to this place with its threadbare services, toxic waterways, obsession with “picky bits” and ridiculous politics? His Home Office email arrived just after the Makerfield byelection and that night the news showed the returning officer’s poker-faced declaration again: our future prime minister flanked by a politely clapping Binface and an oversized, blank-eyed fox. I started laughing, hysterically, guiltily. What have I done to him? “Will the world go a different colour when I’m British?” he asked on the train to the ceremony. “Yeah, reverse Wizard of Oz – everything goes grey.”

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Laten we eerlijk zijn. 't Wordt warmer en als airco's straks net als heteroseksualiteit categorisch verboden zijn in de Randstad rest er nog maar 1 optie: uw eigen inloopkoelkast. U bent immers een lopende fte die tot aan de kist t/m elke 2 juni voor de Belastingdienst op de plantage staat, en denk maar niet dat overhitting tussen uw output als economic unit zal komen te staan. Zoals het gezegde luidt: liever de motor eruit geblazen dan de werkdag afgeblazen. En als de temperatuur weer op orde is kunt u direct door naar Amazons 'mental health booth' om weer helemaal uzelf te worden.

En vanuit de koelkast meteen Amazons 'Amazen' in om weer helemaal jezelf te worden

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Het is wetenschappers gelukt om een virus te bouwen op basis van een AI-ontwerp. Dat roept fundamentele vragen op over de veiligheid van biotechnologie. Wie heeft toegang tot deze kennis?

Zondag groeven reddingswerkers door het puin op zoek naar overlevenden en mensen die vermoedelijk begraven liggen onder de aardverschuivingen op Flores als gevolg van de aardbeving. Ze borgen zes lichamen.