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“I think it’s possible to break the record,” said an ecstatic Mutaz Essa Barshim after jumping 2.43 m (7’11.7″) at the recent Diamond League meeting in Brussels, the
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“I can assure you that if elected… we will work to ensure a fair settlement of this long-standing dispute,” wrote William Hague to a supporter of the Chagossians’
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