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‘Maybe it’s because we love the sesh’: how Wales is bucking Britain’s pub-closing trend

At least six new pubs and taphouses have opened in recent months, including the Pig & Swill in Cardiff On a hot Thursday evening in Canton, a buzzy Cardiff neighbourhood, a steady stream of people in sunglasses, shorts and dresses went back and forth between bar and garden at the city’s newest pub, the Pig & Swill. Next door, in Victoria Park, the splash pad was still heaving with families making the most of the tail-end of the May heatwave. Many parents and carers stopped by for takeaway pints and small plates. Continue reading...

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The clearest sign Father Time is closing in on Djokovic?

Why Novak Djokovic's five-set defeat by Joao Fonseca was the clearest sign yet that the ageing process is finally catching up with him.

The Independent (World)

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Uganda closes its border with Congo as deadly Ebola cases surge

The World Health Organization has advised against countries closing their borders despite the risk to neighbouring nations

The Guardian Culture

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Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece

The Hong Kong action master’s deliriously violent 1990 epic fuses gangland thriller, war movie and tragic melodrama into a spectacular vision of greed and moral collapse The title of this 1990 John Woo extravaganza might lead the uninitiated to expect a chillingly focused, targeted assassination. Actually, there are innumerable bullets and innumerable heads in this over-the-top gonzo spectacle. It is a crime thriller, a wartime action film set in Vietnam, but it offers something other than the usual Hollywood perspective; it is a parable of greed comparable to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and even a kind of romantic melodrama. There is, however, one key bullet in a head, a literal bullet lodged in the skull of someone who achieves a macabre zombie-like semi-survival, the bullet being symbolic of the way violence takes root in the brain, dehumanising its victim. The final “boardroom” scene disclosing this image is toweringly mad and strange. Yet in this movie, as in so many other Woo films, we can see how the director counterintuitively uses sad music – harmonica, woodwind – over grisly, brutal action sequences, as if what he wants us to register is not the violence or the shock but just how poignantly futile and pathetic it all is. Continue reading...

The Independent (World)

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What we know and don't know about the emerging deal to end the Iran war

The United States and Iran appear to be closing in on a deal to end the war

The Guardian World

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With oil markets nearing the danger zone, a US-Iran deal can’t come soon enough | Heather Stewart

Global prices are approaching a tipping point that could trigger inflation, shortages and, over time, recession If a US-Iran deal is about to be reached, three months on from the launch of Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, it will not be a day too soon for oil markets, which are approaching a dangerous tipping point. The cost of a barrel of crude on the spot market – for immediate purchase, effectively – has bounced about $100 since Iran predictably responded to the onslaught from the US and Israel by closing the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...

The Independent (World)

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Water park that has been a Northwest staple for five decades is closing

The Washington water park’s final season will end with its annual Fright Fest Halloween event

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‘Maybe it’s because we love the sesh’: how Wales is bucking Britain’s pub-closing trend

The clearest sign Father Time is closing in on Djokovic?

Uganda closes its border with Congo as deadly Ebola cases surge

Bullet in the Head review – John Woo’s Vietnam war fever dream is an explosive masterpiece

What we know and don't know about the emerging deal to end the Iran war

With oil markets nearing the danger zone, a US-Iran deal can’t come soon enough | Heather Stewart

Water park that has been a Northwest staple for five decades is closing