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F1 predictions: Lewis Hamilton revenge vs Max Verstappen? Ferrari back on top? Big Debate | F1 | Sport

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F1 preview: A lap of the Bahrain Grand Prix

The 2022 Formula One season gets underway with the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend. Express Sport’s team of reporters predict who will reign supreme in both championships in the latest Big Debate with Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, George Russell and Charles Leclerc among the main Drivers’ Championship contenders.

Luke Chillingsworth

Drivers’ Championship winner – Max Verstappen

Red Bull has impressed in pre-season testing and we could be entering an era of

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Canada’s Parliament SUSPENDS debate on Trudeau’s Emergencies Act

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Canada’s Parliament suspended Friday’s debate on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s emergency powers, sparing the Liberal leader another day of uncomfortable speeches from MPs who fiercely oppose his use of the draconian Emergencies Act.

MPs were told on Thurday night that due to the ‘exceptional circumstances’ of police closing in on Freedom Convoy protesters they needed to avoid the area around parliament for their own safety. 

Trudeau continues to face tough opposition in Parliament as he battles to maintain his emergency

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Debate erupts after anti-vaxxer Novak Djokovic receives a medical exemption for Australian Open

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The decision to grant Novak Djokovic a medical exemption against being vaccinated to play in the Australian Open has divided tennis fans, with some vowing to boycott the event. 

The 20-time grand slam winner and posted a picture of himself at an airport on Tuesday morning declaring that he was on his way to defend his title in Melbourne.

‘I’ve spent fantastic quality time with my loved ones over the break and today I’m heading Down Under with an exemption

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MPs set to debate Tony Blair’s knighthood as more than 380,000 sign petition to strip him of honour

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MPs are set to debate Tony Blair’s knighthood as more than 380,000 have signed a petition calling for him to be stripped of the honour as fury grows among families of the Iraq war dead.

The former Labour Prime Minister, the first and only person to date to lead the party to three consecutive general election victories, was the most controversial name in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.

Mr Blair, 68, was made a Knight Companion of the Most

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There Are More Than Two Sides to the Abortion Debate

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Earlier this week I curated some nuanced commentary on abortion and solicited your thoughts on the same subject. What follows includes perspectives from several different sides of the debate. I hope each one informs your thinking, even if only about how some other people think.

We begin with a personal reflection.

Cheryl was 16 when New York State passed a statute legalizing abortion and 19 when Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. At … Read more

Finding Nuance in the Abortion Debate

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Conversations of Note

Abortion has been discussed intensely this past week due to oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could significantly alter the constitutional right to the procedure in the United States. At issue is a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, contra current precedent. If upheld, the law will likely inspire new abortion restrictions in many red states.

The Legal Fight

We begin with the law’s sponsor,

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The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier

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As the pandemic drags on into a bleak and indeterminate future, so does the question of its origins. The consensus view from 2020, that SARS-CoV-2 emerged naturally, through a jump from bats to humans (maybe with another animal between) persists unchanged. But suspicions that the outbreak started from a laboratory accident remain, shall we say, endemic. For months now, a steady drip of revelations have sustained an atmosphere of profound unease.

The latest piece of evidence came out this

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‘If it’s a genocide, declare it a genocide’: Inside the Biden administration’s vexing Myanmar debate

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But it raised a question: If Biden thought the Uyghurs were genocide victims, did he believe the same thing about Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, who’d been facing mass slaughter, mass detention and mass displacement? Many of the human rights activists, U.S. lawmakers and foreign government officials worried about the Uyghurs had already concluded that the Rohingya were genocide victims. At the time, the Trump administration was still officially reviewing the Rohingya case.

When a POLITICO reporter raised the Rohingya question to

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