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Romeo & Juliet fans declare Tom Holland is a ‘superb casting’ and praise his ‘palpable chemistry’ with ‘fantastic’ co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers as modernised West End production finally opens after ‘technical issues’

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After being delayed due to technical issues, Romeo & Juliet finally opened in the West End on Monday, with the first attendees at the Duke of York Theatre giving their initial reviews.

The latest production of the Shakespeare tragedy is being helmed by award-winning director Jamie Lloyd and stars Hollywood actor Tom Holland as Romeo.

The opening night of previews was originally scheduled for Saturday, but the show was cancelled due to ‘technical aspects of the production needing further preparation.’

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Corinne conquered Everest despite having bone-thinning disease – just one of the vibrant, successful women backing our campaign to reduce the toll of this debilitating illness. Now they defiantly declare… we won’t let osteoporosis break us!

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As she poses jubilantly for a photograph at Everest Base Camp, Corinne Turnbull, 51, looks the picture of fitness.

Conquering the world’s highest mountain is a challenge few of us would contemplate. But in Corinne’s case, that smile of triumph was especially hard-won – as just over a decade earlier, shortly before her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.

I recently wrote in this newspaper about my own shock at discovering I had the condition, which

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Russia Fights Efforts to Declare It an Exporter of ‘Blood Diamonds’

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to global soul-searching about overreliance on Russian oil and gas, but a new drama is unfolding over another of Russia’s major exports: diamonds.

Russia is the world’s largest supplier of small diamonds. For years, engagement rings, earrings and pendants for sale in the United States and beyond have included diamonds mined from deep in the permafrost in Russia’s northeast.

Now, the United States and other countries are taking action that could officially label Russian

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Ukraine war: Belarus poised to declare war as special forces are ‘loaded onto planes in’ 

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The Ukrainian state security service has officially reported that a rocket arrack on Zhytomyr Airport – located some 93 miles west of Kiev – was launched from the territory of Belarus. 

Belarusian special forces were seen loading onto airplanes in preparation for an air assault on Kyiv in what could be a widening of the war, military sources stated.

Ukrainian intelligence has reportedly learned from within Belarus that ‘special ops’ troops have been spotted loading up planes for a major

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Brit scientist took a year to declare links to Chinese lab after opposing Covid lab leak theory

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Richard Horton, the editor of the Lancet, admitted he knew about the lead author behind a letter denouncing the Covid lab-leak theory Peter Daszak’s (right) Chinese affiliations more than a year before the journal published an addendum

The editor of one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals has admitted it took more than a year to declare the conflict of interests of a scientist who denounced the Covid lab leak theory and called anyone who questioned the official Chinese

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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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