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Free to read: The Australian Open tennis tournament has reversed its policy of ejecting spectators for wearing T-shirts in support of Chinese player Peng Shuai, after two people were removed from the event last week resulting in criticism from players, commentators and politicians.

Boris Johnson’s premiership was plunged deeper into crisis after it emerged that he had a birthday party during England’s first lockdown in 2020, despite Covid rules at the time banning indoor social gatherings.

Nato members began sending additional ships and fighter jets to allied countries in eastern Europe as Boris Johnson said that Russia had massed enough troops close to Ukraine for a ‘lightning war’ in which it would try to seize Kyiv.

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