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This selfie of a North Korean and a South Korean gymnast is helping heal the world

South Korean gymnast Lee Eun-Ju and and North Korean gymnast Hong Un-Jong took a quick selfie yesterday during the women’s gymnastics qualifying competition in Rio. The photo was just an innocent snap between two world-class athletes, but here’s why it means so much more.

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This is real.

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happy Valentine’s Day from the Conservative party.

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Tonight Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Twitter page was hacked.

This just happened 

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Meet Vermin Supreme, a Democrat candidate for the New Hampshire primary who paid his $1,000 registration fee in $50 bills marked “not to be used for bribing politicians”. 

The above video is from 2012 where he also entered the presidential primary, despite it being an old video it’s an interesting insight into what his platform will entail.

His platform includes the following:

Tackling gingivitis - “strong teeth for a strong America” 

Challenging the audience to give up a kidney

Pledging free ponies for every American as a means lowering oil dependency 

According to ABC Vermin Supreme’s stance on defeating ISIS is with:

“Lots of ponies — pony bombs, pony drones, pony tanks, pony troops, hoofs on the ground, boots on the head”

And remember:

“A vote for Vermin Supreme is a vote completely thrown away”

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at last, political campaigning has achieved its purist form: meme fights

the founding father are all high-fiving each other right now, in hell

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Watch: In one quote, President Obama told the nation tonight what we must do about Islamophobia.

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House of Commons approves extended airstrikes in Syria

Yes - 397

No - 223

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MPs reject amendment to block military action in Syria

Yes - 211

No - 390

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Religious scholar Reza Aslan answers CNN’s question, “Does Islam promote violence?”

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A European-wide one minute silence will take place at 11:00 GMT to honour the victims of the Paris attack.

Brussels, 14 November 2015

The European Union is deeply shocked and in mourning after the terrorist attacks in Paris. It is an attack against us all. We will face this threat together with all necessary means and ruthless determination.

France is a great and strong nation. Its values of liberty, equality and fraternity inspired and inspire the European Union. Today we stand united with the French people and the Government of France. This shameful act of terrorism will only achieve the opposite of its purpose, which was to divide, frighten, and sow hatred.

Good is stronger than evil. Everything that can be done at European level to make France safe will be done. We will do what is necessary to defeat extremism, terrorism and hatred.

We Europeans will all remember November 13th 2015 as a European day of mourning. All Europeans are invited to join in one minute of silence in memory of the victims at noon on Monday, November 16th.

-  Joint statement of the Heads of State or Government and leaders of the European Union and its institutions on the terrorist attacks in Paris (14/11/2015).

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Links to PMQ sections by Sky News (via Twitter)

Jeremy Corbyn asking if the Prime Minister can guarantee that no one will be worse off because of child tax credit cuts.

Jeremy Corbyn asking “for the sixth time” about child tax credit cuts.

Sharon Hodgeson asking about free school meals and if David Cameron will go down as “Dave the Dinner Snatcher”.

Michelle Donelan asking about what the Government will do to improve life chances of children in care.

Finally, a standard soundbite of the Prime Minister saying he “spluttered over his cornflakes” about the EU ruling of not allowing filters on the internet to protect from ‘indecent images’.

More topics were discussed but these are the only small video clips provided by Sky News on their Twitter page.

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And I know that the Leader of the Opposition, not least because his new spokesman is apparently a great admirer of the Soviet Union, will be pleased to start the day with tractor statistics.

David Cameron just before the first Opposition question.

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house of lords rn

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That Corbyn side-eye (Vine by Ned Simons)