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Labour Values
JEREMY CORBYN SAID LABOUR WILL RE-NATIONALISE THE RAILWAYS
There is 'overwhelming support for a people's railway', he said

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A Labour government would re-nationalise the railways, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said this weekend.

Labour would renationalise the railways "line by line" as each private franchise expired, he told the Independent on Sunday.

The party is setting up a task force that will look further at how to implement the plans, Mr Corbyn said.

A British army general, commenting on Corbyn's potential military policies, said that the Labour leader would face a "mutiny" from the army if he became prime minister and tried to enact "any plans to emasculate and shrink the size of the armed forces".

"Feelings are running very high within the armed forces. You would see a major break in convention, with senior generals directly and publicly challenging Corbyn," the senior serving general told the Sunday Times.

Foreign Affairs
HUNGARY AND CROATIA FELL OUT OVER THE REFUGEE CRISIS
Croatia apparently "lied in the face" of Hungary

Hungarian tanks heading to the border with Croatia

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Relations between Hungary and Croatia turned frosty this weekend after Croatia transported thousands of refugees into Hungary without Hungary's permission.

Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, accused Croatia of "violating Hungary's sovereignty" after Croatian trains took thousands of refugees into Hungary unannounced, with an armed police guard.

Szijjarto branded Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic "pathetic" and accused Croatia of breaching international law in violating its borders.

Milanovic said Hungary's actions in shutting its borders were "incomprehensible" and said Croatia would continue to force Hungary to take refugees in.

Hungary has started erecting a fence along its Croatian border.

Elections
SYRIZA GOT THE LARGEST NUMBER OF VOTES IN GREECE'S ELECTION
It was the fifth general election in six years

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The left-wing, formerly anti-austerity party Syriza won the largest number of votes in a snap election in Greece this Sunday.

The party, led by Greece's embattled prime minister Alexis Tsipras, polled higher than their closest rival, the centre-right New Democracy.

The result will give Syriza a mandate to carry out austerity measures, demanded by the EU as part of a bailout deal agreed earlier this year.

Refugee Crisis
RECORD NUMBERS OF REFUGEES ENTERED AUSTRIA
Red Cross reported that 13,000 people crossed the border on Saturday alone

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Record numbers of refugees entered Austria over its Hungarian border this weekend, while Austrian police reported refugees had also begun entering the country over its Slovenian border.

The Austrian Red Cross reported that up to 13,000 people entered Austria on Saturday alone.

It's reported that Hungary has been transporting refugees directly from its Croatian border to Austria without first registering them.

Four thousand refugees were rescued from boats bound for Italy off the Libyan coast in an EU operation on Saturday.

Meanwhile, dozens of refugees are missing and feared drowned after three boats off the Greek coast sank over the weekend, one colliding with a ferry.

It's Only Banter!
DAVID CAMERON ALLEGEDLY FUCKED A DEAD PIG'S HEAD
According to Lord Ashcroft, the PM was part of a debauched "dope smoking group"

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According to an unauthorised biography by ex-Tory peer Lord Ashcroft, David Cameron was part of a "dope smoking group" while at Oxford University, and once put "a private part of his anatomy" in a dead pig's mouth during an initiation ceremony into the elite, debauched Piers Gaveston Society.

Sources close to Cameron say they "do not recognise" the allegations, which have been branded #piggate on Twitter.

In the book, Ashcroft himself debates whether the incident may have been a case of mistaken identity, before writing: "Yet it is an elaborate story for an otherwise credible figure to invent. Furthermore, there are a number of accounts of pigs' heads at debauched parties in Cameron's day."

Cameron and Ashcroft have reportedly been at odds for years, with a number of incidents incrementally worsening their relationship since 2010.