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Labour Party Mess
CORBYN SAID NEW MEMBERS SHOULD GET A LEADERSHIP VOTE
Recent rules stop newly registered members from having their say

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Jeremy Corbyn expressed his hope that the Labour party could undo a recent rule change that prevents new members – those who’ve joined the party in the past six months – from voting in the upcoming leadership election.

“I’m hoping there will be an understanding that it’s simply not very fair to say to people that joined the party in the last six months that ‘sorry, your participation is no longer welcome, as we’re having a leadership contest’,” he said, speaking on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show.

Corbyn also called the NEC’s newly agreed £25 Labour party membership fee, up from £3, “quite high and not really reasonable”.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the BBC, Labour party leadership hopefuls Angela Eagle and Owen Smith sat through an awkward double interview on The Andrew Marr Show. Neither has made it clear if the other will step down, to present one united bid contesting Corbyn’s position.

Pokemon No
PEOPLE FREAKED OUT WHEN POKEMON GO’S SERVERS CRASHED
A hacker group later said they were behind the server blip

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Pokemon Go servers crashed on Saturday, making the mobile phone game inaccessible for users across the US and Europe.

Hackers calling themselves “#PoodleCorp” said they were responsible, claiming to have brought the game’s crashing servers with a DDOS attack.

“Just was a lil test,” read a tweet attributed to someone dubbing themselves the leader of #PoodleCorp, “we will do something on a larger scale soon.”

Besides another wobble on Sunday afternoon, the servers soon recovered.

Nice Attack Aftermath
IS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THURSDAY’S ATTACK
The terrorist group labeled the man who killed 84 people in Nice a “soldier”

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So-called Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for Thursday’s deadly attack in Nice, which saw a 31-year-old man drive a lorry into a large crowd, killing 84 people.

“The person who carried out the operation in Nice, France, to run down people was one of the soldiers of Islamic State,” the group said in a statement on Saturday about Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s attack.

As of Sunday, there was no evidence to support the group’s claim. In the days since Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was killed by police during the attack, a man and woman were detained by police and four other people questioned, according to the Guardian.

Near-Coup Fallout
AT LEAST 6,000 PEOPLE WERE DETAINED IN TURKEY
Friday’s coup attempt led to a government hunt for those responsible

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Photo via)

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At least 6,000 people were reportedly detained in Turkey over the weekend, after a failed coup attempt on Friday night raised questions about the country’s stability.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would “clean all state institutions of the virus” – in other words, crack down on those Erdogan believes support Fethullah Gülen, an exiled cleric who the president has blamed for the coup.

Turkey’s justice minister, Bekir Bozdağ, said the number of people detained “could surpass 6,000”, according to the Associated Press.

By Sunday, the attempted coup had reportedly left at least 260 people dead.