Making Headlines: Furlough scheme extension; Meghan 'bully' claims; & Dolly Parton gets the vaccine

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The furlough scheme will be extended until the end of September, with employers asked to contribute to workers' salaries from July, Rishi Sunak is set to announce.
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The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is said to be “saddened" by what her spokesman described as the “latest attack on her character” after royal aides claimed she faced a bullying complaint during her time at Kensington Palace.
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The five-year-long detainment of a British mother in Iran is a “blot on British diplomacy”, her husband has said. British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Tehran since 2016, when she was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations, which she denies, of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.
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The US has imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow's attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year. President Joe Biden stopped short, however, of putting sanctions on Vladimir Putin himself.
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Dolly Parton has been inoculated by the Covid-19 vaccine she helped to fund. The beloved country music star, 75, broke into song while getting the jab, singing ‘vaccine, vaccine,’ to the tune of one of her best known ballads, Jolene.
Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/dolly-parton-gets-covid-vaccine-she-partly-funded-b921888.html