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Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on Sunday changes to the next early release scheme, scheduled to start in October, which means PC Harper's killers will remain in jail. Additionally, a British woman was killed in a stabbing at a German railway station. Eight people were killed and others are missing after a ferry capsized off northern Cyprus.

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