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1.10am BST

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera sparked outrage on Friday by posing for photographs at the plaza that was the centre of anti-government protests before it was put under quarantine to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reports.

Photographs of Pinera in the now empty Plaza Italia on Friday afternoon, sitting in shirtsleeves on the steps of a monument plastered with graffiti calling for his resignation, went viral on social media.

Cuando comenzaron masivas movilizaciones @sebastianpinera prefirió salir a comer pizza, ahora en plena pandemia posa para fotografiarse en plaza de la dignidad. Sí, allí mismo donde su gobierno permitió violar los derechos humanos. Indolente es poco! pic.twitter.com/MrpytCyGuW

1.03am BST

Marianne Faithfull has been hospitalised in London with coronavirus.

The Balad of Lucy Jordan singer, who became famous amid the “swinging London” scene of the 1960s and has had a respected (and occasionally troubled) career ever since, is said to be “stable and responding to treatment”, according to her representatives.

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