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I went to try my luck at the roulette tables.

A council has been accused of "playing Russian roulette" with residents' lives over its plan to force people to get planning permission for second homes.

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“We are playing Russian roulette with the planet. We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell,” Guterres said, while adding: “The truth is, we have control of the wheel.”

“I liken drinking raw milk to playing Russian roulette,” O’Brien said.

Pallenberg’s story involves an unremitting cascade of drugs, addiction, volatile relationships and parenting tragedy, along with a 1979 incident in which a 17-year-old shot himself at her home, possibly playing Russian roulette.

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