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The leaders of France, Germany and Italy backed Ukraine’s bid to join the EU during a joint visit to Kyiv yesterday. The European Commission is expected to grant the country candidate status today, the first step in a process that normally takes around a decade. England’s most senior doctor has warned his colleagues against prescribing “a pill for every ill”. NHS Medical Director Stephen Powis says 10% of all GP prescriptions are unnecessary – that’s 114 million doses a year, costing nearly £1bn. A Republican congresswoman has said Jesus could have defended himself from crucifixion if he’d carried a gun. “The little Twitter trolls, they like to say, ‘Oh, Jesus didn’t need an AR-15,” said Lauren Boebert. “How many AR-15s do you think Jesus woulda had? Well, he didn’t have enough to keep his government from killing him.”