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Canada’s first provincewide COVID curfew coming into force
Read MoreCurfew from 8pm to 5am will be in place until at least February 8 as Quebec seeks to stem high COVID-19 infections.Curfew from 8pm to 5am will be in place until at least February 8 as Quebec seeks to stem high COVID-19 infections.
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Democrats Lay Plans for Swift Trump Impeachment
Read More WASHINGTON — Warnings flashing, Democrats in Congress laid plans for swift impeachment of President Donald Trump, demanding decisive, immediate action to ensure an “unhinged” commander in chief can’t add to the damage they say he’s inflicted or even ignite nuclear war in his final days in office. As the country comes to terms…
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Kim Jong Un Finally Offers His Response to U.S. Election: More Nukes
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Arrests as anti-lockdown protesters converge on Clapham Common
Read More Arrests as anti-lockdown protesters converge on Clapham Common. Arrests as anti-lockdown protesters converge on Clapham Common.
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Philippines: Thousands attend Manila mass people told to avoid
Read MoreNormally millions of people would line the streets for the feast of Black Nazarene but this year due to Covid, things looked different.Normally millions of people would line the streets for the feast of Black Nazarene but this year due to Covid, things looked different.
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The indigenous tribes fighting the curse of xawara in the Amazon
Read More Illegal mining in Brazil not only devastates the environment, it also threatens the existence of the country’s last major isolated indigenous community through the spread of coronavirus. Emily Goddard reports Illegal mining in Brazil not only devastates the environment, it also threatens the existence of the country’s last major isolated indigenous community through the spread…
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Family Remembers Fallen U.S. Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick
Read More SOUTH RIVER, N.J. — From his early days growing up in a New Jersey hamlet, Brian Sicknick wanted to be a police officer. He enlisted in the National Guard six months after graduating high school in 1997, deploying to Saudi Arabia and then Kyrgyzstan. Joining the Guard was his means to joining law…
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Twitter hides post on Iran supreme leader’s account
Read MoreAyatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all state matters in Iran.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on all state matters in Iran.
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Bravery or Self-Preservation? Resignations of Trump Officials Draw Skepticism
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Deadly snowstorms cause chaos across Spain
Read MoreHeavy snowfall left three people dead across the country, trapped motorists, and shut down much of the capital.Heavy snowfall left three people dead across the country, trapped motorists, and shut down much of the capital.
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‘Our people won’t be a testing device’: Tehran bans trials of foreign vaccines on Iranians
Read More Tehran has rejected attempts by foreign companies to test their coronavirus vaccines on Iranians, President Hassan Rouhani said, adding that the country will purchase safe immunization for its population. “Foreign companies wanted to give us vaccines so they would be tested on the Iranian people. But the health ministry prevented it,” Rouhani told…
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American allies, adversaries respond to Capitol assault
Read MoreThe U.S. Capitol has long been a symbol of freedom and democracy across the globe, and the attack Wednesday has created shockwaves around the world – with American allies and adversaries responding. Holly Williams reports on the globe’s reaction.The U.S. Capitol has long been a symbol of freedom and democracy across the globe, and…
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Indonesia passenger jet goes missing shortly after takeoff
Read MoreDebris from a missing Indonesian jetliner with at least 62 people including 10 children on board may have been found north from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. The Boeing 737-500 was about one hour into its 90 minute flight over the Java Sea, traveling from Jakarta to Borneo island Saturday when it lost contact with the…
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The Chinese government is trying to rebrand forced sterilization as feminism
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Lady Phyll: ‘When Gloria Gaynor played, I danced as if I never would again’
Read More The co-founder of UK Black Pride, 45, on articulating her identity, rejecting an MBE, and bowing to no one At 11 I learned the colour of my skin would dictate the way I was treated. A school friend and I were out in Enfield Town, when a woman pulling a tartan trolley told…
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Denver police officers who detained four black girls will not be charged
Read More Lawyer says he will sue city and Aurora PD officers Colorado attorney general opens Elijah McCain investigation Suburban Denver police officers will not be charged after detaining four black girls at gunpoint this summer and handcuffing two after wrongly suspecting they were riding in a stolen car, prosecutors said on Friday. Related: ‘He…
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Indonesian Passenger Plane With 62 On Board Goes Missing Minutes After Takeoff
Read More A search and rescue operation was underway for Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, which lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, according to transportation officials. (Image credit: Flightradar24.com via AP) A search and rescue operation was underway for Sriwijaya Air Flight 182, which lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly…
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Beginning of the end: Lithuanians on the bloodbath 30 years ago that precipitated the collapse of the USSR
Read More Three decades on from the deadly events in Lithuania of January 1991, the ramifications are still being felt, reports Oliver Carroll in Moscow Three decades on from the deadly events in Lithuania of January 1991, the ramifications are still being felt, reports Oliver Carroll in Moscow
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Live Updates: Plane carrying 62 people goes missing after takeoff from Jakarta
Read MoreA search and rescue operation is underway, according to an official.A search and rescue operation is underway, according to an official.
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Indonesia plane missing – live: Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 flight lost after Jakarta take off
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Ayatollah still can tweet? Trump supporters point fingers at Iran’s leader… just as he runs into trouble with platform too
Read More Bemoaning Donald Trump’s Twitter ban, many of the US president’s supporters and other proponents of free speech have pointed fingers at messages from Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accusing the platform of double standards. The US president was booted from the social media site for good on Friday, as Twitter embarked on a…
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Indonesia passenger plane missing after take-off
Read MoreA Boeing 737 goes missing after take-off in Indonesia, believed to be carrying more than 50 passengers.A Boeing 737 goes missing after take-off in Indonesia, believed to be carrying more than 50 passengers.
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Indonesian aeroplane loses contact after takeoff from Jakarta
Read More Boeing 737 operated by Sriwijaya Air and carrying more than 50 people is en route to Pontianak A Sriwijaya aeroplane with more than 50 people on board has lost contact after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Saturday en route to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province, say local media. Metro TV…
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Lawmakers want accountability from Capitol Police. But for years, they also rebuffed transparency efforts
Read More In the wake of an attack on the U.S. Capitol, Congress seeks answers from a secretive Capitol Police agency. In the wake of an attack on the U.S. Capitol, Congress seeks answers from a secretive Capitol Police agency.
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Jenni Fagan: ‘I understand crisis. I grew up in a very, very extreme way’
Read More From a childhood in care to dazzling readers with her debut The Panopticon, Fagan talks about writing her third novel, channelling rage, and why now is a pivotal moment for us all For all that she was laid low early in the pandemic, and then spent months as a single parent trying to…
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San Francisco rents are plummeting – but its housing crisis could get worse
Read More The city remains the nation’s priciest for renters, and the pandemic has dealt a new economic blow to residents Apartment rental prices in San Francisco – a city mocked for being so unaffordable that residents pay more than a grand each month to sleep in a bunk bed and share space with strangers…
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Budgeting apps: the best options for tracking your money on the go
Read More The lowdown on the pros, cons and fees involved if you want to use such personal finance tools Lauren Burrows, a senior consumer writer at the website Money to the Masses, has tried and tested budgeting apps. These link up to your bank accounts, credit cards and investments, and pull in information about…
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Army rescues motorists after Storm Filomena blankets Spain in snow
Read More Heavy snowfall causes travel chaos with Madrid airport closed and people told to stay at home Storm Filomena causes rare heavy snow in Spain – in pictures Troops rescued trapped drivers from their vehicles on Saturday as heavy snowfall from Storm Filomena caused travel chaos across Spain. “Owing to the forecast of snow…
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U.S. Army discloses ways to protect its aircraft from missiles
Read More The U.S. Army revealed details on its path to developing countermeasures to protect Army aircraft from surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles. On 7 January, the Picatinny Arsenal press release said that the U.S. Army strives to increase aircraft survivability through the design, development and production support of countermeasures such as decoys, chaff, and flares…
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Kim Jong Un Calls U.S. North Korea’s ‘Biggest Enemy,’ Vows To Advance Nuclear Arsenal
Read More Kim’s comments come just days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Biden has promised “principled diplomacy” with North Korea, implying a break with Trump’s high-stakes summits. (Image credit: API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Kim’s comments come just days ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Biden has promised “principled diplomacy” with North Korea, implying a…
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For Spaniards who remember 1981, the storming of the Capitol looked eerily familiar | Giles Tremlett
Read More The events in Spain marked the definitive end of Francoism. Will the assault on the Capitol do the same for Trumpism? Tension was high, security was weak and a bitter handover of power was under way when violent intruders forced the people’s representatives to stop their debate and cower on the floor. Future…
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‘It’s about finding yourself’: Cornish hedgers plan record-breaking labyrinth
Read More Local volunteers and schoolchildren will help build Kerdroya, thought to be largest classical labyrinth in world High on a Cornish moor, a living, breathing piece of artwork that is designed to last thousands of years is taking shape. Called Kerdroya, the piece is a labyrinth – billed as the largest of its kind…
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Twisted brilliance: Patricia Highsmith at 100
Read More Forbidden desires, strange obsessions and a singular talent for suspense… Carmen Maria Machado on the dark allure of the writer behind Ripley Read The World’s Champion Ball-Bouncer, an unpublished Highsmith short story There has always been something fundamentally difficult about Patricia Highsmith. And not difficult in the way that most people mean it:…
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Twitter strikes again: Iran’s supreme leader’s tweets about ‘untrustworthy’ UK & US vaccines deleted
Read More Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been hit by Twitter’s campaign of high-profile censorship, as the platform removed his messages blasting coronavirus vaccines from the US and the UK as “completely untrustworthy.” Khamenei’s remarks were posted to his multiple accounts, run in different languages, late on Friday. The Twitter thought police, however,…
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Can the world recover from the worst economic slump since WWII?
Read MoreWith vaccines being rolled out, many hope for a strong economic recovery this year.With vaccines being rolled out, many hope for a strong economic recovery this year.
