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• Schools may operate on rota system in locked down areas

  28-08-2020 23:59
  
  Schools will be told to operate on a rota if local lockdowns make it impossible to operate as normal, the Education Secretary has announced. Gavin Williamson said pupils will switch between classroom and home learning to “break chains of transmission of the virus” under of a four-tier system introduced just days before pupils in England return full time. The Government had previously played down the idea of rotas, insisting that Covid security measures being put in place in schools w
  
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• Proms row shows what the BBC does matters, director-general says

  28-08-2020 23:58
  
  The correct creative decision was taken over the performance of Rule, Britannia! and Land Of Hope And Glory, Lord Tony Hall said.
  
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• Strong safety: Browns' Redwine committed to change off field

  28-08-2020 23:56
  
  Sheldrick Redwine's passion extends way beyond the chalk-lined boundaries of a football field.A part-time starter as a rookie, the Browns' modest second-year safety has emerged as a trusted and respected voice in a Cleveland locker room brimming with high-profile names and extroverted personalities.During this past offseason, Redwine, a second-round pick in 2019 from Miami, was asked by first-year coach Kevin Stefanski to be on the team's social justice leadership committee, a position that has
  
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• Libya's Tripoli- based gov suspends minister after shooting

  28-08-2020 23:56
  
  Libya’s Tripoli-based government has suspended its interior minister following a shooting at a demonstration in the capital earlier this week, the United Nations-supported government said Friday.Interior Minister Fathi Bashaga will face an investigation over ‘violations’ committed against protesters, the government said in a statement.On Sunday, at least six people were abducted and others wounded when armed men in military uniforms opened fire on a demonstration in Tripoli aga
  
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• Tesla targeted in failed ransomware extortion scheme

  28-08-2020 23:55
  
  In a tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk solved a mystery involving a 27-year-old Russian, an insider at an unnamed corporation and an alleged million-dollar payment offered to help trigger a ransomware extortion attack on the firm.Prosecutors declined to name the target, but Musk was happy to oblige.According to the billionaire, the scheme took aim at the electric car company’s 1.9 million-square-foot factory in Sparks, Nevada, which makes batteries for Tesla vehicles and energy storage units.
  
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• COVID Kickoff: Central Arkansas-Austin Peay begin the season

  28-08-2020 23:55
  
  When Central Arkansas and Austin Peay signed up to play in the first game of the college football season, little did they know how notable it would become.“We are the show in Week Zero and the game to really kick off football, not just college football but also professional football,” Central Arkansas coach Nathan Brown said.
  
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• No football talk as Titans safety sticks to racial injustice

  28-08-2020 23:44
  
  Titans safety Kenny Vaccaro made clear he won't let the fight against racial injustice recede from the conversation even as Tennessee returned to practice Friday.“I know for me, the next step is just taking action, getting in the communities, being a shining light and an example,” Vaccaro said.The Titans were among nine NFL teams that canceled practicesThursday, and they agreed to work on voting, talking with elected officials and connecting with students across Middle Tennessee.
  
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• Belarus deports Swedish journalist amid media crackdown

  28-08-2020 23:44
  
  Belarus deports Swedish journalist amid media crackdown. Paul Hansen one of 50 reporters, including BBC Moscow’s Steve Rosenberg, detained by police
  
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• Coronavirus: France sees 'exponential rise' in cases

  28-08-2020 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The country records 7,379 new cases on Friday as President Macron warns of another lockdown.
  
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• 'We're not taking it any more': Jacob Blake's family lead Washington rally – video

  28-08-2020 23:42
  
  The family of Wisconsin shooting victim Jacob Blake condemned racism and demanded criminal justice reform as they spoke in front of thousands at the Commitment March in Washington DC. Earlier this week Blake was shot multiple times in the back by police, leaving him paralysed. The protest, announced in early June following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, marked the anniversary of the demonstration at which Martin Luther King gave his historic 'I Have a Dream' spe
  
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• Influential Libyan interior minister suspended amid protests

  28-08-2020 23:42
  
  The head of Libya's internationally recognised government suspended his powerful interior minister from his duties on Friday, saying his handling of street protests and a violent crackdown against them would be investigated.The move coincides with reports of growing friction between Fayez al-Sarraj, Prime Minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), and Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha, an influential figure from the port city and military power base of Misrata.A decree iss
  
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• Zuckerberg says FB's failure to remove militia page 'an operational mistake'

  28-08-2020 23:40
  
  The page and event listing violated Facebook's policies and should have been removed after the company received numerous complaints about the group's violent nature, Zuckerberg said in a video to employees posted publicly on his Facebook profile.The social media company removed the page for 'Kenosha Guard' and an event listing for 'Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property' after the shootings on Tuesday night.
  
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• Zuckerberg says Facebook's failure to remove militia page 'an operational mistake'

  28-08-2020 23:40
  
  The page and event listing violated Facebook's policies and should have been removed after numerous complaints were received about the group's violent nature, Zuckerberg said in a video to employees that he posted publicly on his Facebook profile.The social media company removed the page for 'Kenosha Guard', and an event listing for 'Armed Citizens to Protect Our Lives and Property' a day after the shooting on Tuesday.Two people were killed during protests in Kenosha that broke out in
  
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• Chile will not let striking truckers block main highways - president

  28-08-2020 23:36
  
  Chile's president Sebastian Pinera on Friday insisted that truck drivers will not be allowed to block major highways while they strike to protest attacks on them in the country's restive Arauncania province."We are not going to allow the taking of the highways or the interruption of the supply of food, medicine, ambulances, medical personnel or other goods," said Pinera.
  
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• BBC can embark on ‘big push’ to move staff out of London, says director-general

  28-08-2020 23:34
  
  Lord Tony Hall told the Daily Telegraph that 70% of the BBC's staff could be based outside the capital.
  
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• World's most expensive sheep sold at auction: 'Obscene amount of money'

  28-08-2020 23:33
  It may sound like a "baad" deal, but the farmers who just bought the world’s most expensive sheep don't intend to get fleeced on their investment. ......
  
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• World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Afterlives - What is Bastion?

  28-08-2020 23:33
  The annual show Gamescom looked a little bit different this year due to the global pandemic that has taken hold this year. Unlike E3 which completely canceled its show this year, Gamescom took its typically massive event and moved it online. The Opening Night livestream hosted by Geoff Keighley showcased a ton of new games, surprise reveals, and even included a new announcement for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. The first animated short called Afterlife shows players what happens to a person's
  
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• U.S. warns Bannon co-defendant against 'inflammatory' social media posts

  28-08-2020 23:33
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on...
  
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• U.S. dollar dips amid rallying yen

  28-08-2020 23:33
  NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar decreased noticeably in late trading on Friday amid a strong momentum in Japanese yen. ......
  
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• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns of the folly of coal but exit may not ...

  28-08-2020 23:33
  
  Delivering the 2020 Darbari Seth Memorial...
  
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• UN refugee agency urges Greece to probe alleged pushbacks

  28-08-2020 23:33
  The U.N. refugee agency has called for an investigation into reports that people seeking shelter in Greece were returned to Turkey in possible violation of international law ......
  
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• Speech broadcast ratings give Biden a win over Trump

  28-08-2020 23:33
  By Brian Stetler | CNN President Trump’s Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden’s speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings. About 21.6 million viewers watched coverage of Trump’s RNC address across nine cable and broadcast networks, down from 23.6 million viewers who watched Biden’s DNC address on the same nine networks. The totals may fluctuate slightly when final numbers are re
  
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• SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND, MORELLE ANNOUNCE: ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TO RECEIVE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FUNDING TO HELP CREATE MOLECULE MAKER LAB INSTITUTE; RIT JOINS $20 MILLION NSF PROJECT TO ADVANCE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS USING AI

  28-08-2020 23:33
  08.28.20 RIT Joins Multi-Institutional Team Consisting Of Researchers From The University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University Laboratory High School, Ulsan National Institute Of Science And Technology, Northwestern University, & Penn State Reps Say NSF Funding Will Ensure Rochester Is At The Forefront Of Chemical Research, Further Develop Role Of AI In Scientific Discovery; Key Application Of Research Will Be To Find More Reliable Ways To Create Solar Cells Reps: Federal Funding Will He
  
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• S&P 500 notches this year's longest weekly winning streak

  28-08-2020 23:33
  NEW YORK (AP) — More gains for stocks Friday gave the S&P 500 its fifth straight winning week. That’s the longest weekly winning streak for the benchmark index since December, before the coronavirus pandemic swept the world and sent economies ......
  
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• RNC vs. DNC: Different speakers for divergent messages

  28-08-2020 23:33
  After eight days of rival political conventions, one message unified the dozens of speakers in both the Democratic and Republican conventions: the 2020 election is the most important in U.S. history. Both conventions were radically different than those of any other in U.S....
  
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• Party's over for two TikTok stars charged in Los Angeles for pandemic parties

  28-08-2020 23:33
  
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two TikTok stars were charged on Friday for throwing parties in Los Angeles that flouted coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings. ......
  
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• More than 750,000 still without power in Laura's aftermath

  28-08-2020 23:33
  LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana were still without power or water Friday, a day after Laura sawed a devastating path through the state, while the hurricane's remnants carried tropical rain and wind across Tennessee and posed new dangers. (READ MORE: Hurricane Laura expected to bring rain, storms to Chattanooga region as it weakens to tropical depression) Flooding and tornadoes were possible as the storm, now a tropical depression, drifted north. Fo
  
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• Mexican comic Manuel “El Loco” Valdés dies at 89

  28-08-2020 23:33
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican comic actor Manuel Valdés, known by his nickname “El Loco” or “The Crazy One”, has died at the age of 89, the national association of actors announced Friday. He...
  
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• Man charged in 1990s rapes freed due to McGirt reservation ruling; statute of limitations passed ...

  28-08-2020 23:33
  A man who was connected by recent DNA tests to several Muskogee rape cases from the 1990s may not have to face prosecution after a federal court decision ordering his release this week. U.S. prosecutors have filed an emergency order to get Leroy Jemol Smith, 50, back in custody to await trial. Smith was arrested in June on five complaints of sexual assault after a forensic genetic genealogical analysis was completed earlier this year on DNA samples from evidence of those crimes. State charges we
  
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• Making a difference, one bucket at a time at Indiana lakes, reservoirs and camp sites

  28-08-2020 23:33
  The “5 gallon challenge” was started by Scot Reeder and his wife in June. A resident of Tipton. Reeder says he came up with the idea while fishing. ......
  
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• Kansas girl's killer 5th federal inmate executed this year

  28-08-2020 23:33
  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) � A Kansas girl�s killer Friday became the fifth federal inmate put to death this year, an execution that went forward only after a higher court tossed a ruling that would have required the government to get a prescription for the drug used to kill him. Questions about whether the drug pentobarbital causes pain prior to death had been a focus of appeals for Keith Nelson, 45, the second inmate executed this week in the Trump administration�s resumption
  
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• Japanese prime minister resigns, citing health problem

  28-08-2020 23:33
  TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a star at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, parading before a sellout crowd at the Maracana Stadium as Nintendo game character Super Mario. Abe's humorous invitation to the next Olympics in Tokyo was a big hit among Brazilian fans, and to a worldwide television audience. It turns out that Abe won't be around — at least not in an official capacity — when the postponed Olympics are set to open on July 23,
  
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• Hurricane Laura death toll rises to 14, hundreds of thousands warned they could be without ...

  28-08-2020 23:33
  The death toll from Hurricane Laura more than doubled this morning to at least 14 as communities began cleaning up along the devastated Louisiana coastline where hundreds of thousands of people were still without power or water — a situation that officials said could persist for weeks or longer. Your playlist will load after this ad ABC correspondent Marla Carter, who is in the disaster zone, described the scene to TVNZ1’s Breakfast. Source: Breakfast A day after the Category 4 storm
  
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• Harris: Nationwide mask mandate wouldn't carry punishment

  28-08-2020 23:33
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said Friday "nobody's going to be punished" if she and running mate Joe Biden implement the nationwide mask mandate they have called for during the coronavirus pandemic. "It's really a standard. I mean, nobody's gonna be punished. Come on," the...
  
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• GOP’s rhetoric on urban chaos usually doesn’t match reality

  28-08-2020 23:33
  By Michelle R. Smith and Gillian Flaccus | Associated Press At almost every turn at the Republican National Convention, speakers from the president on down portrayed American cities like Portland, Oregon, New York and Chicago as lawless Democratic wastelands that have been overrun with violence, looting and destruction that is forcing residents to flee for safer locales. The reality on the ground is much more nuanced. In downtown Portland this week, tourists from Texas enjoyed gyros at a food ca
  
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• GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn't always match reality

  28-08-2020 23:33
  At almost every turn at the Republican National Convention, speakers from the president on down portrayed American cities like Portland, Oregon, New York and Chicago as lawless Democratic wastelands that have been overrun with violence, looting and destruction that is forcing residents to flee for safer locales. The reality on the ground is much more nuanced. In downtown Portland this week, tourists from Texas enjoyed gyros at a food cart, a couple from the suburbs soaked up the afternoon sun an
  
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• 'GO FOR IT': Pool boy claims Jerry Falwell encouraged romp with his wife

  28-08-2020 23:33
  “Go for it.” That’s what the pool boy in the middle of the Jerry Falwell Jr. sex scandal claimed the evangelical minister told him when it came to the first sexual encounter with his wife, Becki Falwell. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. In an interview with Good Morning America on Friday, Giancarlo Granda detailed the first sexual romp — one of many in his years-long affair —
  
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• France records biggest daily COVID-19 increase since March 31

  28-08-2020 23:33
  PARIS, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- A total of 7,379 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours in France, marking the highest daily tally since March 31, data released by the Healthy Ministry showed on Friday. ......
  
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• First U.S. novel coronavirus reinfection case identified in Nevada study

  28-08-2020 23:33
  (Reuters) - Researchers for the first time have identified someone in the United States who was reinfected with the novel coronavirus, according to a study that has not yet been reviewed by outside experts. ......
  
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• Curfew imposed in NW Tunisia

  28-08-2020 23:33
  TUNIS, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia has imposed a curfew in Kef province in northwestern Tunisia after recording an increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases in the region, reported Friday Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP). ......
  
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• Car bomb explodes near Turkish military point in NW Syria

  28-08-2020 23:33
  
  DAMASCUS, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb exploded on Friday evening near a Turkish military point in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported. The car went off on the M4 road south of the Jisr al-Shughur area...
  
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• British foreign secretary condemns detention of journalists in Belarus

  28-08-2020 23:33
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign...
  
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• U.S. state election officials say little evidence of absentee ballot fraud

  28-08-2020 23:33
  
  Top election officials from two states told Congress on Friday they have seen little evidence of absentee ballot fraud in U.S. primary elections this year and do not expect it to be a big issue in the November general election.President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed without evidence that a rise in mail-in voting will lead to a rise in fraud, though he has expressed more openness to absentee voting, which is the way he has cast ballots.Authorities in Michigan, a swing state that Trump won i
  
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• President Trump hammers Joe Biden in RNC speech

  28-08-2020 23:27
  
  Was President Trump successful in selling his message? Reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• March on Washington: George Floyd family urge protesters to 'be his legacy'

  28-08-2020 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Relatives of George Floyd spoke at a rally to commemorate the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.
  
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• Health experts decry Trump's shunning of virus rules

  28-08-2020 23:22
  
  Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump's largely mask-free, socially un-distanced Republican convention event on the White House lawn, saying some of his 1,500 guests may have inadvertently brought and spread the coronavirus to others.“There almost certainly were individuals there who were infected with COVID-19 but don't know it,” said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University..“I worr
  
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• Coronavirus latest news: Schools may open on a rota system in locked down areas

  28-08-2020 23:21
  
  Bank Holiday weekend: Police brace for illegal raves Exclusive: Train commuters will be offered three-day season tickets Less than a third of UK arrivals are having tracing forms checked Schools may operate on rota system in locked down areas Summer sale: Save 50% - Just £1 a week for 6 months Schools will be told to operate on a rota if local lockdowns make it impossible to operate as normal, the Education Secretary has announced. Gavin Williamson said pupils will switch between classroom
  
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• Rep. Steve Scalise on protesters confronting Sen. Rand Paul: People are fed up with mob rule

  28-08-2020 23:19
  
  House Minority Whip Steve Scalise joins Neil Cavuto with reaction on 'Your World.'
  
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• Colts return to practice with plan to combat injustices

  28-08-2020 23:17
  
  The Indianapolis Colts returned to practice Friday — with a plan and a purpose.After spending Thursday discussing the issues instead of working out, the Colts suited up, worked out and announced the four issues they intend to focus on this season: voter registration and access to polling places; food drives for low-income local families; showing more support for Indianapolis Public Schools; and helping improve community-police engagement.“We know these things haven’t changed ye
  
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• Waterspout seen off the coast of Suffolk

  28-08-2020 23:16
  
  A waterspout was spotted off the coast of Southwold in Suffolk.
  
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