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• Gavin Newsom announces California Covid curfew after coming under fire for restaurant trip

  19-11-2020 23:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Restrictions will ban overnight non-essential activity outside home
  
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• Coronavirus: Europe faces 'six tough months' of pandemic, WHO says

  19-11-2020 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Current mortality rates in Europe are seeing a person die every 17 seconds, an official says.
  
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• Sweaty Rudy Giuliani suffers hair malfunction in latest bizarre press conference

  19-11-2020 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump’s personal lawyer was trying to drum up interest in tales of election rigging – but viewers were drawn to the drama on his headOn 7 November, the day the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, former New York mayor turned Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani addressed the media at a landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium on Philadelphia’s industrial fringe. Continue reading...
  
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• Judge halts execution set for tonight for man who murdered Texas teenager

  19-11-2020 22:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Orlando Hall had been set to die by lethal injection for killing Lisa Rene
  
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• Judge halts execution for man who murdered Texas teenager in last minute reprieve

  19-11-2020 22:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Orlando Hall had been set to die by lethal injection for killing Lisa Rene
  
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• US to carry out 8th execution of the year tonight despite Biden’s opposition to death penalty

  19-11-2020 21:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  President-elect has signaled he will end executions when in White House
  
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• 'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

  19-11-2020 21:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Shuggie Bain,” the story of a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow
  
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• Obama memoir: What he really thought of Putin and other leaders

  19-11-2020 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former US president's record-selling memoir contains some candid portraits of world leaders.
  
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• Reality show sparks fiery debate: Does a thumbs-up emoji mean ‘f*** you?

  19-11-2020 20:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Though not everybody The Independent reached out to—including reality kingpin Spencer Pratt—agrees
  
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• Douglas Stuart's Booker win heralds the arrival of a fully formed voice | Justine Jordan

  19-11-2020 20:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Shuggie Bain is heartbreaking, but never mawkish – and already a favourite with readersDouglas Stuart wins Booker prize for debut Shuggie Bain Though there were four debuts on the Booker shortlist, it’s been more than a decade since a debut won. And with two magisterial novels from established writers in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body on the list, first-timer Douglas Stuart’s success may come as a surprise. But it will
  
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• Douglas Stuart wins Booker prize for debut Shuggie Bain

  19-11-2020 20:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Scottish-American wins £50,000 for autobiographical novel about a boy growing up in 80s Glasgow, which is ‘destined to be a classic’ Douglas Stuart’s Booker win heralds arrival of a fully formed voice The Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker prize for his first novel, Shuggie Bain, a story based on his own life that follows a boy growing up in poverty in 1980s Glasgow with a mother who is battling addiction.Stuart, 44, has described himself as &ldquo
  
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• BuzzFeed buying HuffPost from Verizon for undisclosed price

  19-11-2020 20:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  BuzzFeed is buying HuffPost from Verizon as part of a bigger deal that has the wireless giant investing in the digital-media company
  
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• Trump administration in 'staggering' isolation at UN on health issues

  19-11-2020 20:36 via theguardian.com
  
  US left with few allies as it tries to change wording on topic of reproductive healthcare The outgoing Trump administration’s final days at the United Nations have resulted in a deepening of US isolation on social and health issues, with only a handful of allies including Russia, Belarus and Syria.In one vote this week, the US was entirely alone in backing its own amendment to a seemingly uncontroversial resolution about efforts to treat medical complications from childbirth. It called for
  
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• Elon Musk passes Mark Zuckerberg as world’s third richest person

  19-11-2020 20:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  South African-born entrepreneur now worth estimated $120bn
  
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• Pompeo in unprecedented West Bank settlement visit

  19-11-2020 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the first time a top US official visiting Israel makes such a trip, seen as controversial.
  
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• Biden nears record 80m votes as Trump persists in trying to overturn result

  19-11-2020 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Rising Biden tally and his popular vote lead overshadowed by Trump escalating his false insistence that he actually wonJoe Biden is approaching a record 80m votes, with ballots still being counted and having already recorded the highest number of votes for a US presidential election winner, as Donald Trump persisted on Thursday in denying the result and trying to overturn it. Continue reading...
  
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• Forget Brexit – the EU has bigger problems now

  19-11-2020 19:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  For years, Britain’s long goodbye was the biggest issue facing the bloc. Now, Sean O’Grady explains, there are more pressing concerns
  
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• BuzzFeed buys HuffPost in a stock deal with Verizon Media

  19-11-2020 19:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two firms will syndicate content on each others platforms
  
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• Thai protesters rally after violent clashes with police – video report

  19-11-2020 18:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands of protesters rallied for a second day in Bangkok to condemn police use of teargas and chemical-laced water cannon jets against them. Demonstrators gathered outside the national police headquarters, hurling blue and yellow paint and spraying graffiti fiercely critical of the country's king. More than 50 people were injured during the violent clashes with police earlier in the week sparking calls for changes to the constitution, reform of the monarchy and the removal of the prime minist
  
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• Philippine island placed under 'state of calamity' after typhoon

  19-11-2020 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Rodrigo Duterte made the decision in order to speed up relief and rehabilitation efforts.
  
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• Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse illegally bought gun with coronavirus stimulus check

  19-11-2020 18:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Kenosha shooter will face charges in Wisconsin
  
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• France's Macron issues 'republican values' ultimatum to Muslim leaders

  19-11-2020 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Macron gives Muslim leaders an ultimatum to accept a "charter of republican values".
  
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• Video shows mink pulled from cages and thrown ‘like rubbish’ into gas chambers on Dutch fur farms

  19-11-2020 18:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cruelty shows UK must ban sales of real fur, say animal rights campaigners
  
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• CDC tells Americans to not travel for Thanksgiving amid surge in Covid cases

  19-11-2020 18:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  'We're seeing exponential growth in cases,' CDC Covid-19 incident manager Dr. Henry Walke says
  
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• Women activists, political prisoners ‘sexually assaulted, tortured and executed in Saudi Arabia’ jails

  19-11-2020 17:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: ‘This report details abuse on an industrial scale. Murder, torture, sexual assault – all of the worst human rights violations imaginable are here,’ says campaigner
  
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• 'Indigenous fashion is the future. It’s time for First Nations people to reclaim it'

  19-11-2020 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian fashion is taking notice of the country’s oldest design traditions – and we’re only just scratching the surface Continue reading...
  
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• Lawsuit claims meat plant bosses placed bets on how many workers would contract Covid-19

  19-11-2020 17:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa was the site of a coronavirus disease cluster early in the US outbreak
  
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• Colleges tell students leaving for Thanksgiving to get tested and remain at home over Covid fears

  19-11-2020 17:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  'We want to make sure that we are not having virus travel from our campuses back into people's homes’
  
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• Why is Ethiopia facing civil war? – video explainer

  19-11-2020 17:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country, as federal troops battle rebels in the northern Tigray region. 
  The Guardian's Jason Burke explains what sparked the conflict, why it threatens to destabilise the Horn of Africa – and examines how the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, the continent's youngest leader, has gone from winning a Nobel peace prize to presiding over a bloody conflict against the Tigra
  
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• New coronavirus testing centre opens at Dublin Airport

  19-11-2020 17:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Firm believes it can help facilitate safer national and international travel ahead of the Christmas period
  
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• Canada could donate Covid vaccine to poorer countries

  19-11-2020 17:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Country could have as many as 414 million doses 
  
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• Russia threatens to block Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in row over ‘censoring’ pro-Kremlin media

  19-11-2020 16:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lawmakers say the US technology giants are discriminating against Russian content
  
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• Hurricane Iota: Storm causes devastation in Central America

  19-11-2020 16:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  At least 30 people have lost their lives in devastation caused by the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year.
  
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• Hong Kong: 'Eyes will be plucked out,' China warns West

  19-11-2020 16:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Beijing rebukes the Five Eyes Western alliance for accusing it of trying to silence critics in Hong Kong.
  
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• Wonder Woman 1984 sticks to Christmas cinema release – but will also be on digital

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  Warner Bros has followed the Tenet precedent by maintaining a theatrical release date for tentpole sequel, but it will also be online The decision by Warner Bros to release Christopher Nolan’s Tenet in cinemas last August despite depleted venues and public confidence was hailed as a brave attempt to...
  
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• Vatican asks Instagram how pope's account liked photo of Brazilian model

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  Natalia Garibotto joked she was going to heaven after picture was liked by official account of Pope Francis The Vatican said it was seeking explanations from Instagram after Pope Francis’s official account liked a photo of a scantily dressed Brazilian model. It is unclear when the photo of Natalia...
  
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• The Great Wall and beaujolais nouveau: Thursday's best photos

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  
  The Guardian’s picture editors select highlights from around the world ......
  
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• Oxford Covid scientists: no rush to get vaccine results by Christmas

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  
  Further trials required but ‘delight’ at early data reveals strong immune response among over-70s Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Oxford University’s scientists have said there is no rush to publish efficacy results from their Covid vaccine trial, playing down...
  
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• Letting Covid-19 circulate in hope of herd immunity 'could make it more lethal'

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  Study says efforts to prevent spread of disease, such as social distancing, reduce virulence A deeply entrenched idea, that newly emerged agents of disease inevitably evolve to become more benign over time, is scientifically unfounded, according to new research. They can, in fact, become more...
  
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• Coronavirus is evolving. Whether it gets deadlier or not may depend on us | Laura Spinney

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  
  There’s now evidence that ignoring social distancing rules could help more lethal strains of Covid-19 to win out Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Letting the virus that causes Covid-19 circulate more-or-less freely is dangerous not only because it risks overwhelming...
  
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• Bobby Brown Jr found dead in Los Angeles home at age 28

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  Police pronounced son of singer Bobby Brown dead at the scene but provided no additional details Bobby Brown Jr, the son of singer Bobby Brown, was found dead at a Los Angeles home late Wednesday. He was 28. Los Angeles Police spokesman Jeff Lee said officers were responding to a medical emergency...
  
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• Blue whale sightings off South Georgia raise hopes of recovery

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  After single sighting in 20 years of surveys, new expedition and analysis bring 58 When the Antarctic blue whale – the largest and loudest animal on the planet – was all but wiped out by whaling 50 years ago, the waters around South Georgia fell silent. Twenty years of dedicated whale surveys from...
  
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• Adviser to Iran's leader: US attack risks 'full-fledged war'

  19-11-2020 15:45 via article.wn.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An adviser to Iran's supreme leader who is a possible 2021 presidential candidate is warning that any American attack on the Islamic Republic could set off a “full-fledged war” in the Mideast in the waning days ......
  
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• Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan in ‘historic’ first visit to Afghanistan

  19-11-2020 15:44 via article.wn.com
  The visit comes at a crucial time for Afghanistan as Kabul government negotiators and the Taliban are holding U.S.-brokered negotiations in Qatar to chart a course for a post-war Afghanistan. ......
  
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• China says ‘Five Eyes’ should face reality on Hong Kong

  19-11-2020 15:44 via article.wn.com
  
  The U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, in a joint statement, said the new Hong Kong policy was a concerted campaign to silence all critical voices. ......
  
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• Sweden finds coronavirus in mink industry workers

  19-11-2020 15:42 via article.wn.com
  
  Read full article 19 November 2020, 1:38 pm·1-min read FILE PHOTO: A mink is seen at the farm of the representative of the Panhellenic association of fur animal breeders Konstantinos Chionos in the village of Mikrokastro STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's health agency said on Thursday a number of people who work in the mink industry had tested positive for the coronavirus. Authorities are...
  
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• Michael J. Fox plotting 'second retirement' from acting

  19-11-2020 15:42 via article.wn.com
  <img src="https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/canoe/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Michael-J-Fox-files-nov19-scaled-e1605794231118.jpg?quality=100&strip=all" title="Actor Michael J Fox joins the cast of Back to the Future for a panel at the Calgary Comics and Entertainment Expo, April 26, 2019." alt="Actor Michael J Fox joins the...
  
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• Report slams conditions in Greek migrant detention centers

  19-11-2020 15:41 via article.wn.com
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The anti-torture committee of the Council of Europe, the continent’s main human rights organization, slammed the conditions under which migrants are held in some detention centers in Greece and voiced concern Thursday over persistent allegations the country...
  
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• Tiger Woods to play with 11-year-old Charlie in Father-Son

  19-11-2020 15:37 via article.wn.com
  Tiger Woods still has one tournament left this year that might feel as big as any to him. The PNC Championship announced Thursday that Woods will play with 11-year-old son Charlie in the tournament that has paired major champions with their sons since 1995, the year before the 44-year-old Woods turned pro. “I can't tell you how excited I am to be playing with Charlie in our first official tournament together,” Woods said. “It's been great watching him progress as a junior golfe
  
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• WHO warns of deadly second wave of virus across Middle East

  19-11-2020 15:36 via article.wn.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As winter nears and coronavirus cases surge across the Middle East, the regional director for the World Health Organization said Thursday that the only way to avoid mass deaths is for countries to quickly tighten restrictions and enforce preventative measures. In a press briefing from Cairo, Ahmed al-Mandhari, director of WHO’s eastern Mediterranean region, which comprises most of the Middle East, expressed concern that countries in the area were lo
  
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