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• 'Our democracy was tested this year': Joe Biden's Thanksgiving address – video

  25-11-2020 23:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Joe Biden urged Americans to put aside their political differences as he called for unity in his Thanksgiving address to the nation.'We need to remember, we are at war with the virus, not one another,' said the president-elect. 'Our democracy was tested this year, and what we learned was this: the people of this nation were up to the task.'Joe Biden says 'Let's be thankful for democracy' in message of unity – live Continue reading...
  
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• Trump pardons ex-National Security Adviser Flynn

  25-11-2020 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Michael Flynn was among former aides convicted in an investigation into Russian election interference.
  
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• Biden Thanksgiving speech: We're at war with the virus, not each other

  25-11-2020 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President-elect Joe Biden calls for an end to division in a speech for the Thanksgiving holiday.
  
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• Tesla issues two recalls affecting 9,500 vehicles

  25-11-2020 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  There have been no reported injuries as a result of the conditions that triggered recalls
  
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• Kylie Moore-Gilbert: Lecturer released by Iran 'in prisoner swap'

  25-11-2020 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kylie Moore-Gilbert thanks those who worked towards her release, which Iran says was a prisoner exchange.
  
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• Michael Flynn: Trump pardons disgraced former aide

  25-11-2020 22:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has announced a full pardon of disgraced former aide General Michael Flynn.
  
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• Donald Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn – live

  25-11-2020 22:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying about contacts with Russian operativesTrump phones election denialist event to claim ‘they cheated’US records highest daily Covid deaths since May and 172,935 new casesPresident-elect says ‘this is not a third Obama term’ in first interviewBiden’s cabinet picks: what we’ve learned from his choices so farDonald Trump plans to pardon Michael Flynn – reportsSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email
  
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• Adelaide high school closed after Covid case; Kylie Moore-Gilbert released – live news

  25-11-2020 22:33 via theguardian.com
  
  A high school in Adelaide has been closed for cleaning and students to be tested after positive case; British-Australian academic freed from jail in Iran, and a woman has been charged over the hit-and-run death of a New Zealand firefighter in the Hunter – follow updatesFollow our global live blogAustralia’s restrictions explained: state by state 9.15pm GMT Another day of 0 new cases, 0 lost lives and 0 active cases reported yesterday. #EveryTestHelps and thank you to all were tested
  
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• Denver mayor flies for Thanksgiving after advising people to stay home during Covid surge

  25-11-2020 22:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  He also emailed city staff earlier in the month urging them to ‘refrain from travel’
  
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• Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn

  25-11-2020 22:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI over Russian contactsTrump expected to pardon several key aides before he departsDonald Trump has pardoned Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with a Russian official. Related: 'Conmen, grifters and criminals': why is Trump's circle so at odds with the law?Continue reading...
  
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• Coronavirus live news: global cases exceed 60m; the Americas record worst week since pandemic's start

  25-11-2020 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Global cases pass 60m, according Johns Hopkins University; The Americas report more than 1.5m cases in the last seven days, says WHOUnited States reports 2,157 new coronavirus deathsSicily asks Cuba to send medics as Italy fights second Covid waveChristmas and Covid: is mixing households a good idea?Germany to decide next round of Covid restrictionsSee all our coronavirus coverage 9.10pm GMT Germany will make mask-wearing obligatory in all pedestrian high-traffic areas as well as in city centres
  
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• Johnny Depp libel case appeal bid turned down

  25-11-2020 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A judge refuses to hear the case but the star can try to overturn the ruling at the Court of Appeal.
  
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• Biden: 'I remember that first Thanksgiving, the empty chair'

  25-11-2020 22:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President-elect Joe Biden calls on Americans to unite against Covid in his pre-Thanksgiving address.
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: Americans travel as Biden addresses nation

  25-11-2020 21:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have been shooting up all week and are now averaging more than 1,600 a day
  
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• NRA accuses its own executives of using funds to enrich themselves in new tax filing

  25-11-2020 21:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  The revelation comes after a New York lawsuit alleging similar conduct
  
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• Most of England to enter two toughest tiers when lockdown is lifted

  25-11-2020 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Signs of growing parliamentary rebellion amid fears measures could stay in place until springCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe majority of England will enter the two toughest tiers of Covid restrictions from next week, ministers are set to announce, amid signs of a growing parliamentary rebellion and fears that the measures could remain unchanged until spring.On Thursday Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is expected to say that most of the country will be pl
  
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• Judge denies Johnny Depp permission to appeal Sun libel action

  25-11-2020 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor ordered to pay £630,000 after libel action against Sun over ‘wife beater’ allegationsThe Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has been refused permission to appeal after losing his high stakes libel action against the Sun over its description of him as a “wife beater”.A high court judge also ordered the actor to make an initial payment to the Sun’s publishers, New Group Newspapers (NGN), of almost £630,000 in legal fees. Continue reading...
  
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• Rocky the owl back in the wild after Rockefeller Christmas tree rescue in New York

  25-11-2020 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Good news for fans of Rocky - the Northern saw-whet owl rescued in New York City has been rehabilitated.
  
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• Hospitals in small-town and rural America warn they are drowning in Covid cases

  25-11-2020 20:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Everyone is continuing to go about their lives but we sort of feel like we’re drowning,’ said one doctor 
  
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• Trump pushing through dozens of last minute policy changes – including use of firing squads

  25-11-2020 20:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Five more federal executions are scheduled in the weeks before Joe Biden enters the White House
  
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• Thanksgiving eve: Millions of Americans travel for annual holiday despite Covid warnings

  25-11-2020 20:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dr Anthony Fauci said travel might act as a ‘surge superimposed on a surge’
  
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• Salesforce eyeing Slack acquisition in potential $17bn deal

  25-11-2020 20:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  It would be one of largest tech deals ever 
  
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• ‘I hope your last moments don’t look like this’: ICU doctor reveals what a dying Covid patient sees

  25-11-2020 20:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Your personal liberty won’t matter to you when I put a breathing tube in you, and then you die,’ says Dr Kenneth Remy
  
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• Saudi women's rights activist's trial moved to terrorism court

  25-11-2020 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Loujain al-Hathloul looked weak and unwell after 900 days in jail, said her familySaudi Arabia has moved the trial of activist Loujain al-Hathloul to a special court that handles terrorism cases, a move condemned by human rights campaigners as a heavy-handed attempt to muzzle dissent.Hathloul has been in jail without trial for over 900 days now, and her family said she looked weak and unwell at a rare court appearance on Wednesday, her body shaking and her voice faint. Continue reading...
  
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• Execution of only woman on federal death row rescheduled to days before Biden inauguration

  25-11-2020 19:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Federal judge in Washington delayed December date after lawyers contracted coronavirus
  
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• Teenage girl whose handcuffing at 11 led to police reforms dies of Covid

  25-11-2020 19:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Teenager’s arrest made national headlines three years ago, with police adopting reforms on youths 
  
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• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: When to watch and what to expect

  25-11-2020 19:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The three-hour broadcast will air on NBC from 9am EST to 12pm EST
  
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• Police rescue woman from sinking SUV in dramatic footage

  25-11-2020 19:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  She’d fallen asleep driving home and crashed into the Mahoning River 
  
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• Loujain al-Hathloul: Saudi activist's trial 'moved to terrorism court'

  25-11-2020 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The family of Loujain al-Hathloul had hoped she would be released after two years in detention.
  
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• Lockerbie bombing: court 'should have been told witness wanted payment'

  25-11-2020 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Appeal judges hear evidence Tony Gauci read prejudicial press articles claiming Megrahi was guiltyThe court that convicted a Libyan intelligence officer for the Lockerbie bombing should have been told a key witness wanted payment for his testimony, appeal judges have been told.Gordon Jackson QC, part of the legal team acting for the family of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, said there was clear evidence that the witness Tony Gauci was interested in compensation for giving evidence, and was frustrated non
  
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• 15-year-old accused of mass shooting in Wisconsin mall to face charges

  25-11-2020 19:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Boy’s legal team claims shooting began after a fight broke out between the teen’s friend and another group of people
  
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• Argentina football legend Maradona dies aged 60

  25-11-2020 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Argentina legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest footballers of all time, dies at the age of 60.
  
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• Police to enforce last call for drinks on Thanksgiving eve in Pennsylvania

  25-11-2020 19:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Alcohol curfews at bars and restaurants across US aim to combat coronavirus transmission on typically busy holiday night
  
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• WWF vows to 'do more' after human rights abuse reports

  25-11-2020 19:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The conservation charity is accused of working with guards who allegedly tortured and killed people.
  
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• Pakistan's Imran Khan approves law to chemically castrate ‘beast’ paedophiles and rapists

  25-11-2020 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PAKISTAN'S Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a new law which will see paedophiles and rapists be chemically castrated.
  
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• How to make the most of your Thanksgiving leftovers

  25-11-2020 18:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Stuffing waffles are eye-catching and fun to eat
  
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• As season nears, Europe ponders skiing during pandemic

  25-11-2020 18:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Though the first real snow has yet to fall across much of Europe, ski buffs are imagining with dread a bizarre scene: Skiing in Zermatt in Switzerland while lifts idle across the border in Italy's Aosta valley
  
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• Shivering Dublin bay swimmers slighted for their 'fancy fleeces'

  25-11-2020 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Choppy waters as clash of ‘newbie dryrobe types’ with ‘hardy’ bathers swells into debate on tribes and snobberyJames Joyce opened Ulysses with a reference to the “scrotum tightening” effect of swimming in Dublin bay, but these days there is a secondary, somewhat more visible effect: dryrobe bashing.A boom in the popularity of sea swimming in Ireland has filled Dublin’s bathing spots with people wrapped in fleece-lined hooded robes – and for some of
  
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• Taylor Swift: The Long Pond Studio Sessions review – cosy campfire confessions

  25-11-2020 18:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The pop star’s Disney+ movie about quarantine album Folklore reveals the potency of her songwriting, though it’s hazy on any ‘pandemic epiphanies’Pre-pandemic, few artists were so keenly attuned to the music industry’s calendar as Taylor Swift. She timed her album releases for awards contention and singles to sustain her world tours; the promotional cycle for 1989, released in 2014, seemed to go on for years. With coronavirus, that “circus” – as sh
  
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• Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60

  25-11-2020 18:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has died
  
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• President pranked as comedians snap up Trump 2024 domain

  25-11-2020 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler buy DonaldJTrump2024.comTrump yet to formally concede despite losing to Joe BidenDonald Trump’s bid to retake the presidency in 2024 has been launched – by two comedians.“We got the domain DonaldJTrump2024.com,” comics Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler, AKA The Good Liars, wrote on Twitter. Continue reading...
  
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• Obama: Republicans portraying white men as 'victims' helped Trump win votes

  25-11-2020 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Former president made remark about Republican messaging in interview with Breakfast Club Barack Obama said part of the reason 73 million Americans voted to re-elect Donald Trump in the election was because of messaging from Republicans that the country, particularly white men, are under attack.In an interview with the radio show the Breakfast Club on Wednesday to promote his new memoir A Promised Land, Obama said Trump’s administration, which he did not name directly, “objectively ha
  
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• Leonardo da Vinci: Specialist scan ‘unveils every brushstroke of Mona Lisa’

  25-11-2020 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LEONARDO DA VINCI's renowned painting the Mona Lisa has been unveiled by a specialist scan that shows the artist's every brushstroke, an inventor told Express.co.uk.
  
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• Superintelligence review – Melissa McCarthy can't save unfunny AI comedy

  25-11-2020 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The two-time Oscar nominee sleepwalks through another underwhelming collaboration with her film-maker husband Ben FalconeMelissa McCarthy, a respected two-time Oscar nominee and hysterically funny comic dynamo, has a problem, a longtime allegiance that leads an inarguable talent into inarguably dodgy territory time and time again. His name is Ben Falcone: actor, writer, director and also her husband. Related: Happiest Season review – queer Christmas comedy is a festive treatContinue readin
  
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• Rise and fall of Ethiopia’s TPLF – from rebels to rulers and back

  25-11-2020 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bloody offensive aims to eliminate Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which dominated for nearly 30 yearsIn the centre of Mekelle, the highland capital of Tigray, is a complex of memorials and museums. Under the hot sun, old armoured vehicles, jets and helicopters rust quietly. On the city’s wide avenues, statues commemorate the “martyrs” and the victories of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a small band of insurgents who became a guerrilla army, launched
  
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• Coronavirus: How Europeans are preparing for Christmas and New Year

  25-11-2020 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Measures designed to contain the coronavirus pandemic will change how millions of people celebrate.
  
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• Maradona: A footballing great with a myriad of problems

  25-11-2020 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Argentine icon famous for his 'Hand of God' goal was a footballing great with a myriad of problems.
  
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• Deadly frost and war with the French: Britain's recession of the 1700s

  25-11-2020 17:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Economic distress caused by pandemic is the first in a very long time to have been brought about by the natural worldThe chancellor has said the government will borrow a peacetime record of almost £400bn this year in the face of the worst recession the UK has experienced in more than 300 years. But how many of us know what happened at the time of that distant milestone?Three centuries ago, Britain looked very different. The country was still largely agricultural and as such was completely
  
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• Tehran exchanges Kylie Moore-Gilbert for three Iranians jailed abroad

  25-11-2020 17:35 via theguardian.com
  
  British-Australian academic has been imprisoned in Iran since 2018
  Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the Australian-British academic detained by Iran on espionage charges, has been released in a prisoner exchange for three Iranians.The Australian foreign minister, Marise Payne, confirmed Moore-Gilbert’s release on Thursday morning, Australian time. Continue reading...
  
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• WW3 fears: 'Looming' armed conflict in South China Sea warning issued by defence secretary

  25-11-2020 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SOARING tensions between China and the US in the South China Sea could easily spill over into armed conflict, according to the Philippines' defence secretary.
  
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