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• Georgia shooting: One killed in Thanksgiving Day attack outside bar

  27-11-2020 23:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police have not yet identified a suspect in the shooting 
  
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• Iranian diplomat skips terror trial for bomb plot that targeted UK MPs among others

  27-11-2020 23:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Alleged attack thwarted by officers in Belgium in 2018
  
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• BBQ restaurant owner arrested after defying lockdown

  27-11-2020 23:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Adam Skelly, the proprietor of Adamson BBQ, declared on social media on Monday that he would open his restaurant despite restrictions put in place by authorities to limit the spread of Covid-19.
  
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• Cuomo blames Trump justice for Supreme Court Covid-19 decision on NY churches

  27-11-2020 22:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  The court upheld other coronavirus restrictions on houses of worship earlier this year before the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett
  
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• Nationwide fertility clinic says hackers may have stolen sensitive information on patients

  27-11-2020 22:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Patient medical histories and Social Security numbers at risk in the attack, the company, US Fertility, said 
  
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• FBI hunting for eight-year-old girl missing from Crow Indian Reservation

  27-11-2020 22:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The search for Mildred Alexis Old Crow started on 19 November
  
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• SoulCycle: Even more employees speak out about toxic culture

  27-11-2020 22:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  The new allegations follow a bombshell report from last week
  
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• ‘Everybody at some point was certain they were going to die’: Paradise’s former mayor recalls devastating wildfire two years on

  27-11-2020 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  By the time it was extinguished, Camp Fire had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 and burned down 95 per cent of structures in the 141-year-old town of Paradise in California, writes Louise Boyle
  
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• CDC advisers voting to decide who gets Covid vaccine first

  27-11-2020 22:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  The vital meeting will be held on Tuesday
  
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• Belarus president Lukashenko suggests he will step down once new constitution adopted

  27-11-2020 22:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Belarus has been rocked by several months of anti-government protests after Mr Lukashenko claimed victory in the August 9 presidential election, amid claims from opponents it was rigged
  
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• One-year-old boy killed after police open fire on alleged kidnapper

  27-11-2020 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario had been alerted to domestic dispute and suspected abduction A one-year-old infant in Canada has been fatally shot in an incident involving police officers who opened fire on a pickup truck while responding to an alleged kidnapping. Investigators have not yet confirmed if police gunfire killed the boy. Continue reading...
  
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• US investigating possible suspension failures on 115,000 Tesla vehicles

  27-11-2020 22:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Probe launched into faults with two Tesla models after rise in complaints 
  
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• Visitors track down mystery desert monolith in Utah

  27-11-2020 22:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Two days after a helicopter pilot revealed its existence, people began sharing their own shots of the unexplained pieceSome intrepid visitors have been flocking to a remote part of southern Utah in a bid to be among the first to see the mystery metal monolith.The structure in the Red Rock desert was first discovered last week from the air by a helicopter pilot and wildlife officers who were carrying out an annual count of bighorn sheep. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump 2024 warning: President won't 'simply exit stage' as he prepares to overshadow Biden

  27-11-2020 21:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DONALD TRUMP will work to "keep alive the possibility of standing again" in the next presidential election, an expert has claimed, as he warned the US President will not simply "exit the stage" for Joe Biden.
  
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• Man who threatened to shoot Black family for moving into house jailed for two years

  27-11-2020 21:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘This defendant terrorised an entire family by threatening to kill African American parents and their four children’
  
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• Australian special forces troops face dismissal over Afghan civilian killings

  27-11-2020 21:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  A four-year-long inquiry report released last week found evidence that Australian soldiers may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan
  
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• Amazon to give $500m in holiday bonuses to its frontline workers

  27-11-2020 21:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Full-time operational employees in the United States will receive a $300 bonus
  
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• Funeral workers pose for grinning pictures with Diego Maradona’s body inside coffin

  27-11-2020 20:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  The pictures circulated on social media in Argentina this week and left fans furious at the disrespect shown to the footballing legend whose funeral took place on Thursday
  
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• Iran scientist's assassination appears intended to undermine nuclear deal

  27-11-2020 20:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: shooting of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh will do more harm to diplomacy than it does to Iran’s nuclear programmeThe assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh may not much have impact on the Iranian nuclear programme he helped build, but it will certainly make it harder to salvage the deal intended to restrict that programme, and that is – so far - the most plausible motive.Israel is widely agreed to be the most likely perpetrator. Mossad is reported to have been behind a string of assassin
  
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• Former Great Ormond Street hospital porter admits child sexual abuse over 35 years

  27-11-2020 20:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Paul Farrell, 55, has pleaded guilty to 58 child sexual abuse offences starting in 1985A former Great Ormond Street hospital porter has admitted sexual offences against six boys aged as young as six over 35 years.Paul Farrell, 55, has pleaded guilty to 58 child sexual abuse offences carried out between 1985 and 2020, including attempted rape, sexual assault of a child under 13 and making indecent photographs of children. Continue reading...
  
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• Covid fears appear to deter big crowds seeking Black Friday deals at stores

  27-11-2020 20:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  The traditional Thanksgiving openings had been cancelled by many retailers
  
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• Macron ‘shocked’ by video of French police beating black man

  27-11-2020 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  President condemns ‘shameful aggression’ amid growing anger over apparently unprovoked assault The French government is scrambling to dampen rising anger over footage showing police beating a black music producer in Paris, the latest in a series of acts of alleged police violence to rock the country.Emmanuel Macron said a video of officers beating Michel Zecler in his studio was “shameful” and said that government would have to find a way to restore public confidence in t
  
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• Bhopal: Survivors of industrial accident make up over half of Covid-19 victims in Indian city

  27-11-2020 20:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Coronavirus has provided fresh tragedy for the city devastated by a gas disaster, reports Stuti Mishra
  
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• New Zealand once led the world on social housing – it should again | Bryce Edwards

  27-11-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A return to a programme of mass state house building could fix the significant problem for those at the bottom of the marketBillions of dollars are currently being transferred to wealthy New Zealanders in the government’s attempts to stimulate the economy. The Reserve Bank has essentially committed to printing up to $128bn (US$90bn) of new money, lending much of it as cheap credit to banks, who then lend it to those who can afford to buy more and more houses, and thereby grabbing the capit
  
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• Kylie Moore-Gilbert faces long road back to normality, says fellow former hostage

  27-11-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ana Diamond, who was held for more than six months, says the Australian academic was subject to a ‘sophisticated’ hostage-taking operationBack on Australian soil, and safe in the enforced quiet of Covid quarantine, Kylie Moore-Gilbert faces a long road to recovery, according to another victim of Iran’s practice of seizing foreign nationals as hostages.Ana Diamond was just 19 when she was seized by the country’s Revolutionary Guards in 2016, held for 200 days in solitary c
  
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• Trump's baseless claims of Georgia voter fraud spark fears among Republicans

  27-11-2020 19:50 via theguardian.com
  
  As Trump suffers another post-election court defeat, some Republicans worry he could depress turnout in crucial Georgia runoffsDespite giving his strongest hints yet that he is coming to accept his loss of the White House to challenger Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s continuing reluctance to leave office and baseless claims about electoral fraud are increasingly worrying his own party.In particular, Republicans are concerned that the chaos caused by Trump’s stance and his false comments on
  
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• Iranian scientist's death only the latest in long line of attacks blamed on Israel

  27-11-2020 19:11 via theguardian.com
  
  The Middle East is on edge as the Trump administration enters its final weeksMohsen Fakhrizadeh may be the most senior Iranian nuclear scientist to have been assassinated but he is certainly not the first, joining at least four others during the past decade.In killings Iran said were aimed at sabotaging its nuclear energy ambitions – it does not acknowledge using the technology for weapons – the country has consistently pointed the finger at Israel, its regional arch-foe. Continue re
  
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• US records highest single-day death toll from coronavirus since May

  27-11-2020 19:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  The rise in deaths on Wednesday represented a 57 per cent increase in the 14-day average
  
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• Women detained in Montana for speaking Spanish settle case with US Border Agency

  27-11-2020 18:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Speaking Spanish is not a reason to be racially profiled and harassed’
  
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• Rescue teams search for missing pilot after Indian military aircraft crashes into sea

  27-11-2020 18:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Armed forces deploys air and sea search teams following accident over Arabian Sea
  
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• Grave issue: France bans discrimination against regional accents

  27-11-2020 18:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Assemblée Nationale makes glottophobie an offence along with racism, sexism and other outlawed bigotry In France, it’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it. When the prime minister, Jean Castex, opens his mouth, he is often accused of being “a bit rugby” – he comes from the south-west, where the sport is popular. Others with regional accents sound like “they should be reading the weather”.Now the French have not only come up with a word
  
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• Hospitals in England told to prepare for Covid vaccine rollout in 10 days' time

  27-11-2020 18:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: NHS could receive first deliveries of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine as soon as 7 December Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHospitals have been told to prepare for the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine in as little as 10 days’ time, with NHS workers expected to be at the front of the queue, the Guardian has learned.NHS bosses said hospitals in England could expect to receive their first deliveries of a vaccine produced by Pfizer/BioNTech as soon as Monda
  
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• What will happen to the UK after Brexit - deal or no deal?

  27-11-2020 18:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Food prices, job opportunities and the value of the pound will all be very different - depending on the outcome
  
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• Denmark could dig up and cremate mink killed in Covid cull

  27-11-2020 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Fears nitrogen and phosphorus could be released in large quantities into soil at grave sitesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDenmark’s government is considering exhuming and cremating the remains of millions of culled mink after decaying carcasses started to emerge from a hastily dug grave.After a mutated version of Covid-19 was found in the animals, the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, announced a cull in early November of the estimated 15-17 million min
  
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• Journey through history: Train station where Jews escaped Germany and Nazis smuggled gold to reopen

  27-11-2020 18:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  The station has been closed since 1970 and behind the ornate facades, Canfranc has a sometimes troubling past, reports Graham Keeley in Spain
  
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• Germany demands, France follows! Backlash over decision to close ski lifts

  27-11-2020 18:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FRANCE has been accused of bowing to Germany's demands after it announced ski lifts would be closed until January.
  
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• Director Asif Kapadia: ‘Diego and Maradona were two different people’

  27-11-2020 18:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Film director recalls the long and rocky road to meeting the mercurial subject of his filmFootball is a huge part of my life. I was 14 when Diego Maradona scored the two goals against England – the hand of God and the wonder goal. Despite the first goal, I always thought he was the best player in the world. I’ve always been a fan of outsiders, rebels.Everyone wanted to be Maradona. He was the global phenomenon. The pope wanted to meet him. Fidel Castro would sit and listen to Diego t
  
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• Slashing overseas aid reflects badly on Britain | Letters

  27-11-2020 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond after the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, cut international aid by a third in his spending reviewRishi Sunak has said he could not tell the country he was giving 0.7% of gross national income to foreign aid (Foreign Office minister resigns as Sunak cuts aid budget, 25 November). What kind of country does he think he lives in? Can he and the rest of the government not see that so many of the problems in the world come from the gross divide between countries like ours and ones where so ma
  
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• Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: key figure in Iran's nuclear efforts who avoided limelight

  27-11-2020 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: engineer was identified by UN report as central figure in work to develop atomic bombsIran’s top nuclear scientist shot dead near TehranOutside of the circles who closely watch Iran’s nuclear programme in Israel, the US and at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who has been shot dead in Tehran, was not a household name.But for two decades the nuclear engineer – once a familiar sight to his students at Tehran’s Imam Hossein University, wh
  
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• Police search for doctor who disappeared from Staten Island

  27-11-2020 17:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police are using scuba divers to search a nearby lake and police dogs to search the woods
  
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• 'Embarrassment for EU!' Verhofstadt sparks backlash after stepping in over Brussels crisis

  27-11-2020 17:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GUY Verhofstadt has stirred up controversy on social media once again after lashing out at the leaders of Hungary and Poland over their threat to veto the EU's budget.
  
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• Six US oil executives jailed for corruption in Venezuela after being lured to business meeting

  27-11-2020 17:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Men plead innocence following arrest in 2017 as State Department demands release
  
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• Mastermind of Iran’s nuclear programme ‘assassinated’ in deadly attack

  27-11-2020 17:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  The killing took place in a mountain resort area close to Tehran amid a gunfight
  
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• WW3 warning: Iran hits out at Israel for nuclear scientist murder – ‘Really big deal!’

  27-11-2020 17:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN IRANIAN scientist's assassination has sparked World War 3 fears as tensions between Iran and Israel rise in the wake of the confirmed killing and reports that the Israeli Prime Minister had dubbed said man a "name to remember".
  
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• Mastermind of Iran’s nuclear programme ‘assassinated’ in deadly attack near Tehran

  27-11-2020 17:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The killing took place in a mountain resort area amid a gunfight
  
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• Sinkhole swallows car in New York City

  27-11-2020 16:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I feel lucky today,’ says Thupten Topjy, the Uber driver who owns the car 
  
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• Trump's furniture fail: that's not a desk, Donald – it's a table for TV dinners

  27-11-2020 16:47 via theguardian.com
  
  The Resolute desk at the White House is made of timbers taken from a Royal Navy ship. It projects pure power. Is that why the defeated US president has switched to an occasional table?Has Donald Trump conceded the presidency by design? Is his choice of furniture betraying a subconscious admission of defeat? When the outgoing US president gave a speech this week saying he would depart if the electoral college voted for Joe Biden, his words came as less of a shock than the desk he chose to sit at.
  
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• Iran assassination: ‘Father of Iranian nuclear bomb’ killed after gunshots and explosion

  27-11-2020 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A LEADING Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated today according to the country's Defence Ministry.
  
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• Covid vaccine: North Korean hackers ‘target’ Oxford-AstraZeneca project

  27-11-2020 16:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Attempts to access sensitive material said to be unsuccessful as government refuses to be drawn on reports
  
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• Revealed: UN Sudan expert's links to Russian oligarch Prigozhin

  27-11-2020 16:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: documents show links between academic and oligarch placed under US sanctionsLeaked documents show links between an academic serving on a United Nations expert panel on Sudan, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch under US sanctions who has led Russia’s recent push into Africa.According to the US, Prigozhin runs the Wagner group, which has sent mercenaries to countries including Sudan, Libya and the Central African Republic (CAR), and is also behind a notorious internet tro
  
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