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• FDA panel votes for Pfizer Covid vaccine to receive emergency authorisation

  10-12-2020 23:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 23-person independent panel commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted to approve Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use.
  
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• Canadian police officer ticketed driver who called him out for not wearing mask

  10-12-2020 23:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officials say public entitled to ask officers about wearing masks during pandemic
  
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• Coronavirus: Trump hosts Hanukkah events as Covid-19 deaths soar

  10-12-2020 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The White House events were held as coronavirus-related fatalities rose to 3,053 - a record daily US high.
  
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• Pfizer officials defend vaccine during FDA panel amid reports of allergic reactions

  10-12-2020 22:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Amongst the 44,000 subjects, we saw no serious allergic reactions to the vaccine,’ Dr William Gruber says
  
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• 'Tis the pandemic season: White House parties on amid virus

  10-12-2020 22:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Despite the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing ahead with as many as two dozen holiday events, and the District of Columbia's health department can’t do much more than track the numbers and hope its virus guidelines are being followed
  
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• Paolo Rossi: Italy's World Cup hero whose quick feet earned redemption | Nicky Bandini

  10-12-2020 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  The forward’s goals made him a national hero in 1982 after a two-year ban threatened to destroy his playing careerPaolo Rossi scored more than 150 goals in his career but if you wanted to understand the brilliance of a player whose death at the age of 64 sent Italy into mourning on Thursday, it may be enough to watch the one he grabbed in the 1982 World Cup final.Or, more realistically, perhaps a slow-motion replay. The Italy striker does not appear to have position on his West Germany opp
  
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• New Hampshire House speaker dies of Covid a week after taking office

  10-12-2020 22:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Speaker encouraged lawmakers to see each other as ‘friends and colleagues’ not members of opposing parties
  
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• Brandon Bernard: US government set to execute man despite last-minute pleas

  10-12-2020 22:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  It is one of five executions planned by Donald Trump’s administration in final weeks of presidency
  
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• Humpback whale spotted near Statue of Liberty in New York City

  10-12-2020 22:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Last year there were more than 300 whale sightings in the region
  
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• British couple die after car plunges off island road

  10-12-2020 22:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Richard Addicott and his wife Rita Garcia Bolanos died alongside two other family members in crash
  
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• Trump and Biden finalists for Time 'Person of the Year'

  10-12-2020 21:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  TIME Magazine has announced that both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are finalists for its 2020 Person of the Year.  
  
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• Supreme Court rules three Muslim men can sue FBI over no-fly list

  10-12-2020 21:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ruling could have wider implications for religious freedom cases brought against government officials
  
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• UK failure to impose sanctions on China over Uighurs ‘painful and hurtful’

  10-12-2020 21:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Decision ‘political and not based on evidence’, says activist
  
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• Brandon Bernard: US government set to execute Brandon Bernard despite last-minute pleas

  10-12-2020 21:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  The US government is set to execute Brandon Bernard on Thursday night barring any last-minute intervention.
  
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• Probe: CDC official says she was ordered to delete emails

  10-12-2020 21:32 via independent.co.uk
  A senior manager with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told congressional investigators she was ordered to delete an email suggesting attempted political interference by the Trump administration in coronavirus reports to the public
  
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• Erectile dysfunction and depression drugs recalled after factory ‘mix up’

  10-12-2020 21:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mix up was a result of third-party error, says drug-maker
  
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• State Dept: Pompeo's wife cleared of travel ethics charges

  10-12-2020 21:06 via independent.co.uk
  The State Department says a report by its independent watchdog has concluded that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's wife did not violate federal regulations or ethics rules by traveling with her husband while he was on official business
  
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• Boris Johnson: no-deal Brexit now a 'strong possibility'

  10-12-2020 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  PM says he cannot accept UK being ‘locked in EU’s orbit’, but Tories urge him to strike dealBoris Johnson has ordered ministers to prepare for the “strong possibility” of a no-deal Brexit, warning that the UK risks being “locked in the EU’s orbit” as senior Tories urge him to find an agreement.After a three-hour summit with the European commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, failed to bridge major gaps between them, the prime minister said he was
  
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• Welsh secondaries and colleges to shut on Monday to stem Covid spread

  10-12-2020 20:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Learning will move online, in contrast to England’s plans for mass testing of studentsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSecondary schools and colleges in Wales will close to almost all students next week and lessons will move online in an effort to stem the growing spread of coronavirus, the Welsh government has announced.The Welsh education minister, Kirsty Williams, said the public health situation in Wales was deteriorating and she had been advised by the
  
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• Ex-solider to remain jailed in probe of paramilitary group

  10-12-2020 20:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  A former U.S. Marine will remain in custody after being charged with plotting to illegally make and sell guns
  
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• Minneapolis ‘defunds’ police in post-George Floyd death public safety reforms as crime wave grips city

  10-12-2020 20:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Budget cut sees $8m redirected to mental health and violence prevention programmes, with force numbers maintained
  
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• Egypt cheated all Italians, says family of Giulio Regeni

  10-12-2020 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Struggle of murdered student’s parents has come to symbolise broader fight for justice When the body of the Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni was found by the side of a Cairo highway in 2016, his mother later said she only recognised her son’s corpse by “the tip of his nose”, as he had suffered such extensive torture.Almost five years after Regeni’s body was found, and following years of investigation by the Italian authorities, prosecutors in Rome on Thursday
  
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• World Food Programme responds as refugees from Ethiopia’s Tigray region seek sanctuary in Sudan

  10-12-2020 19:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  2020 Nobel Peace Prize laureate calls for funds – and peace – to avert a deepening humanitarian crisis
  
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• France imposes nightly 8pm curfew, including on New Year’s Eve

  10-12-2020 19:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  “My role is to protect you - even if it means taking difficult decisions,” Jean Castex tells nation
  
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• US unemployment claims jump as virus surge takes toll

  10-12-2020 19:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 19 million Americans are dependent on some type of unemployment benefits
  
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• Richard DeLisi: Man serving 90-year sentence for selling marijuana released from prison

  10-12-2020 19:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 71-year-old  served 31 years after his conviction in 1989 
  
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• ‘Over 8’000 people are not coming back’: LA County health director gives emotional coronavirus briefing

  10-12-2020 19:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Average daily deaths in the county increased 258 per cent since 9 November
  
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• FDA panel faces dilemma of what happens to placebo trial volunteers ahead of Pfizer vaccine vote

  10-12-2020 19:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is meeting to discuss if Pfizer should be issued emergency authorisation for its vaccine
  
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• France to impose 8pm curfew, including on New Year’s Eve

  10-12-2020 19:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  The French prime minister has announced an 8pm curfew due to the coronavirus pandemic, which will also apply on New Year’s Even.
  
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• Indictment of Egyptian officials over Giulio Regeni murder brings hope

  10-12-2020 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis: prosecutions seen as opportunity for national security apparatus to come under scrutinyAlmost five years after the mutilated corpse of Giulio Regeni was found on the outskirts of Cairo in February 2016, Italian prosecutors have charged four members of Egypt’s national security agency over his kidnapping and murder.For those working to uncover the truth about how Regeni died and why Egyptian security forces had entrapped the student in a web of surveillance, it was a day heavy wit
  
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• Member of neo-Nazi ‘Atomwaffen Division’ jailed for intimidation campaign in Seattle

  10-12-2020 18:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Posters of skulls, swastikas and threats sent to homes of victims
  
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• Greta Thunberg: 'We are speeding in the wrong direction' on climate crisis

  10-12-2020 18:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Climate striker speaks before UN event marking five years since the Paris accordThe world is speeding in the wrong direction in tackling the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has said, before a UN event at which national leaders have been asked to increase their pledges for emissions cuts.Thunberg, whose solo school strike in 2018 has snowballed into a global youth movement, said there was a state of complete denial when it came to the immediate action needed, with leaders giving only
  
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• Newly discovered shark ‘already extinct’, with more than a quarter of living species globally under threat

  10-12-2020 18:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The unsustainable fishing of these crucial species has continued unabated,’ say conservationists
  
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• ‘Victory over Daesh may affect opening hours,’ says Iraqi Google as nation celebrates anniversary

  10-12-2020 18:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Defeat of terror group is ‘victory of civilisation over backwardness’, says prime minister
  
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• Hawaii surfer attacked by shark dies after emergency surgery

  10-12-2020 18:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  World Surfing League’s Maui Pro competition was placed on indefinite hold following the shark attack
  
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• Japan stockpiles vaccine freezers as coronavirus cases rise

  10-12-2020 17:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Japan has so far seen fewer cases of coronavirus than many countries in the west 
  
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• Israel and Morocco agree to normalise relations in latest Trump-brokered deal

  10-12-2020 17:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump agrees to recognise Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara
  
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• Italy names four Egyptian officials as suspects in connection with murder of Guilio Regeni

  10-12-2020 17:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  One could face charges of ‘conspiracy to commit aggravated murder’, prosecutors say
  
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• Death row inmate seeks to block her transfer to male prison for execution

  10-12-2020 17:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Transfer would result in ‘catastrophic psychiatric breakdown,’ say lawyers
  
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• Man gets nose bitten off by horse

  10-12-2020 17:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  The drunk man tried to kiss the horse who did not take it well 
  
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• EU delays vaccine: Brussels regulator warns Pfizer jab might be REJECTED in Europe

  10-12-2020 17:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EUROPE has been hit with a blow to its vaccine hopes after the Brussels regulator warned the Pfizer jab may not get approved.
  
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• 'I thought about killing my children': the desperate Bangladesh garment workers fighting for pay

  10-12-2020 17:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers face destitution after the collapse of fashion retailers – and despite beatings and police crackdowns vow they will protest until they are paid It was 4.30am when the police charged the hundreds of garment workers sleeping under makeshift shelters and in sleeping bags on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. As blows rained down, the workers fled.By morning the streets had been cleared of the non-violent protest that more than 700 garment workers had been peacefully staging outside the
  
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• Liberté, égalité and weaponry: France awards Egypt’s Sisi its highest award despite human rights abuses

  10-12-2020 16:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Paris conferred the Legion d’honneur on Egyptian ruler as an apparent thank you for being a loyal customer of France’s arms industry, reports Borzou Daragahi
  
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• Covid vaccine: FDA panel meets to vote on emergency approval for Pfizer jab

  10-12-2020 15:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  If Pfizer is granted emergency authorisation, 2.9 million doses of its vaccine could be shipped out within 24 hours
  
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• FDA issues metal face mask warning after patient burned during MRI

  10-12-2020 15:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Health care providers encouraged to provide safe coverings to patients where necessary
  
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• EU warns Bosnia to help migrants as entire families on move

  10-12-2020 15:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Entire migrant families are on the move in cold weather in Bosnia while trying to reach the West as the European Union warns the Balkan country it must act to prevent a humanitarian disaster
  
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• Health official leaves Covid meeting after anti-lockdown protesters surround her home

  10-12-2020 15:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Protests organised by group founded by anti-government activist Ammon Bundy
  
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• Albanian protestors burn Christmas tree after man ‘killed for breaking coronavirus curfew’

  10-12-2020 15:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nine police officers and two protesters injured during clashes, says Health Ministry
  
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• ‘It’s a Christmas miracle!’: Four-year-old boy rescued from Texas well after six hours

  10-12-2020 15:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘So proud of our Mission firefighters and all first responders’ says the City of Mission, Texas
  
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• Taipei earthquake: 6.7-magnitude tremor hits Taiwan capital

  10-12-2020 15:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck near Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, on Thursday afternoon. 
  
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