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• Peter Nygard: Fashion mogul faces sex trafficking charges

  15-12-2020 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US authorities are seeking his extradition from Canada on charges including sex trafficking.
  
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• LGBT-owned kilt maker denounces kilt-clad Proud Boys

  15-12-2020 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The LGBT-owned business says it has pulled its now-infamous yellow kilts from shelves.
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany refuses to follow McConnell admitting Trump election defeat – video

  15-12-2020 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Kayleigh McEnany has described Monday's electoral college vote confirming Joe Biden as the nation's next president as just 'one step in the constitutional process'. The White House press secretary's assessment is the latest example of White House officials declining to accept Biden's victory, even after Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday broke his silence on the winner of the presidency, saying: 'The electoral college has spoken.'US news - live updates Continue reading...
  
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• Biden campaigns for Georgia Senate Democrats following electoral college victory

  15-12-2020 23:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Biden supports Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, who face Republican senators in January runoff electionsUS politics – live coverageJoe Biden was in Georgia on Tuesday campaigning for the Democrats in crucial Senate runoff elections, a day after addressing the American public for the first time as its official president-elect. Related: Biden should get Covid vaccine soon as possible for ‘security reasons’, Fauci saysContinue reading...
  
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• US election: Mitch McConnell congratulates Biden, White House talks 'ongoing litigation'

  15-12-2020 22:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mitch McConnell congratulates Joe Biden, while Trump's press secretary refers to "ongoing litigation".
  
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• Nothing scares men more than a successful women – it’s getting quite exhausting

  15-12-2020 22:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  After reading a sexist op-ed about Jill Biden in ‘The Wall Street Journal’, Holly Baxter is fed up of women being belittled by men who feel threatened
  
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• ‘Grim Reaper’ lawyer who sued Florida over Covid-19 response faces ‘repercussions’

  15-12-2020 21:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  It comes after police raided the home of a fired data scientist who accused the state of manipulating Covid-19 data
  
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• Covid-19 vaccine in US: Is the Pfizer vaccine FDA approved?

  15-12-2020 21:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vaccine distribution could start as early as mid-December 
  
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• President-elect Biden confirms ‘good conversation’ with Senate Leader McConnell

  15-12-2020 20:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We’ve always been straight with one another, and we agreed we’d get together sooner than later’
  
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• What is Covid vaccine made of? Scientist behind Pfizer and Moderna vaccine technology explains OLD

  15-12-2020 20:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  'They can be made entirely synthetically, you don't need a biologist on board to make these, you need a chemist’
  
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• Ahmaud Arbery: New police video shows men charged with murder moments following the shooting

  15-12-2020 20:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  One blames Mr Arbery for the shooting: “If he had stopped this wouldn't have happened”
  
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• The anti-vaxxer city where the Covid vaccine will struggle to have a shot

  15-12-2020 20:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  The vaccine could be a game changer but many people want nothing to do with it, writes Andrew Buncombe
  
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• Fashion mogul Peter Nygard arrested in Canada on sex trafficking charges

  15-12-2020 19:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Peter Nygard was detained in Winnipeg on Monday on allegations of crimes spanning 25 years
  
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• Florida puppy that escaped alligator's jaws becomes sheriff 'deputy dog'

  15-12-2020 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gunner, a five-month-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, is honoured by his local sheriff in Florida.
  
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• Mexico president congratulates Biden after Electoral College victory

  15-12-2020 19:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador told the president-elect to stay out of his country’s internal affairs and they would stand between Latin American migrants and the US border
  
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• Pregnant woman has hands amputated and is thrown from back of truck by Mexican drug cartel for ‘being a thief’

  15-12-2020 19:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  The grisly incident happened in the Central Mexican state of Guanajuato.  
  
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• Mask use and social distancing will likely have to continue until next winter, says Dr Fauci

  15-12-2020 19:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dr Fauci says ‘overwhelming majority’ of Americans will need to take the vaccine
  
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• US Air Force base suffers missile scare after alert triggered loudspeaker warning of ‘aerial attack’

  15-12-2020 19:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  One person at base says alarm ‘made my heart skip a beat for a second’
  
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• Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell acknowledges Biden/Harris victory – video

  15-12-2020 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Republican Mitch McConnell on Tuesday congratulated the Democratic president-elect, Joe Biden, and vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, on their election victories, ending his long silence on the outcome of the presidential race. In remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, the Senate majority leader acknowledged the Democrats' winning the White House following Monday's formal result issued by the electoral collegeMitch McConnell congratulates Biden after weeks of declining to acknowledge
  
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• Hungary approves law effectively banning same-sex couples from adopting children

  15-12-2020 18:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘A dark day for the LGBT+ community and a dark day for human rights,’ says Amnesty
  
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• Unique ‘climate refuge’ for coral discovered off coast of east Africa

  15-12-2020 18:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Jewel of biodiversity’ in natural oceanic basin formed during deglaciation of Kilimanjaro and Usambara mountains
  
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• Proud Boys MAGA DC march kilts made by LGBTQ-owned company that has since removed them from sale

  15-12-2020 17:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It was insane to me that folks in that group could have used our stuff,’ says fashion company boss
  
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• ‘Concentration camps for living beings’: Pakistan high court condemns continued existence of zoos

  15-12-2020 17:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chief justice Athar Minallah laments mistreatment of two retired dancing bears
  
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• Covid vaccine confidence growing in US, poll suggests

  15-12-2020 16:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Increase particularly pronounced among older Americans, especially those over age 65, Ipsos says
  
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• India now a ‘dangerous and violent space for Muslims’, report says

  15-12-2020 16:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Report finds suppression of freedom and attacks against minorities common across all South Asian nations
  
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• ‘I want the world to ban these weapons’ : Treating the white phosphorous victims of the Nagorno-Karabakh war

  15-12-2020 16:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Liz Cookman in Yerevan reports from a specialist burns unit, as Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of using white phosphorous
  
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• Indian woman says she suffered miscarriage after being detained under new interfaith marriage law

  15-12-2020 16:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities have strongly denied reports of a ‘forced abortion’
  
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• Family members who own Purdue to appear before Congress

  15-12-2020 16:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two members of the Sackler family have agreed to make a rare public appearance to take questions from a congressional committee that is investigating the role of the company they own, Purdue Pharma, in fueling the nation's opioid epidemic
  
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• Japan ‘Twitter killer’ who messaged suicidal people gets given death penalty

  15-12-2020 15:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Judge calls murders some of the ‘most malicious...ever in the history of crime’
  
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• One-and-a-half-metre-society voted Dutch word of the year: ‘Anderhalvemetersamenleving’

  15-12-2020 15:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Other new terms in top 10 include ‘cough shame’ and ‘virus conspiracy theorist’
  
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• ‘I want the world to ban these weapons’ : Treating the white phosphorous victims of the Nargorno-Karabakh war

  15-12-2020 15:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Liz Cookman in Yerevan reports from a specialist burns unit, as Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of using white phosphorous
  
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• Suspect arrested after two-year-old boy abandoned at Goodwill in Mississippi

  15-12-2020 15:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We would like to thank all of the citizens who showed concern for the child,’ police said
  
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• Malaysian official who renamed stadium denies title is his name backwards, insists it is ‘Spanish or Greek’

  15-12-2020 15:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hakim Ariff insists name inversion was coincidence
  
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• FDA finds Moderna vaccine 94% effective - clearing way for use by Monday

  15-12-2020 14:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Outside medical advisors will now review the FDA data, meaning a second vaccine could be approved by the end of the week 
  
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• Husband arrested for throwing acid on wife after sending friends to gang rape her ‘because he lost a bet’

  15-12-2020 14:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  India saw a sharp increase in domestic violence during the coronavirus lockdown
  
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• FDA staff approve emergency use of Moderna’s Covid vaccine ahead of Thursday’s review meeting

  15-12-2020 14:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Outside medical advisors will now review the FDA data, meaning a second vaccine could be approved by the end of the week 
  
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• How extreme porn has become a gateway drug into child abuse

  15-12-2020 14:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Mainstream pornography sites are ‘changing what is normal’, warns child abuse expert Michael SheathMichael Sheath has been counselling people with what he describes as “deviant sexual interests” for a long time.“I have been working with men who abuse children for 33 years. For the first 15 years I worked with child molesters and I still do that, but now I also work with downloaders of child abuse imagery and online groomers.” Continue reading...
  
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• Raab says UK has been too ‘myopically focused on Europe’ during India visit

  15-12-2020 14:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Foreign Secretary confirms Boris Johnson has accepted invitation to visit India in January, becoming only second British leader to appear as guest of honour at India’s Republic Day since independence
  
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• Health officials may have misjudged the power of coronavirus, Swedish PM says

  15-12-2020 13:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  The country is struggling in the midst of a second wave
  
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• TikTok of everyday life in Covid-free Sydney draws envy from Americans

  15-12-2020 13:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  The videos appear to show how effective Australia’s coronavirus response has been
  
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• New part of Aztec ‘tower of skulls’ discovered by archaeologists in Mexico

  15-12-2020 13:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Total of 603 skulls found at site in last five years
  
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• South Korea bans activists from flying propaganda balloons over border with North

  15-12-2020 13:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Activists from both sides of the border send balloons that carry leaflets targeting each other
  
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• First Covid case detected in wild animal

  15-12-2020 13:05 via independent.co.uk
  
   US Department of Agriculture discovers virus in mink in Utah
  
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• Sadiq Khan: putting London in tier 3 before Christmas doesn't make sense – video

  15-12-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The mayor of London has criticised the government's Covid tier system, calling it a 'blunt instrument being retrofitted around solutions that are not as effective as they should be'. The city will be placed in tier 3 from 16 December, meaning bars and restaurants must close.Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Khan said the majority of new infections in the capital were among school-age children. 'I see very few children of that age in pubs, bars and restaurants,' Khan said. He urged  the govern
  
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• Roman baths and site uncovered in Amman

  15-12-2020 11:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Remains discovered during excavation works to install water drainage system
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband calls her ‘wonderful and loving ’ as they seek $28.5m bail package

  15-12-2020 11:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I have never witnessed anything close to inappropriate with Ghislaine,’ spouse writes in letter
  
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• Eleven patients killed after becoming trapped in burning care home in Russia

  15-12-2020 11:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  A care home worker rescued other three elderly people by pushing them through the window
  
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• More than half a million Uighurs and other minorities forced to pick cotton in China, report reveals

  15-12-2020 11:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  New evidence from Xinjiang could have ‘potentially drastic consequences for global supply chains’
  
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• PM: Sweden's health officials misjudged new infection wave

  15-12-2020 11:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sweden's prime minister says health officials in the Scandinavian country have misjudged the impact of the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic
  
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• Netherlands imposes strict five-week lockdown lasting through Christmas

  15-12-2020 10:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Schools, gyms, museums, and cinemas will close, while pharmacies, supermarkets, and banks are allowed to stay open during the five-week lockdown
  
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