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• Bats, roadblocks and the origins of coronavirus

  21-12-2020 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC came across roadblocks and checkpoints as they tried to report on a decade-long project into viruses that bats carry.
  
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• Pelosi bashed for defending new $600 Covid checks as ‘significant’ sum

  21-12-2020 23:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Critics argue the checks are too little, too late
  
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• Ice Age wolf pup mummy discovered in Canadian permafrost

  21-12-2020 22:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  The remains were first discovered by a gold miner in 2016  
  
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• Biden gets Covid vaccine: 'Nothing to worry about'

  21-12-2020 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The president-elect has his first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in Delaware.
  
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• Hawaii volcano - live updates: Crowds line up at Kilauea volcano despite warnings over hazardous gas

  21-12-2020 22:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Latest as Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupts causing evacuations
  
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• China denies Trump claim it’s behind cyberattack and tells the US to be ‘responsible’

  21-12-2020 22:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘On the issue of cybersecurity, the US, with its poor record, is in no position to point fingers at other countries’
  
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• Airlines to bring back thousands of workers to qualify for Covid relief cash

  21-12-2020 21:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Air service requirements to smaller cities also reinstated
  
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• La Russa resolves DUI case, feels 'deep remorse and regret'

  21-12-2020 21:36 via independent.co.uk
  Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa says he doesn’t have a drinking problem
  
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• Dems subpoena health officials, alleging political meddling with CDC’s Covid response

  21-12-2020 21:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Congress took the step after health officials reportedly stonewalled their investigation
  
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• Hawaii volcano - live updates: Video shows lava spewing 165ft into the air as Kilauea eruption shocks experts

  21-12-2020 21:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Latest as Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupts causing evacuations
  
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• Will it snow at Christmas?: Forecasts for major US cities

  21-12-2020 21:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Where to expect a ‘white Christmas’ this year
  
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• Fauci urges calm over new mutant Covid strain

  21-12-2020 20:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dozens of countries have put UK travel ban in place
  
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• German media savages EU vaccine failures - bloc's procurement was 'too little, too late'

  21-12-2020 20:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GERMAN media outlets have hit out at the EU's failure to organise a coronavirus vaccine roll-out across the whole bloc saying their common inoculation scheme was "too little, too late".
  
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• US Navy sails nuclear submarine into Strait of Hormuz in show of strength amid rising tensions with Iran

  21-12-2020 20:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  It comes just weeks before the January anniversary of the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani 
  
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• Coronavirus, Brexit, Christmas: How a dramatic week in the UK unfolded

  21-12-2020 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An escalating pandemic and a looming Brexit deadline has made for a somewhat chaotic end to 2020.
  
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• Newspaper where Hemingway started his career apologises for decades of racist coverage

  21-12-2020 20:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mike Fannin says The Kansas City Star ‘robbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition’
  
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• New Covid variant in UK: spreading Christmas fear?

  21-12-2020 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  B117 is more transmissible than original virus, but there is no evidence it makes people sickerCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIf a new virus sounds scary, a new mutating virus sounds scarier still. In Kent in September, scientists now believe, somebody with Covid was the unlucky first person to pass on a variant form of the coronavirus that is maybe as much as 70% more transmissible than the version we have been used to.The exponential recent rise in cases now
  
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• Rural America’s hidden hunger: Mobile food banks travel for hundreds of miles to reach ‘food deserts’

  21-12-2020 19:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mobile food banks are battling rising hunger in rural America, Richard Hall reports from Williston, North Dakota 
  
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• Lizzo gives her mother a brand-new car for Christmas

  21-12-2020 19:45 via independent.co.uk
  
   ‘I remember crying in my car when my daddy passed, no job no money nowhere to live, wishing I could one day provide for my family,’ the Grammy-winning singer wrote
  
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• Kansas City Star apologizes for racially biased coverage

  21-12-2020 19:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Kansas City Star’s top editor has apologized for past decades of racially biased coverage
  
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• British Airways passengers from UK must test negative for coronavirus before departure to New York

  21-12-2020 19:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cuomo says state coordinating with Delta and Virgin Atlantic on similar restrictions as US faces pressure to combat new strain of Covid-19
  
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• Chaotic messaging from UK leaves European countries in a rush to shut down borders

  21-12-2020 19:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Boris Johnson appears to have failed to foresee potential international consequences of statements made for domestic consumption  
  
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• US charges alleged bomb-maker in Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie terrorist attack

  21-12-2020 19:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Attorney general praises decades of hard work by investigators and prosecutors resolute in their pursuit of justice
  
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• US Army doctors examine UK’s Covid mutation to determine impact of vaccine

  21-12-2020 19:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Experts say the coronavirus vaccine will likely be effective against the new strain 
  
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• ‘Please hurry’: Michigan doctor pleads for quicker Covid vaccines after six patient deaths in 12 hours

  21-12-2020 19:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Critical care MD posts photo of stairwell where workers are having to ‘retreat’
  
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• Confederate general Robert E Lee statue removed from US capitol

  21-12-2020 18:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia’s racist and divisive history,’ says governor Ralph Northam
  
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• Hawaii volcano - live updates: Kilauea eruption catches scientists off guard as residents told to stay inside

  21-12-2020 18:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Latest as Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupts causing evacuations
  
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• ‘What is that? A turkey?’: The reviews of the Vatican nativity are in, and they’re not so good

  21-12-2020 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Every year the Vatican selects a different nativity scene. For Christmas 2020 it chose one from Castelli in the Abruzzo region – let’s just say it’s not to everyone’s tastes, writes Jason Horowitz
  
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• Barr says US government hack appears to be Russia despite Trump trying to deflect suspicion from Moscow

  21-12-2020 18:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Attorney General William Barr has confirmed intelligence assessments that Russia is behind the massive cyber-espionage operation against the US that Donald Trump has tried to blame on China.
  
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• US nuclear submarine transits Strait of Hormuz amid tensions

  21-12-2020 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  The United States Navy says one of its nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines has traversed the strategically vital waterway between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula
  
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• ‘It will leave us with nothing’: Fears of Britons in the EU as chances of a no deal Brexit grow

  21-12-2020 18:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Leaving the European Union won’t just be a shock for the millions of Britons in the UK, but also for the 1.3 million remaining in the EU. And many are fearful about what happens next, reports Graham Keeley in Madrid
  
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• Russian agents tried to kill Navalny by ‘putting poison in his underpants’

  21-12-2020 18:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Navalny duped a Russian operative into revealing details about the bungled attack
  
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• Over two million people took flights across US in weekend before Christmas, despite Covid warnings

  21-12-2020 17:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  About 1.07 million people passed through security checkpoints at US airports on Friday
  
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• Justice Dept. charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion

  21-12-2020 17:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Justice Department has unsealed charges against a Libyan bombmaker in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland
  
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• Covid: Sydney cut off from rest of Australia following outbreak

  21-12-2020 17:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  States have reacted quickly to close borders to Sydney throwing Christmas plans into chaos
  
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• Hawaii volcano - live updates: Residents told to stay indoors after series of earthquakes cause major eruption

  21-12-2020 17:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island last erupted more than two years ago and caused evacuations and mass property destruction
  
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• France says vaccine ‘should work’ against new strain of Covid

  21-12-2020 17:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  New strain of virus showing up to be 70 per cent more transmissible
  
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• US charges alleged bombmaker in Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie terrorist attack

  21-12-2020 17:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Justice Department has announced charges against a Libyan man alleged to have constructed the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people.
  
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• Covid: Denmark to dig up millions of minks after mass graves spark controversy

  21-12-2020 16:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  After the mass cull, the Government admitted that there was no legal basis for the actions
  
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• Lockerbie bombing: US unseals charges against Libyan suspect in horror Scotland attack

  21-12-2020 16:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE United States on Monday unsealed criminal charges against another suspect in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.
  
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• Congress' rescue aid: A dose of support, but is it enough?

  21-12-2020 16:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Congress' rescue aid package will provide urgently needed benefits to the unemployed, loans to help small businesses stay open and up to $600 in cash payments to most individuals
  
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• Michael Schumacher health latest: Wife Corinna makes emotional tribute in rare speech

  21-12-2020 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CORINNA Schumacher, the wife of stricken Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher, has made a rare public appearance in order to accept an award on behalf of her husband - taking the opportunity to offer him an emotional tribute.
  
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• Robert E Lee statue removed from US capitol

  21-12-2020 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia’s racist and divisive history,’ says governor Ralph Northam
  
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• Lovin it? McDonald’s sell spam burger topped with oreos in China

  21-12-2020 16:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Over 400,000 of such burgers are expected to be produced and sold
  
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• US to charge alleged bombmaker in Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie terrorist attack

  21-12-2020 16:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Justice Department will announce charges on Monday against a Libyan man alleged to have constructed the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 270 people.
  
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• Denmark to exhume improperly culled mink and incinerate animals

  21-12-2020 15:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  After the mass cull, the Government admitted that there was no legal basis for the actions
  
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• US says UK travel ban ‘on the table’ in light of new Covid variant

  21-12-2020 15:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fears new coronavirus strain can spread more quickly
  
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• Ex-Bloomberg journalist reveals she fell in love with Martin Shkreli while covering trial and has been dating him while he’s in prison

  21-12-2020 15:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Reporter compared her growing attachment to convicted fraudster as 'slowly boiling yourself to death in the bathtub’
  
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• Temple built for Indian film star who helped thousands of migrants during Covid-19 lockdown

  21-12-2020 15:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  The actor helped thousands of stranded migrant workers go home during coronavirus lockdown 
  
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• US says UK travel ban is ‘on the table’

  21-12-2020 14:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Health officials in the US say they are not ruling out a ban on UK travellers entering the country.
  
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