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• Police body camera video captures pepper spray of man who filmed his son’s arrest

  24-12-2020 22:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  The department police chief apologised for his officer’s actions and demoted one 
  
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• Pakistan court orders release of British-born man charged over Daniel Pearl murder

  24-12-2020 20:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pakistan’s Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the appeal next month against Sheikh’s release    
  
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• Disgraced New York politician found limping by Ohio roadside 23 years after fleeing justice

  24-12-2020 20:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former politician disappeared when he was sentenced for selling pistols without a permit
  
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• The secret of Jacinda Ardern’s success lies in her conservatism | Bryce Edwards

  24-12-2020 20:00
  
  The New Zealand prime minister’s appeal comes from adding compassion, something her rivals have been unable to emulate The biggest misconception about Jacinda Ardern is that she is a pioneering progressive or socialist. This is especially so outside New Zealand.Understandably the global media paint the prime minister as a counter to other, more rightwing or illiberal, leaders. Similarly many overseas progressive activists and intellectuals have seized on her as someone they can learn from
  
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• ‘This is how Black people get killed’: Doctor dies from coronavirus after posting emotional video from hospital bed claiming racist treatment

  24-12-2020 19:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dr Susan Moore said made to feel like a drug addict for asking for pain medication from white doctor 
  
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• California power firm threatens to cut off 130,000 households amid wildfire threat

  24-12-2020 19:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Eight counties have been issued warnings
  
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• Winter storm leaves Dakotas, Minnesota with bitter cold

  24-12-2020 19:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Strong winds and bitter cold are pummeling the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin as the region digs out from a winter storm that closed interstate highways and grounded flights
  
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• ‘Europe is now moving on’: Von der Leyen and Barnier hail Brexit deal with swipe at ‘sovereignty’

  24-12-2020 18:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We should cut through the soundbites and ask ourselves what sovereignty actually means in the 21st century’, EU chief says
  
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• ‘Europe is now moving on’: Von der Leyen and Barnier look to future as Brexit deal agreed

  24-12-2020 18:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We should cut through the soundbites and ask ourselves what sovereignty actually means in the 21st century’, EU chief says
  
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• See EU! European leaders claim cautious victory after historic Brexit deal finally signed

  24-12-2020 18:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  'I am confident that we have a good result,'' said Angela Merkel
  
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• Six million people have travelled through US airports before Christmas Eve despite rising Covid cases

  24-12-2020 17:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 1.1 million people screened at airports on day before Christmas Eve, breaking pandemic travel record as hospitalisations overwhelm health systems
  
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• Brexit deal: World leaders, politicians and industry heads react to trade pact

  24-12-2020 17:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  For many, the last-minute agreement comes as a relief, despite criticisms of the negotiations process
  
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• With weeks left in Trump’s presidency, confrontation between Iran and US spikes

  24-12-2020 16:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘If one American is killed, I will hold Iran responsible,’ warned the outgoing US president
  
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• The man in the room: Mikhail Gorbachev’s translator says Russia will come to appreciate last Soviet leader’s legacy

  24-12-2020 16:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Seen but rarely heard. Moustachioed and bald Pavel Palazhchenko was the man who saw the end of the Cold War from close up and makes his voice heard in a new book, reports Oliver Carroll in Moscow
  
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• Pakistan court orders release of British-born man charged with beheading Daniel Pearl

  24-12-2020 16:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pakistan’s supreme court is scheduled to hear the appeal against Sheikh’s acquittal in January 2021    
  
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• Uganda charges leading lawyer for LGBT rights with money laundering

  24-12-2020 16:18
  
  Human rights organisation says allegations that Nicholas Opiyo withdrew over $300,000 in funds are ‘frivolous’ and ‘fabricated’Nicholas Opiyo, one of Uganda’s most prominent human rights lawyers, has been charged with money laundering.Opiyo, known for representing LGBTQ+ people, appeared before magistrates in Kampala on Thursday and was remanded in custody until 28 December. Continue reading...
  
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• Relative of Blackwater victim in Iraq says pardons 'unfair'

  24-12-2020 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Faris Fadel describes the recent decision by the Trump administration to pardon four military contractors convicted of killing 14 Iraqi civilians, including his brother, 13 years ago as unfair
  
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• Record-high 119,000 Americans hospitalised for coronavirus ahead of Christmas Eve

  24-12-2020 15:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  CDC projects as many as 419,000 deaths by mid-January as more than 3,000 deaths reported on Wednesday
  
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• Endangered black-footed ferrets get experimental Covid vaccine

  24-12-2020 15:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  First shots given out in spring
  
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• Friend or foe? Europe’s largest wolf population divides opinion in Spain and Portugal

  24-12-2020 14:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Wolf numbers are rising, but so is illegal hunting, reports Graham Keeley from Madrid
  
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• New Covid variant has emerged in Nigeria, says Africa CDC

  24-12-2020 14:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The news comes after similar variants were found in the UK and South Africa
  
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• Ethiopia military 'kills 40' after Benishangul-Gumuz massacre

  24-12-2020 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Children were among more than 100 people killed when a village was attacked in western Ethiopia.
  
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• Portugal outrage after Spanish hunters massacre 500 wild animals

  24-12-2020 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials seek a criminal probe after photos of 540 deer and boar corpses are shared on social media.
  
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• Pete Evans: Facebook removes page of celebrity chef who repeatedly shared Covid misinformation

  24-12-2020 14:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Facebook said Thursday it would not ‘allow anyone to share misinformation about Covid-19 that could lead to imminent physical harm or (about) Covid-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts’
  
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• Karima Baloch: Activist's family mourns a 'mountain of courage'

  24-12-2020 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Karima Baloch was found dead in Toronto. Her family says she never stopped getting threats, even in exile.
  
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• 'Balloon boy hoax' parents pardoned in Colorado

  24-12-2020 13:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The couple were convicted of the hoax in 2009 after saying their son was carried away by a balloon.
  
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• UK PM set to unveil trade deal with EU

  24-12-2020 12:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials on both sides are hammering out the final details ahead of an expected announcement.
  
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• Pope Francis’s Instagram handle again ‘likes’ another bikini model’s photo

  24-12-2020 12:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  The OnlyFans model joked that she is ‘going to heaven’
  
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• Iran accused of issuing death threats to election officials who stood up against Trump conspiracies

  24-12-2020 12:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  The attacks targeted officials at the FBI and Department of Homeland Security
  
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• The 101-year-old veteran with thousands of Christmas cards

  24-12-2020 12:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John received mail from around the world after speaking about the loss of his wife on BBC Breakfast.
  
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• Man faces prison for shooting dead elephant seal on California beach

  24-12-2020 11:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Culprit faces a maximum of one year in jail
  
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• Tunisia minister sacked and arrested in scandal over illegal waste from Italy

  24-12-2020 11:46
  
  Mustapha Aroui held along with 22 others after 200 containers of decaying household and medical waste discovered in JulyTunisia’s environment minister has been arrested following the attempted importation of household and hospital waste from Italy.Mustapha Aroui was dismissed from his post and subsequently arrested on Sunday, along with several other people, including senior customs officials, members of its waste management agency, Agence Nationale de Gestion des Déchets (ANGed) an
  
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• California man 'kills fellow Covid patient with oxygen tank'

  24-12-2020 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The victim, 82, was praying in his hospital bed when a patient in his room got upset, LA police say.
  
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• Trump pardons Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner

  24-12-2020 11:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two key allies jailed over the Russia inquiry benefit from the latest wave of presidential pardons.
  
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• Chrissy Teigen 'sad she will never be pregnant again'

  24-12-2020 10:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US model lost the baby she was expecting with husband John Legend earlier this year.
  
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• India farmer protests: How rural incomes have struggled to keep up

  24-12-2020 10:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Protests are continuing in India over new laws which farmers say will damage their livelihoods.
  
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• Fox Business host ‘punk’d’ by animal rights activist pretending to be CEO of pork producer

  24-12-2020 10:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The stunt was part of the campaign by the animal rights organisation to push government officials to ‘proactively prevent future pandemic outbreaks’
  
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• Brother accidentally shoots and kills teenage sister while showing off new gun

  24-12-2020 10:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  The boy’s gun ‘accidentally’ went off and hit the teenager in the neck 
  
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• Trump trolls White House press corps with 7:30 am start on a day he has no public duties

  24-12-2020 09:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Trump has arrived at Palm Beach, Florida, to spend Christmas at Mar-a-Lago
  
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• Coronavirus mutes Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem

  24-12-2020 09:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celebrations will look very different in Jesus' birthplace this year as virus keeps visitors at bay.
  
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• Trump’s old tweet suggesting Clinton should accept defeat ‘with dignity’ returns to haunt him

  24-12-2020 08:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘There’s always a tweet’ is now a common refrain on social media whenever any of the president’s posts from the past turns up to contradict his comments in the present
  
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• Trump vetoes 'unconstitutional' defence bill

  24-12-2020 08:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The president objects to troop withdrawal limits and removing Confederate names from military bases.
  
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• ‘I am not afraid to fight’: the female Afghan colonel who survived the Taliban's assassins

  24-12-2020 08:30
  
  Saba Sahar, who returned fire while protecting her daughter, survived one of a wave of recent assassination attempts that have killed six policewomenIt was just after 7am when the car carrying Colonel Saba Sahar, one of Afghanistan’s most senior female police officers, came under fire from armed insurgents. In the back seat, Sahar’s four-year-old daughter began screaming as bullets shattered the windscreen and ripped into the upholstery. As she pushed her child under the seat in fron
  
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• Alleged kidnapper and killer of nine-year-old girl charged 32 years after she disappeared

  24-12-2020 08:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  The district attorney says the police never stopped looking for Michaela Garecht who was kidnapped in 1988
  
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• 'We're going to save lives': aid groups look to end of Trump's 'global gag rule'

  24-12-2020 07:26
  
  Joe Biden’s election as US president raises reproductive funding hopes – but some caution that reversing rule’s impact will not be quickNelly Munyasia breathed a huge sigh of relief when Joe Biden won the US election in November.“I am excited and I am hopeful that things are going to be better. We are going to access funding and we are going to save the lives of women and girls,” she says, before explaining how tough the past four years has been. Continue reading...
  
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• 2 months after hurricanes, Louisiana residents still hurting

  24-12-2020 07:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  It's been more than two months since violent weather walloped southwest Louisiana, yet the state is still far from being fully recovered
  
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• Macron fury as France prepared to block EU-China deal over 'forced' Uighur labour

  24-12-2020 06:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FRANCE will not support an investment deal between the EU and China because of the eastern giant's alleged use of forced Uighur labour, a minister for trade has said.
  
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• Airline fires pilot blamed for Taiwan's first Covid case in months

  24-12-2020 06:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A contact of the pilot tested positive - the first local case in the island since April.
  
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• Shark attack: 2020 horror as Australia records most killings for 90 YEARS

  24-12-2020 05:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AUSTRALIA recorded its highest number of fatal shark attacks this year since 1929 as experts speculate changes in ocean temperatures are pushing sharks closer to the shore.
  
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• Saumitra Khan: India MP threatens to divorce wife who switched party

  24-12-2020 05:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indian MP Saumitra Khan sent a divorce notice to wife Sujata Mondal Khan after she joined a rival party.
  
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