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• Jacob Blake news - live: Family calls for peaceful protest after no charges brought against Kenosha officer

  05-01-2021 23:56 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Bean dad says his story was ‘poorly told’ and child was laughing, claims antisemitic slurs were ‘sarcastic’

  05-01-2021 23:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musician John Roderick says he is sorry for ‘insensitivity’ and his ‘legacy of hurtful language’
  
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• Jacob Blake: No police officers charged over Kenosha shooting

  05-01-2021 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wisconsin's district attorney says no-one will face charges over the shooting of the black man in August.
  
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• Jacob Blake case - latest news: No charges against Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey OLD

  05-01-2021 23:29 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Jacob Blake news - live: No charges against Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey

  05-01-2021 23:28 via independent.co.uk
  
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• US election 2020: The people who still believe Trump won

  05-01-2021 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A distrust of the electoral process among Trump supporters could have implications for the nation.
  
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• Russians are 'likely' perpetrators of US government hack, official report says

  05-01-2021 22:54
  
  Multi-agency report is the Trump administration’s first statement of attribution for the breaching of at least 10 federal agenciesRussia was “likely” to have been behind a string of hacks of US federal agencies identified last month, according the office of the US director of national intelligence which said the hackers breached fewer than 10 federal agencies.The office and the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency inside th
  
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• Jacob Blake case - latest news: No charges against Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey

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• ‘Immensely disappointed’: Jacob Blake’s family react to no charge decision against police as Kenosha braces for protest

  05-01-2021 22:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jacob Blake’s family say they are “immensely disappointed” that prosecutors will not charge the police officers involved in his shooting.
  
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• 70 percent of Covid shots in the US have not been administered - these states have lowest vaccination rate

  05-01-2021 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kansas has vaccinated fewest people per capita so far, South Dakota is on top
  
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• Grammy Awards shift to March due to pandemic conditions

  05-01-2021 22:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths
  
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• No charges brought against Kenosha officer Rusten Sheskey who shot Jacob Blake

  05-01-2021 22:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officer Rusten Sheskey will not be charged in the shooting of Jacob Blake over the summer, according to Kenosha County District Attorney Mike Graveley.
  
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• Kenosha - latest news: No charges against police officer who shot Jacob Blake

  05-01-2021 22:17 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Hank Aaron, civil rights leaders get vaccinated in Georgia

  05-01-2021 21:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and other civil rights leaders have gotten vaccinated against COVID-19
  
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• Boris's boosterism means he never learns | John Crace

  05-01-2021 21:53
  
  The prime minister’s first Downing Street press conference kept up his veneer of acting as if he knew what he was doingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLet’s take the positives first. There have been no changes in government policy on coronavirus in the past 24 hours. After the confusion of the past few days, weeks and months, that is in itself cause for celebration. A sign of some much needed stability in Westminster.Boris Johnson’s narcissism
  
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• Federal agencies warn SolarWinds hack ‘likely Russian in origin’

  05-01-2021 21:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  A widespread cyber hack compromising federal government systems and thousands of public and private networks is “likely Russian in origin” and believed to be "an intelligence gathering effort,” according to a joint statement from federal national security agencies.
  
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• Trump shared wrong number for a Michigan lawmaker, leaving person with thousands of angry calls

  05-01-2021 21:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump campaign which shared the number with 4.6 million followers on Twitter and Facebook
  
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• FBI found Ghislaine Maxwell’s hideout by tracking her phone, documents reveal

  05-01-2021 21:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Agents able to track socialite from mobile account opened under the name 'G Max’, report states
  
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• Governor Ron DeSantis clashes with CNN reporter over Florida’s vaccine distribution

  05-01-2021 21:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Reports circulated of elderly residents waiting overnight to receive a Covid-19 vaccine 
  
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• Judge orders Proud Boys leader to stay out of DC following felony charges for firearm magazines

  05-01-2021 21:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Enrique Tarrio arrested in possession of two high-capacity firearm magazines with Proud Boys insignia
  
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• Venezuela crisis: Maduro loyalists take control of parliament

  05-01-2021 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The National Assembly had until now been the only institution not controlled by the Maduro government.
  
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• Grammy awards postponed weeks before ceremony over Covid concerns

  05-01-2021 21:20
  
  The biggest night in US music is being pushed back as a result of virus spread in CaliforniaThe 2021 Grammy awards will be postponed after a steady increase in Covid-19 cases in California.The ceremony was scheduled to take place on 31 January hosted by Trevor Noah and while a new date has yet to be confirmed, sources suggest that it could be pushed back until March. A limited show had already been planned without an audience and only performers and presenters allowed on stage with nominees acce
  
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• Wedding guests killed in Mali airstrike, local sources say

  05-01-2021 21:16
  
  French forces were in area but say they attacked ‘fully-identified armed terrorist group’More than 20 people, including children, were killed in airstrikes during a wedding ceremony in a remote desert area of central Mali, according to local sources.It was not immediately clear who carried out the attacks but the reports emerged as French military sources said its forces in the country had carried out an airstrike in the area on Sunday that killed “dozens of fighters” fro
  
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• ‘Wave of plastic’ washes up on Brazil beach

  05-01-2021 21:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rubbish washed up near Rio de Janeiro
  
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• Egypt's leader meets US treasury chief ahead of Sudan visit

  05-01-2021 20:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Egypt’s president has met with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin in Cairo, ahead of Mnuchin’s first visit to Sudan since the end of Khartoum’s pariah status
  
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• Former anti-masker says he was wrong in video filmed from hospital bed: ‘Just wear a mask’

  05-01-2021 20:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I believed this was just the flu and it was all going to go away and it was political’
  
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• FBI tracked down Ghislaine Maxwell using cellphone data

  05-01-2021 20:36
  
  Newly unsealed court documents show FBI use GPS and data use to narrow her whereabouts to an area measuring about 1 sq mileGhislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate facing child trafficking charges, was tracked down to her remote hideaway by the FBI using data from her mobile phone, according to court documents.Maxwell was arrested at the 156-acre property in Bradford, New Hampshire, on 2 July last year, a day after a request was made for a search warrant to “employ an electronic in
  
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• Sahel conflict: France rejects reports of airstrike on Mali wedding

  05-01-2021 20:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Residents of a remote village say more than 20 people were killed when a helicopter opened fire.
  
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• One in 50 infected with Covid-19 in England, says Chris Whitty – video

  05-01-2021 20:35
  
  More than 1.1 million people are estimated to have had coronavirus in the week ending 2 January, the government's chief medical officer said. The latest figure was up from an estimated 800,900 in the week ending 23 December, the previous period for which figures were collated. Whitty added that even with the arrival of the vaccine, restrictions could need to be brought back next Christmas if the virus resurges. Coronavirus – latest updatesOne in 50 people in England had Covid last wee
  
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• Kyle Rittenhouse pleads not guilty to all charges in Kenosha shooting

  05-01-2021 20:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen charged with fatally shooting two and wounding a third during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
  
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• AlUla, the ‘museum town’ where the Gulf crisis ended

  05-01-2021 20:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Historic desert city where Saudis ended Qatar dispute is seen as a key cultural and tourism site for the kingdom
  
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• Boris Johnson says more than 1.1m people in England have been vaccinated – video

  05-01-2021 20:26
  
  The prime minister said 1.3 million people across the UK have been vaccinated against Covid-19. More than 650,000 people over 80 – 23% of the cohort - have received their jab, he added. Johnson also pledged that 1,000 more vaccination stations would be open by the end of the week
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• Iran issues Interpol arrest warrant for Trump over Soleimani killing as tensions rise

  05-01-2021 20:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Interpol rejected previous warrant issued for Mr Trump and other officials in June
  
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• Saudi ends blockade but Qatar gives up little

  05-01-2021 20:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  While the deal brings an end to a years-long bitter dispute, former foes are still divided on a number of issues
  
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• Black teenager wrongly accused of stealing white woman’s iPhone ‘seriously traumatised’

  05-01-2021 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Family lawyer says 100,000 signatures for petition calling on Miya Ponsetto to be charged, a ‘significant milestone’ 
  
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• Aerial footage from Los Angeles reveals long lines of cars waiting to get Covid tests

  05-01-2021 20:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Los Angeles County surpassed 10,000 coronavirus deaths this week  
  
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• Doubts emerge in US over future of Assange extradition case

  05-01-2021 19:45
  
  Joe Biden’s priorities could scupper extradition of WikiLeaks co-founder, says departing Virginia attorneyThe American prosecutor seeking to put Julian Assange on trial in the US has said he is uncertain if Joe Biden’s incoming White House administration will continue to seek the extradition of the WikiLeaks co-founder.Zachary Terwilliger, who was appointed by Donald Trump, made the comments as it was announced that he was stepping down as the US attorney for the Eastern District of
  
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• Qatar and Saudi Arabia breakthrough is more exhaustion than compromise

  05-01-2021 19:32
  
  Talk of brotherly unity rather than lessons learned dominated the Gulf Cooperation Council summitThe meeting on Tuesday between Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was hailed as a breakthrough that brought together two feuding parties who were finally willing to resolve their differences.But as the two leaders gathered at a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in the north-western Saudi region of Al-Ula
  
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• As Saudi blockade ends, Qatar emerges victorious

  05-01-2021 19:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  A deal signed in Saudi Arabia brings an end to a dispute which stretches back to 2017
  
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• India's supreme court gives go-ahead for controversial new parliament building

  05-01-2021 19:03
  
  Critics say Narendra Modi’s $3bn redevelopment of Lutyen’s central vista is ‘expensive vanity project’India’s supreme court has given approval for a new parliament building that critics have called an “expensive vanity project” for the prime minister, Narendra Modi. Under the $3bn development project, Delhi’s iconic central vista at the heart of the capital, home to its parliament and the famous India Gate monument, will be transformed by a new tri
  
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• Al-Ula, the ‘museum town’ where the Gulf crisis ended

  05-01-2021 19:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Historic desert city where Saudis ended Qatar dispute is seen as a key cultural and tourism site for the kingdom
  
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• One in 50 people in England had Covid last week, says Chris Whitty

  05-01-2021 19:00
  
  Figure for people outside hospitals and care homes revealed as number of new daily cases in UK tops 60,000 for first time Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOne in 50 people in private households in England – more than 1.1 million – are estimated to have had the coronavirus in the week ending 2 January.The Office for National Statistics figures were released on Tuesday, as the number of new cases of people in the UK testing positive for Covid-19 topped
  
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• Self-described 'nationalist' suspected in NYC bomb hoax

  05-01-2021 18:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  A self-described “American Nationalist” suspected of leaving a hoax explosive device in a car at a New York City mall on Monday has turned himself in to police
  
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• Man viewed extreme Isis content before Reading knife attack, court hears

  05-01-2021 18:48
  
  Old Bailey hears Khairi Saadallah had longstanding interest in extremismA man who stabbed three people to death in a minute in an alleged terrorist rampage had viewed material about a notorious Isis killer, a court has heard.Khairi Saadallah murdered three men in a park in Reading on 20 June as they enjoyed a summer’s evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Qatar crisis: Saudi Arabia and allies restore diplomatic ties with emirate

  05-01-2021 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The nations agreed to "set our differences aside" at a Gulf summit, the Saudi foreign minister says.
  
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• Trump attacking Iran in final days of presidency a ‘worrying’ possibility, warn former military chiefs

  05-01-2021 18:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  The build-up of US warships near Iranian waters is raising fears Trump wants to order an attack before Biden’s inauguration. But would the president get his way? Kim Sengupta reports
  
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• Trump attacking Iran in final days of presidency a ‘worrying’ possibility, warn top military chiefs

  05-01-2021 18:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  The build-up of US warships near Iranian waters is raising fears Trump wants to order an attack before Biden’s inauguration. But would the president get his way? Kim Sengupta reports
  
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• Iran issues Interpol arrest warrant for Trump over Soleimani killing as tension rise

  05-01-2021 18:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Iranian government has filed a “red notice” with Interpol that requests the arrest of US president Donald Trump and 47 other American officials for the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps major general Qassem Soleimani on 3 January 2020.
  
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• California county forced to deliver hundreds of emergency Covid vaccines after freezer power outage

  05-01-2021 18:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Alarm designed to alert staff power failures malfunctioned, president of Adventist Health in Mendocino County says
  
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• Trump, just another ‘mad’ leader in the vast hall of political infamy?

  05-01-2021 18:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Seeking to place the outgoing president in suitably outrageous historical context, Richard Askwith concludes that Donald Trump closely resembles Vlad the Impaler. And if we don’t find a way of metaphorically putting a stake through his heart, he’ll be back next time it gets dark
  
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