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• UN hopes to take first step to elect next chief by Jan. 31

  15-01-2021 23:58
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly and Security Council are expected to take the first step toward electing the next head of the global organization this month. ......
  
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• Skylar Astin finds new notes to hit on ‘Zoey’s Playlist’

  15-01-2021 23:58
  NEW YORK (AP) — By page two of the pilot script for NBC's “ Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist,” Skylar Astin knew he wanted the role of Max Richman. ......
  
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• Rebels kill 1 UN peacekeeper in Central African Republic

  15-01-2021 23:58
  BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — At least one peacekeeper was killed and another two were injured on Friday in two successive attacks by armed rebels near the town of Grimari in Central African Republic, the United Nations Mission in ......
  
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• Prince Harry happy despite royal split heartbreak, says confidant

  15-01-2021 23:58
  LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry is heartbroken over his split with the royal family but he and his wife Meghan are happy in their new lives in the United States, broadcaster and confidant to the couple Tom Bradby said in an interview to be aired on Saturday. Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, moved to Los Angeles with baby son Archie last year after they gave up their official royal roles following...
  
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• NY prosecutors interview Michael Cohen about Trump finances

  15-01-2021 23:58
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors...
  
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• Noem blames Capitol insurrection on lack of civics education

  15-01-2021 23:58
  PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday blamed an inadequate education in American civics as “the root cause” of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, while making no mention of President Donald Trump's role in the ......
  
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• MTA: Bus driver refuses drug test after careening off bridge

  15-01-2021 23:58
  NEW YORK (AP) — A bus dramatically plunged off a bridge in New York City late Thursday, leaving its front half hanging over a highway ramp, its fall broken only by the road below. ......
  
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• Mexico says US 'fabricated' charges, released case files

  15-01-2021 23:58
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President...
  
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• Havana Slams US Sanctions Against Cuban Interior Ministry, Its Head as Illegitimate

  15-01-2021 23:58
  MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) - Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on Friday condemned new US sanctions against the Latin American country's interior ministry and its chief, Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, describing them as illegitimate. ......
  
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• CORRECTS: National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy, gun-rights group will legally move from New York ...

  15-01-2021 23:58
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — CORRECTS: National Rifle Association files for bankruptcy, gun-rights group will legally move from New York to Texas. ......
  
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• Case against woman charged in boyfriend's suicide to proceed

  15-01-2021 23:58
  BOSTON (AP) — The manslaughter case against a former Boston College student accused of encouraging her boyfriend to take his own life will head toward trial, prosecutors said Friday. ......
  
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• World COVID-19 related deaths pass two million

  15-01-2021 23:57
  The world has reached a grim milestone passing more than two million coronavirus related deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. ......
  
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• States Prepare for Possible Weekend Protests Ahead of Inauguration

  15-01-2021 23:57
  States have equipped capitol buildings with...
  
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• Pelosi refuses to say when President Trump will face impeachment trial

  15-01-2021 23:57
  US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has refused to say when President Donald Trump will face his impeachment trial. ......
  
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• Massive blow for Aussie overseas travel

  15-01-2021 23:57
  Emirates has suspended all flights to and from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane until further notice, leaving the travel plans of thousands of Australians stranded overseas up in the air. ......
  
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• Brazilian hospitals suffering oxygen tank shortage

  15-01-2021 23:57
  Hospitals in Brazil's Amazonas state are struggling under the strain of the new COVID-19 variant with many reaching ICU capacity and running low on oxygen supplies. ......
  
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• Biden plans ‘thousands’ of community vaccination centers

  15-01-2021 23:57
  President-elect Joe Biden says his administration will put federal resources into community vaccination centers and mobile health clinics to accelerate the rollout of Covid-19 shots. ......
  
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• At least 67 killed in Indonesian earthquake

  15-01-2021 23:57
  At least 67 people have died and hundreds injured after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. ......
  
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• Colorado governor criticizes false promise of more vaccines

  15-01-2021 23:56
  DENVER (AP) � Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday said the Trump administration showed �gross incompetence� when it provided false information about the existence of a federal vaccine reserve. The criticism came three days after the administration announced the federal government would begin releasing second doses of the vaccine being held in a reserve. It was later discovered that the administration had already started shipping...
  
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• WHO meeting urges increased virus sequencing to combat variants

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The World Health Organization’s emergency committee called Friday for globally-ramped up coronavirus sequencing studies in order to combat troubling new variants stalking the globe. The meeting was dragged forward by two weeks for urgent talks on the emerging, seemingly more contagious strains of the virus, as the death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic topped two million, according to an AFP count. The emergency committee came out against countries requiring proof of vaccination from incomi
  
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• WHO committee against vaccination proof for foreign travel

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The World Health Organization's emergency committee urged countries Friday to take measures to ensure safe travel during...
  
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• US troop levels cut to 2,500 each in Afghanistan, Iraq

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The US military has cut troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 each, their lowest levels in the nearly two decades since the wars began, the Pentagon announced Friday. Outgoing President Donald Trump, seeking to fulfill a campaign promise to end the two wars launched after the 9/11 attacks, had ordered force levels slashed in both countries to that level by January 15 -- despite initial pushback from the Pentagon. Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller said progress towards peace in bot
  
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• US President-elect Joe Biden to announce vaccines plan

  15-01-2021 23:55
  US President-elect Joe Biden was set to announce his Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan Friday as he bids to wrest the focus from the impeachment of Donald Trump to the agenda for his first days in office. Biden has said he wants 100 million Americans to receive shots during his first 100 days in office, an ambitious goal that would require a big step up in the current pace of distribution. "The vaccines offer so much hope," the 78-year-old Democrat said Thursday night as he unveiled a $1.9 trillion
  
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• UN head warns of ‘vaccinationalism’ as virus deaths top two million

  15-01-2021 23:55
  UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday deplored the “heart-wrenching milestone” of the global death toll from Covid-19 topping two million, and lamented the fact that “solidarity is failing” in the world’s...
  
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• UN agency warns of another bad year for airlines

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The UN aviation agency on Friday predicted “prolonged depressed demand” for air travel and more financial woes for airlines, following a year of fewer flights and big losses blamed on the pandemic. Air travel plunged 60 percent in 2020 as nations closed borders and restricted travel to slow the spread of Covid-19, the International Civil Aviation Organization said in...
  
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• Trump plans to depart Washington the morning of Inauguration Day on Jan 20 : Source

  15-01-2021 23:55
  President Donald Trump now plans to leave Washington on the morning of Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 after considering a...
  
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• Trudeau embraces Biden in bid to turn page on Trump era

  15-01-2021 23:55
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's swift embrace of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden illustrates the degree to which Canada, one of America's closest allies, is looking forward to turning the page on the Donald Trump era. Trudeau was the first world leader to congratulate Biden when he was declared the winner of the November election, and now hopes to be the first - or one of the first - to meet with the new president after he takes office on Wednesday. "It's very much a tradition that the C
  
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• Pandemic ‘leads to slump in heart disease tests’

  15-01-2021 23:55
  Procedures to diagnose and treat heart disease fell by almost two-thirds in spring 2020 compared to 2019, a study suggested Friday, in the latest sign of the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on broader healthcare systems. Procedures to diagnose and treat heart disease fell by almost two-thirds in spring 2020 compared to 2019, a study suggested Friday. The survey from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found there was a 64...
  
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• North Brazil risks new ‘catastrophic’ Covid wave: WHO

  15-01-2021 23:55
  Brazil’s Amazonas state could soon see surging Covid-19 case numbers surpass the “catastrophic” wave it suffered near the start of the pandemic last April, the WHO warned on Friday. The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the situation in the northern state and its capital Manaus, where authorities are scrambling to slow the spread of the virus as cases soar and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen. “The situation in Amazonas and particularly in Manaus has deteriora
  
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• Nepal favours talks to resolve border issue; seeks early review of Indo-Nepal Friendship treaty

  15-01-2021 23:55
  Visiting Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali on Friday pitched for talks with India to resolve the outstanding boundary issue, saying finding a solution to it will help instill greater degree of trust and confidence in bilateral ties. In an address at the Indian Council of World Affairs, he also favoured early review of the Indo-Nepal Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1950 to better reflect the current reality of relationship and further consolidate cooperation. On economic relations, G
  
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• Last federal execution of Trump era looms

  15-01-2021 23:55
  US federal authorities were preparing Friday for the 13th and final execution of the Trump administration, less than a week before the White House is taken over by Democrat Joe Biden, who opposes the death penalty. Guard towers rise above the grounds of the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute in Indiana, where Dustin Higgs was due Friday to become the 13th and final federal inmate put to death under the Trump administration Barring a last-minute reprieve, Dustin...
  
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• Global death toll from Covid-19 tops 2 million amid vaccine rollout

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The global death toll from COIVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the...
  
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• Global Covid-19 death toll passes two million

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The global death toll from Covid-19 passed two million on Friday, with the World Health Organization (WHO) urging mass vaccinations as the pandemic progresses at a record rate. As of 1825 GMT on Friday, at least 2,000,066 people worldwide had been confirmed dead of the virus that first emerged in Wuhan, central China, in late 2019, according to an AFP tally. The grim milestone came as US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said shipments of its vaccines would slow for a period in late January — a
  
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• DH Deciphers | Donald Trump impeached but will he go before January 20?

  15-01-2021 23:55
  On January 13, the House of Representatives – the lower house of the US Congress – voted 232-197 to impeach Donald Trump, making him the first American president to be charged with misconduct twice. He was previously impeached in December 2019 for allegedly offering a quid pro quo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This time around, the US House impeached Trump for “incitement of insurrection”, alleging that his speech on January 6 incited his supporters to storm
  
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• China puts 20,000 villagers in central quarantine over virus risk

  15-01-2021 23:55
  
  China has sent over 20,000 rural residents living in the epicentre of the country’s latest virus outbreak to state-run quarantine facilities, as Beijing on Friday reported the worst nationwide figures since March. China is trying to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year, when huge swathes of the population will criss-cross the country The country had largely brought the virus under control after strict measures including mass testing and travel...
  
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• Capitol mob aimed to 'assassinate' elected officials: Fed

  15-01-2021 23:55
  The pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol last week aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials,” federal prosecutors said in court documents. The remarks came in a motion prosecutors filed late Thursday in the case against Jacob Chansley, the Arizona man who took part in the insurrection while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns. Prosecutors say that after Chansley climbed up to the dais...
  
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• Covid in California: The state is struggling to contain the virus

  15-01-2021 23:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  California's poor residents are among those hardest hit by the pandemic.
  
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• Peacekeeper dies of injuries after mine attack in Mali: MINUSMA

  15-01-2021 23:53
  BAMAKO, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A peacekeeper of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) died Friday of his injuries caused during an improvised explosive...
  
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• Cameroon: Authorities urged to seek justice for recent deadly attacks

  15-01-2021 23:52
  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged authorities in Cameroon to take steps to prosecute perpetrators behind two recent deadly attacks in the Anglophone provinces of the country, his Spokesperson said on Friday. In...
  
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• Abbas Decrees First Palestinian Elections in 15 Years

  15-01-2021 23:52
  GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday decreed parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year in what would be the first vote of its kind since 2006, when the Islamic militant group Hamas won a landslide victory. Elections would pose a major risk for Abbas' Fatah party and also for Hamas, which welcomed the decree. Both have faced protests in recent years over their inability to reconcile with one another, advance Palestinian aspirations for statehood
  
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• Trump's Christian supporters and the march on the Capitol

  15-01-2021 23:51
  Christian supporters of President Donald Trump were among the thousands who descended on Washington DC last week. Their presence highlights a divide in American Christianity. Before the march on the US Capitol began last Wednesday, some knelt to pray. Thousands had come to the seat of power for a "Save America" rally organised to challenge the election result. Mr Trump addressed the crowd near the White House, calling on them to march on Congress where politicians were gathered to certify Presid
  
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• Nancy Pelosi: lawmakers could face prosecution for aiding Capitol attack – video

  15-01-2021 23:48
  
  The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has said it is possible that members of Congress could face prosecution if found to have 'aided and abetted' the violent attack on the Capitol earlier this month that left five people deadNancy Pelosi says lawmakers who aided in Capitol attack may be prosecuted Continue reading...
  
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• MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell brings notes to White House that suggest calling for ‘martial law if necessary’

  15-01-2021 23:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  It comes after Mr Lindell tweeted, then deleted, calls for Donald Trump to impose martial law in the seven battleground states that delivered Joe Biden the presidency
  
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• Pfizer to limit vaccine deliveries temporarily to Europe

  15-01-2021 23:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Delays have been branded ‘unacceptable’ by affected countries
  
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• WhatsApp changes: Signal messaging platform stops working as downloads surge

  15-01-2021 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Signal has been downloaded millions of times since WhatsApp unveiled new privacy terms last week.
  
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• Indonesia earthquake: Dozens dead as search for survivors continues

  15-01-2021 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.
  
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• Amtrak CEO asks Congress to expand TSA’s ‘No Fly List’ to rail passengers

  15-01-2021 22:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Amtrak is limiting ticket sales, requiring masks to be worn on their trains, and expanding their security personnel following deadly Capitol riot
  
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• New York City will run out of coronavirus vaccine by next week, Mayor Bill de Blasio says

  15-01-2021 22:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mr de Blasio says New York City should be given more vaccines because it can actually distribute the shot
  
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• Champion golfer Ángel Cabrera 'arrested in Brazil' over alleged assault

  15-01-2021 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mr Cabrera faces extradition to Argentina where he is alleged to have committed domestic abuse.
  
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• All UK travel corridors to be closed, says Boris Johnson – video

  15-01-2021 21:55
  
  The prime minister announced a dramatic tightening of the UK’s borders, with all international arrivals to be forced to quarantine as well as demonstrate they have had a negative Covid test. The new restrictions will come into force at 4am on 18 January. The closure of travel corridors was to protect the UK from the risk of 'vaccine-busting' Covid variants coming into the country, Johnson added.65% of English NHS trusts exceeded first wave peak for Covid patients last weekUK shuts travel c
  
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