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• Fox New presenter insists there was no post-Christmas spike in Covid cases despite large increase

  25-01-2021 23:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  US recorded highest ever daily number of coronavirus cases and deaths in early January
  
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• R&B artist Trey Songz arrested at AFC Championship game

  25-01-2021 23:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police say R&B artist Trey Songz was arrested during the AFC Championship game in Kansas City after fans complained he wasn't following COVID-19 protocols and other rules and he then punched an officer who was trying to remove him
  
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• Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte to resign amid coalition crisis

  25-01-2021 22:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Premier hopes to form new coalition after defection of former ally Matteo Renzi
  
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• Teenager in hiding after reporting own father for involvement in Capitol riots

  25-01-2021 22:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I put my emotions behind me to do what I thought was right,’ Jackson Reffitt says
  
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• Nashville lawyer has license suspended after giving woman advice on how to ‘kill’ her ex-boyfriend

  25-01-2021 19:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Winston Bradshaw Sitton emphasised his comments were made as ‘a lawyer’
  
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• Dr Fauci urges Americans to not ‘get complacent’ as Covid hospitalisations and cases decline

  25-01-2021 19:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hospitalisations recently declined after reaching a peak of 132,474 people hospitalised with Covid-19 on 6 January
  
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• ‘My sister is pathetic’: Laura Ingraham’s brother slams her criticism of Dr Fauci on Twitter

  25-01-2021 19:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Self-described ‘sibling fact checker’ has criticised his sister many times before for her political views
  
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• School board members refused to wear masks to honour teacher who died of Covid

  25-01-2021 18:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Three teachers have died of Covid at Hendricks Elementary School in Georgia provoking tensions between teachers and the school district  administration 
  
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• Judge blocks release of zip tie rioter

  25-01-2021 18:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Eric Gavelek Munchel was charged with conspiracy after being arrested on 10 January
  
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• Coronavirus: Where have the Covid variants from the UK, South Africa and Brazil spread to?

  25-01-2021 17:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  New variants moving across globe amid fears they could be more contagious or deadly than first
  
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• Budweiser joins large brands in ditching Super Bowl ads in response to coronavirus pandemic

  25-01-2021 17:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Coke, Pepsi, and Hyundai will also not be airing ads during the sporting event 
  
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• UK Covid variant causes 25% of new infections in Belgium

  25-01-2021 17:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  More infectious B117 strain ‘on course to become most dominant’
  
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• Ivanka Trump stays silent on social media as Rubio warns she’ll have ‘tough’ fight if she goes for his seat

  25-01-2021 16:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ex-president’s daughter and senior adviser rumoured to be planning run for elected office
  
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• Tentative start to Turkey-Greece talks after year of strife

  25-01-2021 15:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The first high-level talks aimed at reducing tensions between Turkey and Greece in five years have taken place behind closed doors
  
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• Coronavirus live news: Dutch PM condemns Covid riots; France bans some homemade masks

  25-01-2021 15:23
  
  Mark Rutte says weekend violence is criminal action, not protest; French officials say certain masks don’t offer enough protection from new variantsGermany to administer Covid drugs used to treat Donald TrumpFauci says he was the ‘skunk at the picnic’ in Trump’s Covid team‘A complete massacre, a horror film’: inside Brazil’s Covid disaster
  Texas governor’s hands-off approach has allowed virus to thrive
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• The dream that became a nightmare: How hopes for Egypt’s Arab Spring uprising were crushed

  25-01-2021 15:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ten years ago Egypt’s uprising began. Bel Trew speaks to those who helped overthrew Hosni Mubarak but whose dreams have been replaced by a harsh reality
  
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• Man caught trying to smuggle 74 chameleons into Austria

  25-01-2021 15:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Austrian authorities have stopped a man at Vienna airport as he tried to smuggle 74 protected chameleons from Africa into the country
  
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• The dried flower craze: how a summer of cancelled weddings led to a big new trend

  25-01-2021 15:15
  
  The global floral industry has been hard hit by coronavirus. But not all those unused blooms have had to go to waste Name: Dried flowers.Age: Old. Continue reading...
  
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• Sarah Sanders, former Trump press secretary, runs for Arkansas governor

  25-01-2021 15:12
  
  Formal announcement confirms 38-year-old’s bid to succeed her father, Mike Huckabee, in state leadership roleUS politics – live coverageSarah Sanders, the former White House press secretary, has launched a campaign for Arkansas governor, releasing a pre-recorded message laden with Trumpist rhetoric and touting her widely criticized record in the former administration. Related: Tweets, lies and the Mueller report: Sarah Sanders' lowest momentsContinue reading...
  
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• Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 6

  25-01-2021 15:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Jan. 31-Feb. 6 include singer Alice Cooper, news anchorman Tom Brokaw, TV chef Ina Garten and singer Shakira
  
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• Dutch leaders condemn 'criminal' clashes at anti-lockdown protests

  25-01-2021 14:58
  
  PM says violence seen in Eindhoven, Amsterdam and elsewhere at the weekend was unacceptableCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePolitical leaders and local officials in the Netherlands have condemned as “criminals” and “scum” the rioters who clashed with police during violent protests at the weekend against the country’s first nationwide curfew since the second world war.More than 240 people were arrested as police used teargas and water
  
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• Four charged over Colston statue damage to be tried in crown court

  25-01-2021 14:55
  
  Accused exercise right to judge and jury trial after appearing at Bristol magistrates court amid tight security
  Four people charged with criminal damage over the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol have opted to be tried before a judge and jury.The four, aged 21-36, appeared at Bristol magistrates court amid tight security after police warned demonstrators would be breaching lockdown restrictions if they gathered outside the court. Continue reading...
  
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• Putin rejects Navalny's claim that he owns palace on Black Sea

  25-01-2021 14:36
  
  Russian president claims he has nothing to do with property after video exposé by opposition leaderThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has denied that a lavish palace built on Russia’s Black Sea coast belongs to him, following a video exposé by the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.In a sign that Navalny’s investigation has touched a nerve with the Kremlin, Putin took the unusual step of claiming he had nothing to do with the property. It never “belongs to or e
  
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• Pakistan film that received death threats for 'blasphemy' is tipped for Oscars 2021

  25-01-2021 14:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  The film’s release date kept getting pushed back, amid calls for a boycott and death threats to producer 
  
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• Australia approves Pfizer vaccine amid concerns over global supply of Oxford jab

  25-01-2021 14:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  The vaccine has been approved for people aged 16 years and above and would be given in two doses to each recipient
  
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• Germany to administer Covid drugs used to treat Donald Trump

  25-01-2021 14:18
  
  Country will be first in EU to use antibody cocktails after government buys 200,000 dosesSpecialist clinics in Germany will this week become the first hospitals in the EU to treat Covid-19 patients with expensive and experimental antibody cocktails used to treat the former US president Donald Trump after he caught the virus last October.“Monoclonal antibodies will be used in Germany as the first country in the EU, initially in university clinics,” the health minister, Jens Spahn, tol
  
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• Merck ends development of two potential COVID-19 vaccines

  25-01-2021 14:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Merck is giving up on two potential COVID-19 vaccines following poor results in early-stage studies
  
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• Covid-19 has cost global workers $3.7tn in lost earnings, says ILO

  25-01-2021 14:09
  
  Women and young workers bearing brunt of job losses and reductions in hours, says UN labour bodyCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe economic blow from Covid-19 has cost workers around the world $3.7tn (£2.7tn) in lost earnings, after the pandemic wiped out four times the number of working hours lost in the 2008 financial crisis, according to the UN’s labour body.The International Labour Organization (ILO) said women and younger workers had borne the
  
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• Putin denies owning £1bn Black Sea palace after Navalny exposé

  25-01-2021 14:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vladimir Putin has denied claims he owns a palace, in his first comments since critic Alexei Navalny linked the president to an opulent £1bn development on the Black Sea coast.
  
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• Indian troops brawl with Chinese counterparts on border

  25-01-2021 14:02
  Clash in Sikkim happened days before talks aimed at ending tensions in Ladakh border dispute
  Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in another violent clash along the Himalayan border last week, as tensions between the two nuclear powers showed no signs of abating.According to reports, Indian and Chinese troops came to physical blows on Wednesday along the high-altitude border in north Sikkim, a small Indian state, situated between India and Bhutan, which has been a flashpoint of India-China c
  
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• How to make Bernie Sanders’ inauguration mittens

  25-01-2021 13:52
  Feel the Bern, not the cold, with your own pair of winter-proof hand warmers – here’s how to stitch them at homeWhile it was Michelle Obama’s hair that brought the glamour to Joe Biden’s inauguration day, it was Bernie Sanders’ mittens that delivered the memes. Sitting at the event in a winter coat and mittens, arms and legs crossed, he was the yin to the rest of the Capitol’s sharp-suited yang – and promptly Photoshopped into Edward Hopper paintings, sc
  
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• Capitol riots: 38 police officers test positive for Covid after clashes with Trump supporters

  25-01-2021 13:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Numerous rioters were seen without face masks during events of 6 January
  
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• Swiss envoy, Lebanese FM holds talks amid central bank probe

  25-01-2021 13:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lebanon’s foreign minister has held talks with the Swiss ambassador to Beirut after Switzerland started a probe into possible money laundering and embezzlement at the Mideast country’s central bank
  
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• Bright Lights: one woman's devastating 25-year addiction to gambling – video

  25-01-2021 13:29
  
  ‘Sharon’ has been addicted to poker machines ‘pokies’ since they first arrived in Australia in 1992. Through this animated documentary, she reveals the devastating impact gambling has had on her life. Her story culminates with an incident that pushes her over the edge: an encounter with her seven-year-old daughter and her precious piggy bank. This film consists of several real-life stories about the pokies adapted from verbatim interviews and combined into the figure of S
  
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• High ranking North Korean diplomat ‘defects to South Korea’

  25-01-2021 13:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The diplomat defected to South Korea in September 2020 
  
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• Keira Knightley: I won't shoot any more sex scenes directed by men

  25-01-2021 13:19
  
  The actor says she feels very uncomfortable trying to portray the male gaze and says she’s ‘too vain’ to shoot intimate scenesKeira Knightley has expressed her discomfort with shooting intimate scenes, saying that she will no longer do so if the film is directed by a man.In conversation with director Lulu Wang and writer-producer Diane Solway on the Chanel Connects podcast, Knightley credited the “male gaze” and her own personal vanity with the decision. Continue re
  
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• New Zealand’s new Covid case identified as South African variant

  25-01-2021 13:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Woman, 56, thought to have contracted illness from fellow traveller while quarantining at Auckland hotel
  
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• Budweiser joins Coke, Pepsi brands in sitting out Super Bowl

  25-01-2021 13:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  For the first time since 1983, when Anheuser-Busch used all of its ad time to introduce a beer called Bud Light, the beer giant isn’t advertising its iconic Budweiser brand during the Super Bowl
  
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• Johnson 'looking at potential of relaxing some lockdown measures' next month

  25-01-2021 12:43
  
  PM says government will review data before 15 February but highlights risk of ‘premature relaxation’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government will look at the possibility of lifting some restrictions in England from mid-February, Boris Johnson has said, though he confirmed the government was looking at tougher measures on traveller quarantine.The prime minister suggested the government would examine the data in the run-up to the 15 February revi
  
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• Covid is widening gap between rich and poor, Oxfam warns

  25-01-2021 12:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  According to Oxfam’s report, it could take more than ten years for the world’s poorest to recover from the pandemic’s impact on the economy 
  
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• Virtual summit seeks to galvanize climate change adaptation

  25-01-2021 12:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  World leaders are converging — virtually — on the Netherlands for a summit that will seek to galvanize more action and funding to adapt the planet and vulnerable communities to the effects of climate change
  
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• Kerry O'Brien rejects Australia Day honour in protest against Margaret Court's award

  25-01-2021 12:00
  Broadcaster cites ‘deeply insensitive and divisive decision’ to make Court a Companion of the Order of AustraliaVeteran journalist Kerry O’Brien has rejected an Australia Day award to protest the decision to give Margaret Court the country’s highest honour.O’Brien wrote to the governor general’s secretary on Sunday explaining there must be something “fundamentally wrong” with the honours system given the “deeply insensitive and divisive decis
  
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• India distributes one million Covid vaccine doses in just six days

  25-01-2021 11:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  India has an ambitious target of inoculating 300 million people in the first phase of immunisations
  
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• China’s Communist Party pushes dangerous fringe Covid theories as it feels pressure of WHO probe

  25-01-2021 11:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  A government spokesperson suggested that the coronavirus could have emerged from a US military lab
  
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• Chinese jets enter Taiwanese airspace for second day

  25-01-2021 11:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Biden administration has asserted its support for Taiwan
  
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• Snow and mist settles in Grand Canyon in stunning footage

  25-01-2021 11:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Snow and mist settles in Grand Canyon in stunning footage
  
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• Central African Republic suffers food shortages as rebels cut off capital

  25-01-2021 11:32
  State of emergency declared after armed opposition forces attack convoy carrying supplies and blockade the city of BanguiCentral African Republic is facing serious food shortages as election violence has cut off the country and stranded hundreds of trucks carrying supplies outside its borders. Food prices have risen steeply since the landlocked country’s main supply route from Cameroon was cut off by armed groups trying to blockade the capital, Bangui, where the government declared a state
  
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• Ugandan court lifts opposition leader Bobi Wine’s house arrest

  25-01-2021 11:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mr Wine has been blocked from leaving his house since he voted in the 14 January election where he ran for president
  
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• Four Palmas football players and club president killed in Brazil plane crash

  25-01-2021 11:04
  
  Plane crashed soon after take-off in northern state of TocantinsPlayers were flying to game separately after positive Covid testsFour players and the president from the Brazilian football club Palmas died in a plane crash on Sunday. The group were travelling separately from the rest of the team after testing positive for coronavirus, the club have said.The private plane carrying the group plunged to the ground at the end of the runway shortly after take-off at an airport in the northern state of
  
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• Mexico’s president becomes latest world leader to contract Covid

  25-01-2021 11:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mr López Obrador has consistently played down the pandemic and previously refused to wear a mask in public
  
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