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• California’s Governor Newsom eases Covid restrictions - why now?

  26-01-2021 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The governor has lifted the state’s stay-at-home order as test positivity rates have steadily fallen.
  
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• Former Wisconsin officer cleared in 3 shootings now a deputy

  26-01-2021 23:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  A police officer in a Milwaukee suburb who resigned after being involved in his third fatal shooting in five years has been hired as a sheriff’s deputy
  
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• Protests break out after police officer drives into crowd

  26-01-2021 22:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Activists said that images of a police car driving into a crowd this weekend worsened tensions in the community 
  
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• Rumoured 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says Trump needs a ‘break’ and shouldn’t be impeached

  26-01-2021 22:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ms Haley’s comments illustrate the balancing act high-profile GOP aspirants must face post-Trump
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell demands judge drop ‘mishmash’ case against her, arguing grand jury pool was too white

  26-01-2021 22:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  If lawyers cannot get case dismissed they ask for fewer charges
  
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• I may never understand why the prawns are locked up in my supermarket

  26-01-2021 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Perhaps its something to do with the US ‘food insecurity’ problem or maybe there are some arch-criminals with a penchant for shellfish, but I can’t work out why the prawns are padlocked, writes Holly Baxter
  
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• Coronavirus: Germany rejects 'mixed up' reports on AstraZeneca jab

  26-01-2021 22:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AstraZeneca has also dismissed German media reports, saying its vaccine is effective at all ages.
  
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• The Trump Plaza near Mar-a-Lago in Florida will be renamed following riots at the US Capitol

  26-01-2021 22:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  While physical ‘Trump’ signs have been gone since last year, the latest move would fully remove the ex-president’s name from the condo’s official title
  
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• Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte resigns in tactical bid to form new coalition

  26-01-2021 21:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Premier hopes to steer country as it battles pandemic and economic recession
  
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• Covid cases hit 100m globally with more than quarter of all cases in the US

  26-01-2021 21:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The coronavirus has infected more than 100 million people worldwide about 13 months after the novel virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, according to Johns Hopkins University. 
  
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• Why has Britain suffered more than 100,000 Covid deaths?

  26-01-2021 20:59
  
  Analysis: there are a string of reasons that have contributed to that extraordinary numberCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOn nearly every metric, the UK death toll from coronavirus has now exceeded 100,000. Here, we look at why that figure is so high. Continue reading...
  
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• Dutch riots: 'It's scum doing this'

  26-01-2021 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.
  
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• DOJ warns Capitol rioter who took Pelosi’s laptop may be destroying data and encouraging others too

  26-01-2021 20:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  She was previously released from jail to home confinement with her mother
  
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• Biden deportation freeze blocked by judge

  26-01-2021 20:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s move freeze deportations of illegal immigrants for the next 100-days.
  
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• Gorillas at San Diego wildlife park stricken with Covid-19 after apparently being infected by zookeeper

  26-01-2021 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘No coughing, no runny noses anymore’, says zoo’s executive director after animals receive treatment
  
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• Four teenagers arrested over ‘live-streamed’ murder of 15-year-old girl in Walmart

  26-01-2021 20:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘There appeared to be no remorse,’ says Calcasieu Parish sheriff Tony Mancus
  
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• Disney to update ‘horrifyingly racist’ Jungle Cruise ride

  26-01-2021 19:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Storyline will build ‘upon what people love the most while addressing negative depictions simultaneously’
  
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• White Americans receiving Covid vaccine at higher rates than Black and Latino Americans

  26-01-2021 19:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Only 16 states currently provide data on vaccination distribution based on race and ethnicity
  
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• UK diplomats told to cut up to 70% from overseas aid budget

  26-01-2021 19:44
  
  Officials have just weeks to slash costs, prompting fears that speed of cuts could cost livesBritish diplomats have been instructed to find at least 50% cuts in UK overseas bilateral aid in the next few weeks in advance of the next financial year, the Labour party has said.Sarah Champion, the Labour chair of parliament’s international development select committee, said: “Our ambassadors have today been instructed by the Foreign Office to cut 50-70% from the aid budget.” Continu
  
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• Capitol riot: Police chief apologises for pro-Trump riot

  26-01-2021 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chief Yogananda Pittman told lawmakers the force didn't do enough to prepare for a "terrorist attack".
  
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• Mike Pence adviser claims she was told to spy on Deborah Birx because she ‘was not to be trusted’

  26-01-2021 19:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  'You're asking me to spy on this woman that I'm sharing an office with, who is on our team, when we know that this pandemic is about to be out of control?'
  
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• Zoom down: Internet outage knocks out popular apps across East Coast

  26-01-2021 18:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  It’s unclear so far why these problems are occurring
  
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• Human Rights Watch warns over Malaysian proposals to increase penalties against LGBT+ people

  26-01-2021 18:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The Malaysian government seems to be sinking even deeper in its disregard for human rights’
  
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• Mike Pence advisor claims she was told to spy on Deborah Birx because she ‘was not to be trusted’

  26-01-2021 18:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  'You're asking me to spy on this woman that I'm sharing an office with, who is on our team, when we know that this pandemic is about to be out of control?'
  
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• Kolbars: Quest for a livelihood on the Iran-Iraq border ends in tragedy

  26-01-2021 18:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Carrying goods across the Iran-Iraq border is how thousands make a living
  
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• Russia diplomat hails progress in nuclear pact talks with US

  26-01-2021 18:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow and Washington are making quick progress to negotiate an extension of their last remaining nuclear arms control treaty
  
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• ‘A terrible explosion of violence’: Fear and revolt spreads in the Netherlands

  26-01-2021 18:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  The violent response to lockdown measures has shocked many with the defence minister calling rioters ‘scum’, reports Rory Sullivan
  
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• Biden expected to ban term ‘China virus’ in crackdown on Covid racism

  26-01-2021 16:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Joe Biden is expected to take executive action to disavow racism and xenophobia toward Asian Americans connected to the Covid-19 pandemic.
  
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• Officials say Israeli minister visited Sudan to discuss ties

  26-01-2021 16:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officials say an Israeli delegation headed by the country's intelligence minister quietly visited Sudan and met with the African nation's leaders
  
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• Angela Merkel admits Covid highlighted shortcomings in Germany: ‘The speed of our action leaves a lot to be desired’

  26-01-2021 16:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has conceded that the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted significant shortcomings in her country
  
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• Trump opens office in Palm Beach to ‘carry on’ his administration’s agenda

  26-01-2021 16:17
  (Bloomberg) — Former President Donald Trump has opened an office to “advance the interests of the United States and to carry on the agenda” of his...
  
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• Portland mayor pepper-sprays maskless man who accused him of disregarding COVID-19 restrictions

  26-01-2021 16:17
  On Sunday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was walking outside a craft brewery on the Oregon city’s...
  
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• Merkel: pandemic shows German weaknesses, need to cooperate

  26-01-2021 16:14
  
  By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel conceded that the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted significant shortcomings in her country as she told the World Economic Forum on Tuesday that it has underlined the need for international cooperation on issues such as vaccines. Germany had a relatively successful first phase of the pandemic, but saw infections shoot up during the winter months and recently passed the threshold of 50,000 deaths, Europe&rsquo
  
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• Merkel aide floats long suspension to German debt rule

  26-01-2021 16:14
  BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff has floated the idea of Germany suspending rules to prevent the government running up new debt for several years as Europe's biggest economy digests the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In an article for Tuesday's edition of the Handelsblatt business daily, Helge Braun advocated stabilizing employees' social welfare contributions until the end of 2023 and doing without tax increases. He wrote that...
  
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• Estonia: Government led by nation's first woman PM sworn in

  26-01-2021 16:14
  HELSINKI (AP) — A new two-party coalition government was sworn in Tuesday in Estonia, led by the first woman prime minister since the Baltic nation regained independence in 1991. The 15-member Cabinet of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas took office after lawmakers in Estonia's parliament approved the government appointed by President Kersti Kaljulaid. Kallas, 43, is a lawyer and former European Parliament member. The center-right Reform Party that she chairs and and the...
  
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• Dutch justice minister vows rioters will be prosecuted

  26-01-2021 16:14
  By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch justice minister said Tuesday that people arrested amid three nights of rioting sparked by the country's coronavirus curfew will face swift prosecution. Ferd Grapperhaus said rioters would be quickly brought before courts by public prosecutors and face possible prison terms if convicted. “They won't get away with it,” he told reporters in The Hague. His comments came as the Netherlands is facing its worst c
  
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• Thai court acquits 80-year-old writer of defaming monarchy

  26-01-2021 16:13
  BANGKOK (AP) — An 80-year-old writer accused of defaming Thailand's monarchy in 2015 because of comments he made at a public seminar about the constitution was acquitted Tuesday by the Criminal Court. ......
  
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• Poland's population rapidly shrinking under pandemic

  26-01-2021 16:13
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Statistics for 2020 show deaths spiked in Poland to a level unseen since World War II and births sharply declined, trends attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and described by some as a demographic crisis. ......
  
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• Man caught trying to smuggle 74 chameleons into Austria OLD

  26-01-2021 16:13 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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• Man caught trying to smuggle 74 chameleons into Austria in his socks

  26-01-2021 16:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  On the black market they would sell for for about 37,000 euros ($44,9700), officials said.
  
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• Disney to redesign Jungle Cruise ride at theme parks, remove 'negative depictions' of indigenous peoples

  26-01-2021 16:13
  Disney is making a change for the better by updating the Jungle Cruise ride at its bicoastal theme parks, removing “negative depictions” of indigenous peoples. ......
  
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• Urgent: Xi says ready to announce China-S. Korea Year of Cultural Exchanges with Moon

  26-01-2021 16:10
  
  BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi...
  
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• Covid: Curfew stays despite 'scum' riots in Dutch cities

  26-01-2021 16:10
  The Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands. Shops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: "It's scum doing this". More than 180 arrests have been made. The Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had "anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate". The criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Shop-owners in Rotterdam,
  
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• China, Pakistan launch online agro-industrial platform to boost cooperation

  26-01-2021 16:10
  
  ISLAMABAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- China and Pakistan on Tuesday launched an online platform to collect and display information and achievements of agricultural and industrial cooperation between the two countries, aiming at enhancing bilateral cooperation under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the two sectors. The...
  
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• Fox News presenter insists there was no post-Christmas spike in Covid cases despite large increase

  26-01-2021 16:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  US recorded highest ever daily number of coronavirus cases and deaths in early January
  
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• People still trapped in their homes after deadly Alabama tornado

  26-01-2021 16:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We want to search every house and make sure no one is trapped,’ says Fultondale mayor Larry Holcomb
  
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• Mexico’s pandemic policy: no ‘coercive’ measures

  26-01-2021 16:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mexico adopted the policy of no arrests, curfews or fines for Covid related offence   
  
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• UN Secretary-General: World Alliance Needed to Combat Antisemitism

  26-01-2021 15:58
  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters, at the UN headquarters, in New York City, New York, Sept. 14, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Mike Segar / File. JNS.org – On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said “coordinated global action” was needed to combat the increase of neo-Nazism and white...
  
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• Biden Nominee Called US Recognition of Golan Heights ‘Blatant Political Move’

  26-01-2021 15:58
  Neera Tanden speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – US President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) called the US recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights in March 2019 as “a blatant political...
  
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• 1 dead, at least 17 injured after tornado rips Alabama town

  26-01-2021 15:58
  FULTONDALE, Ala. (AP) — A teenager huddling in his basement was killed and several of his family members were critically injured when a tornado blew a tree onto their home in Alabama and it collapsed on top of them, police said Tuesday. The tornado left a swath of destruction Monday night in Fultondale, a Jefferson County city north of Birmingham. Piles of furniture, appliances and tree limbs were strewn about and vehicles ended up in awkward positions, as if a child had...
  
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