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• Robber accidentally shoots himself in the leg while trying to break into a house

  27-01-2021 23:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police made arrest after suspect walked into hospital with gunshot wound
  
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• Antony Blinken: New US secretary of state says world wants US ‘back in the room, back at the table’

  27-01-2021 23:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Blinken notes role of free press in defending democracy ‘including right here at home’
  
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• Palm Beach reviewing whether Trump can live at Mar-a-Lago after years of complaints

  27-01-2021 23:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  The ex-president has repeatedly overstayed legal housing limits at his social club
  
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• 'We can't wait any longer': Biden announces plan to tackle 'existential' climate crisis – video

  27-01-2021 23:00
  
  In a sharp 180-degree turn from the Trump administration, Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders to address the 'existential threat' of the climate crisis. Biden insisted his climate plan would create millions of new 'clean' jobs to replace those lost in the coal and oil industriesBiden signals radical shift from Trump era with executive orders on climate changeUS politics liveContinue reading...
  
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• Curt Shilling: Pro-Trump All-Star pitcher blasts ‘coward’ baseball writers after ninth Hall of Fame rejection

  27-01-2021 22:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mr Shilling reached 71.8 per cent support, most of any player, but still short of 75 per cent barrier to be inducted into baseball Hall of Fame
  
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• Facebook 4Q results soar, in prelude to an uncertain 2021

  27-01-2021 22:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, its user base boosted by people staying home and its revenue buoyed by a shift to digital advertising amid the pandemic
  
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• Trump supporter found with bombs and machine guns threatened to attack Democrats and Twitter, FBI says

  27-01-2021 22:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  The man had thousands of rounds of ammunition and appeared to support right-wing militias
  
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• EU demands AstraZeneca supply bloc with vaccine doses produced in UK

  27-01-2021 22:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  EU says it is yet to make breakthrough in talks with British-Swedish drug maker as tensions rise over vaccine
  
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• Video emerges of Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Parkland gun-control activist David Hogg

  27-01-2021 22:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  It comes as old Facebook posts appeared to show the Congresswoman support violence against Democrats 
  
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• Grandmother ‘overjoyed’ to be outside after receiving Covid-19 vaccine killed in Portland vehicle attack

  27-01-2021 22:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police have not released a motive in the attack 
  
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• Biden climate tsar John Kerry says Trump sold workers ‘false narrative’ about job losses

  27-01-2021 21:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kerry apologised for the US’s lack of leadership in the fight against climate change under the Trump administration
  
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• Britons among 89 people arrested for breaking Covid rules at bar party in Thailand, police say

  27-01-2021 21:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Official says those arrested on popular resort island came from more than 10 countries
  
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• Twitter troll accused of telling people they could cast ballot by text is arrested for voter suppression

  27-01-2021 21:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  As many as 4,900 people fell for a vote-by-text scheme in 2016’s election
  
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• Government lawyer tells court MI5 officers could authorise murder

  27-01-2021 21:39
  
  Admission came hours before bill allowing continuation of controversial powers passed the CommonsGovernment lawyers have told a court that MI5 officers could authorise an informer to carry out a murder under controversial powers that ministers want to see continued contained in a bill that passed the Commons hours later.The admission came in a court of appeal hearing on Wednesday when Sir James Eadie, representing the government, was asked if there was “a power for a Security Service offic
  
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• New malaria mosquito emerges in African cities

  27-01-2021 21:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Malaria risks may rise in urban areas, researchers say
  
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• Biden signals radical shift from Trump era with executive orders on climate change

  27-01-2021 21:18
  
  ‘We need to be bold,’ Biden says, signing orders to halt fossil fuel activity on public lands and transform the government’s fleet of cars into electric vehiclesUS politics – follow liveJoe Biden has warned the climate crisis poses an “existential threat” to the world as he unveiled a radical change in direction from the Trump era by halting fossil fuel activity on public lands and directing the US government to start a full-frontal effort to lower planet-heat
  
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• How quarantine rules work and what UK government is planning

  27-01-2021 21:00
  
  Analysis: Arrivals from high-risk countries will have to pay to isolate in a hotel under Boris Johnson’s proposalsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWith new hotel quarantine measures for international arrivals from high-risk countries due to be introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19, focus falls on how they will work.Here, we look at what the rules are now and what’s being done by the UK government to toughen border controls. Continue reading...
  
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• EU's vaccine supply issues mean light at end of tunnel that much further away

  27-01-2021 20:40
  
  Analysis: Frustration around restrictions in Netherlands could be voiced in other countriesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn recent nights, rioters have poured on to the streets of 10 Dutch cities in what has been the closest Europe has come to open revolt against the coronavirus restrictions imposed across the continent.The violence, the worst in four decades, might be put down to the liberty-loving culture of the country or an outbreak of straightforward crim
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: Some states cautiously ease virus restrictions

  27-01-2021 20:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Several states are loosening their coronavirus restrictions on restaurants and other businesses because of improved infection and hospitalization numbers but are moving cautiously, in part because of the more contagious variant taking hold
  
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• One of six militia men charged with trying to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer pleads guilty

  27-01-2021 20:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Federal authorities already had informants and undercover agents inside the plot, but the plea gives them an even stronger hand
  
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• Medical community dispels false anti-vaxxer conspiracy that Hank Aaron’s death was linked to Covid vaccine

  27-01-2021 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Baseball Hall of Famer died of natural causes two weeks after receiving first dose
  
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• CDC director says anaphylaxis reaction to Covid as low as two-in-million as US vaccinates record 1.6m per day

  27-01-2021 19:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘These are rare treatable outcomes,’ Dr Rochelle Walensky says
  
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• Boris Johnson ‘hopeful’ schools will reopen on 8 March – video

  27-01-2021 19:13
  
  Boris Johnson has said that 8 March is the earliest schools could reopen, but warned the date depended on ‘lots of things going right’. A firm decision will be taken in the week of 22 February after reviewing infection and vaccination data, the prime minister saidBoris Johnson hopes schools in England will reopen from 8 MarchUK Covid live Continue reading...
  
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• Florida topped global list of shark attacks in 2020

  27-01-2021 18:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  58 per cent of worldwide unprovoked incidents occurred in US waters
  
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• CDC Director says anaphylaxis reaction to Covid as low as 2-in-million as US vaccinates record 1.6m per day

  27-01-2021 18:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘These are rare treatable outcomes,’ Dr Rochelle Walensky says
  
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• Jan Psaki: How will Joe Biden’s press secretary differ from her White House predecessors?

  27-01-2021 18:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jen Psaki has struck a factual and friendly tone with reporters in her first week as press secretary for the new Biden administration. Joe Sommerlad on how her style differs from those who came before.
  
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• The truth about Biden’s tax policy and how it might affect you

  27-01-2021 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Democrat control of Congress means the White House now has a chance to overhaul US tax policy. So what should we expect from the Biden administration on the taxation front? Ben Chu investigates
  
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• North Korea-backed hackers posed as computer security bloggers to steal information, Google says

  27-01-2021 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Experts say country is working to improve its ability to perform cyber attacks
  
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• January becomes the deadliest month for Covid deaths in US, surpassing previous record in December

  27-01-2021 18:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  January has surpassed December as the deadliest month since the start of the pandemic, as the last two months make up more than one-third of total Covid-19 deaths in the United States.
  
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• Texas mother killed while making UberEats delivery

  27-01-2021 17:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘She was always having a good time, making people laugh and was generous and kind’
  
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• GameStop: Reddit users claim victory as $13bn hedge fund closes position, accepting huge losses

  27-01-2021 17:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Melvin Capital closes short position after social media users push struggling games retailers shares to meteoric rise
  
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• Will the origins of coronavirus remain buried forever in secrets and lies?

  27-01-2021 16:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  While the world battles to control Covid, an international team has arrived in China to investigate the source. But with evidence provided by Chinese officials, will we ever get to the truth? Kim Sengupta reports
  
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• UAE human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor kept in 2m x 2m cell for 4 years

  27-01-2021 15:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prominent government critic has spent years in total isolation without any means of contacting his loved ones  
  
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• US could make Covid tests mandatory for domestic air travel

  27-01-2021 15:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Testing is now required for majority of people travelling to America from other countries
  
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• Spain ‘to make it illegal’ for drivers not to slow down when overtaking cyclists

  27-01-2021 15:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  Punishments for breaching the new rules have not yet been confirmed, but could include points deducted from your licence or fines
  
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• 19 burned bodies found at Mexico border may include Guatemalan migrants

  27-01-2021 14:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Guatemala’s Congress said that lawmakers ‘mourned the tragic death of our migrant brothers from San Marcos’ on Monday
  
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• China miners rescued after knocking on pipe

  27-01-2021 14:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  The rescued miners said they comforted each other with encouraging words to survive 
  
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• German government cuts 2021 economic growth forecast to 3%

  27-01-2021 14:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The German government has revised its growth forecast for this year down to 3% as Europe’s biggest economy faces persistent headwinds from the coronavirus pandemic
  
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• Keep Covid rescue programmes or risk triggering stock market crash, warns IMF

  27-01-2021 14:47
  
  International Monetary Fund says there are concerns about share price bubbleGovernments and central banks must maintain their pandemic rescue programmes or risk triggering a stock market crash, the International Monetary Fund has said.Warning that there were legitimate concerns about a share price bubble, the Washington-based organisation said that without continued low interest rates and government subsidies it was possible a “correction” in stock markets would occur. Continue readi
  
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• Holocaust Remembrance Day – in pictures

  27-01-2021 14:38
  
  As the pandemic has forced the cancellation of most large gatherings, many institutions including the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in Poland, Yad Vashem museum in Israel and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC are marking Holocaust Remembrance Day this year with online eventsContinue reading...
  
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• NBA reporter Sekou Smith dies aged 48 ‘of Covid complications’

  27-01-2021 14:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Sekou was one of the most affable and dedicated reporters in the NBA’
  
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• US to indict Capitol rioters this week as FBI tracks down 400 suspects

  27-01-2021 14:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 135 people have been arrested so far, the vast majority on criminal complaints
  
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• Outcry after Indian court rules groping without removing clothes is not sexual assault

  27-01-2021 14:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Man accused of groping minor was acquitted by the Bombay High Court and charged with a less serious offence
  
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• 'Things are getting worse': Tunisia protests rage on as latest victim named

  27-01-2021 14:18
  
  Police brutality and unemployment worsened by the pandemic continues to drive young protesters onto streets to demand reformThe latest victim of Tunisia’s current unrest has been named as Haykel Rachdi, from Sbeitla in Kasserine, near the Algerian border. He died of his injuries on Monday night after reportedly being struck on the head by a police teargas canister.Protests were continuing on Wednesday, with police pushing back hundreds of mainly young demonstrators outside the country&rsqu
  
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• The double refugees: The family who fled Syria’s civil war and ended up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh

  27-01-2021 14:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Raffi and his relatives face trying to repair lives a second time because of war, reports Jack Losh in Dilijan, Armenia
  
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• US B-52 bomber again flies over Mideast amid Iran tensions

  27-01-2021 13:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  The U.S. military says it has again flown a B-52 bomber over the Middle East “to deter potential aggression” amid tensions with Iran
  
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• India farmer leaders condemn violent scenes in capital but refuse to end protests

  27-01-2021 13:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Collective of farmers’ unions spearheading the protests blames Tuesday’s deadly clashes on 'anti-social elements’
  
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• 11-year-old environmentalist receives death threats for activism

  27-01-2021 13:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Student is recognised by the UN for his activism
  
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• NBA reporter Sekou Smith dies of Covid complications, reports say

  27-01-2021 13:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Sekou was one of the most affable and dedicated reporters in the NBA’
  
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• AstraZeneca denies pulling out of EU meeting amid deepening row over Covid vaccine deliveries

  27-01-2021 13:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  The EU has been at loggerheads with the company over its failure to deliver pre-agreed supplies of the Covid-19 jab
  
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