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• GameStop: Stock market faces worst week since October as hedge funds face $19bn losses

  29-01-2021 23:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  The market faced its worst week since October, but GameStop’s stock closed 131 per cent higher for the day 
  
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• Activists: Next Columbus police chief must be an outsider

  29-01-2021 22:20 via independent.co.uk
  Community activists critical of policing in Ohio's largest city say its next chief must come from outside the agency
  
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• Coronavirus is an existential crisis that comes from an awareness of your own freedoms | Dr Sarb Johal

  29-01-2021 22:00
  
  Book extract: A lot of things will change as a result of this pandemic and it’s clear the recovery won’t be marked by a discrete eventIn 1844, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “Whoever has learnt to be anxious in the right way, has learnt the ultimate.”I’m no Kierkegaard, but I think he may have been on to something. The anxiety we may be experiencing in these coronavirus times might be something that feels different, deeper, and beyond perhaps you
  
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• 'We had no paper, no pens, but we had our bodies': the sacred and symbolic in Pasifika tattoos | Lagipoiva Cherelle

  29-01-2021 21:00
  
  The New Zealand foreign minister’s moko has become international news, but beyond an identifier, our tatau are a link to ancestors, a vessel for our cultures’ stories, and a tribute to those who have gone beforeShortly before my interview with six Europeans at a roundtable in Germany, I gently covered my hand tattoo with a skin-toned foundation.I knew that without the proper context, they would stereotype me in the western sense and presume me either a criminal or at least uneducated
  
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• Arlene Foster: EU limit on vaccines into Northern Ireland is 'hostile and aggressive' – video

  29-01-2021 20:57
  
  Stormont's first minister branded the EU’s triggering of article 16 of Brexit’s Northern Ireland protocol to stop the unfettered flow of inoculations from the EU into the region an 'incredible act of hostility'EU moves to stop Northern Ireland being used as a vaccine backdoorCoronavirus live newsEU leaves UK off exempt list for tighter vaccine export controls Continue reading...
  
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• GameStop news live: Short sellers lose $19bn as Omar says billionaires who pressured apps should go to jail

  29-01-2021 20:46 via independent.co.uk
  
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• GameStop news - live: Short sellers lose $19bn in Reddit stock war as Ilhan Omar says billionaires who may have pressured stock share apps should go to prison

  29-01-2021 20:35 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Capitol riots: Pipe bomb suspect reward up to 100k as new video emerges

  29-01-2021 20:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  FBI releases image of man thought to have planted explosive devices
  
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• Robinhood: Why are traders bringing a class action against share-dealing app?

  29-01-2021 20:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Court filing claims company acted 'knowingly to manipulate the market for the benefit of people and financial institutions who were not Robinhood's customers’
  
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• European Commission introduces vaccine export controls amid AstraZeneca supplies dispute

  29-01-2021 20:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Power to restrict jabs leaving continent introduced as bloc rows with Astrazeneca over vaccine supply chain 
  
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• GameStop news - live: Short sellers lose $19bn in Reddit stock war as Warren demands answers from SEC

  29-01-2021 19:43 via independent.co.uk
  
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• ‘Variants arise when infections run wild’: Expert blames countries’ poor Covid response for new mutations

  29-01-2021 19:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  “Letting [the] virus run wild, like US, Brazil did, endangers everyone,” Dr Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University School of Public Health, says
  
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• GameStop news – live: Stocks soar 100% at opening bell as short sellers face $19bn in losses

  29-01-2021 19:15 via independent.co.uk
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• Macron claims Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine ‘quasi-ineffective’ on older people

  29-01-2021 19:03 via independent.co.uk
  French president criticises UK’s rollout strategy amid row over EU delay
  
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• Capitol riots pipe bomb planter reward up to 100k as new video emerges

  29-01-2021 18:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Figure had previously been increased from both $50,000 and $75,000
  
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• 33-year-old Bucks exec Alex Lasry gets COVID vaccine early

  29-01-2021 18:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  A 33-year-old Milwaukee Bucks executive and son of a billionaire received the coronavirus vaccine this week at a senior living center in Milwaukee despite not being part of a group currently eligible for the shots in Wisconsin
  
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• How New Zealand band Six60 are playing to up to 30,000 fans

  29-01-2021 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  While concerts around the world are on hold, New Zealand band Six60 are playing to big audiences.
  
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• 'Finally some justice': court rules Shell Nigeria must pay for oil damage

  29-01-2021 18:08
  
  Nigerian farmers win claim for compensation in The Hague after 13-year battleA Dutch court has ordered Shell Nigeria to compensate farmers for major oil spills they say caused widespread pollution.On Friday an appeals court in The Hague rejected Shell’s argument that the spills were the result of sabotage, saying not enough evidence had been provided. Continue reading...
  
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• How the peace was lost: Taliban’s brutal insurgency in Kandahar and the world’s failure to stop it

  29-01-2021 17:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  As Nato forces launched one of the largest military offensives against the Taliban, Kim Sengupta saw first hand just how ferociously the militants fought back
  
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• Ahmed Wali Karzai: 'The stories are very hurtful. The only thing I haven't been accused of is prostitution'

  29-01-2021 17:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  If you believe his critics, Ahmed Wali Karzai is a corrupt gangster who has allowed the Taliban to flourish but remains untouchable because he is the President's brother. But, in a rare interview, he tells Kim Sengupta that his hands are clean
  
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• California man charged in Capitol riots was known for coronavirus lockdown defiance

  29-01-2021 17:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jacob Lewis has been charged with knowingly entering a restricted space and violent and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds
  
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• Guantánamo Bay detainees will be offered Covid vaccines to move forward with war crimes hearings

  29-01-2021 17:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prisoners could get their second doses day before arraignment, which would be first at base's war court since 2014
  
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• Fauci warns variants are a ‘wake up call’ as he heralds Johnson & Johnson vaccine in race to stop Covid

  29-01-2021 17:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dr Anthony Fauci has called the highly transmissible variants currently spreading through the world a “wake up call” for the public, but said Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine news was “very encouraging” in controlling Covid-19. 
  
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• Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps

  29-01-2021 17:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cicely Tyson was a Black actor who knocked down doors so other women of color could walk through them
  
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• Canadian couple who jumped Covid vaccine queue could face prison time

  29-01-2021 17:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  'Even if the fine was $50,000, it's not enough,' says First Nation official
  
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• Look away now hawks: Biden’s pick for Iran envoy underlines change in Washington

  29-01-2021 17:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Robert Malley served Obama and Clinton administrations and will seek to revive nuclear deal with Tehran
  
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• German financial oversight head out after Wirecard scandal

  29-01-2021 17:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Germany's finance ministry says the head of the country's financial supervisory authority is to leave the job as the agency is reorganized in the aftermath of the accounting scandal at payment systems provider Wirecard
  
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• North Macedonia threatens to block Telegram over porn-sharing message groups

  29-01-2021 17:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Four people arrested after thousands share nonconsensual pornography, minister says
  
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• European Commission imposes export ban on vaccines amid AstraZeneca supplies dispute

  29-01-2021 16:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Power to restrict jabs leaving continent introduced as bloc rows with British-Swedish firms over vaccine supply chain 
  
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• European commission brings in export ban on vaccines amid AstraZeneca row

  29-01-2021 16:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  The EU will place export controls on vaccines made in the bloc, the European Commision has confirmed following a bitter row over the delivery of the Oxford-Astrazeneca jab into the continent.
  
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• Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine approved for use in EU on all adults including over-65s

  29-01-2021 16:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jab authorised for all aged 18-plus despite row over effectiveness in elderly
  
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• GameStop news – live: Stocks soar 100% at opening bell as Robinhood warned by SEC

  29-01-2021 16:05 via independent.co.uk
  
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• GameStop news – live: Stocks soar 100% at opening bell as Robinhood reopens trading and gets $1bn injection

  29-01-2021 16:00 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Georgia suspends clinic’s Covid vaccine access after staff gave jabs to school workers

  29-01-2021 15:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  The centre has been accused of violating policy by inoculating people who were not eligible
  
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• Car lanes converted to bike-only on two New York City bridges

  29-01-2021 15:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s time to bring them into the 21st century and embrace the future,’ mayor says
  
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• Taliban creep closer to capturing former heartland as lack of pay undermines Afghan forces

  29-01-2021 14:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  The security situation in Kandahar is rapidly deteriorating amid on-going peace talks. Charlie Faulkner speaks to those desperately trying to push back the militants’ advances despite low morale
  
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• Russia tells EU: We can solve your vaccine supply crisis

  29-01-2021 14:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hundred million doses of controversial Sputnik V vaccine offered to Brussels on Twitter
  
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• GameStop news - live: Stocks soar again as restrictions lifted while under-fire Robinhood gets $1bn injection

  29-01-2021 14:40 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Opposition boycotts presidential address as farmer unrest overshadows opening of crucial India budget session

  29-01-2021 14:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Main opposition party warns government that protests will continue
  
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• Mexico Covid death toll passes India to become third worst in world

  29-01-2021 13:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hospitals nearly at breaking point, with people queueing to refill oxygen tanks amid shortages
  
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• Super Bowl LV: Tampa’s mayor issues outdoor face mask order

  29-01-2021 13:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We need everyone to do their part,’ says Jane Castor
  
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• 'Profound relief and joy' as 'Muslim ban' lifted

  29-01-2021 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Activists celebrated Biden's rescinding of the so-called "Muslim ban" but vowed to keep fighting.
  
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• Brexit: Amazon ‘to launch first Ireland fulfilment centre’ to mitigate UK border chaos

  29-01-2021 13:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Baldonnell site would be retail giant’s first packing centre in Ireland 
  
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• Portugal’s third Covid wave ‘driven by UK variant’

  29-01-2021 13:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  The country has the world’s highest per capita seven-day averages for cases and deaths
  
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• Covid: EU publishes disputed AstraZeneca Covid jab contract

  29-01-2021 12:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Commission seeks to back its argument that the drug-maker is reneging on its vaccine deal.
  
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• Covid: Africa secures another 400 million vaccine doses

  29-01-2021 12:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says another 400 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for the continent through the Serum Institute of India
  
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• Pioneering US actress Cicely Tyson dies aged 96

  29-01-2021 12:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  She was known for playing strong African-American characters during a career spanning seven decades.
  
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• Colombia Farc: Former rebels charged with war crimes

  29-01-2021 12:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the first major result for a court set up after the 2016 deal that ended decades of conflict.
  
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• Man arrested for cooking BBQ over eternal flame for fallen Russian soldiers

  29-01-2021 12:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russian faces charges after video goes viral online
  
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• Chile police officer sentenced for killing of Mapuche farmer on 'historic day'

  29-01-2021 12:00
  
  Camilo Catrillanca, 24, was shot during a vehicle chaseCase highlights treatment of largest indigenous groupA Chilean police officer has been jailed for killing a Mapuche farmer during a vehicle chase in a case that cast a harsh spotlight on the country’s treatment of its largest indigenous group. Related: Chile: four police officers arrested over fatal shooting of indigenous manContinue reading...
  
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