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• Biden orders federal support for Navajo Nation’s Covid-19 crisis

  03-02-2021 23:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Major disaster declared at epicentre of Indian Country where more than 1,000 people have died from disease
  
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• Myanmar's military coup protested with pots and pans

  03-02-2021 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The military took control of the country a decade after handing power to a civilian government.
  
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• Murder rate up in 30 American cities

  03-02-2021 23:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Despite the rise in murders, burglaries, larcenies and robberies decreased
  
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• Randy Rainbow releases parody song about GOP congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene

  03-02-2021 22:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘While these schmos happily write her checks, she blames Muslims and satanic pizza sex,’ the comedian sings to the tune of Barbra Streisand’s ‘Evergreen’
  
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• Italy calls ‘Super Mario’ to form new government

  03-02-2021 22:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  He says the country faces ‘difficult moment’ 
  
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• The Hong Kong exodus is coming

  03-02-2021 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  The erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy by China is forcing its citizens to decide between escaping or taking a stand, writes Brian McGleenon
  
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• WHO team visits Wuhan lab at centre of virus ‘leak’ theories

  03-02-2021 22:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  The lab visited by WHO is equipped to handle the most dangerous Class 4 pathogens 
  
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• Republicans try to remove Ilhan Omar from committees after Democrats sought to punish Marjorie Taylor Greene

  03-02-2021 22:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ms Greene’s comments have provoked controversy in and outside her party
  
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• Pelosi says ‘cowardly’ McCarthy has made GOP the QAnon party over Marjorie Taylor Greene scandal

  03-02-2021 22:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  It’s the latest fallout from the widening scandal around congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s controversial comments
  
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• Three weeks before George Floyd killing, accused officers violently detained another Black man

  03-02-2021 22:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Adrian Drakeford was later released without charge
  
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• Press in line of fire as Russian authorities tighten grip post-Navalny

  03-02-2021 20:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Court jails media editor for 25 days as Kremlin intensifies crackdown
  
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• Nanaia Mahuta: New Zealand's Māori foreign minister is the perfect diplomat | Morgan Godfery

  03-02-2021 20:00
  
  She is impossible to miss, understands both sides of the Māori debate and speaks up on foreign policy in a way that works well for Jacinda Ardern In a room of dignitaries, New Zealand’s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta is impossible to miss. She is the first woman to sit in the country’s parliament wearing a moko kauae, an ancient Māori tattoo form. Koru patterns wrap around her chin, framing it in rich black inks, a visual statement that “I am Māori”.Continu
  
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• Golden Globes 2021: Nominees announced

  03-02-2021 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mank leads with six nominations in the film categories, while the Crown dominates the TV categories.
  
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• Trump era adversaries Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels bury hatchet

  03-02-2021 19:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pair will speak on podcast in first interaction since their legal drama ended 
  
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• Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lies in honour at US Capitol

  03-02-2021 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  He died from injuries sustained while on duty during the Capitol riots on 6 January.
  
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• Study finds COVID-19 vaccine may reduce virus transmission

  03-02-2021 19:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  A new study may help answer answer one of the big open questions about the campaign to suppress the coronavirus outbreak
  
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• Switzerland withholds approval for AstraZeneca Covid vaccine citing lack of evidence

  03-02-2021 19:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  Country orders millions more doses from other manufacturers
  
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• US military halts Trump order to withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany

  03-02-2021 19:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Move is to allow the new US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin, to carry out a review
  
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• Alexei Navalny: what you need to know

  03-02-2021 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The anti-corruption campaigner has been described as the man Vladimir Putin “fears the most” – here’s what you need to know.
  
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• Press in line of fire as Russian authorities tighten post-Navalny crackdown

  03-02-2021 18:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Court jails opposition editor for 25 days in a broadening of Kremlin clampdown 
  
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• Record gun sales in January after Capitol insurrection

  03-02-2021 18:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Violent effort to overturn election result and start of Biden presidency both thought to have contributed to spike
  
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• Fox News blasted for coverage of Capitol police officer memorial

  03-02-2021 17:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  CNN, CSpan, and MSNBC all carried rolling live coverage as respect was paid to Officer Brian Sicknick
  
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• Canada designates Proud Boys a terrorist group

  03-02-2021 17:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Canadian government has voted to list the Proud Boys as a terrorist organisation, according to the Toronto Star.  
  
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• Justice Department drops Trump-era lawsuit accusing Yale of discriminating against white and Asian applicants

  03-02-2021 17:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  US Department of Justice attorneys dismissed a lawsuit against Yale University alleging that the Ivy League institution discriminated against white and Asian students in its admissions process.
  
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• Thousands rally in Croatia as pandemic rules hurt businesses

  03-02-2021 17:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Croatian man who was detained for opening his gym in defiance of anti-virus rules has become a symbol of resistance for thousands of small business owners who have rallied on against government lockdown measures
  
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• US administering 1.3m vaccines per day as Covid cases and hospitalisations decline: ‘We’re on track’

  03-02-2021 17:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The United States has administered an average of 1.3 million Covid-19 vaccine doses per day in the last week, as cases and hospitalisations continue to decline across the country. 
  
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• GameStop stock tipster Roaring Kitty reveals he lost $13m in one day

  03-02-2021 17:23 via independent.co.uk
  
   Share price for gaming merchandise retailer fell 60 per cent on Tuesday
  
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• Swiss cruise ship becomes vaccine ‘shot ship’ for lakeside towns

  03-02-2021 16:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  MS Thurgau passenger ship to deliver vaccine doses to Romanshorn, Arbon and Kreuzlingen towns
  
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• New Jersey man gets rare face and hands transplant after car crash

  03-02-2021 16:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  Complex transplant procedure has only ever been attempted twice before
  
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• Hundreds of congressional aides sign open letter telling bosses to convict Trump

  03-02-2021 16:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  They describe hiding ‘behind chairs and under desks’ and barricading themselves in offices, while others watched events of 6 January on TV while they ‘frantically tried to reach bosses and colleagues as they fled for their lives’
  
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• Three National Guard members killed in helicopter crash near Boise

  03-02-2021 16:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  All three people on board were pilots, and were taking part in a routine training flight
  
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• Sierra Leone man on trial in Finland for Liberian war crimes

  03-02-2021 15:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  A trial has started in Finland for a Sierra Leone man charged with committing serious war crimes, including several murders, and crimes against humanity during Liberia’s bloody second civil war from 1999 through 2003
  
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• Every US state to see temperatures below freezing over next week

  03-02-2021 15:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We are heading into the coldest air of the season, it will feel jolting’
  
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• Education nominee vows to tackle problems worsened by virus

  03-02-2021 15:32 via independent.co.uk
  President Joe Biden’s nominee for education secretary is promising to help reopen schools but says much of the hardest work will come after that as schools try to address long-standing disparities worsened by the pandemic
  
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• Missouri lawmaker charged with selling fake Covid stem cell treatments

  03-02-2021 15:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The defendant abused her privileged position to enrich herself through deception,’ says US attorney Tim Garrison
  
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• Country star Morgan Wallen apologizes after racial slur

  03-02-2021 15:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Country star Morgan Wallen has apologized after a video surfaced showed him shouting a racial slur
  
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• ‘A new chance at life’: New Jersey man gets rare face and hands transplant

  03-02-2021 14:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Complex transplant procedure has only ever been attempted twice before
  
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• France to start producing coronavirus vaccines at four labs amid pressure to speed up innoculations

  03-02-2021 14:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Emmanuel Macron says jabs must also be supplied to poorer developing countries
  
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• Rihanna and Greta Thunberg among international celebrities tweeting support for protesting Indian farmers

  03-02-2021 14:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  After Republic Day violence, Modi government has dug ditches on highways, embedded spikes on the roads and cut internet in areas where farmers are protesting
  
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• Women systematically raped and tortured in Uighur ‘re-education’ camps, says report

  03-02-2021 14:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former detainees give testimonies detailing experiences of sexual abuse, rape and torture in camps
  
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• Eiffel Tower receives €50m makeover to make it look more golden for the Olympics

  03-02-2021 14:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  The ‘yellow-brown’ shade was apparently the colour that Gustave Eiffel wanted the tower to be painted in 
  
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• Hong Kong locks down entire residential blocks without warning to contain Covid outbreaks

  03-02-2021 14:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officials were allowed to break into people’s homes if they did not comply with testing, and to seal residential blocks without warning
  
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• British academic facing jail in Iran makes daring escape to UK

  03-02-2021 13:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Anthropologist who studied FGM describes harrowing experiences in infamous prison
  
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• Canada regrets ‘misunderstanding’ over Wu-Tang symbol on diplomat’s Wuhan T-shirt

  03-02-2021 13:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Use of hip-hop group’s logo ‘not intended to represent a bat’, Canadians insist
  
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• Australia urges thousands to abandon Covid lockdown as bushfire threatens Perth

  03-02-2021 13:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Officials urge residents to put ‘immediate preservation of life’ before suspected low ‘risk of catching virus’
  
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• Microsoft back Australia’s proposed law to make Google pay for news

  03-02-2021 12:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Microsoft’s president Brad Smith said: ‘We believe that the current legislative proposal represents a fundamental step towards a more level playing field and a fairer digital ecosystem for consumers, business and society’
  
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• Court rules France failed to respect its climate change goal

  03-02-2021 12:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Macron’s lobbying for global climate action is not backed up by sufficient domestic measures, environmental groups say
  
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• China blocks UN from condemning Myanmar coup

  03-02-2021 12:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chinese state media had played the coup down as a ‘cabinet reshuffle’
  
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• China not convinced by Canada's Wu-Tang Clan explanation

  03-02-2021 12:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  A ruckus brought by China over Canadian T-shirts bearing an altered logo of the New York hip-hop group Wu-Tang clan is continuing, with China’s Foreign Ministry saying it doesn't buy Canada’s explanation that the shirts were not an insult linked to the coronavirus
  
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• China bans mobile phones in schools to ‘protect students’ eyesight’ and prevent addiction

  03-02-2021 11:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Teachers told not to set homework through devices
  
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