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• Things to Know: Virus experts hope Super Bowl won't sack US

  06-02-2021 23:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Health officials are on edge as the coronavirus clashes with a Sunday sports event that typically brings millions of people together: the NFL Super Bowl
  
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• Italy’s Draghi wins support of 2 rival parties for new government

  06-02-2021 21:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Italian Premier-designate Mario Draghi 'has secured preliminary support from two key parties for forming a new government that will decide how to spend more than 200 billion euros ($240 billion) in European Union pandemic-recovery funds
  
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• A look inside how CBS planned Super Sunday coverage

  06-02-2021 20:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  CBS and NBC trading Super Bowls is one of the rare times it might end up benefitting both networks
  
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• Flooding hits some French towns as water recedes elsewhere

  06-02-2021 19:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Floodwaters that devastated vineyards and orchards are receding in southwest France but rising elsewhere, including in a French town where people were evacuated from flooded homes
  
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• Officials plead: Don't let Super Bowl become superspreader

  06-02-2021 18:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The nation’s top health officials are sounding the alarm about the Super Bowl being a potential superspreader event
  
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• New Zealand men are still stuck in roles that risk harm to themselves and others | John Daniell and Glenn McConnell

  06-02-2021 18:00
  
  ‘Don’t be a dick’ was one useful motto we came across in our podcast examination of how to be a modern manIn a Wellington cafe, one of New Zealand’s most respected academics talked about the disconnect between his feelings and the way he knew he was supposed to be: “I could not understand why anyone would see putting your head between two other men’s buttocks as being the high point of New Zealand culture. I was staggered by it. But I never said that, of cours
  
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• Vladimir Putin is a ‘monkey with a grenade’: Navalny aide says it is time to get tough with Russian leader

  06-02-2021 17:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Leonid Volkov tells Oliver Carroll in Moscow that the Russian leadership will only start listening when its cash is under threat
  
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• Indonesian village turns red as floods hit batik dye manufacturing hub

  06-02-2021 17:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  The head of Pekalongan disaster relief, Dimas Arga Yudha, confirmed that the photos being circulated were real.
  
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• Family's lockdown adaptation of Total Eclipse of the Heart goes viral – video

  06-02-2021 16:46
  
  A family from Kent who shared a video of their living room performance of a third lockdown-themed Totally Fixed Where We Are has gone viral. Ben and Danielle Marsh and their four children first found fame with their version of a Les Misérables song, when they changed the lyrics of One Day More to reflect common complaints during the Covid-19 lockdown. The full rendition is available on the family’s YouTube channel Continue reading...
  
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• Trump’s renewal of federal executions could have sparked Covid superspreader event

  06-02-2021 16:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  A number of journalists, legal support and prison staff tested positive for coronavirus
  
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• Myanmar coup: Internet shutdown as crowds protest against military

  06-02-2021 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The national blackout comes amid the biggest protest so far against this week's military takeover.
  
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• French couple jailed after boy's fatal beating revealed accidentally in call

  06-02-2021 15:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A French couple are jailed after the cause of a toddler's death is given away in an emergency call.
  
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• Dozens rescued after becoming stranded on broken ice on Lake Michigan

  06-02-2021 15:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Several agencies spent four hours rescuing fisherman stuck on ice floes
  
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• Lou Dobbs: Fox cancels vocal Trump supporter's programme

  06-02-2021 14:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The broadcaster is being sued, along with Fox, for spreading baseless claims of election fraud.
  
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• Brussels unity in tatters: Baltic states snub EU on China summit and chose Biden alliance

  06-02-2021 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EU UNITY is splintering after a number of member states decided to split from the rest and snub a Chinese summit - instead deciding to focus on the US.
  
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• Kenyan stowaway survives 19,000ft flight clinging to landing gear in sub-zero temperatures

  06-02-2021 14:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Teenager would have been starved of oxygen and faced conditions of -30C during London to Maastricht journey
  
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• Myanmar coup: Military imposes ‘near total’ internet shutdown as protesters take to the streets

  06-02-2021 14:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Connectivity at 16 percent compared to ordinary levels as military moves to limit online communication
  
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• Israel prepares strike against Iran after radioactive traces uncovered near nuclear sites

  06-02-2021 13:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RADIOACTIVE TRACES have been uncovered near nuclear sites in Iran, sparking concern that the Islamic Republic is just weeks away from a nuclear bomb.
  
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• Biden: 'Erratic' Trump should not get intelligence briefings

  06-02-2021 13:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden said Mr Trump "might slip and say something" if given access to state secrets.
  
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• Christopher Plummer: Hollywood pays tribute to 'one of the greats'

  06-02-2021 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Oscar winner, who has died aged 91, is praised as "an extraordinary man" and "consummate actor".
  
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• Thousands march in protest against Myanmar military coup – video

  06-02-2021 11:54
  
  Thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon on Saturday to denounce this week’s military coup and demand the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's ousted leader. Myanmar’s junta has tried to silence dissent by temporarily blocking Facebook and extended the social media crackdown to Twitter and Instagram on Saturday in the face of the growing protest movementMyanmar military shuts down internet as thousands protest against coupAung San Suu Kyi aide arrested as Mya
  
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• Adam Schiff: Conspiracy theories ‘orbiting’ around Trump have turned the Republican Party into a cult

  06-02-2021 11:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Senior Democrat warns links with 'lunatic fringe' are disaster for Republicans and America
  
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• Indian farmers plan nationwide 3-hour blockade of highways

  06-02-2021 07:18
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers plan to blockade highways across the...
  
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• Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about

  06-02-2021 07:18
  
  It’s one of the great Hollywood ironies that Christopher Plummer didn’t like the film that made him a legend. He was an actor’s actor and had cut his teeth doing Shakespeare. “The Sound of Music,” he thought, was sentimental shlock. And he...
  
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• As Trump prosecutor, delegate gets her say on impeachment

  06-02-2021 07:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Stacey Plaskett couldn't cast a vote last month when the House impeached former President Donald Trump. But she can help prosecute him. The non-voting delegate from the Virgin Islands is among the impeachment managers...
  
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• Tiny chameleon found in Madagascar contends for title of world's smallest reptile

  06-02-2021 07:17
  
  BERLIN (AP) — It fits on a human fingertip, but this chameleon could make a big splash. Scientists from Madagascar and Germany say a newly discovered species of chameleon is a contender for the title of world's smallest reptile. Frank Glaw, who was part of the international team of researchers that classified the new species and named it Brookesia nana said the body of the male specimen appeared to be just 13.5-millimeters-long (a little more than 1/2-inch). That's at least 1.5 millimeters
  
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• Star buys: celebrities send meteorite prices into orbit

  06-02-2021 07:17
  
  Elon Musk, Steven Spielberg and Nicolas Cage among those who collect rocks that can cost millions They really are from out of this world, and the prices are astronomical. For those who have everything they need on Earth, what they now want is a little bit of space. Meteorites are attracting the...
  
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• Rio Tinto accepts it bungled communication with Juukan Gorge traditional owners

  06-02-2021 07:17
  The admission comes after the PKKP accused the mining giant of failing to notify them of an executive reshuffle Rio Tinto has accepted it bungled its communication of executive changes to traditional owners of the destroyed Juukan Gorge site. The admission comes as the company’s new chief executive,...
  
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• Myanmar: Australian adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi, Sean Turnell, 'being detained'

  06-02-2021 07:17
  
  Economist from Macquarie University tells Reuters news agency ‘I am fine and strong and not guilty of anything’ Sean Turnell, an Australian economic adviser to Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, has told the news agency Reuters that he is being detained, days after the Burmese leader was arrested in a...
  
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• 'I'm stressed. I shout. Can I do better?': experts advise on pandemic parenting

  06-02-2021 07:17
  
  Struggling to stay calm and positive? We’re here to help My son Freddie, four, is terrified of catching Covid-19. He says he is worried about picking it up in the park. He has gone from being an extrovert to withdrawn and lonely. Will I ever get the old Freddie back? Dr Paul Kelly , a consultant...
  
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• Biden cancels Houthi terror designation, restoring Yemen aid

  06-02-2021 07:17
  
  UN welcomes reversal of Trump-Pompeo order as state department says it is purely to alleviate ‘world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ The United States has said it intends to revoke the terrorist designation of the Houthi movement in response to Yemen’s humanitarian crisis – reversing one of the most...
  
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• Oscar winner, ‘Sound of Music’ star Christopher Plummer dies

  06-02-2021 07:14
  
  Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film “The Sound of Music”...
  
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• Fired Rochester police chief says he didn't see anything 'egregious' in body cam video of ...

  06-02-2021 07:14
  The former police chief of Rochester, New York said Friday he didn't seen anything "egregious" or any criminal conduct from police officers when he first watched body camera video of the incident that led to the death of a Black man in the city in March 2020. La'Ron Singletary, who was fired in mid-September a few days after announcing his resignation, testified in a...
  
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• California adds mass vaccination sites despite short supply

  06-02-2021 07:14
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is adding mass inoculation sites even as the shortage of coronavirus vaccine has local officials restricting who gets shots, with Los Angeles County saying it will limit new vaccinations to ensure second doses are available to those already in line for them. Santa Clara County and the San Francisco 49ers said Friday they will open California’s largest vaccination site at Levi’s Stadium early next week. It eventually will be capable of inject
  
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• Sino-Burmese residents in Taiwan rally against Myanmar coup

  06-02-2021 07:11
  Taiwan is home to around 40,000 people originally from Myanmar, most of whom are ethic Chinese. Some are descendents of Nationalist troops trapped in Myanmar at the end of China's civil war in 1949 and others have come more recently, fleeing repression and anti-Chinese sentiment. PUBLISHED ON FEB 06, 2021 10:44 AM IST Hundreds of people from Taiwan's large...
  
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• Biden mulls ways to ease Iran's financial pains without lifting key sanctions

  06-02-2021 07:11
  
  Reviving the Iran deal has emerged as one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile foreign policy challenges, part of a slew of actions meant to halt or reverse initiatives championed by Trump’s national security team. PUBLISHED ON FEB 06, 2021 11:02 AM IST The Biden administration is weighing ways to ease Iran’s financial pain without lifting crushing economic sanctions -- including on oil sales -- as a step toward reviving the 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by former Presid
  
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• Myanmar's coup reveals cracks in divided region

  06-02-2021 07:04
  
  Hong Kong, February 6 (ANI): The Myanmar military's brazen coup against Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically-elected government has sent shockwaves across Southeast Asia and revealed new cracks in their increasingly trade-driven collective bloc, reported Asia Times. The coup has jolted the 10-members Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Brunei, and Laos. This is due to their years of collectiv
  
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• U.S. trade deficit surges to 12-year high in 2020 amid COVID-19 fallout

  06-02-2021 07:02
  WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- The overall U.S. trade deficit surged to a 12-year high in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic weighed on both exports and imports, the U.S. Commerce Department...
  
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• Nigeria cautions financial institutions against crypto-currency dealing

  06-02-2021 07:02
  
  LAGOS, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's apex bank has warned all financial institutions in the country to desist from dealing in crypto-currencies as it is illegal. The warning was in...
  
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• Airstrikes kill 18 militants in E. Afghanistan: gov't

  06-02-2021 07:02
  
  JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least 18 Taliban militants were killed when the Afghan Air Force struck a militants' position in...
  
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• Australian advisor to Aung San Suu Kyi 'detained'

  06-02-2021 07:00
  
  Sean Turnell, an economic advisor to Myanmar's toppled leader Aung San Suu Kyi, says he has been detained in the country. ......
  
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• 8 questions for David Culver about what it was like to return to Wuhan, China

  06-02-2021 06:59
  More than a year after the first cases of Covid-19 were detected in Wuhan, China, Go There travels back to the city of 11 million people to hear about the lessons learned from the pandemic. David Culver was in Wuhan in January 2020 -- when he had to leave hours before a massive lockdown -- and has since revisited the city twice, getting to know the stories of ordinary residents who were the first to experience a once-in-a-100-years virus outbreak that has since swept the world. We asked readers
  
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• UK to start hotel quarantine February 15 amid criticism of delay

  06-02-2021 06:57
  Everyone arriving in the U.K. from countries identified as coronavirus hotspots will have...
  
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• More contagious virus variant accounts for 6% of cases in Germany

  06-02-2021 06:57
  
  A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first detected in Britain now accounts for almost 6% of all cases in...
  
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• U.S. plan to take Yemen's Houthis off blacklist gives relief to millions, U.N. says

  06-02-2021 06:56
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday...
  
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• Rainfall expected to ease bushfire in Australia's west

  06-02-2021 06:56
  
  Read full article Lidia Kelly6 February 2021, 5:36 am·1-min read By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Firefighters battling a devastating bushfire that has destroyed 86 homes on the outskirts of Perth in Western Australia hope heavy rain forecast over the weekend will help douse the flames, state authorities said on Saturday. Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in Perth, complicating a five-day lockdown imposed on Monday on the...
  
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• Ousted Myanmar officials: We are real government

  06-02-2021 06:56
  YANGON, Myanmar — Hundreds of members of Myanmar’s deposed ruling party declared themselves Friday to be the sole legitimate representatives of the people and asked for international recognition as the country’s government. ......
  
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• China set to squeeze UK’s visa offer for HK

  06-02-2021 06:53
  
  HONG KONG – China is expected to step up retaliation in March against the United Kingdom’s scheme to offer citizenship to millions of Hong Kong people. Since last July, mainland academic and newspapers have suggested that Beijing will strip the Chinese citizenship and Hong Kong permanent residency of British National (Overseas) (BNO) passport holders who are given UK citizenship. On January 29, the Chinese government said it would stop recognizing the BNO as a travel and identity doc
  
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• US-Taliban pact has no element of peace, says Haqqani

  06-02-2021 06:50
  
  The agreement between the US and the Taliban has no element of peace and is basically a withdrawal pact for American troops from war-torn Afghanistan, a former Pakistani diplomat has said. “As a longtime critic of the US and Taliban agreement, I see it as a withdrawal agreement with no elements of peace. The Taliban were made to commit to only one thing, that they would enter intra-Afghan talks, not that they would agree to peace,” Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani Ambassador to t
  
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• Thousands protest against coup in Myanmar's biggest city

  06-02-2021 06:50
  Thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon on Saturday to denounce this week's coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the first such demonstration since the generals seized power. "Military dictator, fail, fail; Democracy, win, win," protesters chanted, calling for the military to free Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi and other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) who have been detained since the coup on Monday. "Against military dictatorship" read th
  
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