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• US Marines investigate viral TikTok of female Marine calling out Corps handling of sexual assault

  19-02-2021 23:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  II Marine Expeditionary Force says Marine in the video is ‘safe’
  
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• ‘Something bit my butt’: Alaska woman using outhouse attacked by bear

  19-02-2021 23:34
  
  Shannon Stevens was treated with first aid kit after incident in which bear face was seen at at toilet seat levelAn Alaska woman had the scare of a lifetime when using an outhouse in the backcountry and she was attacked by a bear, from below.“I got out there and sat down on the toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down,” Shannon Stevens told the Associated Press. “I jumped up and I screamed when it happened.” Continue reading...
  
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• Is business the 'path to peace' in the Middle East?

  19-02-2021 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How peace between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain is reshaping business and the region's alliances.
  
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• Alexander Levandowski: Former Google executive pardoned by Trump shutters AI church and donates funds to NAACP

  19-02-2021 23:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former tech executive’s church worshiped artificial intelligence
  
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• Kim Kardashian 'files to divorce Kanye West'

  19-02-2021 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The celebrity couple, who have four children, have been married since 2014.
  
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• Kim and Kanye: Tales of an uber celeb marriage gone wrong

  19-02-2021 22:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Holograms and Twitter rants, roving gospel gatherings and billion-dollar business ventures
  
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• Democrat Senator Joe Manchin opposes Biden budget pick over her ‘toxic’ tweets

  19-02-2021 22:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘No’ vote by Democrat could sink her nomination
  
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• Senator Joe Manchin opposes Biden budget pick over her ‘toxic’ tweets

  19-02-2021 22:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Senator Joe Manchin has announced he opposes the nomination of Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management & Budget, Neera Tanden.
  
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• New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern launches hunt for child’s bunny left behind at airport

  19-02-2021 22:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I think everyone who has a little person in their lives will know how important these precious things can be’
  
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• 'Kimye' is no more: Kardashian files to divorce West

  19-02-2021 21:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kim Kardashian West has filed for divorce from Kanye West after 6 1/2 years of marriage
  
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• Nasa scientists hail Perseverance rover's arrival on Mars with stunning images

  19-02-2021 21:27
  
  Car-sized vehicle designed to seek signs of life is pronounced ‘healthy’ after dramatic descent to surface of the red planetNasa scientists have said the Perseverance Mars rover is “healthy” and is beaming back many stunning new images from the surface of the planet, promising significant scientific discoveries ahead. Related: Perseverance’s mission to Mars – in picturesContinue reading...
  
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• Africa passes 100,000 Covid deaths

  19-02-2021 20:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Healthcare workers inmany countries are ‘dangerously overstretched’, WHO says
  
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• Somalia: Opposition protesters run from government gunfire

  19-02-2021 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Heavy gunfire breaks out in Somalia's capital as the opposition defies a ban to protest about delayed elections.
  
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• Princess Latifa 'being cared for at home' - Dubai royal family

  19-02-2021 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dubai's royal family says she is "being cared for at home" after she accused them of holding her hostage.
  
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• Judge says lawyer who killed her son also targeted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

  19-02-2021 20:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  “The most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor,” Judge Salas said
  
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• The Fat Boys’ Prince Markie Dee dies aged 52

  19-02-2021 20:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  A member of the Fat Boys hip-hop trio who later formed his own band and became a well-known radio host, Prince Markie Dee has died at 52
  
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• Biden assures US allies he will reverse Trump's policies and legacy

  19-02-2021 20:28
  
  President says US will have to work to earn back the trust of its allies in video remarks to the G7 and Munich Security ConferenceJoe Biden has pledged “unshakable” US support for the transatlantic alliance in what he portrayed as an epoch-defining struggle to safeguard democracy.Biden used his virtual debut on the world stage on Friday, in videoconference remarks first to the G7 and then the Munich Security Conference, to assure America’s allies of his determination to bury th
  
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• Former baseball player Johnny Damon faces resisting charge

  19-02-2021 20:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former All-Star baseball player Johnny Damon has been arrested in central Florida on a charge of resisting an officer after he was pulled over for suspicion of driving under the influence
  
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• Covid vaccines: G7 increase support for Covax scheme

  19-02-2021 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It comes days after the UN chief condemned vaccine distribution as "wildly uneven and unfair".
  
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• ‘Blood on our hands’: Town famed for peace plans to invest £35m of taxpayers’ money in arms firm base

  19-02-2021 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities in Saffron Walden have agreed to bankroll facility where weapons of war will be made
  
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• Alaska woman attacked by bear up through her toilet

  19-02-2021 20:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Shannon Stevens said ‘I got out there and sat down on toilet and immediately something bit my butt right as I sat down. I jumped up and I screamed when it happened’
  
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• Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance about to touch down

  19-02-2021 20:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa releases an astonishing image of its new Mars robot taken just moments before touchdown.
  
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• Ted Cruz - live: Clinton hits out at senator for leaving dog as Biden to declare Texas a ‘national disaster’

  19-02-2021 20:03 via independent.co.uk
  
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• 'Marginalising our own brothers and sisters': the disrespect Micronesia has been shown is a tragedy for the Pacific | Surangel Whipps Jr, President of Palau

  19-02-2021 20:00
  
  Micronesia had no choice to but to abandon the Pacific Islands Forum after being ‘thoroughly and publicly disregarded’, the President of Palau writesWhat becomes of an organisation when it disregards one-third of its membership? What happens when “we” stops being inclusive?As the eldest of four, I have always felt responsible for the safety, security, and well-being of my siblings. In my family, “I” has always been synonymous with “we”, the collect
  
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• Texas weather updates - live: Billboards demand Ted Cruz resignation as Biden and AOC to visit freezing state

  19-02-2021 19:13 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Texas weather updates - live: Billboards demand Cruz resignation as Biden and AOC to visit freezing state

  19-02-2021 19:10 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Vice President Kamala Harris is selling her $800,000 apartment in San Francisco

  19-02-2021 18:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Vice President’s one-bedroom apartment in the SOMA district was on the amrket for less than a week before it sold for $799,000.
  
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• Oklahoma alligators frozen in water with snouts sticking out

  19-02-2021 18:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Images show reptiles slightly above the waterline surrounded by frozen water
  
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• Mother forced to hide from ICE in church sanctuary for three years finally allowed home

  19-02-2021 18:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It’s a first step, it’s a good step, but it’s not the permanent solution that we need in her case,’ lawyer says
  
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• Women in Guinea will suffer most from Ebola because they are not listened to, aid workers warn

  19-02-2021 18:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Gendered impacts of epidemics are not understood by those in power, writes Liam James
  
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• Texas weather updates - live: Biden to visit freezing state as Cruz accused of leaving dog during Cancun trip

  19-02-2021 18:25 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Yellow penguin sighted for ‘first time ever’ in South Atlantic

  19-02-2021 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It was heaven that he landed by us ... a show of a lifetime,’ says wildlife photographer
  
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• Gang raped, shackled and broken students: Inside China’s ‘horrific’ Uighur detention camps

  19-02-2021 18:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Teacher recalls hearing screams above her classroom which guards admitted were ‘detainees being tortured’
  
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• Russia steps in, trying to aid stalled Afghan peace process

  19-02-2021 18:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russia is stepping up efforts to try and find a way forward for a stalled Afghan peace process as talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government have floundered and the new administration in Washington is mulling its options
  
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• Two Florida men charged for posing as law enforcement to avoid wearing face masks

  19-02-2021 17:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two guests at Florida resort face punishment for claiming to be law enforcement and using counterfeit mask exemption cards
  
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• Dubai royal family say missing Princess Latifa being ‘cared for at home’

  19-02-2021 17:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  The statement was released after the princess accused her father of holding her hostage
  
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• VIRUS TODAY: Winter weather impacting U.S. vaccination plans

  19-02-2021 17:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  The White House is scrambling to find ways around Mother Nature as frigid temperatures, snow and icy conditions have delayed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and canceled appointments for inoculations across the country
  
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• Tshegofatso Pule murder: Man jailed for killing pregnant 28-year-old

  19-02-2021 17:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mzikayise Malephane told a South African court he was paid by Ms Pule's ex-boyfriend to kill her.
  
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• United Nations asks UAE for proof that Princess Latifa is alive

  19-02-2021 17:28
  
  Request for information on Dubai ruler’s missing daughter follows release of secretly recorded messagesThe UN has asked the United Arab Emirates for proof that the Dubai ruler’s daughter is still alive, after the release of secret messages she recorded this week claiming she was being held in captivity after the failure of a 2018 attempt to escape the emirate.A spokesperson for Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said on Friday that the UN had “express
  
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• Boris Johnson tells Angela Merkel to ‘mute’ after she talks over him

  19-02-2021 17:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Can you hear us Angela? I think you need to mute’
  
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• Inside the world’s largest Covid vaccine laboratory, where hopes lie for most of the developing world

  19-02-2021 17:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Serum Institute of India aims to produce 100 million vaccine doses a month, as Stuti Mishra reports from their factory in western India
  
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• Nvidia's new gaming software puts brakes on mining cryptocurrency

  19-02-2021 16:54
  
  Artificial constraint highlights struggle to keep up with demand from cryptocurrency minersThe newest graphics cards from the gaming processor designer Nvidia will be artificially constrained in their ability to mine cryptocurrencies, the company has announced, as it desperately tries to manage a year-long inability to satisfy demand.The RTX 3060, a high-powered PC peripheral designed to let gamers get the best performance from their machines, will ship with software that makes it half as effect
  
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• 'We have no water': Texans struggle after deadly winter storm – video report

  19-02-2021 16:47
  
  Millions of Texans are facing water shortages after a winter storm caused pipes to burst and treatment plants to back up. Officials ordered 7 million people – a quarter of the population of the nation’s second largest state – to boil tap water before drinking it. The storms have also left millions without power for daysTexans struggle for drinking water following deadly winter storm Continue reading...
  
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• The path out of lockdown: can Boris Johnson keep his boosterism at bay?

  19-02-2021 16:44
  
  England waits to see if PM will stay restrained or bow to backbench pressure with Covid planCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was an uncharacteristically subdued Boris Johnson who announced from Downing Street that Britain had surpassed the first, phenomenally ambitious target of giving 15 million people a coronavirus vaccine: this was a success, yes, but it was “no moment to relax”, the prime minister said on Monday.The boosterish rhetoric has been
  
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• UK COVID-19 infections falling as govt mulls easing lockdown

  19-02-2021 16:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Clear evidence has emerged that the rate of coronavirus infections across the U.K. is falling sharply just days before British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlines a roadmap for potentially easing lockdown restrictions in England
  
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• 11-year-old boy dies of hypothermia after playing in snow during Texas storm

  19-02-2021 16:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  An eleven-year-old boy in Texas has died of suspected hypothermia only hours after playing in the snow for the first time.
  
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• San Francisco programmer found dead after vanishing on home CCTV footage

  19-02-2021 16:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  During some time before his disappearance, Christopher Woitel had been sending family and friends paranoid messages about Capitol riot in Washington, DC
  
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• China admits to casualties in hand-to-hand border clash with India for first time

  19-02-2021 16:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  India-China military commanders to meet on Saturday to further the disengagement process
  
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• Texas weather updates - live: Boy, 11, ‘dies of hypothermia’ as Cruz accused of leaving dog during Cancun trip

  19-02-2021 15:33 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Biden to visit Mich. vaccine plant as winter throws a curve

  19-02-2021 15:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Extreme winter weather is dealing the first major setback to the Biden administration’s planned swift rollout of coronavirus vaccines just as the national vaccination campaign was hitting its stride
  
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