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• ‘Cult members only come out for the cult leader’: Lara said to be first Trump set for 2024 run – but can she win?

  23-02-2021 23:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  The idea of Lara Trump as the future of the Republican Party has left many “never Trumpers” aghast
  
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• Trump may soon face deposition in E Jean Carroll rape defamation case

  23-02-2021 23:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Now Trump is no longer president case may move forward with depositions
  
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• Tiger Woods car accident – latest: Police to hold press conference after golfer’s crash causes second wreck

  23-02-2021 23:44 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash – latest news: Golfer’s accident causes second car wreck

  23-02-2021 23:35 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Tiger Woods was driving $50,000 luxury SUV at time of crash

  23-02-2021 23:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Golfer was driving sponsored Genesis GV80 SUV while in California
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash news – latest: Golfer’s accident caused second car wreck

  23-02-2021 23:19 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash news – latest: Golfer has surgery after accident as Trump leads well-wishers

  23-02-2021 23:09 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Facebook vs Australia: What does their deal mean for the rest of the world?

  23-02-2021 23:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Media deal ‘may provide blueprint’ for other countries to follow, experts say
  
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• Gérard Depardieu: Rape investigation into French actor

  23-02-2021 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Veteran French actor Gérard Depardieu denies raping an actress at his home in 2018.
  
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• Being so far away from family might in some ways be beneficial

  23-02-2021 22:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Not being able to get home to the UK this past year has been hard but technology has meant that in some ways it has given me a chance to reset the relationships that mean the most, writes Holly Baxter
  
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• Top Texas power officials to quit after millions endure freezing temperatures when grid failed

  23-02-2021 22:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Top power officials in Texas are said to be quitting - a week after millions endured freezing temperatures when the energy grid failed.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell timeline: The life of the Jeffrey Epstein associate accused of sex trafficking

  23-02-2021 22:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Socialite daughter of late British press baron awaiting trial in New York jail after being accused of procuring and grooming underage girls for billionaire paedophile ex-boyfriend
  
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• How to turn a fashion blogger into a political activist

  23-02-2021 22:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Reihane Taravati made a video celebrating happiness. It went viral. For this she faced imprisonment and 91 lashes. Borzou Daragahi explains how Tehran makes enemies of its own people
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash – latest: Golfer has surgery after accident as Trump leads well-wishers

  23-02-2021 21:52 via independent.co.uk
  
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• French actor Depardieu charged with rape in revived case

  23-02-2021 21:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Paris prosecutor’s office says French actor Gerard Depardieu was charged in December with rape and sexual assault after authorities revived a 2018 investigation that had initially been dropped
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash – latest: Golfer has surgery after suffering multiple leg injuries in car accident

  23-02-2021 21:35 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Mount Etna eruption stuns volcano enthusiasts

  23-02-2021 21:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lava and ash spewed from volcano for days, blanketing towns in ash and forcing an airport to close
  
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• Tiger Woods undergoes surgery after suffering ‘multiple leg injuries’ in California car crash

  23-02-2021 21:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Firefighters had to extricate superstar from vehicle after it rolled over near Los Angeles
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash – live: Golfer has surgery after suffering multiple leg injuries in car accident

  23-02-2021 21:15 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Tiger Woods suffers leg injuries after California car crash

  23-02-2021 21:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities and Tiger Woods' manager say the golf star has suffered leg injuries in a vehicle rollover in the Los Angeles area and is undergoing surgery
  
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• Tiger Woods hospitalised after serious car accident in California

  23-02-2021 20:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tiger Woods was hospitalised after being involved in a serious car crash in California, police say.
  
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• Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?

  23-02-2021 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Canadians say that the consistency of local butter has changed. Experts may have found the culprit.
  
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• ‘Like being in an electric chair’: Ukraine’s female chief prosecutor on task of tackling country’s corruption

  23-02-2021 19:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iryna Venediktova tells Diplomatic Editor Kim Sengupta that there are no plans to reopen Hunter Biden probe
  
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• In Pictures: Mount Etna eruption lights up Sicily's night sky

  23-02-2021 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Etna's hot lava fountains and orange plumes of ash illuminate the Sicilian night sky.
  
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• Texas train carrying fuel in flames after crossing collision

  23-02-2021 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Homes are evacuated as a train transporting fuel burns, sending black smoke billowing into the sky.
  
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• Security officials testify Capitol rioters 'came prepared for war'

  23-02-2021 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Current and ex-officials are testifying at the first public inquiry into the 6 January Capitol riot.
  
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• Obama broke classmate’s nose over racially abusive comment

  23-02-2021 19:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mr Obama shared the story on his new podcast “Renegades” with Bruce Springsteen
  
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• Food fight: Meat-free school meals spark furor in France

  23-02-2021 19:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  The ecologist mayor of one of France’s most famously gastronomic cities has kicked up a storm of protest and debate by taking meat off the menu at school canteens
  
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• Hong Kong to offer unemployed people near interest-free loans

  23-02-2021 19:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  The scheme is sexpected to be announced during Hong Kong’s budget on Wednesday
  
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• Collision between train and truck causes massive explosion in Texas

  23-02-2021 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An 18-wheeler truck crashes with a freight car carrying gasoline.
  
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• Rescued orangutans returned to the wild

  23-02-2021 19:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An Indonesian rehabilitation centre in Borneo has released 10 orangutans into the wild.
  
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• CNN host cries as she reports 500k US deaths from Covid

  23-02-2021 19:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We need to remember the people we have lost, even if we didn’t know them personally,’ Brianna Keilar says
  
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• Jersualem’s Western Wall to get a facelift

  23-02-2021 18:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ancient stones show scars from more than two thousand years of scorching sunlight and torrential rain
  
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• German court set to issue landmark verdict in Syrian torture case

  23-02-2021 18:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two defendants accused of overseeing and cartrying out torture at notorious Damascus detention centre
  
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• Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: Suspect pleads guilty

  23-02-2021 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of three men accused of assassinating Daphne Caruana Galizia gets a 15-year jail term.
  
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• Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: Vincent Muscat jailed for 15 years after guilty plea

  23-02-2021 18:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Proceedings against two co-accused set to continue
  
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• Obama broke classmate’s nose after he racially abused him

  23-02-2021 17:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mr Obama shared the story on his new podcast “Renegades” with Bruce Springsteen
  
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• ‘A huge step backwards’: Anger as Biden admin reopen Trump-era migrant camp for children

  23-02-2021 17:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  More children are crossing the border from Mexico alone recently. This past January saw highest number of apprehensions compared to the same month in recent years - 5,700
  
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• The Latest: Ex-Capitol chief says he didn't see 'war' report

  23-02-2021 17:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  The former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police says he learned this week that his officers had received a report from an FBI field office in Virginia that forecast the chances extremists could commit "war” in Washington the following day — the day of the Capitol insurrection
  
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• Vending machines with at-home Covid testing kits now available in New York City

  23-02-2021 17:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  The vending machine is located at 225 W 34th Street and each kit costs $149
  
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• Woman, 105, infected by Covid credits survival to gin-soaked raisins

  23-02-2021 17:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Snack has been touted as a folk remedy for arthritis
  
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• Food groups fight to save one Trump virus program

  23-02-2021 17:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Agricultural groups and anti-hunger organizations are pushing the Biden administration to continue a program launched by President Donald Trump that spent $6 billion to prevent farmers from plowing under food and instead provide it to millions of Americans left reeling by the coronavirus pandemic
  
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• Iran proposes creating international fund for climate change

  23-02-2021 17:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tehran points finger at US and China as world’s biggest polluters
  
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• Israel issues ‘unusual’ gag order on investigation into disastrous oil slick

  23-02-2021 16:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Extraordinary’ move comes amid warnings cleanup could take decades
  
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• Huge explosion as train carrying oil tankers collides with 18-wheeler

  23-02-2021 16:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Crash took place outside Cameron, between Austin and Dallas. No injuries or deaths reported
  
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• World Bank threatens to suspend Lebanon coronavirus funding over vaccine row

  23-02-2021 16:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Last month the World Bank agreed to fund Lebanon $34 million to help buy vaccines
  
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• ‘Heidi’s pretty p****ed’: Ted Cruz complains about friends who leaked his wife’s Cancun texts

  23-02-2021 16:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cruz complained of politicised and nasty atmosphere and advised people not be ‘a**holes’
  
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• Huge ice sheet breaks off Lake Michigan shoreline

  23-02-2021 16:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  A local news outlet in Chicago has captured the moment a huge sheet of ice broke away from a frozen shore of Lake Michigan.
  
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• Family of Palestinian man shot dead by Israelis call for his body to be returned eight months on

  23-02-2021 15:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  New investigation said Ahmed Erekat posed no threat before being shot
  
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• Barack Obama opens up about absent father in trailer for new podcast with Bruce Springsteen OLD

  23-02-2021 15:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Renegades podcast sees two friends discuss life experiences in context of story of America
  
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