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• New protests in Spain over the jailing of rapper's backers

  06-03-2021 23:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Several hundred protesters are marching in Spain's northeastern city of Barcelona against the authorities' crackdown following a violent outcry over the imprisonment of Pablo Hasél, an anti-establishment artist
  
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• Journalists' group calls for release of reporters in Myanmar

  06-03-2021 23:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Society of Professional Journalists is calling on Myanmar to release Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw and five others who were detained while covering protests in the Southeast Asian nation
  
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• Parents encourage kids to burn masks on steps of state capitol

  06-03-2021 22:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Idaho has suffered worse from Covid-19 than some neighbouring states with 105 out of every 100,000 people dying compared to 54 in Oregon and 66 in Washington state
  
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• Antivirus pioneer John McAfee charged with $13M cryptocurrency fraud

  06-03-2021 22:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  He’s currently detained in Spain on tax evasion charges
  
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• Microsoft hack: White House warns of 'active threat' of email attack

  06-03-2021 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech giant says a state-sponsored group operating out of China is breaching email servers.
  
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• Biden fires Trump official at EEOC who refused to resign

  06-03-2021 21:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  General counsel wrote a letter to the White House ‘respectfully’ declining to resign before she was eventually removed from her post
  
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• Myanmar coup: India asked to return police officers who crossed border

  06-03-2021 21:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Several officers reportedly crossed the border after refusing to carry out the military junta's orders.
  
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• ‘I will not step one foot out of line’: 18-year-old charged in Capitol riot begs for release

  06-03-2021 20:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  He’s the youngest of the hundreds accused of joining in on the Capitol riots
  
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• ‘I’m so confused’: People baffled as Kevin McCarthy reads Green Eggs and Ham in protest at pulling of Seuss books

  06-03-2021 19:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Democrats are passing Covid relief And Republicans are reading Dr Seuss’ says one reply
  
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• Jack Dorsey: Bids reach $2.5m for Twitter co-founder's first post

  06-03-2021 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Twitter co-founder has listed his first ever tweet for sale as a form of digital memorabilia.
  
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• Biden's Covid stimulus plan: It costs $1.9tn but what's in it?

  06-03-2021 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A guide to the Democrats' package of recovery measures to help Americans struggling in the pandemic.
  
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• Newspaper deletes article comparing Covid lockdown to Anne Frank’s hiding from Nazis

  06-03-2021 19:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Lessons in living from Anne Frank’ opinion piece attracted backlash
  
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• Applause breaks out as Senate passes Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill

  06-03-2021 18:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Applause broke out in the Senate on Saturday afternoon as senators voted 50-49 to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion (£1.3 trillion) Covid relief package.
  
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• Tucker Carlson calls QAnon supporters ‘gentle’ patriots a week after suggesting the conspiracy didn’t exist

  06-03-2021 18:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Do you ever notice how all the scary internet conspiracy theorists – the radical QAnon people ... they’re all kind of gentle people now waving American flags?’
  
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• Climate crisis could have contributed to landslide in India that killed 70, probe finds

  06-03-2021 18:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Global warming ‘could have partially contributed’, experts say
  
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• Biden news – live: $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill passes Senate as Trump demands RNC stops using his name

  06-03-2021 18:44 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Pope Francis holds first mass in Iraq

  06-03-2021 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  He was met by groups of people outside of Baghdad's Saint Joseph Cathedral.
  
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• Highlights of the $1.9T COVID bill nearing final passage

  06-03-2021 18:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Senate has passed a sweeping pandemic relief package over Republican opposition, moving closer to a milestone political victory for President Joe Biden
  
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• Man who beat Law & Order actress’ dog to death won’t spend time in jail

  06-03-2021 18:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  36-year-old Vincent Tang avoided what could have been up to two years in prison as he appeared virtually in court
  
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• Biden news – live: Trump demands RNC stops using his name as president fires official who refused to quit

  06-03-2021 18:01 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Trump ‘sent cease and desist’ letter to stop RNC from using his name

  06-03-2021 17:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump was enraged that his name and likeness had been used to raise money for organisations that would then help reelect Republican members of Congress who voted to impeach him
  
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• Florida beach hotspot bans spring breakers as Florida prepares for influx amid pandemic

  06-03-2021 17:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Thousands expected in state over next two weeks
  
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• Belgium to repatriate children of jihadists at Shamima Begum camp

  06-03-2021 17:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Belgian prime minister cites spiralling security situation for bringing children back ‘within weeks’
  
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• In pictures: Thousands attend LGBT Mardi Gras in Sydney

  06-03-2021 16:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands gathered for the event, which was scaled back over Covid-19 safety concerns.
  
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• Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2021 – in pictures

  06-03-2021 16:44
  
  Rita Ora is among the performers at the 43rd annual parade, held at the Sydney Cricket Ground Thousands turn out for Sydney’s Covid-adapted Mardi Gras Continue reading...
  
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• Kayleigh McEnany mocked for claiming Trump finds Twitter ban ‘freeing’

  06-03-2021 16:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  McEnany said social media bans were not ‘about stopping violence. This is about stopping Trump, stopping his ideology, his movement, by removing him from society. We should all stand against it’
  
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• Biden news – live: Proud Boys ‘contacted Trump associate’ as senator faces anger over minimum wage vote

  06-03-2021 16:40 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Spain to slaughter 850 cattle stuck on boat for ‘hellish’ two months

  06-03-2021 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Both Turkey and Lebanon refused to accept shipment of animals over fears of bluetongue virus
  
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• Climate change could have contributed to landslide in India that killed 70, probe finds

  06-03-2021 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Global warming ‘could have partially contributed’, experts say
  
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• Kyrsten Sinema: Democratic senator’s office suggests criticism over vote against raising minimum wage is sexist

  06-03-2021 16:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Aides say ‘commentary about a female senator’s body language’ does not belong‘in a serious media outlet’ as controversy ensues over lawmaker’s dramatic ‘no’ vote on minimum wage
  
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• Tiger Woods car crash: Golfer found unconscious, documents reveal

  06-03-2021 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police have not previously disclosed that Woods lost consciousness in last month's crash in LA.
  
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• Make America Date Again: Bernie Sanders calls for America to defeat Covid for the benefit for young people

  06-03-2021 15:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘If Bernie Sanders thinks you can get a date then what’s stopping you?’ says one social media user
  
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• Contact found between Proud Boys member and Trump White House associate before Capitol riots, report says

  06-03-2021 15:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 300 people have been charged in connection to the insurrection
  
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• ‘Erase the language of war’: Pope Francis in historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shia cleric

  06-03-2021 14:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani says Christians should be able to live in peace and coexistence in Iraq
  
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• Pope Francis gives speech on first papal visit to Iraq – video

  06-03-2021 14:43
  
  Pope Francis urges Iraq’s Muslim and Christian religious leaders to put aside animosities and work together for peace during an interfaith meeting on Saturday in the traditional birthplace of the Prophet Abraham, the patriarch of both faiths. The pope met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, 90, spiritual leader of most of the world’s Shia Muslims, and travelled to the ruins of Ur in southern Iraq Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Sistani call for unity at Iraq meetingContinue re
  
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• Biden news – live: Covid relief bill clears hurdle with Democrat deal as Trump aide says Twitter ban ‘freeing’

  06-03-2021 14:37 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Biden getting 1st shot at making mark on federal judiciary

  06-03-2021 14:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden has two seats to fill on the influential appeals court in the nation’s capital that regularly feeds judges to the Supreme Court
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: The five years separated from her family

  06-03-2021 14:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The day before Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is due for release, her husband talks of his hopes and fears.
  
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• Sequins and solidarity on full show as Covid fails to stop Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

  06-03-2021 14:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Australia’s most glamorous parade takes place off streets this year
  
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• Twitter’s Dorsey auctions first ever tweet attracting $600,000 bid

  06-03-2021 14:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Social media giant’s co-founder and CEO sells 15-year-old post, which reads: ‘just setting up my twttr’
  
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• Protesters say out with Cyprus' 'Satanic' Eurovision entry

  06-03-2021 13:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dozens of Orthodox Christian faithful have held up wooden crosses and sung hymns outside of the Cypriot state broadcaster to demand the withdrawal of the country’s controversial entry into the Eurovision song contest titled “El Diablo” that they say promotes satanic worship
  
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• Amanda Gorman reveals security guard followed her home and said she looked ‘suspicious’

  06-03-2021 13:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat,’ says poet who performed at Biden inauguration
  
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• Spain removes 850 cattle stuck on boat after two months at sea for slaughter

  06-03-2021 13:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  Both Turkey and Lebanon refused to accept shipment of animals over fears of bluetongue virus
  
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• Protesters injured after police clashes over Paraguay’s Covid response

  06-03-2021 12:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Protests boil over as hundreds of people descend on capital’s historic centre to demand president’s resignation
  
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• ‘Erase the language of war’: Pope Francis in historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shiite cleric

  06-03-2021 11:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani says Christians should be able to live in peace and coexistence in Iraq
  
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• How Kenya’s farmers are trying to outsmart locusts and climate change

  06-03-2021 11:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  As the risk of food insecurity rises, farmers in East Africa are having to adapt to ensure crops grow, reports Federica Marsi in Meru, Kenya
  
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• Biden news – live: Covid relief bill clears Senate hurdle with Democrat deal as Trump to sell $49m mansion

  06-03-2021 11:23 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Senate breaks deadlock on Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid bill —but $15 minimum wage rejected

  06-03-2021 11:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Deal ends six-hour standstill over measures to help unemployed
  
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• Pakistan's PM wins vote of confidence after Senate setback

  06-03-2021 11:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has handily won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, days after the embarrassing defeat of his ruling party’s key candidate in Senate elections
  
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• 'So much trauma': Mozambique conflict sparks mental health crisis

  06-03-2021 09:00
  
  Aid groups warn of collapsed health system as traumatised people displaced by Islamist insurgency in Cabo Delgado seek helpThe insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is causing a mental health crisis, with a quarter of the region’s population now displaced.People are struggling with untreated trauma after witnessing extreme violence, including mass beheadings, said humanitarian groups concerned about the strain on those who have sheltered dozens of displaced people in their
  
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