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• Lawsuit filed over hit-and-run death of Nicki Minaj's father

  21-03-2021 23:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nicki Minaj’s mother has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the man who is accused of killing the rapper's father in a hit-and-run crash last month
  
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• Covid-19: Miami Beach imposes emergency curfew over spring break 'chaos'

  21-03-2021 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Large crowds on the US city's party strips prompted an emergency overnight curfew.
  
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• Charles Lewis, former DC chief at AP and Hearst, has died

  21-03-2021 23:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Charles Lewis, a former Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press and The Hearst Newspapers who tirelessly advocated for the release of AP journalist Terry Anderson from kidnappers in Lebanon, died Saturday
  
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• Former guest on Dr Phil calls for apology after suffering abuse at troubled teen ranch

  21-03-2021 22:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former Dr Phil guest said about troubled teen ranch, ‘There’s nowhere to run. If you try to run out there, they’re gonna find you and you’re gonna get in more trouble’
  
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• Biden news: DHS chief blames Trump for border situation as president to announce new vaccine targets

  21-03-2021 22:03 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Official confirms man now linked to 5 deaths

  21-03-2021 21:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  A law enforcement official has identified the primary suspect in the killing of his ex-wife and three others found in a car in New Mexico
  
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• ‘We need to focus on Earth’: Bernie Sanders responds to Elon Musk’s space plans with call for progressive tax

  21-03-2021 21:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy’
  
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• Vaccinated pregnant mothers pass antibodies to babies, research shows

  21-03-2021 21:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Florida healthcare worker was vaccinated three weeks before giving birth to girl with Covid-19 antibodies
  
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• Comedy about Afghan interpreter moving to the US sparks backlash

  21-03-2021 21:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  US government runs visa programme for interpreters who worked with the military in Afghanistan
  
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• Italian minister meets Libya's new Tripoli government

  21-03-2021 20:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Italy’s top diplomat has become the most senior western official to travel to Libya after an interim government took power in the North African County last week
  
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• Trump will use 'his own platform’ to return to social media after Twitter ban

  21-03-2021 20:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Former president was banned over his incitement of Capitol riotAdviser says Trump will ‘redefine the game’ with his returnDonald Trump will soon use “his own platform” to return to social media, an adviser said on Sunday, months after the former president was banned from Twitter for inciting the US Capitol riot. Related: 'His new business': Trump seeks personal political brand as he grips Republican baseContinue reading...
  
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• ‘My Son Hunter’: Conservative filmmakers crowdfund for movie about Hunter Biden

  21-03-2021 20:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Duo claim ‘mainstream media’ are trying to ‘suppress’ disputed allegations about a laptop and leaked emails, set to be revealed in a $2.5 million film
  
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• Nawal El Saadawi, trailblazing Egyptian writer, dies aged 89

  21-03-2021 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Award-winning feminist author of more than 55 books was a resolute challenger to Egyptian governmentsEgypt’s trailblazing writer Nawal El Saadawi died on Sunday at the age of 89, after a lifetime spent fighting for women’s rights and equality. The feminist author of more than 55 books first spotlighted the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM) with The Hidden Face of Eve in 1980. A trained doctor, El Saadawi also campaigned against women wearing the veil, polygamy and inequality i
  
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• Allowing summer holidays abroad risks another lockdown, Johnson is warned

  21-03-2021 19:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Sage experts are worried about overseas breaks leading to rise in vaccine-resistant variants in UKCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLifting the ban on foreign holidays in the coming months could risk another lockdown next winter, Boris Johnson is being warned, amid mounting alarm about a third wave of infections sweeping continental Europe.Scientific experts and opposition politicians are urging the government to be extremely cautious before loosening travel restr
  
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• Australia floods: Couple’s house swept away on wedding day

  21-03-2021 19:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Thousands of homes evacuated as New South Wales sees worst flooding in 50 years
  
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• Zoom increased profits by 4000 per cent during pandemic but paid no income tax, report says

  21-03-2021 19:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Company’s pre-tax profit was $660 million in 2020 up from $16 million year before
  
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• Trump to launch his own social media platform ‘in two or three months,’ aide says

  21-03-2021 19:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Former spokesman for ex-president predicts ‘tens of millions’ of people will flock to app
  
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• 'We needed to rescue the nation from despair': culture's year of Covid

  21-03-2021 19:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei went to Portugal – and Bake Off pledged the show would go on. In the first of a two-part series, cultural figures look back on a year that shook their industry Continue reading...
  
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• EU's southern states step up calls for 'solidarity' in managing mass migration

  21-03-2021 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Greece, Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Malta say burden has to be shared more justly with other EU partnersEurope’s southern states have stepped up calls for solidarity in managing mass migration to the bloc saying the burden has to be shared more justly with other EU partners.Highlighting the deep divisions over the issue, politicians from countries along Europe’s Mediterranean rim said a proposed migration pact fell far short of resolving the crisis equitably. Continue reading...
  
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• Olympic surfing hopeful Katherine Diaz killed by lightning while training

  21-03-2021 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Twenty-two year-old killed near home in El SalvadorDiaz was preparing for ISA World Surf Games El Salvador’s top surfer, who had been preparing fo the sport’s Olympic debut this summer, has been struck and killed by lightning during a training session.“A great athlete who has represented our country has left us,” the Salvadoran Surf Federation said in a post paying tribute to Katherine Diaz on social media. “See you soon, great warrior. El Salvador is in mourning.&r
  
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• Biden calls Turkey's exit from treaty for women unwarranted

  21-03-2021 19:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  U_S_ President Joe Biden has called Turkey’s abandonment of an international agreement aimed at preventing violence against women “deeply disappointing.”
  
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• America’s veteran halls ‘barely hanging on’ one year into Covid pandemic

  21-03-2021 19:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘There’s no way in the world that we could make it. A lot of these posts are barely hanging on’
  
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• EU export ban would delay UK Covid vaccine drive by two months

  21-03-2021 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Halting distribution would hit Britain badly but not significantly help EU, analysis findsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s Covid vaccine programme faces a two-month delay in the event of an EU export ban, derailing the government’s plans to reopen the economy this summer, an analysis for the Guardian reveals.A ban, due to be debated by leaders of the 27 EU member states on Thursday, would badly stall the UK vaccination effort, and
  
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• NRA attacks Biden press secretary over year-old tweet calling for gun registration

  21-03-2021 18:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ms Psaki called gun registration attack ‘badge of honour’
  
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• ‘Vaccines have nothing to do with politics’: Trump’s Operation Warp Speed adviser urges GOP to push for shots

  21-03-2021 18:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dr Moncef Slaoui tells CBS: ‘Many people probably have died or suffered because the whole situation became so political’
  
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• Masks to be required on theme park rides to ‘mitigate effects of shouting’

  21-03-2021 18:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  California’s ‘responsible reopening plan’ tells parks to require face coverings and to modify seating arrangements on rides
  
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• Biden news - live: DHS chief blames Trump for border situation as president to announce new vaccine targets

  21-03-2021 18:40 via independent.co.uk
  
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• US defence secretary makes unannounced visit to Afghanistan as pullout decision looms

  21-03-2021 18:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Joe Biden ‘has not made a decision’, says Lloyd Austin, as White House considers extension for US forces
  
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• Man arrested after taking toddler into zoo elephant enclosure

  21-03-2021 18:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jose Navarrete charged with child cruelty and held on $100,000 bail
  
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• Police release photo of suspect in vicious subway attack on Asian American man

  21-03-2021 17:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Subway incident follows fatal shooting of six Asian women in Atlanta this week
  
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• Biden condemns Turkey’s withdrawal from convention on domestic violence against women

  21-03-2021 17:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  Thousands protested in Turkey on Saturday after decision to withdraw by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan was announced
  
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• 'A light at the end of the tunnel': Australian theatres launch 2021 seasons as the rest of the world stays dark

  21-03-2021 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Sydney Theatre Company is the latest to launch this year’s season, as Broadway and the West End look to Australia as the pandemic pioneer“Australia has become a test case for the rest of the performing arts world,” the Washington Post proclaimed last month, as theatres across the country prepared to move to full capacity, while throughout most of Europe and the US they remain dark.So yeah, no pressure there, says Sydney Theatre Company’s artistic director Kip Williams, tw
  
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• Acclaimed Egyptian feminist Nawal Saadawi dies at age 89

  21-03-2021 17:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nawal Saadawi, a renowned Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist, whose writings have stirred controversy for decades in an overwhelming conservative society, has died of age-related health problems in Cairo, officials said
  
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• At least five killed in attack on Syrian hospital

  21-03-2021 17:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  The shelling marks the first attack on an Aleppo hospital in over a year
  
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• What we know about the lives taken in the Atlanta shooting

  21-03-2021 17:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  The alleged gunman, Robert Aaron Long, 21, was charged with eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault.
  
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• Sixteen missing children rescued in month-long operation by US marshals

  21-03-2021 17:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  The federal law enforcement agency has rescued more than 1,700 children since 2015
  
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• US senators call for increased media access to ‘heart-rending’ holding facilities for migrant children

  21-03-2021 17:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Senators were told by officials that the positivity rate for migrant children at one holding facility was in the double digits
  
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• 'We all know hate when we see it': Warnock rejects FBI chief's view of Atlanta shootings

  21-03-2021 16:52 via theguardian.com
  
  FBI director: ‘it does not appear motive was racially motivated’What the Atlanta shootings reveal about the USLaw enforcement officials including the director of the FBI have said the shootings in Atlanta in which eight people were killed do not appear to have been racially motivated, but the Georgia senator Raphael Warnock said on Sunday: “We all know hate when we see it.” Related: Atlanta spa shootings: Georgia hate crimes law could see first big testContinue reading...
  
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• Trump shrugs off Pennsylvania lawsuit defeat by falsely claiming he won state ‘by a lot’

  21-03-2021 16:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘The Pennsylvania votes were RIGGED’, claims president
  
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• Biden administration tries to get control of border, story

  21-03-2021 16:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  As migrants surge at the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden’s administration has been caught on its heels and is now scrambling to manage a humanitarian and political challenge that threatens to overshadow its ambitious agenda
  
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• ‘Do not come’: White House tells migrants to avoid US-Mexico border as administration opens ‘overflow’ housing

  21-03-2021 16:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  More than 15,000 migrant children in government custody, as White House balances demands for humanitarian aid with scrutiny over immigration policy
  
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• Democrats demand ‘reasonable gun reform’ in wake of Atlanta spa shootings

  21-03-2021 16:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘We need reasonable gun reform in our country,’ Senator Warnock says
  
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• US defense secretary Austin visits Afghanistan as exit deadline looms

  21-03-2021 16:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Surprise visit and meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in KabulTrip comes ahead of 1 May deadline to bring US troops homeLloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, meeting President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul. Related: Afghan peace summit includes just one female delegateContinue reading...
  
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• Obama-era officials return to White House under Biden after getting very rich in the interim

  21-03-2021 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Several former Obama staffers return to White House as multimillionaires and with closer ties to corporate interests
  
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• Talking history: How some Turks and Armenians are seeking to overcome years of conflict

  21-03-2021 16:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Turkish and Armenian communities around the world are seeking to come together despite years ofmistrust, reports Lemma Shehahdi
  
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• 'I have picked people up on the street': the secret life of architect Alvar Aalto

  21-03-2021 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  He built wild, magical buildings and furniture that is still thrilling today. But a new film suggests the celebrated Finn was also a domineering philanderer deeply indebted to his talented wivesWonky lumps of misshapen, scorched bricks burst from a block of student flats in Cambridge, Massachusetts, giving a warty look to the long wall that winds its way along the Charles River. “The lousiest bricks in the world,” is how Finnish architect Alvar Aalto described the local New England m
  
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• Biden news - live: DHS chief says US border ‘is closed’ as president set to announce new vaccination targets

  21-03-2021 15:49 via independent.co.uk
  
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• Two men sentenced to death in rape case that sparked protests across Pakistan

  21-03-2021 15:40 via independent.co.uk
  
  The two men raped a woman in front of her children while she was stranded by the side of a road
  
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• Candidate hospitalised with Covid in Republic of Congo elections

  21-03-2021 15:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Polling stations in Brazzaville opened at 8 am as scheduled
  
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• Nawal El Saadawi: Feminist firebrand who dared to write dangerously

  21-03-2021 15:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nawal El Saadawi, who has died at 89, drew outrage and admiration in her conservative home country.
  
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