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• Emily Mitchell: Pregnant influencer’s cause of death revealed

  14-01-2021 21:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  She ran the popular Instagram and blog The Hidden Way 
  
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• Comfort TV viewing gives ratings boost to football, dramas

  21-01-2021 02:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  An unprecedented impeachment hearing failed to keep TV viewers from settling back into familiar habits last week
  
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• Amanda Gorman: Inaugural poet’s books are now Amazon best-sellers

  21-01-2021 02:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I AM ON THE FLOOR MY BOOKS ARE #1 & #2 ON AMAZON AFTER 1 DAY!,’ the 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate wrote
  
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• On Day One, Biden targets Trump policies on climate, virus

  21-01-2021 01:36
  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is moving swiftly to dismantle Donald Trump's legacy on his first day in office, signing a series of executive actions that reverse course on immigration, climate change, racial equity and the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The new president signed the orders just hours after taking the oath of office at the Capitol, pivoting quickly from his pared-down inauguration ceremony to enacting his agenda. With the stroke of a pen, Biden ordered a halt to th
  
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• With passion and fashion, Lady Gaga delivers powerful anthem

  21-01-2021 01:33
  WASHINGTON: A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the US national anthem in a very Gaga way with flamboyance, fashion and passion during the presidential inauguration. The Grammy winner wore a large dove pin and an equally large red and billowing sculpted skirt as she sang into a...
  
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• Trump vows to be back

  21-01-2021 01:33
  
  WASHINGTON: Donald Trump left the White House for the last time on Wednesday with a vow to stay in the spotlight and an extraordinary snub of Joe Biden, skipping his...
  
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• Three die as gas blast rocks Madrid

  21-01-2021 01:33
  MADRID: At least three people were killed on Wednesday when a huge explosion ripped through a building in Madrid, with officials...
  
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• They forget that 75 million voted for him: Trump supporter

  21-01-2021 01:33
  NEW YORK: They were among the almost 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump and refuse to recognise Joe Biden’s presidential victory as legitimate. Reporters spoke to some Trump supporters about what they think he will...
  
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• Struggling French students protest university closures

  21-01-2021 01:33
  PARIS: French university students protested on Wednesday on Paris Left Bank to demand to be allowed back to class, and to call attention to suicides and financial troubles among students cut off from friends, professors and job opportunities amid the...
  
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• Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne among 73 pardoned

  21-01-2021 01:33
  WASHINGTON: US Presid­ent Donald Trump on Wednes­day pardoned 73 people, including his former aide Steve Bannon and the rapper Lil Wayne, just hours before he was due to leave office. The list of those pardoned — as well as 70 people whose sentences were commuted — was likely to...
  
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• Mexico's leader takes new shot at Twitter in continuing spat

  21-01-2021 01:33
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador continued his spat with Twitter on Wednesday, accusing one of the companies’ representatives in Mexico of having previously worked for politicians of the conservative opposition National Action Party. López Obrador suggested the social media company might be biased, and he displayed a resume that he said showed the executive's previous work for National Action senators and...
  
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• India says ready to play 'constructive, meaningful role' in UNSC to end Syrian conflict

  21-01-2021 01:33
  
  Read full article ANI21 January 2021, 12:15 am·3-min read TS Tirumurti, Indian Permanent Representative to the United Nations New York [US], January 21 (ANI): Hoping that conflict in Syria will end completely, sooner than later, India on Wednesday said that it is ready to play a "constructive and meaningful" role in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) towards achieving that objective. During a UNSC briefing on Syria, TS Tirumurti, Indian Permanent Representative to the United Natio
  
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• GCC chief Dr. Nayef Falah Al Hajraf welcomes Joe Biden inauguration

  21-01-2021 01:33
  Abu Dhabi: The Secretary General of the Cooperation Council (GCC), Dr. Nayef Falah Al...
  
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• Biden’s defence pick says ties with Pakistan’s military will lead to help on key issues

  21-01-2021 01:33
  WASHINGTON: The Biden administration sees Pakistan as an “essential partner” in any peace process in Afghanistan and believes that “continuing to build relationships with Pakistan’s military will provide openings for the United States and Pakistan to cooperate on key issues,” says its nominated defence chief Gen Lloyd J. Austin. Gen Austin made these remarks during his confirmation hearing for the post of secretary of defence before the United States Senate Armed Se
  
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• Biden signs mask mandate as first executive order, says Trump left 'generous' note

  21-01-2021 01:33
  (The Center Square) – Wearing a mask at a desk in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed a federal mask mandate Wednesday as his first executive order. Biden’s first event broadcast online since taking the oath of office earlier in the day addressed things he said are “bold and vital” and starting points to “rebuild the backbone of the country, the middle class” amid COVID-19. As media were being...
  
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• Biden-Harris inauguration sends message that ‘we’re going to be OK’ for some Americans

  21-01-2021 01:33
  Javier Torres’ 8-year-old daughter, Shikeyah, often “grumped and groaned” when starting an online school day, the Phoenix dad said. But on Wednesday, she bounded excitedly out of bed. “She popped up and said, ‘It’s the inauguration!’” said Torres, a 43-year-old attorney. Shikeyah put on her Kamala Harris T-shirt for the occasion — the elaborately choreographed national ritual taking place 2,300 miles away, on a cold, blustery day in Washingto
  
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• 700 Saudi doctors left in lurch over unpaid salaries

  21-01-2021 01:33
  
  Abu Dhabi: For the fourth month in a row, 700 Saudi resident physicians, hired by the Health Ministry’s hospitals in Mecca and other cities, have not...
  
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• Yulia Navalnaya: I’ve been under surveillance since Alexei’s arrest

  21-01-2021 01:31
  The wife of President Putin’s most outspoken critic, Alexei Navalny, says she has been under police surveillance since the...
  
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• Woman in ‘gay Bali’ row is deported

  21-01-2021 01:31
  An American woman who provoked anger in Indonesia for promoting Bali as a “queer-friendly” island and encouraging others to...
  
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• Turkey puts evil eye charms in the shade

  21-01-2021 01:31
  
  Turkey’s state religious agency has condemned the use of the evil eye, a glass amulet believed to ward off bad luck. In...
  
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• Rescuers race against time to reach trapped miners in China’s Shandong province after one man dies

  21-01-2021 01:31
  
  One of a group of 11 miners trapped thousands of feet underground in a collapsed gold mine has died of injuries...
  
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• Netherlands proposes ban on flights, curfew to combat coronavirus

  21-01-2021 01:31
  The Dutch government proposed a ban on flights and a nationwide curfew to slow the spread of the coronavirus. ......
  
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• Madrid tops the league of Europe’s choking cities

  21-01-2021 01:31
  Madrid is the European city with the most deaths linked to traffic emissions, a study has found. Researchers said that limiting...
  
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• Kim Jong-un outlaws slang from South Korea

  21-01-2021 01:31
  
  Kim Jong-un has banned books, music, films, television and now slang from South Korea to curb the influence of his democratic...
  
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• ‘Josef Mengele of apartheid’ is a practising cardiologist

  21-01-2021 01:31
  The former head of the apartheid regime’s germ warfare programme has resurfaced as a cardiologist at one of South Africa’s top private...
  
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• France will not apologise for Algeria ‘war crimes’, says Emmanuel Macron

  21-01-2021 01:31
  France will not apologise for colonising Algeria although President Macron believes it was a crime against humanity, Élysée Palace...
  
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• Duck filmed surfing alongside human companions in Australia’s Gold Coast

  21-01-2021 01:31
  A duck has made waves in Australia after it was filmed surfing alongside human companions on the Gold Coast. The bird,...
  
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• Brightly coloured hosepipes help to save vulnerable seabirds off Namibian coast

  21-01-2021 01:31
  Pieces of brightly coloured hosepipe swinging from lines behind fishing boats have cut the number of deaths of vulnerable...
  
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• Alibaba tycoon Jack Ma reappears praising Chinese state education

  21-01-2021 01:31
  China’s richest internet tycoon, who vanished last autumn after criticising the government, has resurfaced in a video praising...
  
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• Where Biden stood, reminders of a failed insurrection

  21-01-2021 01:30
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The reminders of the siege were everywhere. ......
  
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