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• Furious ex-Fox host storms off BBC amid row over Georgia voter laws: ‘I’m done’

  08-04-2021 02:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Because I’m white you think I’m racist. That’s BS’
  
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• Japan to release 1m tonnes of contaminated Fukushima water into sea

  13-04-2021 11:08 via independent.co.uk
  Japan is facing opposition for the decision from local fishing industry and neighbours including China
  
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• Pelosi mocked AOC in ‘childlike voice’ while hitting out at The Squad for attention grabbing, new book claims

  13-04-2021 10:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Her anger at the four new progressive congresswomen was palpable’
  
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• French wine production devastated by frost

  13-04-2021 10:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I heard someone say it was like the loss of a family member’
  
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• Iran warns sabotage affects Vienna talks over nuclear deal

  13-04-2021 10:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iran’s foreign minister is warning that an attack on its main nuclear enrichment site at Natanz affects ongoing negotiations in Vienna over its tattered atomic deal with world powers
  
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• Daunte Wright’s mother honours slain son: ‘My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I miss him so much, and it’s only been a day’

  13-04-2021 10:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Female officer who shot young man identified as 26-year veteran of force
  
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• Surge in migrant workers leaving Delhi as spectre of another lockdown looms over India

  13-04-2021 10:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Government has dismissed concerns of a new mass movement of people, after the disastrous exodus at beginning of lockdown last year
  
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• Breaking Baghdad: How Iraq’s crystal meth epidemic is ravaging the nation

  13-04-2021 09:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  In a country where young people who have grown up in conflict face mass unemployment and no support, drugs gangs have swept into the vacuum. From the capital to the southern city of Basra, Bel Trew finds increasing numbers of addicts – and a system that’s struggling to cope
  
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• 3 killed in Pakistan in clashes between police, Islamists

  13-04-2021 09:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  At least two Islamists and a policeman have been killed in violent clashes between police and supporters of the head of a radical Islamist party who was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore
  
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• ‘World’s biggest rabbit’ stolen from owner’s garden

  13-04-2021 09:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  The owner has announced a reward of £1,000 for anyone who returns the pet
  
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• Veteran police officer Kimberly Potter revealed as woman who shot Daunte Wright

  13-04-2021 08:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police chief Tim Gannon says she mistook her gun for a taser
  
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• Biden wants infrastructure deal, but GOP doubts persist

  13-04-2021 06:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden wants Congress to know he’s sincere about cutting a deal on infrastructure
  
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• Biden aims for bipartisanship but applies sly pressure

  13-04-2021 06:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden has begun publicly courting Republicans to back his sweeping infrastructure plan, but his reach across the aisle is intended just as much to keep Democrats in line as it is a first step in an uphill climb to any bipartisan deal
  
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• Defense set to take turn in ex-cop's trial in Floyd death

  13-04-2021 05:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  The defense for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death is set to start presenting its case
  
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• Daunte Wright mother’s honours slain son: ‘My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I miss him so much, and it’s only been a day’

  13-04-2021 05:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Female officer who shot young man identified as 26-year-old veteran of force
  
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• Russian feminist faces six years in jail after sharing artwork of vagina

  13-04-2021 02:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Yulia has spent time under house arrest and twice been subjected to extortionate fines under the so-called ‘gay propaganda’ law,’ says campaigner
  
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• Police say officer who shot and killed unarmed Daunte Wright intended to fire Taser

  13-04-2021 02:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Brooklyn Center police chief describes fatal shooting of Black man, 20, as result of ‘accidental discharge’ from handgunPolice in a Minneapolis suburb said an officer accidentally shot and killed a 20-year-old Black man on Sunday afternoon during a traffic stop, releasing graphic body-camera footage they say shows an officer intended to use a Taser not a handgun during the death of unarmed Daunte Wright. Related: Derek Chauvin trial: doctor says George Floyd’s death ‘abso
  
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• Australia news live: Hunt says government won’t buy single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine

  13-04-2021 02:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Australia not interested in purchasing any more adenovirus vaccines, which is the same technology as the AstraZeneca jab. Follow all the latest news and updates, live• Australia won’t purchase Johnson & Johnson jab• AstraZeneca blood clotting: what is this rare syndrome?
  • Andrew Laming blocked from recontesting next election• More than half of Australians think vaccine rollout is too slow 1.08am BST Hmmmm, usually we would have has the Queensland Covid-19 numbers b
  
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• Chihuahua that hates everyone goes viral

  13-04-2021 01:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prancer described as a ‘haunted Victorian child’ in hilarious adoption description
  
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• ‘A lack of political courage’: New Zealand’s drug reform efforts flounder

  13-04-2021 01:56 via theguardian.com
  
  From the outside, the country seems like a likely candidate for progressive drug laws but internally, change is proving hard to bringAfter New Zealand’s referendum to legalise cannabis failed, social service agencies across the country are seeking a new path to decriminalisation of drug use, but obstacles are plenty.On Monday, a broad coalition of social service, advocacy and health organisations released an open letter calling on prime minister Jacinda Ardern to repeal and replace the Mis
  
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• Uber CEO says company could get into cannabis delivery as states across US vote to legalise

  13-04-2021 01:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  New York became latest of 16 states to legalise cannabis last month
  
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• Fukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into sea

  13-04-2021 01:45 via theguardian.com
  
  More than 1m tonnes of contaminated water will be released from the destroyed nuclear station in two years’ timeJapan plans to release into the sea more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear station, the government said on Tuesday, a decision that is likely to anger neighbours such as South Korea.The move, more than a decade after the nuclear disaster, will deal another blow to the fishing industry in Fukushima, which has opposed such a step for years. C
  
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• A broken mother and a police chief who admits he has no answers: The fallout from the death of Daunte Wright

  13-04-2021 01:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  A community is once again sick and tired of being sick and tired, writes Andrew Buncombe in Brooklyn Center
  
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• Why the poorest nations are struggling to deal with the climate emergency

  13-04-2021 01:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Dealing with the climate crisis is hard for even the wealthiest countries. What happens if massive debt and a pandemic cause financial chaos as well? Somini Sengupta investigates
  
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• Daunte Wright shooting: How air fresheners became ‘pretext’ for police to stop Black drivers

  13-04-2021 00:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Killing of Daunte Wright has underscored stark racial disparities during traffic stops
  
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• One dead and officer wounded after shooting at Tennessee high school

  13-04-2021 00:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Scene was secured at Austin-East magnet high school in Knoxville, police say, and a person was detained for further investigationA confrontation in a Tennessee high school that involved police officers responding to a report of a possible armed man, left one person dead and an officer wounded on Monday, authorities said.No other persons were killed or wounded, police said, adding the scene had been secured at the Austin-East magnet high school in Knoxville following the afternoon shooting. Conti
  
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• ‘This is all we could get’: Dutch tourists arrive in Rhodes for locked-down holiday

  13-04-2021 00:36 via theguardian.com
  
  In experiment organised by Dutch government, travellers will have to take regular Covid tests and are barred from leaving resortCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA regime that might, in more normal times, resemble a boot camp has been happily embraced by 189 Dutch tourists who traded lockdown in the Netherlands for eight days of voluntary confinement at a Greek beach resort.In an experiment devised by travel industry experts determined not to lose another season t
  
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• Pentagon unveils microchip that senses Covid in the body

  13-04-2021 00:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Invention inspired by huge virus outbreak on board USS Theodore Roosevelt
  
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• Peru faces polarizing presidential runoff as teacher takes voters by surprise

  13-04-2021 00:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Pedro Castillo will face Keiko Fujimori, the far-right heiress to one of the country’s enduring and controversial political dynastiesPeru faces a polarizing presidential runoff vote, in which a hard-left schoolteacher – who caught a wave of popular discontent over the coronavirus and a cratering economy – will face the far-right heiress to one of the country’s most enduring and controversial political dynasties.Pedro Castillo, a veteran teachers’ union leader, took
  
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• Daunte Wright killing - latest: State of emergency as more protests expected and mayor takes control of police

  12-04-2021 23:54 via independent.co.uk
  
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