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• The most important humanitarian gesture in decades?

  22-02-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Colombia has given protected status to almost one million Venezuelan migrants.
  
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• Biden called off second Syria strike after last minute warning of woman and children at target site

  04-03-2021 16:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Joe Biden called off an airstrike on a second target in Syria at the last minute after intelligence reported the presence of a woman and children at the site.
  
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• Wealthy Florida Keys community of governor’s donors received Covid vaccine as rest of state struggled

  04-03-2021 16:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Over a thousand seniors at the Ocean Reef Club, home to many wealthy Republican donors, received both doses of the vaccine in January.
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers 1st opinion

  04-03-2021 16:22 via independent.co.uk
  Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has delivered her first opinion
  
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• AOC warns Biden that sending fewer relief checks than Trump is ‘an own-goal’

  04-03-2021 16:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lawmaker says ‘Conservative Dems have fought so the Biden admin sends fewer [and] less generous relief checks than the Trump admin did’
  
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• Trump considering ditching Pence for 2024 run and picking someone Black or female as running mate, report says

  04-03-2021 16:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and South Carolina senator Tim Scott rumoured for position
  
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• The Latest: Congressman braces for threat against Capitol

  04-03-2021 15:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  A former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee who was among those briefed about a possible new threat against the Capitol says lawmakers are braced for it
  
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• Diplomatic row as Slovakia says will pay for Russia vaccine with Ukraine territory

  04-03-2021 15:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Slovak prime minister says offer to exchange Zakarpattia region for jabs was ‘joke’ but has now apologised
  
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• Man says newly-adopted rescue dog saved his life after he suffered a stroke

  04-03-2021 15:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Sadie had been turned away from three shelters before being rescued by Brian Myers
  
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• Mississippi governor likens Biden’s ‘neanderthal’ remark to Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorable’ comments

  04-03-2021 15:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  President has criticised governor’s decision to throw out coronavirus restrictions in state
  
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• New Zealand earthquake: 7.3-magnitude tremor sparks tsunami warning

  04-03-2021 15:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island, causing tremors to be felt across the region, officials say.
  
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• Biden news - live: Militia group ‘planning Capitol attack today’ as Trump mulls 2024 run without Pence

  04-03-2021 15:09 via independent.co.uk
  
  Live updates from the White House
  
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• Georgia governor says he would ‘absolutely’ back Trump as 2024 nominee despite former president’s calls for his resignation

  04-03-2021 15:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Brian Kemp says ‘the president deserves a lot of credit and he’s not going away’
  
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• Lauren Boebert criticised for calling Equality Act ‘supremacy of gays’

  04-03-2021 14:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bill to prevent discrimination against LGBT+ people passed House last week
  
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• Dutch court kicks out case against father who isolated family for years

  04-03-2021 14:44 via independent.co.uk
  
  A 2016 stroke affected van Dorsten’s ability to communicate to the extent that continuing the cause would breach his fair trial rights
  
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• New Mexico prison officer facing dismissal for refusing vaccine takes county to court

  04-03-2021 14:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ana Dona County currently has the state’s highest concentration of cases
  
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• Loyalists pull support for NI peace deal over Brexit rules

  04-03-2021 14:33 via independent.co.uk
  
  Outlawed Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland say they are temporarily withdrawing their support for the historic 1998 peace accord because of the disruption caused by new post-Brexit trade rules
  
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• The man who saved Fukushima’s forgotten cats

  04-03-2021 14:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘I want to make sure I am here to take care of the last one,’ says Sakai Kato
  
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• New Mexico prison officer facing sack for refusing vaccine takes state county to court

  04-03-2021 14:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ana Dona County currently has the state’s highest concentration of cases
  
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• Pakistani PM to seek vote of trust from parliament this week

  04-03-2021 14:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pakistan’s ruling party says the country's prime minister Imran Khan will seek a vote of confidence from the National Assembly this weekend to prove he still enjoys the support of majority lawmakers in the house
  
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• EU parliament shelves vote on Brexit deal after Boris Johnson ‘violates’ agreement

  04-03-2021 14:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Group leaders have paused the ratification process amid the latest row
  
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• Iran to meet with UN technical experts over uranium find

  04-03-2021 14:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency says Iran has agreed to sit down with international technical experts investigating the discovery of uranium particles at three former undeclared sites in the country, after months of frustration at Tehran’s lack of a credible explanation
  
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• Myanmar: Hundreds mourn ‘Everything will be ok’ protester after worst day of violence

  04-03-2021 14:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  At least 54 protesters have been killed in violence in Myanmar since Sunday
  
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• Four cats rescued from sinking abandoned ship by Thai navy

  04-03-2021 14:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  The cats were huddled together on a wooden beam to protect themselves from drowning
  
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• Video shows moment balcony railing collapses at Bolivia university, killing seven students

  04-03-2021 13:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  The railing snapped as students brawled in the packed balcony
  
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• Australian teenager is first to die from box jellyfish sting in 15 years

  04-03-2021 13:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  The 17-year-old was stung by the highly-venomous creature while swimming near Cape York
  
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• India ‘no longer a free country’, says global watchdog report

  04-03-2021 13:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Modi and his party are tragically driving India itself toward authoritarianism’
  
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• Germany approves AstraZeneca vaccine for over 65s

  04-03-2021 13:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chancellor says country stands ‘at threshold of new phase’ in pandemic
  
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• Russia says it could vaccinate 50 million in EU from June

  04-03-2021 13:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  The EU’s medicines regulator has begun a rolling review as bloc seeks to speed up inoculations
  
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• Shock in India after man cuts off daughter’s head and takes it to police as he ‘disapproved of her relationship’

  04-03-2021 13:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing
  
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