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• Thousands dead but no prosecutions - why Liberia has not acted

  23-02-2021 01:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Horrific tales dominate the history of Liberia's civil war but no-one has been put on trial there.
  
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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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• Australia to open world’s first platypus sanctuary in fight to save species

  04-03-2021 13:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Intense wildfires in Australia, as well as droughts and reduced rainfall, severely threatened egg-laying mammals existence
  
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• Hundreds of sinkholes appear after earthquakes in Croatia

  04-03-2021 13:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of sinkholes appear after earthquakes in Croatia
  
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• Shock in India after man cuts off daughter’s head and takes it to cops as he ‘disapproved of her relationship’

  04-03-2021 13:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing
  
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• Oregon moves to ban public display of nooses, calling them symbol of racism

  04-03-2021 13:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘It's time to call this wave of noose hanging what it is: racial terrorism,’ says witnesses to committee overseeing bill
  
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• Australian minister ‘deeply regrets’ calling rape accuser a ‘lying cow’

  04-03-2021 12:42 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Scott Morrisonbacks his defence minister over ‘offensive remarks’
  
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• Trump served with lawsuit accusing him of breaking ‘Ku Klux Klan’ laws on day of Capitol riot

  04-03-2021 12:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  NAACP accuses Trump of disenfranchising Black voters and trying to ‘destroy democracy’
  
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• New York to ease restrictions on some indoor and outdoor gatherings

  04-03-2021 12:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Limits on outdoor public events will rise to 500 people with Covid testing
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell being held under ‘brutal’ conditions, brother claims

  04-03-2021 12:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell is awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges
  
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• Greek ‘pushbacks’ brought to European court after child refugees ‘towed out to sea and abandoned in raft’

  04-03-2021 11:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: ‘These pushbacks are used to send a message to future would-be asylum seekers that they shouldn’t attempt to exercise their rights’, lawyer claims
  
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• Why do QAnon supporters think Trump will return as US president today?

  04-03-2021 11:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bizarre conspiracy theory belief hinges on 4 March
  
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• Mississippi school condemned after asking pupils to write letter from slave’s point of view

  04-03-2021 11:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  School principal apologises but insists project been taken out of context
  
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• China advisers meet amid pandemic, Hong Kong crackdown

  04-03-2021 11:04 via independent.co.uk
  
  China's top legislative advisory body has opened its annual session against the background of a crackdown on Hong Kong's political opposition and the country’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic
  
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• EXPLAINER: Why Ethiopia's deadly Tigray crisis is growing

  04-03-2021 10:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Civilians massacred
  
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• Binge drinking rises in UK during lockdown, study finds

  04-03-2021 10:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  Deterioration in the financial situation and physical health were reasons behind increased drinking
  
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• Greek ‘pushbacks’ brought to European court after child refugees ‘placed back in boat and abandoned at sea’

  04-03-2021 10:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: ‘These pushbacks are used to send a message to future would-be asylum seekers that they shouldn’t attempt to exercise their rights’, lawyer claims
  
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• Backlash over Indian chief justice’s suggestion that a rapist ‘marry his victim’

  04-03-2021 10:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Women’s rights groups are demanding that the chief justice apologise and step down from his post
  
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• Greek ‘pushbacks’ brought to EU court after child refugees ‘placed back in boat and abandoned at sea’

  04-03-2021 10:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: ‘These pushbacks are used to send a message to future would-be asylum seekers that they shouldn’t attempt to exercise their rights’, lawyer claims
  
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• Biden news - live: Militia group ‘planning Capitol attack today’ as Trump faces lawsuit for 6 January riot

  04-03-2021 09:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  Live updates from the White House
  
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• Briton who molested three-year-old girl at Singapore early learning centre sentenced to jail and caning

  04-03-2021 08:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Richard Monks had pleaded guilty in February on account of molesting a three-year-old student
  
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• McDonalds employee turns 100 and says she has no plans to quit: ‘I feel lucky’

  04-03-2021 08:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  A McDonalds employee for 27 years, Shuster turned 100 with a grand celebration and a bobblehead doll that looks like her
  
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• UN envoy: Myanmar army is 'surprised' at opposition to coup

  04-03-2021 07:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar says the generals who have seized power in the Southeast Asian nation indicated they don’t fear renewed sanctions, though they are “very surprised” that their plans to restore military rule without much opposition isn’t working
  
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• South Korea’s first transgender soldier found dead after she is forced out of military

  04-03-2021 07:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Byun Hee-soo launched a landmark legal battle against the military to challenge her dismissal
  
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