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• ‘This really hurts’: LA’s celebrity mountain lion P-22 euthanized

  17-12-2022 23:49
  Experts and officials mourn cougar who became ‘an iconic ambassador for wildlife’ in the cityThe reign of Los Angeles’s most famous mountain lion – hailed as an “ambassador for wildlife” in the city – has come to an end, after health and behavioral concerns led to P-22’s euthanization.The cougar, who became another LA celebrity after making his home in the city a decade ago, “went to sleep” on Saturday morning, according to state wildli
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2022 Final, review: Hamza Yassin triumphs on night of high scores and high emotion - The Telegraph

  17-12-2022 23:41 via news.google.com
  Strictly Come Dancing 2022 Final, review: Hamza Yassin triumphs on night of high scores and high emotion  The TelegraphStrictly Come Dancing 2022: Hamza Yassin wins glitterball trophy  BBCStrictly Come Dancing final 2022: Hamza Yassin and Jowita Pryzstal are crowned the WINNERS  Daily MailStrictly's Hamza Yassin has 'adopted' a Scottish family living next door  Leicestershire LiveStrictly champ Hamza Yassin once left MP in tears while alone in the Scottish
  
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• Vikings rally from 33-0 down to stun Colts in biggest ever NFL comeback

  17-12-2022 23:40
  Greg Joseph’s field goal in OT caps Vikings’ 39-36 shock triumphMinnesota breaks 30-year-old record for largest NFL comebackThe Minnesota Vikings completed the biggest comeback in NFL history, erasing a 33-point deficit by beating the Indianapolis Colts 39-36 on Greg Joseph’s 40-yard field goal with three seconds left in overtime Saturday to win the NFC North division in their typical dramatic fashion.Kirk Cousins passed for 460 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Vikings (11
  
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• That’s My Jam review – Mo Gilligan’s singing show is just … awkward

  17-12-2022 23:35
  This aimless celebrity singalong is a litany of failed attempts to be interesting. From its low-calibre guests to the forced grins during its low-key musical numbers, it’s utterly unremarkableSaturday night entertainment shows: like Christmas crackers, mulled wine or England in the latter stages of international football tournaments, they promise to bring cheer and almost always cause bitter disappointment. Yet we have collectively decided that we have to keep trying. Every few months, a T
  
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• We are not spare capacity for strikes, says Armed Forces head - The Telegraph

  17-12-2022 23:31 via news.google.com
  We are not spare capacity for strikes, says Armed Forces head  The TelegraphDefence chief says troops are not ‘spare capacity’ as ministers draft strike cover  The IndependentArmed Forces are not 'spare capacity' for striking workers, says Chief of Defence staff  The TelegraphView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Tennessee man accused of plot to kill FBI agents in latest January 6 charges

  17-12-2022 23:22
  Pair allegedly had list of 37 law enforcement agents they planned to assassinateIn the latest in an ever-growing list of criminal charges brought against January 6 rioters, a Tennessee man was arrested on Friday for allegedly plotting to kill the FBI agents who were investigating him.With the House of Representatives committee on the insurrection preparing to deliver its final recommendations on Monday, 34-year old Edward Kelley of Maryville was charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a fed
  
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• Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after criticism of death penalty - The Guardian

  17-12-2022 23:15 via news.google.com
  Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after criticism of death penalty  The GuardianActress in Oscar-winning Iranian film arrested for 'spreading falsehoods'  Sky NewsFamous Iranian actress arrested after supporting protesters  Al Jazeera EnglishProtest-hit Iran Arrests Lawyer of Detained Journalists: Report  Voice of America - VOA NewsIran authorities arrest actress of Oscar-winning movie  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Tunisian parliamentary election records just 8.8% turnout

  17-12-2022 23:14
  Fall in votes follows President Kais Saied’s suspension of legislature and redrawing of country’s political mapTunisia has recorded the lowest electoral turnout in its recent history after President Kais Saied’s suspension of parliament and subsequent redrawing of the country’s political map.Officials at the country’s Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Élections (ISIE) announced the final tally of votes in the legislative election as 8.8%
  
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• ‘Our game is in tatters’: Australian football reacts with shock to Melbourne derby violence

  17-12-2022 23:07
  ‘Disgraceful’ scenes are ‘darkest day for football in Australia’Fans express fears that post-World Cup goodwill has been lostMelbourne A-League derby abandoned as fans storm pitch and keeper attackedFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralian football has reacted with a mixture of shock, anger, sadness and disbelief to the chaotic and violent scenes that resulted in the aband
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war – live: Toddler’s body pulled from rubble as air strikes death toll rises - The Independent

  17-12-2022 22:43 via news.google.com
  Ukraine-Russia war – live: Toddler’s body pulled from rubble as air strikes death toll rises  The IndependentRussia-Ukraine war: Kyiv ‘preparing’ for Russia to invade from north, says commander – as it happened  The GuardianUkraine works to restore electricity as Zelensky warns of further Russian missile strikes - BBC News  BBC NewsUkraine war: Five dead in strikes, as Kyiv recovers from Russia barage  EuronewsInfrastructure a
  
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• Gareth Southgate decides to carry on in England job despite World Cup agony

  17-12-2022 22:42
  Manager spent time weighing up future after France defeatSouthgate has contract with FA that runs to December 2024Gareth Southgate has decided to continue as England’s head coach after considering his future in the wake of the World Cup quarter-final defeat by France.Southgate said he would take time to weigh up whether he had the energy to carry on and hold talks with the Football Association, which wanted him to honour a contract that runs to December 2024. Continue reading...
  
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• Suella Braverman feeding Farage politics, says outgoing government adviser

  17-12-2022 22:41
  Nimco Ali says Rishi Sunak should sack the home secretary, or risk losing the next electionAn outgoing government adviser has criticised Suella Braverman for allegedly encouraging an increase in racism in Britain and “normalising” the politics of Nigel Farage.Nimco Ali, who is stepping down from her role as the government’s adviser on tackling violence against women, added that Rishi Sunak should sack Braverman, warning that keeping her on as home secretary will see him lose th
  
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• Hamza Yassin wins Strictly Come Dancing with partner Jowita Przystał

  17-12-2022 22:36
  The CBBC presenter impressed judges during gruelling 13-week series with his style, grace and rhythmIt took two and a half hours and a total of 12 dances – not including the bonus ones from the Strictly professionals and the group dance from the Class of 2022 – but in the end, there could only be one winner. And this year it was Hamza Yassin, a wildlife cameraman and CBBC’s Ranger Hamza, who lifted the glitterball.For his professional partner, Jowita Przystał, landing a wi
  
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• Strictly Come Dancing 2022: Hamza Yassin wins glitterball trophy

  17-12-2022 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Hamza Yassin, Fleur East, Helen Skelton and Molly Rainford all fought to land the glitterball trophy.
  
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• Fog-shrouded Kyiv recovers after Russia strikes, power restored to 6 million - Reuters

  17-12-2022 22:23 via news.google.com
  Fog-shrouded Kyiv recovers after Russia strikes, power restored to 6 million  ReutersView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Nurses pledge tougher new strikes as NHS crisis deepens

  17-12-2022 22:02
  Nursing union gives ministers until Thursday to open pay talks as first signs emerge of bid to end dispute and prevent NHS collapse• How will NHS strikes affect you?Union leaders threatened on Saturday night to order a fresh wave of more severe strikes in the new year in which nurses would offer “less generous” support inside hospitals, in a dramatic escalation of their pay dispute with the government.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), in a marked hardening of its line, said th
  
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• Eurovision 2023: Ukraine chooses Tvorchi from bomb shelter - BBC

  17-12-2022 21:45 via news.google.com
  Eurovision 2023: Ukraine chooses Tvorchi from bomb shelter  BBCUkraine Vidbir 2023 (Reaction) - Tvorchi wins with "Heart of Steel"  wiwibloggsEurovision: Ukraine chooses entry for 2023 contest  Evening StandardUkraine: Tvorchi wins Vidbir – To Eurovision 2023 with "Heart of Steel"  EurovisionworldLive: Ukraine chooses Eurovision 2023 entrant  wiwibloggsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Gareth Southgate intends to stay on as England manager until Euro 2024 - Sky Sports

  17-12-2022 21:41 via news.google.com
  Gareth Southgate intends to stay on as England manager until Euro 2024  Sky SportsGareth Southgate decides to carry on in England job despite World Cup agony  The GuardianGareth Southgate will STAY as England manager until Euro 2024 despite World Cup exit by France  Daily MailExclusive: Gareth Southgate to stay as England manager  The TelegraphGareth Southgate makes England future 'decision' after World Cup exit rumours  Liverpool EchoView Full c
  
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• Bible John: The forgotten women at the heart of a serial killer mystery

  17-12-2022 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Uncovering the stories of three women thought to have been murdered by the same man in 1960s Glasgow.
  
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• Conservationists hail US plan to ban shark fin trade

  17-12-2022 21:32
  Biden poised to sign measure into law as US faces criticism at Cop15 biodiversity conference over failing to sign 30-year-old pact to protect natureAs the UN meets in Montreal to discuss saving biodiversity without the US, whose representatives are joining only as observers, conservationists are hailing one American step in the right direction: a likely ban on the trade of shark fins.Although shark finning – the practice of cutting off shark fins and dumping the rest of the body back into
  
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• The US touts support for biodiversity – but at Cop15, it remains on the sidelines

  17-12-2022 21:15
  Washington hasn’t signed a 30-year-old pact, leaving Biden’s envoy in the role of ‘influencer’ in MontrealOnly two countries in the world have not joined the UN Convention on Biological Diversity: the Vatican and the US. Few have missed the Holy See, but the US not joining the CBD 30 years ago has been described as the “major holdout” among countries looking to support the convention’s goals.In Montreal, where negotiations for this decade’s UN biod
  
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• Rebecca Ikumelo: Who was the 'adorable mother' known for her 'kindness and love' who died after Brixton Academy crush? - Sky News

  17-12-2022 20:39 via news.google.com
  Rebecca Ikumelo: Who was the 'adorable mother' known for her 'kindness and love' who died after Brixton Academy crush?  Sky NewsBrixton Academy: Mother of two dies after Asake concert crush  BBCBrixton crush: Rebecca Ikumelo from east London died at Asake concert  Sky NewsFirst Picture of Gravesend dog handler security guard fighting for her life after Brixton Crush as three remain critical in a London hospital  UK News in PicturesSinger Asake 'devastated'
  
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• Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti arrested after criticism of death penalty

  17-12-2022 20:21
  Detention of one of Iran’s most famous performers sign state wants to crack down on celebrities who challenge regimeTaraneh Alidoosti, one of Iran’s most famous actors, has been detained by security forces in Tehran days after she criticised the state’s use of the death penalty against protesters.She had previously posted a picture of herself on her Instagram page in which she was not wearing the hijab and holding a piece of paper reading “women, life, freedom” &nda
  
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• Tories ‘at risk from rightwing insurgency’ warns donor Lord Cruddas

  17-12-2022 20:19
  Peer says Conservatives no longer party of centre right and are threatened by Reform UK, Brexit party successor, if Nigel Farage takes leadershipThe Conservative party is under threat from a rightwing insurgency after a “drag to the left” under Rishi Sunak, one of its biggest recent donors has warned, amid growing tensions on the Tory right.Peter Cruddas, the peer who has given the party more than £3.5m, said the Conservatives were “no longer a centre-right party” u
  
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• Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate catastrophe | Robin McKie

  17-12-2022 20:16
  Last week’s experiment in the US is promising, but it’s not a magic bullet for our energy needsThe revelation that researchers had succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it consumed made reassuring reading last week. For almost half a century, I have reported on scientific issues and no decade has been complete without two or three announcements by scientists claiming their work would soon allow science to recreate the processes that drive the
  
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• Homes flooded after north London water mains burst - BBC

  17-12-2022 20:12 via news.google.com
  Homes flooded after north London water mains burst  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Leo Varadkar becomes taoiseach as Micheál Martin steps down - BBC

  17-12-2022 20:06 via news.google.com
  Leo Varadkar becomes taoiseach as Micheál Martin steps down  BBCLeo Varadkar returns as Ireland's taoiseach in rotation agreement with Micheál Martin  Guardian NewsRapturous applause and Bon Jovi song feature during historic handover of power  Belfast TelegraphThe Irish Times view on the departure of Micheál Martin as Taoiseach – The Irish Times  The Irish TimesLeo Varadkar: 'Unthinkable' swap-at-the-top of Irish politics &n
  
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• PSVR2 Was Designed in Parallel with PS5, Says Sony - Push Square

  17-12-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
  PSVR2 Was Designed in Parallel with PS5, Says Sony  Push SquareIs Ark 2 Coming to PS5?  RealSport101View Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Celebration and survival: the best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 photography – in pictures

  17-12-2022 20:00
  This year’s best photography from Guardian Australia’s photographic team and freelance photographers across Australia and New Zealand Continue reading...
  
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• Architecture: Rowan Moore’s five best projects of 2022

  17-12-2022 20:00
  Playful, elegant additions to universities and colleges were the class acts to follow, while the newly opened Elizabeth line exceeded all design expectationsRead the Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full1. Marshall Building, LSE, London
  Grafton Architects
  A multifaceted concrete palazzo for students, a place for learning, gathering, sport and music whose design runs several gamuts – grand and intimate, formal and twisting, calm and energetic. It has tree-like columns at the scale
  
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• ‘A month’s wages’: Soaring air fares leave Australians spending Christmas apart or out of pocket

  17-12-2022 20:00
  Christmas had to come early this year for some families – in the form of interstate flights. While for others, reunions will be on hold for another yearGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastJonathan Brown got to see the joy on his nieces and nephews’ faces as they tore open their presents. The potato salad and ham were on the table. So were the Christmas crackers and hats.It was a typical family Christmas just like any other year – except that
  
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• Emiliano Martínez the man as likely as Messi to be Argentina’s X-factor - The Guardian

  17-12-2022 19:53 via news.google.com
  Emiliano Martínez the man as likely as Messi to be Argentina’s X-factor  The GuardianLionel Messi is the greatest of all time – and like Maradona he will stop at nothing to win World Cup  The TelegraphIt's Messi v Mbappe! GameDay Podcast World Cup Final Preview  talkSPORTFrance's survivors daring for greatest heist yet against Messi and Argentina  The GuardianDavid Beckham 'infuriates' World Cup chiefs as Gareth Southgate set for England
  
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• Brixton Academy: Mother of two dies after Asake concert crush

  17-12-2022 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Rebecca Ikumelo's family say she was well respected for her "care, kindness and love".
  
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• Hundreds turn out for lake death boys vigil

  17-12-2022 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  People gather to remember four young boys who died after falling into a frozen lake.
  
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• ‘We have a long way to go’: can the UK hit its ambitious 30% rewilding targets?

  17-12-2022 19:00
  Britain is a vocal supporter of the global bid to return land to nature, but its record is dismal. Can it make up lost ground in time?More than 5 million tonnes of coal were hewn from land at West Chevington in Northumberland in the 1980s. Lorries, cranes and bulldozers crisscrossed the vast opencast mine that had been created there, flinging clouds of coal dust into the air and brutalising the landscape to provide fuel for the nation’s power stations and factories.Today, the 327-hectare (
  
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• Rishi Sunak and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future – cartoon

  17-12-2022 19:00
  ’Tis the season to be confronted with PPE contracts, strikes and austerity• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
  
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• Lionel Messi is not becoming Diego Maradona – he is becoming himself

  17-12-2022 19:00
  The totem of Sunday’s finalists is revealing his true self rather than becoming a mirror image of the great who led his nation to World Cup glory in 1986For Lionel Messi’s Argentina this is the eve of a World Cup final that has been a long time coming. As the bumpy yet steadily improved road to glory unfolds, the inevitable comparisons with the late Diego Maradona get ever stronger. Like some phantom standard that Messi is supposed to reach, the pinnacle of triumphalism on lifting th
  
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• Irritating, yes. Silly, yes. But Harry and Meghan are right on one thing: press persecution | Catherine Bennett

  17-12-2022 19:00
  The Netflix drama reveals the depths to which some of the reporting has sunkIf Harry & Meghan, the series, didn’t please everyone, Prince Andrew must have adored it. Beyond group pictures, not even a glimpse of Andrew (the Epstein/Maxwell favourite still embedded in a Windsor mansion after the £12m settlement of a contested sex claim) was deployed to underline the non-compromised couple’s contrasting exile from their tribe, for reasons that seem largely to do with resentmen
  
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• France’s survivors daring for greatest heist yet against Messi and Argentina

  17-12-2022 19:00
  Didier Deschamps’ pragmatists will be set on stifling Lionel Messi’s magic as they aim to complete a hat-trick of World CupsIf France are the new West Germany – unflinching under pressure, unconcerned with claiming neutral hearts – then perhaps time has spun back to 1986. If so then it is good news for Argentina. It has been 36 years since the South Americans edged past the West Germans in a thrilling final and, by the time this most unsettling of World Cups comes to an e
  
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• Police issue safety warning as children spotted 'playing on frozen pond' - Bristol Live

  17-12-2022 18:47 via news.google.com
  Police issue safety warning as children spotted 'playing on frozen pond'  Bristol LiveHundreds turn out for Solihull lake-death vigil  BBCHundreds at third vigil for boys killed in frozen lake tragedy as candles lit in memory  The MirrorJohn Eustace pays touching Babbs Mill tribute after Birmingham City victory  Birmingham LiveBEL MOONEY: Amid the numbing grief of the ice lake tragedy, the power of community lives on  Daily MailView Full coverage
  
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• Alabama women, 85 and 61, sentenced after feeding stray cats

  17-12-2022 18:47
  Beverly Roberts and Mary Alston sought to trap the cats so they could be neuteredTwo Alabama women were given suspended jail sentences last week after feeding stray cats and trapping them so they could be neutered, a common public health intervention to reduce stray numbers.Beverly Roberts, 85, and Mary Alston, 61, of Wetumpka, Alabama, were sentenced to two years of unsupervised parole and a $100 fine each on Tuesday, reported the Montgomery Advertiser. The women were also given suspended 10-da
  
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• Leicester give Steve Borthwick perfect send-off with victory over Clermont

  17-12-2022 18:38
  Pool B: Leicester 23-16 ClermontBorthwick expected to be named England head coach this weekIf this is his last game in charge, Steve Borthwick left Welford Road with a familiar sign-off – discipline, commitment and the result. Just about. Popular opinion no doubt has it that the end of the Eddie Jones era will mean that England unfurl their wings and fly, but those who know Borthwick may be less quick to jump to that conclusion.But if results are your thing, England could do worse should t
  
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• Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion - BBC

  17-12-2022 18:34 via news.google.com
  Berlin AquaDom aquarium: Police not seeking suspects over explosion  BBCGiant Berlin hotel aquarium with 1500 fish explodes - BBC News  BBC NewsUS company to send team to look into Berlin aquarium rupture  Runcorn and Widnes WorldAquarium holding 1500 fish bursts in Berlin hotel  CBS Evening NewsBerlin aquarium containing 1,500 exotic fish and millions of litres of water explodes  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• SNP to hold special conference on independence in 2023

  17-12-2022 18:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Nicola Sturgeon says the party will gather to set out a "clear pathway" on the constitution.
  
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• Radio and podcasts: Miranda Sawyer’s 10 best listens of 2022

  17-12-2022 18:30
  Brilliant audio really can be about anything, whether it’s disinformation, the Ukrainian frontline, cancer, periods… or cuckoo clocksRead the Observer critics’ review of 2022 in full1. Marianna Spring
  Radio 4/BBC Sounds
  With her excellent investigative series Death by Conspiracy, War on Truth and Disaster Trolls, plus her regular slot on Americast, the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent has been tireless in her mission to debunk internet untruths and sho
  
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• German police recover 31 items stolen in 2019 Dresden jewel heist

  17-12-2022 18:30
  ‘Considerable portion’ of priceless treasures from Green Vault museum recovered amid trial of suspectsGerman authorities said they have found a “considerable portion” of items stolen in a spectacular 2019 robbery of priceless 18th-century jewels from a state museum.The authorities retrieved 31 individual items in the capital, Berlin, the police and prosecutors said. Continue reading...
  
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• US voids 1954 revoking of J Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance

  17-12-2022 18:27
  Biden administration says 1954 decision that ended atomic bomb scientist’s career was part of ‘flawed process’The Biden administration has overturned a 1954 decision that revoked the security clearance of J Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist credited as a key architect of the atomic bomb who was caught up in the Red Scare over communism in US politics.The US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, wrote in a statement published on Friday that the original decision by the Atomic Ene
  
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• Peru’s president urges Congress to bring forward general elections amid protests

  17-12-2022 18:25
  Dina Boluarte assumed the presidency after Pedro Castillo tried to illegally dissolve Congress and was arrestedThe Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, who has said she is leading a transitional government, urged the country’s Congress to pass a proposal to bring forward general elections in a news conference from the presidential palace on Saturday.Boluarte, formerly Peru’s vice-president, assumed the presidency earlier this month after ex-president Pedro Castillo tried to illegally d
  
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• Classy Croatia see off Morocco to finish third in Qatar World Cup | BBC Sport - BBC Sport

  17-12-2022 18:18 via news.google.com
  Classy Croatia see off Morocco to finish third in Qatar World Cup | BBC Sport  BBC SportCroatia 2-1 Morocco: World Cup 2022 third-place playoff – as it happened  The GuardianWorld Cup 2022 third-place play-off: Croatia beat Morocco to win bronze medal  Sky SportsOrisic gives Croatia halftime lead against Morocco  ReutersCroatia finish third at World Cup after Mislav Orsic’s winner against Morocco  The GuardianView Full coverage on Goo
  
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• Croatia finish third at World Cup after Mislav Orsic’s winner against Morocco

  17-12-2022 18:06
  Croatia beat Morocco 2-1 in the World Cup third-place playoff to leave Qatar on a high after again surpassing expectations following their run to the final in 2018. Mislav Orsic’s strike just before half-time was enough to settle the contest after two goals inside the first nine minutes set the tone for a pulsating encounter, Morocco’s Achraf Dari cancelling out Josko Gvardiol’s opener.A bronze medal may have served as nothing more than consolation but Croatia and Morocco looke
  
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