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• Gunmen kill 24 and injure 18 in attack on Burkina Faso church

  17-02-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gunmen killed 24 people, including a pastor, in an attack on a church during Sunday Mass in northwestern Burkina Faso, four security sources told Reuters on Monday.
  
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• 'Everything is a mess right now': Hundreds who were stuck on Westerdam cruise ship held up in Cambodia

  17-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Holland America cruise ship nightmare seemed to be over, but things turned when one woman tested positive for coronavirus.
  
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• The Roger Stone Double Standard

  17-02-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Whether Roger Stone, the loopy, self-aggrandizing political operative, deserves nine years in Supermax for obstructing an investigation into Russia–Donald Trump “collusion” is debatable. Whether the powerful men who helped create the investigation that ensnared Stone have been allowed to lie with impunity is not. They have.Only a few days after prosecutors melodramatically left the DOJ after Trump tweeted a defense of Stone and the DOJ subsequently revised its sentencing recomm
  
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• Mississippi and Tennessee Have Been Deluged With Near-Record Levels of Flooding. Here's What to Know

  17-02-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a Monday press conference, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said that the Pearl River crested at 36.7 feet just above the major flood level which is 36 feet.
  
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• Indiana professor is suspended for calling police on student who wouldn't switch seats

  17-02-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This decision is in the best interest of Dr. Borna and the University," Ball State University said in a statement.
  
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• Apple Sales Will Miss; U.S. Cruisers Quarantined: Virus Update

  17-02-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A case study of a patient who died from the new coronavirus shows similarities with two prior deadly coronavirus outbreaks. Apple Inc. said it would miss its quarterly revenue target because of the virus.The U.S. evacuated citizens from the Diamond Princess cruise liner, including 14 who tested positive for the virus, and will quarantine more than 300 passengers. The U.S. is still figuring out what to do with American passengers on another cruise ship who disembarked in Cambodia,
  
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• Johnson Aide Quits U.K. Government After Black Inferiority Storm

  17-02-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- An adviser to Boris Johnson quit the British government just a few days into the job after a storm over his claims that white Americans are more intelligent than their black compatriots.Andrew Sabisky, who was hired to work in Johnson’s Downing Street office last week, said he had joined the government to do “real work” but found himself “in the middle of a giant character assassination.”“The media hysteria about my old stuff online is mad but I
  
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• Michael Bloomberg Is a Condescending Jerk . . .

  17-02-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hunt is on for offensive clips of Michael Bloomberg talking off the cuff, and over the weekend a new one circulated. In the version passed around, Bloomberg nonchalantly tells his Oxford audience that he could teach anyone how to farm — “even people in this room”: “It’s a process; you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.” He adds that modern “information economy” jobs require more “gray matter.
  
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• 13 US citizens at 'high risk' of coronavirus being treated in Nebraska

  17-02-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thirteen US citizens deemed "high risk" for the deadly new coronavirus are being treated at a federally designated facility in the University of Nebraska following their evacuation from a cruise ship in Japan, officials said Monday.A total of 338 Americans were flown home from the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan's Yokohama, touching down first at Travis Air Force Base in California shortly before midnight Sunday."A select number of high risk patients were transported onward from both loca
  
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• Girl, 6, survives mountain lion attack after adult pushes animal into bushes

  17-02-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the adults the girl was with pushed the mountain lion off of her and into the bushes, a ranger with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District said.
  
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• Cruise passengers took Cambodia bus tours despite virus fears

  17-02-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A scramble intensified on Monday to trace passengers from a cruise liner —with more than 600 Americans aboard — allowed to disembark in Cambodia Thursday despite at least one traveler later being diagnosed with the coronavirus.
  
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• Quarantines, isolation and lockdowns draw mixed reviews: 'There is no zero risk in the world'

  17-02-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lockdowns, quarantines and isolation protocols have been strategies in the global assault on the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,700.
  
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• Why did US break Diamond Princess coronavirus quarantine? 'Something went awry'

  17-02-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anthony Fauci shed light on the decision to evacuate passengers from the Diamond Princess, 14 of whom have tested positive for the virus.
  
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• Stephen Miller: Anger at New York Times for running wedding announcement of white supremacist

  17-02-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times has defended its wedding announcement for Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller after the newspaper faced a backlash from readers.Mr Miller married Vice President Mike Pence's press secretary, Katie Waldman, on Sunday evening at the president's Trump International Hotel in Washington DC. The president attended the wedding and even gave a speech joking about Mr Miller's decision to get married over President's Day weekend, according to a Real Clear Politics reporter.
  
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• Stacey Abrams Says She’s Open to Joining Dem Ticket as Veep after Dismissing Idea of Running for ‘Second Place’

  17-02-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia who called out alleged voter suppression during her election, said Monday that she "would be honored" to be the vice presidential candidate on the 2020 Democratic ticket."It would be doing a disservice to every woman of color, every woman of ambition, every child who wants to think beyond their known space for me to say no or to pretend, 'Oh, no, I don't want it,'" Abrams said on ABC's "The View." "Of course I want it.
  
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• Cuba burning tires to power factory as US oil sanctions bite

  17-02-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Cuban government has ordered a cement factory to burn old tires to power its operations and save on oil, amid a worsening fuel shortage brought on by US sanctions on the Communist island.On orders of President Miguel Diaz-Canel, the firm Cementos Cienfuegos, located in the center of the country, will receive an increasing supply of used tires to burn, the official daily Granma said Monday.Cuba has been suffering oil shortages since last September, when the administration of President Donald
  
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• Pier 1 Imports files for bankruptcy, plans to sell company

  17-02-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The home retailer will continue to close 450 locations as executives search for a potential buyer.
  
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• NSA whistleblower who leaked Russian hacking report petitions for clemency

  17-02-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reality Winner was sentenced to five years in 2018 after leaking classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 electionSupporters of Reality Winner, a National Security Agency whistleblower who leaked classified information about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, petitioned Donald Trump on Monday for her early release from prison.Alison Grinter, an attorney representing the former US air force intelligence specialist, announced at a press conference
  
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• More than 2,000 ex-DOJ employees call for Attorney General Barr's resignation

  17-02-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The letter comes after a contentious week for the Justice Department, which already faces allegations of succumbing to political pressure.
  
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• Here Comes Michael Bloomberg (And Here Come the Questions)

  17-02-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Can he get the nomination? Can he beat Donald Trump?
  
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• 'Now We Are Refugees': A Family in Limbo Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak

  17-02-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These days, Chloe Chang, a Taiwanese woman stranded at the center of China's coronavirus outbreak, says she wakes up every half-hour during the night. Sometimes she breaks down in tears.She and her family are effectively trapped in her grandmother's apartment building, where a man recently died from the virus. Workers in hazmat suits haunt the surrounding streets, and the neighborhood has a strong police presence. There are shortages of food and other essentials throughout Yichang, the Hubei pro
  
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• 11 Children Among 26 People Shot During Single Weekend of Gun Violence in Chicago

  17-02-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to the Chicago Police Department, there were a total of 15 shooting incidents over the weekend but that number could go up as the final numbers will be released tomorrow.
  
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• Pelosi Objects to CNN Anchor’s Claim That Trump Was Acquitted in Impeachment Trial

  17-02-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) interjected during an interview Saturday to make the case that President Trump was not acquitted from impeachment because his Senate trial lacked additional witnesses and documents demanded by Senate Democrats.“You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can’t have a trial unless you have witnesses and documents — so he can say he’s acquitted, and the headlines can say ‘acquitted,’ but he’s i
  
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• Trump says black poverty has been 'reversed'... government data says otherwise

  17-02-2020 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On its face, President Trump's remark to Fox News personality Sean Hannity about the African-American poverty rate was just another bold pronouncement. But, as often is the case, a review of his government's own data suggest it was something of a whopper — even by his standards.
  
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• The Latest: Warren calls for party unity in taking on Trump

  17-02-2020 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren is preaching Democratic unity in taking on President Donald Trump, a challenge she framed as an existential crisis for America.Warren, having partly recovered her voice after catching a cold, said at a Monday afternoon town hall in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson that America is at its best when it takes on a problem.The Massachusetts senator also spoke about how she’s adopted policy plans and hired staff from Democrats who have dropped out of the race, including New Yor
  
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• Mexican president blames murder of young girl on past governments

  17-02-2020 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday appeared to blame the murder of a seven-year-old girl on the neoliberal economic model, angering critics who say the government has failed to stem a wave of gender violence.Lopez Obrador was asked at his regular news conference about the kidnapping and killing of the girl, Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett, who went missing on Feb. 11 and whose body was discovered over the weekend inside a plastic garbage bag in Mexico City's Tlahuac neighborhood.
  
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• US judge dismisses lawsuit over transgender pronoun dispute

  17-02-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge dismissed a professor's lawsuit against a small, public university in Ohio that rebuked him for not addressing a transgender student using the student's preferred gender terms. Nicholas Meriwether's federal lawsuit alleged that Shawnee State University officials violated his rights by compelling him to speak in a way that contradicts his Christian beliefs. Schools officials contended that such language was part of his job responsibilities, not speech protected by the First Amendment, and
  
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• Mississippi floods appear to hit peak with parts of Jackson under water

  17-02-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pearl River rose to its third-highest point in recorded history after heavy rains last week filled the Ross Barnett Reservoir to capacity, forcing managers on Saturday to begin releasing water into the river just upstream from Jackson.The floods submerged streets in low-lying areas, prompting 16 search-and-rescue operations to pluck stranded people from their homes, Governor Tate Reeves said.Reeves declared a state of emergency on Saturday, one day after the city of Jackson issued a seven-da
  
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• New Mexico woman who was pregnant with third child still missing three years later

  17-02-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Brooks Hernandez, 29, was last seen by her boyfriend, Miguel Martinez, who told police he dropped her off at a welfare office in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 16, 2017. Police suspect foul play, but no arrests have been made. The Albuquerque Police Department is investigating.
  
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• Tennessee flooding: 'Unprecedented' floods make homes slide into river

  17-02-2020 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities managing dams in Tennessee and Mississippi must make difficult decisions as floodwaters swell along the states’ rivers; the surging water pressing against the dams has to be released at some point, and when it does, it often spells disaster for individuals living downstream from the dams.Case in point: two large homes slid into the flood-swelled waters of the Tennessee River over the weekend.
  
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• Cruise passengers scatter, take Cambodia bus tours despite virus fears

  17-02-2020 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A scramble intensified Monday to trace passengers from a US cruise liner allowed to disembark in Cambodia despite at least one traveller later being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus. There are fears scores of cruise goers have been scattered across the world without full health checks -- as Cambodia on Monday afternoon treated a few dozen of the passengers to bus tours around the capital Phnom Penh. Passenger Christina Kerby, whose drole tweets as the Westerdam was bounced across ports drew
  
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• Eccentric millionaire Durst faces trial in friend's killing

  17-02-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is almost no physical evidence connecting New York real estate heir Robert Durst to the slaying of his best friend in Los Angeles 20 years ago.The slip of paper intended to lead authorities to her lifeless body in December 2000 was penned by Durst.Durst himself has said more than once that only the killer or someone involved in the shooting could have written it.
  
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• 6-year-old girl attacked by mountain lion in California

  17-02-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the adults the girl was with pushed the mountain lion off her and into the bushes, a ranger said.
  
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• 6-year-old girl attacked by mountain lion

  17-02-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the adults the girl was with pushed the mountain lion off of her and into the bushes, a ranger with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District said.
  
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• Nevada's changing demographics are a road map showing Democrats how to win elections

  17-02-2020 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Change doesn't happen on its own. It takes intensive organizing, a focus on bread-and-butter issues, and persuading immigrants to become citizens.
  
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• Coronavirus: Diamond Princess passengers arrive in USA, including 14 who tested positive

  17-02-2020 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fourteen of the evacuees from the Diamond Princess had coronavirus but were allowed to board a flight to the USA because they did not have symptoms.
  
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• 'Historic, unprecedented' flooding swamps southern USA; Mississippi and Tennessee hardest hit

  17-02-2020 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Weeks of heavy rain have inundated a large portion of the southern USA, bringing near-record flooding to Mississippi and Tennessee
  
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• The global spread of the new coronavirus: Where is it?

  17-02-2020 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Beijing (AFP) - The new coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year has now killed nearly 1,800 people and spread around the world.
  
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• Former mayoral candidate drugged woman with cupcake to steal newborn, officials say

  17-02-2020 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Juliette Parker, 38, was arrested Friday on suspicion of attempted kidnapping and assault, per the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• WHO warns against novel coronavirus 'blanket measures'

  17-02-2020 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday warned against "blanket measures" over the novel coronavirus outbreak, pointing out the epidemic outside of China was only affecting a "tiny" proportion of the population.WHO also said that -- with a mortality rate of around 2 percent -- COVID-19 was "less deadly" than other coronaviruses such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).The outbreak, which has infected some 70,500 people in China and killed
  
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• Venezuela suspends airline after Guaidó's flight home

  17-02-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan authorities suspended a Portuguese airline on Monday days after it carried opposition leader Juan Guaidó and his uncle home from an international tour aimed at ousting President Nicolás Maduro.Guaidó's flight to Caracas on TAP Air Portugal ended his three-week tour through Europe and into the Trump White House.Venezuelan authorities arrested Guaidó's uncle upon landing, accusing him of trying to bring a small amount of explosives into the nation.
  
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• Jeff Bezos says he's giving $10 billion — about 7.7% of his net worth — to fight climate change

  17-02-2020 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world's richest man is giving about 7.7% of his $130 billion net worth to launch the Bezos Earth Fund, he announced on Instagram on Monday.
  
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• ‘It Failed’: Cruise Ship Coronavirus Snafus Stoke Fears of Global Pandemic

  17-02-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Matthew Smith was feeling very good Monday about rejecting the U.S. government’s offer to be evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Japan.He had just gotten word that 14 of the 300-plus Americans and fellow passengers who had boarded a cargo plane back to the U.S. had actually tested positive for the new coronavirus.“OMG! US Gov’t said they would not put anyone on the planes who was symptomatic, and they ended up knowingly and intentionally putting on 14 peop
  
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• 'Ghost ship' washes ashore in Ireland after Storm Dennis

  17-02-2020 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A "ghost ship" drifting without a crew for more than a year washed ashore on Ireland's south coast in high seas caused by Storm Dennis, the Republic's coast guard said.The abandoned 77-metre (250-feet) cargo ship MV Alta ran aground on rocks outside the village of Ballycotton near Cork, Ireland's second city, bringing an end to her months-long voyage.The Alta's odyssey began in September 2018 when she became disabled in the mid-Atlantic en route from Greece to Haiti.
  
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• The beginning of the end for the flu season?

  17-02-2020 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All of the lower 48 states are reporting widespread cases of flu, with the exception of Oregon, which is seeing regional cases as of the week ending Feb. 8, 2020. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)The latest flu data can be viewed with optimism, since it appears the flu season is starting to wind down. The data also offers a cold dose of reality: 24 United States states showed either record-high flu activity or numbers that were higher than ever for this time of year."While flu remains
  
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• Airlines, officials trace path of couple diagnosed with coronavirus that flew from Hawaii

  17-02-2020 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Delta and Hawaiian AIrlines are working with the CDC to trace the path of a couple who were diagnosed with coronavirus after returning from Hawaii.
  
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• Trump Gives Up on ‘Endless Wars’—and Russia, China, and Iran Move In

  17-02-2020 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM–Two decades of expanding operations against what United States Special Operations Command called a “global insurgency of state and non-state actors” has led to fatigue at home and questions abroad about U.S. strategy. Trump, Afghanistan, and ‘The Tweet of Damocles’The latest Trump administration deal with the Taliban, challenges to the U.S. role in Syria and Iraq, and a potential reduction of forces in Africa point to a global trend in how the U.S. will de
  
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• As Trump Gives Up on ‘Endless Wars,' Russia, China, and Iran Move In

  17-02-2020 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM–Two decades of expanding operations against what United States Special Operations Command called a “global insurgency of state and non-state actors” has led to fatigue at home and questions abroad about U.S. strategy. Trump, Afghanistan, and ‘The Tweet of Damocles’The latest Trump administration deal with the Taliban, challenges to the U.S. role in Syria and Iraq, and a potential reduction of forces in Africa point to a global trend in how the U.S. will de
  
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• SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on 80th Falcon 9 mission

  17-02-2020 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fog and low-level clouds cleared just in time on Monday, making way for a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to vault a batch of 60 satellites to low-Earth orbit.
  
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• Floods Force U.K. Climate Strikers to Cancel First Gathering

  17-02-2020 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Young climate protesters in the U.K. have been forced to cancel their first national conference following serious flooding and heavy rainstorms on two successive weekends.The conference was expected to take place from Sunday to Wednesday, but flooding in Staffordshire in England’s west midlands region made the venue unaccessible. Police advised against the meeting going ahead, according to a statement from the U.K. Student Climate Network.“The finge
  
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