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• Turkmenistan, Afghanistan open new infrastructure projects

  14-01-2021 18:02 via abcnews.go.com
  The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan have launched three new infrastructure projects intended to boost ties between the two neighbors
  
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• UPDATE: War In The Gold Market Is Continues To Rage

  23-01-2021 00:30 via kingworldnews.com
  
  The war in the gold market is heating up as we head into the final week of trading in January. Here is what you need to know.
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• Chinese miners will be trapped for at least 15 more days, city says

  23-01-2021 00:16 via cbsnews.com
  
  The mine shaft is blocked 1,000 feet below the surface by 70 tons of debris that extends down another 330 feet, the Yantai city government said in a statement on its social media account.
  
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• Canada working with the US to close travel 'loophole'

  22-01-2021 23:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Canadian officials said Friday they are working with the Biden administration to close what they describe as a travel "loophole" and to get more symmetry with Covid-19 safety protocols between the two countries.
  
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• 18-month-old baby under house arrest with Bobi Wine 'safely evacuated'

  22-01-2021 23:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The 18-month old niece of Bobi Wine's wife has been safely evacuated from their residence, where she had been under house arrest with the Ugandan politician and his wife, Wine told CNN's Becky Anderson Friday.
  
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• ICE starts 100-day moratorium on some deportations

  22-01-2021 21:47 via cbsnews.com
  
  The pause won't apply to immigrants determined to pose a threat to national security or those recently apprehended along the southern border.
  
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• Twitter bans account linked to Iran's leader after Trump threat

  22-01-2021 21:20 via cbsnews.com
  
  Post shows image of Trump playing golf in the shadow of a drone and declares that "revenge is certain."
  
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• Al Arabiya: Israel, Syria officials discuss removal of Iran and its militias from Syria: Report

  22-01-2021 21:14 via english.alarabiya.net
  Israel’s demand to remove Iran and its militias from Syria was discussed by Syrian and Israeli officials last month at the Russian Hmeimim base in Syria’s Latakia, according to the Syrian Bridges Center for Studies.
  
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• First-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons enters into force

  22-01-2021 20:48 via cbsnews.com
  
  None of the world's nuclear powers have agreed to the prohibition.
  
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• U.K. officials say COVID variant appears more deadly than original

  22-01-2021 18:58 via cbsnews.com
  
  It "now appears there is some evidence that the new variant... may be associated with a higher degree of mortality," Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
  
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• Google threatens to shut down in Australia over proposed tech law

  22-01-2021 18:47 via cbsnews.com
  
  The legislation would force big tech companies to pay news outlets to use their content. Google says that would make its business model unworkable.
  
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• GOP govs. order National Guard home from DC, amid outrage over troops banished to parking garage

  22-01-2021 18:05 via foxnews.com
  
  Govs. Ron DeSantis, Chris Sununu and Greg Abbott announced that they are bringing their National Guard troops back from Washington, D.C., after reports they were posted up in a parking garage near the Capitol to rest during their shifts, a move that caused outrage at the treatment of the servicemembers. 
  
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• 25% of wild bee species have gone missing since the 1990s

  22-01-2021 17:01 via cbsnews.com
  
  By the time the community understands just how devastating the bee decline actually is, it may be too late to reverse it.
  
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• South Africa strain highly resistant to antibodies from original COVID

  22-01-2021 16:29 via cbsnews.com
  
  Scientists say the data's not in yet, but there are worrying signs the strain sweeping across South Africa could be resistant to the current vaccines.
  
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• Sacha Baron Cohen on "Borat" sequel, playing activist Abbie Hoffman in "Chicago 7"

  22-01-2021 15:48 via cbsnews.com
  
  British actor, writer and producer Sacha Baron Cohen is in two of the most critically-acclaimed films of the past year: "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7." In an exclusive interview with Anthony Mason, he talks about taking risks for satire and how his body of work is more relevant now than ever.
  
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• Sacha Baron Cohen on "Borat" sequel, playing activist Abbie Hoffman in "The Trial of the Chicago 7"

  22-01-2021 15:21 via cbsnews.com
  
  British actor, writer and producer Sacha Baron Cohen is in two of the most critically-acclaimed films of the past year: "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7." In an exclusive interview with Anthony Mason, he talks about taking risks for satire and how his body of work is more relevant now than ever.
  
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• Russia detains Navalny allies in bid to stem looming anti-Putin demos

  22-01-2021 15:10 via cbsnews.com
  
  Close allies of the fierce Putin critic are rounded up, activists and journalists warned to stay home, and social media companies ordered not to publicize the protests.
  
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• Scientists work to unlock secrets of new COVID-19 strain spreading across South Africa

  22-01-2021 14:15 via cbsnews.com
  
  President Biden's chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci says he is concerned by a coronavirus variant emerging in South Africa. The new strain has led to a surge of new cases across the country and CBS News got rare access to a team of scientists investigating it. Debora Patta reports.
  
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• Can Japan cling to its Olympic dream with a pandemic raging?

  22-01-2021 12:40 via cbsnews.com
  
  Officials firmly deny a report that, privately, they know the Summer Games are doomed, but they look increasingly cornered by COVID-19, and public opinion.
  
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• Danielle DiMartino Booth – Bread And Circuses In The United States, Plus A Big Surprise

  22-01-2021 12:29 via kingworldnews.com
  
  Today Danielle DiMartino Booth sent King World News a very powerful piece about bread and circuses, plus a big surprise.
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• Why Russian-backed mercenaries are digging a huge trench in Libya

  22-01-2021 09:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Construction on an enormous trench across Libya, dug by Russian-backed mercenaries Wagner, is raising fears that foreign fighters will not withdraw from the country by Saturday, as a UN-brokered peace deal insists.
  
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• S Korean former Olympic skating coach jailed for 10 years over abuse

  22-01-2021 07:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A former Olympic speed skating coach has been jailed for 10 years by a South Korean court for sexual abuse.
  
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• Former Olympic skating coach jailed for 10 years over abuse

  22-01-2021 07:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A former Olympic speed skating coach has been jailed for 10 years by a South Korean court for sexual abuse.
  
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• Maduro sent letter to Iran's Leader accrediting US fugitive

  22-01-2021 06:22 via abcnews.go.com
  A Colombian businessman was carrying a letter from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accrediting him to Iran’s supreme leader when he was arrested on a U.S. warrant last year in the African nation of Cape Verde
  
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• Israeli warplanes strike targets in central Syria

  22-01-2021 06:20 via abcnews.go.com
  Syria's state media says Israeli warplanes have fired several missiles on targets in central Syria without giving word on casualties
  
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• Mongolian PM quits in COVID-19 hospital treatment scandal

  22-01-2021 06:15 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Mongolia’s prime minister has resigned following a protest over a hospital’s treatment of a new mother who tested positive for the coronavirus
  
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• Brazil awaits vaccine cargo from India amid supply concerns

  22-01-2021 06:01 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Brazil’s government is eagerly awaiting the Friday arrival of 2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from India
  
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• Truck with quarry explosives blasts in India, 6 feared dead

  22-01-2021 05:54 via abcnews.go.com
  Police say a truck carrying explosives detonated at a stone-crushing unit in southern India, leaving several dead
  
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• The iconic look that changed festival fashion

  22-01-2021 05:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Remember when Kate Moss wore wellies (that's rain boots for those outside the UK) to Glastonbury?
  
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• Syrian media reports Israeli airstrikes near western city of Hama

  22-01-2021 05:12 via timesofisrael.com
  
  Syrian state media reported Israeli airstrikes near the western city of Hama in the predawn hours of Friday morning.
  Syrian official news agency SANA said Syria’s air defenses confronted “Israeli aggression” near the city.
  SANA quoted a military source as saying the attack had come from the direction of the city of Tripoli on Lebanon’s coast.
  
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