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• Kashmir killings: The families still waiting for bodies of loved ones

  10-12-2021 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Relatives of people killed by security forces during encounters say they have little hope of justice.
  
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• Japan confirms 8 more omicron COVID cases

  10-12-2021 23:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Health officials in Japan have confirmed eight more cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, bringing the country's total to 12, the government said Friday.
  
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• That's sour. Tickets to see Olivia Rodrigo's tour are being resold for thousands

  10-12-2021 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  Things are looking pretty sour for fans of Olivia Rodrigo.
  
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• Rangnick will not try to convince Pogba to sign new deal

  10-12-2021 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ralf Rangnick says he will not try to convince midfielder Paul Pogba to stay at Manchester United if he wants to leave.
  
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• Late goals give Brentford dramatic comeback win over Watford

  10-12-2021 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brentford score two goals in the final 10 minutes to come from behind and deny Watford victory at the Community Stadium.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell: Key moments in the trial so far

  10-12-2021 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ghislaine Maxwell is accused of grooming girls for abuse by late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Hamas ammunition warehouse explodes causing casualties in southern Lebanon

  10-12-2021 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  A Hamas warehouse filled with ammunition at a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon exploded on Friday, causing casualties, according to Lebanon state-run NNA news.
  
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• Hannah Gadsby – Body of Work: a joyful guide to blasting Netflix and messing with Christian bakers

  10-12-2021 22:58
  
  Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House
  The Australian comedian has opted for a feel-good show, but without any easy sentimentality
  What better way to symbolise your favourable turn in fortune than with adorable bunnies, the sign of good luck? Comedian Hannah Gadsby has marked her return to the Sydney Opera House with four rabbits across the stage, though you will probably first notice the one in the Joan Sutherland theatre that functions as a lantern, a beacon of hope.Of course, none of the
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell gave me nude massage when I was 16, accuser says

  10-12-2021 22:51
  
  Annie Farmer testifies about encounter at New Mexico ranch in 1996, and recounts how she met Maxwell and Jeffrey EpsteinThe fourth accuser to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial said Friday that she was only 16 when the British socialite gave her a nude massage at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.This accuser, Annie Farmer, also said that the morning after her encounter with Maxwell, Epstein climbed into bed with her and said he “wanted to cuddle” and s
  
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• Mark Huband obituary

  10-12-2021 22:43
  
  Foreign correspondent respected for his work in west Africa and the Middle East who went on to write books and poemsMark Huband, who has died aged 58 of pancreatitis and multiple organ failure, built a strong and lasting reputation over more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and business analyst, specialising in Africa and the Middle East.He and I met when he arrived in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 1989 to take up the post of the Financial Times stringer and I was working for Reuters. He
  
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• British PM Johnson facing crisis as nation reacts to government parties held during COVID lockdowns

  10-12-2021 22:28 via foxnews.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a crisis in his country and government as revelations of secret parties with administration officials during COVID-19 lockdown rules continue to leak to the public.
  
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• US Supreme Court says Texas abortion clinics can sue over law

  10-12-2021 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Supreme Court leaves controversial Texas abortion law in place, but allows lawsuits
  
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• A single sentence that perfectly captures the utter madness of the Trump era

  10-12-2021 21:48 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Trump's expectation of loyalty to be tested by Supreme Court
  
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• Sotomayor decries abortion ruling but court’s conservatives show their muscle

  10-12-2021 21:41
  
  The highest court in the US has been defied by a group of extremist Republicans openly flouting the court’s own rulingsSonia Sotomayor, the liberal-leaning justice on the US supreme court, put it plainly. For almost three months, lawmakers in the Republican-controlled legislature of Texas had “substantially suspended a constitutional guarantee: a pregnant woman’s right to control her own body”.“The court should have put an end to this madness months ago,” Soto
  
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• Omicron: Three vaccine doses key for protection against variant

  10-12-2021 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK scientists say two doses of a Covid vaccine are not enough to stop you catching the Omicron variant.
  
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• Company fined after exposing Montana workers to arsenic

  10-12-2021 21:27
  
  A company that turned mining waste into roofing materials in Montana was fined and ordered to conduct medical monitoring after pleading guilty to exposing its employees to arsenic
  
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• Golden generation survivor Steven Gerrard is writing his own origin story | Barney Ronay

  10-12-2021 21:00
  
  Driven by his league title failure as a player, Aston Villa’s head coach has become a compelling prospect as a managerThere is an interesting, and no doubt very common phenomenon called parasocial interaction. This is where people feel they have an intimate, reciprocal relationship with a famous person, a belief that by consuming images of that person, by thinking about them, the mirror becomes a two-way glass; that they can see you too.We all get this to some extent, right down to the ent
  
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• Woman admits abusing pet marmoset she offered cocaine and flushed toilet on

  10-12-2021 20:39
  
  Vicki Holland, from Newport, south Wales, pleads guilty to animal cruelty charges after videos found on phoneWarning: this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbingA woman has pleaded guilty to abusing her pet marmoset, including offering cocaine to the primate and attempting to flush it down the toilet.A court heard how Vicki Holland was aggressive towards the primate, which is native to tropical forests in Central and South America. The monkey’s treatment was shown
  
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• Michael Nesmith: The Monkees star dies at 78

  10-12-2021 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With the group, the singer and guitarist had a string of hits and starred in a TV sitcom in the 1960s.
  
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• Michael Nesmith, Monkees singer and guitarist, has died

  10-12-2021 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  Michael Nesmith, a singer and guitarist for the hit group the Monkees, died Friday.
  
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• Indonesia volcano: Volunteers struggle to recover the dead, metres deep in ash and mud

  10-12-2021 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The effort to recover bodies is continuing in Indonesia, after the eruption of Mount Semeru last week.
  
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• Who could be most affected by US abortion changes?

  10-12-2021 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Any changes to US abortion laws will disproportionately impact younger, poorer and black women.
  
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• Javid advised to take ‘stringent’ Covid measures within a week, leak reveals

  10-12-2021 20:19
  
  Exclusive: Health officials say urgent action needed to avoid mass hospitalisations and overwhelming the NHSCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s top public health officials have advised ministers that “stringent national measures” need to be imposed by 18 December to avoid Covid hospitalisations surpassing last winter’s peak, according to documents leaked to the Guardian.Sajid Javid, the health secretary, received a presentation from
  
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• Spielberg and Oscar buzz could give 'West Side Story' a big opening weekend

  10-12-2021 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  After 60 years the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks is back on the big screen, under the direction of one of the biggest blockbuster filmmakers of all time, and set for a big opening.
  
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• The Succession quiz: who said it – a real-life billionaire or one of the Roys?

  10-12-2021 20:00
  
  Test your Succession knowledge of where these quotes came from: Logan, Shiv, Roman or Kendall Roy; Rupert Murdoch, James Packer, Jack Dorsey or Jeff Bezos Continue reading...
  
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• Christmas: Downing Street lights accidentally switched on by MP

  10-12-2021 19:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Carolyn Harris accidentally switches on No 10's Christmas lights early while trying to get inside.
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize: Maria Ressa attacks social media 'toxic sludge'

  10-12-2021 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Philippine journalist Maria Ressa accuses internet sites of using a "God-like power" to sow division.
  
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• Watch CNN anchors' friendly Army-Navy game rivalry in the kitchen

  10-12-2021 19:29 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Brianna Keilar and CNN's Pamela Brown both have husbands with military service, so they're teaming up to make comfort food and a cocktail that are perfect for a day spent watching the big Army-Navy football game. Click here for the Chili Mac recipe and the Army & Navy cocktail.
  
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• Jussie Smollett's guilty verdict shouldn't take away from a fact many of us know

  10-12-2021 19:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  People in the LGBTQ community are often the victims of hate crimes, and that fact shouldn't be overlooked because of the actor's actions.
  
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• The art market has radically changed. Here's how to buy art today

  10-12-2021 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  For a long time, the art market was "a secret world of whispers" according to art advisor Kim Heirston, who started her career working in New York's downtown galleries three decades ago. Then, as an archivist for the late gallerist Robert Miller, she safeguarded and only shared materials that were critical to gallery sales, on request.
  
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• Supreme Court lets restrictive Texas abortion law continue but says providers can sue

  10-12-2021 19:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court left in place Friday a Texas abortion law that bars the procedure after around six weeks of pregnancy, but the justices said that abortion providers had the right to challenge the law in federal court.
  
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• ‘Fighting to reclaim our language’: Māori names enjoy surge in popularity

  10-12-2021 19:00
  
  More parents in New Zealand are giving their babies indigenous names to foster links with their ancestry and cultureNine-month-old Ruataupare Te Ropuhina Florence Whiley-Whaipooti will grow up speaking the names of her ancestors. She will learn she comes from a line of strong Ngāti Porou women, and that her ancestor, who was a staunch tribal leader, is her name-sake. She will grow to understand that her Māori name links her to whenua (land), her whakapapa (genealogy) and her Māori
  
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• First on CNN: The US gives Bezos, Branson and Shatner their astronaut wings

  10-12-2021 18:58 via cnn.com
  
  The US government is making it official -- Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and William Shatner have earned the title of "astronaut" after their flights to the edge of space.
  
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• Students who reported troubling Snapchat messages thwarted potential mass shooting, officials say

  10-12-2021 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  Police in Florida arrested a student attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for allegedly "plotting to shoot up the campus" on Thursday, which was the final day before winter break, officials said.
  
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• 12 of the year's best discoveries

  10-12-2021 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  After a difficult year, it would certainly be nice to find a stash of gold coins worth more than $300,000 in the walls of a house or a rare dish worth $1.7 million tucked away in a drawer.
  
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• 12 incredible discoveries of 2021

  10-12-2021 18:41 via cnn.com
  
  After a difficult year, it would certainly be nice to find a stash of gold coins worth more than $300,000 in the walls of a house or a rare dish worth $1.7 million tucked away in a drawer.
  
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• Unboosted people are dying and other facts from this hospital

  10-12-2021 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  At one hospital in Lansing, Michigan, the latest Covid-19 surge is as bad as health care workers there have seen.
  
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• CNN went inside a Michigan hospital amid the latest Covid surge

  10-12-2021 18:33 via cnn.com
  
  At one hospital in Lansing, Michigan, the latest Covid-19 surge is as bad as health care workers there have seen.
  
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• And Just Like That: bad jokes are the least of its problems

  10-12-2021 18:21
  
  Some franchises cannot endure, it turns out – but, happily, old box sets live foreverGood sex, like good comedy, relies on timing, and maybe, 17 years after the original show ended, 11 years after the second film departed cinemas, Sex and the City no longer has its finger on the clitoris when it comes to timing. “And Just Like That, It All Went Wrong” was the New York Times’s verdict on the wildly publicised, moderately anticipated SATC follow-up series, And Just Like Tha
  
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• Spanish floods claim first victim as towns are engulfed

  10-12-2021 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  At least one person died when rivers burst their banks in northern Spain.
  
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• Jury awards family of drunk driving victims more than $301 billion. They don't expect to get any of it

  10-12-2021 18:14 via cnn.com
  
  A jury in Texas has awarded the largest-ever personal injury compensation in the country to a family who lost two people killed by a drunk driver.
  
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• Ghislane Maxwell lived a glamorous life. Her trial is revoltingly mundane.

  10-12-2021 18:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  But like many alleged predators, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell may have underestimated the courage of their victims
  
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• Donald Trump uses expletive to attack ex-ally Benjamin Netanyahu

  10-12-2021 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former president rails against the ex-Israeli leader, saying he saved Israel from destruction.
  
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• Prince William and Kate's Christmas card shows family in Jordan

  10-12-2021 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A photo of the royals and their children from a visit to Jordan is used for their official festive card.
  
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• Tigrayan forces executed dozens of civilians in Ethiopian region, HRW says

  10-12-2021 17:44 via cnn.com
  
  Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in two towns they controlled in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region between August 31 and September 9, 2021, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
  
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• Missing Rio boys tortured and killed for stealing bird, say police

  10-12-2021 17:33
  
  Members of Red Command drug faction accused of crime that caused outcry across BrazilNearly a year after three young boys vanished near their homes in Rio de Janeiro’s rundown northern sprawl, police have accused members of the city’s largest drug faction of murdering the children in reprisal for stealing an ornamental bird.The boys – aged nine, 11 and 12 – disappeared on the afternoon of 27 December 2020 after leaving their homes in the Morro do Castelar favela to play.
  
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• New details emerge in Downing Street Christmas party that broke UK lockdown

  10-12-2021 17:29 via cnn.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's press chief gave out joke awards and made a thank you speech at a Downing Street party on December 18 last year while London was under strict lockdown, according to CNN affiliate ITV.
  
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• Magnus Carlsen defends his World Chess Championship crown

  10-12-2021 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Magnus Carlsen defended his World Chess Championship crown on Friday after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in three hours and 20 minutes to take Game 11 and his fifth title.
  
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• Michael Strahan is about to go where no American journalist has gone before

  10-12-2021 17:22 via cnn.com
  
  Shortly before Jeff Bezos flew to space in July, "Good Morning America" host Michael Strahan was one of the few journalists who got to ask the billionaire directly why he was going. Little did the public know that Strahan would be offered the same opportunity a few months later.
  
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• Arrival of 1bn vaccine doses won’t solve Africa’s Covid crisis, experts say

  10-12-2021 17:21
  
  Concerns over equipment shortages, bottlenecks and hesitancy on continent with 7.5% vaccine coverageCoronavirus – latest updatesWith 1bn doses of Covid vaccines expected to arrive in Africa in the coming months, concern has shifted to a global shortage of equipment required to deliver them, such as syringes, as well as insufficient planning in some countries that could create bottlenecks in the rollout.After a troubled start to vaccination programmes on the continent, health officials are
  
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