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• Taliban bans women from solo, long-distance road trips in Afghanistan

  28-12-2021 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  The Taliban have banned women from taking long-distance road trips in Afghanistan on their own, requiring that a male relative accompany them for any distance beyond 45 miles, according to a Taliban official speaking to CNN.
  
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• These countries now have higher vaccination rates than Europe and North America

  28-12-2021 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  Many countries in Latin America were hit with soaring Covid-19 death rates early in the pandemic, as coronavirus raged throughout the region. The tide is turning in many Latin American nations today, where vaccination rates are outpacing countries in Europe and North America and helping drive down deaths.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell jury told to meet every day because of Covid

  28-12-2021 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The judge in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial asks jurors to deliberate every day.
  
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• Robert E. Lee: Virginia workers open Civil War era time capsule

  28-12-2021 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 130-year-old capsule contained flags, books and bullets related to the Confederate States.
  
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• See what's inside time capsules found near Robert E. Lee statue

  28-12-2021 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  Two time capsules were found while workers took down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia.
  
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• The nearly 17 feet of snow in California's Sierra Nevada is crushing records. It's still not enough

  28-12-2021 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  After months of extreme drought that triggered water shortages and stoked wildfires, heavy snow is falling in the Sierra Nevada -- enough to break decades-old records.
  
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• The nearly 17 feet of snow in California's Sierra Nevada is crushing records

  28-12-2021 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  After months of extreme drought that triggered water shortages and stoked wildfires, heavy snow is falling in the Sierra Nevada -- enough to break decades-old records.
  
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• China: The US endangered our astronauts

  28-12-2021 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  China lashed out at Elon Mask stating that his SpaceX's Starlink satellites endangered Chinese astronauts by flying too close to China's space station on two occasions. China's foreign ministry spokesperson blamed the US as well, but the larger issue is how to manage growing traffic in space, says CNN's Ivan Watson.
  
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• Richard Marcinko: Seal Team Six founder dies at 81

  28-12-2021 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Richard Marcinko played a vital role in boosting America's counter-terrorism capabilities but was a divisive figure.
  
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• Manuel Perez, former Editorial Director of CNN Digital, dies at 57

  28-12-2021 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Manuel Perez found a new hobby after moving to north Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains late in his life. He became an amateur landscaper, planting Japanese maples and other perennials in his yard while creating a moon garden where pale-hued flowers reflect moonlight.
  
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• Replace 'sick days' with 'wellness days'

  28-12-2021 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sick days raise the question of whether someone is really ill or just shirking work. These can be used for whatever workers think will improve their wellbeing.
  
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• CDC moves 3 more European destinations to its highest travel risk category

  28-12-2021 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday added three destinations in Europe -- from its frigid northern climes to its sun-soaked south -- to its highest-risk category for travel.
  
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• CDC adds 3 European places to its highest travel risk category

  28-12-2021 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday added three destinations in Europe -- from its frigid northern climes to its sun-soaked south -- to its highest-risk category for travel.
  
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• Similar symptoms can make it hard to distinguish between the illnesses. Here's what to look for.

  28-12-2021 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Do you have a sore throat, a runny nose and muscle aches? It could be a common cold, a case of the flu -- or Covid-19.
  
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• How to tell if you have a cold, the flu or Covid-19

  28-12-2021 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Do you have a sore throat, a runny nose and muscle aches? It could be a common cold, a case of the flu -- or Covid-19.
  
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• Woman charged after alleged assault and running to cabin door on Spirit flight

  28-12-2021 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  A Tennessee woman turned herself into the FBI on Tuesday after she was accused of assaulting two flight attendants during a Spirit Airlines flight last month, the Justice Department announced.
  
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• Heartwarming video shows bald eagle hatching from its egg

  28-12-2021 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Rare footage shows a bald eagle hatch. Watch the eaglet take in its surroundings for the first time.
  
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• Heartwarming rare footage shows bald eagle hatching from its egg

  28-12-2021 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Rare footage shows a bald eagle hatch. Watch the eaglet take in its surroundings for the first time.
  
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• Hugo Maradona: Diego Maradona's younger brother dies aged 52

  28-12-2021 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hugo Maradona, the younger brother of the late Argentine legend Diego Maradona, dies of a heart attack at the age of 52.
  
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• Deadly flooding in Brazil kills at least 20 and displaces thousands, leaving Covid-19 vaccines submerged

  28-12-2021 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  The death toll from floods and heavy rain, which has blighted the Brazilian state of Bahia since November, rose to 20 after flooding intensified over the weekend, causing two dams to burst and the displacement of an estimated 62,800 people, state officials say.
  
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• Conservators open time capsule found in Robert E Lee statue’s pedestal – video

  28-12-2021 20:52 via theguardian.com
  
  For the second time in a month, conservation experts in Virginia opened an apparent time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee.State officials hope Tuesday’s opening of the aged copper box, which was discovered and carefully extracted from the monument site on Monday, will mark the end of a long search for an elusive time capsule deposited in 1887Virginia conservators open time capsule found in Robert E Lee statue&rsquo
  
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• Jordan MPs fighting in parliament session live-streamed on local television

  28-12-2021 20:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The argument began as the chamber debated constitutional reforms, including gender equality.
  
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• 14-year-old girl fatally shot by LAPD called US 'safest country in the world,' father says

  28-12-2021 20:25 via cnn.com
  
  Valentina Orellana-Peralta, the 14-year-old who was fatally shot by police in the dressing room of a Los Angeles store, had once assured her father the US was "the safest country in the world" and she dreamed of becoming an American citizen, he said Tuesday.
  
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• France closes mosque after imam incites hatred against Christians, Jews

  28-12-2021 19:41 via foxnews.com
  
  A mosque in Beauvais, Northern France has been shut down for "inciting hatred" and pushing its members toward radicalization.
  
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• No survivors in San Diego plane crash

  28-12-2021 19:03 via cnn.com
  
  An airplane crashed Monday evening in the El Cajon area of Southern California, leaving no survivors, authorities said.
  
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• Soccer star Kylian Mbappe on what's in store for his future

  28-12-2021 18:46 via cnn.com
  
  The 2018 World Cup winner told Connect the World's Becky Anderson in Dubai on Monday that he is "100%" sure he will finish out the season with Paris Saint-Germain.
  
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• Desmond Tutu's daughter: 'Daddy was a hugger'

  28-12-2021 18:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nontombi Naomi Tutu says her father "went to meet his God, ready and willing".
  
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• WATCH: Semitruck rolls after sliding on black ice

  28-12-2021 17:54
  
  A semitruck slid off the interstate and rolled onto its side, in an incident that Oregon authorities said no one was injured in.
  
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• Winter storm creates blizzard conditions in central California – video

  28-12-2021 17:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Severe weather sweeping across parts of the US continues to bring record-breaking cold temperatures to the Pacific north-west and heavy snow to mountains in California and Nevada.Footage from Mammoth Lakes in central California shows blizzards of snow. To the north, the Northstar California ski resort in Truckee closed its mountain operations on Monday due to the extreme conditionsWestern US states hit by record freeze and heavy snow Continue reading...
  
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• Egyptian pharaoh's mummy digitally unwrapped for first time

  28-12-2021 17:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  CT scans allowed archaeologists to study Amenhotep I's body and learn about his death and burial.
  
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• WATCH: The evolution of the New Year’s Eve ball drop

  28-12-2021 16:53
  
  From red lights and a green stem in the 1980s to the thousands of Waterford Crystal triangles that dress the geodesic sphere today, the Times Square ball has always been a New Year's Eve staple.
  
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• Iraq's Shiite leader, possible US ally, gains power

  28-12-2021 16:40 via foxnews.com
  
  Iraq's Federal Supreme Court upheld the results of the October election of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday, rejecting an appeal filed by the pro-Iran Fatah Alliance.
  
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• At least 4 killed in Denver shooting spree

  28-12-2021 16:38 via cnn.com
  
  A string of shootings across the Denver metro area left multiple people dead and a police officer injured, authorities said.
  
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• Another 2,500 flights canceled in travel nightmare

  28-12-2021 16:32 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of flights have been canceled over the past several days as Covid cases surge across the globe.
  
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• Kris Jenner bought her whole family electric cars for Christmas

  28-12-2021 16:27 via cnn.com
  
  You get a car! And you get a car!
  
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• 'I'm quite worried': Doctor reacts to new CDC guidance

  28-12-2021 16:21 via cnn.com
  
  Brown University's Associate Dean of Public Health Dr. Megan Ranney voices her concerns over the CDC's new guidance which recommends five days of isolating instead of 10 for people who have tested positive for Covid-19 but are asymptomatic.
  
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• Flames over Syrian port after reported Israeli airstrike – video

  28-12-2021 16:17 via theguardian.com
  
  An Israeli airstrike hit Syria’s Latakia port before dawn on Tuesday, the second such attack on the cargo hub this month, Syrian state media reported. Since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011, Israel has routinely carried out airstrikes on its neighbour, mostly targeting Syrian government troops. The Israeli military has in the past defended the strikes as a necessary measure to prevent its enemy Iran from gaining a foothold on its doorstepIsraeli airstrike sets port of Lataki
  
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• Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett not opposed to 'good' nuclear deal with Iran

  28-12-2021 16:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday he is not opposed to a “good” nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, but voiced skepticism that such an outcome would emerge from the current negotiations.
  
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• First COVID-19 shot recipient in US now a vaccine activist

  28-12-2021 16:12
  New York nurse Sandra Lindsay became a vaccine activist after being hailed as the first person in the United States to get a COVID-19 shot a year ago
  
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• ‘It could explode at any time’: photographing Haiti’s gang warfare

  28-12-2021 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a country dominated by gangs, photographer Rodrigo Abd’s images show both armed gangsters and the residents they terroriseRead more in our series: Forgotten human rights crises 2021The two images are as stark as what they represent: the cause and effect of Haiti’s increasing woes. In one, a masked and armed gangster keeps lookout on a Port-au-Prince rooftop, just a few blocks from the presidential palace. In the other, a family recently displaced by gang violence takes shelter in
  
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• January 6 committee eyes interim report by summer 2022

  28-12-2021 15:58 via cnn.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot is working toward a goal of releasing an interim report with initial findings by the summer, a committee aide told CNN, and that a final report would follow in fall 2022.
  
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• Protests against Germany's Covid restrictions turn violent as Europe moves to stem Omicron

  28-12-2021 15:52 via cnn.com
  
  Protesters tossed bottles and fireworks at police in eastern Germany on Monday night in some of the most violent demonstrations against public health measures in Europe since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
  
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• Protests against Germany's Covid restrictions turn violent

  28-12-2021 15:52 via cnn.com
  
  Protesters tossed bottles and fireworks at police in eastern Germany on Monday night in some of the most violent demonstrations against public health measures in Europe since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
  
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• Omicron continues to surge around the world, as Madrid announces its New Year's Eve celebrations will go ahead and India introduces a nightly curfew

  28-12-2021 15:38 via edition.cnn.com
  
  • Omicron variant fills up children's hospitals
  
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• Thousands of cranes killed by bird flu in 'worst blow to wildlife' in Israel's history

  28-12-2021 15:33 via cnn.com
  
  An outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 5,000 migratory cranes in Israel, prompting authorities to declare a popular nature reserve off-limits to visitors and warn of a possible egg shortage as poultry birds are culled as a precaution.
  
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• Russia orders shutdown of human rights group for creating 'false image' of USSR

  28-12-2021 15:32 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that one of the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights organizations should be shut down, a move that stirred up public outrage and is the latest step in a months-long crackdown on rights activists, independent media and opposition supporters.
  
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• Delta turned flight around mid-air, saying China's new Covid cleaning rules are unworkable

  28-12-2021 15:28 via cnn.com
  
  A Delta Air Lines flight originating in Seattle and heading to Shanghai last week turned around midair because of a change in cleaning rules at the China airport, the airline said.
  
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• US home prices surge 18.4% in October

  28-12-2021 15:24
  
  U.S. home prices surged again in October as the housing market continues to boom in the wake of last year’s coronavirus recession
  
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• 'We've seen lifelong friends kill each other:' How a state capital became one of the deadliest US cities

  28-12-2021 15:08 via cnn.com
  
  Around Thanksgiving, this crisis-plagued state capital saw a series of shootings that pushed the year's homicide total past 130, setting a grim annual record for a city that over the last two years has quietly become one of the country's deadliest.
  
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• 2021: The year when America's crumbling infrastructure finally got its due

  28-12-2021 15:07 via cnn.com
  
  Following decades of talk about failing infrastructure, the country finally took a major step toward repairing it in 2021, transportation experts say.
  
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