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• WATCH: New York governor declares state of emergency ahead of winter storm

  29-01-2022 23:56
  
  The coastal storm could drop a foot of snow as wind gusts are expected to reach up to 50 mph.
  
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• Boris Johnson’s chief of staff ‘spent day watching cricket’ just before Kabul fell

  29-01-2022 23:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Dan Rosenfield watched England v India at Lord’s three days before Taliban forces entered capital, according to reportsBoris Johnson’s chief of staff spent the day watching cricket just days before Kabul fell to the Taliban last year, according to reports.Dan Rosenfield was at the first day of the England v India Test at Lord’s on 12 August, three days before Taliban forces entered the Afghan capital, the Sunday Telegraph has claimed. Continue reading...
  
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• Tom Brady: NFL great expected to retire after winning seven Super Bowls

  29-01-2022 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tom Brady, one of the greatest players in NFL history and the winner of seven Super Bowls, is expected to retire.
  
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• UK ready to commit extra forces to Nato allies as Russia tension mounts

  29-01-2022 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Boris Johnson said the UK would send extra land, air and sea forces to support the defence of alliance nations The UK has offered to deploy land, air and sea forces to bolster the defence of Nato countries on their northern and eastern borders as tensions over Russia’s military ambitions in Ukraine deepen.Boris Johnson is expected to speak to the Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week, and travel to the region, despite intense domestic pressure over a possible leadership challenge in the
  
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• College student dies after being found outside in extreme cold: Police

  29-01-2022 23:27
  
  Authorities are investigating after an upstate New York college student died after spending hours off-campus in sub-zero temperatures, police said.
  
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• Same-sex penguins succeed as foster parents in first for New York zoo

  29-01-2022 23:26 via theguardian.com
  
  The Humboldt penguins, Elmer and Lima, expertly watched over an egg that hatched on New Year’s DayA pair of male Humboldt penguins at a New York zoo have become foster parents to a new hatchling.The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse says the same-sex foster couple, Elmer and Lima, are a first for the zoo, although several other institutions have seen success with same-sex penguins tending eggs together and caring for newborns. Continue reading...
  
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• Deputies: Woman stole lotto tickets after robbers shot clerk

  29-01-2022 23:23
  She allegedly stole the tickets after others shot and mortally wounded a clerk.
  
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• US officials: Indications Russia has moved blood supplies to Ukraine border

  29-01-2022 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The US has seen indications that Russia has positioned supplies of blood near Ukraine's borders, according to a senior US defense official, as part of its accumulation of medical supplies, troops and military equipment in the area that US officials have said could signal plans for an invasion.
  
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• Conservatives accused of ‘levelling up’ stunt to save Boris Johnson’s job

  29-01-2022 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Lisa Nandy slams claim of boost for 20 towns, saying ‘new’ fund for poorer areas is recycled pledgeThe government has been accused of trying to manipulate announcements on extra funding for poorer parts of the UK in a desperate attempt to save Boris Johnson’s premiership.An extraordinary row blew up after Michael Gove’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities released a press statement – before publication of a levelling up white paper this week –
  
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• Sergio Mattarella: At 80, Italy president re-elected on amid successor row

  29-01-2022 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sergio Mattarella agreed to stay on after ruling parties failed to find a compromise candidate.
  
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• Freedom Convoy: Why Canadian truckers are protesting in Ottawa

  29-01-2022 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 'Freedom Convoy' is protesting vaccine mandates but police are worried about fringe elements.
  
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• Nor’easter lashes eastern US with snow and wind gusts near hurricane force

  29-01-2022 22:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Philadelphia, New York and Boston in path of stormFlooding, high winds and cold weather expectedA nor’easter with hurricane-force wind gusts battered much of the US east coast on Saturday, flinging heavy snow that made travel treacherous or impossible, flooding coastlines and threatening to leave bitter cold in its wake.The storm thrashed parts of 10 states, with blizzard warnings from Virginia to Maine. Philadelphia and New York saw plenty of wind and snow, but Boston was in the crosshair
  
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• How war in Ukraine could disrupt the world

  29-01-2022 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  The prospect of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine has heightened alarm in the region, threatening to plunge the country's 44 million inhabitants further into the grips of conflict.
  
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• Virginia Republicans push for changes in marijuana law

  29-01-2022 21:30
  
  Newly empowered Republican lawmakers in Virginia who opposed legalizing simple possession of marijuana say they don’t want to scrap the 2021 law, but they do want to make significant changes
  
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• Missouri officers kill suspect, citing 'imminent danger'

  29-01-2022 21:18
  Officers determined he had put a woman and her children in “imminent danger."
  
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• Lottery ticket sold in southern California wins $426m Mega Millions prize

  29-01-2022 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Winner bought ticket at Chevron gas station in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles but is yet to come forwardA single ticket sold in southern California matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the $426m Mega Millions jackpot prize.The winning numbers drawn on Friday night were 3, 16, 25, 44 and 55. The Mega ball was 13, the California State Lottery said. Continue reading...
  
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• DRC: 51 people sentenced to death over 2017 murder of two UN experts

  29-01-2022 21:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Dozens of people have been on trial for more than four years over the killing of Michael Sharp and Zaida CatalánA military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sentenced 51 people to death, several in absentia, in a mass trial over the 2017 murder of two UN experts in a troubled central region.Capital punishment is frequently pronounced in murder cases in the DRC but is routinely commuted to life imprisonment since the country declared a moratorium on executions in 2003. Cont
  
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• Sergio Mattarella reelected Italy’s president amid deep divisions

  29-01-2022 21:12 via theguardian.com
  
  80-year-old did not want a new term but was persuaded to stay on after failure to find successor Sergio Mattarella has been reelected as Italy’s president, ending days of a farcical parliamentary voting process that has exposed deep divisions within the country’s governing coalition.Mattarella won a second seven-year mandate with 759 votes, far exceeding the threshold of 505, after being persuaded to stay on in the role after ruling party leaders failed to reach an agreement on a can
  
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• Buy now, pay later grocery schemes are a ‘debt trap’ for struggling families

  29-01-2022 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  UK regulators say the latest surge in interest-free credit does not offer enough protection for those who are slipping into debitFamilies hit by the cost-of-living crisis are being targeted by credit firms offering “buy now, pay later” deals on weekly groceries, pet food and hot drinks.Shoppers are urged to spread their payments for staple foods and treats to help cope with “these difficult times”. One promotion states: “Regardless of your credit rating, we will off
  
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• White House burns Wicker for criticising Biden supreme court pick

  29-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Republican senator says choice will be beneficiary of affirmative action but critics point to support for Trump vow to pick womanLeading contenders for Biden’s supreme court pickIn a barbed intervention on Saturday, the White House said it hoped a Republican senator who complained that Joe Biden’s supreme court pick would be the beneficiary of race-based affirmative action, would give the nominee the same consideration he gave Amy Coney Barrett.Barrett was nominated and confirmed sho
  
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• ‘It has been three years’: Australian activist’s wife pleads for government help in freeing him from Vietnam jail

  29-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Chau Van Kham’s family urges Australian government to intervene as 72-year-old remains in prison for his pro-democracy workThe Vietnamese New Year, Tet Nguyen Dan, is a time of family reunion and feasting, of wishes of good fortune and health.For three years now, Quynh Trang Truong has spent the Tet festival without her husband, Chau Van Kham, who languishes in a Vietnamese prison on terrorism charges, described by human rights groups as a “travesty of justice”. Continue readin
  
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• ‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours

  29-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As a kid, Concetta Antico was always ‘a bit out of the box’, but it took decades for her to discover just how differently she was seeing the worldRead more in the Meet the superhumans seriesIt would be easy to look at the vivid array of colour contained in the paintings of artist Concetta Antico and assume she is using artistic licence. The trunks of her eucalyptus trees are hued with violet and mauve; the yellow crest on her cockatoo has hints of green and blue; the hypercolour of a
  
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• ‘Beginnings got lost’: fabled Aboriginal art on show 40 years after disappearance

  29-01-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Important paintings lay forgotten in storage since the early 80s until their discovery, muddy and mouldy, but intactBalgo is Country for all of us now. We were all born here, these generations here today. We are Wirrimanu kids. We belong to Balgo. That’s what we paint. That’s why we paint. This is our story.”– Warlayirti artist Eva NagomarraJohn Carty opened his email and downloaded the images. They were photos of paintings, found in a shipping container somewhere in the
  
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• DR Congo issues death sentences for murder of UN experts

  29-01-2022 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp had been investigating abuses after clashes in the Kasai region.
  
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• Texas police fatally shoot man threatening woman with knife

  29-01-2022 19:46
  An officer shot a knife-wielding man who cops say was holding a woman hostage.
  
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• Kansas woman who led all-female ISIS battalion faces federal charges, prosecutors say

  29-01-2022 19:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  An American woman, originally from Kansas, has been arrested after organizing and leading an all-female military battalion on behalf of ISIS, the Justice Depart
  
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• Russia: Military drill moved further from Irish shore

  29-01-2022 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Simon Coveney says the news was "welcome" following days of speculation over the exercise.
  
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• Pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded by quarantine rules says she turned to Taliban

  29-01-2022 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Charlotte Bellis says group offered her safe haven while quarantine backlog prevented return homeA pregnant New Zealand journalist says she has had to turn to the Taliban for help after being prevented from returning to her home country due to quarantine rules. In a column published in the New Zealand Herald on Saturday, Charlotte Bellis said it was “brutally ironic” that she had once questioned the Taliban about their treatment of women and she was now asking the same questions of h
  
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• Riot shields and good balance: managing New Zealand’s booming fur seal population

  29-01-2022 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Once hunted close to extinction, the species is once again flourishing – but as their numbers grow, tensions are rising with their human neighboursOn the coastline around Kaikōura, the rocks seem to be moving. Jutting from the sea, shimmering in the summer heat, their grey planes begin to shift and ripple.Step closer and you recognise them, first by their sound: a distant honking, barking, yelping. Then, by their smell: thick and potent, a mixture of kelp and excrement. Seals, hundred
  
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• Thailand tries to contain 'disaster' oil spill from undersea pipeline – video

  29-01-2022 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  A beach in eastern Thailand has been declared a disaster area as oil leaking from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand continues to wash ashore and blacken the sand.The leak, from a pipeline owned by Star Petroleum Refining, started late on Tuesday and was brought under control a day later after spilling an estimated 50,000 litres (11,000 gallons) of oil into the ocean about 12 miles (20km) from the country’s industrialised eastern seaboardBeach in Thailand declared dis
  
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• What your smart TV knows about you – and how to stop it harvesting data

  29-01-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Modern TVs gather data that can be monetised. How much of this surveillance can you avoid without turning your smart TV dumb?Watching TV feels like a benign pastime, but as all TVs become “smart” – connected to the internet via your router – they are gaining the ability to watch you too. As soon as you switch them on, smart TVs made by the likes of LG, Samsung and Sony are gathering data from the TV itself, as well as from the operating system and apps. Then there are the
  
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• Sergio Mattarella re-elected Italian president

  29-01-2022 17:41 via cnn.com
  
  Italy's current president Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected for a second mandate, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies,Robert Fico, announced Saturday.
  
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• Sergio Mattarella re-elected as Italian president following agreement by ruling parties

  29-01-2022 17:41 via cnn.com
  
  Italy's current president Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected for a second mandate, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies,Robert Fico, announced Saturday.
  
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• Italy's ruling parties agree Mattarella should remain president

  29-01-2022 17:41 via cnn.com
  
  Italy's ruling parties say they have asked Sergio Mattarella to remain president after a chaotic week of voting where parties failed to agree on a new candidate.
  
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• Downing Street parties: Senior Tories demand full Sue Gray report

  29-01-2022 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One MP accuses the police of an "abuse of power", amid concerns crucial findings will be left out.
  
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• 'Don't look up': Why Ukraine is playing down Russia threat as U.S. sounds the alarm

  29-01-2022 17:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  They’re just 25 miles from the frontline but on the snowy streets of the small Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka life goes on.    A short distance from the
  
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• What an astronaut could see from space that changed him for good

  29-01-2022 17:03 via cnn.com
  
  "It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right." The catchy song from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" may as well have been our soundtrack for the last two years. Ever since the pandemic's arrival, it has felt a bit like living in a time warp, where days disappear into months.
  
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• WATCH: Heavy snow and strong winds slamming millions from Virginia to Maine

  29-01-2022 17:03
  
  Blizzard warnings are in effect in ten states along the East Coast after several governors declared emergencies ahead of the winter Nor'easter.
  
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• WATCH: Space heating dangers

  29-01-2022 17:01
  
  What you need to know about staying safe while trying to keep warm.
  
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• I reclaimed my birth name – and discovered why what we call ourselves really matters

  29-01-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For the first 25 years of my life everyone called me Mandy – and it felt completely wrongMy name is Camilla, so why, for the first 25 years of my life, did everyone call me Mandy? My Jamaican mother loathed the name Camilla. She said my Nigerian father chose the name, but she thought Camilla sounded too damn serious and upper-class. And she was right. Growing up in Luton in the 70s and 80s, there weren’t too many Camillas knocking about the council estates of Bedfordshire. My friends
  
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• Kansas woman led female ISIS battalion in Syria, prosecutors say

  29-01-2022 16:47 via cnn.com
  
  An American woman from Kansas who allegedly joined ISIS and led an all-woman battalion in Syria has been arrested and charged by federal prosecutors with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
  
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• Navy to drain millions of gallons of water daily after Hawaii fuel leak

  29-01-2022 16:43 via cnn.com
  
  The US Navy has been granted a permit to discharge up to five million gallons of treated water a day from its Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage facility after that water was contaminated by a petroleum leak that sickened military families and children in Hawaii.
  
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• How not to be a 'West Elm Caleb': Entering and exiting dating app relationships gracefully

  29-01-2022 16:25 via cnn.com
  
  It seemed too good to be true: The cutie who you matched with on a dating app sent sweet messages, told fantastic stories and even made you a Spotify playlist. Then you never hear from them again.
  
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• Myanmar’s junta torching ‘village after village’ in bid to quell opposition

  29-01-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  After a year in power, evidence is growing of regime scorched-earth tactics to terrorise the civilian populationOn the morning of 6 January, Boi Van Thang set out on a motorbike across the mountainous terrain of Chin state in western Myanmar. He would travel to a nearby village, he told his wife, and bring back meat for her and their seven children.He never returned. Three days later his wife, Thida Htwe, received a call. Boi Van Thang’s body had been found. The bodies of eight other men a
  
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• Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis end dream Australian Open run with title win

  29-01-2022 15:39 via cnn.com
  
  The "Special Ks" show at the Australian Open ended on a high after Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis claimed their first major title by defeating compatriots Max Purcell and Matt Ebden in the men's doubles final on Saturday.
  
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• Talk about a lucky break: Fortune cookie gives North Carolina man lottery numbers to win $4 million

  29-01-2022 15:07 via cnn.com
  
  Why do you think they're called fortune cookies?
  
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• Fortune cookie gives North Carolina man lottery numbers to win $4 million

  29-01-2022 15:07 via cnn.com
  
  Why do you think they're called fortune cookies?
  
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• Pentagon to host high-level meeting to 'light a fire' and speed up hypersonic weapon development

  29-01-2022 15:01 via cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon is preparing to push the CEOs of America's largest defense companies to accelerate hypersonic weapons development by hosting a high-level meeting next week with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
  
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• Defiance, patriotism and cool heads on show on the streets of Kyiv as threat of Russian invasion looms

  29-01-2022 14:48 via cnn.com
  
  On the walls of St. Michael's monastery in Kyiv, there is a graphic and sad reminder of the toll of eight years of conflict in eastern Ukraine.
  
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• Sri Lanka to Coalisland: 'We felt like only people of colour in our town'

  29-01-2022 14:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The story of two adopted siblings from Sri Lanka who were brought up in a rural town in Northern Ireland.
  
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