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• Canada settles residential schools lawsuit for $2.8bn

  21-01-2023 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The compulsory boarding schools were part of a policy designed to assimilate indigenous children.
  
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• Buckingham Palace reveals details of three-day celebration to mark King Charles III's coronation

  21-01-2023 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Buckingham Palace on Saturday revealed details of King Charles III's coronation, set to be less extravagant than his mother's ceremony 70 years ago, in a reflection of the cost-of-living crisis many Britons are enduring.
  
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• Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report

  21-01-2023 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The lethal injection is under increased scrutiny after a series of botched executions in several states.
  
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• Brazil Congress riots: President Lula sacks army commander

  21-01-2023 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  General Julio Cesar de Arruda is the latest person in the military to lose their position.
  
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• Lunar New Year: How the world celebrated

  21-01-2023 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fireworks and lanterns in the street start the 2023 celebrations for one of the world's biggest festivals.
  
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• Crystal Palace 0-0 Newcastle United: Magpies set club record unbeaten run in draw

  21-01-2023 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Newcastle extend their unbeaten run to a club-record 15 top-flight games with their third goalless draw against Crystal Palace this season.
  
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• Joe Biden's chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down - reports

  21-01-2023 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ron Klain, who has spent decades as one of Mr Biden's top aides, could leave within weeks, reports say.
  
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• Dolphins seen in Bronx River for first time in five years

  21-01-2023 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities keep the Bronx River in south-east New York City stocked with a plentiful supply of fish.
  
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• A top Border Patrol official resigned after allegedly pressuring female employees for sex, officials say

  21-01-2023 21:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Border Patrol official Tony Barker quit after allegedly pressuring women for sex and is now under investigation by CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
  
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• WATCH: 'Fireball' streaks through Oklahoma sky

  21-01-2023 20:52
  
  Multiple people across parts of Oklahoma reported seeing a "fireball" light up the sky along with hearing a loud boom in the early morning hours.
  
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• Peru protests: Machu Picchu closed indefinitely and tourists stranded

  21-01-2023 20:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of visitors to the tourist site have been stranded as violent protests rock the country.
  
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• White House chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down in the weeks after Biden's State of the Union address

  21-01-2023 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  White House chief of staff Ron Klain is expected to step down from his role in the coming weeks, The New York Times reported Saturday.
  
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• New York Times: White House chief of staff Ron Klain expected to step down

  21-01-2023 20:03 via cnn.com
  
  White House chief of staff Ron Klain is expected to step down from his role in the coming weeks, The New York Times reported Saturday.
  
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• WATCH: Drone shows moose shedding antlers in forest

  21-01-2023 19:34
  
  A wildlife enthusiast's drone captured the moment a moose shed both its antlers in a forest in Canada.
  
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• West Ham win 'a relief' for under-pressure Moyes

  21-01-2023 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  West Ham boss David Moyes says his side's crucial victory against Everton was "a relief" for the club, but does not believe the board want to get rid of him.
  
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• Australian Open 2023: Iga Swiatek takes on Elena Rybakina in fourth round

  21-01-2023 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina go head-to-head in the battle of the 2022 Grand Slam champions as the Australian Open fourth round begins on Sunday.
  
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• The Great Salt Lake is at risk of ecological collapse. Lawmakers are scrambling to buy more time.

  21-01-2023 19:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The shrinking Great Salt Lake is facing ecological collapse as salinity levels rise. State leaders hope a hearty snowpack and a surplus in the state budget can save the it.
  
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• US investigating baby formula plant after national shortage

  21-01-2023 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The plant - one of America's largest - was at the centre of the worst shortage in decades.
  
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• River Drina: 'Embarrassment' of beauty spot's plastic waste

  21-01-2023 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An activist calls the River Drina waste an "embarrassment" and says it's been like it for 20 years.
  
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• A deeper look at what drives some husbands to kill their wives

  21-01-2023 18:17
  
  The psychology behind why some husbands kill their wives instead of getting a divorce.
  
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• 'Avengers' star Jeremy Renner says he broke 30 bones in snowplow accident

  21-01-2023 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  "Avengers" star Jeremy Renner says he broke more than 30 bones in the New Year's Day snowplow accident that sent him to the hospital for more than two weeks.
  
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• Tourists can't enter Machu Picchu because of unrest in Peru

  21-01-2023 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  Tourist entry to Machu Picchu Citadel and the Inca Trail Network has been suspended until further notice due to ongoing unrest in Peru, officials in the country said Saturday.
  
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• Entry to Machu Picchu suspended amid unrest in Peru

  21-01-2023 18:03 via cnn.com
  
  Tourist entry to Machu Picchu Citadel and the Inca Trail Network has been suspended until further notice due to ongoing unrest in Peru, officials in the country said Saturday.
  
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• Brazil’s right-wing movement persists without Bolsonaro

  21-01-2023 18:03
  
  Hw was in Florida when his supporters tried to overthrow the country’s democracy
  
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• 2 Minnesota brothers investigated in TikTok gambling scheme

  21-01-2023 17:56
  
  Two men allegedly ran a TikTok gambling scheme in the state's casinos.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico, prosecutors say

  21-01-2023 17:43
  
  Prosecutors have alleged that Elizabeth Holmes bought a one-way ticket to Mexico after her fraud conviction.
  
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• Turkey condemns 'vile' Sweden Quran-burning protest

  21-01-2023 17:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Turkey earlier called off a visit by Sweden's defence minister Pal Jonson over the planned protest.
  
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• Liverpool and Chelsea's current mid-table reality exposed in Anfield stalemate

  21-01-2023 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool and Chelsea are enduring a rare struggle and their dismal draw shows that mid-table is where both currently belong.
  
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• US strike kills approximately 30 al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia

  21-01-2023 17:40 via cnn.com
  
  The United States carried out a strike in Somalia that killed approximately 30 al-Shabaab fighters, US Africa Command said in a statement Saturday.
  
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• Discovery in India reveals intimate details about lives of some of the largest dinosaurs

  21-01-2023 17:32 via cnn.com
  
  To pry open the mysteries of our planet's past, scientists typically study rocks and fossilized bones.
  
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• Iran to rule on release of film-maker Jafar Panahi

  21-01-2023 17:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawyer for award-winning director says court of appeal expected to decide on case by end of weekIran’s judiciary is to rule on whether to release the film-maker Jafar Panahi on bail after his conviction was overturned by the supreme court, his lawyer said.Panahi, 62, who has won a number of awards at European film festivals, was arrested on 11 July last year and sent to jail to serve a six-year sentence which had been handed down in 2010 for “propaganda against the system”. He
  
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• Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin marries 'longtime love' on his 93rd birthday

  21-01-2023 16:43 via cnn.com
  
  Their wedding must have been out of this world.
  
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• Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93

  21-01-2023 16:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former US astronaut, who was the second man on the moon, married his partner in Los Angeles.
  
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• Seatbelts, jets and coke: Rishi Sunak’s growing list of gaffes

  21-01-2023 16:09 via theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister promised integrity but critics have questioned this in light of some dubious decisionsRishi Sunak entered No 10 promising “integrity”, but was forced to apologise this week after failing to wear a seatbelt in a moving car.It is the latest in a series of gaffes that have prompted critics to accuse him of showing “the same disregard for the rules” as his predecessor as prime minister, Boris Johnson. Continue reading...
  
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• This butterfly was once thought extinct. Now it's off the endangered species list

  21-01-2023 16:07 via cnn.com
  
  The Fender's blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction.
  
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• Restaurants dropping meat dishes as costs rise and Veganuary grows more popular

  21-01-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The soaring price of ingredients and rise of veganism have led to a ‘notable decline’ in dishes made with animal productsRestaurants are removing meat dishes from their menus due to the impact of inflation and the rising popularity of Veganuary, researchers say.Only 20% of all dishes served at restaurant chains last summer contained meat, according to the latest figures from Lumina Intelligence, a drop of four percentage points from last spring. Continue reading...
  
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• Ex-ambassador: 'Putin has no red lines'

  21-01-2023 15:57 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Nigel Gould-Davies, former UK ambassador to Belarus, argues the West needs to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin that escalating the war in Ukraine is "radically against his own interests."
  
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• Postpartum haemorrhage: Niger halves blood-loss deaths at clinics

  21-01-2023 15:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers say an easy three-step process, including a cheap drug, could stop millions of women dying.
  
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• Zelenskiy attends memorial service for Ukraine helicopter crash victims

  21-01-2023 15:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Country’s president mourns interior minister, his deputy and five other senior officials who died A tearful Volodymyr Zelenskiy attended a memorial service on Saturday for seven senior interior ministry officials killed in a helicopter crash this week.The former interior minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy and five other high-ranking officials were killed when their French-made Super Puma helicopter crashed into a nursery on the eastern outskirts of Kyiv in foggy conditions on Wednesda
  
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• German caution on Ukraine arms rooted in political culture

  21-01-2023 15:38
  
  Germany has become one of Ukraine’s leading weapons suppliers in the 11 months since Russia’s invasion, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz also has gained a reputation for hesitating to take each new step — generating impatience among allies
  
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• Retailers are tripping over themselves for Millennial and Gen Z shoppers. But not this one

  21-01-2023 15:35 via cnn.com
  
  Most retailers are tripping over themselves to stay relevant by courting younger Millennial and Gen Z shoppers. Not Lands' End.
  
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• ‘Ritual humiliations’: African music stars struggle to get visas to Europe

  21-01-2023 15:34 via theguardian.com
  
  A Kenyan DJ’s post of being denied transit through Amsterdam has put the spotlight on airlines’ alleged racist policiesEmma Nzioka, a Kenyan performer and DJ known as Coco Em, was looking forward to the Terra Sagrada festival in Cape Verde for nearly a year. Some of her favourite African artists, such as Boddhi Satva, would be playing.But Nzioka did not make it to the festival last month, or out of the country, for that matter. At the check-in counter in Kenya, she was told she could
  
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• Nadhim Zahawi claims error with his taxes ‘careless not deliberate’

  21-01-2023 15:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Comments follow reports that Tory party chairman paid HMRC a penalty as part of a multimillion-pound tax settlementTory party chair Nadhim Zahawi has released a statement to “address some of the confusion about my finances” after reports that he paid a penalty as part of a multimillion-pound tax settlement.He said: “As a senior politician I know that scrutiny and propriety are important parts of public life. Twenty-two years ago I co-founded a company called YouGov. I’m i
  
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• These old school Hollywood stars are having a moment, and it's long overdue

  21-01-2023 15:06 via cnn.com
  
  Raise your hand if you are a late bloomer. (I have both hands and feet lifted.)
  
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• Sections of Balkan river become floating garbage dump

  21-01-2023 14:38
  
  Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during wet weather
  
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• Illegal border crossings surge to highest of Biden's term

  21-01-2023 14:38
  
  Authorities say a surge in Cuban and Nicaraguan arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico in December led to the highest number of illegal border crossings recorded during any month of Joe Biden’s presidency
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian army announces new offensive in Zaporizhzhia

  21-01-2023 14:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Announcement from Russian army follows heavy shelling in the region overnightRussian attacks in the Donetsk oblast on Friday killed three civilians and injured another four, according to the region’s governor.Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on Telegram that two were killed in Bakhmut, where heavy fighting has been taking place, and another in Zhelanne, a small town on the outskirts of Donetsk city. Both are in the east of Ukraine. Continue reading...
  
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• MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories, says whistleblower

  21-01-2023 14:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Party member lodges a complaint about the security services ignoring attempt of Russian infiltration into the ConservativesMI5 repeatedly refused to investigate evidence that an alleged Russian spy was attempting to cultivate influence with senior Conservative politicians and channel illegal Russian funds into the party, a Tory member has alleged in a new complaint lodged with the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT).Sergei Cristo, a Conservative party activist and a former journalist with the BB
  
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• Novak Djokovic overcomes injury to reach Australian Open round of 16

  21-01-2023 14:17 via cnn.com
  
  Novak Djokovic beat Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets -- 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 6-4 -- to move in the last 16 of the Australian Open, despite a labored performance from the world No. 5 who was visibly struggling to move at points during the match.
  
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• Novak Djokovic keeps dreams of 22nd grand slam title alive

  21-01-2023 14:17 via cnn.com
  
  Novak Djokovic beat Grigor Dimitrov in straight sets -- 7-6 (9-7) 6-3 6-4 -- to move in the last 16 of the Australian Open, despite a labored performance from the world No. 5 who was visibly struggling to move at points during the match.
  
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