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Arrested after interviewing the World Cup manager
Thor Gjermund Eriksen, Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), calls Qatar’s reaction «absurd».
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British F-35B Crash In The Med Possibly Caused By ‘Rain Cover’ Left On During Launch
According to the UK media outlet The Sun, the recent crash of a British F-35B during take off from HMS Queen Elizabeth was caused by a rain cover not
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Can You Bankrupt White Supremacy? Jury Holds Charlottesville Organizers Liable for $26M in Damages
A federal jury has ordered a group of white supremacists to pay over $26 million in damages for their role in organizing the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Is bankr...
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Inside the corporate structure of a Catholic order that ran 48 residential schools | CBC News
A CBC investigation into the many and varied corporate holdings of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate shows hundreds of millions of dollars, a commitment to take care of a dwindling number of aging priest...
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Polish President breaks with rest of Europe, calling mandatory vaccinations "a line we cannot cross", instead focusing on education and personal choice
President against mandatory vaccination
The Polish president has said he opposes mandatory vaccinations, saying introducing them would mean overstepping a boundary that “we cannot afford” to cross.
4 years ago
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Biden makes history as first presidential candidate with 80 million votes
2020 turnout breaks century-old record
Charles Darwin’s notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge University
Library staff believed manuscripts were ‘mis-shelved’ in 2000 but now think theft likely
‘Let’s rebuild a strong EU-USA alliance’, EU chiefs tell Joe Biden
“It is a new beginning for the EU-US global partnership,” Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said after speaking with US President-elect Joe Biden.
Walmart-exclusive router and others sold on Amazon & eBay contain hidden backdoors to control devices | CyberNews
Walmart-exclusive Jetstream routers and Wavlink routers contain hidden backdoors. The routers are actively being exploited by Mirai malware
Vegans 43% more likely to suffer broken bones than meat eaters, study finds
A study by academics at the University of Oxford found that vegans have more than double the risk of suffering a broken hip than meat eaters, with the affliction common in older people, especially wom...
Pope Francis refers to China’s Uyghurs as ‘persecuted’ for the first time
Pope Francis looks on as he celebrates Easter Sunday Mass on April 12 behind closed doors at St. Peter’s Basilica in The Vatican.
New Zealand may face torture case over women’s treatment in prison - lawyer
Corrections appears to have broken the law by keeping two women in a segregation unit for four months at Auckland Region Women’s Correctional Facility, a human rights lawyer says.
India’s New Record for Lowest Solar Tariff is ₹2/kWh - Mercom India
SECI’s auction for 1,070 MW of solar projects in Rajasthan set a record-low lowest (L1) tariff of ₹2 (~$0.0270)/kWh (Tranche-III).
Swiss to vote on banning the funding of weapons makers | The Chronicle Herald
By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voters decide on Sunday whether to ban the funding of arms makers, the latest anti-military referendum in the neutral country that hasn’t fought an external war...
Police use tear gas to disperse refugees living in migrant camp in central Paris
Police used tear gas as they dismantled a new migrant camp in the centre of Paris set up to house hundreds of refugees evacuated from makeshift suburban shelters without being relocated.
Ontario cashier saves senior ‘a whole lot of money’ by stopping gift card scam
An Ontario cashier says she felt something wasn’t right when a senior tried to purchase about $3,000 worth of Google gift cards.
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You can get arrested for not wearing a face mask in Boise, Idaho
You can get arrested for not wearing a face mask in Boise, Idaho
Boise will begin enforcing its face mask mandate beginning Monday
UK considers whether to remove British judges from Hong Kong court
Britain is considering pulling its judges out of Hong Kong’s highest court, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday, in its latest response to what it considers China’s breaches of its internati...
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GM recalling 7 million vehicles for airbag problems after losing fight with safety regulator
Millions of vehicles are recalled each year for a variety of issues. Sometimes those issues prove fatal. Here are some of the deadliest and most expensive auto recalls in history.
South Australia on track to ease further restrictions after recording no new cluster cases
Premier Steven Marshall said the state’s transition committee met on Tuesday to consider the current range of restrictions and would meet again on Friday.
Trump administration officially authorizes Biden transition
The General Services Administration on Monday ascertained President-elect Joe Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 presidential race, clearing the way for a new administration amid Trump’s meritle...
Netflix faces boycott calls in India over ‘A Suitable Boy’ kissing scene
Netflix Chief Product Officer Greg Peters says the streaming company is trying to match its expanding international audience with “great global storytelling from around the world.”
Temperatures in the Arctic are astonishingly warmer than they should be
The entire Arctic Circle was an average of 12 degrees Fahrenheit above normal this weekend.
Prisoner found guilty of murdering ‘Britain’s worst paedophile’ in jail killing
Paul Fitzgerald, 30, has been found guilty of murdering notorious paedophile Richard Huckle in a vicious attack at HMP Full Sutton in October 2019
Biden’s presidential transition can formally begin, U.S. agency says | CBC News
The U.S. federal agency that must sign off on the presidential transition told president-elect Joe Biden on Monday that he can formally begin the transition process.
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First on CNN: Key government agency acknowledges Biden’s win and begins formal transition
CNN’s Jim Acosta reports that President Trump tweeted about the GSA informing President-elect Joe Biden expressing openness to the transition period going forward.
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Leaked Chinese documents show how hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims are brainwashed in concentration camps
Dubbed The China Cables, the documents reveal the Communist Party’s efforts to imprison, punish, and brainwash the Uighur Muslim community in Xinjiang.
Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm - ICIJ
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s system of mass sur...
Defeated lawmaker Alice Mak blames Hong Kong leader for poll drubbing
Polls this year see a record voter turnout of more than 70 per cent across city.
China’s response to the leaked Xinjiang camp cables
The Chinese embassy in the UK comments on the Guardian’s reporting on the Uighur detention camp telegrams
More Than 800 Scholars and Activists Sign Open Letter Demanding US End Support for Bolivia’s Right-Wing Coup Regime
“What is happening in Bolivia is highly undemocratic and we are witnessing some of the worst human rights violations at the hands of the military and the police since the transition to civilian govern...
Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps
Leaked documents show new evidence of China’s systematic brainwashing of Uighur and other detainees.
A new Filipino law requires all students to plant 10 trees in order to graduate
Students graduating from elementary school, high school, and college in the Philippines must plant at least ten tree seedlings.
New Trove of Ukraine Documents Exposes ‘Clear Paper Trail From Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo’
“We can see why Mike Pompeo has refused to release this information to Congress. The evidence is only going to get worse.”
Early results suggest landslide win for pan-dems - RTHK
Unofficial results reported by various pro-democracy groups suggest that the opposition camp is set to make strong gains in Sunday’s historic District...
Egyptian independent media outlet Mada Masr says police raided office | DW | 24.11.2019
Egyptian police have raided the Cairo office of a media outlet known to be critical of the government, its news website says. The outlet, Mada Masr, has also reported the release of a news editor arre...
Europe’s rivers are all filled with microplastics, scientists say
Scientists found the microplastics in 100% of water samples taken from nine major European rivers from May to November.
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Guliani wasn't talking about Biden.
A President Openly Susceptible to Blackmail Cannot Serve | Washington Monthly
Our capacity for shock in response to events surrounding Trump has died the death of a thousand cuts. But we should still be shaken to the core that the President of the United States is currently bei...
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Shannon Martinez was a neo-Nazi angry at the world. After she left the movement, she started to atone by helping other far-right extremists follow her back to civil society.
How to Make Amends for a Life of Far-Right Radicalism
Shannon Martinez was a neo-Nazi angry at the world. After she left the movement, she started to atone by helping other far-right extremists follow her back to civil society.
U.S. envoy cuts short troop funding negotiations in South Korea
With Kim Jong Un’s deadline for diplomacy looming, the U.S. and its close ally South Korea can’t agree on who is paying to keep 28,000 American boots on the ground
BBC caught up in another editing scandal
The London Economic | The broadcasting corporation has been accused of editing audience reactions to show the clapping rather than laughing| News
Iranian minister offers to hold referendum on hijab as women protest
A senior Iranian politician has called for a referendum on compulsory hijab, sparking protests across the staunchly Muslim country by women demanding the law is removed without a vote.
China tried to plant its candidate in Federal Parliament, authorities believe
Bo “Nick” Zhao was in trouble financially when he said he was approached with a million-dollar offer to become China’s man in Federal Parliament.
‘Unheard of in civilised countries’: Top medical journal blasts Hong Kong police for treatment of medics at Polytechnic University | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
A Hong Kong-based surgeon on Friday condemned the police for arresting a group of medics outside the besieged Polytechnic University (PolyU), saying that the move violated international humanitarian s...
Tunisia becomes first Arab country to introduce sex education in schools
Tunisia will become the first Arab country to introduce sex ed in...
Record numbers vote in Hong Kong elections
Early turnout soars in the vote, which pro-democracy groups hope will send a message to Beijing.
100 far-right protesters confronted by 5,000 counter demonstrators in Germany
‘Neo-Nazis and fearmongers are the minority,’ foreign minister says
UK knew in 2016 of Trump’s ‘suspicious links’ to Russia, book claims
No 10 did not ‘push matter’ to avoid offending US president, say commissioners of Steele dossier
Tory plans to curb rail strikes would leave workers as ‘slaves’, union bosses say
‘This is the hallmark of the right-wing junta, not a democratically elected British government’
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Trump’s farm bailout has cost taxpayers more than double the auto bailout
The U.S. government has been making direct payments to farmers for a long time. But the size of those payments is growing rapidly.
What’s missing from the Democrats’ case against Trump
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Congress would override Trump if he vetoes Hong Kong support, says Republican leader
Congress will override President Donald Trump if he vetoes popular legislation meant to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, a Senate Republican leader said Saturday.
Hong Kong elections: more votes by lunchtime than in all of 2015
Hongkongers from across the political spectrum hit the polls early, more than doubling 2015′s turnout rate for the first three hours of voting, in local contests which will be seen as a barometer of s...
Andrew Robb arrived back to Parliament from sick leave, intent on an act of treachery
Ten years ago today, Andrew Robb arrived at Parliament House intent upon an act of treachery. His plan would blow apart Australia’s two great parties irrevocably just as they teetered toward consensus...
The 5 impeachment witnesses who locked down the Democrats’ case against Trump
Five main witnesses in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump cemented the Democrats’ case against the president.
Top House Democrat Says Nunes Will ‘Quite Likely, Without Question’ Face Investigation
After an associate of Rudy Giuliani claimed to have information on meetings Nunes allegedly had with a former Ukrainian official.
Trump doesn’t think he’ll be impeached, continues to push ‘Ukraine server’ conspiracy | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House adviser called it a “fictional narrative” and...
New documents ‘further implicate’ Mike Pompeo in Trump and Giuliani’s Ukraine scheme: New York Times
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s role in President Donald Trump’s efforts to solicit foreign election interference from Ukraine was further cemented by newly released State Department documents. “Inte...
‘Very disturbing’: People dressed in Nazi uniforms confront shoppers at supermarket
Jewish leaders say the incident at Woodend, north of Melbourne, highlights the increasing use of Nazi symbols in Australia.
China warns of ‘very bad damage’ if Canada follows U.S. lead on Hong Kong
New ambassador also repeated Beijing’s demand that Canada immediately release Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou
Top House Democrat says ethics probe of Nunes is likely over alleged meeting with Ukrainian about Bidens
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee pushed back on the allegation from the attorney for Lev Parnas.
Luxembourg Becomes First Country to Make All Public Transit Free
Luxembourg is set to become the first country to make all of its public transportation free.
Russian Wagner mercenary exposed for filming video of Syrian prisoner
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The footage is thought to have been filmed in an oil field west of Palmyra, Syria, in 2017 as four Russian-speaking soldiers attack a Syrian national.
Many LGBT people in China forced into illegal ‘conversion therapy’: groups
Many LGBT people in China are being forced to undergo “conversion therapy&q...
Sacha Baron Cohen just called out the ‘Silicon Six,’ a group of American billionaires that he says ‘care more about boosting their share price than protecting democracy’
Six people decide what information much of the world sees, according to Sacha Baron Cohen: Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Susan Wojicki, and Jack Dorsey.
Thousands protest in Paris against domestic violence after 130 women reported killed
France has among the highest rates of domestic violence in Europe.
Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat
As Australia experiences record-breaking drought and bushfires, koala populations have dwindled along with their habitat, leaving them “functionally extinct.”
Navy Is Said to Proceed With Disciplinary Plans Against Edward Gallagher
Top military officials threatened to resign or be fired if their plans to remove Chief Gallagher from the SEALs were halted by President Trump, administration officials said.
Report: Sacklers using fake doctors, false marketing to sell OxyContin in China
As Purdue files for bankruptcy, business in China is ramping up.
China envoy warns of ‘very bad damage’ if Canada follows U.S. lead on Hong Kong
China’s new ambassador to Canada on Friday warned Ottawa not to follow the ...
Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank And Trust
Isle of Man, UK – A blast of sunshine has hit a secretive banking network used by global ultra-wealthy figures following a massive hack by “Phineas Fisher“, a notorious self-described “hacktivist”, of...
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Facebook should heed the lessons of internet history - The new Yahoo?
Its business model is threatened by lower usage and advertiser discontent
Arkansas Works Program Drops 12,000 From Medicaid
The work requirements for Medicaid coverage has torpedoed health coverage for thousands of Arkansans.
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Donald Trump might be the dimmest President the US has ever had | The Independent
It should come as no surprise - and it has not - that he is sorely lacking in sophistication, knowledge of the world, understanding of government and a rudimentary grasp of economics
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Amazon asked Spanish police to intervene in warehouse strike: report - Business Insider
Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe went on strike on Black Friday in protest over working conditions at Amazon warehouses.
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Can’t Find Cameroon’s President? Try Geneva’s Intercontinental Hotel - WSJ
Paul Biya, one of the world’s longest-serving rulers, takes sustained Swiss vacations as his country grapples with insurgencies, crises.
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Japan Is Giving Away 8 Million Abandoned Houses — Here's How to Get One | Travel + Leisure
The Japanese government is launching a program to reduce the number of abandoned homes across the country by offering them for sale for nearly nothing, or actually nothing.
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Report: Louisiana leads the way in nationwide trend of ditching plastic driver's licenses | News | theadvocate.com
WASHINGTON — Millions of people may be able to show their smartphones rather than a plastic card to prove they’re legit to drive, vote or buy a beer in coming
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Opinion | How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart - The New York Times
When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.
7 years ago
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Renato Mariotti on Twitter: "THREAD: What does today's news that Flynn's lawyers are no longer sharing information with the Trump legal team tell us about the state of M… https://t.co/dVqBM14oHK"
“THREAD: What does today's news that Flynn's lawyers are no longer sharing information with the Trump legal team tell us about the state of Mueller's investigation? (Hint: It tells us a lot.)”
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Thanksgiving help for the homeless: 'We haven't seen numbers like this since the Great Depression' - LA Times
Thanksgiving meals will be served to thousands of homeless and near-homeless individuals today on Skid Row and in Pasadena and Canoga Park amid calls for donations and volunteers for the rest of the y...
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Democrats rank Bernie Sanders as their top choice for 2020!
How Dem insiders rank the 2020 contenders | TheHill
Buzz is building around some potential candidates.
One bad ass lady!
Juliane Koepcke, 17, was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground still strapped to her chair and lived. However, she had to endure... View More
Juliane Koepcke, 17, was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground still strapped to her chair and lived. However, she had to endure... View More
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Tom Baker returns to Doctor Who for unfinished episode - AOL UK Entertainment
Tom Baker is returning to Doctor Who to finish a lost episode of the show from 38 years ago. The veteran actor, 83, has filmed a scene on camera for the unfinished 'Shaha', which was set in Cambridge....
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A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm - The Washington Post
This generation of farmers is more likely to grow organically and be involved in the local food system, a survey finds.
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Sci-Hub domains inactive following court order • The Register
'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue'
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They'll all just get permanently replaced by temps.
Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday | Reuters
Workers at Amazon's main distribution hub in Italy are planning their first ever strike for Friday, trade unions said, while they are also striking at six warehouses in Germany, threatening to disrupt...