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Asian shares mixed amid economic aid hopes, pandemic fears
Asian shares are mixed as hopes for more U.S. economic aid are countered by concerns over damage from the pandemic
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The Latest: South Korea to vaccine its 52M people for free
South Korea’s president says it’ll offer COVID-19 vaccinations to all its people free of charge in phases
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Sex and the City reboot: Fans furious over Kim Cattrall’s absence from revival
Cattrall and her co-star Sarah Jessica Parker have been engaged in a feud for years
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Coronavirus: At least 250,000 small firms face collapse without further government help, report warns
Record number of small firms faced going under even before third lockdown, Federation of Small Businesses says
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Village doctor in Ukraine faces coronavirus challenge
Riding a horse-drawn cart, Dr. Viktoria Mahnych trots along country roads to attend to her patients in several villages nestled in the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine
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Covid: Mass vaccination centres to open across England
New sites capable of giving jab to thousands of people a day
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15 million-year-old Megatooth shark grew to 50ft long by feeding on unhatched eggs in the womb, study finds
Analysis of Megalodon vertebrae suggests Miocene-era carnivores could live for a century
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AP PHOTOS: Only ash and shells of homes left on volcano isle
The island is a ghost town, its trees just dead sticks in a gray landscape its homes and school ash-covered and damaged by continuing earthquakes and the explosive volcanic eruption that occurred one year ago.
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The Pembrokeshire Murders: How a Bullseye appearance implicated the real-life killer John Cooper
Cooper murdered a pair of holidaymakers just weeks after he filmed appearance on ITV game show
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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover
The violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters
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From Queenie to The Mating Season, 15 books to help you beat the January blues
As we settle in for another lockdown, our columnist Ceri Radford is on hand with literary recommendations to keep us entertained through January and beyond – books that are as beautifully written and thought-provoking as they are life-affirming
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Pelosi says House will impeach Trump, pushes VP to oust him
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president to invoke constitutional authority to force him out
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Trump remains defiant amid calls to resign
President Donald Trump enters the last days of his presidency facing a second impeachment and growing calls for his resignation after his supporters launched an assault on the nation’s Capitol in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power
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China: WHO experts arriving Thursday for virus origins probe
China says a group of experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic
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Biden faces challenge in guiding American past Trump era
Joe Biden has already been preparing for months to take on a series of historic crises — a pandemic that’s killed at least 373,000 Americans and a sluggish economy that’s left millions jobless
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Aid group: US terrorism designation for Yemen rebels a blow
A leading aid organization has warned that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s move to designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization” would deal another “devastating blow” to the impoverished and war-torn nation
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15 million-year-old Megatooth shark grew to 50ft long by feeding on unhatched eggs in the womb, study finds
Analysis of Megalodon vertebrae suggests Miocene-era carnivores could live for a century
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Coronavirus: At least 250,000 small firms face collapse without further government help, report warns
Record number of small firms faced going under even before third lockdown, Federation of Small Businesses says
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Trump rioter in full body armour and carrying zip-ties ‘is bartender who broke into Capitol with his mother’
Munchel said his intention to go in not to fight the police but ‘to show them that we can, and we will’
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Covid: Unions urge public to back ‘decent’ pay rise for NHS workers
‘The government now needs to pay up,’ says Unison’s head of health Sara Gorton
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UK must strengthen relationships with allies after damage to reputation abroad, says think tank
Biden likely to look towards EU - not the UK - as its key partner in a number of strategic areas
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India's quick nod to homegrown COVID-19 vaccine seeds doubt
India took a regulatory shortcut for their homegrown vaccine, a move touted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a success in India’s self-reliance
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Records show fervent Trump fans fueled US Capitol takeover
The violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters
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John Cooper: The true story of the Pembrokeshire Murders serial killer exposed by an appearance on Bullseye
Everything you need to know about the real-life murderer inadvertently identified by an ITV game show
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Capitol police were overrun, little defense against rioters
Despite ample warnings about pro-Trump demonstrations in Washington, U.S. Capitol Police did not bolster staffing on Wednesday and made no preparations for the possibility that the planned protests could escalate into massive violent riots, according to several people briefed on law enforcement’s response
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Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared
The full extent of the assault on the U.S. Capitol is coming into sharper focus, with scenes of violence so vast they are difficult to grasp
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Saar, longtime Netanyahu ally, emerges as his top challenger
Gideon Saar has for years been one of Prime Minister’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s most loyal and vocal supporters, serving as Cabinet secretary and government minister
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Yemen, China, Cuba top Pompeo to-do list as time runs down
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced he will designate Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization" as time runs down on the Trump administration
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Analysis: A GOP reckoning after turning blind eye to Trump
Republicans are coming to grips with the fallout of President Donald Trump's false attacks on the election, which fueled the anger of supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week
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DC mayor pushes for increased security around inauguration
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking increased security around President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration in the wake of the mob insurrection at the Capitol