ALL AROUND THE NEWS: January 2020

Friday, January 31, 2020

The United States is rolling back prohibitions on land mine use, the White House and Department of Defense announced Friday. Steve Goose at Human Rights Watch statement: "Using land mines, which have claimed so many lives and limbs, is not justified by any country or group under any circumstances."

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After a racism debate in Davos on the invisibility of African climate activists, Greta Thunberg held a press conference Friday with fellow eco warriors from Kenya, Uganda and South Africa to stress the importance of their voices

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Turkey planted a world record 11 million trees in November. Ninety per cent of them may already be dead.

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North Korean government officials escape across the border 'with key documents' in group defection

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China reports 259 people have died of new virus with 11,791 confirmed cases of the outbreak.

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New Poll Shows Majority of Scots Support Independence

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Members of the European Parliament have voted in favour of introducing a single universal charging method for mobile phones, which Apple had argued against.

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The United Kingdom exits the European Union

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Senate vote 51-49 against witnesses

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Impeachment trial: Senate rejects new witnesses in Trump impeachment trial, paving the way for acquittal

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Senate votes no witnesses in Trump trial

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First coronavirus cases confirmed in UK

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German far-right AfD party leader loses political immunity in tax evasion case: German lawmakers have stripped AfD party leader Alexander Gauland of parliamentary immunity, allowing tax evasion investigations against him to proceed. Prosecutors raided the politician's addresses

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Thursday, January 30, 2020

For the first time on record, Australian capital cities - Melbourne, Hobart and Canberra have all reached 40C degrees (104F) on the same day

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Former Zelensky Aide Says Trump Admin. Request for Investigations ‘Rattled’ Ukrainian President

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China’s top court says it was a mistake to quell early “rumors” about the Wuhan virus

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Trump told Bolton, in August 2019, that the hold placed on the military aid to Ukraine should continue until Ukraine officials announced investigations into Trump’s political opponents Joe Biden and his son.

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Staff at airports across Australia are threatening to walk off the job unless they are allowed to do more to protect themselves from the deadly coronavirus

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EU backs Taiwan's inclusion in WHO

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France to ban mass shredding of live chicks

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Coronavirus updates: Vaccine will likely take a year to come, Canada's chief public health officer says

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A former congressman allegedly linked to Giuliani’s shadow campaign to oust America’s then-ambassador to Ukraine appears on video, obtained by ABC News, meeting with Trump.

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China's health commission says the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 9,692 with at least 213 deaths

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Brexit day: The UK will officially leave the EU at 11pm tonight

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Canberra becomes the first city in Australia to legalise cannabis for personal use

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It's now legal to grow and smoke cannabis for personal use in the ACT (Australia)

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Pilots just sued American Airlines to force a halt to China flights

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Jimmy Carter declares that Trump’s plan for Israelis and Palestinians violates international law

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Six indigenous people have been killed and other 10 kidnapped after scores of armed men raided an isolated Nicaraguan nature reserve in an attack linked to raging land disputes. About 80 attackers stormed a Mayangna commune about 310 miles north of capital Managua

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Wuhan is running low on food, hospitals are overflowing, and foreigners are being evacuated as panic sets in after a week under coronavirus lockdown

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American Airlines pilots sue to halt US-China flights amid coronavirus epidemic

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China accused of cremating bodies in secret as coronavirus patient numbers spike. The sources confirmed “many dead bodies” were sent directly from hospitals to the cremation centres “without properly identifying these patients”.

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Japan PM Abe calls for Taiwan's participation in WHO as coronavirus spreads

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Scientists share the highest-resolution images of the sun's surface yet to be captured. Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the images. The broke appearance of roiling plasma on the surface of the sun resemble a collection of cell-like panels. Each of the panels is roughly the size of Texas.

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Make ban on Chinese wildlife markets permanent, says environment expert

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Leaked report shows United Nations suffered hack — Sophisticated hackers infiltrated U.N. networks in Geneva and Vienna last year in an apparent espionage operation that top officials at the world body kept largely quiet. The hackers’ identity and the extent of the data they obtained are not known.

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Trade unions in Hong Kong, including hospital and rail workers, are threatening to go on strike unless the government closes the border with mainland China

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Coronavirus cases confirmed in all Chinese regions

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World’s biggest data breach! 30 million credit, debit card details up for sale online

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Lungs 'magically' heal damage from smoking — Surprise findings, published in Nature, show the few cells in your lungs that escape cancerous mutations caused by smoking can repair the lungs - but only if you stop, say scientists. Researchers still need to assess how much of the lungs are repaired.

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In response to the coronavirus, some Chinese cities and villages are taking it upon themselves to seal off their communities — in some cases blocking roads with boulders, tractors and dug-up asphalt.

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Homero Gómez González, Mexico’s monarch butterfly defender, found dead

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Environmental activist Homero Gomez, who fought to protect the famed monarch butterfly, has been found dead in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, a local authority said, two weeks after he disappeared

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Coronavirus China: Death toll rises to 170 with 7711 cases

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UN report warns ISIS is reasserting under new leader believed to be behind Yazidi genocide

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Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side

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Jack Ma, Alibaba founder and China's richest man, has donated 100 million yuan ($14.4 million) through his foundation to help find a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus.

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Facial recognition fails in China as people wear masks to avoid coronavirus

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Chinese “student” studying in US is indicted for actually being a Chinese Army officer

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Confirmed coronavirus cases rise to 7,158 in China, with deaths now at 170

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Buried in Trump-Netanyahu Deal Is Effort to 'Torpedo' ICC War Crimes Probe | The plan announced Tuesday by the White House demands Palestinians "dismiss all pending actions" before the International Criminal Court.

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Scottish parliament votes to hold new independence referendum

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'The president knew everything': Key Trump impeachment figure unexpectedly arrives at Capitol Hill demanding to testify

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Thousands of migrant children were sexually assaulted in US custody.

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French firefighters set themselves alight and fight with police | Metro News

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Germany has proof that Huawei worked with Chinese intelligence: Handelsblatt

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Avast’s Free Antivirus Harvests All Your Clicks, Sells Them to Third-Parties

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British Airways suspends flights to and from mainland China after UK Foreign Office travel advice over coronavirus outbreak

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Hunting of polar bears must be banned if species has any chance of survival, expert warns

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'This Is Not a Peace Plan, It Is a War Plan': Trump-Netanyahu Deal Decried as Shameful Attack on Palestinian Rights - "Any attempt to address the Israeli-Palestinian issue that does not begin and end with the full acknowledgment of the Palestinian right to self-determination, freedom, justice,

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Wuhan coronavirus cases inside China have already overtaken 2003 SARS outbreak inside of mainland China, as the virus was confirmed to have spread to every province in the country.

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US Considers Cancelling All Flights To China Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

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Photo of ‘New Coronavirus Hospital’ Posted by Chinese State Newspaper is Actually Alibaba Stock Photo

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France moves to ban mass live-shredding of male chicks - France has said it will ban the controversial but widespread practices of live-shredding male chicks and castrating piglets without anaesthesia, in a move cautiously welcomed by animal welfare activists.

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Canadian teacher in Wuhan says city 'like something out of a dystopian movie'

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Beijing drug store fined $434,530 for hiking price of masks

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Coronavirus: Australian scientists first to recreate virus outside China

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Epicenter of virus outbreak reports 840 new cases and 25 new deaths, raising death toll to 131

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Pentagon says 50 service members suffered traumatic brain injuries following Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack. Increasing numbers of service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries in attack has become controversy because of Trump's recent comments the injuries were "headaches" and "not serious."

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Chinese Passengers refuse to board flight with Wuhan natives after recognizing their accents, causing a 5-hour standoff at Nagoya Airport

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Pentagon now says 50 service members suffered brain injuries from Iran attack

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UK man found dead in ICE custody in Florida | A British man has died in Florida while in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency confirmed to the BBC.

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Filming partner without their consent during sex ruled a criminal offence in the UK

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British carbon tax leads to 93% drop in coal-fired electricity

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Progressive Jewish groups dismiss Trump's Middle East peace plan as "utterly bankrupt" and a "sham"

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White House tells airlines it may suspend all China-US flights amid coronavirus outbreak

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'This is not a peace plan, it is theft': Democrats denounce Trump's Israel-Palestine plan

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Japanese bus driver who had not visited China contracts coronavirus

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EU calls for a common charger for all phones

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'I wouldn't fly on a Dreamliner': Ex-Boeing quality manager doesn't consider the planes airworthy

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Three suspected cases of coronavirus reported in Delhi

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John Bolton worried Trump was granting favors to autocratic leaders: Book

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The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Climate change, inequality 'deliberately perpetuated' to benefit the rich: NZ Green Party co-leader | "We, politicians, have supported the wealthiest few to get wealthier at everyone else's expense, to build walls of poverty and disenfranchisement and call them opportunities."

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China Frantically Shuts Down Stock Market to Prevent Coronavirus Selloff

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Wife of Canada's first coronavirus patient tests positive, 19 under investigation

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Half of Wuhan’s population fled town before lockdown, raising risk of spread

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Australia Set To Experience Boom Of Deadly Spiders Following Fires & Floods

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WHO Has Admitted an Error in Its Assessment of Wuhan Coronavirus Risk

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The Spitzer Space Telescope will be shut down this week after 16 years of service. But unlike Hubble, which will burn up in our atmosphere after it's eventually put down, Spitzer will sail past Earth in about 50 years before drifting off into space for eternity.

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Coronavirus case confirmed in Germany - its first

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Big spike in confirmed Wuhan Coronavirus cases, now at 4523, deaths at 106

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The Gates Foundation is spending $10 million to fight the coronavirus outbreak in China and Africa. Bill Gates has warned about a pandemic for years.

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Hundreds of Amazon employees put jobs at risk by criticizing firm’s climate change policy | “By ending our contracts with oil and gas companies, we can show the world we put people over profits and be a leader against climate change.”

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'Do not be indifferent': Auschwitz survivors call for world to stay vigilant

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Wuhan virus death toll jumps to 106, nearly 1,300 new cases in China

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45 Million Chinese Now Under Quarantine As Officials Try To Halt Coronavirus Spread

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Amazon employees mass-protest its climate policy despite alleged firing threat

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NPR reporter Michele Kelemen was notified that she was being removed from the press pool covering Mike Pompeo's upcoming trip to the UK, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan — just a few days after Pompeo responded angrily to an interviewer from NPR

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Brazil’s pick of a creationist to lead its higher education agency rattles scientists

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Plane 'carrying 83 people' crashes in Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan

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A plane carrying 83 people has crashed in Afghanistan.

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China Blocks All Countries From Airlifting Citizens Trapped in Coronavirus -Plagued Wuhan

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China Has Confirmed More Than 2,700 Cases Of The Virus, With 80 Deaths

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Honk Kong University head Gabriel Leung announces during live press conference there are an estimated 25,000 confirmed cases in Wuhan and over 43,000 infected.

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France Bans the Use of Tear Gas Grenades Against Protesters After Demonstrators Maimed

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Former Ambassador To Ukraine Calls Out Pompeo For Callous Dismissal Of Nation: “In the contest between democracies and autocracies, the contest between freedom and unfreedom, Ukraine is the front line," warned Bill Taylor.

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Greta Thunberg says her 'demands' to Davos billionaires on climate change 'have been completely ignored' but admits she 'expected nothing less'

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Mongolia shuts universities, border crossings to halt virus spread

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Sunday, January 26, 2020

China goes into emergency mode as number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases reaches 2,700

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Huge amounts of a super-potent greenhouse gas have been leaking into the atmosphere — but scientists don’t know where they’re coming from: Global emissions of HFC-23 are at an all time high, according to research published this week.

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UK prepares to defy US by allowing Huawei to supply 5G kit

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Longer sentences will not cut crime, say prison experts

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[Live Thread] Wuhan Coronavirus

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Wuhan virus: China death toll leaps to 80, more than 2,300 cases confirmed

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Steve “Foreclosure King” Mnuchin Says Greta Thunberg Should Go Study Economics in College: The same guy who says tax cuts pay for themselves.

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The coronavirus can be spread from person to person before someone realizes they even have it, according to the Chinese health minister

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President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to unpublished manuscript by former adviser, John R. Bolton.

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6-7 million people form 620 Km long human chain in Indian protests against "anti-constitutional" law on 26 January, India's Republic Day

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Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says

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Hundreds of Amazon employees plan to risk their jobs this week by violating company policy

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Arizona resident is 5th confirmed case of coronavirus in US

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24 new deaths and 371 new cases of the Coronavirus reported in Hubei

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Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park close over China coronavirus fears

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Third US case of coronavirus confirmed in California, health officials say

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Poorer UK areas that backed Tories face fresh funding cuts as cash switched to wealthy southern regions - Poorer areas that delivered Boris Johnson’s election triumph are facing fresh cuts to local services – as funds are switched to wealthy Southern shires instead.

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China bans wildlife trade nationwide due to coronavirus outbreak

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Kim Jong Un’s aunt, once reported dead, makes surprise public appearance, six years after husband’s shocking execution

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Taiwan fines coronavirus patient $10000 for 'hiding' illness

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Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’

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Coronavirus: Baby born to 'infected' mother as backlash grows against local Wuhan officials

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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Australian government adviser urges threatened species overhaul after bushfires: Helene Marsh backs calls for the creation of national scientific monitoring system to help protect wildlife

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Several Chinese citizens from the same hotel are hospitalized in Moscow with high temperature

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Skies go black in Africa’s worst locust plague in decades

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Iran: New ID card rule highlights plight of Baha'i: Baha'is are unable to legally register with the Iranian state because an "other religions" option has been removed from the identity card application. Their faith forbids them to lie about their affiliation

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Doctor treating Paris coronavirus patients says virus ‘less serious’ than SARS

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China coronavirus: Beijing confirms use of anti-HIV drugs at some hospitals - Three Beijing hospitals have started treating patients with the anti-HIV drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir

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Christmas Island: the Australian detention centre with just 4 asylum seekers, two of them young children, 96 guards and a $26 million price tag

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Wuhan coronavirus death toll rises to 54 as healthcare workers say medical supplies are running out Over 1,700 confirmed cases have been reported across the country.

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The US military is a bigger polluter than more than 100 countries combined

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Study says activism and civil disobedience help communicate the science of climate change | "For decades, it has been a political, social and economic issue, and the inaction was quite depressing. The climate protests have given us hope, that this wave of public opinion is finally enough"

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Nurse treating coronavirus sufferers in China claims 90,000 people have already been infected

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China reports 1,975 confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia, 56 deaths - Xinhua

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Families Of Downed Plane Victims In Canada Suing Iran's Leader And Military

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In recording Trump asks how long Ukraine can resist Russians

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Coronavirus: Canada confirms first case, as death toll rises to 54

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Hong Kong declares Wuhan virus outbreak 'emergency' - the highest warning tier | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

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South Korea designates entire China as 'coronavirus watch zone'

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China coronavirus: Hong Kong leader declares highest level of emergency

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A doctor assigned to treat a corona virus-infected patient in China has died.

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China expands coronavirus outbreak lockdown to 56 million people

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Unprecedented swarms of locusts sweeping through East Africa. Size of infestation 'far beyond the norm'. UN calls for international help to 'avert threats to food security'

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Doctors warn China coronavirus carriers may show no symptoms of illness

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‘Orwell would be proud’: US defence chief says China is a ‘21st century surveillance state’ that represses Muslim minorities

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'Give America a fair trial. She's worth it': House Democrats wrap their opening arguments in Trump's historic impeachment trial

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Friday, January 24, 2020

This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked

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European police bust human trafficking ring worth $77M, accused of smuggling 10,000 migrants

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Doctor dies in Wuhan as coronavirus death toll rises to 41

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Panama Papers and Swiss Leaks tax investigations yield €10.6 million in fines

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Four "Generations" of Spread Seen with Virus in China, Alarming Experts - Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and that a single case was able to ignite a chain of other infections.

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Calls for global ban on wild animal markets amid coronavirus outbreak - Experts say wildlife sold for human consumption raises risk of new epidemics

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Puerto Rican protesters are so mad at their governor they pushed a guillotine through the streets — Angry about bungled responses to natural disasters, Puerto Ricans hit the streets, guillotine in tow, to demand Gov. Vásquez step down and even jail time for Vásquez and top government officials.

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China reports 1,287 confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia, including 237 in critical conditions

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UK virus researchers estimate 250,000 people in Wuhan will have coronavirus in 13 days

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