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EU could have digital vaccination certificates by summer, says Merkel

Tourism-dependent Greece and Spain support a vaccine passport but other nations are hesitant

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Walmart pays ‘starvation wages’ says Bernie Sanders in passionate defence of $15 minimum wage

Senator says government should not be subsidising US corporate giants

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Mitch McConnell says he would ‘absolutely’ support Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee in 2024

Mitch McConnell will “absolutely” support Donald Trump if the former president wins the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election, the GOP senate minority leader told…

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Anger as Florida lawmaker Greg Steube says transgender people ‘offend’ God

GOP’s Greg Steube attacked for comments by Democrats during Equality Act debate

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Biden raises human rights in call with Saudi king as intelligence officials to release report on Khashoggi killing

President Joe Biden has spoken with King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia ahead of the release of a report from US intelligence officials that…

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Most Republican voters believe 2020 election was invalid, poll finds

The majority of Republican respondents believe that mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes resulted in more fraud

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Republican Ralph Norman’s effort to hold 30-second silence for Rush Limbaugh turned down

‘The chair cannot entertain the gentleman’s request’

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House passes Equality Act but LGBT+ bill faces murky future in Senate

Republicans worry legislation does not include protections for religious institutions or ensure ‘religious freedom’

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John Geddert: US gymnastics coach kills himself hours after being charged with sex crimes

Police have found the body of the former US gymnastics coach, affiliated with disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, just hours after he was charged with human trafficking…

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Costco raising starting wages to $16 amid calls for federal $15 minimum – will competitors follow?

Lawmakers debate gradually raising federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 as second-largest retailer says raising its wages ‘constitutes a significant competitive advantage’

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Donald Trump Jr says dropping Springsteen’s DWI charge example of ‘liberal privilege’

The Boss’s blood alcohol level was one quarter of limit for driving

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Nixon lawyer John Dean says Donald Trump’s kids should be worried about New York investigation

The former presidential lawyer said the Manhattan District Attorney secured nearly a terrabyte of the former terabyte’s tax information

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President Biden warns of new variants as administration hits 50m Covid vaccines

President Joe Biden has warned about the impact of new Covid-19 variants on the United States’ cases and hospitalisations, as his administration administers its 50 millionth…

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President Pence, anyone? In Mike Pence’s hometown, residents ponder his legacy and his future

Mike Pence is returning to his home state of Indiana to decide his future, but residents in his home town of Columbus are torn on his…

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College dropout donates $20m to university he was forced to leave almost 60 years ago because he couldn’t afford it

Donation ‘believed to be largest contribution of its kind to any Historically Black College or University,’ university website states

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CPAC 2021: How to watch and schedule of speakers

Event being held in Orlando, Florida, will see former president deliver first public speech since leaving office

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Republican lawmaker joins Democrats condemning MTG for attacks on Democrat over transgender child

It’s the latest scandal involving the controversial Georgia rep

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Coach tied to Larry Nassar charged with sexual assault and trafficking

The coach had previously said he had “zero knowledge” of Mr Nassar’s crimes

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Lady Gaga not targetted in theft of French bulldogs, police say

Lady Gaga was not specifically targetted in the theft of her French bulldogs which were likely stolen as part of a wave of dog robberies, police…

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Police chief says militia groups ‘want to blow up’ Capitol building at Biden State of the Union

US Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman argued to maintain increased law enforcement presence at the Capitol ahead of Joe Biden’s first address to Congress, following warnings…

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TV host criticises Trump Jr and Lauren Boebert, accusing them of acting like IRA and Osama Bin Laden

‘It communicates that they’re open to at least the possibility of violent overthrow of the government,’ claims Chris Hayes

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Liz Cheney ‘a fool’ for criticising Trump

Controversial congresswoman previously said the Republican party belong to former president

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Intact petrified tree, up to 20 million years old, unearthed in Greece

Extraordinary find will ‘will contribute significantly’ to understanding of region’s ancient ecosystem

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Rare bee missing for a century rediscovered in Australia

Species which targets specific rainforest flowers was last seen in 1923

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Tiger Woods: ‘Hero’ neighbour helped save golfing legend from crash

Man called 911 and rushed to help after crash, report says

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Victim’s glasses found in car of South Dakota Attorney General who claimed he hit a deer

Jason Ravnsborg charged with three misdemeanour counts after accident leading to death of 55-year-old pedestrian

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Pelosi visibly upset with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest transphobic stunt

‘It breaks my heart that it is necessary,’ Pelosi says of bill enshrining rights for LGBTQ Americans

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Tucker Carlson condemned for bizarre comparison between George Floyd’s death, BLM and Capitol riot

‘It sickens me that the Floyd family has to endure this depravity,’ said one critic after Fox News’s anchors rant

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Father of woman found dead in trash chute says she was targeted by a hitman

Wrongful death case alleges that Lara Prychodko’s estranged husband was ‘financially motivated’ to pay for her death

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GOP senator rejects $15 minimum wage saying he once earned $6 an hour, or $23 with inflation

Republicans point to wages they earned as young people decades ago despite rising inflation that has outpaced Americans’ earnings

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Rand Paul attacks Biden’s transgender health secretary over her support for gender reassignment surgery for minors

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican, has criticised one of President Joe Biden’s health nominees for her support of gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy for minors.

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Ahoy there! Spanish researchers find remains of Francis Drake’s Armada

Drake’s defeated fleet has been discovered due to dredging work in the north of Spain

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Woman turned in ex-boyfriend for Capitol riots after he called her a ‘moron’

Richard Michetti allegedly breached building alongside pro-Trump mob on 6 January

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‘You can’t make this stuff up’: Stephen Miller receives backlash for calling Biden’s immigration policies inhumane

‘I think that’s a really interesting twist to hear that this is all about protecting these kids’

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Woman turned in ex-boyfriend for Capitol riots after he called her a ‘moron’

Richard Michetti allegedly breached building alongside pro-Trump mob on 6 January

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Former police officer threatened to put bullet in child’s head over doorbell prank, police say

Dean Taylor said pranks had happened at least four times before he threatened the boys

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GameStop trading repeatedly halted after shares surge again

Shares in retailer GameStop surged again on Thursday possibly heralding a further rally for stocks heavily-shorted by Wall Street, but favoured by amateur traders.

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Mariachi band plays outside Ted Cruz’s home following Cancun trip controversy

One bystander held sign reading ‘Cruz’s lies cost lives’

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Kyrie Irving calls for Kobe Bryant on new NBA logo

‘Gotta Happen, idc [I don’t care] what anyone says,’ said Mr Irving

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Biden has been president for a week. Here are 100 steps his White House has taken to build a new era

New president hits the ground running with a sweeping set of executive actions, memorandums and policy proposals to shape the next four years

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The ‘exotic’ animals that fell victim to the Texas freeze

‘We have over $2 million (£141 million) in animals that have been lost, and another half-million in damage to infrastructure’

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QAnon: How the US Satanic paedophile cult conspiracy theory took root in Europe

Movement mutating away from original Trump-centric mythology to appeal to anti-establishment suspicion and anti-lockdown discontent in UK, France, Germany and beyond

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Fury as New York town hosts ‘barbaric’ squirrel hunt

Event condemned as ‘barbaric, cruel, senseless and environmentally terrorising money grab’

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Japan appoints ‘Minister for Loneliness’ after rise in suicides

There are ‘many kinds of loneliness’ that need to be addressed, prime minister says

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Trumps accused of treating White House staff like ‘concierge’

Employees also claim that Barack Obama and his family craved privacy while in executive mansion

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Female video game player, 19, ‘murdered’ by rival gamer

‘She was an extraordinary person, whom we will remember every day that the sun rises,’ says Ingrid Oliveira Bueno da Silva’s gaming team

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Covid: Irish nuns ‘break lockdown to attend exorcism’

Pair have since raised nearly £70,000 to secure new accommodation after being kicked out of Cork ‘retreat’

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Trump’s secret tax returns finally handed over to Manhattan DA after two-year battle

‘Millions’ of pages of documents have been turned over to New York prosecutors

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Man survives 14 hours floating in Pacific Ocean clinging to pieces of sea rubbish

The Russian sailor apparently fainted and fell into the water

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Indian government opposes same sex marriage, saying family is ‘union of biological man and woman’

Same-sex partners were not comparable with the Indian family unit, the court was told

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‘Get used to me’: Derided Postmaster General Louis Dejoy says he’s not going anywhere

The USPS boss says his plan to make the service sustainable would include eliminating first class mail and raising prices

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College library shut down after discovery of venomous ‘Mediterranean recluse’ spiders

The building was closed for two days out of an abundance of caution

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Lady Gaga’s dogs stolen after her dogwalker is shot four times in chest, report says

A dogwalker of Lady Gaga was shot four times in the chest before two men stole two of the singer’s three French bulldogs, according to multiple…

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Lady Gaga’s dogs stolen after her dogwalker is shot four times in chest, report says

A dogwalker of Lady Gaga was shot four times in the chest before two men stole two of the singer’s three French bulldogs, according to multiple…

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Biden ‘clearly opposes’ effort to recall California governor Gavin Newsom

Campaign has amassed close to 1.5 million signatures

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‘Read the fine print’: Texas lieutenant governor blames Texans for high storm energy bills

Republican says ‘those big bills are people who gambled on a very, very low rate’ after reports people resorted to using life savings for higher fees…

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Diver shows how to fend off tiger shark in ‘amazing’ video

Andriana Fragola came face-to-face with the shark off the coast of Hawaii

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‘Sickening, pathetic, unimaginably cruel’: Marjorie Taylor Greene under fire for misgendering trans-daughter of colleague

It comes after MTG installed a sign saying male and female are the only two genders

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Why are people buying GameStop stock again? GME’s dramatic repeat share price rise explained

GameStop’s share price is surging once again – and though it’s not clear exactly why, it’s possible Reddit and an ice cream cone are responsible.

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Lin Wood says Jeffrey Epstein still alive in bizarre conspiracy tweets

The lawyer wrapped the claim up in a conspiracy theory alleging Chief Justice John Roberts killed Justice Antonin Scalia

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European leaders encourage citizens to take Astrazeneca jab after doubts slow rollout

Ursula von der Leyen says she would take Oxford vaccine ‘without second thought’

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Myanmar protesters scuffle with junta supporters as Facebook bans military accounts

The ban applies to the photo-sharing platform Instagram, also owned by Facebook

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Biden overturns Trump visa ban, reopening US to thousands of legal immigrants and their families

Joe Biden has rescinded a ban on thousands of illegal immigrants and their families from entering the United States though the visa application process.

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Obama backs reparations for the first time and slams ‘politics of white resistance’

Obama earlier appeared to oppose reparation during his presidential campaign

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Kenya uses electric fences to protect forests from humans

The project is attempting to prevent illegal logging and charcoal burning

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Saddam Hussein ‘acted like Hitler’ when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Thatcher said

Iraqi president was described as ‘selfish, despotic dictator’, declassified documents reveal

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Tanzanian minister coughs through press conference aimed at defusing Covid fears

The opposition leader condemns the government’s ‘recklessness’ over Covid

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Two ultra-rare Malayan tiger cubs born in Singapore, zoo announces

The new-born feline siblings are a significant addition to the population of Malayan tigers that is currently estimated to be 150

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White supremacist presence within military ‘detailed in new Pentagon report’

Service members bragged about their neo-Nazi ties in online forums

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Princess Latifa writes to UK police urging them to reopen probe into sister’s kidnapping

Note by princess says fresh probe may help ‘free’ her sister

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Armenian prime minister cries ‘coup’ after army calls for his resignation

Army has accused Nikol Pashinyan of being ‘unable to make sound decisions’

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Boris Johnson is an ‘unrepentant and inveterate liar’, says former French ambassador to UK

Sylvie Bermann was France’s top diplomat in the UK during the EU referendum

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Covid death toll: California becomes first state to top 50,000

Officials in Los Angeles County say uncounted deaths from winter surge are ‘devastating’

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CPAC 2021 – live: Trump expected to announce 2024 run and Liz Cheney denies ‘civil war’ as GOP summit opens

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Lost for decades, a treasure trove of Bollywood history

Some of India’s biggest movie actors were writing to a star-struck young woman in the country in the 1950s and 60s, sending her their signed portraits,…

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‘It’s Up to You’ ad campaign encourages uncertain Americans to get Covid vaccine

According to one poll, about one third of Americans said they would not receive coronavirus vaccine

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Police officer’s wife admits to starving and beating to death immigrant domestic worker

When she died in July 2016, the domestic worker weighed only 24 kilograms

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One year on from Delhi’s religious riots, victims are still struggling to reclaim their lives

Victims are still grappling with police cases, mounting costs and lasting disabilities after their lives were shattered by the worst riots the Indian capital has witnessed…

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Global spending on weapons reached record high with China spending most in 2020, report shows

Worldwide, amount spent on defence increased by almost four per cent in real terms compared to 2019

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Australia passes amended law to make Google and Facebook pay for news

Google and Facebook reached an agreement with Australia’s government after a month’s standoff

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‘This is definitely one to watch’: New Covid strain spreading rapidly in NYC

One the coronavirus variants carries a mutation that may reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine

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US intelligence report ‘to blame Saudi crown prince for murder of journalist Khashoggi’

Declassified summary likely to conclude Mohammed bin Salman approved murder of columnist

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Malaysian man wins landmark case against Muslim gay sex ban

LGBT+ advocates have said they feel Islamic laws have been used to target country’s gay community

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China denies making US diplomats take anal swab tests for Covid

The Chinese government has denied forcing US diplomats stationed in the country to take anal swab tests for Covid 19.

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Fox anchor suspended after saying he was ‘annoyed’ at obese people getting Covid vaccine

The anchor was called out “fatphobic” on social media

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Biden news – live: President lifts Trump visa ban as Ted Cruz approval rating crashes after Cancun holiday

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Marjorie Taylor Greene adds ‘TWO genders’ sign to office door in escalation of anti-Equality Act attack

It comes after a transgender flag was placed outside her office so she would see it daily

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Biden news – live: Trump Jr deposed over inaugural funds as White House defends migrant camp after AOC attack

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Washington DC mayor loses sister to Covid-19

Muriel Bowser announced sister had joined ‘the legion of angels’ after battling the virus

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Ted Cruz approval rating with Republican voters crashes 23% following Cancun trip

Ted Cruz’s approval rating had been plummeting since he objected to the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory

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GameStop share price soars 100% as Reddit site goes down

No exact reason has been given for Reddit being down, but it was back within hours

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Hackers share details of Canadian military spy plane on dark web

Details of Bombardier’s jet used for Saab’s GlobalEye surveillance system posted on dark web

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Climate change causes shortage of wood used to make famed Stratocaster guitars used by Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones

Sainted grandfather of electric guitars will no longer be made with the type of ash that causes its special ‘twang’, because of climate change

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Moderna ready to begin testing vaccine that fights South Africa strain

Several potential methods for addressing new coronavirus vaccines to be experimented with

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Man exits church after years in sanctuary from deportation

A Honduran immigrant who has spent 3 1/2 years living inside a Missouri church to avoid deportation has finally stepped outside

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Residents evacuated as flames come up through sidewalk in Seattle

The fire melted through pavement

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Parents of child who died of Covid share the warning signs of the virus in kids

Parents of Gigi Morse, 6, say she seemed fine except for a few unusual ailments.

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Parents of child who died of Covid share the warning signs of the virus

Parents of Gigi Morse, 6, say she seemed fine except for a few unusual ailments.

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Mutant baby shark caught by fisherman

Fish with human-like facial features found in Indonesian waters

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Tiger Woods crash: No evidence of drugs or alcohol involved say police

Tiger Woods will not face any charges over his devastating car crash after police said the golfer was not on any drugs or alcohol when his…

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