11/30/2019

Archbishop of Canterbury demands wife of US diplomat be extradited to UK

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Chinese riot police fire teargas and beat up protesters in Guangdong province | World news

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Trump to face protests by NHS staff when he arrives in London. US president’s visit to UK for Nato summit making Tories nervous about what he may say

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Trump's pursuit of Greenland leads Danish intelligence to classify island as No 1 security risk. 'A power game is unfolding between great powers,' spy service chief says.

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London Bridge hero is actually a murderer on day release who slit a woman’s throat in 2003

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Boris Johnson under pressure to explain why a convicted terrorist was released early to commit London bridge attack

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Delhi Police accused of imposing 'girly' stereotypes with pink scooters and helmets. ‘Just because they are women officers, one should not give them vehicles that are girly in colour. This is contrary to the spirit of the uniform,’ says retired officer.

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Daily Mail owner buys the i newspaper for £49.6m - The deal immediately prompted the ire of the Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who tweeted his dismay at the UK national newspaper industry becoming increasingly controlled by “two billionaire press barons”.

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Black Friday Protests Across Europe Demand Amazon 'Start Treating Workers Like Humans—Not Robots' | "Workers are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious, and being taken away in ambulances."

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Backlash grows over sale of .org domain registry to private equity firm

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Anti-vaxx epidemic: Samoa buries its children as measles outbreak worsens. Four years ago, roughly 85% of one-year-olds were vaccinated, by 2018 only 31% of children under five had been vaccinated.

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Police overstepped when arresting woman for not holding escalator handrail, Supreme Court rules

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Boris Johnson 'threatens to review Channel 4’s public service licence' amid row over ice sculptures: Climate debate snub comes amid Labour claims that PM is ducking questioning from Andrew Neil

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Trump is entering another NATO summit all alone, with even his ally Boris Johnson telling him to back off and keep quiet

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DC Comics deletes Batman poster after China claims it’s pro-Hong Kong

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London Bridge attacker already convicted of an Islamist terrorism-related offense: report

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson brands working class men 'drunk, criminal and feckless' in vile sneers

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David Attenborough brands Boris Johnson ‘shameful’ for skipping climate change TV debate

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An attacker is on the loose after three people were stabbed in The Hague, the Netherlands which was packed with shoppers for Black Friday

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Wary of China, Germany plans rapid state intervention to protect key industries - Reuters

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Brazil’s president blames Leonardo DiCaprio amid Amazon fires

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Boris Johnson refuses to say how many children he has

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Black Friday sales contribute to waste and overconsumption, a group of French lawmakers have said, arguing that the annual retail extravaganza should be banned.

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Canadian politician breaks silence: China detained me, is interfering ‘in our democracy’ - Veteran Chinese-Canadian politician reveals authorities at Shanghai airport in 2015 accused him of “endangering national security” before cancelling visa and ordering him to fly back to Canada

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11/29/2019

Borneo is burning. How the world’s demand for palm oil is driving deforestation in Indonesia.

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Italian police raid homes of 19 pro-Nazi party members

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BBC News: London Bridge sealed off after reports of gunfire

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Critically endangered Sumatran orangutan found alive after being shot 24 times. Just a few thousand individuals remain in northern Sumatra, as palm oil plantations have decimated habitat.

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Farmer Paints Dog to Look Like Tiger to Scare Away Raiding Monkeys in Karnataka

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Ridicule and disbelief as Boris Johnson insists he's never told a single lie in his whole political career - 'He was sacked twice for lying. So when he says he has never lied, he’s literally lying,' says Liberal Democrat Jo Swinson

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Vancouver hikes empty homes tax by 25 per cent - Since the empty homes tax was launched in the 2016, city hall has collected nearly $40 million in tax revenue to fund several affordable housing initiatives.

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Black Friday protesters shut down Amazon warehouse in protest at global mega-sale claiming it ‘harms the planet'

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Deutsche Bank exec who agreed Trump loans commits suicide

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Trump impeachment: White House 'can't find any record' of call which president insists exonerates him. US leader facing potential impeachment trial over alleged pressure campaign against Ukraine.

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Europeans fear climate change more than terrorism, unemployment or migration

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TikTok, Huawei helping China's campaign to repress Uighurs: report

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Thousands in Hong Kong celebrate at ‘Thanksgiving’ rally after US legislation backs supporters

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‘Generation Greta’ - Angry youths put heat on climate talks: 'Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of mostly young people are expected to rally in cities around the world Friday to demand that governments step up their efforts to curb climate change'

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UK force leaders want Prince Andrew stripped of military titles

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Ukraine condemns Apple for calling Crimea part of Russia in its apps

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Hong Kong protesters throw red, white and blue bash to celebrate US support

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Italy uncovers plot to create new Nazi party

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Boris Johnson to be replaced with melting ice sculpture after dodging climate change TV debate | Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage will be represented in Thursday’s televised debate on climate change by melting ice sculptures, after both leaders decided not to show up

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China furious, Hong Kong celebrates after US move on bills (also, they're calling it a “'Thanksgiving Day' rally”)

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Trump admin appoints man who suggested dropping nuclear bombs on Afghanistan to senior role in arms control: Recordings show senior official promoted far-right conspiracy theories

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President Donald Trump says he’s moving ahead with plans to formally designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.

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DC Comics Under Fire for Deleting Batman Poster After Chinese Backlash – Variety

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Chinese media calls Hong Kong protesters' push for democracy a "pipe dream," slamming U.S. "interference"

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11/28/2019

European Parliament declares climate emergency

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'Men too': Nigeria moves to recognise males as rape victims - "This definition is particularly grievous because it perpetuates the socio-cultural belief that men do not need to consent to sexual acts. In addition, we must ensure that our laws and jurisprudence evolve with the rest of the world."

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Queensland to outlaw 'appalling' gay conversion therapy - Penalties will be higher where the person receiving conversion therapy is vulnerable, such as a child, and will apply to all health professionals, registered or otherwise, and organisations.

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Revealed: Tory candidates issued with attack manuals on how to smear rivals

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'They Should be Mutilated and Cut': Iran Cleric Says the Quran Justifies Torturing and Killing Protesters

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Israeli bulldozers killed a man as they demolished Palestinian homes in the West Bank

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EU ministers to vote on move to expose firms' tax avoidance - European government ministers will vote on Thursday on a new directive that would require multinational companies to reveal how much profit they make and how little tax they pay in each of the EU’s 28 member states.

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Pope Francis: 'There is corruption in the Vatican' - Pope Francis admitted there is financial corruption in the Vatican, describing it as a "scandal" on Tuesday. The pope's statement marked the first time he has acknowledged corruption in Vatican finances.

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Korean Go master quits the game because AI 'cannot be defeated'

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Apple 'doesn't give a damn,' marks Crimea as part of Russia on Apple Maps

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Trump invited to attend impeachment hearing or 'stop complaining'

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China warns U.S. of retaliation over Hong Kong law as police enter ruined university

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Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists | More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now "active", a group of leading scientists have warned. This "cascade" of changes sparked by global warming could threaten the existence of human civilisations

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TikTok apologizes for suspending account of viral teen denouncing China

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China accuses US of 'sinister intentions' after Trump signs bills supporting Hong Kong protesters

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China’s ambassador to Germany has lashed out at German politicians for expressing support for Hong Kong protesters, calling a September meeting in Berlin between German lawmakers and Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong “a direct provocation” of Beijing’s ire.

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Chinese Yuan Weakens After Donald Trump Signs Hong Kong Bill

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Trump signs bill backing Hong Kong protesters into law, in spite of Beijing's objections

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The exiled leader of China’s minority Muslim Uighurs is pressing countries to cut trade links with Beijing, saying the time for business as usual is over.

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Trump administration to cut its financial contribution to NATO

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Arctic to be ‘functionally ice-free’ in the next 50 years, study says | If the Earth continues at its current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, Arctic sea ice would regress to levels not high enough to perform its function of reflecting heat — levels that can be reached as early as September 2044

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Trump contradicts testimony -- and himself -- by claiming he never directed Giuliani on Ukraine

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Hello! We are two reporters, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Scilla Alecci, who worked on ICIJ’s China Cables investigation into the mass detention and surveillance of minorities in Xinjiang. We're here to answer your questions about the investigation and what we found!

Bethany was the lead reporter on ICIJ’s China Cables and has been covering China for 5+ years from Washington, D.C. I also spent four years in China and speak/read Chinese. You can see her on Twitter here.Scilla is ICIJ's Asian partnership coordinator, reporter and video journalist. She also worked on the China Cables investigation, as well as all of ICIJ's recent investigations - including the Panama Papers. Scilla in on Twitter here.

Our community engagement editor, Amy, might also jump in and help!

If you have no idea what the China Cables is then you can find all our reporting here. We published the six documents at the heart of the investigation too – in their original language and in English!

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Giuliani was in talks to be paid by Ukraine’s top prosecutor as they together sought damaging information on Democrats

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11/27/2019

China is warning Europe not to launch a “carbon border tax”, which would probably raise the price of Chinese goods in Europe - China says CO2 border tax will damage global climate change fight

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U.S. President Donald Trump poses one of the biggest challenges for the European Union because he is "praying" for the breakup of the bloc, European Council President Donald Tusk said. Trump has welcomed Britain's decision to leave the EU, labeling Europe a trade "foe"

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Apple changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands

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Trump Knew There Was a Whistleblower When He Suddenly Released Military Aid to Ukraine

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Jeremy Clarkson Labels Greta Thunberg An 'Idiot' And Blames Her For 'Killing' The Car Show: It is not the first time The Grand Tour host has hit out at the 16-year-old climate activist.

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Facebook’s only Dutch factchecker has quit over the social network’s refusal to allow them to highlight political lies as being false. “What is the point of fighting fake news if you are not allowed to tackle politicians?” Hoekman asked.

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Protester shot dead by security forces raising the death toll to at least 350 people and around 15,000 wounded since the protests broke out on October 1 in Baghdad

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Corbyn reveals secret documents that 'confirm Tories plot to sell off NHS in US trade talks with Trump'

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Boris Johnson said that Islamophobia is a 'natural reaction' to Islam and that 'Islam is the problem'

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UK: Record number of people register to vote on deadline day after huge last-minute spike

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Family of Harry Dunn accuse US and UK authorities of treating them 'like dirt on bottom of shoe': "Anne Sacoolas should never have been allowed to leave and you robbed us of our right to seek justice."

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The UN all but admits we will probably pass the 1.5°C point of no return | Despite commitments to improve from most high-emitting countries, emissions have risen 1.5% every year for the last several years. Right now, we are on track for a world that is 3.2°C warmer than pre-industrial levels by 2100

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Hundreds back on Hong Kong streets for lunchtime anti-government protests

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‘Men Too’ — bill seeking to recognise males as rape victims passes second reading at senate in Nigeria - TheCable

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'Suspension won't silence me': Teen speaks out after embedding message about Xinjiang Uyghurs in TikTok make-up vid

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Samoa makes measles vaccinations compulsory after outbreak kills 32

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Trump Denies Giuliani Acted on His Behalf in Ukraine: ‘Rudy Has Other Clients’

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Grisly Footage Reveals What Iran's Regime Did to Protesters When the Internet Was Shut Down

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Top Muslim Group Calls For U.S. Boycott Of 2022 Winter Olympics In Beijing | The Chinese government’s “ethnic genocide” against the Muslim Uighur population is disqualifying, according to Emgage.

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Prince Andrew latest: William instrumental in decision to strip uncle of royal duties

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Trump administration officially put hold on Ukraine aid same day as Trump call

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Girl goes viral on China owned TikTok for calling Muslim camps a second Holocaust

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Palestinians burned effigies of US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, as thousands protested against a shift in US policy on Israeli settlements

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Money laundering, conspiracy to defraud U.S. reportedly among charges under consideration in investigation related to Giuliani

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11/26/2019

One million Chinese Muslims are believed to have been sent to “re-education” schools in the region of Xinjiang over the past 3 years. The “students” are interred in highly-secure, prison-like facilities with double-locked doors and surveilled 24 hours a day.

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Chinese urged to 'beat to death' Edinburgh Uni student who supported Hong Kong

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Former chess champion Garry Kasparov says Tucker Carlson is a "buffoon" over Ukraine conflict comments

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Boris Johnson's Conservative Party election campaign funded by wife of former Putin ally

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Turkey's Erdogan Is 'Thumbing His Nose at Trump' by Testing Russian Weapons and Attacking Kurds, Senator Says

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‘Are We Going To Talk About It?’ Australians Wonder When Climate Change Will Come Up | Six people have died and a thousand koalas were burned alive in unprecedented wildfires, but Australia’s leader has refused to talk about climate change.

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Survey of 167 countries shows tolerance toward LGBT people rising globally

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WeChat users in the US say the app is censoring their messages about Hong Kong

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WADA committee recommends wiping Russia from the sporting map for four years due to doping cover-up

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China Cables: Germany under pressure to respond to Beijing's Uighur internment - Observers are now calling on Germany, and those of its multinationals connected to companies complicit in the internment, to take action against China, Berlin's most important economic partner.

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Hong Kong elections: Chinese media attempt to downplay results - Reaction from state media outlets has ranged from making no reference at all to election results to overt claims that "tampering" had taken place.

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'Mobilisation on World War Two scale required to achieve climate targets'

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'What has happened to me': manga depicting Uighur torture hits 2.5m views - A manga depicting the plight of an Uighur woman who was detained and tortured in China has clocked up millions of views and spawned versions in several languages.

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“Presidents Are Not Kings”: Federal Judge Destroys Trump's “Absolute Immunity” Defense Against Impeachment: Trump admin's claim that WH aides don't have to comply with congressional subpoenas is “a fiction” that “simply has no basis in the law,” judge ruled.

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China can shut off the Philippines' power grid at any time, leaked report warns

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80% of Russia's Female Murder Convicts Were Defending Themselves From Domestic Violence

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Jeff Bezos makes $98.5 million donation, UK leader calls him out: 'Just pay your taxes'

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Wildly incriminating emails show the White House knew Trump was extorting Ukraine: Staff, including Mick Mulvaney, scrambled to justify the hold on nearly $400 million in aid in exchange for investigations.

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Toshiba says its device tests for 13 cancer types with 99% accuracy from a single drop of blood

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Trump biographer says president's "lying" over Ukraine scandal is on a whole other scale: "All of it is a lie"

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BBC admits 'mistake' in editing out laughter at Johnson in TV debate

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Man buys Hitler's top hat and Nazi memorabilia for £513,000 and donates it all to a Jewish organisation

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"China Cables" expose the technological inner workings of the "largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority since World War II."

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Donald Trump Jr makes ‘ignorant’ joke about people with HIV: Comment by eldest son of US president comes a week before World Aids Day

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11/25/2019

Germany calls for UN access to Chinese detention camps

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'Everything Is Not Fine': Nobel Economist Calls on Humanity to End Obsession With GDP. "If we measure the wrong thing," warns Joseph Stiglitz, "we will do the wrong thing."

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UK Tory candidate gets friend to pose as 'fake swing voter' as party's disinformation campaign continues:Lee Anderson, who is standing for the Tories in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire,forgot he was wearing a live microphone while he phoned his friend to set up the fake encounter to impress a journalist

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Report: Lev Parnas Handed Over Tapes of Trump and Giuliani to the House Intelligence Committee

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China issues warning over Hong Kong after election blow: ‘... emphasise that the city will always be ruled from Beijing, and warning against further protest violence.’

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Boris Johnson was photographed with a suspected Russian spy who called him a 'good friend'

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Calls for man who killed 420 wedge-tailed eagles to face charges under Australian wildlife act - Scale of killings so great that long-term-impact on eagle population is unknown, conservation groups say

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China issues stern response to landslide victory of Hong Kong pro-democracy forces. For months, Hong Kong protesters have been demanding that China loosens its grip on the former British colony.

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A German state museum with one of the biggest collection of baroque treasures in Europe has been robbed, with losses reported of up to a billion euros. The Green Vault at Dresden Royal Palace, which is home to about 4,000 precious objects made of ivory, gold, silver and jewels, was broken into.

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Hong Kong elections: Carrie Lam vows to 'seriously reflect' after crushing defeat in polls. Pro-democracy parties win almost 390 of available 452 seats in district council elections.

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Trump impeachment: Whistleblower won't testify because 'president put his life at risk'

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Japan stresses to China importance of free, open Hong Kong

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Taiwan ruling party says China 'enemy of democracy' after meddling allegations

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Australia is investigating claims that China paid $1 million to try and plant a Chinese politician into parliament

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Tim Berners-Lee, the British engineer credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, unveils plan to save the internet. His plan aims to halt abuse of the internet by governments, companies and individuals and addresses problems like misinformation, data surveillance and censorship.

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Julian Assange's health is so bad he 'could die in prison', say 60 doctors

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Hong Kong: Opposition wins almost 90 percent of DC seats

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Prince Andrew 'secretly met' Ghislaine Maxwell inside Buckingham Palace

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Queen cancels Prince Andrew's 60th birthday party

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Tory pledge to recruit 50,000 new nurses exposed as ‘fake’ after Boris Johnson unveils manifesto

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Hong Kong elections: at least seven pro-Beijing lawmakers lose district council seats

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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.

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Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps - BBC News

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Early results of Hong Kong election suggest landslide win for pro-democracy camp

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11/24/2019

More Than 800 Scholars and Activists Sign Open Letter Demanding US End Support for Bolivia's Right-Wing Coup Regime

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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."

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BBC caught up in another editing scandal, accused of editing audience reactions to show them clapping rather than laughing at Prime Minister Boris Johnson

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Chinese-Australian man was approached to become a secret agent and run for the Chinese Communist Party for federal parliament as a candidate for the governing Liberal Party. Instead he told Australia's spy agency. He was later found dead in a hotel room, at only 32 years of age

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Is this the end of the compulsory hijab in Iran? Minister offers to hold referendum on veils as female protesters tear them off and chant ‘our rights can‘t be decided by others‘

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Tunisia becomes first Arab country to introduce sex education in schools

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'Unheard of in civilised countries’: Top medical journal blasts Hong Kong police for treatment of medics at Polytechnic University

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The U.S. national security adviser urged Canada on Saturday not to use Huawei 5G technology, saying that doing so would put in jeopardy intelligence sharing with the United States and expose Canadians to being profiled by the Chinese government.

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The UK’s intelligence agencies were aware that Donald Trump may have been compromised by the Kremlin but Theresa May’s government – including then-foreign secretary Boris Johnson – chose not to pursue the matter for fear of offending the US president, a new book claims.

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UK 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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100 far-right protesters confronted by 5,000 counter demonstrators in Germany.

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Hong Kong voters out in record numbers after nearly six months of protests

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Trump doesn't think he'll be impeached, continues to push 'Ukraine server' conspiracy: Trump promotes debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after Fiona Hill called it a "fictional narrative" and said it played into Russia's hands.

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Top House Democrat Says Nunes Will ‘Quite Likely, Without Question’ Face Investigation

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New documents ‘further implicate’ Mike Pompeo in Trump and Giuliani’s Ukraine scheme: New York Times

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China warns of ‘very bad damage’ if Canada follows U.S. lead on Hong Kong

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'Very disturbing': People dressed in Nazi uniforms confront shoppers at supermarket

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Mystery grows over Trump administration hold on Lebanon aid

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Russian Wagner mercenaries are exposed for filming horrifying video of Syrian prisoner being beaten with sledgehammers and beheaded

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Thousands protest in Paris against domestic violence after 130 women reported killed | France has among the highest rates of domestic violence in Europe.

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China envoy warns of 'very bad damage' if Canada follows U.S. lead on Hong Kong - Reuters

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Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat

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Two Russian spies were arrested in Catalonia carrying a grenade

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Report: Sacklers using fake doctors, false marketing to sell Oxycontin in China

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11/23/2019

‘Everything Is Connected’: Ukrainian Gas Company’s CEO Willing to Testify Against Rudy Giuliani

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Ottawa should keep quiet about Hong Kong, China’s new ambassador to Canada says

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Iranian officials 'stealing bodies' from morgues to hide true scale of government crackdown

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Unprecedented 'Architecture of Surveillance' Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Amnesty International Report

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Japan School Lunches Rated Most Nutritious Among Developed Nations

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23 dead as violent unrest in Chile enters fifth week

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The UK has been called an illegal colonial occupier by Mauritius after it ignored a deadline to return control of an overseas territory to the island nation.

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34,000 Indians died in Gulf in five years. On an average, 15 Indian immigrants die every day in six countries — Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — in the Gulf.

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"We cannot continue to live like this": Mass protests in Colombia latest in Latin American uprising. "What happened in Chile sent a forceful message."

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'This is Bermuda Triangle stuff': Boris Johnson heckled by Question Time audience as he dodges questions on Russia report - Audience member shouts 'That's not true' as prime minister claims he could not publish

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Chinese spy Wang Liqiang alleges Beijing ordered overseas murders, including in Australia

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Facebook 'would have allowed Hitler to buy ads' -- The International Committee on Disinformation and Fake News was told that the business model adopted by social networks made "manipulation profitable".

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Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden

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Canadian law firm is spearheading a $500 million class-action lawsuit against various Roundup makers, including pharmaceutical company Bayer, the owner of Roundup maker Monsanto.

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Trump Administration Withholding Over $100 Million of Military Aid to Lebanon

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Ex-CIA officer sentenced to 19 years in prison for conspiring to spy for China

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Estonia Demands ‘Annexed’ Territory Back From Russia

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Trump said U.S. is "getting raped" by NATO, has pushed to exit alliance according to White House insider

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Defecting Chinese spy offers information trove to Australian government

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Coal Knew Too: Explosive Report Shows Industry Was Aware of Climate Threat as Far Back as 1966

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Hit South Korean boy band BTS will not be given exemption from mandatory military service, the defense ministry has said, reaffirming its policy of no exceptions for pop stars.

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Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

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Trump openly admitted on live TV to doing the thing he's accused of in the impeachment inquiry: Trump admitted to holding up military aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate a baseless conspiracy that it interfered in the 2016 election.

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President Trump: "If it weren't for me, Hong Kong would've been obliterated in 14 minutes" by China

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11/22/2019

The Trump Administration Gutted the Staff Overseeing $1 Billion in Aid to Iraq. A Watchdog Is Raising Red Flags.

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A team of medical experts on Friday slammed the arrests of doctors, nurses and first-aiders who emerged from Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Sunday evening, saying they were carrying the proper identification but were still cuffed with zip-ties and made to “sit like terrorists”

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Hong Kong residents have become distracted this week by fears of dioxin poisoning, as worry grows about the effects of about 10,000 rounds of tear gas fired across the financial hub over more than five months of anti-government protests.

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Trump's child separation policy "absolutely" violated international law says UN expert. "I'm deeply convinced that these are violations of international law."

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A Russian-speaking man who filmed the torture and killing of a prisoner in Syria has been identified as a member of Wagner, a Russian private military company with ties to the Kremlin that has aggressively expanded into the Middle East and Africa in recent years.

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Doug Ford Says He's 'So Proud' Of Green Energy Cancellations That Cost $231M: Ontario Premier Ford says $231M to cancel green energy contracts is not a waste of taxpayers’ money. One of the projects had been in development for 10 years when it was cancelled. 9 wind turbines are now being dismantled.

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China is seeking to "take over" Australia's political system with an "insidious" and systematic campaign of espionage and influence-peddling, Canberra's ex-spymaster said in an interview published Friday

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Bankers Say Hong Kong's Rich Are Planning Escape Routes for Their Cash

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Prince Andrew is advised not to fly to America 'in case he is unable to return' as he confirms he will speak to FBI and Buckingham Palace 'braces for subpoena'

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Vandalism on the rise at Japanese shrines, as Chinese tourists deface pro-Hong Kong prayer messages

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Boris Johnson's Conservative Party election campaign funded by wife of former Putin ally

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Trump impeachment hearings: Fiona Hill slams Republicans for promoting ‘fictional narrative’ of Ukrainian election meddling - The Globe and Mail

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