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Senior White House staff to get Covid-19 vaccine soon to ensure ‘continuity of government’

Donald Trump outside the White House after returning from hospital having caught Covid-19 Credit: KEN CEDENO/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Senior White House figures will get the Covid-19...

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US Vogue editor Anna Wintour made chief content officer at Conde Nast

US Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour Credit: ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, has been promoted at Condé Nast, months after...

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Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell calls Joe Biden ‘president-elect’, breaking with Trump

Mitch McConnell is the most senior Republican in the US Senate Credit: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The most senior Republican in the US Senate, Mitch McConnell,...

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Saudi Arabia ‘sent mysterious security team to Norway,’ where critic of Crown Prince lives in exile

Human rights activist, author and blogger Iyad el-Baghdadi says he has received warnings that he is being threatened by Saudi Arabia Credit: AFP/AFP Saudi...

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Retailers under pressure to ban cotton from Uighur, China, after forced labour allegations

Protests against the treatment of China's Uighur Muslim community take place in India Credit: Shutterstock British high street brands including John Lewis are under...

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Boko Haram claims responsibility for kidnapping 300 boys from Nigerian school

Parents gather at the school in Kankara where gunmen abducted students Credit: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more...

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William Barr steps down as Trump’s attorney general

The US attorney general, William Barr, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, has resigned just weeks after he contradicted the president by saying the...

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French kids ‘can skip school’ to let families self-isolate before Christmas as Europe tightens controls

French kids can skip school this Thursday and Friday, the prime minister has confirmed, in bid to avoid Covid Christmas upsurge Credit: ERIC GAILLARD/Reuters...

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Hopping mad: French couple lose marathon court battle to save noisy mating frogs

French couple ordered to drain frog pond to end noisy antics of their grenouilles Credit: Tim Gainey A couple living in southwestern France have...

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Benjamin Netanyahu chooses ‘D’ as new director of Mossad spy agency

File image of the current director of Mossad, whose identity is public knowledge, Yossi Cohen Credit: AFP Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, announced...

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FDA staff approve Moderna vaccine and raise hopes of a second treatment available next week

Moderna's vaccine was approved by FDA staff in a report published on Tuesday The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff have approved Moderna’s Covid-19...

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Irish lecturers overheard insulting students on video call

The 2020 curse of the video meeting has struck again after two Irish lecturers forgot to switch off their cameras while heaping scorn on...

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Xinjiang: more than half a million forced to pick cotton, report suggests

More than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been coerced into picking cotton, on a scale far greater than...

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Access to EU’s €100bn research fund and Erasmus student exchange at risk after Brussels rejects British ‘pay-as-you-go’ demands

The European Unions Copernicus Earth Observation supports thousands of jobs in the UK space sector Credit: -/AFP The European Union has rejected British demands...

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