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'Pandemic' chosen as Word of the Year

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The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website, after a year in which at least 1.4 million people globally have died from the Covid-19 pandemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Jq7dtD December 01, 2020 at 10:27AM

Syria graduate docs to battle Covid in rebel hub

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Humanitarian workers fear any further rise in novel coronavirus cases would be disastrous in northwestern Syria, where around half of three million people live in overcrowded camps or temporary shelters after being displaced by conflict. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Jvyg6O December 01, 2020 at 09:55AM

US capital may end weekend subway service in 2021

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The subway system serving the U.S. capital region may be forced to make devastating cuts in 2021, including ending weekend services, closing 19 stations and shrinking weekday operations if Congress does not approve additional assistance. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36qos6Y December 01, 2020 at 09:27AM

Petrol bombs hurled at Hong Kong police club

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Police said they received a report of three men dressed in black hurling Molotov cocktails into the car park of the Police Sports and Recreation Club in Mongkok, a district that saw many clashes during last year's huge democracy protests. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fSIc6m December 01, 2020 at 08:46AM

Scott Atlas quits as special adviser to Trump on Covid

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Public health experts, including Anthony Fauci, the leading US infectious disease expert, have sharply criticized Atlas, a neuroradiologist, for providing Trump with misleading or incorrect information on the virus pandemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qhLWmM December 01, 2020 at 08:26AM

Top secret: Biden gets access to President's Daily Brief

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From now until Inauguration Day, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be reading the President's Daily Brief crafted for Trump, who had delayed giving Biden and Harris access to it as he contests the outcome of the election. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fWN4aH December 01, 2020 at 08:04AM

Will request US, Europe vaccine authorization Monday: Moderna

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fSWOTA November 30, 2020 at 05:57PM

Israel remotely killed nuclear scientist: Iran

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Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council, made the comment at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, where Iran's defense minister separately vowed to continue the man's work "with more speed and more power." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o51pov November 30, 2020 at 04:13PM

Iran holds funeral for slain nuclear scientist

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State television showed several high-ranking Iranian officials, including Defence Minister Amir Hatami and Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami, at the funeral of Fakhrizadeh, whose coffin was covered in the Iranian flag. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33vjUdX November 30, 2020 at 01:05PM

French police charged over black man's beating

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Four French police officers have been charged in connection to the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer, a judicial source said Monday, days after the incident in Paris that intensified controversy over a new security law. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36kCHu5 November 30, 2020 at 11:16AM

In first for Oz, PM speaks to parliament on video link

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While not the first such session by a world leader, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson having addressed parliament online, Morrison spoke to Australian lawmakers on a big screen television placed at the back of the House of Representatives. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2VeZ7Xg November 30, 2020 at 10:50AM

Americans brace for Covid 'surge upon a surge'

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America should prepare for a "surge upon a surge" in coronavirus cases as millions of travelers return home after the Thanksgiving holiday, top US scientist Anthony Fauci warned Sunday. ​​The United States is the world's worst-affected country, with 266,831 Covid-19 deaths, and President Donald Trump's administration has issued conflicting messages on mask-wearing, travel and the danger posed by the virus. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Vg7IsP November 30, 2020 at 10:51AM

Mysterious silver monolith disappears from Utah desert

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A mysterious silver monolith that was placed in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep, federal officials and witnesses said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mk7YD2 November 30, 2020 at 10:16AM

Oz demands apology from China over fake image on Twitter

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Morrison said Australia was seeking the removal of the "truly repugnant" image posted on Monday by Zhao Lijian, a spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Vj1ZCJ November 30, 2020 at 08:34AM

Volcano in eastern Indonesia erupts, thousands evacuated

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qkwYwD November 30, 2020 at 09:40AM

'Global Covid cases top 62.6 million mark'

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39sHrjd November 30, 2020 at 09:07AM

Losses for Bolsonaro, wins for center-right in polls

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/37iDMC1 November 30, 2020 at 09:15AM

Arab Spring: the first smartphone revolution

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Social media and smartphones briefly gave youthful Arab Spring protesters a technological edge that allowed them to topple ageing dictatorships as their revolutionary spirit went viral. Regimes across North Africa and the Middle East were caught flat-footed a decade ago as the fervour of the popular uprisings spread at the speed of the internet via Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36hUhPy November 30, 2020 at 08:52AM

New Zealand watchdog lays charges over volcano deaths

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The regulator WorkSafe examined why 47 people, mainly Australian tourists, were on the island in December 2019 when a column of burning ash and steam blasted from a volcanic vent. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fMq7Hj November 30, 2020 at 08:56AM

A second wave of Mideast protests

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The countries swept up by the latest revolts had initially stood on the sidelines as a contagion of uprisings gripped Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen in 2011. But in 2019 they led calls for an end to the same regional economic precariousness, corruption, and unresponsive governance that fuelled the Arab protests years earlier. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o7GLEi November 30, 2020 at 08:40AM

Sri Lankan prison riot :6 inmates dead, 35 injured

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Six inmates were killed and 35 others were injured when guards opened fire to control a riot at a prison on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital, officials said Monday. Two guards were critically injured, they said. Pandemic-related unrest has been growing in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons. Inmates have staged protests in recent weeks at several prisons as the number of coronavirus cases surges in the facilities. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o8zkMS November 30, 2020 at 08:36AM

How the Arab uprisings weakened by online fakes

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When Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country in January 2011, rumours and uncertainty created "panic and hysteria", said ex-activist and entrepreneur Houeida Anouar. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3li6bwZ November 30, 2020 at 08:47AM

Biden fractures foot while playing with dog, to wear a boot

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President-elect Joe Biden fractured his right foot while playing with one of his dogs, an injury discovered in a scan Sunday and that will likely require him to wear a boot for several weeks, his doctor said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3lkfnRI November 30, 2020 at 07:51AM

US Covid cases top 4 million in November, doubling the record set in October

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33nPUk7 November 30, 2020 at 05:15AM

Pakistan PM Imran Khan visits ISI headquarters

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mnMHs4 November 29, 2020 at 11:07PM

Republicans turn to Biden transition as Trump's legal options dwindle

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qeiz4I November 29, 2020 at 10:15PM

Crackdown against opposition ahead of PDM rally in Pakistan's Multan

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/37e5C2i November 29, 2020 at 09:28PM

Muslims in Nepal hold anti-China protest demanding justice for Uyghurs

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3lnAcvo November 29, 2020 at 08:22PM

Pope, with new cardinals, warns church against mediocrity

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3liopi1 November 29, 2020 at 06:13PM

Chinese defence minister in Nepal to bolster military cooperation

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o44gOq November 29, 2020 at 03:52PM

Raab says next week will be very significant for Brexit deal

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2VcCD9k November 29, 2020 at 03:41PM

Suspected extremists kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria

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The attack was staged Saturday in a rice field in Garin Kwashebe, a Borno community known for rice farming, on the day residents of the state were casting votes for the first time in 13 years to elect local government councils, though many didn't go to cast their ballots. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qcngvR November 29, 2020 at 03:16PM

Mysterious monolith in US desert reportedly disappears

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The Bureau of Land Management in Utah said Saturday it had received "credible reports" that the object had been removed "by an unknown party" on Friday evening. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3q87phX November 29, 2020 at 03:00PM

US reports several explosions heard in Eritrea's capital

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The latest explosions came just hours after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared victory in his government's fighting against forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which runs the northern Tigray region bordering Eritrea. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mdZddL November 29, 2020 at 03:25PM

Iran nuclear scientist's body taken to Muslim shrine

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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a US "mercenary" and killing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh when assailants opened fire at him and his bodyguards near Tehran on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33qxSxr November 29, 2020 at 02:56PM

Afghan officials say 34 killed in separate suicide bombings

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2J8RKyt November 29, 2020 at 12:21PM

Assassination in Iran could limit Biden’s options

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39qsgag November 29, 2020 at 02:33PM

'No pressure from Army', says Imran Khan amid protests

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KLMJw1 November 29, 2020 at 01:43PM

Trump loses another election court challenge

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2HNXj4F November 29, 2020 at 01:34PM

North Korea toughens rules of entry to sea to fight virus

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fKzQxL November 29, 2020 at 12:06PM

UK secures 2 m more doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine

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Britain has secured two million doses of Moderna Inc's Covid-19 vaccine candidate, to be available in Europe as early as the spring, the government said on Sunday, in addition to the 5 million doses it secured from the U.S. company two weeks ago. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33t6fDY November 29, 2020 at 09:51AM

German Xmas markets find ways around virus

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Artificial snow, mulled wine, all-you-can-eat sweets and kitsch music: at the Christmas market in Landshut, southern Germany, the essentials are there, but you have to pick it up by car. As Germany battles a second wave of coronavirus infections, leisure and sporting facilities have been ordered to close while restaurants and bars can only offer takeaways. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33pnRAN November 29, 2020 at 08:52AM

Over 150 arrested in anti-lockdown protests in London

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39ljZ7H November 29, 2020 at 08:31AM

UN calls for restraint after killing of Iranian nuclear scientist

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39uqJAl November 29, 2020 at 12:33AM

Pope appoints first African American cardinal

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2VerSne November 28, 2020 at 11:09PM

Thousands protest as France reels from police violence

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36gcDR2 November 28, 2020 at 09:14PM

Chinese defence minister to visit Nepal on Sunday

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from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KP2S3Z November 28, 2020 at 05:30PM

Israeli embassies on alert after Iran threats

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Israel put its embassies around the world on high alert on Saturday after Iranian threats of retaliation following the killing of a nuclear scientist near Tehran, Israeli N12 news reported on Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36hr1Zj November 28, 2020 at 03:54PM

Imran denies permission for anti-govt rally in Multan

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"The coronavirus is spreading dangerously, therefore the opposition should postpone PDM public meetings," Dawn quoted Khan as saying while talking to spokespersons at the Prime Minister House. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3q7buTC November 28, 2020 at 03:43PM

UK testing error wrongly tells 1,300 people they have virus

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Over 1,300 people in Britain were inaccurately informed they were infected with coronavirus after a laboratory error at the government's NHS Test and Trace system, the Department of Health and Social Care told Reuters on Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39lQq5Z November 28, 2020 at 03:39PM

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