From Britain’s Prince Philip to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, here are some of the most notable deaths of 2021. Phil Spector, who revolutionised 1960s pop music with his “Wall of Sound” but who was jailed for murder in 2009, dies on January 16 aged 81. A week later, Larry King, the braces-sporting US …
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San Francisco’s mayor on Friday declared a state of emergency in a downtown district reeling from a severe spike in fatal drug overdoses driven mainly by fentanyl. The Tenderloin neighborhood, just south of tourist and shopping hotspot Union Square, has emerged as the city’s epicenter of an opioid crisis that has surged across the nation. …
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Europe remains “in the firm grip” of Covid and the continent’s death toll could top 2.2 million this winter if current trends continue, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday. Europe is battling an upsurge in the pandemic that saw Austria return to lockdown this week while Germany and the Netherlands are poised to announce …
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the US teen acquitted after fatally shooting two men during protests and riots against police brutality in Wisconsin last year, said self-defense is “not illegal” after being cleared, as the verdict reverberated across America. On Friday, a jury found the 18-year-old Rittenhouse not guilty of reckless and intentional homicide and other charges stemming …
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the US teen acquitted after fatally shooting two men during protests and riots against police brutality in Wisconsin last year, has defended his actions, saying self-defense is “not illegal,” and hailed the jury for clearing him. On Friday, a jury found the 18-year-old Rittenhouse not guilty of reckless and intentional homicide and other …
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the American teenager who shot dead two men during protests and riots against police brutality in Wisconsin last year, was acquitted of all charges on Friday after a high-profile and politically divisive trial. A jury found Rittenhouse, 18, not guilty of reckless and intentional homicide and other charges stemming from the shootings that …
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the American teenager who shot and killed two men and wounded another during anti-police protests and riots in Wisconsin last year, was acquitted of all charges on Friday. A jury found Rittenhouse, 18, not guilty of reckless and intentional homicide and other charges stemming from the shootings which took place in August 2020 …
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Bulgarians vote Sunday for the third time this year, but there is little hope that the latest general election will finally produce a stable government to fight the country’s deadliest coronavirus wave. Massive anti-graft protests last year have meant a drop in support for conservative Bokyo Borisov, who long headed the poor Balkan nation, which …
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FILE PHOTO: A man waves a Brazilian flag during a protest against new measures implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 26, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo April 9, 2021 By Eduardo Simões and Rodrigo Viga Gaier SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Sao Paulo state and the …
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House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Republican Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania believes he and four colleagues aren’t getting copies of monthly nursing home data because state and federal officials have something to hide. “I don’t know how many times you have to send letters and make requests for data and get no response at all,” …
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