Brazil wildfires: Blaze advances across Pantanal wetlands

The area is one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and a popular tourist destination.

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N.B.A. Suspends Joel Embiid and Karl-Anthony Towns 2 Games for Fighting

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See the Paperwork: Trump Changes Residence to Florida

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Trump, Lifelong New Yorker, Declares Himself a Resident of Florida

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Tyson Fury beats Braun Strowman at WWE Crown Jewel match - BBC News

1. Tyson Fury beats Braun Strowman at WWE Crown Jewel match  BBC News
2. Tyson Fury makes WWE debut at Crown Jewel event recap  Sky Sports
3. Natayla has bottle thrown at her as WWE stage historic women’s match in Saudi Arabia  Express
4. Saudi Arabia hosts its first WWE women's wrestling match  BBC News
5. WWE Raw, Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble - News, Tickets  Sky Sports
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11 Malware Attacks That Nearly Wrecked the Internet

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Moment policeman was blinded and catastrophically injured in horror attack - Manchester Evening News

1. Moment policeman was blinded and catastrophically injured in horror attack  Manchester Evening News
2. Man who partially blinded police officer with ammonia jailed for 14 years  The Independent
3. Man who blinded police officer with ammonia jailed  BBC News
4. Jail for thug who attacked a police officer with ammonia  ITV News
5. Hero cop blinded in ammonia attack ‘thought he would DIE’ when thug sprayed toxic liquid in his face  The Sun
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Narcissists 'horrible people but happy' - BBC News

1. Narcissists 'horrible people but happy'  BBC News
2. Narcissistic People Less Likely to Suffer From Depression  News18
3. Did you know those narcissists are found to be mentally tougher than others?  The Asian Age
4. Narcissists are happier than the rest of us (after all, it's all about them)  The Times
5. Narcissists less likely to experience stress or depression, study claims  The Independent
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Fears for 3,000 jobs at Vauxhall's two UK plants over merger plans - Daily Mail

1. Fears for 3,000 jobs at Vauxhall's two UK plants over merger plans  Daily Mail
2. Vauxhall fears after car giants Fiat and PSA announce merger  BBC News
3. Despite the roadblocks, this Fiat deal could be a runner  The Times
4. Tavares could be a strength – and a weakness – of an FCA-PSA merger  Automotive News Europe
5. Billionaire Agnellis Grab a Massive Sweetener  Bloomberg
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On the inside of a hacking catastrophe

A massive data breach can cause chaos within a company and put IT staff under extreme stress.

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'Cowardly' Boris Johnson booed in Cambridge hospital trip - The Guardian

1. 'Cowardly' Boris Johnson booed in Cambridge hospital trip  The Guardian
2. Angry medical student confronts Boris Johnson for his 'PR stunt' hospital visit  Mirror Online
3. Julian Smith takes questions on Northern Ireland - watch live  Guardian News
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Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy

"Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions," Gabbard wrote.

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Granit Xhaka explains anger at Arsenal fans who booed him - Sky Sports

1. Granit Xhaka explains anger at Arsenal fans who booed him  Sky Sports
2. There are many who should be saying sorry – but Xhaka is not one of them  The Guardian
3. Granit Xhaka issues statement to Arsenal fans over clash during Crystal Palace draw  Mirror Online
4. Arsenal news: Granit Xhaka apologises to fans after telling them to 'f*** off'  Daily Mail
5. Granit Xhaka says Arsenal fans’ rejection pushed him to ‘boiling point’  The Guardian
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Labour won't win economic credibility by attacking easy targets - The Guardian

1. Labour won't win economic credibility by attacking easy targets  The Guardian
2. Business leaders hit back at Jeremy Corbyn after campaign speech attack  Telegraph.co.uk
3. Mike Ashley hits back at Jeremy Corbyn as ‘a liar and clueless’  Financial Times
4. Corbyn's super-rich targets: who are they and what could he do?  The Guardian
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Why My Chemical Romance's Return Is The Good News That Rock Music In 2019 Needed - Kerrang!

1. Why My Chemical Romance's Return Is The Good News That Rock Music In 2019 Needed  Kerrang!
2. My Chemical Romance Are BACK! - News  ROCKSOUND.TV
3. Like Phantoms Forever: My Chemical Romance announce reunion gig  NME Live
4. My Chemical Romance Reunite For First Gig Since 2012  Kerrang!
5. Hold On - My Chemical Romance Are Teasing Something  ROCKSOUND.TV
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Leon Cooperman Says Elizabeth Warren Ignores Charity Efforts in Vilifying Rich

(Bloomberg) -- Leon Cooperman called out Elizabeth Warren for ignoring the charitable and societal contributions made by America’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, escalating his war of words with the Democratic presidential candidate.“However much it resonates with your base, your vilification of the rich is misguided, ignoring, among other things, the sources of their wealth and the substantial contributions to society which they already, unprompted by you, make,” Cooperman, the son of an immigrant plumber, said in an open letter dated Oct. 30.The billionaire, who bootstrapped his way from the South Bronx to become one of the deans of the hedge fund industry, wrote the letter in a response to an Oct. 23 tweet by Warren that said he should “pitch in a bit more” so that others have a chance to succeed at the American dream.Read the full letter here.Warren singled Cooperman out after the investor told Politico that while he believed in progressive taxation, he has fundamental disagreements with her approach. In his response, he details his philanthropic efforts and those of other billionaires, quotes Internal Revenue Service data on the higher tax burden of bigger earners, and cites experts who question the feasibility of Warren’s proposed wealth tax, her main means of raising money for the ambitious spending programs she supports.He closes by asking Warren to “find common ground” rather than “firing off snarky tweets.”Cooperman is not a prolific political donor, and he has mostly given to Republicans. In 2016, he supported the presidential campaigns of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. He also gave $1,000 to Hillary Clinton that January, but her campaign refunded the donation the following month, Federal Election Commission records show.To contact the reporters on this story: Katia Porzecanski in New York at kporzecansk1@bloomberg.net;Bill Allison in Washington at ballison14@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Alan Mirabella at amirabella@bloomberg.net, Josh FriedmanFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires

Animal team charged with eating through 13 acres of scrubland that could have fueled California’s Easy fireGoats are released at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, during a similar crisis in 2012. Photograph: Juan Carlo/APDiligent work by a team of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from wildfires that are ravaging parts of California.The library deployed the goat squadron during the spring in order to munch their way through around 13 acres of scrubland around the library that could’ve provided tinder-like fuel to a wildfire.This preventive action created a fire break between the library and the Easy fire, which has menaced thousands of homes in the Simi Valley near Los Angeles. More than 1,000 firefighters are tackling the blaze, which caused flames to approach the presidential library from a nearby hillside. Treasures saved include a piece of the Berlin Wall and Air Force One.“We actually worked with the Ventura county fire department in May and they bring out hundreds of goats to our property,” Melissa Giller, a spokeswoman for the library, told ABC. “The goats eat all of the brush around the entire property, creating a fire perimeter.”The goats were sourced from a firm called 805 Goats, which oversees an army of horned contractors, including Vincent van Goat, Selena Goatmez, Goatzart and, more prosaically, Oreo. The company charges fire-threatened clients about $1,000 per acre of goat-cleared land. It plans to expand its herd to cope with a growing wildfire threat in California, fueled by the climate crisis.Goats are growing in popularity as a tool to combat wildfires across the western US, as they are viewed as cheaper and more environmentally friendly than teams of human workers using chemicals. They are also used for general weed clearance in other parts of the country, such as in New York City’s Prospect Park.A heavy dependence upon goats does carry risks, however, as residents of West Boise, Idaho, found out to their cost last year when a herd of more than 100 goats rampaged through the neighborhood. The invaders caused carnage in flowerbeds and lawns before breaking a fence and it took two hours for the goats to be rounded up.

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Rebekah Vardy posts Halloween snap after calling Coleen Rooney trolls ‘d***s’ in ongoing row - The Sun

Rebekah Vardy posts Halloween snap after calling Coleen Rooney trolls ‘d***s’ in ongoing row  The SunView full coverage on Google News

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Why your computer, not your smartphone, is the key to big Black Friday purchases - TechRadar

Why your computer, not your smartphone, is the key to big Black Friday purchases  TechRadarView full coverage on Google News

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EXCLUSIVE-Iran intervenes to prevent ousting of Iraqi prime minister -sources

Iran has stepped in to prevent the ouster of Iraqi Prime Minister Abdel Abdul Mahdi by two of Iraq's most influential figures amid weeks of anti-government demonstrations, sources close to both men told Reuters. Populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demanded this week that Abdul Mahdi call an early election to quell the biggest mass protests in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. Sadr had urged his main political rival Hadi al-Amiri, whose alliance of Iran-backed militias is the second-biggest political force in parliament, to help push out Abdul Mahdi.

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Croydon tram crash driver won't be charged over tragedy that left seven dead - Mirror Online

1. Croydon tram crash driver won't be charged over tragedy that left seven dead  Mirror Online
2. Croydon tram crash driver Alfred Dorris will not be prosecuted  BBC News
3. Croydon tram crash driver will not be prosecuted, say police  The Guardian
4. Here is why the Crown Prosecution Service chose not to charge anyone over Croydon tram crash  Your Local Guardian
5. Croydon tram crash: No charges for driver or operator after seven killed  sky.com
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Police say body of British tourist missing in Cambodia found

The body of a British backpacker missing for more than a week in Cambodia was found at sea Thursday about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the island where she disappeared, officials said. The police chief for Preah Sihanouk province, Maj. Gen. Chuon Narin, said the body of 21-year-old Amelia Bambridge was discovered in the Gulf of Thailand northwest of Koh Rong, where she disappeared after attending a beach party on the night of Oct. 23. It was found near another island, Koh Chhlam, close to Cambodia's maritime border with Thailand.

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Jennifer Arcuri: £100k grant was 'appropriate', says government report - The Guardian

1. Jennifer Arcuri: £100k grant was 'appropriate', says government report  The Guardian
2. Government rules £100,000 given to Jennifer Arcuri's company 'appropriate'  BBC News
3. Jennifer Arcuri's firm is CLEARED over £100,000 grant her tech firm  Daily Mail
4. Jennifer Arcuri's £100k grant was 'appropriate', says government review  Sky News
5. 'Whitewash' claim after £100,000 grant awarded to Boris Johnson's friend Jennifer Arcuri deemed 'appropriate'  The Independent
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Workington men hit back at 'stereotypical' think-tank election study - Daily Mail

1. Workington men hit back at 'stereotypical' think-tank election study  Daily Mail
2. General Election: Who is target voter Workington Man?  BBC News
3. Boris Johnson must steal voters from Labour in Northern rugby towns like Workington for General Election  The Sun
4. Workington men hit back at think tank for suggesting they are ‘simple northerners’  Metro.co.uk
5. The usual political rules are history – these are the key questions for this general election  The Independent
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Shuri Castle: Fire engulfs world heritage site in Japan

Shuri Castle, in Okinawa, was built 500 years ago in the Ryukyu Dynasty and is a World Heritage Site.

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Boeing 'doesn't understand our grief'

Zipporah Kuria's father Joseph Waithaka was one of 157 people killed when a Boeing 737 Max crashed in March.

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Breastfeeding suites increasing in popularity in the US

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Liberia's child soldiers: 'I know I killed people'

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Georgia Plans to Purge 300,000 Names From Its Voter Rolls

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Trump judicial nominee breaks down during Senate hearing

Lawrence VanDyke broke down when asked whether he was biased against LGBT people.

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Comedian Kevin Hart shares emotional video after crash

The US comedian shared the video of his recovery after a severe car accident in September.

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Why Are There So Many Fires In California?

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Grieving parents vow to stand by granddad as he’s charged for dropping toddler, 2, from cruise ship w - The Sun

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2. Chloe Wiegand: Grandfather of toddler who fell from cruise ship window is charged with negligent homicide  Sky News
3. Salvatore 'Sam' Anello charged over death of Chloe Wiegand on cruise ship  Daily Mail
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Attacks and celebration as Lebanon PM says he will quit

Supporters of Shia parties attacked protesters and then PM Saad Hariri announced he would resign.

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White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call

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Could Netflix save AMC’s ‘Lodge 49’?

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Penn State hands 1-game suspension to Antonio Shelton, DT who spit on Michigan State player

The Big Ten Conference also publicly reprimanded Shelton and endorsed Penn State's decision to suspend him.

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Michelle Obama on white flight: 'Y'all were running from us'

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Congresswoman's exit prompts question of equity amid scandal

The resignation of a female Democratic congresswoman over a consensual, sexual relationship with a campaign aide has sparked questions about whether women are held to higher standards in public life. At the center of the controversy is Katie Hill, a first-term lawmaker from California and a rising Democratic Party star. In a video released Monday, Hill said she was stepping down because she was "fearful of what might come next" following the online publication of explicit pictures that outed her relationship with a female staffer.

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Trump impeachment: Democrats plan first formal vote - BBC News

1. Trump impeachment: Democrats plan first formal vote  BBC News
2. House to vote on resolution on next steps in impeachment inquiry – live  The Guardian
3. Democrats plan first formal vote on impeachment inquiry procedures  The Telegraph
4. Why Democrats are right to avoid court fights in the impeachment inquiry  The Washington Post
5. Steve Hilton: On Trump impeachment Democrats thought they found their 'smoking gun' -- he fires blanks  Fox News
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Roma Locuta Est, Deal With It

“Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so; how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken? By what external standard could you check its judgements?” — George Orwell, 1984, Part III, Section IVFor the French Communist Alain Badiou, philosophy is merely an elaboration of some great “Event” to which the philosopher is faithful. Badiou’s event was the Cultural Revolution, and the one intellectual on the world stage was Mao Zedong, who Badiou claims “thinks in an almost infinite way.” One can get a flavor of the quality of Badiou’s elaboration of Mao in less than a paragraph of text. Here goes:> We are familiar with Mao Zedong’s formula: “Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: It is right to rebel against the reactionaries.” This phrase, which appears so simple, is at the same time rather mysterious: How is it conceivable that Marx’s enormous theoretical enterprise, with its ceaselessly and scrupulously reworked and recast analyses, can be concentrated in a single maxim: “It is right to rebel against the reactionaries”?All the verbal curlicues of Badiou’s modern French Marxism are really just a mysterious benediction over any word or deed that works revolution. That is why George Orwell’s description of how the Party works in his fictional 1984 is so arresting. Like Mao’s infinities, the Party requires the belief in contradictions. “It was not easy,” Winston says, of quieting the mind.> It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as “two and two make five” were beyond his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.John Henry Newman was canonized a saint a few weeks ago by the Catholic Church. His essay on the development of doctrine laid out stringent criteria by which to judge new expressions by Churchmen. Chief among them, they must not violate the law of non-contradiction. “A true development is that which is conservative of its original, and a corruption is that which tends to its destruction,” he wrote. What would he think today?I often think of Badiou and Mao, and Orwell’s Winston Smith, when I read documents authored by the au courant prelates of my Catholic Church, or apologetics on behalf of the new way of doing things. In 2018, a Canadian priest and Catholic media maven, Fr. Thomas Rosica, wrote that Pope Francis “breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants because he is ‘free from disordered attachments.’” One hears in this the same line about thinking in infinities. It turned out that Fr. Thomas Rosica had plagiarized this effulgent passage from an ex-Catholic turned fundamentalist, and reversed its meaning by doing so. The original author had meant it as a criticism, the latter as flattery. The latter’s use required stupidity and intelligence. On his grave, it should say, He loved Big Jesuit.The recently concluded Synod of the Amazon has been dogged by the principle of contradiction. A scandal broke out about a statuette of a pregnant figure. Some authorities in Rome called it an image of the Blessed Virgin — a veritable Our Lady of the Amazon. Others, including Pope Francis himself, called the statue “Pachama” after the South American fertility goddess. Some activist Catholics, having been told this was an idol of a false god being erected in their Churches, took the statue and threw it into the Tiber. But Francis clarified that the display of the statues was “without blasphemous intent.” There’s a certain athleticism of mind at work.The Synod’s concluding document suggested reopening the question of admitting women to the ordained diaconate and admitting to the priesthood qualified Amazonian men who are married.An editorial in The Tablet champions the Synod and tries to outline a further reforming spirit issuing from it. The editorial writer says that the Second Vatican Council did not accomplish its work chiefly through the documents it issued, but “through the event of bringing bishops across the world into one place, and the spirit of renewal it sought to unleash. The moment was as important as the message.” [Emphasis mine.] It used to be “the spirit of Vatican II,” but in recent texts this is changed to “the event.”The editorial quotes the late Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, that lion of the progressives: “The church is tired in the Europe of well-being and in America. . . . Our culture has become old, our churches and our religious houses are big and empty, the bureaucratic apparatus of the church grows, our rites and our dress are pompous.”But of course, there was nothing — nothing at all — novel or surprising discussed at the Synod, and very little that was particularly Amazonian. It was all the half-century-old preoccupations of liberal European and American clerics: married priests, women in ordained offices, and non-traditional liturgy. The Synod documents, save for some flourishes about ecology, could have been ripped from any 1970s issue of Concilium.The Amazonian Synod itself was a brainchild of an old European, Bishop Kräutler, an advocate of women’s ordination to the priesthood. Though the step toward ordaining married men as priests in the Amazon is justified to the world as meeting the specific needs of one region, in fact Kräutler says it “can be the cause of an epochal step in the Universal Church.” This is of course how revolutions work: Allow an exception in one theoretical case, and then watch as the implementation of this exception obliterates the principle in fact.All the bilious rhetoric about “rigidity” in the Church, all the modern ecclesiastical logorrhea about dialogue, and the burble about “the liturgical, theological, disciplinary and spiritual patrimony of the Amazon” can be distilled back down to the same iconoclastic impulse: The only rule is to revolt against the reactionaries.

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Pelosi announces full House vote on impeachment inquiry

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought Monday to deprive President Trump of a legal and political argument against the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, announcing she would hold a vote in the full House this Thursday that “affirms the ongoing, existing investigation.”

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Man pleads not guilty in deaths of 4 sleeping on NYC streets

A homeless man charged in the beating deaths of four men as they slept on the New York City streets may pursue a mental health-related defense, his lawyer told a judge Monday at his arraignment. Randy Santos, 24, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges during a brief excursion to court from the psychiatric ward, where he has been held since shortly after his arrest in the Oct. 5 killings in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood. Santos appeared in an orange jail suit and gray undershirt with his hands cuffed behind his back and a Spanish interpreter by his side.

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Man whose pregnant wife vanished 20 years ago found guilty of murder - The Independent

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2. Andrew Griggs guilty of murdering pregnant wife in 1999  BBC News
3. Man guilty of murdering pregnant wife who has been missing since 1999  Mirror Online
4. Husband guilty of murdering his pregnant wife 20 years ago after she discovered he was ‘having affair with g  The Sun
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The story behind Delta Force, the unit that carried out the al-Baghdadi raid

While SEAL Team 6 made headlines for the 2011 Osama bin Laden operation in Pakistan, Delta Force, the unit that hunted ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been quietly at the heart of the more recent campaign that destroyed the Islamic State’s physical caliphate.

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iPhone 5 users must upgrade phones or face bad consequences, Apple says - The Independent

1. iPhone 5 users must upgrade phones or face bad consequences, Apple says  The Independent
2. Your old iPhone or iPad could break this week if you don’t update, Apple warns  The Sun
3. Update your iPhone to boost your photographs, add 230 new emoji, fix battery life bugs  Express.co.uk
4. iPhone 5 users risk losing internet access  BBC News
5. Apple urges iPhone 5 owners to update immediately or face dire consequences  Metro.co.uk
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Apple Reveals New AirPods Pro, and They're Available This Week

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39 victims: Families wait for news in UK truck tragedy

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday honored the 39 victims who died in a container as the truck driver made his first court appearance after being charged with manslaughter and conspiracy. Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel traveled to the site in southeastern England to sign a condolence book and place a wreath in remembrance of the victims, whose identities and origins are still shrouded in mystery. British officials initially said the eight women and 31 men who were found in a refrigerated truck container in an industrial park Wednesday, were from China, but it now appears at least some were from Vietnam.

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Ethiopia's 900-year-old Shonke village on a mountain

Residents say they prefer their traditional stone-built homes to Ethiopia's "shining cities".

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2 Photos of Tense White House Moments: Note the Differences

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A Chocolate Bar With a Golden Blockchain Token

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In Praise of ‘Human Scum’

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No, the Nationals Are Not Cursed by an Early Plan to Celebrate

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Blood pressure pills 'work better at bedtime' - BBC News

1. Blood pressure pills 'work better at bedtime'  BBC News
2. This is the best time to take your blood pressure medicine, study suggests  Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Number of bodies found near Mexican resort town rises to 42

Searching Mothers of Sonora uncovered a mass grave with the remains of 13 people inside, located near the popular beach resort town of Puerto Peñasco.

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Storms to unleash snow, cold across the Midwest this week

The storm system bringing heavy snow to parts of the Rocky Mountains this weekend will be the first of a pair of storms to travel across the Plains and Midwest.

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Trump falsely claims he predicted danger of Osama bin Laden before anyone else: ‘Nobody had ever heard of him’ - The Independent

1. Trump falsely claims he predicted danger of Osama bin Laden before anyone else: ‘Nobody had ever heard of him’  The Independent
2. Donald Trump boasts that al-Baghdadi strike is bigger than Obama's hit on Osama bin Laden  Daily Mail
3. How Baghdadi became the face of jihad  The Times
4. Trump claims the killing of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is more significant than Osama bin Laden's assassination  Business Insider
5. Fact check: Trump falsely claims his 2000 book demanded the killing of Osama bin Laden  CNN
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Vietnam collects DNA samples from relatives of UK missing

Vietnamese officials collected DNA samples on Sunday from relatives of those feared among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, a security source and a family member told AFP, as villagers held emotional prayers for the victims. The 31 men and eight women found dead were initially identified as Chinese, but several Vietnamese families have come forward saying they believe their relatives are among the dead. The grim case has cast light on the extreme dangers facing illegal migrants seeking better lives in Europe.

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Mystery of the skeleton hijacked by Nazis and Soviets

The identity of a 10th-Century skeleton fascinates experts - but was exploited by invaders.

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Tiger Woods Ties Sam Snead’s Career Wins Record in Japan

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