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• Joseph Verner Reed Jr., Protocol Chief Who Presided Over Colorful Gaffe, Dies at 78

  05-10-2016 05:35
  
  While under President George Bush, Mr. Reed was part of ‘the talking hat’ affair, a slip-up that entered the annals of diplomatic history. ......
  
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• Watch again: Live: Trump delivers first rally-style speech since election and threatens to retake Panama Canal

  22-12-2024 20:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  The event — AmericaFest 2024 — comes one day after Trump threatened to retake the Panama Canal in a lengthy post on Truth Social on Saturday night.
  
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• The unanswered questions after Gisele Pelicot rape trial

  22-12-2024 19:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Fifty-one men have now been brought to justice, but questions remain after the trial that has shocked France and the wider world
  
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• Trump delivers first rally-style speech since election win as he threatens to retake Panama Canal: Live

  22-12-2024 18:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  The president-elect will address a Phoenix crowd on Sunday
  
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• Watch live: Donald Trump addresses AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona

  22-12-2024 18:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump will speak at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona.
  
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• German Christmas market attack – latest: Nine-year-old boy killed is named as thousands raised on GoFundMe

  22-12-2024 17:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nine-year-old child among five dead with 200 other people injured in attack, including 40 critical
  
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• Mother pays tribute to boy, 9, killed in German Christmas market attack: ‘Let my little teddy bear fly’

  22-12-2024 17:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  André Gleißner was among the five dead following the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany
  
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• Trump to deliver first rally-style speech since election win as he threatens to retake Panama Canal: Live

  22-12-2024 16:51 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump reeled off a lengthy Truth Social post about retaking control of the Panama Canal
  
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• Christians in Aleppo are celebrating Christmas – but fear for their future

  22-12-2024 15:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  As Syria marks the overthrow of the Assad regime,Bel Trew visits Aleppo, where Christian residents are are beset by uncertainty. She speaks to families worried about life under a new Islamist-led administration
  
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• Why African countries are ousting France’s military, one by one

  22-12-2024 15:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Paris’s influence on the continent faces the biggest challenge in decades
  
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• Anger grows in Germany over missed chances to stop Magdeburg Christmas market attack

  22-12-2024 15:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Authorities deemed previously suspect ‘no specific danger’ following a risk assessment
  
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• German Christmas market attack – latest: Suspect appears in court as leaders heckled over ‘security failings’

  22-12-2024 13:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nine-year-old child among five dead with 200 other people injured in attack, including 40 critical
  
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• Dozens killed in deadly stampedes for Christmas gifts in Nigeria

  22-12-2024 12:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  At least four of the victims were children
  
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• China warns US ‘playing with fire’ by supplying weapons to Taiwan

  22-12-2024 12:41 via independent.co.uk
  
  Beijing says strategy of using ‘Taiwan question’ to contain China doomed to fail
  
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• The ‘sea nomads’ forced to switch life on the ocean for land

  22-12-2024 12:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries
  
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• OpenAI whistleblower found dead at home aged 26

  22-12-2024 11:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Suchir Balaji, who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials
  
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• How overflowing River Nile is forcing thousands to survive on edge of canal

  22-12-2024 11:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  As flooding worsens, the swamp is submerging villages, ruining farmland and killing livestock
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv strikes Russian skyscrapers in major drone attack 1,000km from frontline

  22-12-2024 11:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Putin says he is open to talks with Donald Trump, saying ‘we will have things to discuss’
  
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• German police say 4 women and a boy were killed in the Christmas market attack

  22-12-2024 10:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  More details have emerged about those killed when a man drove a car at speed through a Christmas market in Germany
  
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• At least 17 Palestinians killed as Israeli forces attack Gaza school and hospital

  22-12-2024 10:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pope Francis condemns killing of children in Gaza as ‘cruelty, not war’
  
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• Watch: Far-right protesters rally in Magdeburg after German Christmas market attack

  22-12-2024 10:02 via independent.co.uk
  
  Far-right protesters gathered in the German city of Magdeburg after five people - including a child - were killed in an attack on a Christmas market.
  
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• German Christmas market attack – latest: Far-right protesters rally in Magdeburg after car attack killed five

  22-12-2024 09:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nine-year-old child among five dead with 200 other people injured in attack, including 40 critical
  
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• Watch live: Mourners lay flowers for German Christmas market attack victims as death toll rises

  22-12-2024 09:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Watch live as mourners lay flowers for victims of the German Christmas market attack on Sunday (22 December).
  
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• Mark Cuban uses Elon Musk’s own AI chatbot to shoot down his praise of far-right German party

  22-12-2024 07:27 via independent.co.uk
  
  Musk said that ‘only the AfD can save Germany’ in a post on X on Friday night that provoked widespread backlash from politicians at home and overseas
  
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• Two US navy pilots shot down over Red Sea

  22-12-2024 06:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘Friendly fire’ incident reported just hours after American and British forces conduct airstrikes on Yemen
  
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• Isolated Chicago communities secure money for a coveted transit project before Trump takes office

  22-12-2024 06:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is committing to the massive project just before President Joe Biden leaves office
  
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• Wall Street Journal flames Trump and Musk over ‘budget fiasco’ and what it threatens for future

  22-12-2024 05:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  The editorial board said ‘there are bad omens here for 2025’ and questioned the ‘ability of Republicans to govern’
  
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• Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal while daughter-in-law Lara abandons Senate bid: Live updates

  22-12-2024 05:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump reeled off a lengthy Truth Social post about retaking control of the Panama Canal
  
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• Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal in Truth Social post

  22-12-2024 04:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump accused Panama of charging American vessels ‘exorbitant prices’ to use the vital waterway
  
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• Family of Wisconsin school shooting victim say they hold ‘no bitterness’ against teen killer Natalie Rupnow

  22-12-2024 02:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Rubi Vergara’s uncle, Andrew Remus, said that Natalie Rupnow’s family ‘lost a daughter too’
  
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