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• Two people dead in Mornington Peninsula shooting as police search for man who fled scene

  01-12-2024 23:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Victoria police say man and woman died with gunshot wounds after reports of altercation at Rye home about 4amFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictoria police are searching for a man after a woman and a man were shot dead on the state’s Mornington Peninsula.Police were called to an altercation between a group of people at an address on Parson Street in Rye shortly after 4am on Monday. Police arrived to find a ma
  
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• Bob Bryar, former My Chemical Romance drummer, dies aged 44

  01-12-2024 23:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Longest-standing drummer of pop-punk band said to have influenced emo movement was found dead in TennesseeBob Bryar, the former drummer of the US pop-punk band My Chemical Romance which was said to have influenced the youth culture movement emo, has died aged 44.Bryar’s body was found in his home in Tennessee last week. The entertainment news outlet TMZ, which was the first to report his death, said that according to police no foul play was suspected as his possessions, including musical e
  
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• Justin Trudeau promises Trump that Canada will increase border surveillance

  01-12-2024 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Canadian PM dines with Trump, who vowed tariffs unless country stops migrants and drugs from entering USJustin Trudeau promised Donald Trump that Canada would increase surveillance over the long undefended joint border, a senior Canadian official said on Sunday. The Canadian prime minister flew to Florida on Friday to have dinner with the US president-elect, who has promised to slap tariffs on Canadian imports unless Ottawa prevents undocumented people and drugs from crossing the frontier.Canada
  
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• Michael Rowland to leave ABC News Breakfast after ‘15 years of 3am starts’

  01-12-2024 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  The 55-year-old is the program’s longest serving male co-host, and hinted in September that he was ‘looking forward to something less intense’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter hereAfter 15 years of waking up at 3am to host ABC News Breakfast, Michael Rowland is calling it quits.The co-host of the public broadcaster’s breakfast offering has told viewers his final show will be on 13 Dece
  
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• New plan would ‘transform’ end of life care for 100,000 in England and Wales

  01-12-2024 21:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Palliative care commission set up to provide high-quality, holistic support following assisted dying voteAssisted dying bill brings critical state of palliative care into government’s focusMPs, doctors and charities have drawn up a blueprint to deliver an “unprecedented transformation” of care for 100,000 people a year in the final stages of their lives.After parliament’s historic vote last week to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales, a commission on palliative c
  
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• Irish Greens virtually wiped out in general election rout

  01-12-2024 21:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Junior coalition partner loses all but one of 12 seats, while gangland figure Gerry Hutch loses election bidThe Green party in Ireland has been virtually wiped out in the general election, and its leader admitted it was entering a period of “rebuild” after the electorate removed any prospect of the party re-entering government.The Greens lost all but one of their 12 seats, with its leader, Roderic O’Gorman, scraping through on the 13th count. Continue reading...
  
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• Syrian and Russian airstrikes hit Aleppo and Idlib after insurgents advance

  01-12-2024 21:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Assad regime seeks to repel Islamist rebels in north as Iran’s top diplomat visits Damascus in show of supportSyrian and Russian airstrikes have pummelled areas of northern Syria as Iran’s top diplomat arrived in Damascus in a show of support for Bashar al-Assad’s regime after Islamist insurgents made a sudden advance and seized control of Aleppo.As the regime attempted to repel the strongest challenge to its authority in years, state media in Damascus shared images of airstrik
  
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• Romanian elections: ruling Social Democrats on course for most votes

  01-12-2024 20:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Exit poll suggests leftwing PSD poised to defeat resurgent far-right movement in parliamentary electionRomania’s main centre-left party was on track to finish first in parliamentary elections, according to early exit polls, seemingly beating an advancing far right boosted by the shock victory of an ultranationalist in last week’s presidential first-round ballot.The ruling Social Democratic party (PSD) was forecast to receive 26% of the vote, ahead of the far-right nationalist Allianc
  
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• Many unable to access eVisas to prove right to be in UK, Home Office admits

  01-12-2024 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners say problems with digital transfer could affect hundreds of thousands of people on ‘10-year route’ visasThe Home Office has admitted that many people who have the right to live and work in the UK cannot access their eVisas and provide proof that they are allowed to be in the country.Human rights campaigners have said problems with accessing eVisas could lead to a scandal involving hundreds of thousands of people. Those affected are allowed to be in the UK but cannot show
  
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• Rebels behind Aleppo’s surprise fall took advantage of Russian and Iranian distraction

  01-12-2024 20:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Forces only took three days to take the city from Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but the Middle East’s newest conflict looks set to lastMiddle East crisis – live updatesIt was not Kyiv that fell in three days, but Aleppo. A surprise offensive launched by Syrian rebels from the north west of the country last week has reignited a dormant conflict – and revealed a change in the balance of power caused not by one but two nearby wars, in Ukraine and Lebanon and the Middle East.Alep
  
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• Wisconsin’s Ben Wikler joins race for Democratic National Committee chair

  01-12-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In announcement, state’s Democratic chair touts grassroots and new media organizing success in closely divided stateWisconsin Democratic leader Ben Wikler joined the race to lead the Democratic National Committee on Sunday, promising “to take on Trump, Republican extremists, and move our country forward”, as the party looks to rebuild from its losses in the November election.In a video posted on social networks, Wikler, 43, touted his state party’s success in organizing t
  
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• Georgia protests enter fourth night as opposition grows to freeze on EU talks

  01-12-2024 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Georgian media reports protests in at least eight cities and towns after Saturday’s demonstrations leave 44 in hospitalProtesters rallied in Georgia’s capital for a fourth consecutive night on Sunday and there were signs that opposition was spreading to the government’s decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union.For months, tensions have been rising between the ruling Georgian Dream party and opponents who accuse it of pursuing increasingly authoritarian, anti-west
  
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• Conspiracy theorist Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead FBI, faces Senate blowback

  01-12-2024 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Deep state’ critic who has threatened to shut down agency’s headquarters could face tough confirmation battleDonald Trump’s plan to nominate as FBI director the “deep state” conspiracy theorist Kash Patel, a virulent critic of the bureau who has threatened to fire its top echelons and shut down the agency’s headquarters, is facing blowback in Congress as US senators begin to flex their muscles ahead of a contentious confirmation process.Politicians from
  
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• Weather blamed for small boat arrivals under Labour passing 20,000

  01-12-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Home secretary to highlight data showing record number of calm autumnal days that made Channel crossings likelyThe number of small boat arrivals since Keir Starmer took power has passed 20,000, with the Home Office claiming a record number of calm autumnal days in the Channel was responsible.A 31-day period in October and November had the highest ratio of so-called “red days” – when weather conditions make crossings likely or very likely – since records began in 2018, acc
  
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• Man charged with murder of woman, 57, in south-east London

  01-12-2024 18:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrew Cunningham, 61, held after death of Margaret Cunningham, who was found at address in Surrey QuaysA 61-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a 57-year-old woman in south-east London.Officers were called to an address in Greenland Quay, Surrey Quays, at about 3pm on Friday after reports that a woman had been stabbed, the Metropolitan police said. Continue reading...
  
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• GOP Sen. Mike Rounds expresses support for FBI director a day after Trump picks his replacement

  01-12-2024 18:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sen. Mike Rounds on Sunday expressed support for FBI Director Christopher Wray, just one day after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Kash Patel to lead the agency as Wray's replacement.
  
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• Largest gold deposit in the world worth $83 billion found in China

  01-12-2024 18:32 via foxnews.com
  
  What is being dubbed as the largest gold deposit in the world has been found in China, state outlet Xinhua news said.The gold reserves are worth 600 billion yuan, according to Reuters, which amounts to $83 billion U.S. The discovery was made by geologists with the Hunan Provincial Geological Institute about 12 miles beneath the surface in the Asian country's Pingjiang County, Xinhua reported, according to the New York Post. The area of the discovery of 40 gold ore veins with a total of
  
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• ‘We felt completely lost’: fears over reprisals from Damascus and Islamist rule in Aleppo

  01-12-2024 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Syria’s second largest city left reeling after anti-government fighters seized control in surprise offensiveMiddle East crisis – live updatesIt was 2am on Saturday when Nasma’s husband told her there were uniformed fighters in their neighbourhood of western Aleppo – but they were not from the Syrian army. He stood on their balcony to get a better view, before the men told him to go back indoors.News of the militias’ advance in the countryside around Aleppo had sprea
  
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• Six people pulled from rubble alive after explosion destroys Missouri home

  01-12-2024 18:16 via nbcnews.com
  Six people were pulled alive from the rubble of a Missouri home Saturday morning after an unexplained explosion mangled the residence, authorities said. Some of the six were treated at the location for smoke inhalation, the department said, others with more serious injuries were taken by helicopter to hospital.
  
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• Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit

  01-12-2024 18:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Elon Musk is asking a federal court to stop OpenAI from converting into a fully for-profit business.
  
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• Putin may have wanted Skripal dead over what he knew, UK officials believe

  01-12-2024 18:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-spy had information about Putin’s ‘embezzlement’ of profits from metals production, intelligence official saysVladimir Putin may have ordered the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal because the former Russian spy harboured secret information about the Russian president’s “criminal embezzlement” of profits from metals production, the UK government believes.A leading intelligence official on Russia has said he took “at face value” Skripal&rsqu
  
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• Who could replace Matt Eberflus as Bears’ head coach? NFL insiders weigh in

  01-12-2024 18:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Chicago Bears will get a head start on their search for a new head coach, but who will be among the prime candidates for the job?
  
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• Former Tesco boss wants to send power from Morocco to Great Britain using subsea cable

  01-12-2024 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Dave Lewis says the near-constant stream of clean electricity could supply the grid as early as 2030In the south-west of Morocco, a sprawl of wind and solar farms stretching across an area the size of Greater London could soon generate the green electricity powering more than 9m British homes.This is the unflinching vision of Sir Dave Lewis, the former Tesco boss who is hoping to build the world’s longest subsea power cable in order to harness north Africa’s renewable energy sources
  
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• Unrwa suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza route after convoy attacked

  01-12-2024 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Agency says armed gangs looted several trucks carrying food supplies and urges Israel to ensure safe flows of aidMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees has suspended aid deliveries through the main lifeline for the Gaza Strip after a fresh attack by armed gangs on a humanitarian convoy, amid a severe food crisis caused by more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hamas.In a statement on Sunday, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of Unrwa, said sever
  
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• Georgian PM praises country's protest crackdown despite US condemnation

  01-12-2024 17:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Facing condemnation from the United States and defiance from his own president, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze praised police on Sunday for cracking down on protesters who he said were acting on foreign orders to undermine the state.Georgia, a country of 3.7 million people that was once part of the Soviet Union, has been plunged into crisis since the governing Georgian Dream party said on Thursday it was halting European Union accession talks for the next four years.The EU and the Uni
  
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• Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek sells merch to pay for cancer treatment

  01-12-2024 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor says he’s selling memorabilia to help cover ‘expensive’ treatment costs for recent colorectal cancer diagnosisThe Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek announced he is selling memorabilia to help cover the “expensive” treatment costs for his recent colorectal cancer diagnosis.Van Der Beek, also known for the film Varsity Blues, made the announcement on Instagram last week, nearly three weeks after revealing his illness in an interview with People. Conti
  
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• The 151+ best Black Friday deals you can shop before Cyber Monday

  01-12-2024 16:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Black Friday ended but I'm seeing great deals before Cyber Monday. Explore all the live sales from Amazon, Apple, Costco, Target, streaming services and more.
  
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• Trump threat of 100% tariffs against Brics nations raises trade war fears

  01-12-2024 15:50 via theguardian.com
  
  President-elect threatens retaliation if emerging economies create new currency to rival US dollarFears of a global trade war have risen after Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on countries in the Brics group if they create a new currency to rival the US dollar.Writing on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday, Trump declared that he would also act if they supported another currency to replace the dollar. Continue reading...
  
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• GOP senator says he supports Trump’s pick for FBI director Kash Patel

  01-12-2024 15:23 via nbcnews.com
  Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) says on Meet the Press that he encouraged Donald Trump to bring Kash Patel — the president-elect’s pick for FBI director — “to the table.”
  
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• Predatory rent-to-buy operators barred from Centrepay debit system in sweeping Albanese government reforms

  01-12-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: ‘High-risk services’ will be removed, including companies providing consumer leases and household goodsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government will boot predatory rent-to-buy operators off its Centrepay debit system as part of sweeping reforms designed to stop the financial abuse of vulnerable Australians.The reforms, set to be announced Monday, follow a Guardian Australian inve
  
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• Moana 2's Auliʻi Cravalho's multicultural heritage reflects Hawaii's rich history

  01-12-2024 15:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Auliʻi Cravalho was only 16 years old when she voiced her breakout role as Moana.
  
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• Mother of American hostage 'shaken' after Hamas releases video of him in captivity

  01-12-2024 14:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  The mother of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander told NBC News she was both shocked and relieved to see her son in a Hamas-issued propaganda video.
  
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• ‘Main players’ backing Syrian government have been ‘weakened’ by other conflicts, NSA Sullivan says

  01-12-2024 14:30 via nbcnews.com
  National security adviser Jake Sullivan reacts to the rebel offensive on Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities. Sullivan said it’s “no surprise” that rebels have tried to take advantage of the main players backing the Syrian government — Iran, Russian and Hezbollah — being distracted by other conflicts.
  
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• Ireland election: Incumbent center-right parties likely to retain power, but left-wing Sinn Fein holds water

  01-12-2024 14:21 via foxnews.com
  
  Irish exit polling suggests that the incumbent center-right parties could likely form a coalition government, though vote counting continues on Sunday and the left-wing Sinn Féin remains in the running.Center-right party Fine Gael was the first choice of 21% of voters, and another center-right party, Fianna Fáil, had 19.5%, according to an Ipsos B&A poll, which asked 5,018 voters across the country how they had cast their ballots.The two parties, which governed in coalition bef
  
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• Snowstorm wreaks havoc on millions traveling after Thanksgiving

  01-12-2024 14:18 via today.com
  A winter storm has brought freezing temperatures and heavy snow, making travel potentially dangerous for many headed home after Thanksgiving. NBC’s George Solis reports for Sunday TODAY.
  
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• Belgium’s sex workers win maternity pay and pension rights in world first

  01-12-2024 14:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Move by lawmakers hailed as ‘huge step forward’, ending legal discrimination against sex workersBelgian sex workers have gained the right to sick days, maternity pay and pension rights under the first law of its kind in the world.Lawmakers voted in May to give sex workers the same employment protections as any other employee, in an attempt to clamp down on abuse and exploitation. Continue reading...
  
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• The sun is at its solar maximum — which means more auroras are likely in store

  01-12-2024 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  A flurry of solar storms suggests the sun is in a period of maximal activity, so more auroras could be in store. Next month, NASA will fly its Parker Solar Probe close to the sun.
  
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• Separation of church and state? Religion in public schools is being tested by Christian conservatives

  01-12-2024 14:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Officials, educators and parents are being confronted by what amount of religious-infused lessons they want children to have access to in public schools.
  
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• ‘The EU wants Ukraine to win this war’: who is its new chief diplomat Kaja Kallas?

  01-12-2024 13:07 via theguardian.com
  
  She stepped down as Estonia’s prime minister to take up foreign policy role replacing tough talker Josep BorrellIt was no surprise that Kaja Kallas went to Ukraine on her first day as the EU’s chief diplomat.Kallas, who stepped down as Estonia’s prime minister to take up the role, was accompanied in Kyiv on Sunday by the new European Council president, António Costa, and European enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, marking the leadership changeover at the EU institution
  
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• Trump’s Cabinet picks are deeply divided over banning TikTok

  01-12-2024 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  As Donald Trump assembles his White House staff and selects his Cabinet picks, an ideological divide has emerged around a hot-button topic: a ban on TikTok.
  
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• Be careful with drinks while travelling, says mother of British lawyer who died in Laos

  01-12-2024 12:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Simone White, 28, was one of six tourists to die in a suspected methanol poisoning at Vang Vieng hostelThe mother of a British lawyer who died after being served a drink that was allegedly spiked with methanol has said if it can happen to her daughter it can happen to anyone.Simone White, 28, from Orpington, Kent, was one of six tourists killed in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng after an alleged mass poisoning. She was taken in for surgery just as her mother, Sue, 61, arrived at the h
  
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• Upcoming Supreme Court decision could transform transgender health care

  01-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments Wednesday on a case focused on restrictions to transgender care. The decision could have broad impacts for years to come.
  
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• Republicans eye tax breaks, border funds and clean energy cuts when Trump returns

  01-12-2024 11:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Republicans plan to pass a huge party-line bill under Donald Trump next year that could include immigration and border, tax and climate provisions.
  
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• Feminist hit movie Her Story touted as China’s answer to Barbie

  01-12-2024 08:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Directed by a woman with a cast of female leads, the film is the latest to be centred around female experiences and prove a box office success in ChinaThe recent box office success of Her Story, a Chinese comedy directed by a woman with a cast of female leads, has led commentators to dub the movie China’s answer to Barbie.The second feature film by Chinese director Shao Yihui, Her Story revolves around a newly unemployed single mother with a daughter and their young female neighbour, as th
  
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• More than 600 Brazilians deported by Home Office on three secret flights

  01-12-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Record number of deportees includes children who may have spent most of their lives in the UKMore than 600 Brazilians, including 109 children, have been secretly removed from the UK – on the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history – since the Labour government came to power, the Observer has learned.The Home Office has never before removed any nationality in such large numbers on individual deportation charter flights. It is thought that children have never b
  
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• China sentences journalist for espionage after he was detained while eating with Japanese diplomat

  01-12-2024 07:48 via foxnews.com
  
  A prominent Chinese journalist was sentenced in a Beijing court to seven years in prison for espionage, according to his family.Dong Yuyu, a commentator and editor, was detained by police in February 2022 while he was meeting a Japanese diplomat at a restaurant, according to The Associated Press, and has been in police custody since.The verdict on Friday named then-Japanese ambassador Hideo Tarumi and Shanghai-based chief diplomat Masaru Okada as agents belonging to an espionage organization, Do
  
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• Taiwan president stops in Hawaii during Pacific tour, drawing ire from China

  01-12-2024 06:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Lai Ching-te’s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau – three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island – prompts Beijing’s protestsThe Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pacific tour after declaring his democratically governed island a key force for promoting global peace and stability.The trip has sparked fury from China, which views Taiwan as its own territory and opposes any foreign interact
  
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• Get to know Donald Trump's Cabinet: Who has the president-elect picked so far?

  01-12-2024 04:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Since winning the election last week, President-elect Donald Trump has begun evaluating and rolling out his picks for his Cabinet and other top roles. Here’s a roundup of whom Trump has picked to fill top jobs in his administration: White House Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik
  National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz 
  "Border Czar" – Tom Homan 
  Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee 
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• Justin Timberlake cancels another concert on world tour after injuring back: 'Y'all know I hate doing this'

  01-12-2024 04:26 via foxnews.com
  
  Justin Timberlake canceled another concert on his "The Forget Tomorrow World Tour" after he suffered a back injury in New Orleans.On Saturday, the 43-year-old singer announced that his show at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma City would not take place on Dec. 2 as previously scheduled. "I’m so sorry Oklahoma City," the "Selfish" hitmaker wrote in a message he shared on his Instagram Story. "I have to cancel the show on 12/2. I hurt my back in Nola and my doctors have instructed me to res
  
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• Raiders' Antonio Pierce says team 'heard a whistle' ahead of game-deciding botched snap in loss to Chiefs

  01-12-2024 04:15 via foxnews.com
  
  Las Vegas Raiders coach Antonio Pierce is speaking out just over 24 hours after his team suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday.Pierce, who is in his first full season as the Raiders head coach, told members of the media that the Raiders believed referees had blown a whistle moments before the ill-fated fumble on the poorly timed snap. In the case of a whistle, the play in question would have been ruled dead.Pierce also noted that the Raiders intend to submit video evi
  
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