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France opens terror investigation after Dakar rally explosion

 

French racing driver Philippe Boutron was seriously injured in blast in Saudi city of Jeddah

 

AFP in Paris
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Remember at Christmas that Jesus’s radical message was to embrace the excluded   The heretic is the hero. The unclean are equals. The despised, the rejected, the ‘sinners’ are all invited to

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France opens terror investigation after Dakar rally explosion   French racing driver Philippe Boutron was seriously injured in blast in Saudi city of Jeddah

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Fire in Bronx building leaves 19 people dead, including nine children

 

  • More than five dozen people injured and 13 in critical condition
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  • City fire commissioner: blaze one of the worst in recent memory

 

Ed Pilkington and agencies in New York
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‘Grateful’: Novak Djokovic thanks judge and takes to tennis court after release

 

  • ‘Thank you all for standing with me’, tweets men’s tennis No 1
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  • Mother says player was ‘subjected to torture and harassment’

 

Mon 10 Jan 2022 17.04 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data

 

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency

 

Apostolis Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, Giacomo Zandonini, Daniel Howden
Mon 10 Jan 2022 12.15 GMTLast modified on Mon 10 Jan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Climate crisis: last seven years the hottest on record, 2021 data shows

 

Global heating continued unabated with extreme weather rife and greenhouse gases hitting new highs

 

Damian Carrington Environment editor
Mon 10 Jan 2022 12.00 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pilot from crashed plane in US pulled to safety moments before train hit

 

Video shows Los Angeles police officers freeing pilot from plane that had crash-landed on rail tracks

 

Reuters
Mon 10 Jan 2022 11.20 GMT
 
 
 
 
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‘It felt like losing a husband’: the fraudsters breaking hearts – and emptying bank accounts

 

Romance scams robbed Britons of nearly £100m ($135.679.555M) last year. Thanks to online dating and the pandemic, these cruel crimes are more sophisticated and prevalent than ever

 

 

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Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi: ‘Global recognition is double-edged’

 

He has been detained at airports and told never to return to Iran. But the director, who could be about to win his third Oscar, refuses to be silenced about outrages in his own country – and in the west

 

Mon 10 Jan 2022 06.00 GMT

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/10/extremist-media-tried-destroy-me-oscar-winning-iranian-director-asghar-farhadi

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How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world

 

The pace of global heating is forcing insect populations to move and adapt – and some aggressive species are thriving

 

Tue 11 Jan 2022 06.00 GMT

by Oliver Milman

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/11/climate-change-insect-world-global-heating-species

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Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on a US quarter

 

US treasury secretary says the writer and civil rights campaigner’s appearance on the coin represents ‘what we value, and how we’ve progressed as a society’

 

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California could become first US state to offer universal healthcare to residents

 

The bills to create and fund universal healthcare face opposition from powerful lobbies for doctors and insurance companies

 

Tue 11 Jan 2022 21.13 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Extreme cold in US north-east closes schools and Covid testing sites

 

Massachusetts, New York and Maine brace for sub-zero temperatures with wind chill factor, increasing risk of frostbite

 

Associated Press in Boston
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Prince Andrew fails in bid to dismiss US sexual abuse lawsuit

Civil claim against duke by longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre can move forward, federal judge rules in New York

 

This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse

 

Victoria Bekiempis in New York

 

 

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Man arrested over 2012 killing of British family and French cyclist in Alps

 

No one has been charged over attacks on forest road near Lake Annecy in French Alps

 

Jon Henley in Paris
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Australia matches its hottest day on record as Western Australia town goes above 50C

 

Mercury in the remote town of Onslow registers 50.7C (123.26 F), while two other sites also reach extreme temperatures

 

Thu 13 Jan 2022 05.24 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Six in 10 Americans ‘alarmed’ or ‘concerned’ about climate change – study

 

New report finds ‘alarmed’ group doubled in size over five years, while only two in 10 Americans are ‘doubtful’ or ‘dismissive’

 

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Brazilian turtle breeders shot dead along with teenage daughter

 

Activists mourn deaths in Amazon state of Pará as bodies of José Gomes, Márcia Nunes Lisboa and their daughter found by son

 

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Ashling Murphy: vigils to be held across Ireland for teacher killed going for run

 

Killing of 23-year-old in County Offaly has provoked outpouring of grief and anger in Ireland and beyond

 

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Hospitals in half of US states close to capacity as Omicron continues surge

 

In 24 states at least 80% of staffed hospital beds were occupied as the Omicron variant has triggered a record number of Covid cases

 

Adam Gabbatt in New York and Oliver Laughland in New Orleans
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There’s a new till-free Amazon Fresh shop near me – so I popped in for spring rolls and simmering despair

 

Capitalism’s great trick is to make us long for the useless and unnecessary. Under the bright lights, I felt that itch starting up

 

Sat 15 Jan 2022 16.00 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ten ways to take control of your smartphone

 

Overwhelmed by messages, notifications and distractions? You can reclaim your focus without a full digital detox

 

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Novak Djokovic visa: Australian minister Alex Hawke says risk of ‘civil unrest’ behind cancellation

 

Hawke says tennis champion is ‘perceived by some as a talisman of a community of anti-vaccine sentiment’

 

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Discarded packages, shredded boxes: Photos renew attention on Los Angeles cargo theft

 

Reporters this week found packages with labels of many major US mail companies including Amazon, REI among others

 

Guardian staff and agencies
Sat 15 Jan 2022 06.00 GMT
 
 
 
 
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‘Another hellish day’: South America sizzles in record summer temperatures

 

Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay are reeling from a historic heatwave with temperatures as high as 113F

 

Reuters in Buenos Aires
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Texas synagogue siege: hostage-taker shot dead by FBI believed to be British

 

FBI stormed building after man took four people including a rabbi captive during Shabbat service

 

Sun 16 Jan 2022 14.27 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Prince Harry files legal claim over right to pay for UK police protection

 

Duke of Sussex seeks judicial review of Home Office refusal to let him pay for protection after being chased by photographers last summer

 

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Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik appears before parole hearing

 

Far-right mass murderer has served 10 years of a 21-year sentence for 2011 shootings

 

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New York and other north-eastern US states see a rapid fall in Covid cases

 

Despite decreasing positivity rates, hospitals continue to struggle amid a surging patient load and staff shortages

 

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Czech folk singer dies after deliberately contracting Covid

 

Hana Horka wanted to prove recovery from Covid so she could obtain a health pass

 

Agence France-Presse in Prague
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Florida health official put on leave after encouraging staff to get Covid vaccine

 

State health agency conducting inquiry into Raul Pino to ‘determine if any laws were broken’

 

 
Maya Yang and agencies
Wed 19 Jan 2022 16.50 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

University of Michigan to pay $490m to survivors of abuse by former sports doctor

 

  • Hundreds of men say they were abused by Robert Anderson
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  • Anderson worked at Michigan between 1966 and 2003

 

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Shock in Colombia over murder of 14-year-old indigenous activist

 

Breiner David Cucuñame was shot dead while on patrol with the unarmed group Indigenous Guard

 

Tue 18 Jan 2022 20.35 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Two journalists exposing Mexico’s corruption and drug violence murdered within one week

 

Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa are the latest casualties in the world’s most dangerous country for reporters outside war zones

 

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
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Former pope Benedict accused of inaction over child sexual abuse cases

 

Two cases involved abusers who were allowed to continue with pastoral duties, says lawyer

 

Harriet Sherwood and agencies
Thu 20 Jan 2022 14.37 GMT
 
 
 
 
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