Mariah Carey's Twitter Account Hacked: Offensive Posts, Racial Slurs Posted

The hackers claimed to be The Chuckling Squad, also broke into the account of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and actress Chloe Grace Moretz.

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TikTok Transparency Report: India Logged Maximum Interventions To Take Down Content

From India, as many as 107 legal requests were sent to TikTok, of which 8 were categorized as emergency requests.

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'Canal Istanbul is a Criminal Project': Erdogan and Rival Mayor Lock Horns over Project

Ekrem Imamoglu, who won a shock victory for the opposition in 2019 to become mayor of Istanbul, says the $12.6 billion canal is wasteful, environmentally destructive and could even increase the earthquake risk.

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Founder of Right-wing Site Ordered to Pay $100,000 for Claiming 2012 Sandy Hook Massacre Was Hoax

Alex Jones claimed the mainstream media and gun-control proponents conspired to fabricate the tragedy in which 20 school children and six school staff were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

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Let's Get Brexit Done and End Division in 2020, Boris Johnson Tells Britons

PM Boris Johnson in a New Year's message said that his first job was to ensure Brexit was delivered, more than three years after Britain voted to leave the EU, and then to heal the wounds the vote had opened.

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Trump Says Happy to Have a Trial in the Senate, But He Doesn't Really Care

Reiterating that he considered impeachment a hoax, Donald Trump said that it doesn't matter and he would be very happy with a trial because we did nothing wrong.

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Lasting Trauma: French Survivor's Book 'Consent' Claims Famous Author Groomed Underage Girls for Sex

In the book 'Consent', Vanessa Springora, 47, now a leading publisher, describes how she was seduced at the age of 14 by writer Gabriel Matzneff, then aged 36 years her senior, and how this left lasting scars.

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Heterosexual Couples form First Civil Partnerships in England

The groundbreaking case had been brought by Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, who were among the first to form a civil partnership under the new rules.

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TikTok Transparency Report: Government is Watching Everything You Are Sharing

From India, as many as 107 legal requests were sent to TikTok, of which 8 were categorized as emergency requests.

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Abducted Sri Lanka Journalist's Wife Accuses Military of Trying to Destroy Evidence, Intimidate Witnesses

Prageeth went missing in 2010 during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the brother of current President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

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At Least 4,000 People Trapped, Property Destroyed as Raging wildfires Wreak Havoc in Australia

Australia's annual wildfire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, started early after an unusually warm and dry winter.

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Two Injured in Shooting Outside a Walmart in Tennessee, Suspect Flees in a Car

One of the two victims is said to have suffered life-threatening injuries.

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If The FASTag For Your Car Is Not Read by Scanners at Toll Plazas, Your Trip is Free

As of December 15, the government says that 1.15 crore FASTags have been issued.

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At Least 4,000 People Trapped, Property Destroyed as Raging wildfires Wreak Havoc in Australia

Australia's annual wildfire season, which peaks during the Southern Hemisphere summer, started early after an unusually warm and dry winter.

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US Agency Formalizes Border Medical Plan After Migrants Die on Mexican Border

At the height of the crisis, tens of thousands of migrant families crossed into the US and were held in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

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Google Doodle Rings in New Year with Froggy Pondering over Resolutions 2020

The New Year's special Google doodle has Froggy seated on a high-rise watching the skyline and the magnificent and symbolic sunrise signifying the dawn of a new morning.

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At Least 10 Inmates Feared Dead After Riot in Venezuela Jail, Says NGO

Venezuelan authorities have not said anything about a toll from the rioting, which the NGO said broke out at a jail which serves as a holding pen at a regional police headquarters.

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North Korea Ends Test Moratoriums on Nuclear Tests, Threatens 'New' Weapon

Analysts said the declaration, reported by state media on Wednesday, amounted to Kim putting a missile "to Donald Trump's head" -- but warned that escalation by Pyongyang would probably backfire.

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New Year Fireworks, Smoke, Tear Gas and Water Cannons as Decade Begins With a Bang

Billions around the world cheered in 2020 after a tumultuous year dominated by demonstrations calling for political upheaval and action on climate change.

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US Says North Korea Threat 'Deeply Disappointing' But 'Wants Peace'

In an interview shortly after state media quoted Kim as threatening a demonstration of a 'new strategic weapon' soon, Pompeo urged the North Korean leader to think again.

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US Sending 750 Troops to Middle East After Embassy Attack in Iraq, Says Pentagon

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that more troops from a rapid response unit of the 82nd Airborne Division are prepared to deploy over the next several days.

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'They Will Pay a Very Big Price': Donald Trump Warns Iran after Iraqi Protesters Storm US Embassy in Baghdad

The message came at the end of a day in which Washington officials appeared surprised and furious over the ease at which the protestors entered the Green Zone, reaching the US embassy compound for the first time in years.

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'Terrorists' Behind US Embassy Attack in Iraq, Says Mike Pompeo

The tweet included photos that Mike Pompeo said showed all four men outside the US embassy, which was stormed Tuesday by pro-Iranian protesters enraged by US airstrikes against an Iranian backed militant group on Sunday.

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US Cop Admits Story of McDonald's Worker Writing ‘Pig’ on His Coffee Cup Was Fake, Resigns

The 23-year-old police officer, who wasn’t publicly identified, admitted that he made the story up 'as a joke'.

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Huawei Gets The Green Light For 5G Trials in India

Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that the government will allow all market players to perform 5G trials in India.

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They Thought it was Safe to Occasionally Visit China. Now Their Children are Growing Up Alone in Turkey

Having fled a worsening crackdown on Uighur Muslims in China, some of them thought it was still safe to return occasionally, only to disappear into a shadowy network of re-education camps from which no communication is permitted.

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Government to Offer 5G Spectrum for Trial to All Players: Ravi Shankar Prasad

This essentially means that Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and Huawei will now get to perform 5G trials in India, however this does not assure an approval for commercial roll out

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Netflix Says 70 Percent Users in India Watch At Least One Film a Week

As 2019 comes to an end, Netflix announced the list of most popular titles of 2019 in India.

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Texas Gun Laws Saved Lives in Church Attack: Donald Trump on US Shooting That Killed 2

The Sunday shooting at a church service in the Fort Worth Suburb of White Settlement was the latest attack on a house of worship in the US.

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Bot or Not? The Mystery Twitter Handle That Tweeted on Trump Whistleblower

Just before midnight Friday, Trump retweeted a tweet from the user, then going by Surfermom77, that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment by the House.

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Germany's Merkel Urges Climate Action in New Year Message

Merkel said that there is good reason to be confident about the 2020s in her annual televised message and pointed to challenges such as the effect of digitization on people's jobs and, above all, climate change.

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British Royals Worked an Average of 84.5 Days in 2019, Queen's Daughter Hardest-working at 167 Days

Heir to the throne Prince Charles came in second with 125 days of official duties. The 93-year-old queen Elizabeth herself worked 67 days, four more than in 2018.

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Tree-Climbing Gear, Full Dark Hair: Indian-American Ecologist Helps Refashion Barbie Dolls as Scientists

Nalini Nadkarni joined a team of female scientists advising Mattel as it made the line of dolls that includes a marine biologist, astrophysicist, photojournalist, conservationist and entomologist.

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US McDonald's Denies Worker Wrote ‘Pig’ on Police Officer's Cup, Says it’s ‘Troubled by Accusation’

Dana Cook, the owner of a McDonald’s in Junction City, said the restaurant has security video that proves none of its employees wrote the words.

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Washington Says Baghdad Failed to 'Protect' American Interests Amid Outrage over Air Strikes

At least 25 fighters were killed in Sunday night's attacks, which were in retaliation for the death last week of a US civilian contractor.

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Declining Births, Increasing Deaths Lead to US' Slowest Growth Rate in a Century

The US grew from 2018 to 2019 by almost a half per cent, or about 1.5 million people, with the population standing at 328 million this year, according to population estimates released on Monday.

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Al-Shabaab Militants Claim Mogadishu Bomb Attack that Killed 81

Saturday's attack hit a busy checkpoint in the southwest of the city, killing 81 people, including a dozen university students, in the country's deadliest assault in two years.

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Famed Jesuit Priest With Ties to Mother Teresa Abused Boy 'More than 1,000 Times' Around World

Rev. Donald J. McGuire died in federal prison in 2017 while serving a 25-year sentence for molesting other boys who came under his sway.

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Three People Feared Dead in Australian Bushfires: Report

A further four people are unaccounted for in the state of Victoria, the site of some of the fiercest recent fires, although authorities have not provided further information.

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Facebook Fined $1.65 Million by Brazil for 'Abusive Practice'

That application collected personal data from millions of Facebook users worldwide, which were then transferred to British consultancy Cambridge Analytica and used without consent in political campaigns.

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Texas Church Shooter Who Killed 2, Wore Wig and Fake Beard, Says Security Head Who Shot Him

The victims of Sunday's shooting, identified as Anton Wallace, 64, of Fort Worth and Richard White, 67, of River Oaks, were also members of the civilian security force at West Freeway Church of Christ, the state's attorney general said.

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Facebook Fined $1.65 Million by Brazil for 'Abusive Practice'

That application collected personal data from millions of Facebook users worldwide, which were then transferred to British consultancy Cambridge Analytica and used without consent in political campaigns.

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Sudan to Send 29 Intelligence Agents to Gallows for Teacher's Killing in Detention

Prosecuting members of the intelligence services is seen as a test of how far Sudan's transitional government will go to erase Bashir's legacy and challenge the security apparatus.

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4,000 Holidaymakers, Locals Trapped on Australian Beach Encircled by Fire

Authorities had for days been warning up to 30,000 tourists enjoying Australia's summer holidays to leave the area, which is just one of the hundreds ravaged by this devastating bushfire season.

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US Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Given Clean Bill of Health After Heart Attack in October

Sanders' campaign released letters from his main doctor and two heart specialists, who all gave the 78-year-old White House hopeful a clean bill of health after physical exams, electrocardiogram monitoring and a treadmill stress test.

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Al Qaeda Ally Claims Responsibility for Deadly Somalia Blast that Killed 90 People

The bombing was the deadliest in more than two years in a country wrecked by nearly three decades of Islamist violence and clan warfare.

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Vivo S1 Pro Set for Mid-January Launch in India: Here's What We Know So Far

The Vivo S1 Pro is likely to be priced at Rs 19,990 for the base variant and will come with a 32-megapixel selfie camera, 4,500mAh battery and Snapdragon 665 SoC.

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Several Australian Cities Cancel Fireworks on New Year's Eve as Fire Danger Worsens

Temperatures on Tuesday were set to hit 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) in the capital, Canberra, and 33 C (91 F) in Sydney, Australia’s largest city.

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China Jails Protestant Pastor of 'Underground Church' for 9 Years for 'Inciting' Subversion of State'

Pastor Wang Yi, whose Early Rain Covenant Church was the target of a government crackdown last year, was also found guilty of 'illegal business operation' by a court in southwest China's Chengdu.

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Apple Sued by Cardiologist For Infringing Atrial Fibrillation Tech Patent

Dr Joseph Wiesel was awarded a patent in 2006 for photoplethysmography, which is the same technique used by the Apple Watch to detect atrial fibrillation.

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