A Timeline of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Tenure

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Pentagon Chief Orders New Inquiry Into U.S. Airstrike That Killed Dozens in Syria

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Iran Insists on Immediate Lifting of Sanctions as Nuclear Talks Resume

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Virgil Abloh’s Celebrity Influence

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Omicron: WHO warns of 'high infection risk' around globe

Omicron could lead to severe consequences in some regions, the World Health Organization has warned.

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The Simpsons: Tiananmen episode not found in Hong Kong

The episode includes jokes about China's censorship of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union says the NLRB has authorized a new election for Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union says the NLRB has authorized a new election for Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama  —  - The National Labor Relations Board has authorized a new union election at one of Amazon's Alabama warehouses, the labor union behind the effort said Monday.

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Yassir, an Algerian startup with 3M+ users that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, raises a $30M Series A (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

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Yassir, an Algerian startup with 3M+ users that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, raises a $30M Series A  —  Yassir, an Algerian startup that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, has raised a $30 million Series A round.

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Amazon launches AWS IoT RoboRunner to simplify building management apps for robot fleets and AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator for AWS credits and expert advice (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Amazon launches AWS IoT RoboRunner to simplify building management apps for robot fleets and AWS Robotics Startup Accelerator for AWS credits and expert advice  —  At a keynote during its Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2021 conference today, Amazon launched AWS IoT RoboRunner …

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Ghislaine Maxwell ‘exploited young girls’ and ‘served them up’ to Epstein, a prosecutor said.

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‘No red flags’ yet: South African scientists caution against panic over the new variant.

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Xiomara Castro lidera en Honduras con una promesa de cambio a pesar de sus vínculos al pasado

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Biden Urges Vaccinations Amid Omicron Variant Concerns

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‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm

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Covid: Biden urges calm over Omicron fears

No cases of the strain have been detected in the US, but Mr Biden called its arrival "inevitable".

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Citing "alleged serious breaches" of data protection laws, UK's ICO notifies Clearview AI of its provisional intention to fine the company over £17M (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

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Citing “alleged serious breaches” of data protection laws, UK's ICO notifies Clearview AI of its provisional intention to fine the company over £17M  —  Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a potential fine in the UK.

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Sweden Elects Its First Female Leader — for Second Time in a Week

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November Subscriber Digest

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Black Friday sales were up, but reflected the challenges facing retailers.

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In Scotland, Serving Halibut for a Better Planet

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De Blasio reminds New Yorkers to wear masks indoors.

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Governors urge caution in the United States on the Omicron variant.

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La relación con Honduras, marcada por la inmigración, ha sido muy distinta durante los gobiernos de Trump y Biden

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Relations with Honduras, shaped by immigration, have differed under Trump and Biden.

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‘Encanto’ Reaches No. 1, but Moviegoers Are Tough to Lure Back

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Phil Saviano, Survivor of Clergy Sex Abuse, Dies at 69

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Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist

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Israel and Morocco impose blanket bans on all foreign travelers.

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‘Daddy at Your Service:’ Candidates promise a new era, but are tied to the past.

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Hondurans seek a break from graft and despair in an election with repercussions for the United States.

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Covid: South Africa's president calls for lifting of Omicron travel bans

Cyril Ramaphosa says the action by countries including the UK and US is discriminatory and unnecessary.

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Virgil Abloh: Designer and Off-White founder dies aged 41

Abloh, who was Louis Vuitton's artistic director, had been suffering from a rare form of cancer.

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‘Papi a la orden’: los candidatos prometen una nueva era, pero están atados al pasado

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Los hondureños buscan un alivio de la desesperación en unas elecciones con repercusiones para Estados Unidos

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Virgil Abloh, Bold Designer of Men’s Wear, Dies at 41

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Elecciones presidenciales en Honduras: ¿qué está en juego hoy?

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Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying.

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How "neo-conglomerates" like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta replaced and outgrew industrial conglomerates like GE, Toshiba, and Johnson & Johnson (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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How “neo-conglomerates” like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta replaced and outgrew industrial conglomerates like GE, Toshiba, and Johnson & Johnson  —  As General Electric and other old-school behemoths break up, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta are taking …

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Listen to Stephen Sondheim’s 20 Essential Songs

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South Africa, whose scientists detected Omicron, is an outlier on the least vaccinated continent.

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Does Omicron cause only mild illness? The jury is still out.

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Channel migrants: France wants 'serious' talks with UK

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin says France will not be held hostage by domestic British politics.

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Gurman: Apple is still working on a multi-device charger, other short and long-distance wireless chargers, and reverse wireless charging for its devices (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Gurman: Apple is still working on a multi-device charger, other short and long-distance wireless chargers, and reverse wireless charging for its devices  —  Despite its failed AirPower experiment a few years ago, Apple is reportedly still working on a multi-device charger for its products.

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Omicron variant upends global pandemic response.

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Yemen: The woman saving a crumbling heritage

Its famous architecture has been wrecked by war - now a female engineer is rebuilding amid the conflict.

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Your pictures on the theme of 'home comforts'

A selection of striking images from our readers around the world.

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'Why do you like Shah Rukh Khan?'

The Bollywood superstar's female fandom rests not on love but on economics, according to a new book.

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Nigerian celebrities Simi and Chigul expose sexism in music and Nollywood

Singer Simi and Nollywood's Chigul tell the BBC about the cultural hurdles female stars face.

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Covid vaccine: Can US troops be punished for refusing the jabs?

The US military has said that America's 2.1 million soldiers and sailors must all get the vaccine.

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Wakefield Poole, Pioneer in Gay Pornography, Dies at 85

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Garage Sale Pitches

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The migrants returned to Iraqi camps from Belarus

Three specially chartered planes have now returned 1,000 migrants from Belarus to Iraq.

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ICYMI: Smells like Christmas, confirms US First Lady

Jill Biden's clearly feeling festive but here’s some other tree-mendous moments you may have missed this week.

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Now that most video game platforms have a digital-only purchasing option, paying separately for the same video game on each is indefensible (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Now that most video game platforms have a digital-only purchasing option, paying separately for the same video game on each is indefensible  —  Hey, this is Vlad in Tokyo, your substitute for Jason from a land where we worked on Thursday.  Today we're going to be discussing the lucrative fragmentation …

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Switzerland will vote on virus restrictions on Sunday.

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Medical students helping to fight Covid get a holiday gift.

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