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Extreme weather testing Biden’s disaster management skills

independent– Add Mother Nature to the pile of crises on President Joe Biden s plate. A month into the job and focused on the coronavirus, Biden is seeing his disaster management skills tested after winter storms plunged Texas Oklahoma and neighboring states into an unusual

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Stage set for impeachment after Pence dismisses House call to invoke 25th amendment

theguardian– The House has voted to formally call on vice president Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and strip Donald Trump of his presidential authority after he incited a mob that led a deadly assault on the US Capitol last week. Before the largely symbolic vote, Pence rejected the call to wrest Trump from power, effectively paving […]

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Ivanka Trump Called Capitol Terrorists ‘Patriots,’ and That Is Not What That Word Means

instyle– I think I first heard the word “coup” when I learned the history of Napoleon. Or maybe it was Franco, and eventually I connected it to that of Pinochet. But I am a words person and I mostly have used it lightly, to mean a spicy takeover — how you’d talk about a designer sliding […]

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US charges ex-Zoom employee with shutting down Tiananmen Square events

bbc– US prosecutors have charged a former Zoom employee with disrupting video meetings marking the anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square on behalf of China’s government. The China-based executive, Xinjiang Jin, is accused of helping to terminate at least four video meetings in May and June, hosted by people based in […]

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White Island volcano anniversary: Ardern leads nation in mourning tourists who died

theguardian– acinda Ardern has said the overseas visitors among 22 people killed in the White Island/Whakaari volcano eruption will be forever in the hearts of New Zealanders as the nation marked a year since the disaster. Victims’ families, survivors and rescue workers gathered for a minute’s silence on Wednesday at 2.11pm – the time the […]

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WhatsApp fans will be blocked from chat app unless they accept new rules

express– WhatsApp appears to be readying a change to its terms and conditions in the coming months and those that don’t agree may find themselves blocked from the popular chat app. News of this update originally came via the team WABetainfo who spotted and shared screenshots of the upcoming change which suggested the new T&Cs will […]

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Can you eat banana skin or peel?

In the UK we eat more than five billion bananas a year and waste about 1.4 million bananas, fruit and all. How many people have you ever seen eat a banana skin? Probably none, and that’s why so many are wasted. So can you eat banana skin? Express.co.uk chatted to the experts at ODDBOX to […]

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The Belgian job

The European Councils proposal to fill the EUs top jobs is so awash with novelty and controversy tha..

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A roadmap for the Balkans

BERLIN — Two decades after the Kosovo War ended, a political settlement between Belgrade and Pristin..

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Europeans have a lot to say. Brussels needs to listen.

LARREULE, France — Elections in my small village of Larreule, in southwestern France, are usually so..