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Biden prepares to declare Armenian 'genocide'

01:47 U.S. President Joe Biden is preparing to move forward with a campaign pledge to formally recognize that atrocities committed against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire more

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Football's rebel European Super League: What we know so far

Arsenal and Manchester City are two of the teams to join the breakaway league. /Shaun Botterill/Pool via AP What is it?Some of Europe's biggest football clubs have launched a breakaway Super L

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EU exported 34m vaccines since January despite internal shortfalls

The EU has struggled to distribute COVID-19 vaccines across the bloc. /Valentina Petrova/AP Photo European Union (EU) figures show that the 27-nation bloc has allowed the export of over 34 mil

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Italian train transformed into a mobile COVID-19 intensive care unit

01:54 A train with Intensive Care Units set up in three carriages was launched at Rome's Termini station.Unveiled by Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) Italiane, Italy's public railways company

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Pandemic reaches previously COVID-19-free New Caledonia

00:52 The remote Pacific territory of New Caledonia, one of the few places on the planet to have avoided COVID-19, is to go into strict lockdown after detecting nine cases.The outbreak

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WHO warns against over-reliance on vaccines as COVID-19 cases rise

01:23 The number of new coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in seven weeks, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).WHO Director-General Tedros A

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U.S's Fauci and China's Zhong Nanshan urge solidarity against COVID-19

00:58 The sharing of information and collaboration across borders is essential in the fight against COVID-19, stated medical leaders from the U.S. and China, in a rare sign of solidari

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Huge iceberg breaks off near UK base in Antarctica

00:39 A huge iceberg, the size of Greater London or the Greek island of Lesbos, has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.The phenomenon is known as calving and comes almost a d

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UK's top court rules schoolgirl Begum who joined ISIL can't return

Shamima Begum, 20, was one of three London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria in 2015 to join the so-called Islamic State. /AFP Shamima Begum, who left the UK to join the so-called Islamic Stat

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Putin and Lukashenko display solidarity amid protests and EU pressure

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko met in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. /Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Belarus leader Alex

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Uber drivers are entitled to workers' rights, top UK court rules

Uber drivers celebrate as they listen to the court decision, which could have a huge effect on the UK's 'gig' economy. /AP/Frank Augstein Britain's Supreme Court ruled that a group of Uber dri

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Belarus jails journalists who filmed anti-Lukashenko protests

Journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva, right, and Darya Chultsova stand inside a defendants' cage in a courtroom in Minsk, Belarus, each was sentenced to two years in jail. /AP A Belarusian court h

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Million-year-old mammoths yield oldest ever sequenced DNA

An illustration from 'Nature' magazine, of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth. /AFP /BETH ZAIKEN/CENTRE FOR PALAEOGENETICS Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafr

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Catalonia independence boosted by regional election results

Electoral workers wearing protective suits as a precaution against the coronavirus. /AP/Emilio Morenatti There were a surprising number of winners in the regional election in Catalonia, Spain.

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UK hospitals monitor vaccine roll-out using similar tech to Bitcoin

The UK has rolled out more than 6 million first doses of vaccine in the early weeks of 2021. /AP/Frank Augstein A British hospital network has become one of the first in the world to use distr

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Explaining the COVID-19 variants – the dangers and the solutions

10:52 From South Africa and Brazil to the UK, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are regularly being discovered, coinciding with an accelerating international vaccination program.Alt

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Global Business: Google and Facebook team up, Arctic oil approval

"Cooperate and assist one another."The language might be functional but the sentiment could have a huge effect on the ongoing battle between "Big Tech" and Western powers. The quote was reported by t