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  1. Chinese officials admitted Wednesday they have faced challenges getting enough supplies to residents in locked-down Xi'an, after the city's inhabitants took to social media to complain they didn't have enough food and call for help

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  2. Apple said Wednesday it has put the Indian plant of its main supplier "on probation" after a mass food poisoning and protests over workers’ living conditions

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  3. VIDEO: Prague Zoo is offering unsold Christmas trees to its animals as food or toys. Dozens of unsold spruces have ended up at the zoo where the elephants, gorillas and hyenas devour the needles, scratch their backs on the trees or kick them around their enclosure

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  4. The UN Human Rights Office said the legitimate voices of civil society should not be stigmatised, after a Moscow court hit Memorial with a second dissolution order in as many days

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  5. The world hit a record number of Covid infections in a week, an AFP tally revealed Wednesday, as the WHO warned that Omicron poses a "very high" risk and could yet overwhelm healthcare systems

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  6. The United Nations says it deeply regretted Russian court decisions to ban the country's most prominent rights group, Memorial, saying the moves further weakened Russia's "dwindling human rights community"

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  7. Swedish battery group Northvolt said Wednesday it has launched its "gigafactory" in northern Sweden, the first of its kind to be undertaken by a European company on the continent

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  8. Memorial shutdowns 'weaken' Russia's rights community: UN

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  9. The new party chief in China's Xinjiang called for improved business conditions in his first official visit to the region, where forced labour accusations have prompted some countries to announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics

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    At least two members of a pro-government militia were killed in an Israeli strike on the Syrian port of Latakia, a war monitor said on Wednesday

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    Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk says he and his team-mates need to "look in the mirror and improve" after the 1-0 loss to Leicester dealt a blow to their Premier League title prospects

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    Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has tested positive for for a second time and will miss the Premier League clash with leaders Manchester City on Saturday, the club said

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    India made patient progress on the fourth morning day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Wednesday

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    VIDEO: New Yorkers burn pieces of paper with their worst memories of 2021 written on them on "Good Riddance Day" at Times Square. Covid-19 was a popular theme, with people wishing to say goodbye to virtual learning and quarantines

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    Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss, who chronicled social change in her pictures for nearly eight decades, has died aged 97 in her Paris home, her family said Wednesday

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    Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News said Wednesday it will close after a police raid and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city's rapidly-shrinking press freedoms

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    Israel unveiled a package of "confidence-building measures" for the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, after Defence Minister Benny Gantz hosted talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on his first visit in years

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    VIDEO: The Santa Claus school in Brazil closes another Christmas season with a traditional lunch where the jolly men receive awards and cut their beards in a symbolic gesture

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    Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss dies at 97

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    World hits record number of Covid cases in a week: AFP tally

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