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K-pop boy band describe their latest EP as a teen account of how the lockdown shattered their world, and they hope it resonates with young people everywhere reut.rs/3luwUYc
U.S. voting rights activist Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize reut.rs/3pCjjAc
Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion deal for Twitter. The company's CEO and CFO were terminated and escorted out of headquarters reut.rs/3ziMaA7
K-pop stars SEVENTEEN, best known for hits such as ‘HOME;RUN’ and ‘Left & Right,’ drop their new EP ‘Your Choice’ and lead single ‘Ready to Love’ reut.rs/3gI1qhk
Authorities in Canada uncovered the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, at the site of a former residential school for indigenous students reut.rs/3fuGZUs
Brazil protests escalate, disrupting fuel, grain and meat industries reut.rs/3NrL3UD
South Korean boyband 's brand new music video ‘Dynamite’ has broken the YouTube record for the most views in one day
Following a record-breaking 2019, K-Pop band reached new heights with their first English-language song ‘Dynamite’ on the U.S. Billboard charts. But they wish they could celebrate with their fans reut.rs/2RpeCtL
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U.S. Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into the Trump campaign's use of the White House for campaign-related activities to see if federal law has been violated. More #Election2020 updates: reut.rs/3p4aIWQ
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Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion arrived in Madrid with the help of a group of Spanish taxi drivers who volunteered for a 40-hour trip to Poland and back to support the mass evacuation reut.rs/361tcTx
Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its wax effigy of Donald Trump into a dumpster, calling it a 'preparatory measure' ahead of the election reut.rs/35NKJuf
'I feel gay', FIFA chief attempts to empathise with marginalised reut.rs/3TYOynu
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand reut.rs/3daq8mF
Exclusive: Tesla is considering exporting China-made electric cars to the U.S., a reversal that would reflect the automaker's deepening cost advantage at its Shanghai plant and slower demand from Chinese consumers reut.rs/3DZSJJB
Exclusive: Aspartame, one of the world's most common artificial sweeteners, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, pitting it against the food industry and regulators reut.rs/3XzfgWX
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Group 2B is the IARC's lowest-risk classification of carcinogens. This group also includes aloe vera & pickled vegetables; higher-risk groups include red meat, hot drinks, & being a hairdresser. To face increased risk, an adult would have to drink 12 to 36 cans of soda daily.
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South Korean boy band say they hope their new digital single #DynamiteBTS refreshes fans and helps them recharge their batteries as they cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic reut.rs/32hb6XL
K-pop band BTS delivers 'message of hope' at 75th U.N. General Assembly reut.rs/3hVkiH2
The Supreme Court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns and other financial records as part of a criminal investigation, a blow to his quest to conceal details of his finances
New Zealand Maori leader Rawiri Waititi ejected from parliament for not wearing a necktie said that enforcing a Western dress code was an attempt to suppress indigenous culture reut.rs/3p1myQB
China will lower import tariffs on over 850 products from January 1 reut.rs/2PMsLBi
South Korean supergroup , a fundraising juggernaut for social justice causes in the United States, visited the White House to discuss hate crimes targeting Asians #BTSatTheWhiteHouse reut.rs/3PSlHjL
Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, talks about the events following the death of George Floyd in a video she recorded for students graduating from her old high school in Los Angeles reut.rs/2XvOEJ5
Russian ambassador doused in red by anti-war protesters in Poland reut.rs/3LRXoQx
Over 66,200 Ukrainian men have returned from abroad to fight, says defence minister reut.rs/3hLZbZP
Twitter suspends hundreds of accounts promoting Philippines' Marcos reut.rs/33VuxKb
‘I have asked 27 European leaders whether Ukraine will be in NATO .... Everyone is afraid, no one answers,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a late night speech reut.rs/3BMsjtg
Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of U.S. dollars reut.rs/3EYBeuJ
Elon Musk recommends voting for Republicans in U.S. midterm elections reut.rs/3hpsZys
Billionaire Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion, a regulatory filing shows
How the fanbase of the South Korean band BTS – known as ARMY – raised over $1 million for the Black Lives Matter movement, mostly in just one day reut.rs/2CcQYwL by via
COP27: Greeted like a rock star, Brazil's Lula promises to protect Amazon reut.rs/3Alfmaa
Scotland to approve free sanitary products for all women reut.rs/390weDt
Exclusive: Manchester Utd negotiating exclusivity with Qatar's Sheikh Jassim in $6 billion-plus sale talks reut.rs/43TeUfU
K-pop band is offering up its outfits from the music video for hit single ‘Dynamite’ to the highest bidder in a Beverly Hills charity auction in January reut.rs/2Ju5p2C
Drone footage shows the scale of protests in Poland's capital Warsaw against a court ruling that further limited its restrictive abortion laws reut.rs/362sx07
Millions of Turks are tuning in to watch Sedat Peker, a convicted Turkish mob boss who has been posting videos on social media in which he makes uncorroborated claims of corruption, murder and drug running against top politicians reut.rs/3fweyW6
Over 500 kg of cocaine found in coffee delivery for Nespresso reut.rs/3vJZwEn
Thousands of Colombians march to protest government tax proposals reut.rs/2R8ua8F
K-pop star Jungkook was named the global brand ambassador for US fashion label Calvin Klein. The new campaign video featured the BTS singer wearing the brand’s signature denim jeans and jacket
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Big Hit Entertainment, the management label of hugely popular South Korean K-Pop group , saw a 27% jump in half-year profits as its online concert and merchandise sales offset event cancellations during the year reut.rs/3iAk4pf
Losses on short positions in U.S. firms top $70 billion - Ortex data reut.rs/2MxK75Q
Exclusive: English football club Manchester United is negotiating granting exclusivity to the consortium led by Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani in the talks to sell itself for more than $6 billion, people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/43Y8Sus 1/3
Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook. The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded reut.rs/36waPSB
Roche gets FDA emergency use approval for COVID-19 antibody test reut.rs/2z3OO0u
Insurer Chubb says will stop underwriting NRA insurance for gun owners reut.rs/2CgyolV
Mexico's first lady stirs Twitter storm with comment on kids with cancer reut.rs/3dUaRp4
Pope, holding Ukrainian flag, condemns 'the massacre of Bucha' reut.rs/3ubK4Qp
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The moment dozens of diplomats from the European Union and United States walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the annual U.N. Human Rights Council session, nearly a week since Moscow unleashed its war on Ukraine reut.rs/3MephCK
As the nationwide lockdown in Italy enters its second week due to the #coronavirus outbreak, Venice's canals appear to be crystal clear. Follow for live updates: reut.rs/2x7RitC
German prosecutors have confiscated more than $60 million worth of #bitcoin from a fraudster. There’s only one problem: they can’t unlock the money because he won’t give them the password. reports reut.rs/39QG265 1/4
BTS wraps up record-breaking year with New Year's Eve online concert reut.rs/34Z4i30
Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii reut.rs/34K0ylZ
Fifty-seven percent of Americans want President Trump to be immediately removed from office, a / Ipsos poll shows reut.rs/3hVvt40
Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, urged Americans to elect a Republican Congress in U.S. midterms to counterbalance President Joe Biden's Democrats, the first time a major social media CEO explicitly took a side reut.rs/3hmB3QG
Turkey's Erdogan quits European treaty on violence against women reut.rs/390skN3
Brazil minister calls for environmental deregulation while public distracted by COVID reuters.com/article/us-bra
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the senators who made Donald Trump's acquittal possible as a ‘cowardly group of Republicans’ and blamed McConnell for not allowing the House to deliver the impeachment charge to the Senate while Trump was still in the White House
More than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India’s northern Punjab state in a show of strength against new agricultural laws that seek to deregulate the country's vast farm sector reut.rs/3ujJtuc
No vaccine, no French Open for Djokovic, says French Sports ministry reut.rs/33ttEbD
Exclusive: A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil suggests exposure to dengue fever may provide some level of immunity against COVID-19 reut.rs/3kECWEW
🐱 The Biden family finally has a cat.
First lady Jill Biden's office has announced America's first family is excited to welcome a two-year-old, gray-and-white-striped feline named Willow to the White House reut.rs/33ZRsEr 1/4
Dogs are being returned to shelters and adoption agencies in the U.S. after restrictions were lifted and people began to go back to work reut.rs/3jU0msF
A wild and ailing sheep found in a forest in Australia, named Baarack by rescuers, has yielded a fleece weighing more than 35 kilograms - nearly half the weight of an adult kangaroo - after being shorn for the first time in years reut.rs/3utUJnK
Trucks rolled into Canada's capital Ottawa to stage a massive protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccine mandates in front of parliament reut.rs/3KSzUup
Vatican praises U.S. Court decision on abortion, saying it challenges world reut.rs/3On6ypl
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🏈 Eminem ended his hit 'Lose Yourself' by kneeling and placing his head in his hand, a gesture that former quarterback Colin Kaepernick made during the National Anthem at NFL games as a call for racial justice reut.rs/3rIh4yB #SuperBowl
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – At least 149 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in South Korea when a crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a night-life area of Seoul reut.rs/3Fts5uV
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A fire on Chile's Easter Island has caused irreparable damage to its iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues. The blaze swept through Rapa Nui National Park earlier this week, causing several stones to crack, Mayor Pedro Edmunds told reut.rs/3Vc5wAh
A team of experts has found a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old in a tomb unearthed on Peru's central coast reut.rs/3FQkCDd
Ozil to end Arsenal contract, move to Fenerbahce - The Athletic reut.rs/3sqFjjj
