Story by: Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, will not face mortgage fraud charges in New York, after the state’s highest court declined to revisit lower court decisions that barred prosecuting Manafort on double jeopardy grounds. The New York court of appeals decision last week closed […]
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2021-02-09 02:05:19 | Hacker tries to poison water supply in Florida city
Story by: Associated PressThe Telegraph A hacker gained unauthorised into a remote access software system shared by workers at a Florida city’s water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemical. An unknown suspect breached a computer system for the city of Oldsmar’s water treatment plant on […]
2021-02-09 01:58:58 | Colombia Makes ‘Historic’ Decision to Grant Legal Status to 1.7 Million Venezuelan Migrants
Story by: Julie TurkewitzThe New York Times World News BOGOTÁ, Colombia — President Iván Duque of Colombia announced Monday that his government will provide temporary legal status to the more than 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants who have fled to Colombia in recent years, a far-reaching move that will allow the migrants to work legally and […]
2021-02-09 01:37:51 | N Korea developed nuclear weapons programme in 2020: UN report | Nuclear Weapons News
Story by: Al Jazeera North Korea maintained and developed its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 in violation of international sanctions, helping fund them with some $300m stolen through cyber-hacks, according to a confidential United Nations report seen by the Reuters news agency on Monday. The report by independent sanctions monitors said Pyongyang “produced […]
2021-02-09 01:14:41 | First round draw, match schedule and how to watch on TV
Story by: Telegraph SportThe Telegraph After a three-week delay from its traditional start date, the Australian Open is finally underway, with the spotlight firmly on eight-time men’s champion Novak Djokovic and home favourite Ashleigh Barty. Tournament director Craig Tiley has had the unenviable task of working alongside public health experts to manage the arrival of […]
2021-02-09 01:04:11 | Mountains, Ice and Climate Change: A Recipe for Disasters
Story by: Henry FountainThe New York Times World News The flash flood that killed dozens of people and left hundreds missing in the Himalayas of India on Sunday was far from the first such disaster to occur among the world’s high-mountain glaciers. In a world with a changing climate, it won’t be the last. Shrinking […]
2021-02-09 00:46:45 | Who’s who in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial | Donald Trump News
Story by: Al Jazeera Former US President Donald Trump will face his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate this week. The trial is set to begin just under a month after the US House of Representatives impeached Trump for “incitement of insurrection” in relation to the deadly January 6 storming of the US […]
2021-02-09 00:19:14 | Coronavirus live news: WHO says it is ‘too early’ to dismiss AstraZeneca vaccine | World news
Story by: Helen SullivanThe Guardian 12.27am GMT00:27 Russia official death toll half of figure listed by state statistics agency; Worldwide, according to official figures, the coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 2.3 million lives worldwide out of more than 106 million known infections. AFP: Russia has recorded a dramatic increase in mortality in 2020 fuelled […]
Iranian cleric warns followers that COVID-19 vaccine turns people gay
A religious leader in Iran told his followers that the COVID-19 vaccine is capable of turning people gay. “Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine,” wrote Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian of Qom on the instant messaging platform Telegram, according to the Saudi broadsheet Arab News. “They have become homosexuals.” Related: Turkey orders schools […]
LGB Alliance releases toe-curlingly embarrassing sea shanty
In the long list of things that the internet didn’t need right now, LGB Alliance has apparently decided it needed to make a sea shanty. LGB Alliance, a pressure group which has faced heavy criticism for refusing to denounce its neo-Nazi and homophobic supporters, uploaded a “same-sex attraction” positive sea shanty on YouTube. The organisation […]