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Ads We Like: Air New Zealand's safety video highlights country's biodiversity crisis Air New Zealand has launched its latest safety video that highlights the impact of New Zealand's biodiversity crisis. The video, called 'A Journey to Safety', tells the story of a young girl who transports a lost Takahe, a bird indigenous to New Zealand, to his new home with help from A....

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Ribbon Health raises $10.25M to provide more accurate and useful healthcare data The company added a16z General Partner Julie Yoo to its board of directors There's more data being generated right now than ever before in history; in healthcare, for example, there’s 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created daily. But just creating data isn't enough; there's no p....

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Count Binface to run for mayor of London Count Binface, a self-proclaimed "fearless space warrior", who ran against UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in last year's general election, has announced his plans to run for mayor of London.....

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Some Gesy doctors are potential tax cheats, inland revenue boss says Doctors enrolled with the national health scheme (Gesy) may be engaging in tax avoidance by exploiting a loophole in the law, while over 100 physicians have been flagged as having filed an inordinate number of treatment claims. At the House watchdog committee, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides po....

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Kansas City Chiefs To Reportedly Use Franchise Tag On Chris Jones The Kansas City Chiefs are expected to put the franchise tag on one of their best defensive players in the very near future. Sources have told ESPN.com that Chris Jones’ contract will be locked in with the tag, though that’s not a guarantee he’ll be back with the team in 2020. W....

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Cross-Border US-To-Canada LTL Freight Rates Heat Up A strong increase in cross-border less-than-truckload (LTL) rates, largely from the U.S. to Canada, helped drive up freight costs for Canadian shippers in December, according to Canadian General Freight Index (CGFI) figures released today. read more....

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Pope Francis Sick One Day After Supporting Cornavirus Sufferers On Ash Wednesday, Says Report Just one day after he expressed his support for people worldwide suffering from the coronavirus, Pope Francis has fallen ill, The New York Post reports. Francis’ alleged “slight indisposition” has prompted him to cancel a planned penitential Mass in Rome, Italy, at St. John Late....

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Jimmy Kimmel Trolls Ted Cruz, Shows Video Of Republican Voters Failing To Locate Any Country On A Map Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel trolled Senator Ted Cruz for failing to properly understand one of his (Kimmel’s) segments, HuffPost reports. The host produced a map and asked self-identified Republican voters to name a country on a map, and several failed to do so. Back in 2018, Kim....

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Hodzi refuses to nail Mthuli Ncube PROSECUTOR-GENERAL (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi has said allegations raised by civil society leader and activist Mfundo Mlilo against Finance minister Mthuli Ncube were not sufficient enough....

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MDC youth calls for solidarity on Hwende's treason charge MDC youth leader Obey Sithole has called on people to stand with their Secretary General Chalton Hwende tomorrow as he is set to appear before....

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Days before poll, Israel approves nearly 1,800 new settler homes: minister Israel approved nearly 1,800 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank Thursday, the country's right-wing Defence Minister announced, four days ahead of a general election.....

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Lawmakers warn Pentagon leaders of a looming 'brawl' over their murky plan to build more warships REUTERS/Amanda Voisard Lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday warned defense leaders that the failure to submit the Pentagon's 30-year shipbuilding plan was a problem. Committee members also repeatedly expressed concerns about proposed cuts to Navy shipbuilding plans to Def....

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JFF shocked, saddened by murder of Irvino English General Secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Dalton Wint said the organisation is deeply saddened and shocked by the murder of former national player Irvino English. ....

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Problems with your office printer? China may be using it to spy on you Adam Berry/Getty Images Office printers around the country, especially those in use by state and local governments, may be targets of Chinese intelligence, according to an an American Enterprise Institute report. "Printers ... store sensitive data on internal hard drives derived from the various....

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The Marine Corps' top officer has ordered Confederate symbols be removed from all Corps installations Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Marine Corps' top officer has ordered all Confederate-related paraphernalia to be removed from the service's installations. The military has struggled with Confederate symbols and what they represent; several bases are named after Confederate generals, but the service....

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Skull and bones of missing teenager found in the lion enclosure at a Pakistan safari park The deputy director general of the safari park theorizes the boy may have been killed before his body entered the enclosure....

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Travel bans not best way to contain coronavirus, says former White House official who dealt with Ebola Reuters As the coronavirus spreads, countries around the world are taking precautions, but a former White House official who dealt with Ebola is warning against shutting borders. "I'm uncomfortable in general with highly restrictive policies because in our experience they just don't work," says ....

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Deposits and loans decrease in January 2020 There was a general decline in the number of deposits and loans during the first month of 2020 compared with the previous month, according to data released by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). According to the official report, the balance of deposits in January 2020 amounted to €48.5bn, a... The ....

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Texas Joins The Fight Against Juul Texas just became the latest state to join in the ever growing fight against the vape giant Juul by conducting an investigation into the company and their marketing. Their decision comes after an increased number of vaping related illnesses in the past year as well as in increase in underage vaping....

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Delhi riots toll climbs to 34 as violence ebbs but doesn't subside New Delhi: The death toll in Delhis worst riots in more than three decades climbed to 34 on Thursday as the violence ebbed but did not subside completely and thousands of people began picking up the pieces of their shattered lives and livelihoods. Four days after communal clashes that began in nort....

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1948 Palestinian leader makes Trump plan election target Leading 1948 Palestinian politician Ayman Odeh has made US President Donald Trump and his controversial peace plan the main target of his campaign for Tuesday's general election.....

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Jets might have 5 new starting offensive linemen in 2020, says GM Joe Douglas INDIANAPOLIS — Jets general manager Joe Douglas has the unenviable task of performing radical reconstructive surgery on an offensive line that severely underperformed last season. The new guy in the big chair might have to perform a complete makeover depending on how the dominos fall in the coming....

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'We have decided to recruit Nigerian youths to end insurgency in Northeast' – Buratai The Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, on Wednesday said the army will soon embark on the recruitment of Nigerian youths into....

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Burglar in critical condition after fight with homeowner A 43-year-old man, who was attempting to break into a house in Zakaki on Wednesday night, was injured in a fight with the 22-year-old owner and is being treated at Limassol general hospital. He sustained severe injuries after the owner returned home and found the perpetrator in one of the... The po....

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Pakistan will respond whenever its security, integrity is challenged: DG ISPR Maj Gen Iftikhar Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar on Thursday said that Pakistan will respond whenever there is a challenge to the country's security and integrity. He was addressing a press conference on the first anniversary of 'Operation Swift Retort', which re....

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DG ISPR addresses press conference Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar is addressing a press conference on the first anniversary of the Feb 27, 2019 'Operation Swift Retort' which resulted in the downing of two Indian planes that had violated Pakistani airspace. "After the Pulwama inci....

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Voice of 'white van' suspects match recordings The Government Analyst has confirmed that the voice samples of the two men who attended the controversial media briefing on "White Van abductions" are a match to the video recordings. The Attorney General informed court today of the Government Analyst's report when the case was taken up for hearing.....

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Efforts under way to get Reko Diq case penalty cancelled: AG Khalid Jawed Khan ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan has said that Pakistan's foremost effort in the Reko Diq mining case is to secure annulment of the $5.9 billion penalty by getting the interim stay given by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes converted into a permanent injun....

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Thunder's Chris Paul gives Langston University 'jolt of energy' with support of HBCUs By Joe MussattoStaff [email protected] Chris Paul strolled into Chesapeake Energy Arena wearing a bright orange Langston University hat, Langston point guard Keeto Browne remembers his phone buzzing as pictures popped across social media.Four months later, Oklahoma's only historicall....

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SandRidge posts biggest loss in years for 2019 By Jack MoneyBusiness [email protected] Energy lost nearly a half-billion dollars in 2019, the company reported Wednesday after markets closed. In an earnings release, the company said it had a net loss of about $449.3 million, or $12.68 per share, on total revenues of about $266.....

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Coronavirus outbreak reaches scary new milestone If there's one topic that has the entire world's attention at the moment it's the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Originating in China in December, the spread was initially slow, but things have changed dramatically in the weeks since its discovery. Now, with health officials around the world sc....

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In Era of Leaks, Disney Manages to Keep CEO Swap a Secret (Analysis) In a time of digital transparency, keeping seismic events a secret until they actually come to pass has proven to be an almost insurmountable task. For media companies, the challenge is tripled: Many of them employ staffers whose job it is to ferret out news before it happens and make it known to th....

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Elderly woman killed in car crash An eighty-year-old woman has died after a road accident on the Limassol-Platres road on Wednesday evening, Limassol police said. The incident occurred as two cars collided head on, seriously injuring two people while a third person sustained lighter injuries. All three were taken to Limassol general....

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Woman tested for virus, students return home, more staff at crossing points (Update 5) By Evie Andreou and Nick Theodoulou Tests were being run on Wednesday to confirm whether a woman in Limassol general hospital, who had direct contact with a coronavirus case, has been infected, as the government said more staff would be put in place at crossing points to increase Cyprus preparedness....

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NSA Blew $100 Million On Phone Records Over Five Years, Generated Exactly One Usable Lead The telephone metadata program the NSA finally put out to pasture in 2019 was apparently well past its expiration date. Since the initial Snowden leak in 2013, critics have argued the program needed to die since it was obviously the sort of general warrant rummaging (only without the warrant!) the....

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'First Wives Club' Renewed for Season 2 at BET Plus BET Plus has renewed “First Wives Club” for a second season. "Tracy Oliver's 'First Wives Club' has been hugely successful on BET Plus, served as one of our signature originals at launch and helped us quickly become the largest African American focused SVOD service," said Devin Griffin, ....

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Apple just released iOS 13.4 beta 3 for the iPhone Apple's upcoming new iOS 13.4 software is the version new version of iOS 13 in quite some time that adds a few noteworthy new features. That makes sense, of course, since iOS 13 has been a bit messy so far. It's nowhere near as bad as iOS 11 was two years ago, but iOS 13 has still been very buggy ev....

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Rep. Cicilline Wants To Remove Section 230 Protections For Platforms That Host 'Demonstrably False' Political Ads What is it with politicians (and other commentators) who keep confusing the 1st Amendment with Section 230? The latest is Rep. David Cicilline, who wants to remove Section 230 protections from internet platforms that host "demonstrably false" political ads: Rep. David Cicilline is drafting ....

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More people are being diagnosed with coronavirus outside China than in — another indication that the virus is nearing pandemic status Andrea Pattaro/AFP via Getty Images COVID-19 is spreading around the globe rapidly. It's now on every continent, except Antarctica. In China, however, the spread of the virus is steadily slowing, a sign that the country's draconian containment measures might've worked. The number of new cases o....

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Grenfell Tower fire: Protection for spoken evidence guaranteed Anything said by witnesses to the inquiry will not be used to prosecute them, the Attorney General says.....

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3 Takeaways From General Electric's 10K A strong start to 2020 for General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) ran out of steam in February thanks to the coronavirus. However, there are several key themes in GE's recent 10K filing that suggest the GE rally could resume. Latest Ratings for GE DateFirmActionFromTo Feb 2020Gordon HaskettUpgr....

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Chicago Bears: Andy Dalton The Odds-On Favorite To Land In The Windy City According To Sportsline If the Chicago Bears bring in some help at quarterback this offseason, one oddsmaker thinks the best bet on who; is Andy Dalton. Dalton is technically still under team control with the Cincinnati Bengals but rumors around the NFL have been predicting he’ll be on another team by the start of t....

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Delhi violence: Govt and opposition parties indulge in verbal duel, death toll rises to 27 New Delhi: A fierce war of words broke out between the government and opposition parties over the incidents of violence in the northeast Delhi with the Congress accusing the government of "colossal failure of duty" and demanding Home Minister Amit Shahs resignation, a demand termed as "laughable" by....

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Overworked state pathologists threaten mass resignations Pathologists working at Nicosia general hospital are threatening mass resignations because of overwork, state doctors' association president Soteres Koumas told the media on Wednesday. The hospital's pathology department on Tuesday sent a letter to state organisation Okypy, in charge of the national....

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Bank of Cyprus in hot water over unfair contracts The state legal services have filed a court case against the Bank of Cyprus over unfair terms in contracts, attorney-general Costas Clerides said on Wednesday. He also said that two more cases, pending for some time now due to some problems in competent state services, would be filed in court... Th....

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For the first time, Reddit's annual transparency report details the content removals and enforcement actions it took in 2019 This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Digital Media Briefing subscribers earlier this morning. To check to see if you already have access to Insider Intelligence through your company, click here. On Monday, Reddit released its annual transparency report, detailing the ....

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Want A $1.50 Hot Dog At Costco? Get Ready To Show Your Membership Card Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is known for many things, one of which is its $1.50 hot dog deal offered to members and the general public. But according to some media reports, this could change. read more....

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Xi chairs leadership meeting on COVID-19 control, makes donation Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).....

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BSMMU submits Khaleda's health report to court The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University or BSMMU has submitted a report on jailed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's health to the Supreme Court's registrar general.....

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Court sets date to deliver ruling on interdicted judge The Nugegoda Magistrate's Court is to deliver a ruling on the Attorney General's request for a warrant for the arrest of interdicted High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya on 02 March. The decision was taken when the writ petition filed by interdicted High Court Judge Gihan Pilapitiyawas was taken up for....

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'Law minister and I are equals,' says Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan Newly appointed Attorney General of Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan on Wednesday said that he and the law minister "are equals" and that he would have a good working relationship with the government. In an informal conversation with reporters at the Supreme Court, the attorney general also said that t....

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