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• Israel OKs hundreds of settlement homes in last-minute push
  by By Josef Federman | AP on January 17, 2021 at 4:31 pm

  Israeli authorities say they have advanced plans to build nearly 800 homes in West Bank settlements

• US military says its troop removal from Somalia is complete
  by By Cara Anna | AP on January 17, 2021 at 3:31 pm

  The U.S. military says its troop withdrawal from Somalia is complete, in one of the last actions of President Donald Trump’s presidency

• U.S. pundits keep comparing Washington to a war zone. People who know war disagree.
  by By Miriam Berger on January 17, 2021 at 3:26 pm

  People who have lived or worked in areas actually beset by conflict say the comparison trivializes the reality of war.

• Britons lament ‘U.K. variant’ label, as coronavirus strain spreads around the world
  by By Karla Adam and William Booth on January 17, 2021 at 2:54 pm

  The WHO says it’s working on a more neutral naming system.

• Amid COVID-19 surge, South Africa delays reopening schools
  by By Mogomotsi Magome | AP on January 17, 2021 at 1:54 pm

  Faced with a rapid resurgence of COVID-19 overwhelming the country’s hospitals and driven by a more infectious virus variant, South Africa has delayed reopening its schools

• Lebanon signs with Pfizer for 2.1 million vaccine doses
  by By Sarah El Deeb | AP on January 17, 2021 at 1:24 pm

  Lebanon has finalized a deal with Pfizer to secure 2.1 million doses of the vaccine against coronavirus amid a surge in infections in the small country

• Europe sees a narrow window for Biden to revive Iranian nuclear deal
  by By Loveday Morris and Erin Cunningham on January 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm

  Iran has been ramping up its breaches, while June elections may complicate diplomacy.

• ‘Frozen in time’: A year after Iran downed Ukrainian plane, victims’ families still hunt for justice
  by By Natalie Gryvnyak, Isabelle Khurshudyan and Erin Cunningham on January 17, 2021 at 11:00 am

  All 176 people aboard the flight to Kyiv died when it was hit by a missile fired amid U.S.-Iran tensions.

• Cambodian opposition figure blocked from planned return home
  by By Sopheng Cheang | AP on January 17, 2021 at 10:31 am

  An effort by a self-exiled senior member of the banned opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to return to her homeland has failed after after an airline refused to carry her

• Spanish climber falls to death from K2
  on January 17, 2021 at 2:53 pm

  Spanish mountaineer Sergi Mingote has died while climbing K2, the world's second highest summit, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Saturday.

• Britain's 'major crisis' is good and bad news for travelers
  on January 17, 2021 at 10:15 am

  When the UK Prime Minister addressed the nation on December 20, the news was bad enough: Christmas was canceled.

• Ugandan President Museveni wins re-election in vote his rival says was rigged
  on January 16, 2021 at 7:23 pm

  Uganda's longtime leader Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected for a sixth term amid allegations of fraud and lack of transparency around the vote count.

• Australian Open: 47 players In quarantine after positive Covid-19 tests on two charter flights
  on January 16, 2021 at 3:54 pm

  Preparations for the Australian Open hit a major stumbling block on Saturday after 47 players were told they couldn't train or practice after some passengers on two charter planes arriving in Melbourne returned positive Covid-19 test results.

• Woman trapped under rubble seen on video
  on January 15, 2021 at 7:25 pm

  Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island.

• Bitcoin prices roar back towards $40,000
  on January 14, 2021 at 9:13 pm

  The bitcoin roller coaster continues.

• The US box office just had a horrible year. 2021 may not be much better
  on January 14, 2021 at 6:24 pm

  With the coronavirus pandemic shuttering theaters for months on end and major blockbusters delayed into an unforeseeable future, 2020 was one of the worst years in domestic box office history.

• See Samsung's new Galaxy S21 lineup
  on January 14, 2021 at 6:21 pm

  Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy S21 lineup of phones, which feature upgraded cameras and new privacy features.

• Opinion: Prepare for a jobs boom in 2021
  on January 14, 2021 at 2:21 pm

  The US economy and labor market, still far from fully recovered, are now bracing for a terrible, virus-spreading winter. It is hard to feel optimistic, but help is on the way. A strong recovery in the second half of 2021 may lead the unemployment rate to return to its natural rate of about 4.2 to 4.5% in 2022.

• Putin critic Alexei Navalny detained upon return to Russia after poisoning
  on January 17, 2021 at 6:40 pm
• Almost a third of recovered Covid patients return to hospital in five months and one in eight die
  on January 17, 2021 at 6:02 pm
• Israel may be starting to show 'herd effects' of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, expert suggests
  on January 17, 2021 at 5:45 pm
• Fauci: Two more Covid vaccines just ‘weeks’ away from US distribution
  on January 17, 2021 at 5:34 pm
• Woman arrested at inauguration checkpoint in D.C. said she was cabinet member, police say
  on January 17, 2021 at 5:28 pm
• First-term GOP Rep. Peter Meijer says he 'may very well have' ended his political career by voting to impeach Trump
  on January 17, 2021 at 5:10 pm
• How 'bewildered' Trump campaign aides would reportedly discreetly escape election challenge meetings
  on January 17, 2021 at 4:56 pm
• Spiritual advisor to Barack Obama and George W. Bush sentenced to 6 years for multi-million dollar China bonds fraud
  on January 17, 2021 at 4:39 pm
• Trump news – live: President’s approval rating hits record low as fears grow over inauguration week violence
  on January 17, 2021 at 4:31 pm

• House probes security and intelligence failures in deadly U.S. Capitol attack
  on January 17, 2021 at 4:05 pm

  Four House committees asked the FBI and other agencies for information related to security and intelligence failures connected to the Jan. 6 riots in D.C.

• Man makes last-ditch effort to recover $280 million in bitcoin he accidentally threw out
  on January 16, 2021 at 4:34 pm

  A British man who accidentally threw out a hard drive with a trove of bitcoin wants local city officials to let him search for it in a landfill site.

• Parler's de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers like Amazon
  on January 16, 2021 at 2:00 pm

  Parler survived being pushed out of Apple and Google's app stores, but getting kicked off Amazon's cloud has made Parler absent from the internet for days.

• German Chancellor Merkel’s party picks Armin Laschet as new leader
  on January 16, 2021 at 1:50 pm

  Laschet is currently the prime minister of Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia region, the most populous federal state in the country. 

• Biden to deploy FEMA, National Guard to set up Covid vaccine clinics across the U.S.
  on January 16, 2021 at 12:14 am

  The Biden administration will also "quickly jumpstart" efforts to make the vaccines available at local pharmacies across the U.S.

• Biden heads into inauguration with a stock market tailwind
  on January 15, 2021 at 9:29 pm

  Joe Biden moves into the White House in the coming week with the biggest stock market tailwind since Election Day for possibly any president in history.

• Dow falls more than 150 points to close out a losing week
  on January 15, 2021 at 9:09 pm

  Stocks fell on Friday after President-elect Joe Biden announced details of a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan and major banks released their quarterly results.

• Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny detained after landing in Moscow
  by AP on January 17, 2021 at 6:53 pm

  Russian prison service said he was detained for multiple violations of parole and terms of a suspended prison sentence.

• India ‘intervened’ on Jaffna University memorial issue
  by Meera Srinivasan on January 17, 2021 at 6:02 pm

  High Commissioner ‘raises concern’ with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa

• On Day 1, Joe Biden to reverse Donald Trump orders
  by AP on January 17, 2021 at 5:26 pm

  He plans to sign executive decrees to end targeted restrictions on immigration, join Paris climate accord

• Phil Spector, famed music producer and murder convict, dies at 81
  by AP on January 17, 2021 at 5:17 pm

  California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital.

• U.K. urges China to grant UN access to Xinjiang
  by AFP on January 17, 2021 at 4:36 pm

  ‘Appalling abuses against minorities’

• Biden ropes in 20 Indian-Americans, 17 in key White House positions
  by PTI on January 17, 2021 at 4:15 pm

  Neera Tanden, who has been nominated as Director of Management and Budget, and Dr. Vivek Murthy, nominated as the U.S. Surgeon General, top the list

• State capitals gird for pro-Trump protests
  by Reuters on January 17, 2021 at 3:32 pm

  FBI has warned of armed protests as extremists are emboldened by Jan. 6 attack