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The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website, after a year in which at least 1.4 million people globally have died from the Covid-19 pandemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Jq7dtD

Humanitarian workers fear any further rise in novel coronavirus cases would be disastrous in northwestern Syria, where around half of three million people live in overcrowded camps or temporary shelters after being displaced by conflict. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Jvyg6O

The subway system serving the U.S. capital region may be forced to make devastating cuts in 2021, including ending weekend services, closing 19 stations and shrinking weekday operations if Congress does not approve additional assistance. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36qos6Y

Police said they received a report of three men dressed in black hurling Molotov cocktails into the car park of the Police Sports and Recreation Club in Mongkok, a district that saw many clashes during last year's huge democracy protests. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fSIc6m

Public health experts, including Anthony Fauci, the leading US infectious disease expert, have sharply criticized Atlas, a neuroradiologist, for providing Trump with misleading or incorrect information on the virus pandemic. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qhLWmM

From now until Inauguration Day, Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be reading the President's Daily Brief crafted for Trump, who had delayed giving Biden and Harris access to it as he contests the outcome of the election. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fWN4aH

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Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the country's Supreme National Security Council, made the comment at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, where Iran's defense minister separately vowed to continue the man's work "with more speed and more power." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o51pov

State television showed several high-ranking Iranian officials, including Defence Minister Amir Hatami and Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami, at the funeral of Fakhrizadeh, whose coffin was covered in the Iranian flag. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33vjUdX

Four French police officers have been charged in connection to the beating and racial abuse of a black music producer, a judicial source said Monday, days after the incident in Paris that intensified controversy over a new security law. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36kCHu5

While not the first such session by a world leader, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson having addressed parliament online, Morrison spoke to Australian lawmakers on a big screen television placed at the back of the House of Representatives. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2VeZ7Xg

America should prepare for a "surge upon a surge" in coronavirus cases as millions of travelers return home after the Thanksgiving holiday, top US scientist Anthony Fauci warned Sunday. ​​The United States is the world's worst-affected country, with 266,831 Covid-19 deaths, and President Donald Trump's administration has issued conflicting messages on mask-wearing, travel and the danger posed by the virus. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Vg7IsP

A mysterious silver monolith that was placed in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep, federal officials and witnesses said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mk7YD2

Morrison said Australia was seeking the removal of the "truly repugnant" image posted on Monday by Zhao Lijian, a spokesman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Vj1ZCJ

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Social media and smartphones briefly gave youthful Arab Spring protesters a technological edge that allowed them to topple ageing dictatorships as their revolutionary spirit went viral. Regimes across North Africa and the Middle East were caught flat-footed a decade ago as the fervour of the popular uprisings spread at the speed of the internet via Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36hUhPy

The regulator WorkSafe examined why 47 people, mainly Australian tourists, were on the island in December 2019 when a column of burning ash and steam blasted from a volcanic vent. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fMq7Hj

The countries swept up by the latest revolts had initially stood on the sidelines as a contagion of uprisings gripped Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen in 2011. But in 2019 they led calls for an end to the same regional economic precariousness, corruption, and unresponsive governance that fuelled the Arab protests years earlier. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o7GLEi

Six inmates were killed and 35 others were injured when guards opened fire to control a riot at a prison on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital, officials said Monday. Two guards were critically injured, they said. Pandemic-related unrest has been growing in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons. Inmates have staged protests in recent weeks at several prisons as the number of coronavirus cases surges in the facilities. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o8zkMS

When Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled the country in January 2011, rumours and uncertainty created "panic and hysteria", said ex-activist and entrepreneur Houeida Anouar. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3li6bwZ

President-elect Joe Biden fractured his right foot while playing with one of his dogs, an injury discovered in a scan Sunday and that will likely require him to wear a boot for several weeks, his doctor said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3lkfnRI

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The attack was staged Saturday in a rice field in Garin Kwashebe, a Borno community known for rice farming, on the day residents of the state were casting votes for the first time in 13 years to elect local government councils, though many didn't go to cast their ballots. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qcngvR

The latest explosions came just hours after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared victory in his government's fighting against forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which runs the northern Tigray region bordering Eritrea. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mdZddL

The Bureau of Land Management in Utah said Saturday it had received "credible reports" that the object had been removed "by an unknown party" on Friday evening. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3q87phX

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a US "mercenary" and killing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh when assailants opened fire at him and his bodyguards near Tehran on Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33qxSxr

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Britain has secured two million doses of Moderna Inc's Covid-19 vaccine candidate, to be available in Europe as early as the spring, the government said on Sunday, in addition to the 5 million doses it secured from the U.S. company two weeks ago. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33t6fDY

Artificial snow, mulled wine, all-you-can-eat sweets and kitsch music: at the Christmas market in Landshut, southern Germany, the essentials are there, but you have to pick it up by car. As Germany battles a second wave of coronavirus infections, leisure and sporting facilities have been ordered to close while restaurants and bars can only offer takeaways. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33pnRAN

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Israel put its embassies around the world on high alert on Saturday after Iranian threats of retaliation following the killing of a nuclear scientist near Tehran, Israeli N12 news reported on Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/36hr1Zj

"The coronavirus is spreading dangerously, therefore the opposition should postpone PDM public meetings," Dawn quoted Khan as saying while talking to spokespersons at the Prime Minister House. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3q7buTC

Over 1,300 people in Britain were inaccurately informed they were infected with coronavirus after a laboratory error at the government's NHS Test and Trace system, the Department of Health and Social Care told Reuters on Saturday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39lQq5Z