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Wednesday
2 December 2020
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US sees highest level of daily Covid deaths since April as over 180,000 new cases are recorded -
Experts say an uptick in cases is likely imminent after millions ignored pleas to avoid family or social gatherings last week
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Ancient Forest Alliance’s project underscores the preventions that are needed to protect old-growth trees in areas such as the Caycuse watershed -
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San Francisco’s mayor is the latest to fall prey to the siren song of the famed Napa Valley eatery, flouting coronavirus guidelines
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Poland grapples with shortage of doctors; German states heading for stricter measures; Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved in UK -
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‘Historic moment’ allows mass immunisation, with 800,000 doses expected to be available next week -
The tragedies brought on by Covid-19 in small towns where everyone knows everyone are more intimate and heartbreaking
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Quincy Fortier was once Nevada’s physician of the year. As unspooled in a new documentary, he had a dark secret: dozens of children fraudulently fathered through his fertility clinic -
Over the course of the pandemic, I’ve been assailed by targeted ads for ‘life-changing’ products – so I put a selection of them to the test -
With toilets in short supply, ordure can harm streams and wildlife. An entrepreneur has a nifty solution
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Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit has thousands of people suddenly interested in chess. The game is a great personal comfort for me
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The toxic politics of conspiracies and lies did not start four years ago and will live on beyond Trump. But we can protect ourselves and reward the truth.
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The former NFL player believes uncomfortable conversations are a way of bridging the racial divide. So he wrote a book about them -
Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, has been confirmed as a Formula One driver for next season
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Royal correspondent Jennie Bond discusses whether The Crown is an accurate depiction of palace life
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Actor takes aim at transphobic politicians and ‘those with a massive platform who continue to spew hostility’, saying they ‘have blood on [their] hands’
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Our pick of the finest movies released in a topsy-turvy year begins with icy horror, political drama and retro romance. Return every weekday for more revelations -
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Liberté review Gruesome night in the woods as French aristos go dogging
3 out of 5 stars.
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Gabriel Sterling tells president to soften his language or ‘someone is going to get killed’ -
Marc Benioff’s company gains leverage against Microsoft’s threat with the largest acquisition in its 21-year history -
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Zhou Xiaoxuan has accused a TV personality of groping her when she was an intern
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Wednesday’s vote, which is not final, is largely seen as a gambit by Benny Gantz to pass a budget
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Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam also sentenced over pro-democracy protest at police HQ last year -
Sanmitsu is known in English as the three Cs – confined spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings – situations the public are asked to avoid -
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Festive decorations bringing post-lockdown sparkle include a 5-metre marmot in Hampshire and giant candy canes in Yorkshire -
Many modernist buildings from the Soviet period are being destroyed, but Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov hopes to preserve their memory with these shots of sloping cinemas and rooms under surveillance -
Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton raids his archive for shots of sensational musicals, from Chicago to Bombay Dreams
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