News World: November 2020

Monday 30 November 2020

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A Responsible Withdrawal From Afghanistan

By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/39txG4t

Police Body Cameras Cited as ‘Powerful Tool’ Against Stop-and-Frisk Abuses

By BY ASHLEY SOUTHALL from NYT New York https://ift.tt/39t2sun

Arizona and Wisconsin Certify Biden’s Wins: ‘The System Is Strong’

By BY REID J. EPSTEIN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/37koa0Q

How Will Biden Deal With Republican Sabotage?

By BY PAUL KRUGMAN from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3mvpVyQ

Black Teenager Is Fatally Shot in Argument Over Music, Police Say

By BY AZI PAYBARAH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/37t22Se

Restrictions push the San Francisco 49ers to Arizona for December.

By BY KEN BELSON from NYT World https://ift.tt/2JqNz0O

Let This Festive Brandied Fruit Lift Your Holidays

By BY YEWANDE KOMOLAFE from NYT Food https://ift.tt/3mofRaM

Why School Districts Are Bringing Back Younger Children First

By BY ELIZA SHAPIRO AND KATE TAYLOR from NYT New York https://ift.tt/2Jqsx2a

Brazil Amazon Deforestation Hits 12-Year High Under Bolsonaro

By BY REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/37i9LlQ

Berry-Flavored H.I.V. Medication Is Ready for Babies

By BY DONALD G. MCNEIL JR. from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2Vk4THj

Las pérdidas que compartimos

By Unknown Author from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/3fQgmYF

Catch up: Black Friday spending was down overall, and Tokyo Stock Exchange chief resigns.

By Unknown Author from NYT Business https://ift.tt/37ogDyc

Online Shopping, Virus in Winter, Stock Market: Your Monday Evening Briefing

By BY VICTORIA SHANNON AND JUDITH LEVITT from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/3mu8rTi

Why Joe Manchin sees a divided Senate as a ‘golden opportunity.’

By BY LUKE BROADWATER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3qq2v06

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today

By BY JONATHAN WOLFE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/39s9TBR

Exxon Mobil cuts billions in capital spending as oil and gas prices remain low.

By BY CLIFFORD KRAUSS from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3oeTg0z

It may be weeks before we know if Thanksgiving travel fed a virus surge.

By BY SABRINA TAVERNISE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2VmvUd2

‘Bleak Friday’ for Stores as Pandemic Pushes Holiday Shopping Online

By BY SAPNA MAHESHWARI AND MICHAEL CORKERY from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2JzgNu7

Governor Newsom warns California’s I.C.U. beds could be full before Christmas.

By BY JILL COWAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/33tyy5a

Accepting the Danger of Human Rights Work in Egypt, With Food and Humor

By BY VIVIAN YEE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2JxIiEl

Powell and Mnuchin will split on risks to the economy in Senate testimony.

By BY JEANNA SMIALEK AND ALAN RAPPEPORT from NYT Business https://ift.tt/33voDMq

J.D. Heyman, Entertainment Weekly’s top editor, is out.

By BY KATIE ROBERTSON from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3fVi8rA

Sunday 29 November 2020

Biden announces all-female senior press team

Joe Biden has pledged to shape one of the most diverse US presidential cabinets ever.

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The King of Trump TV Thinks You’re Dumb Enough to Buy It

By BY BEN SMITH from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2VhZDEc

What We Learned From Week 12 of the N.F.L. Season

By BY BENJAMIN HOFFMAN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/39spilM

Covid: Fauci warns of 'surge in cases' post Thanksgiving

Millions of people are returning home following the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

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White Island volcano: NZ officials charge 13 parties over tragedy

Some 22 people died when the volcano suddenly erupted last December with tourists on it.

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For Trump, Past Is Prologue

By BY CHARLES M. BLOW from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/39yrdVM

Ransomware Attack Closes Baltimore County Public Schools

By BY AZI PAYBARAH from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3q6qBgd

Coronavirus

By Unknown Author from NYT World https://ift.tt/2HSR3bS

Biden sees orthopedic doctor after spraining his ankle while playing with family dog.

By BY ANNIE KARNI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/33uTYyX

Biden team wants to tackle child care, elder care, preschool in one overarching plan.

By BY PAULA SPAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3mpUdCU

Black Lives Matter founders: We fought to change history and we won

The founders of the Black Lives Matter movement tell the BBC's 100 Women season they are optimistic.

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Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the Mafia

Calabria was not hit by the first wave of the pandemic but its fragile health system is buckling now.

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Why India can't stop farmers burning stubble

The toxic fumes from stubble burning affects hundreds of millions - but curbs to stop it keep failing.

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Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president

The campaign to save a 100-year-old tree shows cultural fears can make politicians listen in Kenya.

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A 70-year-old photographic mystery

Collector William Fagan finds 70-year-old photographs in a camera.

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The tech allowing thousands of students to sit exams at home

Machine learning is helping firms across many industries more quickly solve difficult challenges.

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Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate 7.7 billion people?

Five challenges of distributing a Covid-19 vaccine to billions of people.

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Nagorno-Karabakh: The boy who swapped his piano for a gun

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is over, but some are still waiting for news of missing relatives.

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Biden names all-female communications team with Jen Psaki as press secretary.

By BY ANNIE KARNI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3qcrTGs

Jennifer Psaki to Be Press Secretary as Biden Names All-Female Communications Team

By BY ANNIE KARNI from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3fPLBmM

Republicans and Democrats Need to Work Together. Earmarks Can Help.

By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/36l8BGM

The ‘R’ of R.B.G.

By BY DEB AMLEN from NYT Crosswords & Games https://ift.tt/3lozkqm

What’s Going On in This Picture? | Nov. 30, 2020

By BY THE LEARNING NETWORK from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/3fUpzPB

Saturday 28 November 2020

Quotation of the Day: Drugs, Guns and Cash: This Is ‘Cartel TikTok’

By Unknown Author from NYT Today’s Paper https://ift.tt/3q3Q2yO

This fight is all about nostalgia, which is fitting for sports in 2020.

By Unknown Author from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3lhItB5

Brazen Killings Expose Iran’s Vulnerabilities as It Struggles to Respond

By BY DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, RONEN BERGMAN AND FARNAZ FASSIHI from NYT World https://ift.tt/2HLBVNh

An underground New York club with 400 people was shut down for violating coronavirus restrictions.

By BY JOHN ISMAY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Vay5QW

One of the warm-up bouts was canceled after a fighter tested positive for the coronavirus.

By BY OSKAR GARCIA from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3fJq3Il

A Cat Is Said to Be Joining the Bidens in the White House

By BY ALLYSON WALLER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2Jp9tBc

This could be quite popular. What’s that mean for boxing at large?

By BY MORGAN CAMPBELL from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2JgQpFK

Are these fights real?

By BY MORGAN CAMPBELL from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3o0dbAg

Who’s bankrolling this spectacle?

By BY MORGAN CAMPBELL from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2Vdhufp

Brazen Killings Expose Iran’s Vulnerabilities as It Struggles to Respond

By BY DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, RONEN BERGMAN AND FARNAZ FASSIHI from NYT International Home https://ift.tt/2VhaxK4

How Tony Hsieh Tried to Single-Handedly Transform Downtown Las Vegas

By BY NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS AND KAREN WEISE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/37gG7gH

Serbia and Montenegro expel respective ambassadors

The two nations have expelled each other's envoys over a historical dispute dating back a century.

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Viewpoint: How Ethiopia is undermining the African Union

The country has rebuffed African efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the Tigray conflict.

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Serbia coronavirus: The Church losing its leaders to the pandemic

Few organisations have taken a bigger hit from coronavirus than the Serbian Orthodox Church

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In pictures: Hurricanes leave Hondurans homeless and destitute

Hurricanes Eta and Iota left more than 150,000 people in Honduras homeless and many lost everything.

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The battle to save a biodiversity hotspot in India

Environmentalists in India's Goa state are fighting projects they say will turn it into a coal hub.

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Khachaturyan sisters: A murder trial that shocked Russia

The case of the three Khachaturyan sisters accused of killing their father sent shockwaves through Russia.

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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What does it mean for the east Africa region?

BBC correspondents across the east Africa region explain the impact for Ethiopia and its neighbours.

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Conjoined twins: 'We always knew we were different'

They made headlines when surgeons separated them - now Sanchia and Eman Mowatt are at university.

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Afghanistan, home to the heroin trade, moves into meth

A new report warns Afghanistan is becoming a major methamphetamine producer, leaving addicts in its wake.

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