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Lady Gaga spotted kissing mystery man during New Year’s Eve celebration
NEW YORK: Lady Gaga may be caught in a New Year’s Eve romance! The Grammy winner two days celebrated the start of 2020 in Las Vegas with a special concert performance inside the Park Theater at Park MGM. But after delivering
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Oil climbs on US-China trade optimism, Middle East tensions
Oil prices rose on the first trading day of 2020 as warming trade relations between the United States and China eased demand concerns, and rising tensions in the Middle East raised worries about supply. Global benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1,
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Sixteen inmates killed in Mexican prison fight, scarring troubled system
Sixteen inmates were killed and five wounded in a prison fight in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities said, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s penal system since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took
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Pope apologizes for ‘bad example’ of slapping arm of pilgrim who tugged him
Pope Francis apologized yesterday for having angrily slapped a woman’s arm when she had grabbed hold of his hand and yanked him toward her, saying he had lost his patience and set a “bad example”. His unusual apology came after
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Australian bushfires: Military moves in to help mass-scale evacuation
Tens of thousands of holiday makers raced to evacuate popular seaside towns on Australia’s east coast yesterday, fleeing ahead of advancing bushfires, as military ships and helicopters planned missions to rescue thousands more trapped by the blazes. Long queues formed
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New Year’s Eve 2019: Google Doodle celebrates with Froggy the weather frog and fireworks
Google has created a special doodle to celebrate New Year’s Eve as everybody is gearing up to commemorate the beginning of a new decade. Today’s Google Doodle features Froggy, the weather frog, and a little bird, watching the fireworks lit
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Moscow gets tons of fake snow as New Year gift to fight Russia’s warmest winter
Ahead of New Year festivities, authorities in Moscow dumped artificial snow in several parts of the city centre as the Russian capital is experiencing its warmest December since 1886. Most of the fake snow, however, melted away soon after. The
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Kim promises ‘new strategic weapon,’ leaves room for talks
North Korea’s leader plans to further develop nuclear programs and to introduce a “new strategic weapon” in the near future, state media said today, although he signaled there was still room for dialogue with the United States. Kim Jong Un
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Trump: North Korea’s Kim is a ‘man of his word’
US President Donald Trump said yesterday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had signed a contract about denuclearization and that he thought the North Korean leader was a “man of his word.” Hours after Kim said his country would continue
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Hong Kong gears up for huge New Year’s Day anti-government march
Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters are expected to join a New Year’s Day march today as anti-government demonstrations that have embroiled the Chinese-ruled city for over half a year spill into 2020. The pro-democracy march is being organized
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