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August 21, 2020
Teddy bear in stands at baseball game takes ball square in face

A teddy bear discovered the perils of being a sports fan as it took a baseball to the head in an MLB game.

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August 21, 2020
More choices – how next year’s Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams will look amid Covid-19 disruption

Next year's State exam students will have much more choice because of the disruption caused to their education by Covid-19, according to documents released today

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August 21, 2020
Who is Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny?

As Russia's most determined and durable opposition figure, Alexei Navalny has employed an astute understanding of social media, an accountant's ability to wade through financial data, a knack for sardonic...

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August 21, 2020
Revealed: EU Commissioner Phil Hogan left Kildare for medical appointment and didn’t return to county before lockdown was imposed

EU Commissioner Phil Hogan was based in Kildare after returning to Ireland from his EU base – but left the county for a medical appointment and didn't return.

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August 21, 2020
Russia to let Navalny fly to Berlin for treatment

Russian doctors have given a dissident who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning permission to be transferred abroad for medical treatment, a senior medic said.

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August 21, 2020
Wider European concerns drag FTSE down despite positive UK economic data

The FTSE 100 closed in the red on Friday despite better-than-forecast economic figures for August after it was dragged down by widespread negativity across Europe.

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August 21, 2020
US attorney general ‘vehemently opposed’ to pardoning Edward Snowden

US attorney general William Barr has said he would be “vehemently opposed” to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

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August 21, 2020
Tony Awards for shortened Broadway season will go digital

The Tony Awards will go ahead this year in digital form, despite the Broadway season being shortened due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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August 21, 2020
Deadly California wildfires threaten thousands of homes

Wildfires in California have killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands from their homes, straining firefighting resources by the sheer vastness of the battle lines.

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August 21, 2020
WPP to reveal cost-cutting progress as pandemic hits turnaround plan

WPP is set to tell investors whether the company has met cost-cutting targets or if the coronavirus pandemic has blown its turnaround plans off course.

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August 21, 2020
Navalny’s medical evacuation from Russia to Germany in limbo

Family and allies of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who remains in a coma in a Siberian hospital, are fighting for his transfer to a German clinic.

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August 21, 2020
German doctors gain access to Alexei Navalny in Russia, says associate

A close associate of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, who is in a coma in a Siberian hospital, said German doctors now have access to Mr Navalny as supporters push...

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August 21, 2020
More comfortable Covid-19 test for school children may be possible – HIQA

A more comfortable Covid-19 test to for school children may be possible following a new review by the country's health watchdog.

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August 21, 2020
Boy with stutter steals show in emotional speech praising Biden

A 13-year-old boy with a stutter stole the show at the Democratic National Convention as he gave an emotional endorsement of Joe Biden.

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August 21, 2020
Flamingo chick reared by parents at zoo for first time

A flamingo chick has been successfully parent-reared at Blackpool Zoo for the first time in the attraction's 48-year history.

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August 21, 2020
Navalny not poisoned, Russian doctors say, as they refuse to transfer him

Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny do not believe he was poisoned, and refused to transfer him to a German hospital on Friday.

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August 21, 2020
Manchester Arena bomber’s brother gets 55 years in jail

THE brother of the suicide bomber who set off an explosion at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds, was sentenced yesterday to...

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August 21, 2020
Airbnb bans parties in Covid-19 fight

No more parties and events in homes listed on Airbnb, the short-term home rental company said on Thursday as it tries to enforce strict social-distancing norms to fight the COVID-19...

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August 21, 2020
No indication Navalny was poisoned, Russian doctors say

Russian doctors treating opposition politician Alexei Navalny say they have not found any indication that the Kremlin critic was poisoned.

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August 21, 2020
Russian doctors refuse Navalny’s transfer to Germany

Doctors in the Siberian city of Omsk have refused to authorise the transfer of opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a German hospital, Mr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.

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August 21, 2020
Joe Biden promises to end ‘darkness’ of Trump era as he accepts Democratic nomination

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the White House on Thursday, vowing to heal a United States battered by a deadly pandemic and divided by four years of...

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August 21, 2020
Biden quotes Seamus Heaney and promises to end ‘darkness’ of Trump era as he accepts Democratic nomination

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic Party nomination for the White House on Thursday, vowing to heal a United States battered by a deadly pandemic and divided by four years of...

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August 21, 2020
Megan Thee Stallion says she was shot by Tory Lanez

Megan Thee Stallion has said for the first time that fellow hip-hop star Tory Lanez was the person who pulled the trigger, more than a month after she was shot...

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August 21, 2020
Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus mocks Donald Trump

Veep actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus starred at the Democrats' convention as she took aim at US President Donald Trump.

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August 21, 2020
Death toll from California wildfires increases

At least five people have died as dozens of wildfires sparked by lightning strikes continue to burn in Northern California.

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August 21, 2020
Joe Biden promises ‘end to national darkness’ in acceptance speech

Joe Biden has vowed to unite an America torn by crisis and contempt as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.

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August 21, 2020
‘Kildare should remain under lockdown but not Offaly and Laois’ – Nphet

Kildare will remain in local lockdown while restrictions in Laois and Offaly will be lifted under recommendations from health officials.

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August 21, 2020
Ex-Trump strategist Bannon facing fraud charges over fundraising for border wall

US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon is under arrest on charges that he and three others ripped off donors to an online fundraising effort intended to build...

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August 21, 2020
Harris commits to vision of US as a ‘community where all are welcome’

Kamala Harris, the black daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, has become the first woman of colour to accept the nomination for vice president from a major political party.

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August 21, 2020
Kim makes surprise admission that economy is floundering

Kim Jong-un says North Korea's development goals have been "seriously delayed", a rare acknowledgment that shows the country's already brittle economy is under severe strain from sanctions, flooding and the...

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August 21, 2020
Lukashenko threatens protesters with criminal probe

Belarusian authorities have opened a criminal probe against opposition activists who set up a council to negotiate the transition of power amid massive protests challenging the extension of the 26-year...

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August 21, 2020
Putin critic fights for life ‘after poison put in his tea’

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was "fighting for his life" in a coma yesterday after what his spokesman said was a targeted poisoning.

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August 21, 2020
Trump tries to upstage Biden on big night with speech in his home state

On Joe Biden's big day, President Donald Trump was planning to show up in his rival's old backyard.

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August 21, 2020
€65m was ‘enormously generous gift’, says Juan Carlos’s ex-lover

The ex-lover of Juan Carlos, the disgraced former king of Spain, has described his decision to transfer €65m to her as an "enormously generous gift", dismissing claims of money laundering.

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August 20, 2020
Kanye West will not appear on presidential ballots in Wisconsin

Kanye West has been kept off the presidential ballot in Wisconsin as his campaign turned his nomination papers in minutes after the deadline.

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August 20, 2020
Donald Trump takes campaign to Joe Biden’s birthplace

President Donald Trump took the fight to Joe Biden's old backyard and insisted his Democratic rival would be the state's “worst nightmare” if elected president.

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August 20, 2020
Antibodies study shows vast majority of public unlikely to have been infected with Covid-19

Ireland appears to be a long way off from reaching ‘herd immunity' from coronavirus after a new study indicated the vast majority of people were unlikely to have been infected...

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August 20, 2020
Lockdown restrictions should be eased for Laois and Offaly but not Kildare, Nphet recommends

The National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) has recommended lifting lockdown rules for Laois and Offaly but said restrictions should remain in place for Kildare.

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August 20, 2020
Proportion infected with Covid-19 ‘higher than previously thought’ as 136 new cases reported

The proportion of the Irish population infected with Covid-19 is three times higher than that detected through other surveillance methods, the HSE said.

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August 20, 2020
Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon pleads not guilty over border wall scheme

President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall.

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