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Mom uses a saucepan lid secured inside a hoodie as a faux face mask

The woman, who goes by Mama T on TikTok, said she was getting ready to go shopping when she took out the saucepan lid, put it over her face, and kept it in place with her hoodie.




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Massachusetts Walmart forced to close after 23 workers got coronavirus

The Walmart Supercenter, located in the city of Worcester, was issued a cease and desist order by the city after suffering a 'cluster' of COVID-19 cases over the last three weeks.




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Donald Trump claims 'big success on the Turkey/Syria border' and lifts ALL sanctions on Turkey

Trump said Wednesday that the ceasefire his administration negotiated last week on the Turkish-Syrian border is intact, even as more blood is spilled in northern Syria.




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Donald Trump endorses ethnic cleansing of Kurds saying they are leaving 'Safe Zone' for other areas

President Donald Trump said Turkey knows not to fire on Kurds who are leaving parts of Syria for 'fairly nearby areas' following an invasion by Turkey.




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Donald Trump boasts that al-Baghdadi strike is bigger than Obama's hit on Osama bin Laden

Donald Trump has boasted that the U.S. military raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that led to his death is a bigger triumph that Barack Obama's strike against Osama bin Laden.




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Scott Morrison says the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a blow for terror group

US President Donald Trump has given a detailed account of how al-Baghdadi was chased by special forces and army dogs before getting trapped in a tunnel during the raid in Syria.




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Sarah Huckabee Sanders knocks Mitt Romney's criticism of Donald Trump

Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is no fan of Sen. Mitt Romney's criticism of her ex-boss, President Trump.




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British ISIS victims' families salute death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Charlotte Coleman, who daughter, Olivia (pictured), died in the Manchester Arena attack of 2017 has praised US soldiers after they cornered the ISIS leader and he detonated his own suicide vest.




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Trump says he did not share operation to raid ISIS with Congress

Donald Trump said Sunday morning he didn't inform Nancy Pelosi in advance of the U.S. operation to raid ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's lair in Syria.




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Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden has a message for dead ISIS leader al-Baghdadi

After President Trump announced Sunday morning that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'died like a dog' in an overnight raid Robert J. O'Neill took to Twitter to bid adieu to the ISIS leader.




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Donald Trump says he is considering releasing footage of the raid which killed Baghdadi 

Donald Trump said on Monday he may release the footage of the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi amid questions about his description of it.




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Military's top officer says he CANNOT confirm Trump's account of al-Baghdadi 'whimpering'

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley couldn't confirm President Trump's account of how ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was 'whimpering' before he died.




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Thousands of EU prisoners may have been radicalised as Islamist militants, security chief warns

Julian King (pictured in Brussels) said there were more than 1,000 people being held on terror charges and said that others imprisoned for unrelated crimes may also have been radicalised.




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The news images of the year: Brexit anger, Hong Kong protests and Theresa May's tearful goodbye

Getty Images have published their annual News Images Of The Year - a poignant collection of photographs from politics (pictured), war zones and current affairs in 2019.




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Turkey's Recep Erodgan says he gave Donald Trump BACK notorious 'Don't be a tough guy' letter

President Donald Trump stood alongside Recep Tayyip Erdogan and listened during a joint press conference in the East Room as he described returning the letter.




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Lindsay Graham 'admits blocking resolution recognizing Armenian genocide so as not to upset Erdogan'

Lindsey Graham has admitted blocking a Senate resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide because he was afraid about upsetting Erdogan while he was still in Washington.




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Controversy erupts over Conan's sex as White House first says female but then corrects itself 

Controversy erupted at the White House on Monday after officials had to issue a correction regarding the gender of Conan, the hero dog who helped run down terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.




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New confusion over Conan the hero Army dog's sex after Pentagon says the animal is female

Conan 'is in fact a GIRL,' according to a Defense Department official Tuesday, just a day after the most recent word out of the White House was that Conan was as male as his masculine name.




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Jihadis face execution without trial in Syrian jails as Assad says ISIS members will be hanged

Membership of Islamic State (IS) is a hanging offence in Syria and President Bashar al-Assad has now said members of IS in the country will be brought to justice.




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PETER HITCHENS reveals evidence UN watchdog suppressed report casting doubt on Assad gas attack

PETER HITCHENS: This newspaper has now obtained the team's original, uncensored interim report which differs sharply from all later versions, including the March document.




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Assad's top aide says the US has no right' to Syrian oil

Bouthaina Shaaban, Assad's top adviser, has said that US President Donald Trump's plans to expand military operations in the country to acquire oil was like 'talking about stealing it'.




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How the murder of Qasseem Soleimani may be even more significant than Osama bin Laden assassination

Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's formidable Quds Force, could prove to be the spark that sets the whole of the Middle East on fire.




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Camila Cabello marks 23rd birthday with heartfelt message to shed light on Syrian civil war

Camila Cabello took some time on her birthday on Tuesday to think about those a lot less fortunate than her - namely, the youth of Syria.




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Singapore, Osaka and Hong Kong are the most expensive cities in 2020, and Damascus is cheapest 

Researchers from The Economist Intelligence Unit looked at the prices of 160 items in 133 cities around the globe including the cost of food, clothing, transport and utility bills.




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Will Young asks Sadiq Khan for help with homophobic abuse

The 38-year-old Strictly Come Dancing star took to Twitter on Friday to share the details of the incident after which he urged London mayor Sadiq Khan to help bring the driver to justice.




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Tube passengers save men who fall onto tracks at Green Park

The shocking footage shows the two men grappling with each other just inches away from the tracks at London's Green Park station at around 1am on Sunday.




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Sir Robert Malpas saved after he is 'pushed' onto London Tube tracks

A leading industrialist cheated death after he was allegedly pushed in front of a train by another man. Sir Robert Malpas, 90, was left lying on the tracks after the apparently unprovoked attack.




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Transport For London worker 'sexually assaulted colleague'

Damian Fichardo, 42, of Bexley, south east London, followed the victim into a women's toilet, pinned her against the washbasins and told her he wanted to ‘lick her’ intimately, a court heard.




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Limited edition £80 Adidas x TFL trainers which came with free oyster of same value go on eBay

The trainers were the first of three limited edition Adidas designs being released in collaboration with Transport for London to mark 15 years of the Oyster travel card in the capital.




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Sadiq Khan's bike bridge branded a 'vanity project' as estimated cost 'doubles to £400 million'

Transport for London has already spent £11.6million on Sadiq Khan's proposed bridge linking Canary Wharf with Rotherhithe in East London, but there are fears too few people would use it.




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East London fare-dodger flees from police after being spotted carrying a Samurai sword

New Channel 5 series 'Fare Dodgers: At War With The Law' shows a man, from the UK, fleeing from police after he's spotted by London Bus revenue inspectors carrying a Samurai sword.




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Christmas travel chaos for thousands as rail bosses announce major works

Network Rail has announced 386 projects across the UK, with the worst-hit areas being London, the south-east of England and Liverpool during the festive period.




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Rush hour chaos for thousands of commuters after person is hit by a train

Passengers endured disruption between London Paddington and Slough this evening after the victim was struck by a service at Hayes and Harlington station in West London.




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Coronavirus UK: Transport for London furloughs 7,000 staff to save £15.8million a month

Transport for London will place 7,000 staff on furlough from Monday to save an estimated £15.8million every four weeks, as a result of a huge reduction in passenger numbers.




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US Open 2019: Serena Williams may deliver more drama in same venue as infamous abuse storm

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: According to her coach, Serena Williams's meltdown during her defeat in last year's US Open final was 'the best moment in tennis for the last ten years.'




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MARTIN SAMUEL COLUMN: VAR would work fine... if it wasn't run by referees

MARTIN SAMUEL: My grandfather had an unusual take on authority. He thought a desire to be in charge should see that person disqualified. On the subject of VAR, he may well have a point with this.




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BEAUTY CLINIC: Ear piercing - safety first

I want to get my ears re-pierced, as the existing holes are too low in my lobes. I have no idea where to go to get them done safely




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Beethoven box sets reviews: Which anniversary bumper box hits all the high notes?  

For many classical music lovers, myself included, Beethoven is the greatest. Even for those who don't rate him the best, it's hard to imagine any but the cloth-eared failing to rank him with Bach and Mozart.




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Luisa Miller review: Soloman Howard deserves a London debut worthier than this sorry mess

English National Opera is the Flying Dutchman of the operatic world, floating aimlessly around the repertoire, creating chaos most places it alights.




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Political science professor says pollsters have NO IDEA who will vote in US election

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by an average of 5.5 percent. But an election forecaster is advising voters to 'hold off on trusting poll-driven proclamations of a Clinton victory just yet.'




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Playing Trump interviews would be a 'betrayal' says DJ Howard Stern

On his eponymous radio program Monday morning, Stern said that he was upset that the interviews were being used against Trump and that he himself would never re-release the old interviews.




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Hillary beat Trump by 10 points in final debate say voters in battleground states

Voters in 13 battleground states say Donald Trump won Wednesday night's final presidential debate. Voters said Clinton won by 49 to 39 per cent, according to the CBS survey.




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Trump SHOULD accept the results of the election, seven in ten voters say

Voters think that whoever loses the election needs to accept the result, a poll showed Friday - even though almost half of those surveyed think that there will be widespread fraud at the polls.




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Trump spends $100k a week on internal polling giving him same results as public surveys

'Nate Silver’s results have been similar to ours,' the director of Trump's digital operation says. Silver gives Clinton an 84.7 percent chance of winning the election. Trump has a 15.3 percent chance.




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US Election 2016: Donald Trump says voting machines are changing results

Donald Trump warned of errors hitting the voting system and called it 'rigged' in an intervention which lays the ground for a challenge to the result - and the possibility he may not concede defeat.




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Lindsay Lohan conducts US Election poll asking fans to 'Heart for Hillary or retweet for Trump'

Within an hour, the tweet had generated more than 4.2 thousand 'likes' and just 325 retweets.




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US election results: Sensational Trump win in Florida as he sweeps to victory

Donald Trump has won the state of Florida after a precinct by precinct battle unfolded for the 29 electoral votes. Trump beat Clinton with 49 per cent of the vote, as she received 47 per cent.




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US election results: Hillary Clinton saves her blushes in Virginia

After slack-jawed Clinton supporters watched Donald Trump turn huge swaths of the map red on a tense election night, Hillary Clinton got a break when she was declared the winner in Virginia.




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As Donald Trump becomes 45th US President, USA vs Mexico takes on greater meaning

The timing of USA's meeting with Mexico for a World Cup qualifier on Friday could not have come at more explosive moment in the history of the two neighbouring countries.




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Hillary Clinton says it 'wasn't easy' to show up at children's gala after election defeat

The losing presidential candidate said she 'wanted to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again' after conceding to Donald Trump a week ago today.