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Former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is recovering in hospital after attempting suicide on Wednesday, her lawyers have confirmed, according to the BBC. The publication also reports that police from the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office have confirmed Manning was involved in "an incident" at a detention center in Virginia where…
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The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Originating in Wuhan, China, late last year, it has spread around the globe, putting millions of vulnerable people at risk. With no known cure, many countries have taken increasingly extreme measures to halt its spread,…
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All schools, colleges and childcare facilities in Ireland are set to be shut down tomorrow until the end of the month, the country's leader Leo Varadkar has said. Varadkar announced that the measures - aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus - will come into effect at 6pm today and…
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Per the BBC, President Donald Trump has announced a new set of sweeping travel restrictions from much of Europe to the United States, as coronavirus continues to spread. The "strong but necessary" restrictions do not apply to the United Kingdom, the BBC stated. President Trump announced the restrictions in an…
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A man wearing a coronavirus mask has been filmed licking his hands and wiping them over a subway in Belgium. The footage of the unidentified, allegedly intoxicated man was posted to Twitter on March 9. After the incident took place, the subway was forced into suspension so that it could…
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The World Health Organisation has officially declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic, after a large increase in the number of reported cases. In an official press statement, WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both…
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A man has been freed from death row after 29 years, after new DNA evidence exonerated him of the crime he was originally accused of committing. According to a statement by the Innocence Project, Paul Hildwin was originally sentenced to death in 1985 for the murder of Vronzettie Cox. He…
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As the U.S women's national soccer team (USWNT) continues with their equal pay lawsuit, attornies for the U.S Soccer Federation have put forth the argument that male soccer players carry "more responsibility within U.S soccer" than their female counterparts. The lawsuit, which was filed in March of 2019, in Los…
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A 103-year-old coronavirus patient has recovered from the deadly disease following just six days of treatment in Wuhan, the Daily Mail reports. Zhang Guangfen, who has now taken the record for the oldest patient in China to fight COVID-19, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday. According to the publication, Dr.…
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Charlie Sheen's publicist has responded to claims made in Corey Feldman's new documentary that the Two and a Half Men star allegedly sexually assaulted Corey Haim, when the former was 19 and the latter just 13-years-old. According to Entertainment Weekly, Feldman's documentary feature, My Truth: The Rape of Two Coreys,…
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Per the Daily Mail, Prince Harry has allegedly fallen victim to a phone hoax after two Russian YouTubers posed as teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante. The two pranksters - Russians Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov - seemingly managed to trick the Duke of Sussex into revealing…
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Border officers in California have found a Mexican national hidden inside the seats of a car, crossing into the United States, Fox News reports. The discovery, made on Monday, has since been branded an “inhumane” smuggling by the Southern Californian border patrol. According to the publication, an 18-year-old woman -…
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Growing coronavirus fears have meant that people, in some instances, have been misguidedly stockpiling everyday essentials. Now, a video has gone viral on social media showing the moment Aldi shoppers descended on fresh supplies of toilet roll, stripping the shelves clean in a matter of minutes. The footage, which was…
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A man's Facebook post has gone viral this week after his wife's copy of the Bible survived a fire completely unscathed while the blaze destroyed a pickup truck. Watch this Sherrif rescue an old woman from a burning building in the video below: According to a report by ABC 13,…
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AirAsia is offering free seats to a variety of destinations in a bid to fill them during the coronavirus outbreak. The Malaysia-based airline has included six million seats to destinations including Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore in its "Big Sale". The offer will begin this Sunday, March 15, and it will include seats available…
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A 100-year-old man has been discharged from a hospital in China after recovering from coronavirus, per state media, The Independent reports. The centenarian is the oldest person to recover after being diagnosed with the SARS-like virus, Xinhua news agency states. The man, who has only been identified by his surname,…
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A passenger has taken to Facebook to slam the airline EasyJet after she was left with horrific burns when a flight attendant dropped noodles on her. Debby Rogers took to EasyJet's Facebook page to complain that the airline had failed to respond to her complaint after she was allegedly scalded…
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The coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has swept across the globe after originating in Wuhan, China in December 2019, per the World Health Organisation. Believed to have originated in a fish market in Wuhan, the virus is zoonotic, meaning it can affect animals and humans alike. The first people diagnosed…
