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Tuesday
4 January 2022
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The jury delivered the verdict after announcing they were deadlocked on three of the 11 charges Holmes faced
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Legal team will claim in critical New York hearing that case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre is baseless
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Activists say crackdown is driven by Xi Jinping, who has ‘declared a war on independent journalism’ -
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Government spokesman condemns MPs who voted to suspend debate on introduction of tougher measures
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More than 1 million people in the US were diagnosed with Covid on Monday; Indian authorities report ‘rapid’ increase in Omicron cases in capital city -
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Two years on from the start of the pandemic, families across the world tell of their loss as they pay tribute
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Spotlight
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How does it feel to fight off a predator in the wild? And what effect does it have on your life? Five people who lived to tell the tale explain -
As Republicans spread a revisionist history of the insurrection, its perpetrators are celebrated and even elected to public office -
Struggling even before Covid, communities are taking it upon themselves to try to fill the gaps left by the government -
Kitty Empire started kayaking to glide along with moorhens, but soon found herself practising sprints and turns for her racing debut
Around the world
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Legal team will claim in critical New York hearing that case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre is baseless
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More than 1 million people in the US were diagnosed with Covid on Monday; Indian authorities report ‘rapid’ increase in Omicron cases in capital city
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Brigitte Baptiste has a high profile as a transgender Colombian woman and an ecologist – in a country where both are targeted -
In one of the world’s most dangerous regions for environmental and human rights activists, La Siguata offers a safe space for women suffering trauma as a result of their work -
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Opinion & analysis
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Analysis: gloomiest predictions may have not come to pass, but experts caution that we’re not out of the woods yet -
There is concern that the country’s divisive anti-Muslim political discourse will seep into the union’s institutional policymaking, says Shada Islam, a Brussels-based commentator -
Analysis: Amid a backlash in England over the rule in secondaries, we look at the regulations elsewhere -
As the term begins and masks return to England’s classrooms, schools rely on vaccines, testing and hygiene
Pictures and video
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Anthony Albanese has criticised the Morrison government over Covid-19 booster and testing shortages
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Wildlife officials in Yellowstone national park captured the 'unusual' sight of a cheeky grizzly bear tagging along with a pack of hunting wolves, then making off with their kill
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South African firefighters are struggling to extinguish another fire at the complex housing the country’s parliament
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Nadhim Zahawi also repeated the government line that 'there’s nothing in the data' to suggest further coronavirus measures will be needed later this week
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Until 1984, the prison on the island of Gorgona off Colombia’s Pacific coast was a place where political prisoners and dangerous criminals served their sentences. Now it is a national natural park of coral reefs, dense jungle and exuberant fauna -
Staff from a tram company and a restaurant were stranded overnight on a tramway near Albuquerque in New Mexico, US, after a storm caused rapid buildup of ice on the cables
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