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Cars and trucks queue at the entrance of the Eurotunnel, ahead of increased restrictions for travellers to France from Britain, in Folkestone, UK.
 

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ASHES: England's Ollie Pope fails to stop a boundary as Australia's cricket supporters, 'The Richies,' named after former Australian cricketer Richie Benaud, react from the stand during the final session on day two of the Second Ashes Test between Australia and England at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, South Australia on Friday. Photograph: Dave Hunt/EPA
 
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Russian Black Sea Fleet warships and military equipment in Crimea: A troop exercise in April 2021 (from a Russian Defense Ministry video)

Tanks, transport vehicles, howitzers: Photos clearly show that Russia is amassing military power on the border with Ukraine. Experts fear that he could be planning to invade.
 

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Patients on virtual wards are given oximeters that fit on their finger and test heart rate and oxygen levels
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Thousands of Covid-19 patients will be treated in their own homes in an expansion of “virtual wards” to help the health service cope with a surge in Omicron cases. Professor Stephen Powis said the health service was on a “war footing”. Plans have been passed to treat 15 per cent of Covid patients at home, with remote monitoring of their oxygen levels. Keeping Covid patients out of hospital means the NHS will have more beds free for patients otherwise waiting in ambulances and on trolleys in A&E. It could allow more operations to go ahead, helping to cut waiting lists. Source: The Times
 
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BEIJING, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai said on Sunday that she had never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her, and that a social media post she had made early last month had been misunderstood.


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China’s former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli has not been seen in public or responded to sexual assault allegations made by Peng Shuai. Photograph: Dmitry Lovetsky/AFP/Getty Images

Peng, a former Wimbledon and French Open doubles champion, took to Chinese social media site Weibo in early November to allege that former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli — who is in his 70s — forced her into sex during an on-off relationship spanning several years.
 
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A Taliban fighter stands guard outside the entrance of the money exchange Sarai Shahzada market in Kabul on December 20, 2021. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)
 
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Space flight participant Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa disembarks from a helicopter as he arrives at Zhezkazgan airport after returning from the International Space Station on the Soyuz MS-20 space capsule, in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
 
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Royal Caribbean says at least 48 people on board one of its ships that docked in Miami at the weekend have tested positive for the virus. (Getty)

The Symphony of the Seas carrying 6091 passengers and crew members said that a guest tested positive during the voyage, and subsequent cases were detected following contact tracing. It said 95 per cent on board were fully vaccinated.
 
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Hongkongers have snubbed a legislature poll taking place under new “patriots only” rules imposed by China, with the lowest turnout since residents started electing lawmakers three decades ago, according to official figures released on Monday.

Only 30%, or 1,350,680 of the 4,472,863 registered voters, cast their ballots for city lawmakers in Sunday’s election, Hong Kong’s top election official, Barnabas Fung, told reporters.
 
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Conservation groups in Florida are to sue the US government over its failure to protect the state’s vulnerable manatee population from water pollution as the sea mammals face the threat of extinction. More than 1,000 manatees have died in Florida this year, accounting for nearly 20 per cent of the state’s Atlantic population. A majority of deaths were due to starvation as a result of seagrass — their staple diet — being wiped out by toxic algae whose growth is fuelled by agricultural and domestic pollution.
 
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SOLSTICE: Amy Russell, described as a shaman and healer, from Rosscarbery, lights a candle on the Altar Stone while waiting to observe sunrise during the winter solstice, at Drombeg Stone Circle, outside Glandore, Co Cork, Ireland. Photograph: David Creedon
 
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18 years on from first hitting the big screen, the iconic opening scene of Love Actually at Heathrow has been recreated for today’s times. Love Actually script-supervisor Lisa Vick has modernised the monologue first voiced by Hugh Grant in the 2003 box office hit, whose words reminded people that love can be found everywhere.
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Amazing, I was trying to think of the name of that movie just yesterday so I could mention it to someone. It's a Christmas movie I liked except I think they could have done without some of the language, especially since there was a child in it.
 
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A little boy who was mauled by a dog while saving his sister is making an incredible recovery thanks to a team of renowned doctors who have volunteered to treat his facial scars pro bono after hearing his inspiring story. Bridger Walker, six, from Cheyenne, Wyoming, bravely put himself between his younger sister and a charging dog this summer, suffering several bites to his head and face that required 90 stitches.

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Workers curtained off a sculpture commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown at the University of Hong Kong on Wednesday night and were believed to be dismantling it, two months after campus chiefs ordered its removal.

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Tiananmen Square monument, the Pillar of Shame. Artist- Jens Galschiøt
 
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BRIGHT LIGHTS: Siblings (from left), Oliver, Henry, Maurice (on Henry's shoulders) and Siobhan Kelly, from Clontibret, Co Monaghan, enjoy the lights of Grafton Street while Christmas shopping in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
 

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