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SOLEIMANI ANNIVERSARY: Iranians take part in a ceremony marking the second anniversary of Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps lieutenant-general, commander of the Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, at the Mosallah Mosque in Tehran, Iran. Soleimani was killed in a targeted US airstrike at Baghdad airport, Iraq. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA
 

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Taliban dump 3,000 litres of liquor into canal
Updated 3 January 2022
On Sunday, Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the General Directorate of Intelligence, released video footage that showed its agents had dumped around 3,000 litres of liquor into a canal in Kabul. Since the Taliban took over on 15 August, the frequency of raids, including on drug addicts, has increased across the country,” AFP reported. Three alcohol merchants were arrested.
 
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Novak Djokovic will defend his Australian Open title after revealing he has secured a medical exemption for the tournament and he is on his way to Melbourne.
 

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Elizabeth Holmes is consoled by her partner, Billy Evans, upon leaving federal court after the verdict in San Jose, California 2 January 2022. Holmes was convicted of fraud for turning her blood-testing startup Theranos into a sophisticated scam that duped billionaires and other unwitting investors into backing a seemingly revolutionary company whose medical technology never worked as promised.
 
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CHECKING THE FIGURES: Keeper Mick Tiley with a nosey Bactrian Camel during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo in central London. Required for the zoo's licence, the annual stocktake includes every animal. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Wire
 
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Elizabeth Holmes is consoled by her partner, Billy Evans, upon leaving federal court after the verdict in San Jose, California 2 January 2022. Holmes was convicted of fraud for turning her blood-testing startup Theranos into a sophisticated scam that duped billionaires and other unwitting investors into backing a seemingly revolutionary company whose medical technology never worked as promised.
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Rupert Murdoch gave her $US125 million
 
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Djokovic was forced into isolation under police guard at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport overnight, minus his phone before his visa was cancelled shortly after 8am today (Thursday). It’s understood Djokovic was relying on the fact that because he had caught the virus within the past six months, he had natural immunity which is recognised as fully vaccinated in several European countries, but not in Australia. He is expected to appeal.
 
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Tokyo, Japan
The head of 211kg bluefin tuna that was auctioned for about ¥16.9m ($145,290) is displayed at a sushi restaurant after the first tuna auction of the new year
Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters
 
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Kolkata, India
Commuters queue to leave a platform after disembarking from a train at a railway station on the outskirts of the city, amid concerns of third wave of Covid-19 hitting the country
Photograph: Rupak de Chowdhuri/Reuters
 
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Photograph: Diego Fedele/Getty Images
Outside his hotel room, his fans gathered to brandish their Serbian flags and sing Balkan folk songs into the night.

It is still unclear where Djokovic goes from here. He has appealed against the federal government’s ruling on his visa and he will remain in Melbourne until Monday at least, the day of his hearing, with the hope of putting this case behind him. But even if he is able to overturn the ruling and compete for his 10th Australian Open title, this has been an unwanted, emotionally draining episode that has helped nobody and has reflected terribly on all involved.
 
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Ranch partner Gary Lake, center, and other cowboys round up the longhorn cattle on the Silverado Ranch east of Colorado Springs, Colo., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, as they select the cattle for the National Western Stock Show that begins Saturday, Jan. 8 in Denver. The parade through downtown Denver scheduled for Thursday was canceled because of the forecasted snow and cold weather, but the stock show will run as scheduled through Jan. 23. The longhorns have been a part of the stock show for more than 40 years. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
 
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Yesterday a Georgia jury convicted three white men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, 21 months after the 25-year-old black man was chased down and shot to death while out for a Sunday jog. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who was in Brunswick throughout the trial and sat in the courtroom with Arbery's parents said

"Let the word go out all over the world that a jury of 11 whites and one black in the deep South stood up in the courtroom and said Black lives do matter."
 
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Australian Border Force has cancelled the visa of female Czech tennis player Renata Voracova, who had entered the country to take part in this month's Australian Open. She has already played in a warm-up tournament in Melbourne and is being detained in the same immigration hotel as Novak Djokovic. It’s understood that like Djokoivic, she entered the country last month with a vaccine exemption based on the fact that she had been infected with Coivid-19 in the last six months which gave her natural immunity.
 
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Maranhão, Brazil
Ilzete, a pensioner, is embraced by her daughter Joelma during floods caused by heavy rain in Imperatriz.
Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
 
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Marseille, France
Nurse Marie-Laure Satta wipes her face during a pause in her New Year’s Eve shift in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at La Timone hospital in Marseille.
Photograph: Daniel Cole/AP
 
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Philadelphia, US
A family member gathers with community members for a candlelight vigil to remember those who perished in a house fire
Photograph: Joe Lamberti/AP
 
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Lines of Russian military vehicles wait for loading to a military cargo plant to depart for Kazakhstan at the airport of Ivanovo, in this handout image grab taken on 6 January 2022 and released on January 7 by the Russian Defence Ministry.
 
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In November, a letter sent by Department of Health to Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley said

“People who have previously had Covid-19 and not received a vaccine dose are not considered fully vaccinated” and they would “not be approved for quarantine-free entry, regardless of whether they have received foreign vaccination exemptions”.

Despite this info from the Federal Government, Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley gave Djokovic the ok to jump on a plane to Australia.
 


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