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At the 2020 Games there were 450 million attempted cyber intrusions.

The FBI on Monday issued a stern warning for U.S. Olympic athletes traveling to Beijing for the Winter Olympics: keep your personal cell phones at home and use a burner phone.
 
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Kyiv, Ukraine
Lawmakers hold state flags of Ukraine’s partners to show their appreciation for political support and military aid, during a session of parliament
Photograph: Mikhail Palinchak/AP
 

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London, England
Members of staff pose in front of self portraits by Van Gogh at the Courtauld gallery at Somerset House. The exhibition runs from the 3 February until 8 May
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
 
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Russian Ambassador to the US Vasily Nebenzya attends a meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation between Russia and Ukraine at the UN Headquarters in Manhattan. Reuters/Andrew Kelly

 
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WORLD HIJAB DAY: Ukrainian Muslim women attend an event marking World Hijab Day, on February 1st, in Kiev, Ukraine. The annual event was founded by Nazma Khan in 2013 in an effort to encourage women of all backgrounds and religions to experience wearing the hijab. Photograph: Zurab Kurtsikidze/EPA
 
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Whoopi Goldberg has apologised for comments about the Holocaust she made during a discussion on The View about the banning of the graphic novel Maus. Photograph: Valérie Macon/AFP/Getty Images

She will not appear on The View for two weeks as network ABC News asks her to ‘take time to reflect and learn’
 
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Dorset UK
Two teenagers who were found hanged at a beauty spot in a suspected suicide pact have been named by police. The bodies of Jack Michael Williams, 18, and Katherine Susan Jane Powell, 17, were found at Bothenhampton Reservoir, near Bridport, Dorset, on the morning of January 25.

The tragic incident happened in a secluded wooded area in the village of Bothenhampton, which is about one mile from West Bay - the setting for the hit ITV crime drama Broadchurch.
 
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Native American tribes who have been ravaged by opioid deaths, won a $590 million payout yesterday from manufacturers and opioid distributors Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health.
 
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London, UK
Commuters arrive at Waterloo station during morning rush hour. Passenger numbers across London’s transport network have increased since relaxation of Covid-19 measures last week
Photograph: WIktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto/ Rex/Shutterstock
 
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Pennsylvania, US
Groundhog handler AJ Dereume with Punxsutawney Phil during the 136th celebration of Groundhog Day at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney. The groundhog has forecast six more weeks of winter.
Photograph: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
 
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Members of the gendarmerie and a member of the Pontifical Swiss Guard escort a man who interrupted Pope Francis’ weekly general audience out, at the Vatican. Reuters/Guglielmo Mangiapane
 
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New York Police salute as a hearse carrying the casket of NYPD Officer Wilbert Mora is escorted down Fifth Avenue after his funeral service St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Mora was shot along with Officer Jason Rivera on Jan. 22 while responding to a call about a domestic argument in an apartment.
 
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Mohammad al-Mahmoud, father of a seven-day-old baby Fatima, cries at her grave in Haranbush village, Idlib province, Syria. Doctors say Fatima died from cold after she was brought to a hospital from a refugee camp near the village of Haranbush.
 
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Canberra, Australia
'FREEDOM' PROTEST: Police scuffle with a 'freedom' protester at a makeshift camp next to the National Library. A group of anti-vaccination protesters were moved on from an unapproved camp near the National Library. Mick Tsikas/EPA
 
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Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi blew himself up during a raid by US forces in Syria. Photograph: Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP/Getty Images
“As troops approached, in a final act of desperate cowardice” Qurayshi blew himself up, killing his own family members” President Biden said.
 
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Putin’s fake video option
"As part of this fake attack, we believe that Russia would produce a very graphic propaganda video, which would include corpses, and actors that would be depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations as well as military equipment," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
 
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BERLIN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The first U.S. troops reinforcing NATO allies in Eastern Europe and Germany amid a Russian military build-up on Ukraine's border have arrived in Germany, the U.S. military's European Command said on Friday.
 
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Libyan coast, Mediterranean
Migrants from Africa, adrift on an overcrowded rubber boat, receive life jackets from aid workers from the Spanish NGO Aita Mari
Photograph: Pau de la Calle/AP
 
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Libyan coast, Mediterranean
Migrants from Africa, adrift on an overcrowded rubber boat, receive life jackets from aid workers from the Spanish NGO Aita Mari
Photograph: Pau de la Calle/AP
 

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